Jake Cob

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

When I think about it, I guess that is exactly what red/blue shift is, but I had never made the connection to macro processes. Very cool.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:22 UTC

Astounding. Thank you!

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:17 UTC

Wait, so this means that we're watching events happen there in fast-forward a bit? Things appear to us to be happening faster than they are happening there because each subsequent bit of light takes slightly less time to get here than previous bits?

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

Last summer I read This Is How You Lose The Time War in a hammock while camping, and I've been chasing that high ever since. What books should I bring to the woods with me this month? Let's assume I already know about Bujold, Martine, Pratchett, Leckie, and Chambers.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:59 UTC

We had this as well growing up. And orange mixing bowl that would go next to our beds when we had stomach bugs, and that we otherwise served salad out of at dinner. I never had any feelings about it, but my sister objected to using it for food when they got older.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

Love to watch nazis get kicked in the butt. (fr though that party still has way too many seats (i.e. more than zero, but also, like, fully a quarter of the assembly??))

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

Between this and the Gaiman news it's been a rough week.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

Ooh, smart

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:15 UTC

This is great, as usual. Do you script them as well as narrating? I thought the slinky analogy was great.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:20 UTC

I don't understand why they let it stay that bad. Infection risk aside, I feel bad for the drivers and other staff. They must have constant headaches.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:51 UTC

I'm pretty sure he plans to ensure _they_ won't be around to visit those consequences on him.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Can you help me understand this? Are seatbelts dystopian also? Condoms? What is it about wearing a mask on public transit and in healthcare settings that feels dystopian to you?

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Good lord. I am glad to see the "ex" in there.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

It's good to be reminded. It can be hard to keep in mind, but I think we're all just really scared.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 03:22 UTC

The only dehumidifiers I've ever seen are heat pumps that vent the heat directly back into the room.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

lol when texans say this. The two farthest apart cities I can find in TX (McAllen and Texline) take 13 hours to drive between. In Ontario, it takes 23 hours to drive from Windsor to Kenora and you're still only about halfway up the province. If you want to go any farther north, you need a plane.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Putting handwashing in "core" and masking in "additional" is perverse.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

There's nothing better than when a dog loves you <3

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:02 UTC

It's nice when things get better instead of worse.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

I did not.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Putting handwashing in core and masks in additional is perverse

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Can you imagine getting an email like this from a journal? I almost launched my computer into the sun

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Jeph Jacques @ass.golf
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

As an American who Actually Moved To Canada, here are some things to consider if you’re serious about getting the fuck out of the US, a thread:

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

I will fight you because Ottawa does not belong on that list. Quaint-ass company town where the company happens to be the federal government.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:27 UTC

If you see this, post a photo without explanation

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Drift @inanity101.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

6:00 OK I'm going to make this spaghetti. I'll put the sauce in the small burner while the water heats up. 6:15 Water's boiling, put the spaghetti in. It will take 11 minutes. The sauce will be nice and hot by then 8:20 Dinnertime

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

"Put the thing where your brain wants you to do the thing" is such a fucking basic rule, why is it so hard

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

The right is not disaffected _because they have an actual, well-moneyed apparatus to seize power_. The online edgelords are irrelevant.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

It's effective propaganda for people who want leftists to be disaffected and disengaged. It does not spur positive action.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:46 UTC

Agree. And larping about revolution on the internet isn't doing politics.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

The right wing larpers didn't bring about an organized movement, they provided cover for the one that already existed. The left doesn't have that.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

AAH

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

good. god.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

I hate this about myself, trust me

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

5. A straight man didn't want to listen to her talk about this. Probably because he doesn't like the idea of women talking about sex and/or he is a prude. Not because she is completely unhinged.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

3. What men like to do for sex is dress like women. It is Known (see 2 and also Freud) 4. (implied) therefore trans lesbians are dangerous sex perverts and not Real Lesbians (TM)

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:16 UTC

fr though, I hate that I can parse this, but this is what she is saying: 1. Lesbians with penises are pushing for access to female spaces 2. Straight/bi women are experts on what men like to do for sex, and talk to each other about it

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:20 UTC

And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

Some dude didn't want to hear her deranged theories about "penised lesbians" and autogynephilia and she's like "he's the one who's the problem here"

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

It's a good crane and it fucks with my sense of perspective

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:32 UTC

What good company! A+ doggos

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

At this point I wish covid was endemic. Because at least that way there would be policy about monitoring and reporting. Right now we're in this weird nowhere space where it's not defined as endemic, but we're not treating it like an emergency, so it's just.... silence.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

And they need to commit to monitoring it and taking action to reduce spread when it crosses that threshold.

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Jake Cob @jakobpunkt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

A disease is endemic if its burden of morbidity and mortality falls below a policy-defined acceptable threshold. So in order for a disease to become endemic, policy makers need to write down, where everyone can see, how much illness and death they are willing to allow from that disease.

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