Doug Wyatt
@dkwyatt.bsky.social
Father, musician, retired hacker
Interesting question to begin with, but then 😲 at the first comment: “I wrote the OED entry …”
Random question but when did “making love” go from meaning “wooing” to fucking?
December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Interesting question to begin with, but then 😲 at the first comment: “I wrote the OED entry …”
Cool thread for music nerds, who may look at 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 and think "wait, isn't that just like ...?"
Music theory story time on Bluesky! This is the beginning of “Ede Ede,” a piano piece by Shawn Okpebholo. One of the ideas running throughout the piece is this repeated, 2-measure rhythm, which is one version of the West African bell pattern. The first four measures go through the pattern twice. 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Cool thread for music nerds, who may look at 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 and think "wait, isn't that just like ...?"
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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
Great Egret spotted recently at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
April 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Great Egret spotted recently at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
Good god this is real …
March 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Good god this is real …
Oh yes indeed, including the first couple comments. I recently wrote to Maria Cantwell, not quite in these words, “You just voted *for* a Trump nominee? WTF?”
I feel like a lot of very normie very moderate liberals prefer AOC to most other congressional Dems and there’s something there, something to build on.
February 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Oh yes indeed, including the first couple comments. I recently wrote to Maria Cantwell, not quite in these words, “You just voted *for* a Trump nominee? WTF?”
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I'm offering free BORB evaluation using the Tennis Ball Test™️. The tennis ball decides if your bird is a BORB like this golden crowned kinglet. Bring out your borbs! 🪶
November 18, 2023 at 12:19 AM
I'm offering free BORB evaluation using the Tennis Ball Test™️. The tennis ball decides if your bird is a BORB like this golden crowned kinglet. Bring out your borbs! 🪶
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Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
December 31, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Just when I’ve sung and heard many choral pieces about stars in recent days, along comes this sonnet.
December 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Just when I’ve sung and heard many choral pieces about stars in recent days, along comes this sonnet.
And I love that most all of the comments amount to
“Hot take? I mean … it’s just … true!”
“Hot take? I mean … it’s just … true!”
One of my hottest takes is that Stevie Wonder, who’s not exactly lacking in accolades, deserves to have the widespread acclaim, reverence, and obsession that folks give The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
kind of convinced this is the greatest pop song ever recorded youtu.be/eLbmdG8U60E?...
November 20, 2024 at 2:47 AM
And I love that most all of the comments amount to
“Hot take? I mean … it’s just … true!”
“Hot take? I mean … it’s just … true!”
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This week I wrote about consequence in an age of coming fascist supremacy, the need for ourselves to find safe people, and to identify unsafe people, and the ways that they will tell us which they are often without even knowing they are doing so.
www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...
www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...
Rules Of Engagement
A hopefully smart look at the frequently not-smart discussion around boundaries and inclusion.
www.the-reframe.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:41 PM
This week I wrote about consequence in an age of coming fascist supremacy, the need for ourselves to find safe people, and to identify unsafe people, and the ways that they will tell us which they are often without even knowing they are doing so.
www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...
www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-eng...
wow
Hi,
I'm Anthony Etherin, and I write constraint-based poetry. Like this:
VOLCANO (Palindrome)
A vale,
sirenic.
Its alps
a red net’s atlas;
a bared, nude summit,
pure.
Pools loop, erupt.
I’m mused —
Under a basalt
as tender as plasticine,
rise, lava.
I'm Anthony Etherin, and I write constraint-based poetry. Like this:
VOLCANO (Palindrome)
A vale,
sirenic.
Its alps
a red net’s atlas;
a bared, nude summit,
pure.
Pools loop, erupt.
I’m mused —
Under a basalt
as tender as plasticine,
rise, lava.
November 16, 2024 at 5:14 PM
wow
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This is such a great thing to read.
I wrote about the most interesting man you’ve probably never heard of, who discovered the real Noah’s Ark, and gives us a window into a fascinating world of the first humans who invented writing. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...
The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World
Irving Finkel is the most interesting man you've never heard of. Enter his world for a captivating glimpse of the secrets embedded within humanity's earliest writing.
www.forkingpaths.co
November 14, 2024 at 3:57 PM
This is such a great thing to read.
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I wrote about this terrible week, dark times ahead, and how we can best oppose fascists by doing all the many things fascists can't.
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
Fighting In The Dark
Doing things fascists can't do.
Not doing things fascists want us to do. Doing thing fascists don't want us to do.
Refusing the fascist offer.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
I wrote about this terrible week, dark times ahead, and how we can best oppose fascists by doing all the many things fascists can't.
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...
xkcd.com/3008
On the "Trail of Time" along the Grand Canyon’s south rim, 1 meter represents a million years. Oldest rocks in the canyon are about 1.8 billion years old, 1.8 km back in time from the "now" end of the trail. The canyon itself formed a mere 6 million years ago, 6 meters from the end.
On the "Trail of Time" along the Grand Canyon’s south rim, 1 meter represents a million years. Oldest rocks in the canyon are about 1.8 billion years old, 1.8 km back in time from the "now" end of the trail. The canyon itself formed a mere 6 million years ago, 6 meters from the end.
Proterozoic Rocks
xkcd.com
November 9, 2024 at 6:35 AM
xkcd.com/3008
On the "Trail of Time" along the Grand Canyon’s south rim, 1 meter represents a million years. Oldest rocks in the canyon are about 1.8 billion years old, 1.8 km back in time from the "now" end of the trail. The canyon itself formed a mere 6 million years ago, 6 meters from the end.
On the "Trail of Time" along the Grand Canyon’s south rim, 1 meter represents a million years. Oldest rocks in the canyon are about 1.8 billion years old, 1.8 km back in time from the "now" end of the trail. The canyon itself formed a mere 6 million years ago, 6 meters from the end.
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A question: How to heal fascist bullies? How to leave paths open for their redemption?
To answer, let me give you a phrase and a word, which might seem counterintuitive.
Let me give you: Apology not accepted.
Let me give you: Unacceptable.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
To answer, let me give you a phrase and a word, which might seem counterintuitive.
Let me give you: Apology not accepted.
Let me give you: Unacceptable.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
Apology Not Accepted
How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.
www.the-reframe.com
November 3, 2024 at 3:04 PM
A question: How to heal fascist bullies? How to leave paths open for their redemption?
To answer, let me give you a phrase and a word, which might seem counterintuitive.
Let me give you: Apology not accepted.
Let me give you: Unacceptable.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
To answer, let me give you a phrase and a word, which might seem counterintuitive.
Let me give you: Apology not accepted.
Let me give you: Unacceptable.
Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-...
Total Perspective Vortex, musician version
May 10, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Total Perspective Vortex, musician version
… a new one? (alas, no: … up.)
March 1, 2024 at 2:21 AM
… a new one? (alas, no: … up.)
TIL that an amusing synonym for “grawlix” is “obscenicon”, and now I’m wondering who would attend Obscenicon, and in what city?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
February 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM
TIL that an amusing synonym for “grawlix” is “obscenicon”, and now I’m wondering who would attend Obscenicon, and in what city?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
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minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less
November 11, 2023 at 8:23 PM
minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less
Twitter:tweet::Bluesky:?
August 26, 2023 at 6:31 PM
Twitter:tweet::Bluesky:?