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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think I picked up my first copy at a kiosk at Valley Fair.

A sign at Valley Fair reads "Berenstain Boar Country."

David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I got curious about all this a while back when I was reading Camus' "Reflections on the Guillotine" and was a little surprised when his essay calling for the end of capital punishment had so much to say about alcohol policy.

From Albert Camus' essay "Reflections on the Guillotine":

"But alcohol makes this scandal even more shocking. It is known that the French nation is systematically intoxicated by its parliamentary majority, for generally vile reasons. Now, the proportion of alcohol's responsibility in the cause of bloodthirsty crimes is shocking. A lawyer (Maître Guillon) estimated it at 60 per cent. For Dr. Lagriffe the proportion extends from 41.7 to 72 per cent. An investigation carried out in 1951 in the clearing-center of the Fresnes prison, among the common-law criminals, showed 29 per cent to be chronic alcoholics and 24 per cent to have an alcoholic inheritance. Finally, 95 per cent of the killers of children are alcoholics.

The State that sows alcohol cannot be surprised to reap crime. Instead of showing surprise, it simply goes on cutting off heads into which it has poured so much alcohol."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

theculturetrip.com/europe/franc...

"Many parents would place one alcoholic drink of their choice in the child's basket to take to school. Often half a litre of wine, cider or beer depending on the region. Where there were cases of head teachers disallowing the drink be given to children, it's said that some parents encouraged the children to drink their wine before they go to school, over breakfast.

It wasn't until 1956, August, that the Ministry of National Education forbade the serving of alcoholic drinks in schools to children under 14 years old. Though older children – with the consent of their parents – were allowed to continue to drink in the canteen, provided they did not consume more than 'one eighth of a litre per head'.

At the time, alcohol consumption in France was at its highest, and very widespread among young people. And so the decision to place an age limit and ban wasn't supported by everyone. Even the authorities, as it happens.

In a report in March 1956, for example, the National Advisory Committee on School and University Health concluded that the ban on alcohol, after being tested in a boarding school, 'could not in the present conditions be extended to all France.'"

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Don't worry, I've got this.

A user asks ChatGPT Images 2.5 to make the second panel of brennan's crop "more over the top." The result makes the kiting experience look somewhat less pleasant.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dark-eyed juncos are a top borb for me.

A dark-eyed junco, photo by iNaturalist user zacharyfoster.

A slate-colored junco (a subspecies of dark-eyed junco), photo by iNaturalist user bradenjudson.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The completions haven't caught up yet.

A Google search for "can you get brain damage from reading posts" lacks "on bluesky" as a suggested query completion.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At this point we should probably just take the L and rename it.

A tweet from @hermit_hwarang has been edited so that it now reads: "human *sees something human happening humanly on human social media*: what are we a bunch of DOGS?!?!???"

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Drawing this to clarify myself to a stubborn client.

One of the meme templates wherein a point goes over someone's head.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Zero input/output prompt retention."

Meme photo of a man in an FBI jacket sitting at a computer.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Smart glasses that selectively blur information about certain individuals and under no circumstances give the user an unblur control.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes hello, I believe I can have an impact at MIRI in the role of human resources professional.

MIRI's careers webpage invites applications for unlisted positions.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For You knows what kind of content to serve me.

Ryan's post, followed immediately by an ed3d.net post showing his email address poorly anonymized because his domain name is his full name and the censor merely masked the lone character between the first letter and the @ symbol.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The photographer titled this image "The Fall of Icarus," but it can stand in imaginally for the fall of norvid, were he to chud too close to the sun.

Andrew McCarthy's "The Fall of Icarus" photograph of a skydiver against the sun. From https://www.galaxus.fr/en/page/photographer-succeeds-in-capturing-skydiver-in-front-of-the-sun-40489

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Having held male American Goldfinch feathers in my hand, I can confirm they are quite yellow.

An adult male American Goldfinch.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173240451

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

To my delight, our young adults needn't go into debt for this one. It's borrowable from the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/orig...

The growth of an animal colony compared with a drop of ink.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Check out how much this gentleman had to say before the model folding starts.

The table of contents of an origami book, showing the models one might naively suppose the book to be about first appearing on page 90.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

People have all kinds of takes on why conversation pits stopped being a thing but the real answer is just that Americans eat fewer beans.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Get treated for whiplash? Or, more positively: x.com/mathandcobb/...

On Twitter, mathematician Alvaro Lozano-Robledo writes: "If you are in math and you are depressed, you shouldn't be. The number of projects that I have in mind have tripled or quadrupled now that I can have access to LLM's to assist me on things I had given up before."

To this, computer engineering professor Cem Say replies: "Exactly. I now have so much more work than before."

Dr. Lozano-Robledo replies: "So much math to do and so little time! My grad students will profit with problems handed off to them left and right."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Everything's a template these days.

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