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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 8h

“I always wanted to have human feelings — but I do not. Goodbye!” - AZI-3 #StarWars #CloneWars

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 13h

I would be interested to know; Frederick North is on my family tree (as is George III, separately).

Fun fact: North is also related to Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 13h

Question I've just thought of for the first time: is there a subfield of history yet that does genetic genealogy but for historical gossip? Like, can we figure out if British PM Frederick North was actually the son of George III or just the son of his official father? That sort of thing.

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 13h

Expert genealogists will immediately doubt this, since many people erroneously claim to be descended from royalty. I assure you that I meticulously researched this connection. (Also, I do not claim to be a descendant! My 1st cousin 1x removed’s brother-in-law married the daughter of an aristocrat.)

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 13h

Well, I can now quit #genealogy, having traced one branch back to William the Conqueror 🤴🏻

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Lee and Vincent Price between takes on the set of The Oblong Box (1969)

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 1d

You’re just a brain hanging out with a skeleton

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

They let me go outside on occasion.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyWalk at Deer Lake, somewhat truncated due to the presence of a large black bear on the trail

Beautiful marshy area with mountains in the background

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

No, a west coast state.

(I know the Great Lakes area and east coast pretty well because I grew up in southern Ontario.)

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

(Random book and glasses spotted yesterday on the pier at Dundarave, West Vancouver)

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at pictures (glasses included)

A book entitled Looking at Pictures left on the ground. A pair of glasses is sitting on top of the book.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

My knowledge of central US is not as good as the west coast and the northeast, obviously.

You can probably guess which state I lived in.

Quiz results: Congratulations! You named 393 U.S. cities! You named 393 cities, with a total population of 71,324,913 (27.36% of the national urban population in 2020).

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 1d

Yup — a lot of the places where early settlers settled were named after the places they came from.

alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 2d

Not bad for a Canadian (though I have travelled throughout the UK and all of my ancestry is British)

Quiz results: Congratulations! You named 157 British cities! You named 157 cities, with a total population of 24,029,830 (36.50% of the British urban population).

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 2d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 2d

Gilda is visiting today. I don’t know where Norbert is. #BalconyPigeons

A lone pigeon sitting on a balcony railing overlooking a city on a rainy day

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 3d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 4d

news.ubc.ca/2025/10/what...

What to know about COVID-19 vaccines this fall - UBC News

As fall virus season approaches and COVID-19 cases show early signs of increasing, UBC experts Dr. Fawziah Lalji and Dr. Julie Bettinger answer common questions about 2025 vaccines and this year's imm...

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 4d

Watching season 4 of #TheBear. This show has good music.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 4d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 4d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 5d

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alex 🦇 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 5d

Great :/