Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/02/2024If you’re curious though, I naturally read it as though the parentheses were the main text, and that meaning was effortlessly clear. And then it took a bit of conscious work to unpack the primary statement, but it came with a little spritz of dopamine 120 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/02/2024You know who else they called misguided? Galileo Galilei 100 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/02/2024I didn’t realize parentheticals could be written in stereo like that 🤩 As an avid user of parentheses, I am humbled! 110 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/02/2024The audience is maybe my favorite part 😂 what a response 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 12/02/2024In retrospect, my New Year’s resolution is to eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 000 0
Reposted by Robert GaleAaron Braver 🐧 @abraver.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Prototype sagittal section tactile diagrams for blind/visually impaired students. #linguistics These aren’t quite right yet, but we’re making progress. (Left: laser-etched; right: 3D-printed) 1388 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Roses are rad! I’m from somewhere That “beg” and “bag” Aren’t a minimal pair (OK, that’s enough poetry for today 😇) 0110 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Roses are red. Whose love is emphatic? The answer is found In the poem’s pragmatics 061 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Roses are red And their vase verdigris Police police Police police Police police Police …police 040 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/02/2024I have a slack channel with former coworkers where I could share a job posting if you’d like 110 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Hmm, I watched Prometheus last year and didn’t notice anything. I just kinda enjoyed it. I’m starting to wonder whether I have an unusually forgiving suspension of disbelief, or if I just can’t follow a plot 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Gotta be the longest tiny desk I ever watched by a mile, but well earned. Lifetime achievement type shityoutu.beNile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk ConcertSheldon Pearce | October 25, 2023Before Nile Rodgers & CHIC set the Tiny Desk off, the icon established a sort of mission statement for the group's sound: "I... 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 12/01/2024This has me wondering, could jury nullification be an effective strategy for countering these new laws? 000 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 08/01/2024“The 5” is a big tell for Californian transplants in the PNW too. We call it “I5” (eye five). Are you saying that you call it “5”? 150 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 05/01/2024A few weeks ago, in passing, I heard a cover of My Name Is Jonas in a very different style. I only managed to catch “the workers are going home,” but that part looped in my head for hours. It was *so deeply familiar,* yet so distant, and I couldn’t place it without looking it up 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024I don’t have any sway over other activists. The best I can do in terms of messaging is to have conversations with people, and hopefully along the way, I can persuade others that I’m a fairly reasonable person. That’s all I got on the responsibility of activists 000 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Um, sure? I’ve seen activists go after climate deniers with all kinds of hostility. Room for improvement on The Messaging, but I don’t feel any urgency to condemn them and express my wavering support. 100 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Glad to hear. Still, when someone tells me we should eliminate fossil fuels, my support doesn’t hinge on how well they can articulate the path to a carbon free future. 210 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024You got me thinking about the climate change analogy. We have no idea how the fully reverse that, let alone how our lives will look once we hopefully do. The measures we’ve taken so far have barely made a dent in the problem. Meantime, it’s a struggle persuading people to take the problem seriously. 120 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024I don’t think you’re wrong, but it’s an overly simple answer to an overly simple question. Violence is really tough. But if we moved all property violations into civil court immediately, I believe we would be vastly better off than we are now. I doubt my proposal would poll well though. 100 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024I don’t have a good guess. Maybe half of Americans would be receptive to talking about the *problem*, so way less than that I suppose 120 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024It’s very uncomfortable for most people to accept that the problem really is *that bad*. It took me many years of unlearning, and I have personal experience visiting loved ones in prison. If we’re not remotely on the same page about the problem, radical/difficult/uncertain proposals sound absurd 1/2 200 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Yeah, I agree, those questions are too important to be so dismissive about. At the same time, I don’t want to address those questions in most contexts either. 1/2 100 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024If you believe 2, you’re still allowed to put support and effort into positive systemic change. I don’t want to put words in her mouth, but I think Hardesty’s success with Portland Street Response is inspiration in that regard. Yet despite its achievements, PSR is perpetually on the chopping block 120 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Regarding *significant systemic change,* I’m not super well read on the theory, but I think the abolitionist view is that the carceral state has so deeply permeated all of our systems such that meaningful change isn’t really feasible without severing the power/resources given to police & prisons 2/2 130 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/01/2024I think serious abolitionists agree with this and prioritize this. I saw MK was catching some shit yesterday for posts etc, but if you look at her actual organizing work, she works tirelessly at building a better world. 1/2 110 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 26/12/2023Ugh. I accidentally bought a DRM-infested ebook from Kobo, and now I can’t convince Adobe’s half-ass decoding software to put it on my Kindle I could have pirated this and a dozen more books by now 😡 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 23/12/2023How much do fares discourage ridership, regardless of means? I like taking transit, but it’s usually a pain in the ass to figure out how to pay fares in a new city. Even in Portland, I didn’t ride much until I got a (practically free) pass from work, and it’s not like I can’t afford it 110 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 21/12/2023That place became a full time club?? I went to a Do Over there pre-pandemic. I had a great time, but when the bass hit real hard, we were showered with some kind of antique metal dust from the rafters 😖 020 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Having one of those days when it’s more comfortable having a tissue shoved up my nose than not 🤧 000 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023For the record, I only hopped into this conversation because I know Stephen, and I know he cares about people, and I know he cares about the truth 020 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023Yes, I’ve heard that’s pernicious as fuck in trans care 😔 020 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023“anyone still suffering must be at fault themselves” … hmmmm it feels like I’ve heard this refrain somewhere before 🇺🇸 130 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023Yeah, the BMI is the lazy bullshit that doctors just can’t quit! The only time in my adult life I was at a ”healthy“ weight was my last summer of college, when I was doing 40 hour weeks of physical labor and had no fat left to lose 120 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023Absolutely, so difficult, and I won’t be the one to solve it! But my takeaway was that the focus on the BMI (our bullshit basis for defining obesity) is likely making the health crisis worse, and we would be wise to shift the focus on to sensible & sustainable healthy lifestyle choices instead 040 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 18/12/2023At some point I read a very involved metastudy which persuaded me that rapid & repeated weight loss is far more dangerous for heart health than obesity, how doctors routinely instruct people to do so anyway, and how this confounds the obesity/health stats. You familiar with that one? 2261 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 13/12/2023Oh, is that the whole topic of the above thread? Bsky’s ui is a little funny like that 000 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 13/12/2023What makes you say they’ll be back? (Don’t disagree, just wondering) 200 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 10/12/2023I’m capable of detailed visualization, but it requires a sustained effort. Also, I suspect my visual thinking is pretty compartmentalized from my language/auditory thinking. Anyway, I usually gloss over descriptive text, forming my own vague sketches in my head as needed 000 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 08/12/2023What if I made my fortune by selectively breeding very small camels & manufacturing very large needles 010 0
Robert Gale @rcgale.bsky.social · 04/12/2023twistedsifter.com/2016/04/arti...twistedsifter.comArtist Asks People to Draw a Bicycle from Memory and Renders the ResultsHow accurate of a bicycle can you draw without looking at one? 010 0
