Bill Tipper
@tripleblip.bsky.social
Busting out my brains for the word. 1/3 of the podcast An Embarrassment of Prog. Asst. to The Amazing Sargasso. Editing things @WSJBooks. Opinions dumb, and my own.
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“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Whooping Cough Surges Nationwide as Vaccinations Fall
THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, Cali
www.healthday.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
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Herman Rose, Tower and Tank, 1947
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134568
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134568
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Herman Rose, Tower and Tank, 1947
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134568
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134568
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PULLET TRAIN
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
PULLET TRAIN
Among the better omens: reader on the D train in from Brooklyn is nearly done with Death Comes for the Archbishop.
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Among the better omens: reader on the D train in from Brooklyn is nearly done with Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Madness
The CDC just updated its website saying "Scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism." Adds "this statement has historically been disseminated by the CDC and other federal health agencies within HHS to prevent vaccine hesitancy."
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Madness
Reading old issues of Spy magazine and recalling the glory of the letters section
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reading old issues of Spy magazine and recalling the glory of the letters section
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“open source” is KILLING me
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“open source” is KILLING me
My timeline is now all billionaires at a dinner honoring a guy most famous for dismembering a journalist and this billionaire’s one weird love trick, a braided torrent of whatever you call our current culture now.
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My timeline is now all billionaires at a dinner honoring a guy most famous for dismembering a journalist and this billionaire’s one weird love trick, a braided torrent of whatever you call our current culture now.
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
Just put on Cukor’s 1939 “The Women”…five minutes in and holy smokes. It’s already packed in more than most movies do in an hour.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Just put on Cukor’s 1939 “The Women”…five minutes in and holy smokes. It’s already packed in more than most movies do in an hour.
I thought of myself as appropriately pessimistic about the state of mass transit in the US, then I tried to arrange a bus or train trip home to NYC for a college student coming from Cleveland.
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I thought of myself as appropriately pessimistic about the state of mass transit in the US, then I tried to arrange a bus or train trip home to NYC for a college student coming from Cleveland.
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hot take i think we should ban sports gambling before someone gets shot
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
hot take i think we should ban sports gambling before someone gets shot
Probably the loveliest thing you’ll encounter on the timeline today.
A really fun time: I talked to Alex Horne and Greg Davies about 20! seasons! of Taskmaster, their thoughts on cast chemistry, designing tasks, their own bond, and what comes next. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/task...
www.vulture.com/article/task...
The Taskmaster Guys Know What You’re Watching For
Alex Horne and Greg Davies break down season 20’s most ludicrous tasks and their undeniable chemistry.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Probably the loveliest thing you’ll encounter on the timeline today.
The defining trait of the AI push is the braiding together of monstrous dreams for technology with a real unconcern for explaining how these ghoulish miracles are actually going to work.
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The defining trait of the AI push is the braiding together of monstrous dreams for technology with a real unconcern for explaining how these ghoulish miracles are actually going to work.
“If you’re really poor how come you’re not in black and white?!” 👌
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“If you’re really poor how come you’re not in black and white?!” 👌
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Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Heat not working properly at the office followed by choir practice in the most notoriously overheated practice room in the facility. A day that would have killed most characters in Victorian novels.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Heat not working properly at the office followed by choir practice in the most notoriously overheated practice room in the facility. A day that would have killed most characters in Victorian novels.
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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@durbin.senate.gov made it infinitely easier for Senators to sue Jack Smith for trying to uncover their treason than for this man to sue ICE for pepper spraying his toddler.
Under Bivens, there is limited ability to sue ICE agents for unlawful uses of force and illegal searches. This makes the deal @durbin.senate.gov just cut that allows Senators to sue over far less all the more disgraceful.
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@durbin.senate.gov made it infinitely easier for Senators to sue Jack Smith for trying to uncover their treason than for this man to sue ICE for pepper spraying his toddler.
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Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
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“You’re out of gunge/ I’m out of slime” - Out Of Touch by Hall & Oates if it was about running out of various oozes and glops
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“You’re out of gunge/ I’m out of slime” - Out Of Touch by Hall & Oates if it was about running out of various oozes and glops
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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not the most important part of this story but can we talk about how they made a robot that talks like reddit? the entire model of "intelligence" and human interaction this approximates is "forum douche." they built a thing that simulates posting online
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
not the most important part of this story but can we talk about how they made a robot that talks like reddit? the entire model of "intelligence" and human interaction this approximates is "forum douche." they built a thing that simulates posting online
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...