Jude
@pwan.org
Hi there. Chill boardgamer, powerlifting tourist, and anxious driver. Your typical introvert's introvert. For excitement, I'll float in a sensory deprivation tank. I once fed a red panda an apple slice. An apple slice !!
January 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I used some PVC piping I usually use for rolling out to change a spare tire !
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4 Tricks to Break a Stuck Lug Nut or Rim Free (And How To Avoid One in the First Place)
It might be surprisingly simple to solve this day-ruining problem the next time you have a flat.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I used some PVC piping I usually use for rolling out to change a spare tire !
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!!! PONY LIBRARIAN !!!
This week marked the 100th annual Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Co. "pony penning" in Virginia, famously featured in Marguerite Henry's 1947 bestseller "Misty of Chincoteague." Did you know the real Misty was "librarian for a day" at an American Library Association conference in 1949? 🥰
August 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
!!! PONY LIBRARIAN !!!
May 10th is the anniversary of the Bebelplatz book burning.
en.berlin-memoire.com/post/library
en.berlin-memoire.com/post/library
Empty Library Memorial: Where Nazis Burned Books
A small memorial to the diversity murdered by the Nazis.
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May 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
May 10th is the anniversary of the Bebelplatz book burning.
en.berlin-memoire.com/post/library
en.berlin-memoire.com/post/library
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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One lesson I've learned from history, is that few reputations survive being on the opposite side to the Quakers
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
One lesson I've learned from history, is that few reputations survive being on the opposite side to the Quakers
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Another reason to donate more blood.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Giving blood linked to lower risk of pre-cancer gene
Frequent donors were more likely to have different genetic changes in their blood stem cells, scientists found.
www.bbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Another reason to donate more blood.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.
www.cbsnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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This is you.
March 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is you.
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"fuck you and your entire law school, you bigoted hack" is the kind of energy we need more of, good on Judge Reyes
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"fuck you and your entire law school, you bigoted hack" is the kind of energy we need more of, good on Judge Reyes
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The longer I am in this industry, the more I realise that there is leadership in title or name and then actual get shit done leadership.
If you see a failing test or a codebase that needs linting and you fix it, that's leadership.
If you see a failing test or a codebase that needs linting and you fix it, that's leadership.
I am not sure how anyone could read what I said and have the takeaway be that I don't value leaders or leadership. 😅 I very much do -- and not just in form of management.
Some of the most important kinds of leadership are most effectively wielded by working engineers.
Some of the most important kinds of leadership are most effectively wielded by working engineers.
February 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The longer I am in this industry, the more I realise that there is leadership in title or name and then actual get shit done leadership.
If you see a failing test or a codebase that needs linting and you fix it, that's leadership.
If you see a failing test or a codebase that needs linting and you fix it, that's leadership.
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What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because millions of people do a couple things well, not because one person does a million things.” [choosedemocracy.us]
What can I do to fight this coup?
If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to…
choosedemocracy.us
February 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because millions of people do a couple things well, not because one person does a million things.” [choosedemocracy.us]
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Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a food program, volunteering your skills to local groups, joining or starting a union, and helping with disaster relief. [docs.google.com]
February 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a food program, volunteering your skills to local groups, joining or starting a union, and helping with disaster relief. [docs.google.com]
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I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.
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Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
February 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
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Cooking is an adventure.
January 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Cooking is an adventure.
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the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.
![. [from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: “a state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world, trying to prop yourself up like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams yet powerless to do anything but stand there and watch”].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidlc525vonddk6zx3zghhvlamidzwalrw6adcq6u7jpvoxgtxql6u@jpeg)
January 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.