Neal Shankman
@nealshankman.bsky.social
Lapsed bike rider and violin-haver, spreadsheet wrangler, dog lover, dead set against what's coming for our country soon.
I coined a new word for our American government: Khairekakistocracy, "rule by gleeful malice."
This adds to kakistocracy, (rule by evil or the worst people) the crucial dimension of "khairekakía," evil done gleefully, being cruel because it's fun to hurt people who don't matter to you.
This adds to kakistocracy, (rule by evil or the worst people) the crucial dimension of "khairekakía," evil done gleefully, being cruel because it's fun to hurt people who don't matter to you.
March 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I coined a new word for our American government: Khairekakistocracy, "rule by gleeful malice."
This adds to kakistocracy, (rule by evil or the worst people) the crucial dimension of "khairekakía," evil done gleefully, being cruel because it's fun to hurt people who don't matter to you.
This adds to kakistocracy, (rule by evil or the worst people) the crucial dimension of "khairekakía," evil done gleefully, being cruel because it's fun to hurt people who don't matter to you.
Corned beef and cabbage, final update: it sliced like prime rib and tasted even better. The ancestors are pleased.
March 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Corned beef and cabbage, final update: it sliced like prime rib and tasted even better. The ancestors are pleased.
The festive St. Patrick's Day meal is on its way!
March 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The festive St. Patrick's Day meal is on its way!
Pairs great with Scooby Snacks.
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Pairs great with Scooby Snacks.
What are "things you should not be paying any of these people to learn about?"
March 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What are "things you should not be paying any of these people to learn about?"
I had a suspiciously easy dental cleaning today. I worry they're just setting me up for the big-money root canal down the line.
February 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I had a suspiciously easy dental cleaning today. I worry they're just setting me up for the big-money root canal down the line.
Cauliflower is riced. Now to rice the cauliflower.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Cauliflower is riced. Now to rice the cauliflower.
"To•morrow evening, he will be dead. Tickets please... last stop, The Twilight Zone."
February 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"To•morrow evening, he will be dead. Tickets please... last stop, The Twilight Zone."
My heart. How do I deserve this love?
February 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My heart. How do I deserve this love?
Thumbs-up to the kind should who left some new hygiene products and a new zip-up toiletries kit at the Golf Mill Pace bus station. I hope they find the person who needs them.
February 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thumbs-up to the kind should who left some new hygiene products and a new zip-up toiletries kit at the Golf Mill Pace bus station. I hope they find the person who needs them.
Just keeping your shoes warm for you, dad! #earkaboom
February 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just keeping your shoes warm for you, dad! #earkaboom
Oh no! I think I ordered the Minecraft cookware!
February 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Oh no! I think I ordered the Minecraft cookware!
Reposted by Neal Shankman
Whoever they pick, any Labyrinth sequel must be written by no fewer than five (5) people or teams who have utterly different understandings about who the characters are and what the point of the movie is, and who can never be allowed to share their pages.
January 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Whoever they pick, any Labyrinth sequel must be written by no fewer than five (5) people or teams who have utterly different understandings about who the characters are and what the point of the movie is, and who can never be allowed to share their pages.
My back injury (feat. persistent, excruciating sciatica in my right leg) feels like it's mending, at least as of right this moment.
It's been 2 months, and I reserve the right to relapse into miserable immobile agony, but I'd really like this to be where it starts to get better and stays that way.
It's been 2 months, and I reserve the right to relapse into miserable immobile agony, but I'd really like this to be where it starts to get better and stays that way.
January 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My back injury (feat. persistent, excruciating sciatica in my right leg) feels like it's mending, at least as of right this moment.
It's been 2 months, and I reserve the right to relapse into miserable immobile agony, but I'd really like this to be where it starts to get better and stays that way.
It's been 2 months, and I reserve the right to relapse into miserable immobile agony, but I'd really like this to be where it starts to get better and stays that way.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I couldn't find a hammer, but this stout rolling pin did the trick. The trick was to break a frozen tray of beef stew meat in half by driving a screwdriver into it repeatedly.
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I couldn't find a hammer, but this stout rolling pin did the trick. The trick was to break a frozen tray of beef stew meat in half by driving a screwdriver into it repeatedly.
Things suck for me and for our country right now, but this morning I shared an "Airplane!" moment with Mentour Pilot and that's something. (The video mentioned briefly that the doomed pilots of an Egypt Air flight had lasagna for dinner.)
January 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Things suck for me and for our country right now, but this morning I shared an "Airplane!" moment with Mentour Pilot and that's something. (The video mentioned briefly that the doomed pilots of an Egypt Air flight had lasagna for dinner.)
On a lighter note, if there are elephants in your sacred Jewish text, it could very well be the psychedelics talking.
January 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
On a lighter note, if there are elephants in your sacred Jewish text, it could very well be the psychedelics talking.
Can we all just update a Google Sheet with a row for each of the 47 Gang's aggressions as they occur and evolve?
Columns: Index no., description, where, when, who or what is attacked, who benefits and how, how to block or delay, how to defend or minimize harm, weekly updates, overall status
Columns: Index no., description, where, when, who or what is attacked, who benefits and how, how to block or delay, how to defend or minimize harm, weekly updates, overall status
January 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Can we all just update a Google Sheet with a row for each of the 47 Gang's aggressions as they occur and evolve?
Columns: Index no., description, where, when, who or what is attacked, who benefits and how, how to block or delay, how to defend or minimize harm, weekly updates, overall status
Columns: Index no., description, where, when, who or what is attacked, who benefits and how, how to block or delay, how to defend or minimize harm, weekly updates, overall status
Do you follow folks here who make fun skeets but also repost upwards of 100 random posts per day? Try pinning this feed, which magically shows just original content from people you follow:
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January 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Do you follow folks here who make fun skeets but also repost upwards of 100 random posts per day? Try pinning this feed, which magically shows just original content from people you follow:
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Many moons ago, Tannon dog dropped a live garter snake onto our bed. In the panic that ensued, the snake vanished. I set glue traps, which failed. Or so I thought.
Tonight, gathering laundry, I saw it under the dresser: the last glue trap... holding one deceased garter snake. We have closure.
Tonight, gathering laundry, I saw it under the dresser: the last glue trap... holding one deceased garter snake. We have closure.
January 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Many moons ago, Tannon dog dropped a live garter snake onto our bed. In the panic that ensued, the snake vanished. I set glue traps, which failed. Or so I thought.
Tonight, gathering laundry, I saw it under the dresser: the last glue trap... holding one deceased garter snake. We have closure.
Tonight, gathering laundry, I saw it under the dresser: the last glue trap... holding one deceased garter snake. We have closure.
The Merriam-Webster pronunciation of "banally" to rhyme with "finale" is deranged. Change my mind.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
Definition of BANAL
lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The Merriam-Webster pronunciation of "banally" to rhyme with "finale" is deranged. Change my mind.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
Did you throw out your black plastic utensils? Funny story... if you get the decimal point right, it turns out they're not that risky.
Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter
Correction issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas.
arstechnica.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Did you throw out your black plastic utensils? Funny story... if you get the decimal point right, it turns out they're not that risky.
Listened to Flo & Eddie's "Moving Targets" while assembling a cheap bookshelf tonite. Not sure I've heard more talented musicians and songwriters so far down the end of their rope. Maybe Elliott Smith? But Flo & Eddie are pedaling *so hard* under such despair about the music biz and our awful world.
December 13, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Listened to Flo & Eddie's "Moving Targets" while assembling a cheap bookshelf tonite. Not sure I've heard more talented musicians and songwriters so far down the end of their rope. Maybe Elliott Smith? But Flo & Eddie are pedaling *so hard* under such despair about the music biz and our awful world.