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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Surfaced this oldie... please don't drink Uranium...

Picture of an advertisement over a water dispenser. It reads "Simply pure H2O4U."

Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Important to note that they didn't filter out the section of PCH where the speed limit has been temporarily dropped 30 mph or so - especially if active work isn't being performed, I'd guess:

snip from linked article: The area between Sunset Boulevard and Las Flores Canyon Road remains an active work zone, and is subject to single-lane closures and a 25 mph speed limit, according to Caltrans.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Speaking of filming in space ;)

1st panel - image of Earth from space with the caption - "We all know the moon landing was staged"
2nd panel - image of stars with caption "It was filmed by Stanley Kubrick - However it cost and insane amount of money"
3rd panel - image of moon lander, rover and astronaut on the moon with the caption - "As Kubrick was a perfectionist and demanded they film on location"

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reposting with Alt-Text, because yeah, I hide my eyes at this (in all sorts of media, not just books)!

Woman reading a book - Whispering "no," at a character because you know they're about to make a fool fo themselves and kill you with second hand embarrassment
credit- www.bookishelf.com (I think - image is a bit fuzzy)

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This pairs well with the "I want to use AI to do the dishes, not write..." meme.

Dead Poets Society huddle up
top panel - Medicine, law, business and engineering... these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life.
bottom panel - But poetry, beauty, romance, love; these are what we stay alive for

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A good article, but the grading used by the Map site is fantastic and should be more widely adopted:

graphic from article - "Every Claim on this site is graded" with a ladder of 8 grades:
Adjudicated
Admitted
Confirmed
Corroborated
Asserted
Inference
Unresolved
Refuted

With explanations of each.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Given that LEO's are hewing ever closer to Stasi/KGB authoritarian tactics, this doesn't surprise one at all (article focused on UK, but US Secret Service too) www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

snip from link: ‘No immediate owner’

In December 2022, and in October 2023, Oxygen’s chief executive told the US government that Oxygen Forensics had “no immediate or highest-level owner”.

By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software.

In March, Mr Reiber allegedly told the US government that there had been no Russians involved in developing the software and that no one in Russia had access to the environment in which it was built. US prosecutors say this was false.

If convicted, both Mr Reiber and Mr Davydov could face a sentence of 20 years in prison.

Alicia Kearns, the shadow security minister, said “It is utterly unacceptable” that Oxygen’s software has been used by British police forces and called for the Home Office to fully investigate its use.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This bit is really important (and a part of our Title IX annual training, tho I am glad I've never had to perform as a mandated reporter if a student confided. I still think I'll suck at jamming the mandated reporter bit into the discussion):

snip from link: CPW: Can you give me some examples of what a Title IX office can do?

The Title IX office can give you resources, supportive measures, and immediate help in a way that a lawsuit, or even a university’s Title IX hearing, simply can’t. So, let's say you need to avoid the perpetrator, the Title IX office is where you can go to create a really comprehensive plan for yourself to stay safe on campus. It's also where you might be able to get help with extending deadlines, fixing grades, or engaging in a fast-tracked informal resolution with the perpetrator, which isn’t perfect, but it may get victims what they need to feel peace. And sometimes, victims prefer that, and they don't want to go through a hearing -- hearings are super traumatic and it takes a while to even get to a hearing, sometimes the better part of an academic year.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uh, you need to fix your cookies/privacy settings (after clicking customize settings):

snip of the customize settings for privacy: How UCLA Health uses cookies
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Read our privacy policy >" AND THERE ARE NO CHOICES TO MAKE, just a confirm my choices button

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On suspects a certain idiot from Alabama only watches cartoons...

The Rescuers Down under, riding in a sardine can on the albatross pilot

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And another photo of Team (s)Miles

A photo of Team (s)Miles from a different year, with Miles on his e-trike in front of the group, and Pyperkub stretched out on the left in his tie-dye Ride to defeat ALS cycling jersey

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi all - I'll be riding with Team (s)Miles this weekend in Napa to defeat ALS with my friend Miles, who has been fighting this disease for 12 years and still rides! If you can and are interested in supporting us please do secure.alsnetwork.org/goto/piper_s...

Collage of ALS ride photos
top left - why we ride - because Miles is an inspiration with a photo of Miles
top middle - image of Miles, his wife and some friends post ride, including Pyperkub in a UCLA Bruins hat
bottom left image of Ken and Miles
right - image of Team (s)Miles, with Miles on his e-trike front and center in front of the ALS arch for the beginning/end of the ride

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty cool that the season rocket holder bobblehead is celebrating the UCLA NCAA Champion women's hoops team this year!

Image of the box for the wooden athletic fund 2026 bobblehead for the ucla women's basketball team

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Had an electrical fire smell in stairwell. Almost called the electrician, but checked the overhead light first. Glad it wasn't far worse.

Melted base of one of the older fluorescent light bulbs blackened from a short

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Per one of my favorite trickster archetypes... what a gulli-bull!

Bugs Bunny in a matador suit, in front of a fence with a couple of bull horns sticking out, while a black bull peers over the fence;
(to the camera) - "What a Gulli-Bull --- what a Nin-Cow-Poop!"

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ouch, trying to shift a premier news show to the CHUD FUD is not going well...

Image of the graph from the article showing season premiere viewership dropping from 10.5m viewers to below 8m

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have you read John Varley's Steel Beach? It's only a part of the far ranging story, but when you think about where transgender processes will be with medical advances in the near future, this whole debate is so pointless. Plus it has one of the best opening lines ever! Bonus AI overlord relevance.

Paperback cover for John Varley's Steel Beach with the pull quote from Tom Clancy - I've been saying for years that John Varley is the best writer in America. This book proves it.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Zelazny's Lord of Light, in which humans use their technology to subjugate a planet and install themselves as the hindu 'gods', and the concomitant rebellion against those gods was pretty fun.

Paperback cover of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light - Hugo winner - blurb - "A brilliantly evocatvive novel of Siddhartha, the Buddha, in a far future time on a far distant planet.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On the way down to LA for the UCLA home opener, and I'm thinking Gracie is either on the Chesney bandwagon and wants to come, or doesn't want me to go!

Gracie the gray kitty sitting in Pyperkub's suitcase looking up at the camera

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of my favorites is Old Railroad Grade up Mount Tamalpias in Marin. It's the easy way up the Mt (not that easy tho), and follows the old tourist railroad from the 19th-early 20th century:

Image of the Mt Tam/Muir Beach relief map at the top of Railroad Grade, with Pyperkub's bike in the background

Another view from the top of Railroad Grade looking out over the SF Bay.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whelp, I guess the TERFs will need to go without their guacamole and avocado toast... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

snip of science paper title from link: Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

However, Trump's policies, which continue to be rubber-stamped by anyone with an (R), no matter how stupid, most certainly are. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

headline from linked article missing the preview: Deflated Trump senior advisors totally give up on advising erratic president: 'Why bother?'

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We're doing the 27 mile ride. Here's Miles on his e-trike as we were getting him ready for the ride a couple of years ago:

My friend Miles on his e-Trike as we are getting him ready to ride to defeat ALS in Napa, with a bunch of us in our tie-dye fight to defeat ALS cycling jerseys.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wait, what? The Valley cooler and less humid than the West Side of LA. Are we in LA Story now, and the Earth's Magnetic Poles are about to shift?

LA Story Freeway Sign - "L.A. wants 2 help u"

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just don't get the one which went to Ceti-Alpha V! (or at least check it first!)

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan Ear Worm mom from Ceti-Alpha V

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, it **was** good advice for "The Graduate" (that was pre-plastics pollution, of course) ;) www.wired.com/story/plasti...

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

America, where it is cheaper to buy politicians and policy than actually provide a decent service and build a sustainable, growing business not dependent upon fleecing monopoly victims:

Snip from link: None of that is a secret, but the dots were never connected quite so explicitly as when Frontier just assured investors, in writing, that it was making a lot of money from more than one million people who have no feasible alternatives, and that this justified "investing" political dollars to block cities from building networks, even where there is no cable internet deployment. Frontier's bankruptcy documents reveal that these political investments were always viewed as cheaper than the network investments they would otherwise have to make to keep its customers once they were no longer held hostage to its ailing, crumbling, overpriced network.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Definitely stayed for the first Dead Dog Rover of the Chesney era!

Image of the UCLA Football players celebrating with the fans and the band in the south end of Cal's stadium.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Per Fast Times at Ridgemont High...

Fast Times - When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side 1 of Led Zeppelin IV.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Apparently this protestor from 2020 still applies (in a very Dolly's 9-5 way). Always one of my favorites.

Image of a Covid Masked Mary Poppins at a 2020 protest, complete with bag, red bow tie, flower hat and sign saying "Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS"

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Per Better Off Dead, times is tough...

Better off dead construction workers after seeing Lane in the back of a garbage truck - Man, now that's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And, amazingly enough, I think that paperback is worth more than my Dad's old (what I think is a) first edition of A Princess of Mars! (says quite a bit about how groundbreaking and influential Neuromancer has been)

image of a Cover of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (possibly a first edition)

Copyright page of the A Princess of Mars book
Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co.
1917
Published in October 1917
Copyrighted in Great Britain

Spine shot of the A Princess of Mars - Burroughs from A.C. McClurg & Co

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So, I still have my original Ace SF Specials version. As I recall, Neuromancer launched that collection, which also brought us a number of other great talents. Did they Terry Carr talk to you about it being the first to launch that series? Any good tales of that launch?

Original ACE Science Fiction Specials cover for Neuromancer

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From the @doctorow.pluralistic.net archives Wilhoit's Law. I laughed, because I had to. pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/s...

Snip from link: Then there's their abortion policies, which hold that personhood begins at conception, but ends at birth, and can only be re-established by forming an LLC.

It's "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect" all the way down.

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got a nice SF Bay Trail ride in today!

Pyperkub riding on the sf bay trail in his Ride to defeat ALS cycling jersey

A vote of the wetlands song the SF Bay trail

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dangerous Minds over at FB shared this (used to be run by one of the members of the Nails, known for the 80's alt-rock song 88 Lines about 44 women, if I recall correctly):

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This needs the ED-209 to really understand the issue...

Robocop's ED-209 - you now have 15 seconds to comply

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My friend Bill Harris on recent pop music. Yeah, I can hear so many songs which don't have real drums (and hate them), so this tracks (and the best music of any era is rarely the most popular) dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2026/08/pop-...

Snip from link- Top pop songs already sound so artificial that using AI to create the entire song isn't going to sound much different from what's already topping the charts.

I'll put a stake in the ground here: within the next 24 months, fully AI-generated pop songs are going to be heavily represented in the charts. No artist to manage, barely discernible difference in quality, exponentially lower production cost--it's a record label's dream situation.

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