Just James
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Just James
@jrnewman42.bsky.social
Merely me. Coder, harried and grumpy
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Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)

www.amazon.com/Conventional...
A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel
Amazon.com: A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel eBook : Stross, Charles: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Betty Boop's Halloween Party 1933 720p
YouTube video by Ulysses North
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October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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[best read with a French accent]

“I am so very sorry sir, without a reservation, there is simply nothing I can do for you.”
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Out: begging students to not write their assignments with AI

In: including invisible instructions for the copy-pasters
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say.

Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Missed my Burner Phone 101 workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library?

Here’s the companion write-up, with discussion highlights and updated slides: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...
Burner Phone 101
Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone...
rebeccawilliams.info
August 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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the discovery that it is possible to generate coherent, grammatical text without a thinking mind behind it was a shock to everyone, but it might have come as slightly less of a shock to anyone who's edited think tank policy proposals.
August 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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when i have 6 to 8 enemies coming by the house
July 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
July 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
July 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"At least with Tulip Mania they didn't put Tulips in charge of the government...." - bears repeating.
July 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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"For the life of me, I can't tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping."
I Have No Idea Why I’ve Suddenly Started Thinking About the 1917 Russian Revolution
So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Fo...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.
June 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

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June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Oh
Asked what his "unconditional surrender!" post meant for Iran, Trump says: "Very simple -- unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. I've had it. I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there."
June 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Vaccines save lives.

That’s it. That’s the post.
June 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Para todos esos emos que crecieron con esta rola… ya llegó la versión que no sabías que necesitabas. Aquí les va Welcome to the Black Parade de My Chemical Romance en versión Norteña-Spanglish.

#mychemicalromance #welcometotheblackparade #emosnorteños #norteñoremix #spanglishmusic #ezband
June 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM