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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 36m

Also, FWIW, I can't imagine Cornell offering her compensation of any kind for this, unless maaaaybe for routine expenses, e.g., lodging and meals. Still, I'm all in favor of holding Cornell's feet to the fire on this!!

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 49m

I think she would disagree (I could be wrong!). Cornell asked her to do something; she agreed to do it; I'm inclined to trust her judgment. That said, we should be on the alert for a whitewashing; I'm just optimistic that she won't join in any such thing.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 57m

God forbid men should have to be subjected to the feral bowel sounds of (*gasp*) women! There goes the mystique right out the window, ferchrissakes... (I saw Bridesmaids for the first time this week. Awesome!!!)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 8h

Bingo! This seems to be a very close match. It's fun trying to figure out what's going on there, but I have to say, I enjoy speculation about fatal stuff more! (I'm strongly opposed to political violence. Don't do it; it's counterproductive. I just hope he dies of natural causes very soon.)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why aren't we criticizing Troy Jackson for preferring the wimpy salt that some random girl with an umbrella has spilled all over the place in a blatant (and probably illegal) act of negligence? Hmm?

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's totally unfair to criticize Susan Collins for advocating eating road salt! Himalayan dolomitic kosher road salt is yummy *and* rich in crunchy little mineral bits, and I've been reliably informed that that's what she was referring to.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Trump has congestive heart failure, as some have conjectured, maybe those folds in his pants legs are from rolled-up and/or sagging compression stockings. Or I'm just hoping beyond hope that he's going to die a natural death sooner rather than later. (FTR, I strongly oppose political violence!)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for the close-ups! I wonder if he's wearing compression stockings – after a DVT in my calf I wore compression stockings that came up above my knee and the tops used to roll down as I went about my day (i.e., walked, moved generally), and sometimes they would end up below the knee.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wish to file a formal protest at the egregious maltreatment of an index card by the person at top left. There's just no excuse for attaching an index card to one's head like that – especially not, if my conjecture is correct, by means of earwax. /s/ Index Card Lovers of America

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Compare the pants legs on the others as they walk. They're very similar to his – not identical, but I'm not convinced he's wearing any kind of brace. My own take is that his morbid obesity (or something else) has made his joints wonky (bending backwards at the knee). And he's a fascist fuck, ofc.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Presidents, by convention, don't salute. Trump, being a fascist fuck, often does. I would love to get demographic statistics on who he salutes and who he doesn't, though. Strike that; I have enough things to throw up at as it is.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let's not forget that the governor of Tennessee can with a stroke of the pen (unless Tennessee is weird) commute her sentence to life in prison, since she was convicted for violating state law. But the governor is Bill Lee – a Republican, election denier, and (evidently) fascist fuck.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She has essential tremor, which she has called "benign" even though there is no such thing as benign essential tremor. (There are mild cases and severe cases, but it's generally a progressive disease.) Bobby Brainworm, on the other hand, has spasmodic dysphonia.

mayoclinic.org

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What a stupid asshole (Alito, not you!). I mean, it's pretty obvious he's an asshole, but I think his dogmatic assholery truly does get in the way of his ability to think straight. And keeping his eyes and ears closed to half of reality doesn't help.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a bit of a tangent, but I'd be interested in thoughts about the gendering of crypto and "prediction markets" as a continuation of the gendering of tech and gambling. I mean, there might not be much to say about it, but I've been wrong before (again and again). (Oh. And again.)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Insert obligatory "Big Brother" reference here.) (Orwell, not MTV!) I'm very curious as to how judges will react to this. I mean, calling it "Super Intelligence" doesn't make it Super. But then again, calling it "Artificial Intelligence" doesn't make it Intelligence.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*even if I didn't mean to rule out X being reinforced more than a little!

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, OK, good point, but it also sucks that X ("Jews are manipulating the world") is (presumably) being reinforced, if only a little.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, some of us would argue it's "the democracy, stupid," but I'm 99% sure you mean "the issue that matters most to voters is health care."

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pál Erdős asks from the grave: Are the proofs in The Book? Somehow I doubt it. (And no, I am not the author of the wonderful biography of Erdős; we just happen to have the same name.)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some politicians say we would be better off as a Democratic Socialist state. They're wrong; we would be better off as a Republican Socialist state. h/t @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sally Yates served as Acting AG for the first 10 days of Trump's first term. He fired her for refusing to defend his executive order banning entry into the U.S. to people from majority-Muslim countries. She was a US Attorney for 5 years. Go, Sally, go!

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I've got the mean old Grammar Blues and could really use a hug, I always call on my dear friends, the Circumfixes. Well, they're always around...

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me, I prefer improper nouns; they're just so much more fun to be around. And pluralia tantum? They put me knickers all in a twist, they do! (You may now groan about the cabin.)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, in all fairness, maybe he meant Let Iran take them out *on a date*. I mean, you gotta admit, LA and San Diego *are* pretty hot! I don't quite understand the reference to paying, though. Who pays whom, and what? Whatever it is, it's small. Hang on; is he talking about his wee fungus again?

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is yet more evidence that we live in a universe that is indifferent to our existence, as opposed to a universe that is actively hostile toward us. I mean, it's Grape Nuts, not Grenade Butts. Thank you for your continued support.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aha! This finally and definitively answers the question "Where did skinny-dipping come from?" It was a perfectly sensible precaution, of course: remove all obstacles to nicotino-rectal insufflation in case of drowning! Yes, and this one weird trick saved thousands of lives in the 18th Century...

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BTW, I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to supply perfectly clear and thorough answers to these questions. Certainly not myself, if I were you. But if there are any that you find yourself skipping, you might reconsider some of what you wrote.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You didn't answer my questions: Who commits violence, and why? In fact, you've raised more questions: Who is the "native population"? What is "open migration," and where has it occurred? Which citizens "demand illiberal solutions"? Solutions to what? Who actually implements these "solutions"?

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I, me, my, mine, myself; you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves; [...] this, that, these, those; [...] now, then; [...] here, hence, hither, [...] each other; [...] no one, nobody, nothing, nowhere, nohow." And breathe. Aren't you glad you don't speak Ancient Greek? Hi ho.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hereby decree that people who object to "pronouns" will henceforth be banned from using them. Sentence enhancement for repeat offenders: No proforms of any kind. The Clerk will now read a list of all proforms in English.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[Omitted]'m pretty sure Leavitt couldn't write [omitted] own bio without using any* pronouns. [Omitted] probably refuses to use algebra, too, because of all the variables. *Exception made for clarity. So sue [omitted]! Hi ho.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am not going to believe one single word this guy says until he tells us how long Jesus's dick is. I mean, at least a cubit, right? Information about Jesus's genitalia wants to be free! Hi ho.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You're so sleepy / And you ain't no genius neither. (Sorry, that's all I've got.)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*"To make me richer, a doctor must cut into you and cause you pain. Only then can I profit."

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

See also ganosis, which was an uncolored wax coating for sculptures, painted or unpainted. Which will never *not* sound like a dread disease to me, even though I paint in encaustic, which may be the same kind of substance as ganosis was – Punic wax, whose exact nature has been lively debated.

sites.udel.edu

Saponified Wax? | MITRA Forum Archive

I am working on reconstructing a Fayum mummy portrait, and a few sources I've read have mentioned...

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No; the 14th Amendment is very clear: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed." (BTW, I am not a lawyer, let alone a constitutional lawyer!)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Especially since that Lovecraftian cluster only arose through the analogical leveling of the ordinal numerals (in, what, Early Modern English?), which previously showed an alternation /θ/ ~ /t/ depending on the preceding consonant – notably, 5th and 6th were /fɪft/ and /sɪkst/ (plus schwa?).

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And then Railroad Time could coordinate the local times! Maybe this would lead to an increased role for passenger rail in the U.S., which would be a welcome development. I'm going to print out your reply and watch You Can't Take it With You while holding it in my hands. ;-)

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like to make a one-time donation to help defray your costs – but without giving Substack a cut. Is this possible?

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Even if we can all agree on the problem, I don't think we'll ever get people near the eastern edges of time zones to agree on a solution with people near the western edges. Unless maybe we can split the difference and make the East Coast UTC-0430 and the West Coast UTC-0730. Which seems unlikely.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, those were the days! My first child, at ages 2–?: "murdeler" Me, age several decades greater: "five-six...th...s" Only instance of /ksθs/ in the whole damn language – I ask you, is that fair??

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I may need to go back to bed, as I initially parsed this as follows: Farmers (subject) + market (transitive verb) + lettuce remains (direct object) + undefeated (?parsing error?) What an odd thing for them to market... The Remains of the Lettuce (2026). A Merchant-Ivory production. Zzzzz

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wait, what part of that is the exchange? Who said what? I'm confused.

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Paul "8647" Hoffman • Antifascist anecdotes, free of charge @paulhoffman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This caller wants to know: Do the "AI" callers speak a dialect with the pen-pin merger? My kids made fun of me for it until I decided to unmerge them. (Pen and pin, not my kids.) But just wait, kiddos – it's coming back! Mwahahahaha!!!

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