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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I remember when there were two leagues and the regular season mattered.

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 2d

You got me wondering. Data from statmuse dot com

Postseason Games Homers Homers per game
Giancarlo Stanton 47 18 0.38
Babe Ruth 41 15 0.37
Mickey Mantle 65 18 0.28
Aaron Judge 64 17 0.27
Bernie Williams 121 22 0.18
Derek Jeter 158 20 0.13

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 3d

Making frozen pasta dinners with Italian pasta is like making a whiskey sour with Pappy Van Winkle

Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 13d

If you can't trust the pasta grannies who can you trust?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Barricades in Bari: why the city’s ‘pasta grannies’ are under scrutiny

Sellers of fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares

www.theguardian.com

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 20d

Primo from Big Night looking with disdain at anyone suggesting that is a pizza

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 20d

It's only a matter of time before speech-to-text makes all our conversation sound like this

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22d

Question Mark

xkcd.com/3143/

Comic. PERSON 1: That movie was so good. Maybe even the greatest movie of all time question mark? PERSON 2: Yeah comma, but you said that about italics *Charlie’s Angels Colon: Full Throttle* period. Paragraph break. I question your judgement period. [caption] When people say “question mark” out loud as a rhetorical device, it always makes me want to say my other punctuation and formatting too.

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 23d

Do people not know that Dyson was just joking? youtu.be/huAIfzUoyhU?...

Robert Wright & Freeman Dyson (2003)

YouTube video by NonzeroClips

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 29d

#neverforget

One World Trade Center viewed through trees from St. Paul's Chapel with gravestones in the foreground

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is fascinating. Interesting that the heraldry from the attacking cavalry was transferred over to the defenders. That's sensible purely looking at the image but would never be done with an understanding of the content.

Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wasn't expecting to find food safety tips while browsing the American Nuclear Society web site
www.ans.org/news/article...

Cs-137 contaminated shrimp? What we know

www.ans.org

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Aug 30

We may finally see the autonomous vehicle Turing test. Can an AV merge into the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour?

www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Waymo gets first permit to test autonomous vehicles in New York City

Alphabet's robotaxi unit Waymo has received its first permit to begin testing its autonomous vehicles in New York City with a trained specialist behind the wheel, helping the company advance its self-driving ambitions.

www.reuters.com

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm just going to quit while I'm ahead
Cardle 2/5
Streak 1🔥
Total Score 12
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Cardle

Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

www.playcardle.com

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Aug 9

Not to quibble, but we didn't need a movie to make Jim Lovell immortal

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...

Headline reading, 'He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”'

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jul 28

Recognize that view. There is a tiny chance I've been in your kitchen

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jul 20

I love the Dutch

Shirley Eugest 🗽⚖️ @eugestshirley.bsky.social · Jul 20

The goose parade Netherlands.
www.youtube.com/shorts/hWRqk...

Goose parade in the Netherlands ✨🪿

YouTube video by Britclip

www.youtube.com

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jul 14

On a five-year mission to where no man has gone before

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jul 3

I realized only late in life that what I really wanted was to be Gene Kelly

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 30

If they haven't done a cross-promotion with the Savannah Bananas their marketing guy should be fired

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 30

Long story short, the observed effect was spurious. It's an interesting story, though, in how expecting to see an effect can corrupt a set of observations by a serious scientist.

Sadly, this story is the lead-in to obituary- The Lancet share.google/UKlm8OULtlLF...

Jacques Benveniste

A physician and immunologist who propounded the contentious theory of the “memory of water”. Born March 12, 1935, in Paris, France, he died on Oct 3, 2004, during heart surgery at the Pitié-Salpétrièr...

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 30

Benveniste did some experiments that attributed the effects of homeopathy to a persistent change in the structure of water. Since the results were both remarkable and published in a reputable journal, Nature, they drew a lot of attention.

Jacques Benveniste

A physician and immunologist who propounded the contentious theory of the “memory of water”. Born March 12, 1935, in Paris, France, he died on Oct 3, 2004, during heart surgery at the Pitié-Salpétrièr...

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 30

That's not my area but years ago I came across is an interesting story related to scientific investigations of homeopathy. I came across the work of Jacques Benveniste in the context of my graduate work on the structure of liquids.

Jacques Benveniste

A physician and immunologist who propounded the contentious theory of the “memory of water”. Born March 12, 1935, in Paris, France, he died on Oct 3, 2004, during heart surgery at the Pitié-Salpétrièr...

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 28

"the art of film"

The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film.

Announcement of the Criterion edition of "This Is Spinal Tap."

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 28

Defenders too focused on knocking the ball loose and failed to wrap him up

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rest in peace, Bill Moyers. As a press secretary, he was of course political, but also serious, honest, and thoughtful. Happy to have met you, even if only at a book signing

Signed title page from Bill Moyer's book, ""Fooling With Words"

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · Jun 21

So they're really talking about the energy of the particles. Calling a temperature is a little confusing, but that's a unit that people understand. Hope that's helpful

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