Don Sheldon
@donsheldon.bsky.social
My family revitalizes abandoned homes, maintains them, and rents them fairly. I'm very proud of our work.
We also play games of all descriptions, especially on a table.
I like math and science most, but am interested in everything.
He/Him/His
We also play games of all descriptions, especially on a table.
I like math and science most, but am interested in everything.
He/Him/His
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Don Sheldon
@donsheldon.bsky.social
· Nov 9
They say posting your art is the best thing to do here when you first start. My art is a card game called The House of Wisdom. It's about the amazing discoveries of the Islamic Golden Age; things that you know about, but maybe don't know where they came from.
Pathetic cowards gonna cower.
Trump has canceled the GDP Report for the first time in history. He has also cancelled the Jobs Report. He is trying to conceal the weak economic performance his policies have caused .
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
www.newsweek.com/trump-cancel...
Trump canceling GDP report comes under scrutiny
The canceled release of the third-quarter GDP advance estimate has fueled speculation about the state of the economy.
www.newsweek.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pathetic cowards gonna cower.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you.
I guess I trip on it or something?
I guess I trip on it or something?
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You just died, the sixth picture in your camera roll is what killed you.
I guess I trip on it or something?
I guess I trip on it or something?
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Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
Smoke still goes to the chimney👍
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Smoke still goes to the chimney👍
Any other parents out there raising non-stop art machines? What do I do with all my 5yo's output? They'll notice if I throw it away, but there is SO much. The first two didn't do this.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Any other parents out there raising non-stop art machines? What do I do with all my 5yo's output? They'll notice if I throw it away, but there is SO much. The first two didn't do this.
Well, that's horrible.
A Tennessee legislator has ordered all Tennessee public libraries to shut down for two weeks to review their childrens collections and ensure they do not contain any books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
The Harper's letter crew is going to be *furious* about this.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Well, that's horrible.
I loved the part at the end where Sean Carroll runs through the dozens of people that made quantum mechanics happen in super rapid fire mode. How many names did you recognize? The thumbnail is a diagram of it. (And I'm pretty sure he's doing it off the top of his head too.) youtu.be/rT7DMb3ZucU?...
Sean Carroll: Einstein’s most radical thought
YouTube video by Big Think
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November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I loved the part at the end where Sean Carroll runs through the dozens of people that made quantum mechanics happen in super rapid fire mode. How many names did you recognize? The thumbnail is a diagram of it. (And I'm pretty sure he's doing it off the top of his head too.) youtu.be/rT7DMb3ZucU?...
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Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
Finally, for the first time in over a week both kids are in school and it's quiet. This flu was stupid and I hate it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Finally, for the first time in over a week both kids are in school and it's quiet. This flu was stupid and I hate it.
Spooky dark room, or less spooky single light in the corner room?
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Spooky dark room, or less spooky single light in the corner room?
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Conversations with my mother in law:
"There's no 'fix' for your phone's battery when you watch twelve and a half hours of YouTube in a day."
"I'm not watching it, it's sounds for when I sleep."
"Is the screen on?"
"Of course, it has to be."
*Gestures wildly*
"There's no 'fix' for your phone's battery when you watch twelve and a half hours of YouTube in a day."
"I'm not watching it, it's sounds for when I sleep."
"Is the screen on?"
"Of course, it has to be."
*Gestures wildly*
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Conversations with my mother in law:
"There's no 'fix' for your phone's battery when you watch twelve and a half hours of YouTube in a day."
"I'm not watching it, it's sounds for when I sleep."
"Is the screen on?"
"Of course, it has to be."
*Gestures wildly*
"There's no 'fix' for your phone's battery when you watch twelve and a half hours of YouTube in a day."
"I'm not watching it, it's sounds for when I sleep."
"Is the screen on?"
"Of course, it has to be."
*Gestures wildly*
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Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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At least George W. Bush tried to hide it a little. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
At least George W. Bush tried to hide it a little. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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Mr. Brainworm told the CDC to change its website to say that vaccines cause autism (they don't), because apparently he can just do that. But reality is not so easily tricked. bsky.app/profile/dons...
They think they own the experts and the experts now have to tell them they're right, just like they used to do for their enemies, but it turns out the experts (and those enemies) actually serve a common master called "truth." Thus it is with liars and sycophants, they think everyone else is one too.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Mr. Brainworm told the CDC to change its website to say that vaccines cause autism (they don't), because apparently he can just do that. But reality is not so easily tricked. bsky.app/profile/dons...
Apparently some researchers had LLMs try to break each other and they found that poems and lyrics were the most successful vectors. And then the internet collaborated thusly.
Alas, too busy in the office today to spare the attention needed to mutilate "Modern Major General" into an LLM killer.
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Apparently some researchers had LLMs try to break each other and they found that poems and lyrics were the most successful vectors. And then the internet collaborated thusly.