Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17hexcuse me no there were not 6 death stars. There were two and the second one was fake, a trap intended to lure the rebel fleet. The only way the star wars universe makes sense is if death stars are so hard to build that it is kind of one and done 121
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I see this take on progressive era thinking a lot and I don't think it is quite right. It's not that there was a "loss" of competition, it's that economic sciences had only recently formulated a theory that monopolies were actually bad, and this was still making its way into policy ideas 130
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026here's an example of what I mean, none of this is actually cream cheese. Not even close 020
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026it annoys me the extent to which google's algorithm heavily favors when recipe people do this. I want the actual for-real recipe not some watered down "easy" version 130
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026a subset of the materials used to make one renaissance outfit 020
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This guy, I mean. And here's the thing, this is his left arm. He's right-handed, we can see his sword. Maybe his other side is flipped back like this too, we can't quite tell 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I really like Catherine de Medici's tapestries for this because they're not people sitting for portraits, we see a lot of shoulder capes in action. It's a depiction I believe of the ballet she staged for the polish ambassadors. We see a few ways of wearing the cape, none of them are one-shoulder 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You occasionally find these artful, asymmetric single-shoulder-slung depictions in some 16th century portraiture, but as best I can tell *only* there, most period depictions do not show people out and about with a cape over just one shoulder. And even here, there's no ropes or fasteners 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In modern depictions on TV and whatnot, they're almost always depicted as being worn over just one shoulder. This style is been practically ubiquitous but as far as I can tell did not really become standard until the Victorians adopted it as their go-to costume for Shakespearean drama 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is a weirdly narrow headline for an issue that's affecting everyone about equally 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying 010
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026these two people, I cannot stress enough, are in the same room together 021
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Watch this number continue to climb and then blast the politicians who voted for this tax subsidy to oil barons 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ok idk why bluesky thinks the background is black, let's try again 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ok trying to explain this to people. The red line is the post-tax-repeal supply curve of gas. It is a lot steeper than usual because of the war. The post-repeal gas price is almost the same as the pre-repeal price (inclusive of tax). That tiny yellow region is the potential benefit to consumers. 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is ohio's voter registration form. It looks like a lot of fields but actually the only substantive thing they ask for is your license OR social security number 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026alright who gave the white wizard a palantir 040
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wove five of these towels. I gave one to my mom, three are going to the market, seven to the dwarf lords, nine to the kings of men, and the remaining one I am keeping for myself 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026or you can buy one of these candy stripe towels I just wove for $30. 100% unmercerized cotton, I guarantee it is more absorbent than any towel you can get at the store. And it's Canadian cotton, stick it to Trump 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Constantine had a questionable deathbed conversion to Christianity so this claim is semantically null but on it's own terms I don't agree with the reasoning. He's sort of doing the "reject the null implies my favorite alternative" thing when actually there's a multiplicity of possible alternatives 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026counterfactual thinking is important but also I don't think this particular way of thinking about counterfactuals can survive the observation that some things are multi-causal. 1110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026These were some of the first yarns I spun after learning to spin, I finally got around to weaving it. The blue warp is 3-ply corriedale wool, 36 ends per inch, the pink weft is a blend of merino wool and silk, also 3 ply. It now needs to be wet finished, no idea how much it will shrink 030
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026trying to graph what has happened to politics, the green line is sort of normal left-right voter opinion distribution, the red line is what has happened in the past few years. The left is more fat tailed, and as a result the gap between their positions and "typical voter" has widened 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm sorry but I've cooked enough banquets to know this is exactly backwards, almost everyone assumes the skin is inedible and will purposefully avoid eating it if you serve it (and if you notice, restaurants *never* serve it) 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I continue to think that a key thing the inflation and vibecession discourse has missed is that the structural break in food prices wasn't the pandemic, the situation was already boiling at least a decade earlier 111
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I have this note written down, wish I knew where this idea came from 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What a weird framing. 50 guests is not a microwedding. Have any of you people ever tried feeding 50 people at the same time www.cosmopolitan.com/relationship... 220
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Kind of wild to post this take--about Vietnam no less--and then advise getting closer to China 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026huh, so Kanye's nazi arc pretty precisely lines up with when Milo started working for him 010
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026got tired of the prices and service at fast food restaurants so I bought a box of halal nuggets at the restaurant store and now I am the master. I am nugget capable. I am the morning and evening nugget, a servant of the secret nugget, weilder of the fry oil, heir to the holy nuggets of betazed 120
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I didn't post at the time but the seafood banquet a couple weeks ago was also a success. Salmon, walleye, oysters in ice cider, cod blinis, mimosa salad, shrimp, paella followed by nesselroad cream, amber pudding, cakes, followed by a ball where we learned a minuet and duke of kent's waltz 010
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026wait no that actually happened 040
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I don't get why the police chase isn't made out to be a bigger deal. He wasn't going >140mph to get to the gym, he saw the police and tried to outrun them. Police chases are always extremely dangerous, this alone should get him a couple years in jail 020
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I don't get how this is any easier than just writing normally. Then again this too is AI-generated so who knows if there is any true thing here www.nature.com/articles/d44... 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026That's what Fox is doing here. The audio admits that gas prices are higher now than a year ago, it is only the graphic that has the error. They obviously went to AAA and got 3.13, then changed the 3 to a 4 so it looks like a typo 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm old enough to remember when our creed was "Americans never leave a man behind" 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I kind of hope he does it just so people can see what california actually is 110
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I made it tavern style this time 150
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I bought a vat of pizza sauce at the restaurant store, this is the first time store-bought pizza sauce has made a decent pizza, I don't get why Kroger can't stock good pizza sauce like this 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026this is more evident from the portrait of younger louis 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026suddenly realizing that the french royal coronation robes in all the portraits are not symmetrical with a front and back panel as they appear. It's actually a cloak that is worn asymmetrically, clasped at the right shoulder 100
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the antique stores are full of these goofy wide chairs and I think I know why. No, they're not tiny couches 120
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Oh no he feels bad maybe the $6 million bribe he took will sing him a lullaby to calm his nerves www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b... 020
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026millennial grey has rotted designers' brains so much even their attempt to revive early 2000s tuscan trend is just giving more millennial grey 230
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It is definitely worth buying the glasses! Eclipses are serially correlated, you're not just buying them for one eclipse, you'll be able to use it again a few times in the near future 000
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026seemed like a vibe, idk, might delete later 040
Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the great Jabba the Hutt will now *checks notes* not hear your pleas 010
