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Keith M Ellis

@kmellis.com

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60, native New Mexican, progressive, and disabled. Oh, I also have a third nipple, if that's important to you.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 9d

POV: It's October. You're looking at a standard NA HVAC thermostat. You are cold. It reads '68°F'. It appears to be set to 72°. It's on 'cool'.

You:

A) raise the setting to 74° why not
B) complain that someone set it to 68°
C) switch to 'heat' knowing you'll be back soon; or
D) walk away mumbling

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 11h

Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867

Canada very much has prayer in state-funded religious schools, just as many, many democracies around the world do.

Whoever made this is either an American pretending to be Canadian, which is bad, or actually a Canadian, which is just sad and embarrassing.

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 11h

Coming straight down the middle.

Inset of Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son"

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 16h

my husband loves john oliver so i’m glad this week’s ep is about bari weiss and I got to tell him of the time I got booked to debate her live on stage in nyc and the organizers went bankrupt so I got paid without actually needing to interact with her, aka the greatest thing that has ever happened

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 16h

Do the kids know each digit used to represent an actual physical link in a chain connection between handsets?

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19h

This guy. This guy is a walking stereotype. The whole article is an embarrassment.

www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Brian Harris was working from home on Indigenous Peoples' Day and went to the Santa Fe Plaza after seeing on social media some type of protest was taking place. When he arrived, he was confronted with what he described as "an angry mob."

"It was disheartening, to say the least," Harris said.

He arrived a few minutes after the obelisk had already been toppled and said he stayed for about 45 minutes, during which he said there was a sense of lawlessness he hadn't previously encountered in Santa Fe.

Harris, who moved to Santa Fe in 1999, said he is "very much a liberal" and believes in free and fair protest, but what he saw that day was something different.

"There was an undertone of violence," he said, adding he felt like many people present were inordinately happy they had succeeded in destroying the monument.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20h

I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 20h

Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 20h

The part with the mangled version of "I'd like to teach the world to sing..." is so moving.

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 21h

Anyone remember that original Star Trek episode about a world where half the people drank Pepsi and half the people drank Coke and Kirk made peace by defeating the polar bear in single combat?

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 21h

I think the main barrier to honest, direct coverage from the mainstream media in Trump 1.0 was professional norms/reflexive both sides-ism. In 2.0, that's still a factor, but a bigger barrier may be ownership. Reporters/editors know that many media owners are wary of too much anti-Trump coverage.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 21h

Single most reliable red flag: people disliking both children and animals.

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 21h

It's a mistranslation, to boot.

It's best avoided altogether. "Circular argument" and "raises the question" avoid all ambiguity and also don't use a technical, rhetorical term that's a bad translation from the Latin that, really, no one should expect other people to know.

He's stupid twice-over. 🤷‍♀️

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

It continues... as of 6am on Monday:
- a 4th consecutive day with record-high dewpoint (57°F so far)
- 106 consecutive hours and counting with a 50°F+ dewpoint

Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 2d

Record-smashing humidity in #Albuquerque...
In a streak that would be typical in the core of monsoon season, Albuquerque is in the midst of an unprecedented surge of moisture this late in the year.
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 1d

Bound to be Penrose. Always up to no good, that guy.

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 1d

new cosmological theory drops

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 2d

Are not the VINs still visible through the front window?

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 2d

Everything I've seen shouts that he's a eugenicist. Maybe he doesn't think of himself that way, but it's 100% how he thinks.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 2d

Basically RFK Jr is blowing a dog whistle in the key of anti-semitism. (Autism = bad, in his eschatology: also circumcision = Jewish cultural practice = bad. It's much more obvious outside the US eg. here in Europe, where circumcision is mainly practiced by muslims and jews, or for phimosis.)

John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 3d

We knew RFKjr was as crazy as a soup sandwich, but this?!

RFK Jr.’s comments on circumcision and autism draw sharp criticism

Kennedy's comments were met with incredulity, skepticism and snark.

www.oregonlive.com

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 2d

Doing that changed me, even though I already knew stuff intellectually. The biggest thing was that a majority of women close to me disclosed being survivors. Family, friends, acquaintances sometimes. I believe women. (And men!)

Anyway, certain people are, um, weird about Allen. It's a "type".

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 2d

In the early 90s, I did volunteer rape crisis work and also, not coincidentally, my then-spouse was a survivor. Everything about that story makes my skin crawl, not the least the people like this guy who feel the need to defend Allen.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 2d

I've rarely developed such a strong dislike for someone so thoroughly, so quickly, than I just did with this guy. I hate his face. I hate his math.

In fact, just now, I hired an Etsy witch to curse his liver.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 3d

I wouldn't say 'sane'. I would say that it reveals something psychologically interesting in people who just won't even consider this possibility. It's a lot of people, I bet.

Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 3d

It certainly didn't work for me.

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SquidRadio @squidradio.bsky.social · 3d

"I think our government should be smaller, but still large enough to police your body, your love life and your religious preference"

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