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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

I do date myself, don’t I? I mean erasable typewriter paper, physical delivery of paper, as paper, and without retaining any copy?

proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a paper for an English Poetry course my freshman year the night before, fell asleep on the typewriter keyboard, woke up, finished the thing just about as class was due to start, sprinted across the quad, got there 1 minute late, handed it to the prof [angrily: “I’ll *take* it”]. Got an A-.

proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

The minus was for lateness, of course

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a paper for an English Poetry course my freshman year the night before, fell asleep on the typewriter keyboard, woke up, finished the thing just about as class was due to start, sprinted across the quad, got there 1 minute late, handed it to the prof [angrily: “I’ll *take* it”]. Got an A-.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

Awful. But nevertheless, the rule about headlines that end in question marks...

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

It would be cool if they were nimble enough to create a Nobel Dolt Prize and award it to him tomorrow

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

bring back waxpaper for deli meats and cheeses

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

There was a time—say when Dylan was just hitting—when boomers might have thought that, because Cash’s fans were still c+w fans mostly—not cool—and Dylan was cool. Many of us became Cash fans later. So if whoever this is is pushing 80YO and still stuck in 1965, pathetic, but I get it. If not, WTAF.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 1d

this is...startling.

screen shot with highlighted text:

“Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. ”

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 2d

Charlotte, VT
Calais, VT
Berlin, VT

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 2d

If I make it to 100 and they ask me what my secret is, you now know what I’ll say.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 2d

There is no better treatment, Jewish or otherwise.

That said, my regularly vaccinated neighbor just had COVID (positive test)(for the 3rd time) and it amounted to a mild head cold for 3 days or so.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 2d

“inside every old person is a young person screaming “what the hell happened?!”

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Four students were killed (the one in the famous image wasn’t even a protestor) and nine were injured. They were not “shooting in the air.” You should go read up.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not quite that pessimistic about public reaction, but I don’t want to go out on any limbs to predict it. Different time, different context, whoTFK?

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I had any idea what would be the aftermath of that—in spite of having lived through the original and its aftermath, I really haven’t a clue.

Kent State of course happened in the context of this:

“One Week’s Dead”

Image of the Life Magazine pages from June of 1969 with that title, folded back so only enough parts of them show to indicate how many pages it filled. It showed the names, mostly with photos, of the 242 Americans who had died that week in Vietnam.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Only once for me, and I had other reasons to be in Chicago. No interest in a repeat.

Not the same but my Mom in the 1950s read something about pizza and so filled actual pie crust with ground beef, tomato sauce, and velveeta. I loved it.

Pizza was a brand new concept in rural New England then.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

I *always* put maple syrup in my BBQ

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

come to think of it maple syrup would be the best sweetener for (homemade) ketchup

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Fish sauce and tamarind. It was via WS that I realized I should have tamarind extract on hand at all times. Very good when something needs a little tart/sweet kick.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

OK gotta say the temp dropped about 15º and it started raining (extremely welcome) and I think this might have been the flower baskets’ curtain call.

proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Vermont. October 7. Outside temp, 75ºf (@ 1,200ft elev.). hanging pots from last June somewhat bedraggled, but still blooming. This feels weird.

photo of hanging flower pot, with a lot of dead blossoms but still some fresh pink and blue ones.

proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

Vermont. October 7. Outside temp, 75ºf (@ 1,200ft elev.). hanging pots from last June somewhat bedraggled, but still blooming. This feels weird.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 3d

Ed is spot on here.

To repeat myself: Ed could not be more correct.

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 9d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 3d

So, civil war, then? I’m sure your Jedi skills will come in handy.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 4d

Those two million notwithstanding...

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