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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit

@smolanalyst.bsky.social

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DC wargamer abroad with two borked cats, an oversized dog, and an unhealthy interest in moral injury, chaplaincy and WMDs. The least prepared chaplaincy student and most relaxed part-time faculty member. Her dresses have pockets.

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 11h

The sequels are wild and I love them

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 12h

The Rook and its sequels by Daniel O'Malley, aka what if you have a bunch of humans with weird abilities but they generally prefer to be pleasant bureaucrats; the protagonist is extremely good at budgets.

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 14h

"average family spends $300 a year" factoid actualy
just statistical error. average family spends 20 dollars per year, mostly on candy. Skellingtons Georg, who lives in cave & spends 10,000 dollars each day on skeleton animatronics, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Because of timing around ending my job, I got to keep my family's health insurance active until the end of the month. We updated meds, did the whole thing you do before moving, then got hit by a mystery bill because somebody accidentally terminated our coverage a month early. Criminy.

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 2d

If science journalism is going to survive genAI (and Jen, from Corporate), we're going to have to do a lot more than rewrite press releases 🧪

What The **** Is The Point Of Us Then?

Are we better than the machines or not?

nobreakthroughs.substack.com

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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, what a place of honor! Highly esteemed deeds must be commemorated here! And there are probably valuables...

Federal Disposal Field HZ-21 from the videogame Fallout 76

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

I know my partner's EU phone number, but only in Danish. I know the DC Metro Police, but only in Spanish. I cannot explain these things.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I have at least written my wife’s cell phone number on enough forms that I know that one off the top of my head

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Props to the people who were cool to have me show up to meetings with a baby; it's way harder to turn out now that the kid can walk, so can confirm that childcare is a useful part of this stuff!

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

Consistently reading Threads the app as Threads the horrifying nuclear war film and getting a lil confused

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Consolidating the remaining parts of the household into smaller and smaller spaces means now I get to do homework while watching my daughter slowly rotate during her nap.

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Scheduling during PCS season

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Hey that's what the baby does when she's over a snack

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Eel
Viking Destiny
Carrie Underwood's Little Drummer Boy

Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Octopus
Blue Velvet
Lee Greenwood God Bless the USA

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Human flesh
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
God Bless the USA

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 3d

Bro when I tell you that I have visceral memories of watching this on a VHS with my sister at 2am in highschool? This was My Movie

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 4d

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 4d

A throughline in every federal worker I've talked to this year is how they feel like a total mark for their service and work over the years up to this point, and the ones that don't are retiring soon

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity to the feds out there, shit's rough

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 4d

idk babe that gose was worth it

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 4d

If you're in the DMV, go to Streetcar 82. It's genuinely one of the best breweries I have been to, anywhere in the world, and the atmosphere is great. It's a real community space, and they've been chill about my shit ASL and so kind as I've practiced, while also serving the boldest beers I've had.

Dr. SmolAnalyst is hoping the next town won't have an Omelas pit @smolanalyst.bsky.social · 4d

Spending the evening with friends and giving our favorite local hangout spot their flowers which involved typing a long message and me studiously practicing ASL for "your beers are our favorite" because signing "your brewery is amazing and you are clearly not cowards" was way above my skill level