Alex Remington
@alexremington.bsky.social
Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover.
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Just apropos of several things going on on this site, I don’t want to be see mean or judgy (this isn’t a value judgement, to be clear), but I really feel like a lot of people are functionally illiterate. This goes beyond reading comprehension issues.
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just apropos of several things going on on this site, I don’t want to be see mean or judgy (this isn’t a value judgement, to be clear), but I really feel like a lot of people are functionally illiterate. This goes beyond reading comprehension issues.
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No actually, if someone calls me the n-word, I am never in a situation where I think a violent response is unwarranted. You pay for the ticket, you have earned the right to get it punched. Excused as far as I'm concerned.
Even if he reported the fan and even if the fan said some really bad stuff, you still need to keep your cool. This is inexcusable.
December 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
No actually, if someone calls me the n-word, I am never in a situation where I think a violent response is unwarranted. You pay for the ticket, you have earned the right to get it punched. Excused as far as I'm concerned.
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This is the most accurate description of the AVATAR franchise (and, implicitly, the entire James Cameron corpus) I have ever read, and it can only be appreciated if you see both skeets at once
(sorry to gank, @headfallsoff.com)
bsky.app/profile/head...
(sorry to gank, @headfallsoff.com)
bsky.app/profile/head...
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the most accurate description of the AVATAR franchise (and, implicitly, the entire James Cameron corpus) I have ever read, and it can only be appreciated if you see both skeets at once
(sorry to gank, @headfallsoff.com)
bsky.app/profile/head...
(sorry to gank, @headfallsoff.com)
bsky.app/profile/head...
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THIS SO MUCH THIS
If you want to know "has this specific species been observed on this small island in Alaska", odds are the answer is not online, but in some typewritten USFWS or USFS report in the library
Even with wonderful resources like iNat and eBird, huge gaps remain!
If you want to know "has this specific species been observed on this small island in Alaska", odds are the answer is not online, but in some typewritten USFWS or USFS report in the library
Even with wonderful resources like iNat and eBird, huge gaps remain!
Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
THIS SO MUCH THIS
If you want to know "has this specific species been observed on this small island in Alaska", odds are the answer is not online, but in some typewritten USFWS or USFS report in the library
Even with wonderful resources like iNat and eBird, huge gaps remain!
If you want to know "has this specific species been observed on this small island in Alaska", odds are the answer is not online, but in some typewritten USFWS or USFS report in the library
Even with wonderful resources like iNat and eBird, huge gaps remain!
I always thought it was Honus Wagner!
Hi! Today’s episode of BBC Dead Funny History is all about history’s most successful pirate, Zheng Yi Sao — it’s a very funny 14 minute romp with funny audio sketches and narration by me. Suitable for children!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen wherever you get your podcasts
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - Zheng Yi Sao - BBC Sounds
Zheng Yi Sao: Pirate Queen of Admin.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I always thought it was Honus Wagner!
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A little pro-tip for my fellow Jews. If you find yourself in a setting where people are arguing vociferously about the USS Liberty and those people arguing are not elderly Navy veterans, then you should leave that setting asap.
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A little pro-tip for my fellow Jews. If you find yourself in a setting where people are arguing vociferously about the USS Liberty and those people arguing are not elderly Navy veterans, then you should leave that setting asap.
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@dansinker.com is a very good, thoughtful writer. This idea of Doing the Work –whether it’s writing, or music, or being a parent, or whatever is important to you – is something to think about as we head into 2026.
This year we've been told over and over that there are shortcuts to Doing The Work. But there aren't, not really.
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Here on the shortest day of the longest year I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
A note in defense of Doing The Work, written on the shortest day of the longest year | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@dansinker.com is a very good, thoughtful writer. This idea of Doing the Work –whether it’s writing, or music, or being a parent, or whatever is important to you – is something to think about as we head into 2026.
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I feel like I don’t remember my dreams that often but last night I had a dream that I invented a seasonal Halloween sandwich for McDonald’s called the Trick-en McScary, which was a McChicken with little fangs drawn on the outer edge of the bun.
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I feel like I don’t remember my dreams that often but last night I had a dream that I invented a seasonal Halloween sandwich for McDonald’s called the Trick-en McScary, which was a McChicken with little fangs drawn on the outer edge of the bun.
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let’s eat the tomb bread, let’s drink the gelatinized mummies, let’s slice up any mysterious antediluvian cheeses we find, let’s hatch the doom egg and make doom egg salad, let’s make an apocalyptic charcuterie board and feast
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
let’s eat the tomb bread, let’s drink the gelatinized mummies, let’s slice up any mysterious antediluvian cheeses we find, let’s hatch the doom egg and make doom egg salad, let’s make an apocalyptic charcuterie board and feast
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HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG
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If you took the vocals out of “The Bad Touch,” it would be indistinguishable from a late-80s New Order track. And I think that’s beautiful 💜
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you took the vocals out of “The Bad Touch,” it would be indistinguishable from a late-80s New Order track. And I think that’s beautiful 💜
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I gotta get my shit together and write my screenplay for SUNSET BOULEVARD 2049, which imagines Lena Dunham in the role of Millennial Norma Desmond
Dec 21st - Screenwriter Joe Gillis, who forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond hires as a script doctor, was born.
📽️📅 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
📽️📅 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
December 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I gotta get my shit together and write my screenplay for SUNSET BOULEVARD 2049, which imagines Lena Dunham in the role of Millennial Norma Desmond
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Samuel L Jackson is 77.
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Samuel L Jackson is 77.
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
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Why don’t anime characters just tell each other what is happening
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Why don’t anime characters just tell each other what is happening
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me: “what’s wrong with your food?”
4-year-old: “well. it doesn’t taste good. that’s basically the problem”
4-year-old: “well. it doesn’t taste good. that’s basically the problem”
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
me: “what’s wrong with your food?”
4-year-old: “well. it doesn’t taste good. that’s basically the problem”
4-year-old: “well. it doesn’t taste good. that’s basically the problem”
SubRosa was a women-led doom metal band in Salt Lake City and it fucking ruled - truly one of the best metal bands in America. Check out the next project by many of the band members, The Otolith.
Joshua James is the best artist from Utah IMO!
Check out…
- FM Radio
- Coal War
- Queen of the City
- Crash This Train
- Abbie Martin
- Mystic
…all great songs!
Check out…
- FM Radio
- Coal War
- Queen of the City
- Crash This Train
- Abbie Martin
- Mystic
…all great songs!
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
SubRosa was a women-led doom metal band in Salt Lake City and it fucking ruled - truly one of the best metal bands in America. Check out the next project by many of the band members, The Otolith.
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I told a friend today that Heated Rivalry might eclipse Kids in the Hall and SCTV as the most impactful Canadian TV show of all time
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I told a friend today that Heated Rivalry might eclipse Kids in the Hall and SCTV as the most impactful Canadian TV show of all time
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also my wife made cranberry banana bread sufficiently good that we have evacuated the kitchen in the hopes that doing so will slow down the rate at which we’re devouring it. pretty good evening tbh
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
also my wife made cranberry banana bread sufficiently good that we have evacuated the kitchen in the hopes that doing so will slow down the rate at which we’re devouring it. pretty good evening tbh
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It’s wild to find old books of baseball cards from when I was a kid, and get evidence confirming that 7 year old me already had a familiarity with Steve Balboni
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It’s wild to find old books of baseball cards from when I was a kid, and get evidence confirming that 7 year old me already had a familiarity with Steve Balboni
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why do i feel that this -- "you just need to do something, anything!" and then "you suck at doing that anything" -- dynamic applies to so many other topics on bsky
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
why do i feel that this -- "you just need to do something, anything!" and then "you suck at doing that anything" -- dynamic applies to so many other topics on bsky
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There is one other thing that would probably help with enjoying the album DOPESMOKER to the highest degree
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
There is one other thing that would probably help with enjoying the album DOPESMOKER to the highest degree
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no chatgpt for me, thanks. i will be asking Zoltar
December 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
no chatgpt for me, thanks. i will be asking Zoltar
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Friends to Lovers in Alexandria VA is an absolutely lovely little romance bookstore, but boy if you want to see a demonstration of the decline of the mass-market paperback, when you only see three or so in a romance novel store that’s saying a lot.
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Friends to Lovers in Alexandria VA is an absolutely lovely little romance bookstore, but boy if you want to see a demonstration of the decline of the mass-market paperback, when you only see three or so in a romance novel store that’s saying a lot.
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Zooted and staring at this thread like it's the monolith in 2001
in ghostbusters, the Leonardo is also the Donatello. Egon is covering two bases. Peter is the Raphael and the Michelangelo. Ray is also the Michelangelo. Winston is present.
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Zooted and staring at this thread like it's the monolith in 2001
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Hey if you're struggling with [the state of fuckin things], may I recommend reading some Discworld?
December 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hey if you're struggling with [the state of fuckin things], may I recommend reading some Discworld?