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Frostnova.sys @frostnova.tech · 30/09/2026

I'm afraid no one is going to remember or care that I exist on my birthday. Maybe it's not important.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great, but why is this a line chart with a spline interpolation and not, say, a stacked bar.

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026

Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can I get back to you? It's probably that data can be expressed as fractions, instead of all floating point numbers.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just added this to my reading list, thanks!

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not a moot, but I have my doctorate too

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh nooooo :( Also, understandable.

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Frostnova.sys @frostnova.tech · 23/08/2026

Every single time... Whenever I try to give it a chance that maybe I won't be treated so bad I'm wrong, every, single, fucking time Men... I can't trust you. Too many of you have done things without my consent. And it keeps happening.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

What abilities in The World Ends With You do these give you?

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

*leaves an old motherboard and some ICA cards for you*

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Twenty minute fight between your kid pooping their pants at the neighbourhood park and getting them home.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I used to spend more time treasure hunting, especially for coins. Looking forward to doing that again when the little is old enough. Garage sales, antique malls, estate sales, thrift stores, here we come. There are online options, but I love (non-algorithmically) finding what I wasn't looking for

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's probably a bad sign that my reaction to AI-assisted research was "cool, I can finish my bucket list quicker and leave early".

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm writing a book on sports analytics, and I've been shilling it on main. But the truth is, I'm sick of sports. I only started analyzing sports to connect with my dad, and the moment I come out that's moot. I just want to be done with the book at this point so I can move onto the next thing.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Summer semester is so, so, close to being done. The last three months have been super productive, but in the sense that it took a massive effort just to hang on.

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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

reboot basewars as huge baseball kaiju mechaball

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Very doll and very cute!

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't know what will happen to markets, but if you're interested in tracking this indicator, search for "This Week In Petroleum" for regular updates from the EIA. 4/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The EIA lists one of the requirements for non-emergency draws that there be 254 million barrels remaining, so that might be when the reserve is effectively empty for commercial purposes. The US is already doing an emergency draw, so that alone won't stop them, but 254 million feels significant 3/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It was built in response to the 1970's oil crisis, and meant to cover 100 days of imports in case of any major disruption. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), as of July 3, there was 319 Mb left, and 5-6 million had been drawn from the caverns in each of the last 8 weeks. 2/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Let's talk about the US strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) now, before everyone starts talking about around September. The SPR is a collection of salt-lined caverns deep underground just north of the Gulf of Mexico. It's built to hold about 715 million barrels of crude oil... 1/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Young children have a version of the Bene Gesserit voice, but it's really, really annoying.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fun fact: In 1989 Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment sold the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for $2. That's just pennies per cat!

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Honestly excited to spend time on Wikipedia tonight.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I think I know what I'm planning to do with this Bluesky account. I make books and courses, but I don't want to sell on this account. Instead, I want to use it to find people to commission for the parts I can't do well, like make graphics, music, video editing, and the like. Stay tuned.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Is there a good way to find books that are updates of, or responses to, a current book? Something like the "cited by" feature in Google Scholar. I'm really enjoying a general audience book on the business of sports, but it was written in 2003. Everything newer that I've found is academic.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

For the low, low price of five orgasms you could have a roll of Pez candy(TM)

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Rocks and sand. Some tasks take a large block of time and can't be effectively chopped up because it takes a lot of time to get mentally or physically set up. Those are rocks. Things that can be chopped are sand. Plan your month around rocks and fill your day to day time with sand.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sorry to hear that. Anything us internet strangers can do to help?

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Why am I pooping?" - My 3-year-old How do I begin to answer that?

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Out of my price range. I can't even afford 40k these days.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Life hack: If I do mathematics from the moment I wake to the moment I pass out at night, I don't have to confront my desperate need to transition.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My spirit has cancer.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Need to express despair, but don't want to bring anyone down.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The soft butch sword calls to me. It's so direct yet versatile.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I get that these websites aren't charities, and that the collection and warehousing of detailed data takes effort. However, they're not the ones that are making the data. Academic journals charge universities and libraries a fee for blanket access. Could we do something like that? 4/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sports websites everywhere are closing off scraping access, often without a financially accessible alternative like an API. Without data my sports analytics students, and amateur analysts everywhere can't do their projects. No amateurs now means no professionals later. 3/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Of the three websites that WorldfootballR scrapes, one words (Transfer market), and it's inconsistent HockeyR isn't much better; it has data up to a 2023-24, saved as a file on GitHub, and then nothing Personally, losing scraping access makes future research harder, but there's a bigger issue 2/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spent hours trying to fix a data scraping function in the WorldfootballR package only to realize that the data can't be scraped through the page source code on Understat anymore. Then I spent time looking for any viable alternative package or data source for soccer shots; none existed. 1/4

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Detailed sports data is getting harder to come by as database websites like Understat make scraping hard or impossible without providing some sort of API. I'm worried for the future of amateur sports analytics.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

They should make a QR code that stays the same, even when you're not looking at it.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ha! Take that South Africa! That's the soccer fate deserving of a country with a history of corralling their non-whites into specific parcels of land and treating them as second class.. ..why are you staring at me? Is there maple syrup on my face?

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Trying to muster the self-love to take medication.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

At the high net-worth level, you have well-informed investors looking for stores of value that will appreciate with inflation, and can be used for various tax shenanigans. In times when holding a lot of cash hurts you, you want physical goods that are easier to store than commodities.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Adding more. What the mechanics behind being a leading indicator of inflation? At the consumer level, people have a lot of free cash and they're looking for ways to invest that money in the future, and collectibles are accessible and fun. The stock market is complex, but a pack of cards is simple.

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VF649 @gc649.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

But back to inflation. We hypothesize that rapid and broad increases in the collectibles market are a leading indicator of inflation of utility-based goods like food, fuel, and housing. When one asset type skyrockets, that's a craze. When several do, that's a harbinger of inflation. 8/8

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