Don Sheldon
@donsheldon.bsky.social
My family revitalizes abandoned homes, maintains them, and rents them fairly. I'm very proud of our work.
We also play games of all descriptions, especially on a table.
I like math and science most, but am interested in everything.
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We also play games of all descriptions, especially on a table.
I like math and science most, but am interested in everything.
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Don Sheldon
@donsheldon.bsky.social
· Nov 9
They say posting your art is the best thing to do here when you first start. My art is a card game called The House of Wisdom. It's about the amazing discoveries of the Islamic Golden Age; things that you know about, but maybe don't know where they came from.
Anyone else having trouble accessing their own playlists in YouTube's app? Ever since the last update all my devices have developed "problems accessing your account." I've reset, reinstalled, everything and it keeps happening consistently.
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Anyone else having trouble accessing their own playlists in YouTube's app? Ever since the last update all my devices have developed "problems accessing your account." I've reset, reinstalled, everything and it keeps happening consistently.
There was a fantastic near-homophone (and/or spoonerism) joke thread on the old site years ago (that I kinda started) and I still laugh about the Chanukah money (gelt)/manuka honey one every time I see that stuff in the store.
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There was a fantastic near-homophone (and/or spoonerism) joke thread on the old site years ago (that I kinda started) and I still laugh about the Chanukah money (gelt)/manuka honey one every time I see that stuff in the store.
This kind of focus on "inside the beltway" issues (at the expense of the rest of the nation) is kinda bad, actually. Sorta undermines our greater union a bit when the capital drives policy. Not an absolutists about it, but the degree worries me though.
Sen. Kaine on his vote for funding deal
“I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct. 1, because I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed federal worker would say to me at church”
“I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct. 1, because I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed federal worker would say to me at church”
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This kind of focus on "inside the beltway" issues (at the expense of the rest of the nation) is kinda bad, actually. Sorta undermines our greater union a bit when the capital drives policy. Not an absolutists about it, but the degree worries me though.
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing
Let's just have all three hundred thirty million of us negotiate as a group. I bet we could get some great costs. Heck, lets go direct to the providers, we'd basically be our own insurance company then! Has anyone thought of this before?
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Let's just have all three hundred thirty million of us negotiate as a group. I bet we could get some great costs. Heck, lets go direct to the providers, we'd basically be our own insurance company then! Has anyone thought of this before?
Cat-proofing a winter home for the porch plants with an old shelf and the screens from the porch, since we're not using them.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Cat-proofing a winter home for the porch plants with an old shelf and the screens from the porch, since we're not using them.
The annual premium alone is six times the per capital cost of the UK's National Health System. Before you even get any healthcare. But since it's tax funded poor people actually pay a lot less. It's time for change.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The annual premium alone is six times the per capital cost of the UK's National Health System. Before you even get any healthcare. But since it's tax funded poor people actually pay a lot less. It's time for change.
Even before this incoming pain, at least 57% of Americans support a universal or single payer healthcare system. A majority. At least. But we can't have nice things that we want and need and know we can afford because rich people need to be richer.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Even before this incoming pain, at least 57% of Americans support a universal or single payer healthcare system. A majority. At least. But we can't have nice things that we want and need and know we can afford because rich people need to be richer.
Luigi shot people for less.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Luigi shot people for less.
Not sure how Bernie calculated his 50,000 deaths a year from these insurance changes. I could believe even higher, but even that is a September 11th of deaths every three weeks. Imagine they did it again on October 2nd. And 23rd. November 13th. December 4th. Christmas Day. That's what's happening.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Not sure how Bernie calculated his 50,000 deaths a year from these insurance changes. I could believe even higher, but even that is a September 11th of deaths every three weeks. Imagine they did it again on October 2nd. And 23rd. November 13th. December 4th. Christmas Day. That's what's happening.
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Every name on these pages should have already been in prison, especially the wire-in at the end.
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Every name on these pages should have already been in prison, especially the wire-in at the end.
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It has been
0
days since this administration committed an impeachable offenses.
0
days since this administration committed an impeachable offenses.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It has been
0
days since this administration committed an impeachable offenses.
0
days since this administration committed an impeachable offenses.
Schumer should demand that the multi-felon, money laundering, self enriching, document selling, pedophile protecting, record breaking shut down causing, government crippling, anti-constitutional maniac resign before any agreement because there's no reason to suspect he'd keep these promises.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Schumer should demand that the multi-felon, money laundering, self enriching, document selling, pedophile protecting, record breaking shut down causing, government crippling, anti-constitutional maniac resign before any agreement because there's no reason to suspect he'd keep these promises.
I hope that going forward America finds "I'm rich!" to be a liability for politicians. Oh, you spent your life not caring about anyone else's needs, and now you want power over the one entity that regulate your greed? No thanks. No, I didn't believe you actually want to help me now.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I hope that going forward America finds "I'm rich!" to be a liability for politicians. Oh, you spent your life not caring about anyone else's needs, and now you want power over the one entity that regulate your greed? No thanks. No, I didn't believe you actually want to help me now.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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I just realized it’s been five years since
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I just realized it’s been five years since
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.
No budget for dictators.
Don't fund the government until Trump resigns.
Don't fund the government until Trump resigns.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No budget for dictators.
Don't fund the government until Trump resigns.
Don't fund the government until Trump resigns.
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Whichever consultant came up with the Republican plan of obviously and directly denying citizens from having representation in our government needs to also go on trial after all this. Delayed run-off elections. Refusal to swear in. Illegal redistricting. Disgusting.
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Whichever consultant came up with the Republican plan of obviously and directly denying citizens from having representation in our government needs to also go on trial after all this. Delayed run-off elections. Refusal to swear in. Illegal redistricting. Disgusting.
The latest episode of "how dumb can the Supreme Court be?" is quite a nail biter. We should have John Roberts for Thanksgiving if things go badly.
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The latest episode of "how dumb can the Supreme Court be?" is quite a nail biter. We should have John Roberts for Thanksgiving if things go badly.
You can buy The House of Wisdom (2022) at @acadecon.bsky.social in Dayton Ohio all weekend long from my friend at location 102. We had a problem with our e-store so get it the only way you can: in person. And buy her dice and stuff too.
Fun fact my business partner @donsheldon.bsky.social made this awesome game.
I mean we're partners in a construction business but never mind that, he made a really cool game 😍
I mean we're partners in a construction business but never mind that, he made a really cool game 😍
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You can buy The House of Wisdom (2022) at @acadecon.bsky.social in Dayton Ohio all weekend long from my friend at location 102. We had a problem with our e-store so get it the only way you can: in person. And buy her dice and stuff too.