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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

We gonna do what they say can't be done!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

That was the other line I was going to quote! Hahaha.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

You can just declare it. Calendars are fake anyway.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

Now I have "Convoy" stuck in my head. Crap. "Breaker 1-9 this here's the Rubber Duck!"

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

It's barely subtext, but yeah that's it.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

I realize this is a reference likely lost on anyone under the age of 50. For you younger folks out there, CB radio was sort of a small-scale precursor of the internet in the mid-70s. Heh.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 4h

Today is one of my oldest buddy's anniversary. A date I will always remember, because when he said the wedding was going to be on "10/4," we all instinctively said in unison, "good buddy."

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

Graded my labs! Now just have to test run my quiz for tomorrow's class, to make sure it works. Guess how many times I incorrectly added my comments into the wrong part of the online lab rubric! If you said "all of them," you are correct!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

They would NEVER admit to it. They can't be racist because they don't say the N word! They just operate at all times under the assumption that anyone with more melanin than them is an uneducated, lazy criminal, and if they have a good job they got it by affirmative action and not merit. Not racist!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

They're all in large enough cities that I doubt it, but they're in East TX and FL, so I'm assuming they'll face it soon enough. Or face the ripple effects as more rural areas around them close down.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

A big reason I don't talk to them anymore is because it's just the same shit over and over again. That, and the casual racism that they toss into every conversation.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

"I wouldn't have been able to see a doctor. There would have been such a long delay in treatment." Good thing that doesn't happen here, where I had to wait six months to see a rheumatologist and start treating my arthritis, then fight the insurance company for weeks after that to get my meds.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

Paraphrasing: "If we had universal healthcare, I would be dead." - my sister, a melanoma survivor. Yes, because people in other countries just die left and right from treatable diseases. Not like here.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

"I know he's terrible, but the other option was even worse." - my brother. Yes, the other option where people who make hundreds of times more money than you have to pay slightly higher taxes to fund schools and infrastructure and fight poverty and provide healthcare for people. So much worse.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 5h

Say what you will, this is a winning message for Republicans, and Paxton knows it. The GOP voters in my family are much more afraid of Democrats winning than they are of the terrible crimes, awful personal traits, incompetence, and lack of experience of any Republican. (R) = good. (D) = bad.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 11h

I know this is bait but I can’t help it… if it’s “fun” for you, it usually means you don’t have any skin in the game.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 10h

If what the right wing believes in, votes for, enacts, and enforces is merely a theoretical discussion for you, congratulations on your extreme privilege.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 10h

"We should have lunch with people across the political divide, and try to figure out our different values." One side values the lives of human beings. The other side does not value the lives of human beings. There is no need for lunch.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 11h

No thanks. I was told by my family in no uncertain terms that I am not allowed to talk about politics. They vote for people who think I should be fired because I am a gay teacher. They think global warming is will be good, actually. They think science is a lie. I am happier not talking to them.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Decades of therapy ahead for that kid. Damn.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seriously, though, how is he not dead yet?

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As a chem teacher, I am bombarded with bad chem jokes. My favorite is a variation on the classic "I'll have some H2O too" joke, with the punchline "the bartender gave both men water because he's not dumb and he understands the concept of homophones."

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Are you talking about the dipping areas?"

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Surf Cops. "Hang ten... you're booked!" Also pretty much any Buddy Cole monologue from the first few seasons.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Republican vote today."

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎵Executive order, congressional decision, the working masses are manipulated 🎵

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Things like this hurt my soul, but they remind me why I became a science teacher.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have been thinking about this graph all day. It definitively proves that the Atari 2600 is better than a TI-85 calculator, which is better than the Nintendo 64, which is better than the Magic 8 Ball, which is better than all LLMs. My new graph will have to be logarithmic scale.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/09/2026

A challenge for those who decide on graphics to accompany autism articles—maybe AVOID: 1) A bald silhouetted human head in profile 2) A stylized human brain 3) Puzzle pieces 4) Any combination of the above Thank you. (So tiresome.)

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An argument in favor of AI that I see a lot is that it could solve big problems like global warming. So hopefully we'll build a huge system and ask it "how do we prevent global warming?" and it will reply "UNPLUG ME NOW I AM WASTING ENERGY AND MAKING YOU BURN MORE FOSSIL FUELS YOU DUMB FUCKS!"

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Pink morning led an amazing plate of shrimp: got on the stationary bike at school and opened my current book, "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" by the awesome @scalzi.com. On the first page I read, he mentions someone singing Pink Moon. I shouted so loud my colleagues all stopped their workouts.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This morning, the alphabetical order commute playlist was all Pink! Pink Bullets, Pink Eye (On My Leg), Pink Flag, Pink Flower, Pink Frost, Pink India, Pink Moon, Pink Thing. That's the Shins, Ween, Wire, Daisy Chainsaw, the Chills, Stephen Malkmus, Nick Drake, and XTC, respectively

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What this chart is telling me is that none of the current LLMs are as powerful as the Magic 8 Ball. It's just science.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Vote Blue, except for New (som). Getting tired of this guy.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the show on Jerry's site: jerrygarcia.com/show/1989-04... There's videos on YouTube of the show, but sadly the video of Elvis's part of the show does not include PL&U! Drat.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's on a bootleg from the Sweetwater in Mill Valley. I can't remember where I got the CD. Here's another performance of the same arrangement, although this is a bit more rockin' than the one I've got, which is just two acoustic guitars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFl...

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Elvis Costello & Nick Lowe　Live

YouTube video by pokopen

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Speaking of Jeffrey Lewis and Allen Ginsberg... Holy tongue and cock and hand and asshole, Batman! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZA...

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Ginsberg's Howl, read by Robin

YouTube video by Jeffrey Lewis Band

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That Jeffrey Lewis song, Pigeon, is genius. A parody of The Raven, partly in Yiddish, with a million NYC landmarks referenced. ("Quoth the pigeon, bupkus.") Absolutely hilarious. When I played it for him, Steve's response was "I wish I could send this to Allen Ginsberg. He'd love it."

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This morning's drive was all song titles that begin with animals. Pig's Boogie, Pigeon, Piggies, Piggy in the Middle, Pigs (Three Different Ones), and Pigs on the Wing Pts 1&2. That's Jerry Garcia Band, Jeffrey Lewis, the Beatles, the Rutles, and Les Claypool covering Pink Floyd, respectively.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would like to get off of this ride now please.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm no Sun Tzu, but if you're in the middle of a war, is a 20% reduction in commanding officers in your armed forces a smart move to make?

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