Garrett Wollman
@gwollman.bsky.social
@garrett_wollman from the Bad Place
@wollman@mastodon.social
I make the network go, and stop, and go again at @csail.mit.edu. Usually located somewhere in eastern Massachusetts.
Not actually a colander full of beans. He/him (or they/them).
@wollman@mastodon.social
I make the network go, and stop, and go again at @csail.mit.edu. Usually located somewhere in eastern Massachusetts.
Not actually a colander full of beans. He/him (or they/them).
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Garrett Wollman
@gwollman.bsky.social
· Apr 6
I gave up on trying to run my own feed generator and switched to a third-party service, so unfortunately all my old skating feeds have been deleted. New feeds published on my profile for #WorldFigure, #WorldSynchro, #EuroFigure, #GPFigure, and #JGPFigure, plus a feed that's all of those together.
One of the things that I think a lot about is, should we teach indigenous languages in schools, as a required subject for all kids? I can see arguments on both sides. The places that have done it successfully are mostly small islands that had a single native culture before European settlers came.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One of the things that I think a lot about is, should we teach indigenous languages in schools, as a required subject for all kids? I can see arguments on both sides. The places that have done it successfully are mostly small islands that had a single native culture before European settlers came.
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New from me: Global Entry revocations are surging in the last ~2 years, well outpacing enrollment, according to data from a FOIA. People often don't know why their membership was revoked. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New from me: Global Entry revocations are surging in the last ~2 years, well outpacing enrollment, according to data from a FOIA. People often don't know why their membership was revoked. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Almost like economists have been saying that you need a functional state with limited number of chaotic events to have a functioning business economy, and that the tumult doesn't make the tax breaks worth it.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Almost like economists have been saying that you need a functional state with limited number of chaotic events to have a functioning business economy, and that the tumult doesn't make the tax breaks worth it.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
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Solar and wind are covering ALL new power demand worldwide in the first three quarters of 2025 electrek.co/2025/11/13/s...
#upshift 🔌💡
#upshift 🔌💡
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Solar and wind are covering ALL new power demand worldwide in the first three quarters of 2025 electrek.co/2025/11/13/s...
#upshift 🔌💡
#upshift 🔌💡
Ani DiFranco's "Tis of Thee" (1999) is way too relevant once again.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Ani DiFranco's "Tis of Thee" (1999) is way too relevant once again.
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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If your arguments is, "Without the Nazis, the Nazi-adjacent, the Nazi-curious, the Republican Party just won't be big enough and strong enough to survive," well, maybe it shouldn't.
www.vox.com/podcasts/468...
www.vox.com/podcasts/468...
The GOP’s fight over Nazis is about who controls the party’s future
Will JD Vance‘s vision set the GOP’s course after Trump?
www.vox.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If your arguments is, "Without the Nazis, the Nazi-adjacent, the Nazi-curious, the Republican Party just won't be big enough and strong enough to survive," well, maybe it shouldn't.
www.vox.com/podcasts/468...
www.vox.com/podcasts/468...
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I mean, I'm glad this is finally roaring out to get him, but imagine if it wasn't something in his past, if he wasn't this kind of monster. How are all the other monstrous evils he has perpetrated on our country not enough!?
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I mean, I'm glad this is finally roaring out to get him, but imagine if it wasn't something in his past, if he wasn't this kind of monster. How are all the other monstrous evils he has perpetrated on our country not enough!?
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"There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. THAT's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very ... irritating."
(From Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign)
/fin
(From Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign)
/fin
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. THAT's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very ... irritating."
(From Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign)
/fin
(From Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign)
/fin
Challenging question for #foodsky: does anyone know in which edition of JOY OF COOKING the recipe for Pfeffernüsse first appeared? It's not in the (facsimile) first edition that I have. It *is* in the 1975 edition from my childhood, in the form that I remember my father baking.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Challenging question for #foodsky: does anyone know in which edition of JOY OF COOKING the recipe for Pfeffernüsse first appeared? It's not in the (facsimile) first edition that I have. It *is* in the 1975 edition from my childhood, in the form that I remember my father baking.
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i feel moral revulsion now when I see news stories broken by the New York Times, even when they’re significant pieces of news. How to take something seriously when it comes from the place that publishes a thing like “have women ruined the workplace” while abetting genocide, fascists, pedophiles?
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i feel moral revulsion now when I see news stories broken by the New York Times, even when they’re significant pieces of news. How to take something seriously when it comes from the place that publishes a thing like “have women ruined the workplace” while abetting genocide, fascists, pedophiles?
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look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident
Anyone have a good US source for food-grade potash?
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Anyone have a good US source for food-grade potash?
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The reason the emails read like hot garbage is because they don't have to worry about being judged. These are not men who have ever poured over an email out of fear of not being taken seriously or not being treated professionally.
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The reason the emails read like hot garbage is because they don't have to worry about being judged. These are not men who have ever poured over an email out of fear of not being taken seriously or not being treated professionally.
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government by the rapists, of the rapists, for the rapists
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
government by the rapists, of the rapists, for the rapists
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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dynasties are a symptom of democratic failure
- maybe high barriers to entry into politics
- maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem
- maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability
- maybe high barriers to entry into politics
- maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem
- maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability
not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
dynasties are a symptom of democratic failure
- maybe high barriers to entry into politics
- maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem
- maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability
- maybe high barriers to entry into politics
- maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem
- maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability
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not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter
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I am deeply dismayed at how consistent and small the cabal who have engineered where we are now has been basically from Nixon to Bush to the present.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I am deeply dismayed at how consistent and small the cabal who have engineered where we are now has been basically from Nixon to Bush to the present.
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There was a lot of gossip. Not because they were both very old, and famous. Not only because both used the same pronouns. Mostly because they were different species.
How do they do it?
"Like everybody else," the heir to the Elven throne said.
The dragon smiled. "With love, care, and enthusiasm."
How do they do it?
"Like everybody else," the heir to the Elven throne said.
The dragon smiled. "With love, care, and enthusiasm."
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There was a lot of gossip. Not because they were both very old, and famous. Not only because both used the same pronouns. Mostly because they were different species.
How do they do it?
"Like everybody else," the heir to the Elven throne said.
The dragon smiled. "With love, care, and enthusiasm."
How do they do it?
"Like everybody else," the heir to the Elven throne said.
The dragon smiled. "With love, care, and enthusiasm."
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The ISU is a deeply embarrassing organisation, wdym you can't write one! single! sentence! about one of your athletes without using GenAI #GPFigure
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The ISU is a deeply embarrassing organisation, wdym you can't write one! single! sentence! about one of your athletes without using GenAI #GPFigure
At this point just rooting for more than 2 of 12 men to skate clean…
#SkateAmerica men preview: Mikhail Shaidorov is the favorite on paper for this event, but w this chaotic group, there could be 6 (or more!) who could podium - Jason Brown, Kazuki Tomono, Daniel Grassl, Nikolaj Memola, Kevin Aymoz all in the mix
bit.ly/49Jpyfd #GPFigure
bit.ly/49Jpyfd #GPFigure
2025 Skate America preview (men): Could be anyone's podium — Rocker Skating - Analysis by Jackie Wong
Mikhail Shaidorov headlines a potentially chaotic field of men at 2025 Skate America
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
At this point just rooting for more than 2 of 12 men to skate clean…
Well I didn't think The Fresh Market in Framingham would survive, and apparently it has now closed. Best wishes to the people who had been working there, not their fault that their employer leased a cursed location.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Well I didn't think The Fresh Market in Framingham would survive, and apparently it has now closed. Best wishes to the people who had been working there, not their fault that their employer leased a cursed location.
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Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...