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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that took awhile and was worth it

A lot of hen of the woods mushrooms spread out on paper towels on the counter

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’d show you all the pretty leaves, but instead you’re going to have to see them get shrouded in pretty mist

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bluesky, the app for sports watching

five posts in a row (including mine) showing case keenum content

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Full moon, blazing fire, autumn is a delight.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎶 it’s the most wonderful time of the year🎶

Me holding a very large largemouth bass out towards the camera. For the record, the bass was about 20 inches long and around 4 pounds or slightly over.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This lovely old lady might not move for a few more hours. Her work is done.

A black-and-white cat curled up on a flower comforter and sheets

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You should read this book. Historical true crime. Outstanding research and writing. Made me very mad a lot.

J’accuse - a medieval crime and the servant girl who changed history. A purple book cover and the image of a dragon statue (for reasons explained in the book).

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bears tooth (lions mane) mushrooms my wife foraged.

A group of golden bears tooth mushrooms - a stem and then little tendrils

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What do you think is under the lid?

A lodge lid pressing something down flat into a pan.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The walleye tacos were a late add because I caught walleye today

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This motherfucker … no one in fact needs LLMs the way someone with ADHD needs medication. Obviously I blocked them. Christ, what an asshole.

Some murderous motherfucker saying LLM’s are like ADHD med, and that ADHD me can also hurt people

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friend took this pic of my fish and my hands. These are the tails of northern pike.

Two panko breaded filets close. Hands and panko and breading station in the background.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ain’t never been a dawn I felt bad about seeing.

Old man in a red hat and a gray sweatshirt holding up in northern Pike to the camera

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.

a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We really needed this rain. #MidwestDadEnergy (recommend sound on).

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some academics used AI to write op-eds. I spoke @chronicle.com. Making complicated things legible to broad audiences is the whole goddamn work and no, you can't outsource it to LLMs. www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

But to David Perry, associate director of undergraduate studies in the history department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the author of a book on public scholarship, using AI to “edit” or “condense” is synonymous with using it to write. Cutting down an article or generalizing it for a broader audience is “what writing and thinking is about,” he added.

“Writing complicated things that are accessible to a public audience and that are short enough for public-audience attention spans is hard — it is harder, in many ways, than writing at length and writing only for your 20 most compatible colleagues,” Perry said. “It’s just a practice. You have to decide to put in the work.”

The work of being an academic, Perry said, is to make complicated things coherent. Michael Socolow, chair of the communications and journalism department at the University of Maine at Orono, agreed, calling it a “cop-out” for a writer to say they “only” used AI for the basic mechanics of composition. He added that he’s concerned about what senior academics model for both junior academics and their students when using AI.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's Singer explaining that only some members of a species, including humans, are persons.

Some members of other species are persons: some members of our own species are not. No objective assessment can support the view that it is always worse to kill members of our species who are not persons than members of other species who are. On the contrary, as we have seen there are strong arguments for thinking that to take the lives of persons is, in itself, more serious than taking the lives of non-persons. So it seems that killing, say, a chimpanzee is worse than the killing of a human being who, because of a congenital intellectual disability, is not and never can be a person.”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Testers* *I ripped them removing the stamen

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My wife bought me flowers. I think she likes me. I’m gonna ask her out on a date one of these days.

A hand holding a bunch of squash blossoms

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Me: time to get ready for this podcast recording Computer: mayyybeeee maybe not

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

9 years ago today. Their first game. Shared with permission.

A small child in a lynx jersey stands in front of Prowl, the mascot

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My son is learning chords. He’s so focused. His music therapist is so good. I’m near tears.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Someone took a test bite (it wasn’t me)

A pile of pita. One has a little piece ripped out.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lfg. Pita, lamb, and maybe some potatoes over the fire. Coals are getting there.

A cast iron plancha over a cast iron grill over a big open fire reducing to coals

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Now prepping the lamb leg I’m roasting over an open fire tomorrow. Salt, pepper, olive oil and herb rub. Garlic in every cut.

A butterflied whole leg of lamb with herbs and garlic and olive oil on it

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Found a very fresh chicken of the woods and will cook tomorrow probably, but had to cut off two small steaks to butter baste because so fresh.

Two chicken of the woods orange mushroom sections in a cast iron pan, butter and garlic and thyme visible

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