gollybea
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gollybea
@gollybea.bsky.social
High-latency skywriting
I like this use of "Columbus" as a verb, will use at the first opportunity.
January 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM
It's "Heroes," isn't it.
October 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's database software now😭
October 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Someone was saving it for the book they'd pitched?
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This just makes me curious if anyone has done a retrospective analysis of his time at HUD.
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thank you for sharing this thought with me. It has made me smile AND giggle.
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Typing?
April 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I hope to never encounter a more Thesaurus-assed argument than "the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office" because “'Executive' is a literal synonym of 'monarchical'".
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It was used quite a bit in 2017, and here we are again.
February 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
That, and the fact that it ships with NO bloatware, are what convinced me the extra upfront cost would be worth it. I've had my refurbished model for nearly two years with zero regrets.
December 30, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I think you are looking for this book and its descendants, as well as interdisciplinary work that focuses on textile production? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum...
The Human Use of Human Beings - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 27, 2024 at 5:40 PM
This may haunt me for a while.
December 26, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Me?

– An entry-level civil servant whose life was changed by a copy of Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (First Edition), found on a random bookshelf at their first clerical job.
December 21, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by gollybea
As may be obvious, I've settled on using the hashtag #BadActorBingo for my case studies of common spam and scam patterns. I'll go back and append it to the other threads on the topic. I will be making this a semi-regular feature as I find common bad actor signifiers to dissect for you!
November 24, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Although I'm inclined to call it "fieldwork," I think in this case we should consult the classics:

www.tumblr.com/half-ginger/...
manifesting.
In the words of my father, an archaeologist, "if you don't have a permit for it, it's grave robbing"
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November 23, 2024 at 10:36 PM