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(Four separate occasions last month the HVAC alarm would sound for *hours* next to the office space, but no one in the building has access to that locked door.)

I’ve not been able to convince leadership to require the facilities director to come and turn off the HVAC power-interrupt alarm. If their facilities director is anything like ours, they are both lazy and incompetent, and unwilling to do anything that requires entering the building(s) they support.

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Oh. Oh, no. I’m torn between wanting to be a fly on the wall and wanting to be as far from the blast radius as possible.

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My uncle died from skin cancer (melanoma), a couple of decades ago. It’s long been a thing.

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The fastest I have ever been able to get contract work approved for the federal govt was well over 90 days. This is remarkable.

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If I have to go the rest of my life thinking of this as the “Statute of Limitations Ring”, I’m blaming you.

Magic: The Gathering, 3rd edition card “Sol Ring”. An orange-white ring of fire on a flaming orange background. Cost: 1 colorless mana. Text: Tap to add 2 colorless mana to your mana pool.

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You are correct. No one involved in this has a soul.

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Gonna need a citation on that one.

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Your mouth to god’s ears.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 19h

Especially since—as I understand things—criminal contempt charges are typically referred to … DOJ. Whatever the judge chooses here will be appealed, and needs to be solid.

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This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

nytimes.com

Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)

The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.

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For any gov person to say “I don’t know where the money is coming from” is absolutely remarkable. If true, smacks of willful ignorance.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

Oh, the things I would do to have WoTC send me D&D themed socks.

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this is indeed a criminal investigation, in the sense that everyone involved in pursuing it is a criminal

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21h

This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 20h

In addition to the one quoted above, another live m-skeet thread here:

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The local base offers rentals to civilian employees at market rates. I assume this is because active duty members who have first priority have declined. My suspicion is that’s not what’s happening here.

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Do we think John will learn from it? I’m not holding my breath.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I now have evidence as to why I keep finding Legos on the floor. 😡

Lego Avengers Tower in the background, atop a high corner shelf. The tail of a tuxedo cat peeks out from the top of the same cabinet. The rest of the cat is obscured by a blue curtain.

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Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And for those who are not academics: heaving a pile of papers that haven’t gone through peer review and going “here, you sort this out for us and prove us wrong” isn’t scholarship. It’s a hurricane shitting on an earthquake and demanding the professionals come clean it up.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A satisfying graph after we brought a home battery to go with our rooftop solar

Line chart showing grid energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions dropping suddenly after buying a home battery

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Oooh, just picked up that box. Your shading is amazing.

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Beautifully done.

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Canvas is the worst LMS I have ever used, except for all of the others.

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I feel the same. Audio is for commuting; text for nearly everything else.

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If it’s true, it confirms the story. If it’s false, it increases the reach of the story. No good winning play here.

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Think globally… I shouldn’t have to point out to you the wealth of diverse languages in India. Even Amish Tripathi publishes in English. (And your point is taken that the lists likely exclude foreign language publishers.)

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*Definitely* not watching YouTube explainers. If I can’t be bothered to read my own email there is no way I’m going to wade through a less-information-dense video that shares knowledge at less than a quarter the speed of text.

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Bigger population makes copies sold bigger. Who’d a thunk?!

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Good job tracking down the secondary source then seeking the primary source. Excellent reminder on the importance of media literacy and citing sources, and a good example of reason to be suspicious of those who don’t.

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You’re in luck, Waldo, as Naval Weapons Station Crane (Indiana) is supposedly getting a nuclear reactor. www.war.gov/News/Release...

war.gov

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We’ll take a look when the mini gets released at the end of the month …

Screenshot from the Jarvis Protocol app of an unreleased character expansion box for Marvel Crisis Protocol, with minis and cards for Mirage, Havok, Jubilee, and Multiple Man. Releases 30 October, product # MCP08

Did y’all know that if you enter the title of the graph in a Google search the source is the VERY FIRST RESULT? Yes, they should cite their source, but y’all could find and share the answer with just a wee bit of effort.

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The “permit” line of argument felt disingenuous. The “insufficient inspectors” argument even moreso. Most basic repairs don’t require a permit. The city can hire more inspectors … if they think the volume of work will increase significantly, they are tacitly admitting there’s a major problem.

Some great work showing via the #nerdlings tag. Doesn’t have any particular meaning? It feels like the BlueSky #miniaturePainting community hasn’t coalesced around a small set of tags.