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not an art thief
@famousartthief.bsky.social
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tories took it on the fucking jaw, good things can happen. don’t let these people doom you into despair.
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Alan Scott@alanrileyscott.bsky.social |
25 followers 187 following 295 posts
Tabletop RPG, Comics, and queer nerdery in general. Used to put "interested in politics" in bio, but now I'm mostly just terrified. Work a desk job for a Hardware Store. White, Gay, Male, lives in Sacramento, California, USA.
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not an art thief
@famousartthief.bsky.social
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tories took it on the fucking jaw, good things can happen. don’t let these people doom you into despair.
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Michael Paulauski
@mike10010100.bsky.social
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I'll keep repeating it until people understand, this is how you know it's a ratfucking operation and not a serious effort to determine if the president is mentally fit. None of these people care about policy, their entire industry is in it for controversy and clicks. It's a ratfucking op.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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lacey
@byelacey.bsky.social
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saw a sick ass pic of some deer fighting on their hind legs. hand slipped
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juno. stump ($190/$250)
@juno.bsky.social
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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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as liberals it's time we woke the fuck up. it is not certain but it is certainly possible that we are approaching a moment of constitutional rupture. it's time we began to articulate our plans for resisting that rupture and restoring America to what it was meant to be
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Joe Hill
@joe-hill.bsky.social
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Was working on a text and laboriously typed "Siouxsie and the Banshees" only to watch helplessly as autocorrect changed "Siouxsie" to "Susie" and all of a sudden I want to burn all of Silicon Valley to the ground. That's not an overreaction is it?
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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You're entitled to your despair. But understand that when you catastrophize on social media, you risk spreading learned helplessness. Which is exactly what fascists want, for people to lie down and cry.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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And even if all politicians are self-serving bastards only in it for their own money and power, it's still better to vote for the self-serving bastards who get that power by promising to make the lives of lgbtq+ people slightly better, rather than those who promise to make our lives a lot worse.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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It's a poisonous lie, meant to cut you off from the support of those who would build you up and make you stronger. From friends, from community. In this case, from supportive politicians.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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It sucks having to navigate hurdles and abuses that are brought against all sorts of queer people in far too many places, by far too many people and organizations. One of the biggest and most horrible abuses is being told nobody cares for you. That nobody supports you.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Biden and his administration have put out any number of statements supporting trans people, and taken a number of specific concrete actions to show that support. But.. It still sucks. It sucks having to navigate life as a trans person in Florida...
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Care for trans minors is legal right now because a Dem appointed judge threw out a law written by Republican lawmakers and signed by Ron DeSantis. The Biden Administration is currently being sued by the state of Florida because of rules it wrote protecting trans people from discrimination in care.
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Veldrin
@veldrin.bsky.social
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I feel like a "Two Reeds" guy, personally.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I think a lot of it is also that nobody in the professional political class really wants to admit what everyone knows is true: this election is /overwhelmingly/ just (another) referendum on Trump. Everything else is using proxies to try and paper over that fact, which is also why they don't land
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Dan Hon
@danhon.com
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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I was just talking about him earlier this week, when Sabrina the Teenage Witch came up during pub trivia.
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.
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Jim Milligan
@chronopunk.bsky.social
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Holy… and I do not say this lightly… Shit.
youtu.be/IvMHEvEoBkc?...
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I think in theory that speaks to a strong possibility of successfully learning math later in life. In practice, though, adult remedial math classes are probably structured for students who are bad at math, rather than for clever kids who previously lacked access to education.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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They basically did fine, because they had enough general reasoning skills at that age to learn in weeks what would have taken months or years for younger kids, so were able to quickly catch up.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I'm sort of curious about this. Back when I was planning to become a math teacher, there was a case study in one of my classes about an experimental program in which kids didn't start math education until 6th grade, IIRC...
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Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
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if you don't buy your children colorful clothing, their clothing will become colorful the fun way
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
@kevinjkircher.com
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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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This was so good!
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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3/3 It really works! Try saying (instead of singing): "Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies" (in a natural, non-Shatner voice) ...and I'll bet your rhythm matches the song. And that's why the MEANING of those lyrics are so vivid and easily remembered.
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acerbic otter is HOT (NO not like THAT)
@acerbicotter.bsky.social
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yeah I don't want an HOA in my computer.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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This is just absolutely brilliant.
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Stephen Hardwick
@nonfinality.bsky.social
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This also shows how critical It is for journalists to step out of the role of just being law enforcement stenographers. Even if this explains why the initial report was so euphemized, cop-speak doesn’t justify a failure to do the work it takes to quickly give readers a more accurate follow-up report
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The Bug Sex Lady
@bunnyloveerin.bsky.social
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Officer: Ma'am are you driving under the influence? My manipulative vizier in the passenger seat: (Whispering to me) This man seeks to ruin you, my liege. He envies your power. Do away with him, lest you lose all you have achieved! Me: No sir 🙂
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Kathleen Gros
@kagcomix.bsky.social
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I recently had to make up rules so i could remember this difference while creating slides for my classes. Pallet: the double L's remind me of the slats on the pallet. they're load bearing Palette: ohonhon fancy comme une artiste Palate: contains "ate" like what i have done with my mouth
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Phelps did have a specific strategy, though: provoke outage to become the target of lawsuits, then recover attorney fees for his family/church full of lawyers when they won on first amendment grounds. It was just a strategy uninterested in public persuasion of any kind.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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as usual, looking to the actual tactics of the civil rights movements is a useful exercise: they were very much aware of the need to persuade by fitting their actions to a narrative of injustice and oppression precisely *because* they understood their situation to be deeply unfair and unjust.
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Picard Tips
@picardtips.bsky.social
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Picard management tip: Explain.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Also, what lazy mofo put that light bulb box on the shelf upside down?
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Drew4484
@drew4484.bsky.social
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Hell of a deal on faceted gold object
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Large Faceted Gold Object is stocked above the Small Faceted Gold Object price tag, and vice versa. Looks like an inattentive stocker didn't notice that the large is cheaper. That's likely to lead to an upset customer or two.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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though my guess is they'll both keep selling so the prices wont' drop any further before the items sell out. (n.b. that 75% off of 24.98 is actually $6.25. Price is $6.17 because it's programmed to round down to a price ending in a 7. Makes it easier to identify which items are clearance priced.)
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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After some period, sales are assessed. The small faceted object is selling, so the price doesn't change, but the more expensive large faceted object isn't selling so the price drops to 75% off at $6.17. If that cannibalizes sales from the small object, we'll see it further discounted next time...
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Reactive clearance pricing algorithm. Notice the original price of the large object is higher. chances are they both went 60% off, so the small object was $8.97 and the large object was presumably $9.97...
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G. Willow Wilson
@gwillow.me
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You don't have to take pressure groups at their word. If a group claims to support Cause X, but their actions undermine Cause X, it is possible they are simply bad actors. You are not obligated to do mental gymnastics on their behalf
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Robert McNees
@mcnees.bsky.social
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Sally Ride’s 1977 letter to NASA fits in a single post: "To whom it may concern, I am a PhD candidate in astrophysics at Stanford University, and am interested in the space shuttle program. Please send me the forms necessary to apply as a 'mission specialist' candidate. Thank you, Sally Ride”
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I was going to make a joke response to this but I don't know enough about Sondheim to make a particularly good joke, so I started a wikipedia crawl, and long story short I'm going to have "Send in the Clowns" stuck in my head for a month.
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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Cool I'll just keep buying packs until I get that card.
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DaisyFM ✒︎🍉
@daisyfm.bsky.social
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Okay, kids, I'm going to share with you an inconvenient truth: Trees have evolved more times than crabs. Arborization is more common than carcinization. The ultimate destiny of humanity is a forest.
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Pickle Tiedrich
@prettyliltakemachine.is-extremely.gay
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Being trans in America is cool because it’s like do you want to live somewhere rent is $6,000 a month or do you want to live somewhere it’s legal to hunt you for sport
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Alan Scott
@alanrileyscott.bsky.social
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I mean, I love this movie, but those guns with the word "longsword" printed on them were goofy as hell. How much cooler would John Leguizamo be if he had an actual sword here?
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