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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

“Musashi” by Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa (2014). A swashbuckling biography bordering on the hagiographic, in which Miyamoto Musashi's adoptive son narrates his the life of his polymath father. The B&W artwork is attractive, but I found the constant […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@theradr.bsky.social The suggestion could be that, since linguistic and religious identities are key parts of nationalist projects, their union in a state running on its people's own liturgical language is an especially powerful, ergo nationalistic, combination.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@SteveBellovin Cops hate speed cameras.... a New Yorker named Gersh Kuntzman has done a lot to publicize the problem of intentionally obscured plates.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“Laika” by Nick Abadzis (2007). The poignant story of the first dog in space, humanized (or caninized) with dream sequences, an invented backstory, and a fictional handler. Changes in layout, color, and perspective keep it visually engaging. The product of extensive […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Events of May 27th, 1957. Yelena Dubrovsky and Boris Chertok discuss two dogs that did not return from an experiment.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“Detrás de las persianas” por Isabel Franc y Rosa Navarro (2025). Dos alumnas posgraduadas recorren su ciudad en búsqueda de personajes y lugares propios de la Barcelona lésbica. Hace buen uso de documentos históricos, muchos de los cuales se dibujaron para […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Una página del libro en que siete lesbianas hablan entre sí sobre un número de la revista El País.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@ben One of the most likely places for such a photo to exist would be in a newspaper archive. Did any press cover the concerts?

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social I agree completely. Firms counting on that sort of defense seem very hubristic.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

“In the Shadow of Stalin” by Andrea Chalupa and Ivan Rodrigues (2024). A very attractive cold war thriller covering Welsh journalist Gareth Jones reaching Ukraine and witnessing the Holodomor in 1933. Lots of female roles, but some seemed contrived; developing these […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Maxim Litvinov debriefs Gareth Jones on page 85.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

“Four Presidents.” Each man has ordered something different. How many are drinking alcohol? (poll in reply) […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Nixon, Reagan, Ford, and Carter stand in a circle with four different drinks in their hands.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social I am not completely up on these trends but one attempt at connecting these threads is in Timnit Gebru's idea of “TESCREAL.”

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

“Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master” by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi. A dual biography covering a few years' rivalry between Nolan Bushnell and Ralph Baer during the 1970s, including fantasy gaming encounters between the two. There are a few charming moments, but […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Page from "Easy to Learn" in which Bushnell and Alcorn discover that their barroom Pong machine is full of quarters.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I figure that if the municipal supply is disrupted, the tank would be unpressurized and therefore we'd need either a bung or a pump to access the water.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

My family enjoys a fairly reliable municipal water supply, but I would like to be more resilient in this area. Buying pallets of plastic bottles sounds awful. Does anyone have experience or insight around the installation of a (continually flushed, inline) tank for […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Stainless steel water tank on a mounting structure.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

“Louis Riel” by Chester Brown (2003). A biographical epic of politics, exile, and rebellion. Riel is a sympathetic and troubled figure. The artwork alternates between dwelling on visual themes, and rapidly changing views and locations, with which the maps help a […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Six panels from “Louis Riel” showing a tense encounter between the rebels and the soldiers in a snowy field.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@mpjgregoire I'm not Mexican, but a scholar of 19th Century Mexico. All I can tell you is that the USA and its agents have threatened and sought to manipulate Mexico for a long time.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@mpjgregoire @jfmezei It's serious. The USA previously conquered the northern half of Mexico (1846–1848).

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

“Joseph Smith and the Mormons” by Noah Van Sciver (2022). A fun biography with robust dialogue that brings moral and spiritual questions front and center. Silent panels and nature scenes help to pace Smith's long series of tribulations and provocations. NVS's style […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

One page of the book showing six panels. First Joseph eats an apple while looking over his companions' meal, then explains to his wife that God revealed his three witnesses to him. The four men go walking through a green wood.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@jonny Wiktionary's pronunciation data is also substantial, as well as natively IPA, but coverage seems spotty.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@jcrabapple Good stuff. Colonial Californian adobe buildings apparently have cactus (nopal) pulp in the bricks, for what I imagine is a similar reason.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@tomjennings Selfish people are totally vested in the idea that there is nothing else to life, because if they admitted that there was, it would invalidate their life path. Seems to me.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@joshisanonymous @xankarn Professional archivists do justifiably destroy records sometimes. But probably not these ones.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

>>> import math >>> import strings Vladimir Mayakovsky >>> This was a surprise! Of course it was my fault for launching the interpreter in a directory full of short-named code samples. #python

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@carrideen @VCP Completely agreed that the expectations, on both sides, are culturally determined. When I was (an older) grad student in Spain I didn't stop surnaming the faculty even though other students used their first names. Anyway, this is not a good hill to die on, be flexible like a reed […]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

The Marine Division of Santa Cruz's Fire Department has some real specialists on staff! Good reason to pay property tax, IMHO, even if you could reasonably argue that noone needs to drive near Steamer's Lane […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Nighttime photo of West Cliff, Santa Cruz, where a dozen firefighters work in and out of the ocean water to retrieve a submerged vehicle.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@johnpfaff.bsky.social Not only is this data self-reported, the Methods section says “Caution should be used when comparing these estimates across states; BRFSS survey data are collected independently by each state, which could result in data collection differences. Additionally, estimates may […]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@aguamielerogpz Con “le pegué, pero Durango, Durango” ¿quiere decir que trabajó muy duro?

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@Artemis201 “Constant tension” hose clamps distribute pressure evenly around the material, unlike those worm-gear ones. Good luck.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

En el año 2000 tuve la suerte de volar con Cubana de Aviación en un avión de hélice soviético, entre la Habana y Santiago. Me he puesto a preguntar si era o un Ilyushin Il-18 o un Antonov An-24 o un An-26, los que operaba Cubana en los años 90. Ya que esa ruta es la […] [Original post on mstdn.mx]

Foto del aeronave Ilyushin sobre la tierra en la Habana.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@TheZeldaZone If this is a real problem, I'm sure help is available. Do you have ideas about what could be going on?

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Anecdotal evidence that the public library here in San Francisco is thriving. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/s…

Library webpage indicating a book's 87 copies in use and 60 more on order.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@14mission It was a cool era. One that I really like is Pete Seeger's “Goofing-Off Suite.” You inspired me to put on the one I had at hand:

Cover of George Shearing Quintet 10 inch album, “Touch of Genius!”

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@14mission That's great, thanks for the view. I love the 10" form factor.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

@jbcrawford Sounds plausibly like a motor problem. Could be helpful if you can find a local rebuilding/rewinding shop.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

@johnpfaff.bsky.social This would be a useful tool for sure, and it is possible to build something that approximates it. But citations and case law are only semi-structured. See the errors in a system like Google Scholar for an idea of the data matching errors you might see in edge cases. The […]

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

@davidgerard Have not done it, so please take others' advice. I'm only posting to observe that many delivery vans have a small, rotating ventilation stack installed in the roof and perhaps you would want one of those.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

@davidho.bsky.social No comment on the material claim, but it seems like the kind of aggregate result that might be derived from very slight marginal differences over a long timespan.

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I'm somewhat embarrassed, but also pissed off. The above cost me maybe 20 hours to figure out. 2/2

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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Post-mortem in case anyone runs across all this: Wayland requires a compositor, but unlike i3, sway _is_ a compositor. Solution: abandon weston & mutter. GDM was launching sway without its required environment variables. Solution: abandon GDM. gnome-control-center being lost, it could no […]

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