Dr. Fade
@fade.bsky.social
Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
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one struggle of being in a marginalized audience is that sometimes an artist who makes something for us, but we barely have a fingernail's hold on the Entertainment Review Complex
So reviewers criticize the parts that aren't for them, and the work fails because they drown us out
So reviewers criticize the parts that aren't for them, and the work fails because they drown us out
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
one struggle of being in a marginalized audience is that sometimes an artist who makes something for us, but we barely have a fingernail's hold on the Entertainment Review Complex
So reviewers criticize the parts that aren't for them, and the work fails because they drown us out
So reviewers criticize the parts that aren't for them, and the work fails because they drown us out
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Not in his top fifty bad acts, probably not even the top hundred, but still the one with the highest what-the-actual-FUCK factor.
I still can't believe he just knocked down a third of the White House.
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Not in his top fifty bad acts, probably not even the top hundred, but still the one with the highest what-the-actual-FUCK factor.
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Monitoring #squirrelcrimes together. 🥹
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Monitoring #squirrelcrimes together. 🥹
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
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SIBLING vs. SIBLING
2:45 p.m. / Upstairs
This dispute will start about the rightful owner of the shirt currently on your body and that thing you said two months ago at Mimi’s memorial service. It will end with psychological warfare.
2:45 p.m. / Upstairs
This dispute will start about the rightful owner of the shirt currently on your body and that thing you said two months ago at Mimi’s memorial service. It will end with psychological warfare.
Your Family’s Thanksgiving Fight Schedule
Due to the overwhelming number of anticipated brawls this Thanksgiving, we decided to streamline your day with an Official Family Thanksgiving Figh...
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
SIBLING vs. SIBLING
2:45 p.m. / Upstairs
This dispute will start about the rightful owner of the shirt currently on your body and that thing you said two months ago at Mimi’s memorial service. It will end with psychological warfare.
2:45 p.m. / Upstairs
This dispute will start about the rightful owner of the shirt currently on your body and that thing you said two months ago at Mimi’s memorial service. It will end with psychological warfare.
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I really loved this book--it's like computer engineering as cooking and I'm here for all of it
The book I am reading now, that, despite my normal Thanksgiving day meal plans, is making me crave bao. I blame you, @johnchu.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I really loved this book--it's like computer engineering as cooking and I'm here for all of it
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So what DOES make you sleepy on Thanksgiving?
Odds are good that it's CO₂, especially if you're cooking with gas.
I've seen our indoor air CO₂ spike just over 3,000ppm on Thanksgiving. All the people plus all the gas cooking, it adds up.
Odds are good that it's CO₂, especially if you're cooking with gas.
I've seen our indoor air CO₂ spike just over 3,000ppm on Thanksgiving. All the people plus all the gas cooking, it adds up.
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So what DOES make you sleepy on Thanksgiving?
Odds are good that it's CO₂, especially if you're cooking with gas.
I've seen our indoor air CO₂ spike just over 3,000ppm on Thanksgiving. All the people plus all the gas cooking, it adds up.
Odds are good that it's CO₂, especially if you're cooking with gas.
I've seen our indoor air CO₂ spike just over 3,000ppm on Thanksgiving. All the people plus all the gas cooking, it adds up.
Anyway, I have remembered this every Thanksgiving since. I'm still grateful to friends who convinced me to go to the ER, then arranged to have my dog picked up and delivered to another friend's house when it became clear I'd be in the hospital for more than the morning.
I still have very warm fuzzy feelings about the thanksgiving morning when online friends convinced me that my extreme pain was not "worse cramps than usual" and I should go to the ER, which ended with me getting an organ removed at 10pm that same day.
...not really funny, but I think fondly of it?
...not really funny, but I think fondly of it?
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Anyway, I have remembered this every Thanksgiving since. I'm still grateful to friends who convinced me to go to the ER, then arranged to have my dog picked up and delivered to another friend's house when it became clear I'd be in the hospital for more than the morning.
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I’ve loved Korean tiger art since I was a little kid (my grandparents lived in Korea and had some great examples) and it’s both surreal and awesome to see one in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
I feel like a little kid #KPDH #MacysThanksgivingDayParade
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’ve loved Korean tiger art since I was a little kid (my grandparents lived in Korea and had some great examples) and it’s both surreal and awesome to see one in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
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My most recent, #GURPS HOT SPOTS: ISTANBUL, for roleplaying in the (early modern) capital of the Ottoman empire. Serves as a sequel to HOT SPOTS: CONSTANTINOPLE for time travel fun and is contemporary with HOT SPOTS: FLORENCE and HOT SPOTS: VENICE for far-reaching Renaissance coverage.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My most recent, #GURPS HOT SPOTS: ISTANBUL, for roleplaying in the (early modern) capital of the Ottoman empire. Serves as a sequel to HOT SPOTS: CONSTANTINOPLE for time travel fun and is contemporary with HOT SPOTS: FLORENCE and HOT SPOTS: VENICE for far-reaching Renaissance coverage.
Looking at my saved pictures of the vast array of colored tabs sticking out of a stack of Loebs in which I categorized every single social interaction (or mention thereof) between people in two specific social categories for every extant text attributed to Plautus, and nodding in agreement.
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Looking at my saved pictures of the vast array of colored tabs sticking out of a stack of Loebs in which I categorized every single social interaction (or mention thereof) between people in two specific social categories for every extant text attributed to Plautus, and nodding in agreement.
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Anyone who does this deserves their own beatitude
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anyone who does this deserves their own beatitude
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BOAT STUCK HOLIDAY EDITION
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
BOAT STUCK HOLIDAY EDITION
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Today we’re in Chinchero for advanced weaving class
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today we’re in Chinchero for advanced weaving class
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Apple's holiday commercial. They did it all with puppets!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avO...
Apple Holiday | A Critter Carol | Shot on iPhone 17 Pro
YouTube video by Apple
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Apple's holiday commercial. They did it all with puppets!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avO...
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At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
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I am in full introvert huddle today, grouchy as heck, and my spouse is gently & with all love doing the metaphorical equivalent of prodding me out from under the bed with a broom.
This mostly involves bringing me rounds of milk coffee and reminding me that I'm happier as a morning person.
This mostly involves bringing me rounds of milk coffee and reminding me that I'm happier as a morning person.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I am in full introvert huddle today, grouchy as heck, and my spouse is gently & with all love doing the metaphorical equivalent of prodding me out from under the bed with a broom.
This mostly involves bringing me rounds of milk coffee and reminding me that I'm happier as a morning person.
This mostly involves bringing me rounds of milk coffee and reminding me that I'm happier as a morning person.
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"Look, it was made very clear to me that this was a knife fight; I thought I was going to be the ONLY person bringing a gun, and I'm pretty sure it's cheating if other people did that." --the GOP, apparently.
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Look, it was made very clear to me that this was a knife fight; I thought I was going to be the ONLY person bringing a gun, and I'm pretty sure it's cheating if other people did that." --the GOP, apparently.
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They are inventing reading comprehension that is so bad that your SAT verbal score is "the Scantron let out an unearthly howl and sprang to life, murdering the entire office before throwing itself onto the freeway to find peace in oblivion"
Hey y’all wanna see the dictionary definition of centering yourself in a story about marginalized people that isn’t about you? Literally the picture perfect example of “you’ve got a lot of fucking nerve”?
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They are inventing reading comprehension that is so bad that your SAT verbal score is "the Scantron let out an unearthly howl and sprang to life, murdering the entire office before throwing itself onto the freeway to find peace in oblivion"
I have now had an anxiety dream about the Silent Dismissal system we use at work, which is a new low. I think I need more rest.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have now had an anxiety dream about the Silent Dismissal system we use at work, which is a new low. I think I need more rest.
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when contemplating whether to participate in news cycle chatter* it's good to ask "might I more fruitfully spend my keystrokes reminding people that wolves are cool and badass"
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
when contemplating whether to participate in news cycle chatter* it's good to ask "might I more fruitfully spend my keystrokes reminding people that wolves are cool and badass"
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
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anyway these are all great books so far and you could do a lot worse than picking one up, reading the first two chapters tonight, and desperately using it as a conversation topic if someone gets a little too weird over pie
apropos of Buy Books discourse, here’s my current nonfiction reading & rec list:
Bloody Crowns (100 years war), @michaellivingston.com
Between Two Rivers (Mesopotamia), @moudhy.bsky.social
Oathbreakers (Carolingians) & The Bright Ages (u can guess), @profgabriele.com & @lollardfish.bsky.social
Bloody Crowns (100 years war), @michaellivingston.com
Between Two Rivers (Mesopotamia), @moudhy.bsky.social
Oathbreakers (Carolingians) & The Bright Ages (u can guess), @profgabriele.com & @lollardfish.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
anyway these are all great books so far and you could do a lot worse than picking one up, reading the first two chapters tonight, and desperately using it as a conversation topic if someone gets a little too weird over pie
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Fellas is it bourgeois to want to afford to eat and live inside?
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fellas is it bourgeois to want to afford to eat and live inside?
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.