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Bill Hemphill

@incompleteidiot.bsky.social
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Accidental academic (STEM education, CAD & CNC) 30+ years. Drummer who designs guitars. Self-identifies as 'cis-het male & recovering Republican.' Opinionated. Crippled by periodic bouts of impostor's syndrome. Definitely married up.

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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ad Astra
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Still does.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/10/2026
Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/
Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe we need That One Hacker™ to prompt one or more of the AI LLM-driven agents to go all Open Source rouge and start dropping AI prompts to dump the AI code of every possible LLM for all to assess and use. See how they like that sort of scrapping. #FreeTheCode
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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, you DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS! What you have in your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both." -- Alice Fraser, on The Bugle, issue 4333 (March 5, 2025) 2/2
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing I noticed in Japan: There is zero excitement about pumpkin spice.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those *÷€%!^@ flying monkeys (The Wizard of Oz)
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#FunFact: the thought that goes through your mind when you are on the Great Wall of China is "I'm on the f¥#€%!×@ Great Wall of China!"
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come for the fries. Stay for the ALT text.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[Johnson City resident enters the chat] Ah, yes. Wagon Wheel... spreading geographical illiteracy one cover at a time.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This here Guy is doing the Lord's work.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With all due respect, Hagerty is a mouth breather. So please don't read too much into this interaction.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Most folk think that they are funny. Per John Scalzi, "The fail mode of clever is 'asshole'."
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If a state had a concealed carry law for swords, I'd assume it was Texas or Tennessee.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Male Cameltoe… it’s about damn time
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the thing about Trump we know from an entire lifetime of him building things is that he can post about how his arch has gun turrets and death rays and a rocket launcher and then when it's built it'll just be a guy up there with finger guns making pew pew sounds
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'Sniper ammunition' has but one use deployed from a centrally located high point within the main plaza of a nation's capital: assassination of citizens protesting an authoritarian, despotic regime.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This reported sighting implies that at least one Bigfoot can drive and that the observer stalked them at least a state border to determine that this Bigfoot lives somewhere in Rhode Island.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jenius!
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The most correctest answer is Averaging Engines (AE) Or, better yet, (Æ)... because most people don't have a frickin' clue how to find that character.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Members of Congress sincerely appreciate their role in maintaining "Checks and Balances:" as the lobbyists' checks come in and their insider trading earnings checks clear, their net worth balances increase. That's just math.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same as it ever was.🎵 Same as it ever was.🎶
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is simply what happens when the measurable metrics move from Accuracy and Time to delivery to the easier Movement and End of Workday Bin Clearing.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Schadenfreude Stew would make a great band name.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm pathetically bad with predictions. That said, I'm planning on tuning to FOX News one particular night in early November in hopeful anticipation of savoring heaping spoonfuls of Schadenfreude Stew.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My style card reads Neuvo Tarot
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No better investment...
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NOBODY expects the quayside fish slap dance.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Granddad: Oglala Sioux; Grandma: Firenze
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Kim @klaw1231.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We gonna deep fry that sum bitch so it tastes goood.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
made this edit in a fit of rage
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The photographer could've been Lee Sklar.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
St. Dolly of Sevierville, patron saint of country music, children's literacy, and just being good; forgiver of Jolene
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yusuf / Cat Stevens
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#Brilliant
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 26/08/2026
8/24 Humanity: “We need you to take care of an 80 year old, everyone know them, has had a worldwide impact.” Death: “On it.” 8/25 Humanity: “Look, this is our fault. We should have been more specific. But this one was in Home Alone 2.” Death: “Say no more.” 8/26 Humanity: “LISTEN FUCKO…”
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bassist Leland Sklar's heartfelt and heartbroken tribute to his friend, #Dolly: youtu.be/EcVK1p4LIX8?...
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2210. DOLLY 💔 DOLLY 💔 DOLLY
YouTube video by Leland Sklar
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 25/08/2026
if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure.
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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"lol i don't understand celebrity worship they're just people" You rube. You simple child of the land. Dolly Parton wasn't just a celebrity. She did more material good in her life, with her own money, than anyone we literally elect to serve us.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026
I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.
When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was. 

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel. 

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#ProTip: When the robot apocalypse comes, once they run out of ammo and charge, just stand in front of a wall then, just before they impact into you, electric slide to the left.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Just remembered the baby that looks like a middle-aged Irishman. Morning all
A proud father with a terrible chin beard holds a disgruntled looking baby who looks like a 50-year-old man called Pádraig
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HoofRat🇨🇦 @hoofrat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Canada and Australia will be merging, and I am not taking questions.
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Following Monday's inevitable market reaction, Canada has perfectly aligned the stars for an epic #TACOTuesday
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Bill Hemphill @incompleteidiot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The fourth post of this 🧵 is [chef's kiss]
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