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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a great thread. And it brought to mind a situation from decades ago, when my dad was getting too old to drive at night to play cards with his friends.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lakeview MI has just over 1,000 people. The high school (grades 8 - 12) has 370.students (U.S. News). I was a Teacher Corps intern in a four-year high that had 225 students. This is a slightly oversized hamlet, the kind of place unaccustomed to pushback...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Speaking to reporters in New York, Mullin said: “ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places. We’re there to enforce specific threats.” Sounds like Bovino, doesn't he? The Guardian share.google/CowBitJW2ou6...

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Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places

Markwayne Mullin says officers could be deployed ‘if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant’

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I bought the three-album Trio set (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris). Lstening in my car, I laughed out loud when the chorus hit. In the video below starts a minute in (when the song did), but track back to the lead-in if you like. Hobo's Meditation. youtu.be/kuQm6ye6pzU?...

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Trio - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, & Linda Ronstadt - Hobo's Meditation (Dolly TV Series 1987)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pugnacious nepo guy, now the big boss, launches hostile takeover of far larger org. Tells his team just before big all-in confrontation: if we lose, we lose. Those who don't wanna help can go--we'll handle the paperwork, and you'll get severance. Don't want you here anyway.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 28/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In this thread: My efforts at a French transcription and an English translation of Chrétien's remarks. Likely made errors in the transcription, but I'm okay with the overall sense.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just, you know, dang. From ILX just now.

Saw this comment on reddit:

Years ago I was sitting in a bar and this dude sat down and talked about working for Dolly. Apparently she was really big on drug testing so she fired him. I asked him if he was mad at her for firing him.
He was like, "No man, she put me through rehab, I'm just a fuck up. She's still putting my kids though school and keeping a roof over their heads. She never had kids and she's still a better parent than me. That woman is a saint."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Saw a comment on some specific idiocy of the hour: "Seems on brand for an administration that lost to algae."

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not one news report in ten that I’ve seen points out the U.S. has an overall trade SURPLUS with Canada. Not that it matters to anyone who thinks the exporting country pays the tariff.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Great news! The stuff I ordered will be delivered beween 7:20 pm and 11:30 pm. Bezos must have chosen those times personally.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A little late for August 15 (Fête nationale de l'Acadie), but a sweet song. Annie Blanchard, Évangéline. www.facebook.com/reel/2831302...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Walked about 2 km to Russell Books' warehouse sale. They're one of Victoria's most popular used-book stores.

A cheerful bookstore poster, green ink on ivory, filling most of the image. The poster has been taped up in a store window, with shelves of books in the background.

The poster announces the Russell Books Warehouse Sale. A subtitle says, "All year long, our warehouse has been filling up with thousands of books. Now it's time to make room."

At the bottom, a price list:
1 book for $5. 3 for $10. 8 for $20. Kids books $1 each.

They weren't kidding.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Strictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: Spread your tiny wings and fly away

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Strictly Canadian version. People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me, with half a line: We’ll rant and we’ll roar

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Christopher Buecheler @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026

An IPO in 2026 is basically opening a strip mine. It's a nice win for founders and early employees, who you'll be able to watch all bail over the next few years as the company they worked so hard to build is shredded like old tax returns.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"When the arbitrator presents the collective agreement it will be the first for workers at Amazon in North America." If only the CEO were aware of his minions carrying out his wishes.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The first NYT comment I saw helps underscore the value of the list. "Here's some data politics...when we wanted to transition to EV cars, the smart people all told us that the electrical grid couldn't handle it. But put a bazillion data centers on line and somehow the grid is perfectly fine."

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Putting high-T into the TPS reports!

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

All you need is two lists: A congressional district total of the harm caused by Elon and the Doge minions *just to residents of the district.* Service cuts, jobs lost, facilities closed, you get the idea...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey, streaming services! Let’s talk about my series idea, HUBRIS / NEMESIS. Think of “Arrest and Trial” with egomaniacs…

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Read all about "smart dust" -- or as I think of it, "fash powder" -- the latest vampire-squid technology from people who don't want you driving with three blocks of THEIR personal data. Teeny, tiny clouds of stool-pigeon chips.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@snipy.bsky.social I'm not able to post in your Catholic/Christian/tattoo thread (and that's fine!), but I showed your tattoo photo (no text, no explanation visible) to my wife, who took less than 30 seconds to say "Chartres?"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All I can tell you as a woman who went through film academia is a question you get used to internalizing is “now do you mean genius, or do you mean white, male, and funded?” because people get very mad when you ask it aloud.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

No one could have expected this, except anyone who's been through a corporate spasm based on something the CEO heard on the golf course. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Fed up with the inflexibility and risk of serious injury inherent in glass slippers, once Cinderella broke up with the boring prince, she devoted her life to two causes: useful footwear, and dresses with pockets. In 2038, the Nobel Committee would establish a new category to honor her work.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Since I worked for a pension agency here in Canada, and since I paid into both Social Security and the Railroad Retirement System while working in the U.S., retirement issues tend to catch my eye... (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/b...

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A Year After DOGE Cuts, Social Security Is Trying to Stabilize (Gift Article)

The agency has been quietly hiring workers again, and its leadership is focused on improving technology to ease workloads left by the departure of about 7,800 staff members.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How many of the prediction (aka insider-enrichment) markets have: - Likelihood that whoever's in charge would want Trump in the same area code as the funeral? - Likelihood that any Trump comment longer than 30 seconds will include the number of counties won?

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm looking for women who have lost weight on GLP-1s. I'm interested in how it's affecting you emotionally. Are you relieved to find something that works? Grumpy from side-effects? More confident in a thin-oriented society? Elated? Disappointed? DMs are open. I won't use names. RTs appreciated.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Me: <click "Save" for this 26-page Word doc I've been wrestling with.> Win 11: Save your changes to this file? Me: ... Win 11 (same pop-up): Avoid losing changes to this file in the future by saving it to a folder backed up to the cloud instead...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't think a single Democratic senator has claimed to have spoken to McConnell (R-Absence), which means not a one of them better say a peep about what a great colleague he was and how much he contributed to the Senate on that presumably far-off day when Mitch can no longer save court seats.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I dreamed I spoke to Mitch last night We talked till half-past three Says I, "Mitch, folks have said you're dead." "Not sure I am," says he. "Not sure I am," says he.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NBC: The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower. Wikipedia (Pfizer building NYC): the space is being divided into 1,600 apartments, and nineteen additional floors are being built atop 219 East 42nd Street.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@clairewillett.bsky.social Re Goldade: "In 2014, he was appointed Prior in Kansas City, where he oversaw the priory, a large parish, a school, and a community of religious sisters...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Your unsought-for reminder that it is not true that members of Congress get free health care, and it is equally not true that they get free health care for life. They've got a sweet deal, but it's not free...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Originalism: What the Founders intended. Or what they would have intended if they had been as smart as I am.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The “state fair” on the National Mall brought to mind the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Here are performers there in 2003. (I saw them later, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) Jennifer’s not bad on the fiddle, and good with stories, too. youtu.be/Sr9IrXgfqVU

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The Wrigley Sisters - Medley of Orcadian Songs [Live at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003]

YouTube video by Smithsonian Folkways

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I've been reading part of Hannah Arendt's series on The Origins of Totalitarianism. Just a few items I highlighted in volume III:

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One of several well-informed (and thus not White-House-approved) analyses of the Blue Lagoon of Incompetence.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

@tamarhaspel.bsky.social I just wandered past a 14-year-old blog post I wrote, based on "throwing like a girl," and feel driven to ask: Did you ever find that violin teacher? www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/5042

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Throwing (better) like a girl | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If the world's been too much with you, late and soon, here's a diversion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cE...

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Flo & Joan - Rest of My Life: Melbourne Comedy Festival 2025

YouTube video by Flo & Joan

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Announcing the winner of the Eventual Epitaph award. Thank you all for your attention to this matter.

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