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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The common use of crime scene tape and imitations thereof in Halloween decor emerged sometime after my childhood, and I do kinda feel like it's a weird addition to the genre.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Are there any studies of SA allegations against candidates or officeholders by party by year (at any level, but national would be ideal) that correlated them to ideological sorting over the past 50ish years?

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Had my first colonoscopy today, and while I wait for the lab results, I am allowing my inner "pleasure to have in class" overachiever to bask in the glow of a perfect BBPS of 9/9. 🌟💯

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

As a cyclist who is occasionally alone on a long country road, if I see vultures dining, I always compliment their work ethic; if they're circling too directly overhead, though, I take that as criticism of my pace.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

So, I'm saddened but not surprised that the US alone voted against the UN adopting an equal area projection as its preferred world map, but annoyed the usual amount that very sexy interrupted projections are never even considered for the job!

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I was riding Tracks, and a guy on the sidewalk asked if it folds. I pulled over to demonstrate it, thinking that I wished I'd been on Huffer, with its faster, easier, cooler fold. This was just a dream, but it was rude of my subconscious to call me out on how often I really do this 🤣

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@hoopladigital.bsky.social - this is fucking gross. Trans lives >>> that monster's publicity. Offer a better book for free.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I picked up reading Woman Life Freedom after my last assignment for the semester was done, having left off last year sometime, and found that while the movement didn't have the outcome Satrapi hoped for, these panels have proven sadly prescient.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

When @youaregood.bsky.social and @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social decide it's time for me to revisit the plot to kill public transit in LA, I guess I gotta…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Y'all are going to force me to find out what the fuck Ceefax is, aren't you? Ugh, fiiiine…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

On New Year's Day, I sent a silly question to one of my favorite podcasts - Gastropod - and today, it has been answered! Content Warning: you will be subjected to my voice Episode webpage: gastropod.com Media file […]

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

In a rare confluence of circumstance & opportunity, the window company that's come to my door every few months for years just did so again. When I told the guy that I'd just gone with a different company last week, he asked me why. "Because they don't come knocking on my door every few months."

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A message from Texas for the moderate wing of the DNC…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Possibly the best ask I've ever seen in my Buy Nothing group.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

On campus this week, orientees stream past our small conference, and I realize that this summer marks 30 years since I was 18, new to campus, and to navigating Austin.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Successfully sniped a mysterious error in a new application by correctly recognizing that the code was looking for a - but the defined vocabulary in the database somehow ended up with a – in it. Putting the use of non-_ punctuation aside, never copy & paste from office software into code or tables.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I'll be at Geo4Lib Camp next week at @UTLibraries - any of you #GIS or #Library nerds planning to attend? #GISChat . #Ascot #SlowFashion

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I know I'm a wordy dork because I've learned how to insert a return in a message or change the function of the enter key for almost every messaging app I have.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Me when I see the them scramble to come up with even incredibly weak ways to attack Talarico

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I'm too online to not know the full etymology of *maxxxing, but I'm still very sad that it has nothing to do with the popular 1990s pastime of maxing & relaxing.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

If you're in the Austin area next Wednesday, come out for a 🍻 & learn about one of Austin's most ambitious mobility projects, and make an investment in our life after cars! If you're too far away or too busy to make it, toi can make a difference here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I keep meeting people who have forgotten the word "use". I thought "utilize" everywhere was awful until it gave way to "leverage".

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

I am unreasonably pleased with my color-coding scheme. #GISChat #UNT #Library

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

MM-DD-YYYY was at the root of YET ANOTHER data problem. Stay in school, don't do drugs, and always use ISO date formats, kids

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

In a telling indication of my blend of interests, I have just conflated @grantennis and Garth Ennis.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Apparently it's both #NationalLibraryWeek AND #LesbianVisibilityWeek, so special shout-out to all y'all lesbrarians!

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Today's my 16th Bikeaversiary and of course #BicycleDay - I didn't get to ride much this weekend, but I did get groceries & a #BuyNothing run on Sunstreaker plus outfitted Tracks with some adventuresome handlebars for higher speed outings.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

Turns out germans know a thing or two about how to have a beer outdoors.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

I tell myself that my Sunday ritual of brewing a large moka pot and sipping it with a Baileys knockoff is a fitting tribute to my Italian & Irish roots. It also makes laundry folding somewhat more enjoyable.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Gonna start picking these up when I find them to make a badass necklace - the cycling equivalent of a dragon's tooth.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Sometime during your workday, someone will schedule a meeting while you're pedaling to an appointment. It's very important that your take it.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

A first morning commute ride with Tracks - my new acoustic street & adventure steed! . #EldredgeKnot #SlowFashion #NewBikeDay #Montague #FoldingBike

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Bicycles deliver the freedom auto ads promise, and look much better in ads for planning professionals than the little inset of what they'll actually have to deal with.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group I will not troll NIBMYs in my hometown's FB group

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Fun: ✅ putt-putt ✅ driving range ❌ actual golf

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Welp, that's a wrap on 47, the year in which I bit off a rather a lot. Here goes 48, in which I attempt to chew.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Here are two graphs that show either how bad humans are at predicting the future OR, just possibly, how oil money can motivate reasoning to bend public & private investments to its will:

A line graph of installed solar power generation capacity, showing actual as a hockey stick with every projection incorrectly levelling out

A line graph of vehicle miles travelled, showing the actual line rising steadily before levelling off and falling with each projection incorrectly accelerating rapidly from the time it was made.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Kinda wondering what the discussions at Adobe are like regarding their best-known file extension being an object of disdain in an entirely new way of late.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

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Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

Sitting here folding laundry, looking out at the ice, scrolling past even worse ice, dreaming of clement weather and precedented times.

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