Dell Adams
@dell-adams.bsky.social
Opinionated truck driver, recovering Reply Guy. Liberty and democracy forever. The world has one issue and one fight. Stan of FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub. Proud Unhuman as the word is used by Posobiec & Lisec. Pronouns: call me anything but late to dinner.
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Dell Adams
@dell-adams.bsky.social
· Jan 21
All the good that can happen from here will be unprecedented, I can see that much
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My madness campaigns were dependent on the following technologies: (1) three-way phone lines with a muting feature (2) tape recorders (3) a school bus with a tape player you could get the cool bus driver to pop your prank call phone tape in.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My madness campaigns were dependent on the following technologies: (1) three-way phone lines with a muting feature (2) tape recorders (3) a school bus with a tape player you could get the cool bus driver to pop your prank call phone tape in.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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18. What is something you yearn for?
A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
18. What is something that you yearn for?
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
18. What is something you yearn for?
A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people.
Temerity without analog!
Honestly, the audacity of Heinlein fans who give romance readers shit. ASTOUNDING!
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Temerity without analog!
So many are.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So many are.
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I mean, those would be my preferences too.
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I mean, those would be my preferences too.
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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For those who don't know, in Hong Kong, "emergency maintenance" is venue slang for "powerful ppl with govt ties told us not to host this event and also told us not to tell anyone they told us, or else".
The Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (HKPPA) has called off an exhibition after Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) pulled its venue, citing "emergency maintenance." In full: buff.ly/DURoXKl
Photojournalist group axes exhibition after university pulled venue, citing 'emergency maintenance'
The Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (HKPPA) has called off an exhibition after Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) pulled its venue, citing "emergency maintenance."
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
For those who don't know, in Hong Kong, "emergency maintenance" is venue slang for "powerful ppl with govt ties told us not to host this event and also told us not to tell anyone they told us, or else".
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The Situation, Nov. 23, 2025: On Shame
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Situation, Nov. 23, 2025: On Shame
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
"We will pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe..." He meant it when he said that.
JFK bloated troops in Vietnam from 900 to 16,000, created the School of the Dictators, had Ngo Dinh Diem whacked, invaded Cuba and sponsored at least a few assassination attempts on Castro, and promoted the 'our dictator good' approach. Actual JFK was not Jed Bartlet.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"We will pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe..." He meant it when he said that.
The impressive revelations in this hippo thread finally make it plausible to me that the Behemoth from the Book of Job could be one
And AS LONG AS THERE'S 8" THICK STEEL BEAMS BETWEEN ME AND THEM, they're really cute.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
It was genuinely like something out of Jurassic Park. Every time they *brushed* against these massive steel grates, they rang out like bells, because there's just *so much force* behind any of their movements.
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The impressive revelations in this hippo thread finally make it plausible to me that the Behemoth from the Book of Job could be one
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Whilst the UK government is reported to be planning to cap the Cycle to Work Scheme, the Dutch government commits €1 billion to cycling infrastructure to connect new homes.
Dutch government commits €1 billion to cycling infrastructure to connect new homes
It is part of a €2.5 billion package to create roads, cycle paths, tunnels and tram lines to residential areas
road.cc
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whilst the UK government is reported to be planning to cap the Cycle to Work Scheme, the Dutch government commits €1 billion to cycling infrastructure to connect new homes.
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The Temperance Tarot card by surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington, 1950s
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Temperance Tarot card by surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington, 1950s
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
If the rule led you to this, Charlie Brown, of what use was the rule?
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If the rule led you to this, Charlie Brown, of what use was the rule?
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In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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"As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. ... [P]eople crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too."
Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
Entire villages were destroyed & survivors were evacuated by air.
Tim Lydon reports.
Entire villages were destroyed & survivors were evacuated by air.
Tim Lydon reports.
As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril
Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
inthesetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. ... [P]eople crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too."
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I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
One of my never-pursued projects was devising a markup language (BSML) to express degrees of confidence in one's assertions, so that I could write in a hurry and then go back and fix the parts I was just making up.
if I may add: I put all my bullshit in brackets. whenever I'm stumped, or need to fact-check something, or the syntax is fucked, or I need to rewrite a passage. anything funky goes in brackets so when I'm ready to revise, I can easily search the doc for them and find all the bullshit.
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
One of my never-pursued projects was devising a markup language (BSML) to express degrees of confidence in one's assertions, so that I could write in a hurry and then go back and fix the parts I was just making up.