Dave G
@nextwave.bsky.social
I write, edit, run, teach, play chess, and think — but seldom more than two at once.
Recovering domain investor. Chronic punster.
Into the Brontës, Joni Mitchell, Alistair MacLean, new wave 🎶, Lord of the Rings, Vashti Bunyan.
Recovering domain investor. Chronic punster.
Into the Brontës, Joni Mitchell, Alistair MacLean, new wave 🎶, Lord of the Rings, Vashti Bunyan.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The current US government makes no cents.
The Penny Dies at 232 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
The Penny Dies at 232
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The current US government makes no cents.
#NYTspellingbee: No BOLE? Really? #spellingbee
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#NYTspellingbee: No BOLE? Really? #spellingbee
Why on earth won’t the #NYTspellingbee accept BACKBEAT?? #spellingbee
September 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why on earth won’t the #NYTspellingbee accept BACKBEAT?? #spellingbee
While biking yesterday, we saw this tiny baby turtle crossing the paved path. We stopped and made sure it reached the underbrush on the other side. #turtles
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
While biking yesterday, we saw this tiny baby turtle crossing the paved path. We stopped and made sure it reached the underbrush on the other side. #turtles
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Oh my god! This is one of the most powerful speeches I've heard, right up there with Corey Booker's commencement speech at my daughter's college graduation!
If you need some inspiration about effecting change, please watch.
🙏 @jmdc88.bsky.social for posting this.
🔥💪🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_n...
If you need some inspiration about effecting change, please watch.
🙏 @jmdc88.bsky.social for posting this.
🔥💪🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_n...
They told me to change my clothes. I changed the law instead. | Gina Martin | TEDxWarwick
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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August 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Oh my god! This is one of the most powerful speeches I've heard, right up there with Corey Booker's commencement speech at my daughter's college graduation!
If you need some inspiration about effecting change, please watch.
🙏 @jmdc88.bsky.social for posting this.
🔥💪🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_n...
If you need some inspiration about effecting change, please watch.
🙏 @jmdc88.bsky.social for posting this.
🔥💪🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_n...
What are your biggest peeves, regarding words that aren’t accepted by the #NYTspellingbee?
Mine: INLINE and TAPPET.
#spellingbee
Mine: INLINE and TAPPET.
#spellingbee
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What are your biggest peeves, regarding words that aren’t accepted by the #NYTspellingbee?
Mine: INLINE and TAPPET.
#spellingbee
Mine: INLINE and TAPPET.
#spellingbee
Many writers have retold the Jane Eyre story, but you may not have seen my favorite #JaneEyre tribute.
“Air Jane” is a colorful, vibrant, hilarious — and surprisingly faithful — comic-style tale of Jane as a basketball-crazy, wisecracking governess. See it here:
www.deviantart.com/hankinstein/...
“Air Jane” is a colorful, vibrant, hilarious — and surprisingly faithful — comic-style tale of Jane as a basketball-crazy, wisecracking governess. See it here:
www.deviantart.com/hankinstein/...
Air Jane Page 1 by hankinstein on DeviantArt
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June 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Many writers have retold the Jane Eyre story, but you may not have seen my favorite #JaneEyre tribute.
“Air Jane” is a colorful, vibrant, hilarious — and surprisingly faithful — comic-style tale of Jane as a basketball-crazy, wisecracking governess. See it here:
www.deviantart.com/hankinstein/...
“Air Jane” is a colorful, vibrant, hilarious — and surprisingly faithful — comic-style tale of Jane as a basketball-crazy, wisecracking governess. See it here:
www.deviantart.com/hankinstein/...
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Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems
UMass Chan Medical School biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni leads a lab that researches new technologies to help treat brain tumors in children. Delays in federal grants have led her ...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
Anyone on here interested in NCAA #wrestling? I’m getting psyched for #MarchMatness.
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Anyone on here interested in NCAA #wrestling? I’m getting psyched for #MarchMatness.
Reposted by Dave G
1) Whether intentional or a mistake, this is horrific.
2) If you discuss this, please note that the headline gets the museum name wrong. It's the Freedom Rides Museum, not Riders.
3) Like most historic sites, this is a driver for tourism business. (Also, my business; the gift shop carries my books.)
2) If you discuss this, please note that the headline gets the museum name wrong. It's the Freedom Rides Museum, not Riders.
3) Like most historic sites, this is a driver for tourism business. (Also, my business; the gift shop carries my books.)
March 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
1) Whether intentional or a mistake, this is horrific.
2) If you discuss this, please note that the headline gets the museum name wrong. It's the Freedom Rides Museum, not Riders.
3) Like most historic sites, this is a driver for tourism business. (Also, my business; the gift shop carries my books.)
2) If you discuss this, please note that the headline gets the museum name wrong. It's the Freedom Rides Museum, not Riders.
3) Like most historic sites, this is a driver for tourism business. (Also, my business; the gift shop carries my books.)
Got to visit Hobbiton recently! Cool to see and even explore hobbit holes.
At one point, the tour guide showed the group a door and said, “Lobelia Sackville-Baggins lived here. Let’s boo her!” Once the booing had ended, I loudly declared “Lobelia redeemed herself in the book!” Silence. #Tolkien
At one point, the tour guide showed the group a door and said, “Lobelia Sackville-Baggins lived here. Let’s boo her!” Once the booing had ended, I loudly declared “Lobelia redeemed herself in the book!” Silence. #Tolkien
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March 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Got to visit Hobbiton recently! Cool to see and even explore hobbit holes.
At one point, the tour guide showed the group a door and said, “Lobelia Sackville-Baggins lived here. Let’s boo her!” Once the booing had ended, I loudly declared “Lobelia redeemed herself in the book!” Silence. #Tolkien
At one point, the tour guide showed the group a door and said, “Lobelia Sackville-Baggins lived here. Let’s boo her!” Once the booing had ended, I loudly declared “Lobelia redeemed herself in the book!” Silence. #Tolkien
My decades-ago students have long forgotten any math I taught them.
But I’ve discovered that they still remember my goofiness, like when I would dismiss class by saying “Calc you later!”
But I’ve discovered that they still remember my goofiness, like when I would dismiss class by saying “Calc you later!”
February 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My decades-ago students have long forgotten any math I taught them.
But I’ve discovered that they still remember my goofiness, like when I would dismiss class by saying “Calc you later!”
But I’ve discovered that they still remember my goofiness, like when I would dismiss class by saying “Calc you later!”
One of the most bizarre, anachronistic words in common use is “o’clock”.
I don’t glance at my wrist and say “It’s seven o’watch.”
I don’t glance at my wrist and say “It’s seven o’watch.”
January 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
One of the most bizarre, anachronistic words in common use is “o’clock”.
I don’t glance at my wrist and say “It’s seven o’watch.”
I don’t glance at my wrist and say “It’s seven o’watch.”
Threads account: canceled
Regrets: none
Regrets: none
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Threads account: canceled
Regrets: none
Regrets: none
Good news: my chess.com blitz rating has somehow gone barely above 2400 (higher than it should be).
Bad news: this means I can never play blitz there again.
Bad news: this means I can never play blitz there again.
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January 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Good news: my chess.com blitz rating has somehow gone barely above 2400 (higher than it should be).
Bad news: this means I can never play blitz there again.
Bad news: this means I can never play blitz there again.
Welcome to 2025, a rare “square” year (45 x 45).
The next square year isn’t until 2116, so let’s make good use of this one!
The next square year isn’t until 2116, so let’s make good use of this one!
January 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Welcome to 2025, a rare “square” year (45 x 45).
The next square year isn’t until 2116, so let’s make good use of this one!
The next square year isn’t until 2116, so let’s make good use of this one!
“It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation.”
—Jane Eyre
Merry domestic dissipation to all of you!
—Jane Eyre
Merry domestic dissipation to all of you!
December 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
“It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation.”
—Jane Eyre
Merry domestic dissipation to all of you!
—Jane Eyre
Merry domestic dissipation to all of you!
Final tally of songs I knew in the #XPNcountdown:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
0-100 - 32!
So I do know more than a little music after all! 🙂 But there’s lots to learn!
Thanks to XPN for a great countdown, which has inspired me to listen more often! 📻🎶
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
0-100 - 32!
So I do know more than a little music after all! 🙂 But there’s lots to learn!
Thanks to XPN for a great countdown, which has inspired me to listen more often! 📻🎶
December 12, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Final tally of songs I knew in the #XPNcountdown:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
0-100 - 32!
So I do know more than a little music after all! 🙂 But there’s lots to learn!
Thanks to XPN for a great countdown, which has inspired me to listen more often! 📻🎶
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
0-100 - 32!
So I do know more than a little music after all! 🙂 But there’s lots to learn!
Thanks to XPN for a great countdown, which has inspired me to listen more often! 📻🎶
Just about there on the #XPNcountdown. And the number of songs I know is trending back down:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
The 200s were a sweet spot for top-40 songs that I knew without having heard them on XPN.
Will the final hundred trend back up?
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
The 200s were a sweet spot for top-40 songs that I knew without having heard them on XPN.
Will the final hundred trend back up?
December 12, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Just about there on the #XPNcountdown. And the number of songs I know is trending back down:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
The 200s were a sweet spot for top-40 songs that I knew without having heard them on XPN.
Will the final hundred trend back up?
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
100s - 10
The 200s were a sweet spot for top-40 songs that I knew without having heard them on XPN.
Will the final hundred trend back up?
Updated tally of songs I’ve known in the #XPNcountdown:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
Ah, now things are getting more familiar. And though the latest songs I knew were mostly pop-radio smashes, along comes Yoshimi, battling the pink robots…
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
Ah, now things are getting more familiar. And though the latest songs I knew were mostly pop-radio smashes, along comes Yoshimi, battling the pink robots…
December 11, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Updated tally of songs I’ve known in the #XPNcountdown:
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
Ah, now things are getting more familiar. And though the latest songs I knew were mostly pop-radio smashes, along comes Yoshimi, battling the pink robots…
800s - 2
700s - 8
600s - 8
500s - 5
400s - 3
300s - 9
200s - 14
Ah, now things are getting more familiar. And though the latest songs I knew were mostly pop-radio smashes, along comes Yoshimi, battling the pink robots…