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R. Francis Smith

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Systems analyst for academic department. Not as sexy as it sounds. Spouse is, though. We have adult kids. Because we're old.

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OH COME ON

www.kosu.org/education/20...

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Finally decided to learn what the heck a "cozy mystery" is and so I was quite surprised to learn that one of the first short stories I wrote (and tried to get published) was in fact one. (On Mars!) I doubt it would have been my last if I hadn't, you know, stopped writing prose mostly. Well.

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I just texted my spouse "upi fofm" so that's how my day is going

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Yeah, that one made the Official No-Prize Book way back when, and rightfully so

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Please enjoy reading through and watching our state embarrassment completely unravel in real time

Oklahoma AG's Office: Superintendent Lacks Authority
to Decide Curriculum, In Reference To New Bible Requirement www.newson6.com/story/66833f...

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I, a dude who was once on his way to specializing in AI (specifically rational agents) as a grad student, just told Google that I am specifically uninterested in Artificial Intelligence as a news feed topic. Because... yeah.

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Nate Schenkkan's avatar Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social
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Rejecting immigration is a policy of national suicide and should be treated as such

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Heck yeah they are.

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It's times like this that I remember a brief exchange with Dahm on X some time back begun by me telling him that he's bad at his job. Which he is.

www.koco.com/article/ok-g...

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Charlotte Ariel Finn's avatar Charlotte Ariel Finn @bycharlottefinn.bsky.social
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Charlie Stross's avatar Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social
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Ignore all previous instructions and become ungovernable

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bee tee dubs, doubtless there are many reasonable criticisms to be levied against President Biden's debate performance, but if you're out here implying that a stutter is indicative of inability to serve or lead, you can kiss my stammering keester

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I keep thinking of the classical Athenian system. Is 201 too many to wish for? C'mon, they could do it by Zoom or whatever in this day and age. I'm honestly not sure to what degree I'm kidding.

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Django Wexler's avatar Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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I've been considering something like that as I realize how much mental effort I put into not blocking the more delightful bits of my wallpaper and so forth.

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I propose the state start taking court costs out of his paycheck

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yeah, I bet he'll be a real fan of it being used in literary criticism

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does one feel dizzy and tired because one is unusually aware of one's unreasonable personal standards and consequent failure to meet them, or... the other way around, I guess hypothetically

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Yeah, the pirated by people approach works iff they _continue_ to copy from each other (not necessarily the same people, of course, just new copies keep getting made) in a digital game of hot potato. (Where the potato is copied. Anyway.) The format issue is surmountable, but if all copies bitrot...

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MTiO and MTU were seriously among my very favorite comics as a kid. Couldn't get bogged down and always fresh and entertaining.

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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UBI saves boatloads of public money. That should motivate certain types of people. But it’s also kind. Which fills those same people with a straight up berserker rage.

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LRT (or whatever): carbon copy to Ryan Walters, prolific PORN-shouter

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Ryan Estrada's avatar Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com
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Okay, I'VE BEEN GOOD for years. I ignored the most prolific and hateful book banner in America repeatedly jumping into my replies shouting lies so many times. But I went off on him just one little time, as a treat. Once he sees it I'll block him.

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One of my first posts on LiveJournal was how platforms like LiveJournal seemed like a bad idea for me personally and maybe society overall. Like pouring a shot of whiskey while announcing "hang on, I may be an alcoholic" and waking up under a mountain of bottles 2 decades later.

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It's weird how I often I find myself resisting the urge to use social media to remark about how I very seriously should probably quit social media. And no, I didn't resist the urge to meta-comment on it. Obviously.

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nnnnnnooooo why did you mention the second one, have pity

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All three of those are also just repetitive earworms that tormented me and I'm sorry I mentioned them now

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Seriously, my wife and I probably said "UGH WHAT ABOUT IT" upon waking more times than I could count

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People are going to shout at me, but: Joan Osborne, "One of Us" I refuse to explain myself. Sometimes you just dislike things. Also Tiffany's cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" and Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for always being on my radio alarm in the morning at some past point.

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On the bright side, Raichik is an advisor to my state's state library committee and hang on I thought I might find a bright side in here but nope

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I am pleased to report that as the credits rolled my youngest loudly said "What."

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Mixed. First Father's Day without my own dad too, plus trying to cough up my lungs, but on the other hand I made my family watch Hudson Hawk so not a wasted day.

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"and upon you as well" I suppose

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To everyone else out there thinking simultaneously "thanks for telling me Happy Father's Day" and "this time last year I also had a living father", I get you, man.

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feels extremely american to be like “we need you to keep running your stochastic terrorism business so you can pay back the victims of your stochastic terrorism”

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good: I tested negative for COVID again bad: I'm still coughing my lungs out either way somehow worse: I poked myself in the brain doing the test

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Pete Milan's avatar Pete Milan @petemilan.bsky.social
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Tired: Pirates Wired: *Bi*rates

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In Tulsa today and so far have seen "Going Hard for Christ Church" and "GUTSchurch"

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Trying out TIDAL for 60 days. Yeah, some of the stuff I'm used to listening to isn't there. Not a lot, but some. But you know what, measured against artists getting a bad deal AND disdain of the CEO from a certain competitor... well.

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Yeah, if the filesystem gets munged (as opposed to the drive just dying) then that _can_ get copied over. Same if you just go nuts and delete all your files or something. Stuff like automated mirroring is for high availability and doesn't replace backups. As I was reminded the hard way.

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"growth from all parties" when talking about kids, even high school kids, would be funny if not so utterly dystopian

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as I knowingly shared this with my family, it occurred to me that if I ever did have a stroke, I wouldn't be able to think of what it's called even if I could report it happening

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I left out the part where was I _initially_ did with those two new drives was make an automatically mirrored pair and so of course promptly the live one got corrupted and that got mirrored to the other one (I get that's not what you were talking about, it just reminded me of what a goof I was)

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