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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 4h

It's almost 90°F in Washington DC. Tomorrow will be 25 degrees colder. Make it make sense!

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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 6h

Should have been Rubio making that phone call, TBH. She theoretically worked for him, after all.

Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 20h

One of the best food surprises I had in France was that omelet is a dinner food, and served in basically every little bistro.

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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 21h

The 13th Century, apparently.

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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 23h

Jesus I thought I'd blocked her already. Did she make a new sock?

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Tom @taschoene.bsky.social · 23h

You are definitely not the usual buyer. Nor am I, since I buy almost entirely on word of mouth or reviews these days. The impulse buy market is still strong, though. Look at @scalzi.com's sales of Starter Villain. That cover absolutely sold a bunch of copies.

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All day breakfast is the best invention since food. Some days you just want a waffle at 4 pm.

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Broke my hand in college (boxer's break), but also thought it was just a bad bruise. Got to class the next morning, laid my hand on my notebook and was in so much pain I couldn't even write. At the clinic, all the doctor said was "so, how does the other guy look?"

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Just having insurance knocks a zero off of that, maybe two. Which tells you something about the real costs. I had prostate cancer treatment -- MRIs, radiation, MRIs, and minor surgery. Billed @ around $100k, but my cost capped at $5k because I have very good insurance. Everyone should have that.

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Interestingly, at least one of our local ambulance services doesn't actually make a serious effort to collect from patients. They take the insurance payment, send a couple of bills, then just drop it if they aren't paid. No credit hit, nothing.

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It takes a deep knowledge of old and middle English to understand Bilbo's taunting of the spiders in Mirkwood. "Lazy lob. Crazy cob. Attercop" are all words for "spider" in various more or less archaic versions of English

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They audition on Fox News.

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Giuliani, a famous Greek-American...

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Ken MacLeod for your Scottish socialist SF needs.

Don't imagine anyone seriously thought grocery store systems were going to be a valid hybrid war target. But here we are.

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Still vague on the idea of consent, I see.

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I thought this was going to be like when Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" was "You" and they just printed a mirror on the cover.

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Have you considered just building new buildings and waiting a few hundred years so they fall into ruins all on their own?

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The kids are alright (mostly). It's the grownups I worry about.

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Oh, look. It's the presumption of regularity, utterly destroyed by the Trump DoJ.

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Mostly Adrian Tchaikovsky, I'd think. Lots of sticky biology in those.

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I was so impressed by his choice to walk away from football because he valued his mind over the money that career would bring. Glad to see he is thriving in academia.

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Sadly, the chart is being misrepresented or misunderstood. It's a measure of Yandex's automated requests (not Russian bots). Most of this will be search bot (spider) activity, since Yandex is a search engine. With the servers wrecked, wthere are way fewer search bots. bsky.app/profile/anti...

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Nord Stream wasn't even operating at the time.

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But if we had not gone to war with Iran, we wouldn't NEED to try pointless schemes to lower fuel prices using Russian diesel.

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Just try the Emperor's—I mean the President's—New Clothes. They're the height of fashion, don't you know?

Ukraine says it has no information about this. This is just Trump saying whatever random thing that comes intro his head and demanding that the Ukranians obey it (no such expectation on the Russians).

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Looks like a v. early version of NASA's Manned Orbital Research Laboratory. Max three Gemini capsules and the crew have to spacewalk to get from capsule to the lab. Funny to see how terrestrial it looks, including the console TV in the living space and crew wearing office clothes.