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Bill Stewart@billstewart.bsky.social |
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billstewart415 over on the ex-thing. Techie, bad musician, SF fan (either Science Fiction or San Francisco.) NorCal He/They/Thou/Yo/Whatever 🍄
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Bill Stewart
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I need the non-pork kind, but too many places just make their standard pork recipe and leave the meat out instead of rebalancing it. But either way, the tingling/numbing Szechuan peppercorns make it far more interesting than just more hot peppers.
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Bill Stewart
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No, the space lasers are just the traditional way to reheat the leftovers.
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waltydunlop
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Well, everyone. Since we've all had a hell of a few years, and things have shifted a bit in the last 24 hours - I think we deserve a treat. Time for the kitten seen from underneath photo? Oh, I think so. We've all been very good. We deserve it.
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Bill Stewart
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A perfectly spherical cup of coffee, as well.
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Coach Finstock
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If Biden loses in November, he's definitely going to drone strike Mar A Lago on January 6th and then post this
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PeopleDied2Vote
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Biden is electable. It's easy. Vote for him. He represents the party that does the things for you.
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Bill Stewart
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As a Boomer, no, we've been using the good stuff, especially edibles, since dispensaries came out. But we're also old enough to still think the NYTimes and WaPo are legit newspapers, instead of noticing that the media is repeating their "Dean Scream" candidate assassination conspiracy.
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Taco Bell's Cannon
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I said to someone else the other day, this is the most insane spasm of cowardice I have seen from Democrats in my lifetime and I lived through the Reagan years. It really is like a very specific group of people had a mass hysteria event or ate moldy wheat or got a bad batch of LSD.
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Bill Stewart
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3 hours is awfully long, and I don't listen to podcasts much, but I was guessing it would have to be Dark Star.
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Bill Stewart
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Expletive deleted, who does he think comes in to urgent care clinics and ERs? Sick people and injured people, mostly. And even the injured people might have something contagious.
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Business Time
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Bill Stewart
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I was too distracted by how well it captured the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley in the late 90s and how many of the characters I knew, either as the individuals they were modeled after or as local stereotypes to notice that. But it did, unfortunately, tell publishers not to let editors edit him much.
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James Schmeling
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Here's what bothers me about Biden critics. I believe they are simply promoting themselves in this rather than having a legitimate approach to ensuring Trump does not win. "Biden must step aside" is not a strategy to win. It's just not.
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Bill Stewart
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He still can't strip them of their powers, even though they've just ruled he CAN order the military to assassinate them or ship them to Gitmo without trial.
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Bill Stewart
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Biden really needs to go saying "Trump's cognitive test was repeating Man Woman Person TV Camera a few times, getting the year right, and saying he was President. Well, now I'm President, and it's a bit tougher for Trump to pass than me."
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Bill Stewart
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When I was a kid, the pediatrician's office had a separate "Isolation Entrance" for patients who were sick with contagious things, but since the MMR and chicken pox vaccines came out, there's been a lot less routine contagious disease.
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Bill Stewart
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At least they're nowhere near as deranged as your right-wing parties have been the last few decades!
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Bill Stewart
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Certainly not a duke! Biden's ancestors were Irish.
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Bill Stewart
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I hear a lot more fireworks out here in Silicon Valley (though the loudest ones are commercial, between cities and Great America) than I did in east-central NJ, but driving to DC in summer as a kid always included seeing a LOT of fireworks stands.
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Bill Stewart
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No particular surprise, since humans are mammals, though we also can pick up pathogens from birds.
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David Wakeham
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🧪 On this day in 1885 Louis Pasteur administered the very first rabies vaccination 💉
Happy #WorldZoonosesDay
#DYK? 🦠 60% of pathogens 🦠 that cause human diseases come from animals?
#Microbiology #iTeachBio🧬 #Microsky #VaccinesWork
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Bill Stewart
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And the Biden campaign needs to follow every one of those INFLATION ads by talking about the debt Trump left, which leads to inflation, and the oil company profits going up, which lead to inflation, and Trump's Saudi and Russian buddies cranking up oil prices.
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Bill Stewart
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Also maker-type techies often do, even if they just wear jeans and trade show tshirts to work.
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Bill Stewart
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Came here to say that most of America is just fine with the Yankees having bad weeks or a bad year, but Biden actually matters.
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Bill Stewart
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I certainly remember them being in the song, from back in the 60s (on daytime reruns), and I don't tend to remember most of the words except "a threeeeee-hourr tour"
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Bill Stewart
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Paris is busy getting ready for the Olympics, as a distraction from the mess Macron just handed everybody.
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Bill Stewart
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There was a mid-loudness kaboom in the distance while I was reading that, though it's been a mostly quiet night.
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Jill Pantozzi
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I don't understand why more people aren't still masking. You KNOW people like this exist, you KNOW this type of behavior is happening left and right. I know you don't care enough about your fellow human beings to mask but don't you care about yourself? Do more ppl have a death wish than I thought?
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Chris Brennan
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When Johns Hopkins Hospital stopped masking, my otherwise really smart & experienced transplant nurse told me that COVID can't be airborne or they'd be required to keep wearing masks. The American healthcare system has been filled with "wash your hands to prevent a respiratory virus" misinformation.
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Marisa Kabas
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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Bill Stewart
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Especially since the Supreme Court just ruled that agencies don't get to actually do anything, so the DEA's schedule of drugs is now entirely vulnerable to court review if somebody sues them in some sensible jurisdiction (e.g. NOT the Fifth Circuit :-)
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Rima I Anabtawi
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Ken Paxton says he's a Christian. But would Jesus sue Annunciation House?
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Bill Stewart
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I only heard about silver clay a month or two ago, but it seems like it would provide some more choices for how to build things.
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Bill Stewart
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The British Isles have a very very wide range of insults, many anchored in specific regions or social classes, and a wide enough range of politicians, other public figures, and Boris Johnson to keep many of them in active use. Americans learned some of them from posters during Trump visits.
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Peter Sagal
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Underpants Gnomes, 2024 Phase 1) Collect underpants Phase 2) Post about it! Phase 3) Profit!
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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Bill Stewart
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And hey, nobody ACTUALLY likes Ted Cruz that much, even among Republicans.
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Blue Heron Farm
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Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.
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Bill Stewart
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The voicemail is down due to overheating. I've been grumpy enough the last few days because here in Silicon Valley the lows have been like 65-67, so the usual "open the windows at night and maybe use a fan" substitute for air conditioning isn't doing the job.
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RedwoodGirl (she/her) 💖💜💙
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It's eight PM on the US west coast, and here in Chico it's ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE FUCKING DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. I feel like calling the manager but it would probably just go to voicemail since it's after hours.
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Bill Stewart
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Her: You're out of your tree! Him: It's not MY tree. (Actually one of my wife's favorite films, but I liked it too.)
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Bill Stewart
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Ouch! Glad I don't have to do that. (Heat packs, sometimes, and cold packs on backs, shoulders, ankles, yup.)
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TW
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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood
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Bill Stewart
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I know enough about Posie Parker to know to be careful not to insult Parker Posey by mixing the two of them up, but it sometimes takes me double-checking just to make sure.
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Bill Stewart
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Don't know about cuneiform, but Greek ostraka certainly must have been used for that on occasion.
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Bill Stewart
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Yeah, if I see a menu offering orange coke or lemon-lime coke or the like, I want it to be a flavor of cola product like Cherry Coke or Vanilla Coke (even if it's another cola-maker's brand). Calling it "pop" just tells me I'm in the Midwest or wherever but isn't confusing.
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Greg Sargent
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Bill Stewart
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Blair was pretty centrist, and Labour have tossed out Corbyn angrily for trying to be an actual leftist.
(though he did just win his seat, as an independent.)
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Bill Stewart
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My opinion about Starmer just went up a good notch. (And unlike Brexit, which will be a big slow boat to turn around, it's great to have an issue that can be dealt with on his first day dealt with on his first day.)
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Laura Seay
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!!!
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