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Piano-playing, puzzle-making, tree-loving nerd. krazydad.com

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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meme image of Fortune Telling Device from "Nick of Time" Twilight zone episode with caption "Jev". Second image of William Shatner feeding a penny into the machine with caption "Me, using Jev"
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my job is just casting the right spells for the daemon now. always was, i guess, but the spellbook is way shorter.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Play Konograms by krazydad
Free konograms puzzles
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Krazydad Daily #2 · Tue Sep 8 ⭐ 0:27 🟩 Star Battle 8x8 ★ 🚂 0:45 🟩 Train Tracks 6x6 medium 🍋‍🟩 3:53 🟩 Lime Sudoku Variety krazydad.com/daily
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Daily Puzzles by krazydad
New free Star Battle, Train Tracks and Lime Sudoku puzzles every day
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Nerdsnipe!
Cross-figure puzzle by Jim Bumgardner
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One day, the Screamin' Sicilian company is going to stop perforating the cardboard mustache on their stromboli packaging. And that is when we will know.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If twitter is bots pretending to be humans, then moltbook is humans pretending to be bots.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Anderson Cooper channeling Charlie Kaufman "It's really hard being a puppeteer"
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
What do you think I spent my childhood in puppetry school?
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s been out since 2020 but the subtitle has never ceased to be relevant.
Two Not Touch, 360 Star Battle Puzzles to preserve your sanity in these trying times, volume 1, Jim Bumgardner
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Alexa+, I really don’t want added color commentary on the things I’m adding to my shopping list. “alexa add pancake on a stick” “that sounds like a fun breakfast!” grrr
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Amazon Echo+ review: A more cheerful and less robotic sounding voice is absolutely not worth the slower reaction time. Give me robotic and fast please.
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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
YouTube problem? It’s not just you. I think someone replaced the broadband with a cocktail straw.
Down Detector showing widespread youtube outage.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Number of times I have typed “tonition” into spelling bee, despite it not being a word. 47?
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm seeing a lot of online publications reposting twitter rumors about a private jet that flew out of Utah after Charlie Kirk was shot, and they're easily disproven by 60 seconds on @flightradar24.com. N888KG didn't "illegally" turn off its transponder or drop off radar or do _anything_ suspicious.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Umm, Spotify events, I'm not sure if Warren Zevon is gonna make that October gig...
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Strickfaden Lightning makes an appearance in the new Devo documentary on Netflix at 14:34
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Programming the LEDs on ferris wheels.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Okay here’s my hot take on the NYT. The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph. Miss that.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Happy Turkey Day
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hexagons aren't always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous.
Screenshot of ADS-B Exchange.
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...
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Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This week I’ve been testing very generic prompts on a variety of text and image models. Here are some doctors. The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity. Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).
Generic doctor descriptions from chatgpt-4o-latest, as rendered in Imagen-3Generic doctor descriptions from chatgpt-4o-latest, as rendered by Dall-E-3
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps
For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders.
Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the
Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle.
In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets
that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.
Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that
has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps.
This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical
office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025:
Print - The New York Times
TV - NBC News
Radio - National Public Radio
Online News - POLITICO
In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the
Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets.
Print - New York Post
TV - One America News Network
Radio - Breitbart News Network
Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously.
The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new
outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps.
Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media
Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon.
(John Ullyot
Acting
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
All the AI models I’ve tested lately are excellent at doing tarot card readings, and terrible at casting I Ching hexagrams. DeepSeek R1 knows all 78 tarot cards and can provide interpretations. But when asked to provide a list of the 64 I Ching hexagrams, it hallucinates like crazy. Why? 1/4
Madame Esmeralda, a classic fortune telling machine.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My latest puzzle game involves worms, or is it spaghetti? I’m pretty sure it’s worms? krazydad.com/play/vermice...
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Play Vermicelli by KrazyDad
Free vermicelli puzzles
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The person responsible should be trotted out before cameras and receive an air horn blast at 3 feet.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Anyone else get an Evac Warning alert at 3:57am? Looks like another mistaken alert, no matching incident in Watch Duty.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I’m not quite sure “Warm Regards” is the appropriate closer to an email sent from corporate accounting to thousands of recipients. Maybe “Angry Regards” ?
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
If you follow me, and you are following a suspiciously large number of people, like 10k, you’re getting blocked. I’m not interested in whatever you are selling.
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The important story is no longer "What is flying over New Jersey and where did they come from?", it's "How are so many people, including government officials, so susceptible to this mass psychogenic illness, imagining that obvious aircraft are drones?"
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What most of these stories are failing to mention (or burying beneath misleading headlines) is that it was one recent sighting of a single orca. A single salmon hat does not make a fashion trend.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Navigating Bluesky on an iPad is like walking thru a minefield in which any random step might put you into Landscape mode.
Regular BlueskyHellish landscape Bluesky.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"The portrait of Francis Williams is the only painting ever made of Halley’s comet in 1759, on its momentous first predicted return." What a fabulous story! A long read for a long weekend: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #histsci #Astronomy
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’ve spent the last couple hours skimming episodes of Murder She Wrote looking for instances of this stock footage lightning bolt (I’ve found six) and I gotta say: This little town in Maine is NOT a safe place to live.
A stock footage lightning bolt that has appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows, beginning with 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Reasonably sure Leon Redbone was a muppet.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wow, I totally forgot about ChatRoulette. youtu.be/MwnCJbf7SD8?...
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ChatRoulette by Casey Neistat
YouTube video by CaseyNeistat
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This looks pretty swell.
Advertisement for a toy cow from the Johnson Smith catalog.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Welp, my borfday is gonna be here soon and I think I know what I want!
Rubber Hot Dog advertisement
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Forgot to include the info that this tortoise is currently in the Los Angeles area, in Canyon Country.
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dear YoutubeTV, I’ve disabled every single sports channel in the guide. What else must I do for you to stop pushing sports recommendations at me? Do I have to start watching the hallmark channel too?
guide.how
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Buddhabrot Fractal
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
One method the LACMTA chose to drive its faithful employees at the Pershing Square station crazy is to play The Goldberg Variations on an endless loop through the shittiest speakers they could afford. I assume this is intended to deter hanging out. Does it succeed?
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really enjoying watching @jbf1755.bsky.social’s ten year old lectures on Youtube this week. Boy that Stamp Act SUCKED!
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jbum @jbum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Just put about 50 lbs of old back issues of the International Computer Chess Association journal in the recycling so I could make room for a potted plant. My back collection of “Inside Macintosh” is gonna go next…
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