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Bill R aka N1VUX
@bill-n1vux.bsky.social
semi-retired. Perl & other FLOSS software. Scotch+Armagnac. Genealogy. old coastal fortifications. Radio. Maths. ^Sarcasm thus.^
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Note: This account was overusing the em-dash — rendered thusly — before ChatGPT picked up the bad habit from us Yanks.
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For the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 27:

🚫 Parking meters are free.
🛣️ Daytime street cleaning is canceled. Overnight street cleaning is on a normal schedule.
🚮 Some neighborhoods will run on a delayed trash/recycling pickup schedule. See the list below or at boston.gov/trash-day
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Dozens of high-engagement accounts on X, including some pro and anti-Trump users, have been accused of misleading users following the roll-out of a new transparency feature that shows user locations.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
@davisjason.bsky.social @natebukaty.bsky.social ManUre's 1.5ppg is quite respectable, not Sir Alex tier, no.
But when 1.0 ppg is bare survival, 2.0 ppg is contending for 2nd, the only problem with 10 of 20 teams being clustered around 1.5ppg is most of them think they have a
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@natebukaty.bsky.social It's sure nice to hear a Gooner on SXM157 for a change!
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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American friends, I've seen a couple of IF YOU HAVEN"T STARTED DEFROSTING YOUR TURKEY IT'S TOO LATE posts, so just a reminder that air is terrible for heat transfer and you can also safely and (relatively) quickly thaw a turkey in cold water: www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/...
Turkey Basics: Safe Thawing | Food Safety and Inspection Service
An official website of the United States government
www.fsis.usda.gov
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Why again is Mamdami cool for accepting the moral surrender of Trump but Harris was not for accepting the moral surrender of Cheney?

It's almost like many of the far left accounts working against Harris were foreign.

1/2
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"Cuomo's...a man who...has engaged in no self-scrutiny and made no course correction, and who is committed to carrying the same stubborn grievances forward, to ever diminishing audiences, with ever diminishing returns, a man collapsing in on himself to a singularity of grievance and self-regard." 💯
Andrew Cuomo, back again with an epic two-hour radio segment rehashing his campaign points and attacking the guy who beat him, is not going away quietly.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-m-cuo...
Andrew Cuomo Is Riding This Thing All the Way to the Bottom
Cuomo and another washed up former governor telling each other "exactlyyyyy."
hellgatenyc.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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"Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving interventions in the history of medicine and public health.”

-- MA Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD

www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt...

@cambridgeday.com @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social #Massachusetts
MA Public Health Commissioner Condemns New Misinformation on the CDC Website - Cambridge Public Health Department
Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein rebuked the misleading information and false claims about vaccines that were recently posted on the CDC’s website.
www.cambridgepublichealth.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
@chrismedlandf1.bsky.social ends the SpeedCity SXM/YT #F1 postrace show on a cliffhanger.
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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If Mercedes were smart here, they’d let Kimi past George, back George into Oscar/Charles & somehow still finish P3/P4 despite Kimi’s penalty

#F1 #LasVegasGP
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Outstanding reminder by @markhertling.bsky.social on the recent controversy around the oath. This is a subject that needs a lot more discussion, and a lot more nuance.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@thomasjrennie.bsky.social
cc: @siriusxmfc.bsky.social @timhorsey.bsky.social @jackjcollins.bsky.social
NEW-MCI: Strange game, good call, Tom. Glad the ref found his 🟨 card in dressing-room at halftime.
So questoon for Monday SXMFC, who is the new Manager vs Club whodoo leader?
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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A good explainer by Ken! (Follow the replies)
I didn't normally share Substack links.

This is an exception.

@edzitron.com has been talking about this for over a year... This is the first time, to my knowledge, that the stock markets have gone "WTF?"

Tying Bitcoin to Nvidia share prices as an oracle is fascinating.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This cut off the first few seconds of the video which gives some context to what they're saying:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
2 - The #USMNT has scored two goals in the opening 20 minutes against a CONMEBOL opponent for the first time since June 8, 1995 vs. Chile (Eric Wynalda brace). Quickfire.
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The Museum of Bad Art is one of Boston’s hidden gems.
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Yesterday marked the 250th anniversary of the start of the Ticonderoga Expedition in which 25-year-old Henry Knox led the effort to haul 60 tons of artillery on sleds from Fort Ticonderoga south to Albany and east across Massachusetts to the Continental Army camps in Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Look who’s in town! We are showing Francesca all the sights in Philly, though we should’ve saved more time for the art museum.

Signed mini-prints are officially in town, so now we just need the games to leave port so we can send everything your way.

Please also check our newest comic, Rat King!
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Does Max Verstappen deserve to be penalised more often? #F1 #Formula1

Read more at intothechicane.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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On Armistice Day, I think about this recreated soundscape of the moment the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.

A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I
A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM