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Thomas Dickerson

@elfprince13.mumak.app

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Director of Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist Bluesky open-source contributor Decentralizing systems (human & digital) Opinions are my own 📍Vermont

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Jan 20

Sadly my Shannara product idea has expired, but it's not too late to support Lego Bill & Ted.

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · Nov 13

Meanwhile, if you enjoy Bill & Ted (or are a Doctor Who fan who wants the next best time traveling phone-booth to a TARDIS), please help me turn @alexwinter.com into a Lego minifigure! We only 10K votes, and it's free/easy to make an account.

bit.ly/lego-ideas-bill-and-ted

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Bright red and yellow Siberian crab apples

Bright red maple towering over some cars and houses

One small mountain shrouded in clouds with fall foliage in the middle distance

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 5m

which came first the finger or the toe

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 13m

You can see the list of supported terminals with the command “toe”. Yes this used to be important enough to get a 3 letter command.

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“Try that in a small town” but it’s exclusively wholesome activities like trying to sample cider donuts from every orchard

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a man says " cast it into the fire ! destroy it "

Alt: Elrond says " cast it into the fire ! destroy it " while Isildur looks sus

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 54m

@hailey.at I blame you for this post

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 56m

There is no more fundamentally pro-American activity than being anti-monarchy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Scalise: "Chuck Schumer is throwing a temper tantrum here at home just to appease the most radical elements of his base so that on the 18th when they have the Hate America Rally that everybody knows is coming ... "

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 59m

cc @kateviolette.com

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 1h

Comes up a lot with people asking me “should I get a PhD if I don’t want to go into academia”

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 1h

I tell people considering grad school that the value of a PhD is learning to become a world expert in one topic, because if you can do it once you can do it again

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

Or food, or transportation, or energy …

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

Or healthcare, or education…

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

I will give your app or website zero stars if it spams me with surveys

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 19h

Bank: Please leave a review of your experience with us.

Me: I USED AN ATM. IT PROMPTLY GAVE ME THE AMOUNT OF MY MONEY I REQUESTED. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME SPEND MORE TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS. THAT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE.

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

I live for the like 2 weeks a year when pond skating is viable

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

Happy 20th Birthday to @vcet.co 🎂

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 2h

I will not eat the bugs

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 4h

Oh noooooooo

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 4h

Nooooooooo

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 12h

I always find meditation/“mindfulness” advice to be really impractical because “empty your mind” is not something I can practically do

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 12h

I’m pretty far along the aphantasia scale but I really can’t imagine being able to go 10 seconds much less 30 without my brain sort of reflexively autopopulating stuff to think about

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 13h

I've had exactly two beers in my life where i thought "mmm this is good" and instead of "mmm this is tolerable" or "this is nasty". One was a bougie coconut vanilla 11% ABV imperial stout, and the other was an essentially bog standard 5.6% gruit.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h

He was such a horrific governor that the SPANISH imprisoned him in San Domingo! postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/c...

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 14h

I was gonna say that’s a very specific intro angle 👀

Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 14h

see also: Calvin & Hobbes, William Sleator’s The Duplicate, Rodney McKay teaming up with his parallel universe counterpart in SGA, arguably Rommie/Andromeda divide in Andromeda, and I think there are some more obvious ones I’m missing