Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What do these actually involve? What sort of things was a client expected to do for their patron? Presumably the patron was better off/more influential than the client. 300
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I.e. the rich gay men in their country clubs are now out of the closet and married. 071
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Time for sexy Robinson Crusoe. Theme music: "Friday I'm In Love". 0101
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I did indeed hear this joke in one small part of fandom decades ago. They played the game until someone came up with what they considered the winner, which was "Darth Field Fly Rule." 000
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How odd, every single Flock camera seems to see Rick Astley dancing. 2943
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Usually it's the Hylux, which sadly they don't sell in North America. 000
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I have often thought that, if you are a member of a religion that believes in the literal bodily resurrection of the dead, you really ought to be making a plan for how you're going to handle child care. 070
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Prior to receiving it receiving its official name, Eris's discoverers called it Xena (and its moon was Gabrielle). The fact that the official name of Eris's moon, Dysnomia, translates as "Lawless" may or may not be a coincidence. 020
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026On en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea... e.g. I see "Italy, Germany, and Imperial Japan ... increasingly allied with each other, and during World War II they would be known as the Axis powers." The past tense is hard to search for separate from the passive, though.en.wikipedia.org 010
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I think they're probably saying "ALly is a verb", but they shouldn't be. 😀 010
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I think you ally *with* somebody. And this follows the usual rule that the verb is stressed on the second syllable. (US Northeast) 110
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Half of Örjan Westin's last name got cut off, too; something went very wrong on that slide. 020
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I definitely like the innovation of pre-recorded lists of finalists. (And though the presenter does say the name of the winner live, they've *just heard it said* so the odds of them screwing it up are hopefully low, and did not happen in this ceremony.) 091
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026One finalist did have half their last name omitted from the slide (a slide that also word-wrapped other finalists unfortunately), but all the names were nonetheless said in full. 120
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think even wooden recorders are a lot more robust for grade school kids than a lot of the alternatives would be. 050
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026That's "you have to come down to a government office at the same time everyone else also has to, so the lines will be apocalyptic." 000
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026(The Doylian explanation is that it's a kids show and they don't want the kids imitating gun usage.) 030
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've always thought this was the most likely Watsonian explanation for why the Avatar world doesn't have firearms, despite their general technological level. You don't want to be carrying gunpowder when your enemy's a firebender... 130
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Does that mean maybe they'll stop doing sequels and be forced to actually come up with some new ideas? 100
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It's a real shame that impoundment isn't a predicate crime for federal felony murder. 031
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Given that she stayed in the palace and didn't talk to anyone for a decade, I always assumed there had to be a prime minister actually running the country. 020
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The only time bombing to win ever worked, it involved a surprise reveal that nuclear weapons had been invented. Hard to repeat. 000
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I saw this in my taxi home from the airport after being in Vienna for a week 😭 100
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In the grand tradition of Dashiell Hammett's gunsel. 021
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 18/07/2026When the community figured this out the Netscape engineers reportedly responded "what took you do long"? 070
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I am reminded of Netscape's export-grade cryptography back when that was a thing. It turned out there was a single byte in the binary which controlled whether to use full-strength or export-grade cryptography, and editing the binary was trivial. 130
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Congratulations! Does that mean you get 4½ years of retroactive benefits? 120
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Not part of England though! (It's a separate FIFA member.) 100
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Americans are competent soldiers with amazing logistics, which makes all the difference. 380
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I feel like the photo of seminary-age Bob Prevost in his Blues Brothers costume gives us some nice indication of his views on Nazis. 010
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026My wife uses ITC Compounding Pharmacy in Colorado. It took them a bit to ship the first dose but since then they've been very on time. 110
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 21/06/2026He's crooked in every other way, he might as well build a crooked house. 1130
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If you wanna be "Dave" but spelled weird that's "Deiv". 110
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Let's see...Facebook was well past startup phase in 2017...RTLM was a startup in 1994 but I guess it depends whether you consider radio to be tech. 000
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Bring the data centers to wherever the electricity is cheapest right now! 010
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Definitely not a healing energy. The opposite really. 110
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I want to hear him say "all options are on the table" (which in the Cold War meant "we're ready to use nuclear weapons"). 010
Jon Lennox @jonlennox.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I believe it was Randall Garrett and Isaac Asimov — as I heard it Garrett came up with the idea and Asimov finished it. (Garrett's reputation was similar to Asimov's.) 110
