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Anders @derzquist.net · 4h

Finally some good news in the paper

Saint Paul Pi-Press Sunday Life with The Jacket Story

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 4h

I was on an Amtrak sleeper once with a conductor called Marcelo who was the most cheerful person I have ever encountered in my life, he told us all to call 1-800-MARCELO if we needed anything

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 4h

I took Amtrak Boston-Sacramento-Seattle and then back to Boston via the northern route in 2017 with my nine-year-old, it was the best

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 6h

"The point here is not that Harris was an exceptional presidential candidate — or VP or senator or attorney general or district attorney. But she was qualified. She was skilled. She should not have to be exceptional to be treated just as respectfully as others who’ve walked a similar path."

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

Everybody knows that the captain lied ...

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 7h

I would be much more invested in this if I thought that AI was actually going to make money

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 8h

Ruin a book by adding a word: Unnatural Death Metal

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 9h

Oh for Pete's sake. I'm disappointed to see this account spilling this NIMBY crap. Wind turbines are beautiful, they don't spoil the view, and we need them bloody everywhere in order to have any hope of preserving our snow, fall colour, maple syrup, and four seasons.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 16h

He also invented the pop-up ad. He is appropriately contrite.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 16h

Heh, I went to college with Ethan Zuckerman.

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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 17h

I think it means the White Sox are going to show up in 3 days (which is really 2 days) to play the Rays anyway, somehow.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 17h

Reading THE WOMEN'S HOTEL and truly impressed by @dannymlavery.bsky.social's ability to sound *exactly* like a more-than-slightly arch but fundamentally sincere female comic novelist from 1962. The bits about Katherine going to church are brilliant.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 18h

Just remember the simple rule, "I before e except after c, except when that's not true because fuck you that's why"

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 18h

Eight years literally in Montreal and I still mostly can't follow a basic conversation 😭

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

I hope you do so somewhere warmer than here

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

Please congratulate me for my self-control in not immediately devouring a large piece of this (it's for Thanksgiving dinner at my organist's and his husband's house tomorrow)

A chocolate pecan pie fresh out of the oven

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 19h

My extremely Episcopalian family ate matzoh during Lent and Holy Week when I was growing up, so I have a certain fondness for it (thickly buttered of course).

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah but - crucial distinction here - I don't expect to get laid on Bluesky.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

Welp, DuVernay is dead to me, I guess. Sigh.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

... but you can get companionship from any number of different kinds of relationships. The point of a *romantic/sexual* relationship, for the vast majority of people - the thing that makes it different from friends and family - is that you touch, kiss, cuddle, and make love.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 22h

Right? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND what people are getting from this "AI girlfriend" experience! You can't fuck your phone!!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 22h

everyone who thinks it is a red flag when you abuse technology better unfollow me because I'm about to go full Office Space on my fucking printer. like I am taking it outside and punching through it. I AM SO TIRED OF THIS THING WHY HAVE PRINTERS JUST KEPT GETTING WORSE????? WHYYYYYYY

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, I guess the definition of "high church" depends on where you're starting from, but I know lots and lots of what I would consider low-church Protestants who celebrate Holy Week!

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

They get more flavour if they just wait and drink from the chalice! 🤣 (The prohibition on intinction is for sanitary reasons ...)

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

And how would those hypothetical future forms of AI acquire the ability to feel pain? Seems like the burden of proof is very much on you in this particular speculation.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

*sobs quietly at the idea that celebrating Holy Week is "high church"*

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

Food doesn't have to taste good to be sacramental, as can be inferred from the existence of communion wafers 🤣

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 23h

Um ... anything made (as opposed to bred, begotten or gestated) by humans? Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fascinating - but still a long way from embracing and understanding Halloween's rightful place in the Autumn Triduum - though of course most of these people probably have no idea about the Paschal Triduum either!

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The word LITERALLY means All Hallows' Eve, the eve of the feast of All Saints', November 1

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

HALLOWEEN IS A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY AND HALLOWEEN CANDY IS SACRAMENTAL FOOD, I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Indeed, what the hell We have 120 giving households, ASA around 70, and I baptize at least half a dozen a year on average (it varies wildly).

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

MAINLINE CHURCHES WITH FEMALE PASTORS, FOLKS

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Please give one (1) example of a human-created artifact that could feel pain, and explain the mechanism by which it acquires that ability.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

say what you will about medieval kings, one thing they didn't do was kill fishermen hundreds of miles from their shores with unmanned drones so that the moral grotesques that voted for them would watch recordings, clap and salivate

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know what happens in 2671 but I’m not telling you because I’m a historian so I only talk about the past sorry

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Who the hell is buying this shit on eBay??!!

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hee hee I know who that is, @standupforyale.bsky.social! (I already emailed, but if you see this first, it's my dad, Arnie Pritchard, GRD '71.) @gregpak.net like I was saying! 🤣

A screenshot from Stand Up for Yale's email about this week's protests. One person in the photo of alumni holding signs is unidentified. It's my dad.

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My aspiring novelist/Broadway lyricist 14-year-old self sometimes has very similar feelings.

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