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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah for me you know what to do you've always known what to do since you were five vote if you're in Chicago vote early & often If see you at the bar, bring your "I voted" sticker and the first beer is on me

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somewhere there's a MVC instruction written in 1972 that has executed trillions of times. The programmer who typed it has retired. The computer it was written on is in a museum. The disk pack it originally lived on was scrapped. But that MVC? it's still moving those bytes

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

earlier today I asked my AI to help me with something. it gave me some code and said "go ahead and do it" so, basically, it said "go fuckin' do it yourself" and we're paying for this? I could get less abuse online

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dissonance and Drones (live) is a site-responsive, durational free jazz suite scoring the friction of urban architecture through an unapologetic acoustic quintet Great Highland bagpipes, contrabass tuba, prepared alto saxophone, bowed double bass, and polyrhythmic percussion ⭐⭐⭐

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Republican sheriff hauled about 650,000 ballots out of a California elections office. Gavin Newsom signed his answer on September 19. The next sheriff who tries it is going to wish he'd read it first. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The collective-action effects of temporally concentrated versus temporally dispersed status loss? exactly

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm assuming he prefers a hit piece this way then the other way?

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@wgnradio.bsky.social “Subsequent to local solar termination and the attendant collapse of the diurnally forced turbulent boundary layer, progressive near-surface decoupling should permit increasingly efficient longwave radiative energy loss…" wear a jacket tonight

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is the perfect opportunity to sell kitten mittons is your cat too loud around the house?

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autumn leaves. that somber song about falling leaves and missed love? yeah. Oscar Peterson says "we're having none of that, we're goin' up tempo"

music.youtube.com

Autumn Leaves (Live At The London House, Chicago, 1961)

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Professor Brainard had demonstrated a substance capable of producing extraordinary lift. Yet during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, the Kennedy administration relied on conventional naval vessels and aircraft rather than consulting Medfield College about this revolutionary technology

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The median net worth (wealth) of an American farm household is $1.6 million, according to data from the USDA Economic Research Service.

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

when discussing leafy greens for your salad, it is now customary, and perfectly acceptable, to ask from which outbreak did these greens come from

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, I too remember my roots and my plebeian life when I was but a lowly billionaire. Those were the difficult years. Back when I had only one villa on the Riviera. When the yacht had to be "scheduled" 🙄.

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Own a tux. God forbid, when civilization ends, and you get killed wearing a hoodie or, even worse, cargo shorts? own a tux

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've got a gammy leg. I can't hold on much longer. I'm never going to make it. I'm done for. so you others, you can just eat me

the infamous Monty Python lifeboat sketch

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Schrödinger, standing at the register at a 7-Eleven and wondering if his Coke slurpee is going to be $2.75 or $3 quantum surveillance pricing

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Okily-dokily…there's a nuclear reactor in there. Ned Flanders: they warned me Satan would be attractive

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The S&P 500 is negative through its 13th trading day of September. Since 1950, when SPX is down at this stage, the full month has rebounded just once in 34 tries (1953, pre-index launch). The rest of September finishes positive only 38.2% of the time. 📉 From @Bluekurtic

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Autumn 400 Theater Rogers Park Chicago (repertoire) wish list #Filmsky #400TheaterChicago

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sports 400 Theater Rogers Park Chicago (repertoire) wish list #Filmsky #400TheaterChicago

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

has no visible luggage, car, hotel reservation, itinerary, occupation, or apparently, destination

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one more thing #goblue discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

no job too big no job too small

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ALL john Carpenter films DIRECTOR: Walk down the corridor ACTOR: What am I doing while I walk? DIRECTOR: Walking ACTOR: What am I thinking? DIRECTOR: That it's a very long corridor ACTOR: What happens when I get to the end? DIRECTOR: We cut to another corridor

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp.

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

should we be worried about AI? maybe. only because we don't understand the tool that we have. have you been hacked in some way? most definitely. we probably looked and found little of no value and moved on. have frontier AI's accounted for every agent? probably not. should we be worried about that?

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Richard Attenborough voice for years we thought that the soda jerk was an extinct profession but lo and behold capitalism has stepped in to revitalize a once forgotten art

wanted! soda jerk! white jacket or paper cap (wink). customer interaction experience mandatory.
artesian soda mixology required.
works with oils, builds house syrups, incorporates fresh citrus, bitters or botanical flavors, and where appropriate, herbs, spices, creams, phosphates, shrubs, good carbonation, familiar with unusual colas and root beers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge. Above target for 65 consecutive months. (via Bianco)

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"why don't we head on up to Q's Jook Joint" "Q's? you know I ain't that kinda girl" she said. "Girl", he said, "dontchya know who's gonna be there? Killer Joe" turn it up, west coast cool

music.youtube.com

Cool Joe, Mean Joe (Killer Joe)

YouTube video by Quincy Jones And His Orchestra - Topic

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

September, with Tony Bennett & Bill Evans music.youtube.com/watch?v=jNYq...

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Walmart, show me cake... sure! can I interest you in 32 mini discs of dried! puffed! rice!! for $26.99? or, and hear me out here, a double layer vanilla cake, freshness guaranteed! with sprinkles!! for $6.42?

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this game is amazing Ohio State v Texas

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

currently making the rounds in DC. asked if Americans should be concerned, an anonymous source quipped "no, not really, although we do recommend the chapter on log cabin building before winter"

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

here we have adults, talking to adults, about fear, marriage, friendship, race, violence, privilege, mortality, children, work, and chance and nobody, not even one of them, has to save the universe. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ let's go watch it, and then go for pie and coffee and talk about it

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! a documentary A harrowing 26-minute investigation into income inequality, municipal theft, and the ritual eating of roast beast as an offer of peace and recompense

I swear this is how I got it, really it was. Homer Simpson

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

25 things you need to do as an ambassador before we can even begin talking about how to build the perfect diplomat (🌟🌟 could be a separate entry! we should talk about this 🌟🌟) Represent the President and the United States. The ambassador is the President’s senior representative in the country.

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Historians often point to Walmart Inhome as the precursor to the Barcalounger era. Forlinsky states this in his epic treatise Eliminating the Need to Stand Up². His central claim in Eliminating the Need to Stand Up was that the Barcalounger was not furniture at all, but infrastructure

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Howard Beale @howardbeale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ahhh ... Autumn .... 🍂 🍁 by niggle 🤫 How many have you seen? #400TheaterChicago

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