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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I once received a package on Saturday that I was told they were out of on Friday, on Monday they started tracking it until it mysteriously vanished from the system on Thursday which is why I tell people my bicycle pump has traveled in time.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh absolutely. I just wish we didn't have to.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's not be afraid to name names. Amy Acton has spent the last few months making many wonder just how much better than a Republican she really is. I have no doubt she's better, I know where my vote is going, but I'm wondering just how much time we're going to have to waste fighting her.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Curthose was a crusader, so that at least fits. And being part of the First Crusade, the conventions wouldn't have really settled in yet.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I recall hearing that crossed legs indicated crusader status but I have no idea how accurate that is. Of course, most of the examples I've seen were less dynamic than this.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Right. It's hype through fear. "Look how capable our machine is" is the subtext in every one of those stories.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This, this, this! That's what I've been saying ever since the first reports of "rogue" agents.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not so sure the beam would necessarily be any more dangerous than sunlight since the idea seems to be to extend the number of useful hours, not necessarily a massive increase in output during the day.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I saw it too. But not everyone thinks the same way, which is the whole point of the DEI programs the Trumpists are so keen to eliminate.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That was my first thought, but it's space lasers. Presumably orbiting high enough to be out of Earth's shadow and getting direct sunlight. So it's the old powersat idea from SF. Has some real challenges to overcome but is not strictly impossible.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As someone I saw on FB said, this is what happens when there is no minority representation in the room. Whatever message they intended, any black American seeing that is going to notice the unfortunate composition. The very best possible interpretation is tone deafness to an absurd degree. Yuck.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Are those meddling kids and their dog gonna show? That always boosts the ratings.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because of course he is. Moreno is such a pathetic little suckup.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Did not realize the FBI was so short staffed they had started recruiting sheep.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Piero: Sighs, takes mild comfort in the fact that he can still brag about how much he spent on the bed even if the dog won't use it. Dog: doesn't care.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, that's not exactly a surprise, few MDs are also MBAs. The fact that he pursued both simultaneously is both rather impressive and a revealing look at his real priorities. He's always been all about the money.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They're not bad. Sort of like a chocolatey Nutter Butter.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Huh. Would have expected them to be using it even more then.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Patterson should have heeded the lesson of Jack Links. Jack Links has some sort of partnership with Mr. Beast where bags of their jerky are rebranded as Mr. Beast Feastables. Same exact product, WAY fewer sales. No matter what we do, we can't get rid of the damn things.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/08/2026

Column: Aiding and abetting foodborne illness may be lettuce’s biggest offense. But it doesn’t have much else going for it, either, and there’s a reasonably strong case that we would be better off without it.

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Column | Why we should stop eating lettuce, cyclospora or not

Lettuce makes us sick, wastes resources and has minimal nutritional value. Why are we still consuming it?

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There's a local spot that has a $13.95 Badass Burrito on their breakfast menu, but that's a full sized burrito with a side of potatoes and also an exercise in heat tolerance. There are ghost peppers in that damn thing and they didn't come alone.

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Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A store owner with whom I was acquainted golfed with Rush Limbaugh, and she told me that he was really OK because he didn't believe any of the stuff he spouted on TV. I told her that made him even worse.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yup, I'm entirely capable of guilt tripping myself, I don't need a person who seems to consider that their main function in my life.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Which is why I ended up unfollowing a certain old SF writer for his constant screeching about how inevitable AI is and how he's been researching it for decades and we're all horrible Luddites who don't understand it. He utterly fails to understand that LLMs are not the kind of AI he writes about

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You don't understand conspiracy thinking, the absence of evidence is evidence the conspiracy is working, not evidence it doesn't exist. The lack of evidence is WHY they'll try to either suspend or "monitor" the elections.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This all makes more sense when you realize it's not about finding fraud, it's about laying the groundwork for deploying ICE, police and possibly military assets to polling stations.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Of course it's Valar, basically everything about them screams scam.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Of all the things I thought when I saw this, an entire thread of people defending human skin books did not make the list.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

They do that a lot at traffic accidents. Which, you know, could be handled by some sort of "road safety" service that wouldn't need all those enforcement powers.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's almost as if they didn't actually interdict any major smuggling routes. Or at the very least, not effectively.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ohio here, same thought. (Though I did live in MN for three years).

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeah, I caught that one. Had to ask Gemini before they could have an opinion, then came up with the typical incel drivel about young women and booktok ruining fiction.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I thought he built it riffing on Heinlein. He was decently established by the time Redshirts came out. (Note, not serious about the Heinlein riff, though of course nearly everyone who reads OMW ends up making that comparison.) The Scalzi haters are such a weird breed.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What's the point of caucusing with Democrats if he's just going to vote MAGA anyhow?

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

His maternal grandfather was a Canadian Nazi iirc.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Of course they are. It's nothing more than the exercise of the personal right to gather power and wealth.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Well now I'm hoping whoever that is is extra slippery.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's FIFA, corruption is practically the name of the game.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Heck, there might be governors who got more votes than Teddy. It's not an especially high bar.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If it's anything like the other AI powered apps that purport to identify AI writing, it's also bloody useless.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You must be relatively new here, because that's exactly the confusing part. Scalzi is better known for wrapping food crimes in a tortilla and calling it a burrito.

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leons1701.bsky.social @leons1701.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That's a thought. Checks cover date, doesn't even get out of the As before budget is well and truly blown. Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 is the real culprit here but the Action and Adventure Comics issues are both over $100 a piece and I'd bet Amazing Spider-Man 17 isn't cheap either.

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