⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
@zzyzx.bsky.social
Phish Stats, Math Geek, Doctor Who fan. Occasionally embodies the joy of Phish. Le Minuteur était aussi un Aggie
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Warning: since 10/7 has been publicly questioning and exploring his Jewish identity. There will be processing!
FREE THE CLIPBOARD!!!
Warning: since 10/7 has been publicly questioning and exploring his Jewish identity. There will be processing!
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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
@zzyzx.bsky.social
· Oct 26
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1/4 politics/Judaism
1/5 photos of random shit with funny captions
1/20 misc
1/2 Phish/Grateful Dead/jamgrass
1/4 politics/Judaism
1/5 photos of random shit with funny captions
1/20 misc
Let’s just say, I haven’t exactly asked for Wednesday off for the parade.
Would be nice if 24 hours from now Zzyzx could just beam me back his mood so I'd have an idea of how the first half was going and could adjust my expectations accordingly.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
February 8, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Let’s just say, I haven’t exactly asked for Wednesday off for the parade.
Would be nice if 24 hours from now Zzyzx could just beam me back his mood so I'd have an idea of how the first half was going and could adjust my expectations accordingly.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Would be nice if 24 hours from now Zzyzx could just beam me back his mood so I'd have an idea of how the first half was going and could adjust my expectations accordingly.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
My default figuring we'll lose but hoping, so everyone picking the Seahawks is confusing me.
Turns out I have more options than I thought so I am watching. It's the prime time summary that doesn't do it for me I guess.
I'm not watching the Winter Olympics this year because I no longer have cable. Since I moved here, I took advantage of our local cable carrying CBUT (hee "See butt") from Vancouver and the CBC Olympics coverage is all events, no puff pieces. I can't go back!
February 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Turns out I have more options than I thought so I am watching. It's the prime time summary that doesn't do it for me I guess.
Reprising a joke I made on the day before Super Bowl 48. Hopefully it’ll get more of a laugh today:
This town’s Van Zandt.
This town’s Van Zandt.
February 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Reprising a joke I made on the day before Super Bowl 48. Hopefully it’ll get more of a laugh today:
This town’s Van Zandt.
This town’s Van Zandt.
When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, Mel and I randomly took a drive to Acme, WA where we stopped at the Acme Diner and I discovered Acme Ice Cream (now Bent Spoon).
With today being ice cream for breakfast day, I’m reprising!
With today being ice cream for breakfast day, I’m reprising!
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, Mel and I randomly took a drive to Acme, WA where we stopped at the Acme Diner and I discovered Acme Ice Cream (now Bent Spoon).
With today being ice cream for breakfast day, I’m reprising!
With today being ice cream for breakfast day, I’m reprising!
2/7/91 is the second version of Tweezer Reprise.Like the first on the 1st a few days prior,it followed Tweezer directly, a game that worked in this era because Tweezer still had the old ending. It would get slower and slower and then stop. A pause after that and a Reprise paired nicely. (1/2) #phish
February 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
2/7/91 is the second version of Tweezer Reprise.Like the first on the 1st a few days prior,it followed Tweezer directly, a game that worked in this era because Tweezer still had the old ending. It would get slower and slower and then stop. A pause after that and a Reprise paired nicely. (1/2) #phish
I'm not watching the Winter Olympics this year because I no longer have cable. Since I moved here, I took advantage of our local cable carrying CBUT (hee "See butt") from Vancouver and the CBC Olympics coverage is all events, no puff pieces. I can't go back!
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I'm not watching the Winter Olympics this year because I no longer have cable. Since I moved here, I took advantage of our local cable carrying CBUT (hee "See butt") from Vancouver and the CBC Olympics coverage is all events, no puff pieces. I can't go back!
I mean the thing is that we were the ones who didn't want this shit. We wanted people to be represented reasonably accurately by people who shared their views. But "we get to gerrymander while you don't" was never going to fly.
trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I mean the thing is that we were the ones who didn't want this shit. We wanted people to be represented reasonably accurately by people who shared their views. But "we get to gerrymander while you don't" was never going to fly.
Reposted by ⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
When you know Connections will be a failure from the second it loads...
February 7, 2026 at 2:12 PM
When you know Connections will be a failure from the second it loads...
Got a bug perhaps last night and I’m a little off. I know that’s the case because I have a song stuck in my head and it’s Dugga Doo, the la la part
youtu.be/rdzThMp5lso?...
youtu.be/rdzThMp5lso?...
DUGGA DOO | FULL SONG from The Interstellar Song Contest | Doctor Who
YouTube video by Doctor Who
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Got a bug perhaps last night and I’m a little off. I know that’s the case because I have a song stuck in my head and it’s Dugga Doo, the la la part
youtu.be/rdzThMp5lso?...
youtu.be/rdzThMp5lso?...
Tappy says, “Go Hawks!”
You don’t want to disappoint him do you team?
You don’t want to disappoint him do you team?
February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Tappy says, “Go Hawks!”
You don’t want to disappoint him do you team?
You don’t want to disappoint him do you team?
Just added "Strummit" to my spell check dictionary.
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Just added "Strummit" to my spell check dictionary.
I found an old review of mine of an SCI show at Horning's Hideout. At one point I ran into a woman who was dressed like Snow White but she was really sad. Her acid turned out to be bunk.
I tried to explain to her that drugs just would have no effect on the fairest of them all.
I tried to explain to her that drugs just would have no effect on the fairest of them all.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I found an old review of mine of an SCI show at Horning's Hideout. At one point I ran into a woman who was dressed like Snow White but she was really sad. Her acid turned out to be bunk.
I tried to explain to her that drugs just would have no effect on the fairest of them all.
I tried to explain to her that drugs just would have no effect on the fairest of them all.
The 100% Seahawks picks confuses me and my, "Eh, if we get some breaks we definitely have a shot at winning!" best optimism about this game.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/06/n...
www.theringer.com/2026/02/06/n...
The Ringer’s Super Bowl LX Predictions
Who will be the MVP? Who could be an unlikely hero? And who will ultimately come away with the Lombardi Trophy?
www.theringer.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The 100% Seahawks picks confuses me and my, "Eh, if we get some breaks we definitely have a shot at winning!" best optimism about this game.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/06/n...
www.theringer.com/2026/02/06/n...
I think the one thing that the Golden Age had that we don't now is a legitimate sense of techno optimism. Going from horses to cars to prop planes to jets to rockets made people think that anything was possible, that there was no problem that some smart people couldn't get together and solve,.
A lot of "golden age" science fiction has interesting ideas and workman-like-at-best prose, and Asimov was no exception to this. He and many other GA SF writers benefitted from "first-mover" status, and also, editors who preferred neat SF concepts (and men) over exceptional prose (and women).
Luke warm take? His stuff was influential but kinda-mid.
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I think the one thing that the Golden Age had that we don't now is a legitimate sense of techno optimism. Going from horses to cars to prop planes to jets to rockets made people think that anything was possible, that there was no problem that some smart people couldn't get together and solve,.
Skyline peeking out through the fog.
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Skyline peeking out through the fog.
What do 2/6/93 and 1/29/26 have in common? Both nights Fishman was pressured into doing the Prison Joke and he said no. Also if you take the numbers in the latter, drop one, and rearrange, you can form, 2/6/91 or 2/6/92 which is so close to giving me another fun fact. #phish
February 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
What do 2/6/93 and 1/29/26 have in common? Both nights Fishman was pressured into doing the Prison Joke and he said no. Also if you take the numbers in the latter, drop one, and rearrange, you can form, 2/6/91 or 2/6/92 which is so close to giving me another fun fact. #phish
Kind of stunned how few people at Daniel were in Seahawks gear.
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Kind of stunned how few people at Daniel were in Seahawks gear.
I like Daniel Donato a lot more than the last time I saw him.
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 AM
I like Daniel Donato a lot more than the last time I saw him.
Back in the 70s, the Phillies had a pitcher named Randy Lerch. He wasn't very good but my father had a friend who believed in him. "He just needs more time!" was the cry.
...40 years later I'm microwaving some soup, taste it, and catch myself saying, "This needs more time, just like Randy Lerch."
...40 years later I'm microwaving some soup, taste it, and catch myself saying, "This needs more time, just like Randy Lerch."
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Back in the 70s, the Phillies had a pitcher named Randy Lerch. He wasn't very good but my father had a friend who believed in him. "He just needs more time!" was the cry.
...40 years later I'm microwaving some soup, taste it, and catch myself saying, "This needs more time, just like Randy Lerch."
...40 years later I'm microwaving some soup, taste it, and catch myself saying, "This needs more time, just like Randy Lerch."
I've only known this in the past few years since I never was one to go to conventions or talk about authors. But this is another reason why I don't believe that there is a strong correlation between how good of a person someone is and how good their art is. I still love his stories.
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 6, 2026 at 2:22 AM
I've only known this in the past few years since I never was one to go to conventions or talk about authors. But this is another reason why I don't believe that there is a strong correlation between how good of a person someone is and how good their art is. I still love his stories.
Reposted by ⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
Leon! Leon. ffs if you are going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a crisis communications consultant (is that on your dime or Bard’s?) at least make up a story that isn’t also refuted by the Epstein Files!
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Leon! Leon. ffs if you are going to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a crisis communications consultant (is that on your dime or Bard’s?) at least make up a story that isn’t also refuted by the Epstein Files!
@musicologyduck.bsky.social is posting some more info about Leon Botstein and Epstein; I'd quote tweet its point about how Leon really needed a better crisis team but that's disabled.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story. Bard didn't give tenure to a popular teacher and a conspiracy theory arose.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story. Bard didn't give tenure to a popular teacher and a conspiracy theory arose.
February 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
@musicologyduck.bsky.social is posting some more info about Leon Botstein and Epstein; I'd quote tweet its point about how Leon really needed a better crisis team but that's disabled.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story. Bard didn't give tenure to a popular teacher and a conspiracy theory arose.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story. Bard didn't give tenure to a popular teacher and a conspiracy theory arose.
Jesus, Bitcoin might slip under 60k today. Who wouldn't want to use a currency that might have 20% inflation in the course of a day?
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Jesus, Bitcoin might slip under 60k today. Who wouldn't want to use a currency that might have 20% inflation in the course of a day?