Bill Tozier
@vaguery.bsky.social
he/him. Gradually sidling over from @vaguery@a2mi.social. Was a complexity-toucher, starter-up; got paid for schmancy thinkleading. Then ~15 years "off" (as caregiver). Now I sell our—and dead people's—stuff on eBay & scan [PD!] books to give away for free
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This is the way.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the way.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
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Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
fineartamerica.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
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What an indictment of Grok all this is.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What an indictment of Grok all this is.
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Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
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Forgot about this gem
サカナクション / 忘れられないの -Music Video-
YouTube video by サカナクション sakanaction
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November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Forgot about this gem
#digitization (of the day, -ish)
Uploaded the November 1923 issue of "Scientific Monthly" and an extraordinary catalog of church supplies, books, bibles &c from 1908. The latter does a lot of reference work for me, as I see the pins & ribbons they sell in estates a lot.
archive.org/details/@vag...
Uploaded the November 1923 issue of "Scientific Monthly" and an extraordinary catalog of church supplies, books, bibles &c from 1908. The latter does a lot of reference work for me, as I see the pins & ribbons they sell in estates a lot.
archive.org/details/@vag...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#digitization (of the day, -ish)
Uploaded the November 1923 issue of "Scientific Monthly" and an extraordinary catalog of church supplies, books, bibles &c from 1908. The latter does a lot of reference work for me, as I see the pins & ribbons they sell in estates a lot.
archive.org/details/@vag...
Uploaded the November 1923 issue of "Scientific Monthly" and an extraordinary catalog of church supplies, books, bibles &c from 1908. The latter does a lot of reference work for me, as I see the pins & ribbons they sell in estates a lot.
archive.org/details/@vag...
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A 6-year survey mapped the biggest structures in the universe. The results are beautiful...and, annoyingly, they fit nicely with the current model of cosmology.
We know there's something missing from that model, but figuring out *what* is not easy! 🧪🔭
news.uchicago.edu/story/scient...
We know there's something missing from that model, but figuring out *what* is not easy! 🧪🔭
news.uchicago.edu/story/scient...
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A 6-year survey mapped the biggest structures in the universe. The results are beautiful...and, annoyingly, they fit nicely with the current model of cosmology.
We know there's something missing from that model, but figuring out *what* is not easy! 🧪🔭
news.uchicago.edu/story/scient...
We know there's something missing from that model, but figuring out *what* is not easy! 🧪🔭
news.uchicago.edu/story/scient...
In a pile of calendars and other papers I bought at an estate sale to resell on eBay, today I found a movie script. Seems like an early draft, though it has some storyboard photos and a shooting schedule.
Turns out it was for this film (I only saw its working title)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJ2...
Turns out it was for this film (I only saw its working title)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJ2...
🎥 Calvin Lockhart Shines in The Baron – A Crime Thriller Classic!
YouTube video by BlackTree TV
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In a pile of calendars and other papers I bought at an estate sale to resell on eBay, today I found a movie script. Seems like an early draft, though it has some storyboard photos and a shooting schedule.
Turns out it was for this film (I only saw its working title)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJ2...
Turns out it was for this film (I only saw its working title)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJ2...
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Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Plumber confirmed that the fuses blowing yesterday was due to the water heater and we need a new water heater. I did find the fuse for the water heater itself so we're good heating wise
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
(last night we had no light or heating in half the flat, which is less fun).
Wheee
Please buy my books?
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good news we have hot water, bad news this shit was expensive
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
Please buy my books? Definitely need to sell a few dozen (hundred sob) copies
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IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM A FRIEND
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM A FRIEND
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Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.
*more in comments*
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
*more in comments*
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.
*more in comments*
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
*more in comments*
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
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So if you're of a mind to write some hardboiled Bronze Age detective stories, have your detective be a priest partnered up with a divine statue who the priest is taking around the city to find the criminals. Have the two of them go into the worst taverns in the city & the docks, busting heads, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So if you're of a mind to write some hardboiled Bronze Age detective stories, have your detective be a priest partnered up with a divine statue who the priest is taking around the city to find the criminals. Have the two of them go into the worst taverns in the city & the docks, busting heads, etc.
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Happy Boris Karloff's birthday!
in a spicy, tantalizing fashion
[a guacamole meander]
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Boris Karloff's birthday!
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Finally a thread that intersects with the insights and expertise of @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and @maitner.bsky.social
What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Finally a thread that intersects with the insights and expertise of @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and @maitner.bsky.social
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This is my surprised face 😒
Actually I am kind of surprised… that they didn’t use VPNs.
Actually I am kind of surprised… that they didn’t use VPNs.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is my surprised face 😒
Actually I am kind of surprised… that they didn’t use VPNs.
Actually I am kind of surprised… that they didn’t use VPNs.
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Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Always makes me think of this bit m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6GK...
Beavis and Butthead Teach Monetary Velocity
YouTube video by Prof. Dr. B. Gültekin Çetiner
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November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Always makes me think of this bit m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6GK...
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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Idly remembering the time I recommended “Just Enough Research” where I worked, a book so good I keep buying it again and again, and the only chapter my coworkers read was the one on how to do a minimally harmful survey, because they were dead-set on doing a survey, no matter what
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Idly remembering the time I recommended “Just Enough Research” where I worked, a book so good I keep buying it again and again, and the only chapter my coworkers read was the one on how to do a minimally harmful survey, because they were dead-set on doing a survey, no matter what
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Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
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The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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For those who would like to see Tree Lungwort IRL (and who doesn't?)
Here's the iNat map so you can see if it's "In a Forest Near You!"
Here's the iNat map so you can see if it's "In a Forest Near You!"
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
For those who would like to see Tree Lungwort IRL (and who doesn't?)
Here's the iNat map so you can see if it's "In a Forest Near You!"
Here's the iNat map so you can see if it's "In a Forest Near You!"