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@winojohn.bsky.social
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He/dey/Dem. Wine (and food) lover. Retired. Non-serious birder. Blue in a red state. If unions are so bad why is it always your boss telling you that? Lead with kindness. Old enough that there was a time when Joe Foy was my favorite player.

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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 3h
I've driven all over the world. Toronto drivers, in my limited experience there, are the worst. The sense or entitlement is palpable. Nicest folks ever but totally different when they get in the car. Too many cars! Build reliable, free transit.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That's about the age I learned. I was selling grandfather clocks and special orders were always priced as "FOB Zeeland, MI" so I asked my boss what that meant and he said "add thirty bucks to the price" then explained it to me. Thanks Vic.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely. About 25 years ago there was a Gyrfalcon that spent the winter hanging out on a water tower in Lubbock.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
GoAT
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tiramisu valley, Veneto, Italy.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pics or it didn't happen.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My thought was maybe it got on a ship and didn't get off. Maybe was stuck. Lots of containers go through Corpus.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's 3 pounds.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's a 3 pound package, so 1.36 kg. au$45.75. au$33.64/kg
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hopefully they've never read Show Crash.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tom Morello was the first person that came to my mind.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And even more ironically Catholic teaching is that both Jewish people and Muslims worship the same G-d we do.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would argue that it comes from a misunderstanding of "Nostre Aetate" but I can't 'cause I'm almost certain that far less than 1% of Catholics have read it.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They taught the agents to lie, cheat, and steal. "Misaligned model behavior" is another way of saying "we wrote shitty code."
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doesn't "misaligned model activity" basically mean "we wrote shitty code"?
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is not a bad theory. Imagine if our universe was their 33 554 433rd try.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"(Unless you like tar with notes of arsenic and mercury.)" Just say Guinness.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, anything shiny would be loved by both the Fairies and the crows. Bottle caps? Dimes? Colored rhinestones?
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Almost exactly the same.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is true. It reminds me that Biden was 28th on my list of the 31 candidates who ran in 2020. (of course I voted for Biden once he was the nominee)
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My sister is a librarian for a law firm. They pay her pretty well to "google shit for them" because she's really good at figuring out how to frame a search to find what they need. (with no hallucinations)
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I would like to nominate: John Dickerson Christiane Amanpour Leon Harris Scott Pelley Stephen Colbert Don Lemon
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But that might be inconvenient! Americans proved beyond all doubt in 2020 that they will NOT be inconvenienced.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's several systems that help keep airspace from getting too crowded, and they work pretty well almost all the time. They all involve living people as the final check point though, so we have to find a new system. (Jaded retired controller)
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a retired controller I can tell you there's a 99.99994% chance it'll be fine.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The EPA number nay be 14 mpg but then the suburban warriors do 85 instead of the 70 that number is based on so they're really getting less than 10 mpg and complaining about gas prices. Something like 8% of the people that own these need one.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'll have a little more faith in AI when Anthropic announces that they've fired their accounting firm and Claude is going to do their taxes.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm so glad there's someone else.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I haven't found a case where I think AI would be useful for me, so I go out of my way to keep it out of my life as much as possible. I don't hate it, I just don't like it. There's plenty of cases where I'm convinced it's very useful. I'm just not involved in any of them.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For context, 35 ish years ago I took about 10 hours of flight instruction. I have successfully landed a C152. Have 0 hours since 1995.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, how good a landing does it have to be? Nobody dies? Maybe. Everybody walks away? Probably not. The plane can fly again tomorrow? Nah.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And stoned.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The words of William Bruce Cameron: "However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." You keep banging your head against the idea that people are, or should be, rational according to your definition of rational.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That first one is kinda funny when the s+p 500 is up almost twice that percentage over the same time frame.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is from last night near the Spanish Peaks:
A crescent moon in the lower right just above a cloudbank. Venus in the upper left amidst scattered clouds . Shortly after sunset near Trinidad CO.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometime since January all the hotels that had FoxNews on in the breakfast area switched to GMA.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My view this morning: Rainbow over the Spanish Peaks.
The Spanish Peaks in southeastern Colorado with a partial rainbow visible in the upper right
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Time to read Snowcrash again.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We live in a very lefty neighborhood where nobody uses pesticides or herbicides or fertilizer on our lawns and it's an oasis for bug and grub eating birds. Catbirds, Thrashers, and Flickers love it. Altho Catbirds do freak our cat out when she hears them 'meow.'
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
An eloquent defense of the Oxford comma.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mmmmmm. Beeeeer.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
6'3" 224
Muhammad Ali stands in a boxing ring on October 1st 1975. He is wearing white trunks with a black waistband and red boxing gloves. His right arm is across his body with the glove touching his left shoulder. He is six feet three inches tall and weighs two hundred and twenty four pounds.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Can we bring back John Ratzenberger to overdub his rally speeches?
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Okay, but is that pronounced tsar-ee or soar-ee?
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm ready to re-watch all 300 episodes.
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Goodport (GP) @goodport.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#FridayFunDay #funnymemes #fridayfunnies
There are ‘cookies’, and there are COOKIES! 🍪 🎉
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We live in the greatest time ever for food. My preference is thick, doughy crust like Nirchi's (Binghamton) or Charles and Reed (Traverse City) but that's just *my* preference. Giordano's is good. I Fratelli (DFW) is good. Every decent NY slice is good. Eat what y'all want. Stop with the gatekeeping
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is there a difference, in your opinion, between Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post, Eric Meyer buying the Marion County Record, and Eddie Lampert buying K-Mart and Sears?
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our grocery store EV:
An Aventon e-bike with twin panniers sits on a driveway. The shadow in front of it shows that it is backlit. Some lawn and a city street are in the background.
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Recently had the pleasure of meeting some Algerian folks. While they spoke French, it was very clear that it was not their preferred language.
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