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i feel like it also doesn't represent how people actually react to stuff? i think most people would be more likely to risk their own lives to save an infant than an adult

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the only time gender came up was when he noticed during the second Hobbit read and asked

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

fwiw with my 6yo son: * just finished a requested parent reread of the Hobbit, which has 0 women * now listening to me read Dealing with Dragons, which is almost all females, and the males are mostly knaves or fools * tearing through Unicorn Academy books, whose title characters are always female

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

update: 1/2 ain't bad, and all things considered stopping was the higher priority and he's good at the "turn on purpose" part? it's the "stop turning on purpose" part that has turned some 90° turns into much more amusing 450° ones

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the 6yo finally learned last weekend! we are going out again this afternoon where hopefully he will learn to a) start and b) stop

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i feel like he's right at the line, where any slower and my attention would wander, but instead my brain is just eagerly waiting to find out if it's guessed the next word correctly "wait for it, he's gonna say 'cruelty'"... "ooh he went with 'brutality'"

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

sometimes i agree with you, but then on a clear night idk man. if n=100billion - 1 trillion, "exceptionally rare" and "exists many times" are quite plausibly both true

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

right but also if your solution requires a particular interpretation of the constitution, then one has to ask who exactly is making that determination and whether they're likely to be sympathetic to your project which, lol no

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

well in fairness they're talking about relegating the termed out justices, not removing them. so it *might* be constitutional without amendment, that would just have to be adjudicated by... oh wait

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

84! not likely to be a long-term solution, sadly

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we've been lucky to have Sir David for so long, but now that he's 100 we're gonna need somebody to step up

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

just to be clear, your position is that you think someone should go away, as a result of the thing they said, because of your devotion to free speech

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

no but we can certainly decide who we think is an asshole for the speech they choose. we can even say it!

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

god road salt is just unbearably picayune. she's in parody territory

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

massholes after they lose to the heat in the first round

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

on that he's not wrong, he's just an asshole

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I always turn to the arts section first. The arts section records man's accomplishments, the sports section has nothing but man's failures."

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is very good (although if you're submitting it i'd replace "eliminate" with "take out")

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah the family dynamics sound remarkably healthy, tbh "Astin developed close relationships with all three... Astin is also close to his stepfather" "I can call any of them on the phone any time I want to. John, Desi, Mike, or Papa Mike ... my four dads."

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

well that escalated quickly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_As...

Early life and education

Astin was born in Santa Monica, California, on February 25, 1971, the son of actress Patty Duke (1946–2016) and Michael Tell (1944/1945–2025). At the time, it was incorrectly reported that entertainer Desi Arnaz Jr. was his biological father. Tell was a writer, music promoter, and publisher of the newspaper The Las Vegas Israelite. When Duke became pregnant, she was unsure whether Tell, Arnaz or actor John Astin was the father, and Tell offered to marry her as a way out of the scandal. The marriage lasted only 13 days in 1970, ending before Astin was born.

In 1972, Duke married John Astin. When the wedding guests were invited to speak, 18-month-old Astin looked at John and cried, "Daddy!", to which the Episcopal priest performing the ceremony remarked, "Well, that about does it!". John subsequently adopted Sean.

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

legislation becoming essentially one and done instead of an iterative process is truly toxic. and while that problem is often exacerbated by a largely hostile scotus, they are not the cause

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

imo the larger impact of aipac is more to marginally mute criticism than to engender artificial support. everybody can only put their energy in so many places, and fear of getting money bombed has historically put a thumb on the scale against outspoken opposition from those who don't agree

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the moment they cast brad pitt it was obvious this was not going to bear any resemblance to the book. there was no brad pitt sized space in the book

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not really disagreeing, but the graph would look a helluva lot less dramatic if it were total time spent at home instead of delta since 2003. (although the inverse, time spent out, is probably more germane and would look somewhere in between)

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(tbc the reason why i like this idea is that i think it would effectively end the death penalty, which we should do because state execution is abhorrent)

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

which is why the squad should be randomly selected from the sentencing jury. if you're gonna do it you better mean it

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

congrats! it's the best. (the kid, not the pregnancy; the pregnancy was kind of whatever for me personally)

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ohhh okay that makes more sense. serves me right for relying on a gemini response when i 100% should know better

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh yeah i am not in any way worried about this, i just find the fact that there's no whole-body vote for majority leader to be one of many interesting edge cases in our "we had no plan and made it up as we went along" system re institutional parties

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought i muted Sydney Sweeney

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i actually have no idea how senate rules would handle a 50/49/1 caucus split. @andycraig.bsky.social you know all kinds of weird election esoterica, does that extend to this sort of eventuality? (tbc it's trivia, there's no world where Achilles wins and Dems don't already have a majority)

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's one crank with a printing press matt, what could it cause, 10 theses?

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

arguably we should have taken a firmer line on illegally selling weapons to a hostile regime and then secretly siphoning the proceeds in order to fund an antidemocratic ~cartel and also all the subsequent perjury

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

but robert what if instead of the money going to Treasury it disappears into Caymans account, surely that must be allowed

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yeah just like "no executive slush funds" seems like a good rule and also one that I'm pretty sure we used to have

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

that might mean talking to viceroy rubio though and nobody wants to do that

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and to pay the bribe he'd use "his" "income" from tariff money he stole from us!

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

but micah, he's an old man. what if his body gives out on the trail?

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

had Astra do one today and it worked but it also sucked. otoh that is right and proper for bash scripts

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there was a time when this would have been extremely my shit, looks amazing I wonder if there's some veg version that would be worth trying. mushrooms maybe? hen of the woods would be appropriate, i suppose

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh they are incredible, but just be aware it takes longer than you think and you will use all of the paper towels in your house most important thing imo is not to overcook the fries during the blanching step. I add some salt and rosemary at the end and mmmm

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Hoyle @axelhoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the french fry one is my canonical version of that. the steps involved are clearly insane (you cook them not twice but thrice?), but the explanation is extremely enlightening and also now i do all the insane steps cause the fries are goddamn phenomenal

seriouseats.com

Perfect Thin and Crispy French Fries Recipe

Get the McDonald's–style fries of your dreams at home with this recipe for perfect thin and crispy french fries.

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