Jen Whyte 🍁
@whyjenwhy.bsky.social
Thinker about old stuff at Duke University. I have a website and this is a link to it: https://www.jenniferlwhyte.com/
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Jen Whyte 🍁
@whyjenwhy.bsky.social
· Nov 21
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In light of the Vancouver PWHL team choosing 'The Goldeneyes' as their name, here's a list of James Bond Film titles, ranked by how good they would be as a hockey team name, worst to best.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In light of the Vancouver PWHL team choosing 'The Goldeneyes' as their name, here's a list of James Bond Film titles, ranked by how good they would be as a hockey team name, worst to best.
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Are there blood pressure meters available in the skydome? Asking for a friend
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Are there blood pressure meters available in the skydome? Asking for a friend
Let's go aarakocra
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Let's go aarakocra
You'd think that MLB teams would design variant Halloween jerseys to get around this problem. Very difficult party to theme, this one.
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You'd think that MLB teams would design variant Halloween jerseys to get around this problem. Very difficult party to theme, this one.
Writing a protest song for the No Kings protests, call that royalty free music
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Writing a protest song for the No Kings protests, call that royalty free music
I'm not a linguist, so I don't know how to properly categorize the phenomenon, but there's a specific kind of accent a man can have that apparently means he can only ever talk about baseball
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm not a linguist, so I don't know how to properly categorize the phenomenon, but there's a specific kind of accent a man can have that apparently means he can only ever talk about baseball
See, like I say. Baseball is easy. They throw a ball at you, and you hit it. And then you do it again.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
See, like I say. Baseball is easy. They throw a ball at you, and you hit it. And then you do it again.
If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If the standard model ever develops a need for another pair of quarks they should call them based and cringe
I think the US government has not quite internalized that there's nothing in the world more pathetic than 'person who takes personal offense at Doug Ford'. It's like complaining that you got flipped off by an inflatable tube man
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I think the US government has not quite internalized that there's nothing in the world more pathetic than 'person who takes personal offense at Doug Ford'. It's like complaining that you got flipped off by an inflatable tube man
How it started: "I'll have to simplify the rules a lot, given that baseball games already take almost as long as a D&D session even when nobody's rolling to hit"
How it's going: "How do you get a meaningful definition of a 'strike zone' when players vary so widely in height and number of limbs"
How it's going: "How do you get a meaningful definition of a 'strike zone' when players vary so widely in height and number of limbs"
Let's say you happen to be designing a baseball minigame to spring on your D&D party for the session that coincides with the World Series. You need to give it a suitably fantasy name, so that the party does not realize they are playing baseball until they are playing baseball.
What do you call it?
What do you call it?
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
How it started: "I'll have to simplify the rules a lot, given that baseball games already take almost as long as a D&D session even when nobody's rolling to hit"
How it's going: "How do you get a meaningful definition of a 'strike zone' when players vary so widely in height and number of limbs"
How it's going: "How do you get a meaningful definition of a 'strike zone' when players vary so widely in height and number of limbs"
The Reagan Foundation response is hilarious. They're trying to treat an actual real dead person as if he's a fictional character over which they can assert IP rights. I cannot think of a more fitting target as the first representative of this particular sort of bullshit future
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Reagan Foundation response is hilarious. They're trying to treat an actual real dead person as if he's a fictional character over which they can assert IP rights. I cannot think of a more fitting target as the first representative of this particular sort of bullshit future
Regret to inform everyone that the ball is, in fact, based
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Regret to inform everyone that the ball is, in fact, based
Let's say you happen to be designing a baseball minigame to spring on your D&D party for the session that coincides with the World Series. You need to give it a suitably fantasy name, so that the party does not realize they are playing baseball until they are playing baseball.
What do you call it?
What do you call it?
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Let's say you happen to be designing a baseball minigame to spring on your D&D party for the session that coincides with the World Series. You need to give it a suitably fantasy name, so that the party does not realize they are playing baseball until they are playing baseball.
What do you call it?
What do you call it?
Fun fact about me is that the last time the Blue Jays won the World Series was the day I was born. Is this the year I will be released from the curse? Can I finally die?
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Fun fact about me is that the last time the Blue Jays won the World Series was the day I was born. Is this the year I will be released from the curse? Can I finally die?
I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'
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Man, I hate virtue signalling. Even people driving cars feel the need to put on a special little light to tell you if they're left or right
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Man, I hate virtue signalling. Even people driving cars feel the need to put on a special little light to tell you if they're left or right
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increasing the ratio of voltage to current is an act of resistance
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
increasing the ratio of voltage to current is an act of resistance
I have a duty to warn: after accidentally attending the best game of the season (this past Sunday) I have become afflicted with the disease known as 'Toronto Blue Jays'. Prognosis is not good. Blue Jay posting will now commence, as part of my treatment plan.
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I have a duty to warn: after accidentally attending the best game of the season (this past Sunday) I have become afflicted with the disease known as 'Toronto Blue Jays'. Prognosis is not good. Blue Jay posting will now commence, as part of my treatment plan.
You can't even begin to understand conspiracy theories without a good understanding of trigonometry. It's a real sine quanon
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You can't even begin to understand conspiracy theories without a good understanding of trigonometry. It's a real sine quanon
Really curious to hear how people on US university hiring commitees are planning to respond to the 100 000 dollar H1-B bribe rule. There isn't a junior academic in the world with that kind of cash to throw around, and I don't imagine many departments would enjoy it either.
September 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Really curious to hear how people on US university hiring commitees are planning to respond to the 100 000 dollar H1-B bribe rule. There isn't a junior academic in the world with that kind of cash to throw around, and I don't imagine many departments would enjoy it either.
You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.
September 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You know, the narrator in 'I've been everywhere' never actually specifies whether he's seen a road with as much dust and sand as the Winnemucca road he's currently on. He names many other roads he's been to, but doesn't make any ruling on their comparative dustiness or sandiness.
Last night, the frat house on my street threw a very loud party (as is their right). But the weird thing was, the music they played at this very loud party in 2025 was at least 80% the exact same music I heard at frat parties in 2012. That's weird, right? Hypotheses?
September 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Last night, the frat house on my street threw a very loud party (as is their right). But the weird thing was, the music they played at this very loud party in 2025 was at least 80% the exact same music I heard at frat parties in 2012. That's weird, right? Hypotheses?
There's a store in this airport in which you can buy vinyl records. That famously travel-friendly, small, durable, and easy-to-use music delivery method, vinyl records
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There's a store in this airport in which you can buy vinyl records. That famously travel-friendly, small, durable, and easy-to-use music delivery method, vinyl records
"But what about the implications? How will this all conclude?" I cry, as I am escorted away from the premises
August 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"But what about the implications? How will this all conclude?" I cry, as I am escorted away from the premises
"There's no platonic explanation for this", I say, looking at one of the dialogues that ends in ἀπορία
August 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"There's no platonic explanation for this", I say, looking at one of the dialogues that ends in ἀπορία