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Winged Hussar

@wingedhussar.bsky.social
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I do NOT automatically follow back. I want to maintain my anonymity here, so few detes. I am a scientist, though I spend little time in the lab anymore. Not that kind of doctor. Nerderies: Primarily SFF. brewing, fountain pens, computers.

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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 8h
Oh, that had ghosts. Angry ghosts. Nope.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 8h
I guess we're only allowed one at a time?
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 9h
School children a century from now need to look back on what's coming and wonder "how did they think they'd get away with that?"
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10h
Another cream soda fan!
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 18h
I don't have an inherent problem with a somewhat nebulous letter of intent - followed by something real and binding - but this looks like it's meant to stop at the nebulous stage. PR fluff. And not good PR fluff at that.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Verbatim what I was thinking.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We don't know each other, but I remember this situation and it's making me tear up, decades later. May you remember all the good times with her (and them). And may the deity(ies) of your choice bless you in the coming weeks.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But, but ... space is cold so surely this will all work perfectly.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right, but now, with the damage done and systems already broken, is a good time to rebuild with intention. Absolutely rebuild! But let's think about how we're doing it.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It really matches the pen, too. Gorgeous.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's less the blasphemy that irritates me and more the stupidity
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Private equity can help..." Oh fuck off with that nonsense.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I suspect that he has more voters than supporters.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The kids seem to be liking jazz and jazz-adjacent music. Between Laufey and Olivia Dean - there are probably others - the kids are alright.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yep. Had a flu shot years ago that hurt for 6 months because that wasn't muscle. Hope yours isn't permanent.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In an Ohio sweatshirt. This is just too good.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well, when you put it that way...
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would watch this.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Isn't that exactly why they hired her in the first place?
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Watching with the sound off, I agree. Less lifelike.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Subskeet of the decade, right here.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ditto. I read that, then read it again, then read it a third time. I'm still not sure it's sunk in. I think I'll try again later.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If only these people were actually smart and not just talented in one particular technical area.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had to look it up. Rather unattractive, isn't it? Of course, now that I know what it looks like, I'm afraid that I'll actually see it in the wild and be angry. I don't need more things to be angry about right now.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OMG, that's amazing. Also, is the things ceasing to exist if you can't see them symptomatic of something? Asking for a friend.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You're not. Wear what makes you happy and fuck the haters.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And yet they seem to misinterpret almost all of it. Almost as if they're idiots.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...
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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Claytabletwork?
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Because he's a politician? Not making a joke here, either. The very vast majority of them, here and abroad, seem happy tailoring their views to focus group opinions or "donor" opinions. Very few emerge as real leaders. I hope he's one.
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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 09/10/2026
Boosting one last time, as only 6 are left now.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That is gorgeous.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That was brutal. Just I-don't-have-the-words brutal.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't know and I really rather not find out.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Closely advising". Yeah, that's not even subtle euphemism.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a scientist, I commit to using SI exclusively. Except for my home thermostat, which is in Fahrenheit.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Female tiefling, escaping through a portal from the Lower Planes.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I will admit to getting a solid chuckle out of this.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't see it on US Amazon, at least.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bsky, where even the fountain pen posts are horny. 😏
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or get a couple cheap pens and one small bottle of ink, find that you prefer a particular nib size, buy fancier inks in bigger jars and a somewhat more upmarket pen, and think about going to a pen show. Ask me ...
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A-fucking-men.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Total nutcase. Brilliant, did amazing things, and less of an asshole than Edison, but nutcase.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pour out some toner. My Brother laser printer laser printer may have died. Manufactured in 2009. The ethernet port appears to have died. Still prints over USB so only mostly dead, I guess.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Getting close to Halloween, get an eyelash and be a pirate.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He hates everyone so much it's kind of egalitarian.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I really don't know what to do with this, but I kind of want to meet him.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd be sorta ok with this, if I could name any companies that complied unwillingly. All I see are companies that bent the knee and companies (a very few) who sued.
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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot." This says everything we need to to know.
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