Peter H. Coffin

Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Willie isn't about to take any shit from Reddy Kilowatt.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

"not enough" probably. "drama" thins out of perception when there's so many accounts that you can't even see it. Especially with insular language settings. If some exciting fight of personality happens on Brasilsky, I'm probably never even going to hear of it.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

This place does tend to call out swaggering clouthounds. Just showing up isn't enough even if you've got Big Numbers elsewhere and or have a convertible audience of elsewhere-subscribers already on bsky.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Also, IIRC "posted" is tied to public release. Videos can be held back, technically available but not listed in channel or algo promotion yet, and get views by directly-shared links. That's how "early release on Patreon" kinds of things happen.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

"I guess I'm here now" is the absolute death-knell for a bsky account.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

There is almost NOTHING that cops seem to love more than being cops. Like, they'd probably still do it even if they got paid for shit instead of making $125k.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

ebikes are great, but there's still going to be a budgetary limit on how many rebates can be fulfilled unless you're a currency-issuing central govt. The problem is mostly that response was grossly underestimated.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

Get Daniels in on that, even. She deserves a day's pay.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

I think it overburdens itself first with trying to bring in every concept from the canon, and then demanding of itself that it tie up all the ends. The latter's usually not necessary (as long as the Big Story gets resolution, the rest can drop), and the former a misstep.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

Unless we go old school and use USENET-style _underlines_, *emphasis*, and /italic/, and somehow get screenreader software to agree that those things are acceptable markers.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:14 UTC

It will if it's written enough. We've seen how often NYT mentions "convicted felon" in the context of Donald J Trump in any article not about that specific issue: Basically never.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:11 UTC

's one of the reasons I keep trumpeting D wins in Wisconsin. There's been close vote after close vote basically since 2019, and pretty steady results driving turnout into wins. Not all wins (Ron "that asshole" Johnson is still in office even after promising to retire), but it's WAY better.

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Peter H. Coffin @hellsop.ninehells.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:07 UTC

ONE fockin' episode of Heroes S4 won't read properly. No matter how drunk I get the disk. The Playstation will play it, but the the BD drive in the PC can't get it. I never really expected optical drives to be consumables, but they seem to last about three years of my usage patterns.

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