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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 8h

I think the Brits must have invented the word "bollocks" for this very conversation

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 13h

I'm just questioning who created who in who's image, here

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 13h

What would any God or god need human hormones for?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 14h

Very sad to witness but I couldn't look away. I'll always have his poems. And The Brave Little Toaster, which I contend is a very lovely little spiritual allegory

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah... and the he house he owned had been rendered uninhabitable, his apartment rent was going up, he could see poverty and cognitive decline in his near future, and with his partner gone he was unmoored. He started expressing lots of horrible opinions online.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 14h

John Crowley? I remember watching him & a couple others desperately trying to talk some sanity into an increasingly unhinged Tom Disch on Livejournal almost 20 years ago. They weren't successful

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 16h

Private labeling is crazy. I've seen Kirkland-brand butter coming off production lines at three different companies in three states

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Naah, just Thunder Bay Ontario

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

an Outer Limits episode, "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork", or the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea where one of the crew started mutating into a giant squid

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd never known about him until now, thanks! I wonder if he and Norman MacLaren ever met

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This would be an amazing movie set

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And were they "verified" by, you know

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was wondering how such a thing could be possible from a projector

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"altissima" is dramatic irony, here

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was really hoping to find a couple that only rhymed in a cockney accent

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And 3-5AM are golden hours when you're an introvert. It's so peaceful and silent.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

but sadly I can't find two that rhyme

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just by sheer numbers, it's almost certain that Michael Caine fits

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not familiar with him. I'd wondered if "expectations" was a slip of the fingers.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

helpful finding a comfortable shower temperature in a strange hotel room, too! ...and tuning PID loops, a thing I sometimes do at my day job

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cognitive gifts are meaningless when you're that lazy and arrogant.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My own theory is that Trump's standardized test scores matter so much less than almost anyone's -- Let's say he scored in the top 0.1 %ile of some test as a kid. He'd STILL imagine that he *knows* everything already & whatever natural giftedness he possessed would sit idle & unused for decades.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm curious -- did your training/experience/day job skillz inform your calibration techinque?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watch the reel -- she's close to an order of magnitude better than 4th and 5th place, and had less than 1/3 the variance of 2nd place!

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tress Macneille and Yeardley Smith used this accent in a very funny bit on The Simpsons once upon a time

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

at 640 acres per square mile, that's 57.8 square miles

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They've been beating the "Dems Bad" drum for more than ten years. I believe that has to have a cumulative effect, resulting in lowered turnouts every election since. "we weren't decisive", my ass

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I approve, not that anyone asked for my approval. I'm just an enthusiastic fan of melted cheese. Would be even lovelier, to my tastes, with a dash or two of hot sauce or maybe a little sprinkle of cayenne

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And is it good economic sense in any of those methods? And wouldn't barges imply lake freighters from The Range to an intermodal facility in Chicago, then barges through the Illinois & Mississippi to (I'm assuming) the Quad Cities?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Has anyone done the q 'n d math -- How many barges would be needed to carry enough taconite to produce the promised capacity in one year? How many of those adorable little rail cars, in how many consists?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What kind of product's coming out the other end -- plate? Cold rolled sheet? Hot-rolled strip? Bars? Galvanized sheet? Rebar? Or just DRI briquettes sold to other steelmakers and foundries? Each kind of product has its own mill.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it's going to be a DRI (direct-reduced iron) process, it would use natural gas (via pipeline) or hydrogen (via ... water plus energy?) instead of coal. A thing I wonder about is if they already have customers lined up or if this project is "on spec". And also

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hot-rolled? Plates, coils? Rebar? That weird bar that ag equipment uses for cutters? And, is it Iowa because they're hoping that ag equipment manufacturers like Deere and Agco (in MN but nearby) will be customers? And where's the site -- Quad cities?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, are there customers lined up, or is this "on spec". Whatever happens I'm sure the reporting's going to be hung up on "bigness", which is ... possibly wishful thinking. What should really be asked -- what tech is it gonna be? Direct reduction? And what's the product? Cold-rolled?

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'sokay. "For all have sinned" etc. etc.

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Christopher O. @phaseolus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it couldn't have been, but "Hawaiian" should've been Spam flavored

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