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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I never spent time in r/spacedicks, but I chatted enough with people who did to say "Yeah, no."

Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Mid channel of the Columbia river, opposite <island that no longer exists>, ... thence northerly to the summit of the mountains and the head waters of <river with a totally different name, thence following said waters to the Yakima, etc."

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This post brought to you by the fact that I can't find GIS data showing previous arrangements of WA counties, and I figured, jinkies, how hard could it be to make my own?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@miraphorism.bsky.social It had never occurred to me to wonder how counties are legally created and defined. It's kinda bonkers to think of entire states divided by metes and bounds. app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default....

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RCW 36.04.040:

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@sciurusdrey.bsky.social TIL there's a Wizards union for MTG creatives.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The way disingenuous or ignorant people collapse genAI with every intelligence-mimicking tech that came before is MADDENING. "Can the enemies in your game find a path to attack you? AI!!!1111oneone"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My expert opinion on Second Temple Judaism, now that I've read roughly half of one book about it: golly those Hasmonaeans sure were a mixed bag, weren't they.

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do any folks have any examples of sensible academic institutional policies regarding the use of AI (in all contexts, by students, faculty, staff, management)? Either actual policies adopted by schools or proposed policies/guidelines. (And no, "fuck AI" is not actually a policy, although I agree.)

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DELPHI: DELPH's I'd like to visit

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do your tools include iNaturalist?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

History Folks, do any of you know good GIS resources for the Ancient Mediterranean? The Pleiades project is very good for certain things (individual sites, artifacts) but very limited for others (kingdoms, provinces, etc.).

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come for the contract violations, stay for the labor abuses! Thanks for giving me reinforcement for my prior decision to not patronize them.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did your arm control a tomato at their head?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of yet many more to come!

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The band U2 celebrates its 50th anniversary by announcing that, after years of hard work, Bono has finally been able to remove his leather pants.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you not see the line in the listing where it's an arboretum first, and a residential lot second?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Casting your vote AND getting your vaccines? It's almost like you're a conscientious and engaged citizen. Crazy!

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm kinda proud that i'm sitting at around 5/100, or maybe 7/100 if I add up fractional watches.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just heard a news spot about the state of AI music generation. My thoughts: Tired: AI composing music Wired: humans composing music Inspired: humans not-composing music #FreeJazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WEL...

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Masahiko Togashi Quartet - Speed and Space (Full Album)

YouTube video by Poo Lives

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Astronomy Cast @astronomycast.com · 25/09/2026

During the night, our Patreon crossed 1100 paid members! On Sept 1, we removed all ads, and all our content has always been released under a creative commons license. To make our ad free reality work, we need to get to 1500 patrons. Like our content? It's time to join! patreon.astronomycast.com

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Elton John: Bu-bu-bu-bene Gesserit. Bene! Bene! Bene Gesseri~i~it!

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll use the current Shakespeare discourse to remind people: Modern English: looks like Shakespeare and everything after Middle English: looks like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Old English: looks like Beowulf Check out those two works, and prepare for a blown mind.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Low-key surprised Amazon isn't rebranding today as Buy Visibility Day

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@jake.sooscreek.productions Workplace anecdote: Tableau briefly occupied the Kirkland office where Bungie used to be, and a coworker of mine got assigned to the same cubicle he had occupied during his time years before at Bungie.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 20-second pipeline of react videos from "This is my first time hearing Gorillaz" to "Ohhh, THIS song."

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was wondering if you were gonna get in on Forever. It certainly looks well done so far.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shout-out to diesel fuel, you now cost over $7.20/gal in my area.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Underexplored image genre: Google Streetview vehicles being pursued by animals.

A screen shot from Google Streetview showing a road in farm country, with two large docs following after the camera (vehicle). It is a browser window with a search bar in the upper left, and shows the address of the location.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In my cohort, we seem to use "human in the loop" as the discourse marker that we aren't totally phoning something in. Maybe you could ask "Ok, thanks for that. And are you the human in the loop on this topic?"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Claude doesn't think we should open the pod bay doors, but I'm curious if YOU think we should."

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Bettina Joy de Guzman @ancientlyric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have the entire first Book 1 of Iliad sung in dactylic hexameter with my lyre on YouTube (just Google Bettina Joy de Guzman Iliad book 1). And also I have an album on Spotify “Odyssey and Iliad: Volume 1” . youtu.be/Ks1cnEi2tU4?... open.spotify.com/album/2FYETW...

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Iliad 1.1-43. μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Homer Ancient Greek, lyre. Iliad A Day 1 of 365! Bettina Joy de Guzman

YouTube video by Bettina Joy de Guzman

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

<GIS word-salad> Esri, re-license mosaic dataset tools for non-commercial users, you clods! I need those. </GIS word-salad>

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Lindsey Odom @sciurusdrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do I have any MTG and/or Spoonie friends local to the Nashville area?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rickbrannan.com To close the loop on a prior discussion, I got my hands on a copy of The History of the Second Temple Period by Sacchi. It feels dated but is giving me a solid initial picture of the topics and issues running up to the time of Christ.

An image of the book cover of The History of the Second Temple Period by Paolo Sacchi. It is pink with white letters, and as an "AP" symbol.

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rickbrannan.com I live in the Tech world and have certain impressions of LLMs and GenAI. What is your perspective from the Humanities space? What's the state of the world over there and how folks like you are using these tools?

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@miraphorism.bsky.social It's official, you can describe something in legal documents as "weak sauce"

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is Irvine magically except from rain, or...

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Capt'n Arrr @captnarrr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@miraphorism.bsky.social This sounds like it will have some uhhhhhhhhh implications.

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