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It feels like they wanted to call this "Bag Man" but couldn't get the trademark department to clear it.

It sounds increasingly like you *like* staying at home but feel vaguely guilty about it, so you're trying to find excuses why it's actually your only choice. If that's the case, that's fine, no one's going to force you to go out and play.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 3h

I mean, I usually walk with at least one other person and we don't do it in stony silence. I'm not a big group socializing sort but we do go to an open mic once a week. We spend maybe $20 on coffee over a whole evening of hanging out, being entertained, and playing cards.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 3h

When I lived in areas that got snow there were free local cross-country trails, though, so I do have to add the "downhill" qualifier there. It was never my sport but I knew people who really enjoyed it.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 3h

Downhill skiing is a victim of its own success. There aren't any more ski resorts than there were 20 years ago, the season keeps shrinking, but more people want to ski. Supply/demand.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 3h

I go for a walk with my wife nearly every evening, whether it's raining or not. There is no bad weather, just bad clothing.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 3h

I'm amused by the apparent idea that people in cold weather climates just abandon the outdoors entirely in the winter.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 4h

So many people don't remember what it was like pre-ACA.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 6h

Broke the float for the coffee level gauge while cleaning the tank, but fortunately the MEL says the day can continue without it.

A coffee maker with a piece of tape labeled "INOP" over the coffee level gauge.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 7h

Wild to see a video of fish reacting to the earthquake yesterday! Thanks @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social! How did YOU react? Did you Drop, Cover, and Hold On?

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 23h

This is pretty funny. Photographer asks ChatGPT to invert his film negative scans and correct the white balance. Instead, it invents a whole new photo. www.reddit.com/r/AnalogComm...

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 23h

He doesn't really. He's never even taken a suborbital hop on one of his own rockets. He prefers to have other people take the risks.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 27/09/2026

We're gonna find out this article was paid placement, the modern version of payola.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 27/09/2026

You can still build websites like this and they can look good. There's even a niche genre of locally-hosted CMS applications that will automatically generate and upload static HTML if you don't want to do it by hand. Publii is one. Websites like this are FAST and don't get overwhelmed by bots.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 27/09/2026

A lot of Disney stuff around that time suffered from tone problems. There was a desire to go more dark with things and then they'd chicken out and pull their punches. It was a downside of being seen as a "family" entertainment company; they got complaints about anything too intense for 8 year olds.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 27/09/2026

Cygnus is still one of the most beautiful starship models ever filmed.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 27/09/2026

Have you ever read the novelization by Alan Dean Foster? He treats it as straight horror and discards the comic relief elements in the movie. I think it's a big improvement.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Did he get one of those weird UK/Commonwealth divorce settlements where he's legally obligated to keep a certain income level? It's very strange from a US perspective, since cash alimony payments haven't been a thing here for years, only child support.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

The phrase "statistical impossibility" is always a sign someone is talking out their ass. In statistics things can never be impossible, only improbable.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

In general there's been a trend toward plans providing trans coverage, because it's not that expensive. There just aren't that many trans people.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

There are also state laws that require certain coverage levels. They're allowed to require more than federal law, they just can't require less. (I'm oversimplifying a little, but this is generally true.)

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

In general, HRT in the US doesn't have a lot of gatekeeping around it compared to other places, at least for adults.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Canada's system is single payer per province.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Yeah, states have wildly different rules for that and they don't fall on clean blue/red lines. Some states still have a publication requirement.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

In California in 2023 I changed my driver's license gender marker by going to the DMV and submitting a form.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Actually I should say "Advocate," one word. The Advocate is a completely different news site.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Too true. But I think people are at least aware that, say, California is a better place for trans people than Texas. I get the impression that all tends to get mashed together in the minds of overseas audiences.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

Bluesky is a terrible place to get trans news, unfortunately. You're better off with almost any LGBTQ news website. There's too much of a culture here of creating feelings of helplessness to cultivate followers. I like The Advocate, they're not perfect but they're at least serious about it.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 26/09/2026

I don't think people in the UK really understand federalism and how it affects individual rights from state to state.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 25/09/2026

Bluesky's lack of an algorithmic feed (there's the Discover tab, but most people avoid it) meant that it took a while to build up at network sufficient to inject stuff you wouldn't seek out on your own. And then the lack (until recently) of a way to filter reposts meant there was no avoiding it.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 25/09/2026

These must be the furry pilots Tommy Tuberville tried to warn us about.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 25/09/2026

This reminds me of when the Tik Tok crowd discovered a "free money glitch" in ATMs that turned out to just be check fraud.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

I remember when their target market was gamers instead of crypto miners and AI.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

They'll even loan you the money! Seriously, with all the circular financing NVIDIA is doing, they might not survive the bubble popping.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

I think this is going to make Ray-Bans terminally uncool. I've known people who had to switch frames because the ones they were wearing kept being mistaken for pervert glasses. Pity, it's a brand with a storied history. "You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

Elon has a lot of money, but propping up a whole film studio single-handedly might break even him.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

A player actually tried that recently, as a political stunt, but the WNBA wasn't interested in playing ball. So to speak.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

I'm mostly just amused that the "I didn't change, the party left me" trope is now happening on the Republican side.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

The language humanizing them has two goals: - Pumping the stocks of the companies that make them - Making them seem independent so companies don't bear responsibility for their actions. You're falling for an attempt to work the refs.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

This is to say that Tommy Tuberville erred in bringing up furries in his rant about trans people. Furries are inherently ridiculous. You cannot seem dignified while ranting about furries. Furries know this better than anyone.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

There's a flub in political optics I call the "muffler problem." Many years ago Democrats were doing a press conference explaining that Republican tax cuts gave the rich enough to buy a car, and the middle class enough to buy a muffler. Problem: you cannot look dignified while holding a muffler.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

People can of course focus on whatever they want, but if recent years have taught us anything it's that the courts are susceptible to cultural pressures and the black letter of the law doesn't always prevail.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

This happens to old British men. They turn into racist bores. See also: Eric Clapton.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

It's so vicious because the stakes are so low.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

A lot will depend on how people think about these systems when such cases come up, which is why language us important here.

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The Final Peckening @gull.us · 24/09/2026

In theory. This is new so we have little in the way of court cases to know if their deflection strategy will work.

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