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A K M Adam@akma.bsky.social |
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AKMA is a priest, lecturer (New Testament, Greek, Early Church, Critical Theory), writer, gamer (mostly retired, former guild admin); Glasgow, Oxford, and now parish ministry in Abingdon-on-Thames.
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Melanie D’Arrigo
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.
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A K M Adam
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I'm double-mongering to make up for you other slackers!
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A K M Adam
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Or long enough…
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A K M Adam
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Any weekday Masses near you?
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A K M Adam
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The Democratic Party this year reminds me far, far too much of Labour 2019, where warring factions' back-biting and mutual sabotage resulted in a landslide victory to a comedy-wigged buffoon….
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A K M Adam
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The sound of the ring tone of the gargling roar of an aggro’d murloc doth not enhance Morning Prayer…
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MHoussayH
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A K M Adam
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The vines sprang out of the box and some were ‘reaching’ out to me. I dropped the box, leapt backwards, and I’ve been avoiding Mr Potato Head ever since.
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A K M Adam
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And although there are good heuristic rules (like 'Believe women', for instance), they're still always only heuristic until stronger evidence shows up — however much that frustrates our urgent desire for certainty.
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A K M Adam
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Now, *that*'s an AI assistant worth developing.
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A K M Adam
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There's still more 'up' to 'step'? Isn't there a saturation point?
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A K M Adam
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Do you have a fancy rider stipulating certain kinds of waater, or Coke, or Sharpies?
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A K M Adam
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If only they were closer to Abingdon!
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A K M Adam
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Usually.
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Brandy Schillace
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“They are not reporting that he is a loser; they are making him one.” … “But the shocking supreme court decisions this summer and the looming threat of authoritarianism have gotten little ink and air, compared to the hue and cry about Biden’s competence.”
#Biden
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A K M Adam
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I respect it more since I've recovered from the trauma of opening an Mr Potato Head box that I'd left a real potato in (for maybe five years)…
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A K M Adam
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68 to 72
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A K M Adam
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Yup, me too.
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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A K M Adam
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Isn't joining The War Room another way of saying 'I'll do absolutely anything for attention and money'?
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A K M Adam
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Contrariwise, I thought the dead would be okay with it, cos [only] the dead like rhubarb.
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A K M Adam
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Always worth a repost…
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A K M Adam
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You can easily obtain a replacement nib for that Osmiroid, which may alleviate the scratchiness.
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@jiminnh.bsky.social
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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...
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Jacob Bacharach
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In the village of C---m there was a man who could not die, who spoke to Hashem day and night, and yet he grew frail and unhappy with his lot. His children at last asked the Rabbi, Reb, why will God not let father pass to Olam HaBa? He replied: You would invite a man into your home who won't shut up?
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A K M Adam
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Though to be fair, Labour's only been in government a day or so…
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A K M Adam
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It's been a long time since I noticed that I was often the youngest person in the room; eventually I noticed that I was at least lowering the average age in the room; then I noticed that I wasn't the oldest in the room. Now…
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A K M Adam
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Just adding to this good array of suggestions the Pilot Metropolitan, a simple, reliable, everyday pen with a variety of nibs.
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Celeste Pewter
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It's Hillary's emails all over again. It's really the worst kind of deja vu.
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Boston Tom Levenson
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5/ The reason so many here are criticizing @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com et al. is that they are only covering one of those stories. By ignoring the real questions about Trump they are creating not merely a distorted picture of this election, but a false one.
They are failing at journalism.
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K.B. Spangler
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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.
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Pwnallthethings
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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome
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A K M Adam
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It's also kinda strange that the state underwrites parties selecting their candidates through the primary system.
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A K M Adam
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Kaweco's less expensive pens are solid. Many Chinese pens are available for a pittance, but they're a little unpredictable (and not every reseller is helpful). I suppose I'd look for a Parker 45 from a reputable vintage dealer as my top choice.
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A K M Adam
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How does one make these 'just appear'?
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A K M Adam
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In preparation for a possible Trump regime, hotels and office buildings in Washington are installing window guards to prevent 'inadvertent' falls from heights.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Sotomayor: "The President is now a king above the law."
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A K M Adam
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How many people today would recognise a meat grinder?
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A K M Adam
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Will search the crevices in the sofa for change…
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Sarah E. Bond
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But for the impact of Roman scribal practices on the largely enslaved body, See @candidamoss.bsky.social in the forthcoming:, ‘Disability’, in J. Coogan, J. Howley & Candida Moss (eds.), Writing, Enslavement, and Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) & academic.oup.com/jts/article/...
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Sarah E. Bond
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There is a lot of current and forthcoming amazing work on disability attached to ancient scribal practices. A new open access article looks at the spinal impact on Egyptian scribes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... turns out criss-cross applesauce writing is very bad for the spine, joints, & even jaw
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A K M Adam
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Duh, ‘after’
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A K M Adam
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As always, @themountaingoats.bsky.social excluded to enhance diversity and because of their mathematical advantage. Suffice it to say that they would be in the top three almost every month.
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A K M Adam
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My listening for June, at last.fm:
1 @tedleo.bsky.social and the Pharmacists 14 scrobbles
2 Aretha Franklin 6
3 Beyoncé 6
4 The Band 6
5 The Beatles 6
6 The Specials 6
7 Elvis Costello & The Attractions 5
8 k.d. lang 5
9 Taylor Swift 5
10 The Lemonheads 5
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A K M Adam
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^Came here to ask when γ came before δ....
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A K M Adam
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It would be a pretty stupid world if 'what is legal' bore a 1:1 correspondence to 'what I think is a good idea'.
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A K M Adam
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Come on, they’re just warming up. They’ll come up with a good rationalisation sooner or later…
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Sarah E. Bond
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I may now be obsessed with the fact that freshwater crabs 🦀 (Potamon fluviatile) proliferated in late Roman sewers & now archaeologists & conservationists are fighting to save these little guys as an indigenous species, who live in places like Trajan’s Forum. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/riv...
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A K M Adam
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This is the answer to all queries about modern flex-nib pens.
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A K M Adam
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Use a dot of washing-up liquid — sometimes nibs skip cos there's residual oil on them (especially new pens), and the grease-busting recipe for dish soap helps wash that out.
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