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Travis Dawry
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I have bad news for these pilots about what they're doing on these missions
New York Times Headline: Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots Lede: Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You're going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
March 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It is beyond wild that Cameo labels deceased performers as "out of stock"
An image from Cameo of the late actor Biff Wiff showing "out of stock"
February 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Me sneaking to the kitchen in the night, with the rats
Nosferatu poster with rats jumping in the foreground
January 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Me when I hear someone at the door
Nosferatu poster. Purple vampire. Green and blue background.
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The Wow! signal from 1977 as rendered via ggplot2
January 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Atlanta Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK's church The city was clearing the area around the Ebenezer Baptist church before the MLK Day celebration on Monday George Chidi in Atlanta Sat 18 Jan 2025 12.31 EST
January 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Every once in a while someone posts nonsense so confidently that I briefly wonder if I might be having a stroke.
Post reading, "I'm going to guess it detects ionized air rather than particulate and so the ionized air is far away in the forest fire situation." It has 1 quote and 60 likes. The username is censored.
January 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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He'll be long dead before then. The Doris Miller isn't scheduled to be launched until 2029 (it won't even begin construction until next January), and the George W. Bush is a full two ships after that.

So, we have a few more years of this being the first result for "George W Bush Aircraft Carrier."
May 2003 photo of George W Bush at a presidential podium on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a giant banner reading "mission accomplished" spanning the ship's island
January 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I try for a Gaussian distribution in my reading ratings every year, but I don't always manage it.

I somehow didn't rate a single fiction book 5 stars in 2024.
My average rating for 2024 2.9 out of 5 stars
January 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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This was done using Positron, with which I'm still not super comfortable #rstats

#Dungeons&Dragons #dnd #TidyTuesday

This assumes at least 17 levels in the given class and no defined subclass.

Yeah, bards are the most versatile, but no they can't use Jack of All Trades with Counterspell anymore.
2024 Dungeons and Dragons Spells by class and number of available spells, colored by type of caster
December 24, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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A blond and white dog with a black nose, looking into the camera with judgement.
December 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Caves of Qud centaur version of a post-TERF.
Low bit art of a centaur holding a staff. Name "Hindriarch Keh" "If you ask the exile, I'm sure she'll spin some kind of accusation that I believe gender to be an immutable prison, that I impose it on others. She's lying. Our people have a long history of two-gender hindren called hartind, respected and consecrated. There is a proper path to gender variance in our society, of which the male exile could have availed himself years ago. He never did, so I do not recognize him."
December 20, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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An enormous lion, a rock relief carved from stone in the face of a cliff. It appears mortally wounded. The outline of the relief is that of an even larger pig. There is a spear and a pair of shields.
December 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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When I stop reading code because of stylistic problems, like not putting spaces around operators
Frodo Baggins smiling and saying "all right, then. Keep your secrets."
December 15, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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December 14, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Science has gone too far
"Baby + Snakes experiment" caption over two babies playing with a large snake
December 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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This is on his Goodreads shelf and I think he must have just skimmed it.
Cover for The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
December 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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A man sitting for a portrait with a large beard. Karl Marx.
December 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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I mean, not in their own food but...
VOC Logo for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company)
November 30, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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I mostly use my desktop, but I checked my laptop and they're all upside down!
A laptop upside down, with some R hex stickers, a cat, a sword, and the GitHub octocat.
November 26, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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I use a desview teleprompter, but I do have a failsafe on the camera itself
A mirror less camera with googly eyes
November 25, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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The machines know that I never miss @democracynow.bsky.social every morning
A YouTube Music yearly recap showing that my top podcast of 2024 was Democracy Now! with 781 minutes listened in 2024 so far.
November 20, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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He's looking at you, Dante.
A medium-hair black and white cat sits on a cream-colored rug, facing the viewer, while blinking.
November 19, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Cats are dragons
A medium-hair tuxedo cat sleeping on a red blanket, facing the camera. There is a tear and discoloration below its left eye.
November 18, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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A 22° lunar halo tonight
The image shows a bright moon surrounded by a large, faintly colored halo in the night sky. The halo appears as a circle around the moon, with the moon at its center. There are clouds visible.
November 18, 2024 at 7:02 AM