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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 9h

For better and worse, RN was deeply a man of my own parents' generation and ilk. The ambitions and resentments of insecure middle class young people in the Depression. The need for iron self-discipline in order to get anywhere.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 2d

And that's the secret of AI. It's the ultimate final exam bullshitter.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 2d

From the review it sounds almost like a Marx Brothers precursor. (I've read the play, never seen it.) Hard to believe it wouldn't have been an inspiration to Kaufman et al.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 2d

He needs an editor to make him stop and take a breath.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 4d

You can set pretty high-color options in CDE that will show it off even more.

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Lisa Will @dustchick.bsky.social · 4d

I've always said this, but since last November, I've been pointing this out frequently in whatever venues to whatever audiences I can: "The planet NASA studies most is Earth."

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure about the "Midwestern" part. Didn't Senator Eugene McCarthy say when the catcher went to pick his mask up off the ground after a pop-up, they used to kick it farther away from him?

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 17d

When I lived near Boston, used to enjoy going jogging in the evening and hearing the Red Sox from every porch as I passed.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 18d

Oops!! I see they did mention the Seldom Scene, my error. But they should have included Gatton.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 18d

Popping back to this to say they omitted Danny Gatton. Shame. And no mention at all of bluegrass, WAMU, the Seldom Scene, Bill Emerson.... or going back further, Roy Clarke. C'mon.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 19d

Difficult sport in which to have favorites. I like Wakatakakage and Wakamotoharu both. They are great athletes who have differentiated themselves in attitude the way brothers will.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 19d

You mean a joke that wasn't funny when it was on the Mr. Jinks cartoon in 1962 is current? I really wonder how many of the environmental chemicals are as yet undiscovered.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 19d

Honestly I think Bruno Mars gets an honorable mention here. Agree Prince though.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 20d

And I don't mean you in particular, I mean anyone.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 20d

Issues sort out far more strangely for people who didn't grow up the way you did, than you will ever realize.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely cat, beautiful whiskers, 10/10.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 22d

Those pix look like teeny original-format Polaroids.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22d

And fighting against the growth of an authoritarian government takes a certain amount of stoicism and levelheadedness and discipline. Freaking out about fascism is defeatist.

SteveG @trenchdiggr.bsky.social · 22d

The point of contention is whether or not we live in a fascist state. That has a definition. If I recall, Tom has acknowledged that we have fascists in govt, and doing some fascist things. But individual actions are a far cry from saying we live under fascism. Seems a reasonable distinction to me.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 22d

I've learned a lot by writing replies to Tom that I never send.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 23d

So many abdications.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 23d

Kinda puzzled by the Dakotas. And Glacier.

Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 25d

I think one of the existential struggles of sumo is with physical injury and the other is with expectations. 'Nuff said.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 26d

That's the second most-used phrase in rikishi interviews: "my brand of sumo." But I do understand what he means, I think.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 28d

I was a Classics major in college (and therefore took Latin) and the form yokozunae gives me a chuckle every time.

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Bob S H @bobshill98.bsky.social · 29d

High school debate brings back a lot of very ambivalent memories.