The Rodent of Unusual Size
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F/LOSS developer, advocate, speaker. Co-founder of The Apache Software Foundation. Author, opinionist, asshat. @GenghisKen@ruby.social
@iamamoose.com Well, howdy, stranger!
December 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
@iamamoose.com Well, howdy, stranger!
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Tallulah Bankhead once commented that she was unable to hear the name Edna St. Vincent Millay without wanting to add "Boom BOOM!"
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another—it’s one damn thing over & over.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
July 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Tallulah Bankhead once commented that she was unable to hear the name Edna St. Vincent Millay without wanting to add "Boom BOOM!"
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this is kind of a corollary to the down south thing where if the closest waffle house is closed you should probably update your will and tie down your pets
WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power.
This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
July 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
this is kind of a corollary to the down south thing where if the closest waffle house is closed you should probably update your will and tie down your pets
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Life... finds a way.
July 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Life... finds a way.
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if you're playing with a cat correctly, you'll be working roughly 900 times harder than the cat. 99% of the effort must be yours. playing with cats is not about exercise, it's about drama. And cats are harsh critics. they need to BELIEVE that plush banana is afraid for its life.
July 3, 2024 at 9:25 PM
if you're playing with a cat correctly, you'll be working roughly 900 times harder than the cat. 99% of the effort must be yours. playing with cats is not about exercise, it's about drama. And cats are harsh critics. they need to BELIEVE that plush banana is afraid for its life.
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Anyhow the best time to address the shit was yesterday, the 2nd best time is today. Demand everyone asking for your vote to support packing the court, stop giving your resources to the police, demand public housing, healthcare, childcare, education, transit, food support and a right to privacy.
July 3, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Anyhow the best time to address the shit was yesterday, the 2nd best time is today. Demand everyone asking for your vote to support packing the court, stop giving your resources to the police, demand public housing, healthcare, childcare, education, transit, food support and a right to privacy.
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
July 3, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Someone suggested elsewhere that he should order the IRS to release Trump's tax returns and those of anyone and everyone associated with him. Personally I think that would be a good move because then the campaign can follow up with, "Do you see now the danger we face if Trump wins?"
July 1, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Someone suggested elsewhere that he should order the IRS to release Trump's tax returns and those of anyone and everyone associated with him. Personally I think that would be a good move because then the campaign can follow up with, "Do you see now the danger we face if Trump wins?"
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence.
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July 1, 2024 at 9:25 PM
There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence.
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Vote for the guy who does not need immunity.
July 1, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Vote for the guy who does not need immunity.
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.
There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence.
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July 1, 2024 at 10:35 PM
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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You live, you learn.
June 30, 2024 at 12:31 PM
You live, you learn.
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Let's ask Obi-Wan about his age, but under no circumstance ask Darth Vader about blowing up Alderaan.
June 30, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Let's ask Obi-Wan about his age, but under no circumstance ask Darth Vader about blowing up Alderaan.
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The Skeksis are the greatest threat this realm has ever seen. That is why I am calling for the geriatric urRu to step down to make way for an energetic Podling.
June 28, 2024 at 11:20 PM
The Skeksis are the greatest threat this realm has ever seen. That is why I am calling for the geriatric urRu to step down to make way for an energetic Podling.
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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy
June 29, 2024 at 11:50 PM
New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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June 29, 2024 at 8:55 PM
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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George, always with the funnies..
June 29, 2024 at 8:50 PM
George, always with the funnies..
1/ Well, my Google (yeah, I know) Pixel 3 XL finally died the night before last. Shows the swirling lights turning into a "G", then the little "Powered by Android", then repeats. Totally ignores the power button. Tried letting it run down the battery, but no joy. The charging cable can only keep up.
June 29, 2024 at 8:42 PM
1/ Well, my Google (yeah, I know) Pixel 3 XL finally died the night before last. Shows the swirling lights turning into a "G", then the little "Powered by Android", then repeats. Totally ignores the power button. Tried letting it run down the battery, but no joy. The charging cable can only keep up.
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutant
The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.
www.forbes.com
June 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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We made a comic about a caterpillar.
June 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
We made a comic about a caterpillar.
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Few things in life have shocked me as profoundly as learning some people have no inner voice/monologue. I’ve always thought I was pretty good at putting myself in other’s shoes, but this is a thing, in literal terms, I can’t fathom, at all. Veritably alien to me
www.sciencealert.com/we-used-to-t...
www.sciencealert.com/we-used-to-t...
We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong
A mysterious new condition emerges.
www.sciencealert.com
June 29, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Few things in life have shocked me as profoundly as learning some people have no inner voice/monologue. I’ve always thought I was pretty good at putting myself in other’s shoes, but this is a thing, in literal terms, I can’t fathom, at all. Veritably alien to me
www.sciencealert.com/we-used-to-t...
www.sciencealert.com/we-used-to-t...