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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 06/06/2025

A Celebration of Life for @hellsop.ninehells.com has been planned for Sat. July 12 in Milwaukee, WI. If you knew him, and would like to attend. Please private message @geekers.bsky.social for details. Obituary is here: obits.cremationsocietyofmilwaukee.com/peter-coffin

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Peter H. Coffin Obituary May 12, 2025 - Cremation Society of Milwaukee

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 17/05/2025

This is @geekers.bsky.social logged into Peter's account: For those who haven't heard, he unexpectedly died due to a medical emergency Monday night while riding his bike home from the gym. Autopsy report is not final/no official cause of death. Attached is the press release from the police on 5/13.

Village of Greendale Police Department - WI
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Unresponsive Bicyclist Found in Root River Parkway
On Monday, May 12, 2025 at approximately 7:42pm, Officers from the Greendale Police Department were dispatched to the Root River Parkway between Grange Avenue and Parkview Road for a report of an unresponsive male who had fallen from his bicycle.

Responding officers immediately began life-saving measures, which were continued by Greendale Fire Department personnel upon their arrival. Despite these efforts, the adult male was pronounced deceased at the scene.

At this time, no foul play is suspected. The investigation is ongoing.

No additional details are being released at this time.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 12/05/2025

Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Maybe don’t use such a biblically resonant word like “strangers” when pushing an anti-immigrant agenda that directly contradicts every passage you’re unwittingly alluding to.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 12/05/2025

Pivot To AI (short video blog on YouTube, mostly daily) has hit on actual cases of Mechanical Turk "AI" repeatedly. But maybe the conspiracy nuts don't find it interesting because it's so obviously real and understood.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 12/05/2025

But the pretty eyeball scintillation?

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

Back in my day, this was known as a "rumble" and the cross-town high school was the enemy. /s

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

Possibly there's an exception for the one at the close of Rice University's Orientation Week.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

Traditional crown roasts get those little pantaloons on the bones, so maybe...

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

Pretty sure that's actually the thing. Something changed in shampoo broadly at some point and it just stopped being a thing. I haven't seen a Head and Shoulders or Selsen Blue advert in two decades.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

a Brandy Old Fashioned (the state cocktail) with some implication that the matter at issue was that the principal preferred them sweet (with a white soda mixer) instead of sour (grapefruit soda, as God intended). But the class was probably the most valuable one I ever had in public school.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

We learned how to calculate tax forms. How to balance a checkbook. And because it was Wisconsin, we learned how to score bowling. Because THAT was a civic responsibility. The school administration had, the prior year, asked Mr Fuchs to stop teaching 14-year-olds how to mix 4/

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

We got how to register to vote. We got lessons on what to expect for jury duty including how Wisconsin's court system differed from other states' that one might see on television(!). We got squared away with applications for Social Security numbers because that wasn't an at-birth thing then. 3/

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

and some history of governments in general, and gave a lot of Americans who passed through the tender mercies of Mr Fuchs ("'Fewx', thank you") the basics of US's 3-Article governance but also Westminster system and a few other forms. And then things got a little more... general. 2/

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

40 years ago, the Civics class I attended was in 8th grade. It was called "Governement" because it was a midpoint between the assumption that everyone needed this and the slide you note. But it was a Civics class in all respects that matter. It taught the forms of government, 1/

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 11/05/2025

Even if true, the menacing is the problem, not the masks.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

Couldn't think of food I wanted. 1 part barley, 2 parts rice into the rice cooker with a pat of butter. That'll hold me until I can figure out real food.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

trump take cabbage? or did they only have it for Lenten fish tacos?

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

RCS chat dealing with an SMS-only participant?

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

Gotta bond over SOMETHING, right? Even if wasn't there yesterday, common experience is key.

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Somebody the Trump admin wanted to promote nuclear families, didn't they?

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

As far as I can tell, basically any federal law enforcement can arrest anyone for a wide variety of violations of federal law. The specialization is in what they investigate.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

There's a chat of entry points, even.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

You probably do. Because almost everybody needs to.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 10/05/2025

You're practically an old hand at this now. If it only weren't so expensive...

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

"Mandated to" and actually do are... different things.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

Absent precedent, they'd have to sort out how "federal" a contracted private prison actually is. For employees, for example, it may come down to who signs the paychecks. If the USPS hires an IT firm to install OCR boxes on a sorting line, that doesn't mean the IT firm's people are federal employees.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

Case-sensitivity for database objects is anathema. Write it how you want.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

Time to get really creative with that line-item pen.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

Cat stomachs being gassy and gurgling are not quieter than human stomachs being gassy and gurgling. Stella is really annoyed by her own guts today.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

That's old-fashioned thinking, because you'd only do that when you knew someone would be able to actually make an appointment stick.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

American conservatives do not embrace the idea that words have objective meaning and are in service of conceptual exchange. They run entirely on vibes and how words make them feel about things.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

I'm remembering something about "guano wars"...

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

The blocking is itself a mercy. It's a way to help others step back from a situation that is not being good for them, even if they can't see that it isn't.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 09/05/2025

Half standard price is now 125% of standard price, because Trump Tariff.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/05/2025

Wrote about just how insanely quickly the ODNI responded to this FOIA request from @freedom.press, contradicting Trump *and* their own boss, Gabbard.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 08/05/2025

You'd think with the preponderance of Ivy School law degrees that it would at least be a safe assumption. They must be a constant source of embarrassment to their educations.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 08/05/2025

Some much of the current Congress must be a constant source of shame to Harvard Law School.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com · 08/05/2025

Yes. To the point that were I a believer in A Divine Plan, Francis realizing that his time in The Seat is to set up this guy for a good long run is the Plan God has for him might figure pretty strongly, and be a big "Yes, Lord, I can do that" moment.

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