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Asher Langton
@asherlangton.bsky.social
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Malicious software researcher. Technical debt collector. Aspiring woodturner. Former bus driver. He/him. Durham, NH.
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Graph titled "Generation lead" showing that, unlike the generations before and after, gen-X's were basically marinating in lead.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Scene from The Chair Company. A balding man with braided beard is sticking the elbow of his dirty long-sleeved shirt in a bowl of thick yellow soup. The closed caption reads "Exactly what you didn't want to happen is happening."
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This was what I was searching for, lol.
Screenshot of paragraph from an apparent SCOTUS opinion: 8 OBERGEFELL v. HODGES ScALIA, J., dissenting and stop making fucking photoshops of my dissents. I didn't say any of that shit. I'm not nude under this robe. I wear normal clothes under here like all the other Justices?. I saw someone post a tweet where it said I was naked and red and jumping up and down and angry whenever I presented my dissents. That's not true. So quit it with the fucking screenshots of my words that you photoshop or whatever into saying that I tripped on my way to the bench and my robe flew up over my head and my balls slipped out of my cargo shorts and that Justice Alito stepped on them and made me cry. That didn't fucking happen. You guys think you're so funny making me say stupid shit well what if I made a case against photoshop. I can do that. I'm a Supreme Court Justice. I'm the one in the robes mother fucker, which I'm not nude under I wear normal clothes. God damnit shut up Thomas and let me finish reading this. Yeah I wrote this part in here because I knew you would interrupt right here and say that sometimes I wear nothing but a jock strap under my robes. Sorry about that I'm just having a hard time because I keep on having to write dissents because we keep losing. I don't know why it keeps happening. Don't cry man you're going to make me cry. Now look you idiot, we're both crying and holding each other for comfort. Do... do you want to get married. No haha I was just kidding. That was a joke. 24 Like a button up shirt and pants, normal stuff not weird
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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very interesting, Google AI
AI Mode All Images News Videos Shopping Short videos Forums Maps Web Books Flights Finance Search tools Feedback AI Overview +2 The user is referring to a popular tweet by the online personality Leon Chang, known as user "@leyawn" on Twitter/X. In the tweet, he highlighted and praised a specific, highly critical paragraph from the dissenting opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). The tweet by @leyawn featured a screenshot of a paragraph from Justice Scalia's dissent, which was noted for its particularly strong language and memorable phrasing. Scalia argued that the majority opinion was a "threat to American democracy" and criticized its judicial overreach. The specific passage in the tweet, and in the dissent itself, reads:
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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They do for some types of pasta.
Our host at a Italian agritourismo, making tagliatelle after a morning of truffle hunting. There are two fresh farm eggs in a circle of flour. A platter of fresh, uncooked tagliatelle.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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George Bluth lamenting that he has the worst fucking [senators].
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The Continental Switchboard from John Wick
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Bart Simpson writing “I will not fedpost on main” on a chalkboard.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The real picture is certainly not flattering, but the picture in the quote post is photoshop from Reddit.
Actual picture of Laura Loomer and Avi Abelow. Loomer's face shows lots of bad plastic surgery, but her mouth is about half as wide as in the exaggerated photoshop in the quote-post.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Goldendoodle Tatum looking at the camera Goldendoodles Tatum and Charlie, mid-romp, with tennis balls. Charlie and Tatum on the bed, staring back at the camera. Charlie and Tatum asleep together on the bed.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Same wrapped sub sandwich, with a "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" sticker edited in.
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I've been craving a sub sandwich since this stupid trial started.
A sub sandwich in a white paper wrapper on a wood table.
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet to go to vacation. Maybe we ground that plane,” Patel told Glenn Beck’s podcast in December 2024. “$15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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After complaining about his predecessor's use of FBI jets, Kash Patel is now spending hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of taxpayer dollars so he can get his ashes hauled on a Nashville runway.
“You ground Chris Wray’s private jet that he pays for with taxpayer dollars to hop around the country. You take away the fancy new fleet of cars from DOJ that they’re going to use to shuffle around executives,” he said in 2023 on “Kash’s Corner.” “You stop the construction of new buildings.” (from https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/kash-patels-podcast-persona-staunch-trump-defender-and-fierce-critic-of-the-fbi-he-could-soon-lead/)
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Still wrong!
Me: He earned his PhD from Harvard, not Princeton. ChatGPT: You're absolutely right — thank you for catching that. **Stacy Langton** earned his **Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University** in **1978**, not Princeton. His dissertation, *“Some Theorems on Abstract Recursive Functions”*, was supervised by **Hao Wang**, a prominent logician and student of Kurt Gödel. Langton’s research lies primarily in **mathematical logic**, especially **recursion theory (computability theory)** and the **foundations of mathematics**. He’s published work on **self-reference**, **Gödel’s theorems**, and **the philosophy of mathematics**, and has also written about the **intersection of mathematics and the humanities**. He’s a long-time professor at the **University of San Diego**, where he’s known for both his teaching and his essays connecting mathematical ideas to broader philosophical questions. Would you like a list of his main publications or papers?
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I searched my own dad's name and it's almost all wrong. Wrong grad school, wrong advisor, wrong year, wrong specialty. The only correct part is that he teaches at USD and one of his interests is math history.
question: who is the mathematician stacy langton ChatGPT: **Stacy Langton** is an American mathematician and professor known for his work in **mathematical logic**, **recursion theory (computability theory)**, and **the history and foundations of mathematics**. He earned his **Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University** in 1978, where he studied under **Alonzo Church**, one of the founders of modern logic and the lambda calculus. Langton has published on topics including Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, the Church–Turing thesis, and philosophical issues related to formal systems and computation. He has taught for many years at the **University of San Diego (USD)**, where he’s a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics. In addition to his research, Langton is well known among students for his engaging teaching on subjects like logic, number theory, and the history of mathematical thought. Would you like me to summarize his main publications or describe his work in computability theory in more detail?
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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lmaoooooo
Bill Ackman retweeting himself: @BillAckman · 8m Replying to @ViralNewsNYC I disagree. Sliwa staying in convinced many Cuomo voters it was a foregone conclusion so they didn’t vote. If Sliwa had dropped, Cuomo could have won.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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lmao
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November 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Maureen Dowd’s “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” column
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A Sonor ad featuring Jack DeJohnette. Presumably from the 1980s. He's featured with a Sonorlite (I think?) set that appears identical to the one he's playing in the photo above.
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I'm mostly face-blind...but that isn't Jack DeJohnette. My best guess is that the picture above is an AI-upscaled version of this picture from 1985.
A picture of Jack DeJohnette playing the drums. The drums, cymbals, stands, microphones are the same as the picture above, though in lower resolution. The drummer is in nearly the same pose with a similar facial expression.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Yikes, a famous jazz musician who played with Jack DeJohnette just posted a remembrance with this picture.
A Black man who is not Jack DeJohnette playing Sonor drums.
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Shield Maiden - Char... @shield... • 23h Then STFU and get out of the way. No one needs your negativity. Trans people have become so nasty and toxic. I'm done speaking to them. If they face more discrimination, then it's because of their own fucked-up approach. We fight the dragon that can kill us, FIRST. Then, we clean up. Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsk... • 24m NO one, not even people whose behaviors and choices and personalities you dislike, deserves to be treated as less than fully human, not even temporarily. Shield Maiden - Chartr... @shieldmaiden7.bsky.social I love trans people. Not sure what you're talking about. October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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All the dogs *except* foster Tatum are currently barking at the strange-looking pupper in the front yard.
A deer in a wooded New Hampshire yard.
October 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Foster pupdate.
A smiling goldendoodle getting head skritches.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM