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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 12/10/2026

Everyone’s mad at Danny Trejo for signing on to Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie but now his son reveals how Shapiro’s team tricked an old man into doing this 😡

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...

He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace.”

He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.

About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.

My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.

My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.

It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.

Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just sitting here imagining how much larger my spacecraft in Kerbal Space Program could be if I could use all that untapped GPU power to get past the CPU physics bottleneck...

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An IBM PC AT, if I remember right. It only had DOS, no mouse, and no built-in 3.5" floppy drive; my dad connected one with a serial cable. I played a shitload of Treasure Mountain! on it.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday, instead of doomscrolling, I framed and attached the windows and mounted the slide on my kid's new swingset and that was a much better choice, even with the sore knees and back.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Paint the Warhammer miniature using only the tools provided. You may not leave the room or use a paintbrush. Best color combination wins. You have twenty minutes. Your time starts now."

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Alternatively the Forer effect or Barnum effect, if you want a name.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Speaking as a physicist, there's absolutely no known interaction that would affect a baby to the extent demanded by the drastic differences between signs. From a biology perspective, since our genetics are set at conception and are a major part of us along with our experiences, why focus on birth?

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Because I can cook, sit in the sun and breeze with a beer, *and* watch my son play in the yard all at the same time.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The trick is to marry someone who, when she says "get dinner and see where the night takes us" means "let's order takeout, fool around on the couch because the house is finally empty, and then knock out those last couple of loyalty missions in Mass Effect 2." Unrelated, I'm never leaving my wife.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don't know why a novel about a Naval Academy professor accidentally interrupting an attempted assassination of the Prince and Princess of Wales by a splinter IRA faction was a comfort read for me at like 13, but it was.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

His later books got real weird with politics and needed to be edited with an axe, but The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin are still absolute bangers.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Quick Google search: UW Madison states explicitly that unpaid visiting scholars still have official affiliation. UNC requires background checks for unpaid scholars. Ohio State would have a record of a J-1 visa.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not true in the US. I was a visiting professor and I was paid the same as other full-time faculty at the institution. Some visiting researchers may be unpaid by the institution, but HR would still have a record of them for background checks, email and ID access, visas, and so on.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They're called leitmotifs, the smallest cohesive themes that represent a character or concept. They've been a thing in opera since Monteverdi, though they're mostly associated with Wagner. Beyond that, most Western classical forms put major emphasis on repetition and development of musical motifs.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have a theory all academics either have ADHD or Autism or some combination and that explains most of academia tbh

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Some of us actually are academics and yes, we *do* actually give a shit about ethics in academia in general, no matter how niche you make his field sound. In fact, it seems to me that if you're doing research into the sociology of education, ethical research is extra important!

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also true for your muscles. Occasionally I bite something wrong, my jaw pops, and my molars don't align for a week.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Number of the Beast Piece of Mind Powerslave or Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All or My Arms, Your Hearse Still Life Blackwater Park

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The 17th amendment: "When vacancies happen...in the Senate, the executive...of such State shall issue writs of election...the legislature of any State may empower the executive...to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Don't put that evil on me, talk to the Zoomers about that shit. I was 24 when the ACA passed and everyone knew how big a deal it was for us. I went from no insurance to decent insurance from NYS while adjuncting and finishing my PhD because of the ACA.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Begging AI doomers and boosters alike to *learn basic physics*.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm also neurodivergent and on ADHD medication, you fucking shitgoblin.

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General Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There’s no big reward coming in 2029 this is a struggle we will be fighting for the rest of our lives and it’s best we internalize this new reality than pretend otherwise

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Jesus fucking Christ I came on here to fart around, not have my entire life accurately described by a single image.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Well hopefully Platner doesn’t lose the party the most winnable Maine senate race in decades just because he’s a misogynist dipshit whose hubris is matched only by his lack of discipline

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Now to take a big sip of coffee and see what history has to say about the effects of armies living off the land...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if you want to make the 'his primary victory is inevitable and so everyone has to grit their teeth and rank him above Susan Collins' that is fair. deluding yourself into actually defending his character or actions is another thing.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm sorry, but I've got to talk about this, because this shit is dangerous. It's a truth universally acknowledged that *at the very least until relatively recently,* Graham Platner was a scumbag. The type of reddit chud who'd blame women for being raped and muse about imagined failings of Black ppl

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Whenever I forget to take my Vyvanse: "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines."

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have bad news for the people that think college students are broadly rejecting AI. Based on the slop I got this semester, there are *plenty* who will boo commencement speakers from the tech industry, then go and submit their AI-generated final papers without a hint of shame or irony.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Actually, no, I don't think the anti-intellectual chuds of this country should be able to decide how much I make as a professor at a public institution.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Also, I had no idea Space Force officers were so tiny!

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ah yes, Azerrajan and Gevgia, two stalwart allies of the United States. Better inform the US Ambassador in the Egyptian capital of Cappt that they'll be involved.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I got some in elementary school (91-96), but it was *mostly* through Cub Scouts. Mostly ribbons that said "I Participated"; one or two cheapo trophies. I think most of us knew they were bullshit back then, but in retrospect it *was* kind of nice to be acknowledged.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yep. I've had to force-feed my toddler liquid amoxicillin. It was not a pleasant experience for anyone involved and I felt terrible doing it, but also, he needed the antibiotics!

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Every night, my wife and I make our three-year-old stop playing, put his jammies on, brush his teeth, go potty, and get into bed. This is often against his will and is therefore analogous to rape, *if* you're a deeply stupid person.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Introductory calc-based physics. Wrestling with the problems is a big part of actually learning how to do physics.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Problem set grades used to be reasonably well-correlated with exam grades in my classes. This is no longer the case. Over the past few years they've more or less decoupled from one another. In one class, there was actually a negative correlation between them! So, most of them.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is how I know I'm old: when someone says "ban", I still think "account permanently deactivated", not "three-day suspension"! Go outside or read a book or something!

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Ideally, yes, but the whole ADA accessibility mess is probably more than any one campus---maybe excepting land-grant institutions---can handle.

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