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Barton Chittenden

@bartonski.bsky.social
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Amateur juggler (very much in the sense of the French amateur "one who loves, lover", from which it is derived). Linux geek, dogherd, enough of a programmer to get myself in trouble. ALL OPINIONS ARE XIOMBARG'S.

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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Canada puts all its anger in its geese. I believe their geese have reached capacity. It's not gonna be pretty.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Boy Scotus already has a piss kink.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watch Wobegone burn. 🙄
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I, too, loafed this morning.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hard agree. There was a cool symbiosis between websites and usenet (I miss usenet, although I suspect that I'm viewing it through significantly rose colored lenses).
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's an insult to Mos Eisley!
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
fun should be stronger. structural.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To quote a thought bubble from Cerebus (sic) the Aardvark: "Sophia. Sophia Sophia Sophia. Bouncy bouncy bouncy. Squirt."
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Depends how I count it: The first was Watership Down, which had **waaaaay** too many rabbits with blood around their mouths for my comfort. For real terror, I had to wait for Silkwood, when I was 12. Something about having radiation detectors going off freaked me tf out
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No, not just you.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sadly, this whole thing is about defending that gravy train.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
[more mock concern] Kompromat??? lol
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OT, but bear with me: any online mention of cribbage is an automatic invitation to play, should you ever be in Louisville.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All that smuts is not porn.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I want to love DIY, but somehow all of my projects end up like this.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dear god...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I feel like there should be a spider around there somewhere with a web that reads SOME TREE.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well *somebody* was doing drugs...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's better sculpted than a real Gummibär. I think it's a win.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Asking the REAL question...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No, the ice is made with coffee, so it doesn't dilute the drink... at least that's the way I make it. Just an extra couple of steps.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Both of them? I hate to tell Pete, but if that's the case, the fertility window is the least of their problems.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seems like a fair trade.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cadmium red?
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As someone whose spelling sucks (not socks, dammit), I find it a mixed blessing.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have never been so glad to reread a post and find the 'a' that I had missed on the first reading.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With working hyperdrive motivators?
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now you understand America.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Has he stopped faffing around in the gulf? (Autocorrect tried to change faffing to failing, which is about as helpful as autocorrect has ever been)
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WaitWhat???
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Doesn't a triumphal arch require a triumph? Except for Hegseth, who thinks we're triumphant?
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Enjoying life in the slough lane.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mirabel's accordion sounds like it should be on display next to Chechov's gun. Not sure if it would be played before or after the gunshot in scene 3.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All work and no play makes Natalie a dull girl. All work and No play makes natalie a dull girl. All work and no Play makes Natalie a Dull girl
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Crypto, klepto. Tomato, tomahto.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assure you, Trump's tool is worse than useless.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He expects there will be fewer signatures in the next congress???? That's right up there with Tarkin's "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?"
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminds me of a fortune teller in my town who had a crystal ball in the window display in the front of her store... until it focused the sunlight onto the cloth that it was sitting on, started a fire, and burned down the building. I guess she didn't see that one coming...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh! The pope has my contact juggling ball! I was wondering where that went!
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good lord, I just realized what was in the trunk of the car in Repo Man!
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The problem is that he started saying it when he was accused of it in the 2016 campaign. His accusers were right, of course, but he played the classic 2nd grade defense: "I'm rubber and you're glue. It bounces off me and sticks to you!"
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I see what ewe did there...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How 'bout we lay off a dozen of the Kennedy Center board instead?
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
IIRC, there's an argument in set theory that starts something like that...
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My main problem with video is that it's impossible to skim, let alone grep. You can do the 'skip ahead by 5 seconds', but it takes another second or two to get context and decide if you want to skip again. There's no flow. Skimming, the context is built in -- you're constantly deciding what to skip.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe WTFV?
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The other place where I like video instruction is in areas where the thing being documented is inherently visual, or at least kinesthetic -- laptop disassembly, or juggling (one of my hobbies). In the former, seeing all the screws removed and the amount of force to remove the cover is worth the time
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I like videos for a 10,000 foot view of something I want to learn. If I can spend 15 minutes and get the drift of topic X, that's time well spent, assuming that the video is clear and accurate. Anything more detailed, and I want text, preferably flat text or markdown. Word or PDF is OK, I guess.
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Barton Chittenden @bartonski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hugging face stuff is scary. I'm not an AI apologist, I'm not part of their marketing department, and I don't believe that we've reached AGI -- but I do think that AI will be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities quietly, at scale and in a coordinated fashion.
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