Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My hobby: whenever someone uses 'compute' as a noun to refer to computational power or time, changing it in my mind to 'compote'. "In addition to achieving what was widely thought to be impractical, they did it on a budget: using only thousands of dollars worth of compote." 120
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026[2] ...and objects, ostensibly a surreal bank with interactive elements, hidden plotlines, and sidequests you can follow if you choose to (and discover). Or you can just marvel at the oddness. That last photo is the Forgery Desk, where you can attempt forgery and get rated on how well you did. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026[1] Yesterday I went, with Chris Cobb and the Almasy-Bush family, to the recently-opened Ministry Of Awe, a huge undertaking by a large number of Philadelphia artists to convert a 19th-century bank (building by architect Frank Furness!) into a six-floor walkthrough wonderland of odd experiences... 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The arena of the Brooklyn Nets -- a major league basketball team that I always get confused with the Mets, the Jets, and the Pets. 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Wonderful choice of vessel to iconify the technology of Star Wars... 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I'm assuming the appropriate way to celebrate involves gratuitous explosions? 110
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026(2 of 2) Given the wording in the President's post, "A whole civilization will die tonight", I went to look up that legend. It turns out the king was Croesus, and the empire he attacked was... Persian. 052
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026(1 of 2) So, I've long known about the ancient Greek... legend? verified fact?... that a king asked the oracle at Delphi if he would be successful in an attack he was planning, and was told that if he attacked, "a great empire will fall", only to have it turn out to be his own empire. 153
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026[I'm limiting this modest proposal to 'normal' votes cast on or received by Election Day. Exceptional cases like provisional ballots or military ballots, which might not be countable for a week... those I wouldn't suggest waiting for. Announce the current totals when 'regular' counting is complete] 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I get that news sources love a horserace. I get completely caught up in watching election results come in, refreshing pages or staying glued to a news station in a way that must bring a tear to the eye of ad agencies. But I think it's deceptive, and harmful, to announce results in dribs and drabs. 101
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Nothing but chance (or differences in counter efficiency) is behind which precincts' counts were finished first. And of course the current system leads to accusations that later-announced votes which go the other way from earlier-announced ones might be the result of cheating. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026It makes people see vote-counting like a ball game, where one team can "have an early lead" or "come from behind" - both of which are only true when what's going to happen in the rest of the game... hasn't happened yet. But all the uncounted voters already *have* voted, and nothing can change them. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The current system means that some precincts get announced first while there are others that haven't been counted, and those first precincts may not be at all representative of the other uncounted locations. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026A this-shouldn't-be-radical proposal, spurred by a post a friend of mine recently made: I don't think election results should be released piecemeal, over the course of an entire evening (or more). I think they should be held until the counting is completed. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Except what I wrote was a total brainburp. I intended to type Solomon! 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Move around to the other side of the Earth. Maybe there's a big cluster of erroneous points just east of the 180th meridian.... 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026(Data compiled by the Oregon State University PRISM group) 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This is the story of the 2025-26 winter, in one map. If you live in the northeast US, you had a pretty cold winter, possibly one of the 25 coldest since these records began (1895). But if you're in the west, WOW was this a hot winter -- for many, the single hottest ever recorded. 120
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Or a subsidiary of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (who marketed robots with the slogan "your plastic pal who's fun to Be with") 040
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Season 1 of _The Pitt_ went into the long-term effects that the initial surge of Covid-19 had on emergency rooms. I haven't seen season 2 yet, but I wonder if aspects of health care funding will become a plot point in it? (By the way, season 1 was incredibly good) 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I guess we won't be offered "Bread and Circuses" after RFKj turned the food pyramid upside down, but the circuses are coming: www.politico.com/news/2026/01... (for reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_a... )politico.comTrump announces August auto race in downtown Washington“To think, 190 miles an hour down Pennsylvania Avenue — this is going to be wild,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I think you're more accurately describing the game Modern Art. In Adel there's a benefit to being contrarian, if you use that term to mean stealing from others who think they're just going to be displaying their art. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Do you think you could re-implement By Hook Or By Crook (Adel Verpflichtet) to be about crypto, where instead of art the cards are memecoins, and the actions you take attempt to get others to invest, while you pump and dump it for profit? Why I ask: tinyurl.com/EricAdamsNYC...tinyurl.comFormer New York City Mayor Rug Pulls Community? Eric Adams' NYC Token Plunges 81%Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams launched a token to combat antisemitism and promote blockchain education. The token surged to a market cap of approximately $580-600 ... 230
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026A reminder, you can get contact info for your senators and representative here: www.congress.gov/members/find...congress.govFind Your Members in the U.S. CongressFind your members of Congress by typing in your address on Congress.gov. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I called my senators to show my opposition to the un-American rhetoric coming from the White House, which suggests that because we want other nations' property, and we are strong, we can take it. Even to suggest that the military could take Greenland is thuggish, even if it isn't actually done. 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025[image shows the words "HAPPY HOLODAYS", in the Star Trek font, above a montage of characters as they appeared in holodeck episodes of ST:The Next Generation, mostly in formal attire] 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I posted this on [a previous social media site] years back, but I wanted to give it its Bluesky premiere: 110
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Heh, I checked that out of the library yesterday. So I too will soon be finally watching it! 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The protagonist of One Piece. Seems like today's Connections-setter is somewhat younger than you are... 030
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Another "I can't believe I was just captivated for that long about a topic like that" video from Alec Watson, the funniest electrical-engineering geek on the internet. And yeah, he does look surprisingly like a grown-up Eddie Munster, but you get over it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZy...youtube.comMy car charger can boil water really fastYouTube video by Technology Connections 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Is it surprising that *this* is the video that finally convinced me to support you on Patreon? Thank you for continuing to be the funniest electrical engineering explainer on the interwebs! 110
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I've always been fond of ice machines, and am sad to think that such an otherwise nice person would want to crush one. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Someone on SpaceWeather uploaded an aurora photo they took in *El Salvador*, at 13°N latitude: spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...spaceweathergallery2.comAuroras And Bioluminescence 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I agree with the white flag in the lower left corner. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025If I want there to be more content from my friends in my BlueSky feed, I ought to at least post some content of my own that my friends might want to see. Like the best photo of me I've had in a while, as two friends and I escaped from an escape room we were beta-testing. 120
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025But the heat is stifling. It is enough to make a man start quoting William Fryer Harvey. 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Quiz time! I removed the colors from four US states on this map. What color(s) should the four have? (Don't actually say what the reason is, so others can still try to figure it out.) 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I'm older-than-thou, but I will follow into battle anyone who thinks DVD menus, especially ones from previous decades, that make you sit through an animation every single time you make a selection or move to a submenu. We're not watching the disc for your cutesy menu-animations. 120
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Aha! So it's still not too late to call the US version 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑝 (after giving @joeyjroo.bsky.social a hefty royalty payment, of course) 010
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Also potentially of interest: while it's clearly showing me your book, it has neither the same cover nor the same title as the image you posted: 100
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Tried it just now, and it correctly took me to the US site. It's 8:30a.m. where I am (Eastern Daylight Time) 000
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The great work begins! To find out just what the heck this is all about, you'll have to come to Live Taskmaster at alumni weekend 020
Jim Moskowitz @jimmosk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Always the risk, when you ask the polloi if they can do better than you did... 000
