Jonathan E Cowperthwait
@cowp.co
as formerly on the bird site (@cowperthwait) and the elephant site (@[email protected]). Slow runner, fast talker, good writer.
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[Batman transition]
Hours later…
Hours later…
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
[Batman transition]
Hours later…
Hours later…
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Anyway, so until I resume and finish this project, currently the only way to heat my home involves picking up a telephone extension and yelling “Siri, turn on the FIRE.” Which is asinine, but I did this to myself.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Anyway, so until I resume and finish this project, currently the only way to heat my home involves picking up a telephone extension and yelling “Siri, turn on the FIRE.” Which is asinine, but I did this to myself.
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All fun and games ’til you come home and it’s 61° inside and you’re frantically trying to remember why you wrote an automation the way you did a year in the past, and didn’t document it anywhere, stupid stupid stupid.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
All fun and games ’til you come home and it’s 61° inside and you’re frantically trying to remember why you wrote an automation the way you did a year in the past, and didn’t document it anywhere, stupid stupid stupid.
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Last winter, I got carried away with Apple Home and devised too-clever ways to control the baseboard heaters and fireplace—China will sell you some extremely dodgy PLCs, cheap! But then I had an attack of sanity, concluded I didn’t want “IOT” and “open flame” appearing in the same paragraph, and […]
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November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Last winter, I got carried away with Apple Home and devised too-clever ways to control the baseboard heaters and fireplace—China will sell you some extremely dodgy PLCs, cheap! But then I had an attack of sanity, concluded I didn’t want “IOT” and “open flame” appearing in the same paragraph, and […]
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My home doesn’t have any central heating because its builder was optimistic?, I guess?, that climate change would come soon enough that we’d never have to worry about being cold in San Francisco. I think about that sometimes, resentfully.
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
My home doesn’t have any central heating because its builder was optimistic?, I guess?, that climate change would come soon enough that we’d never have to worry about being cold in San Francisco. I think about that sometimes, resentfully.
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With houseplants, almost every problem stands exactly 50–50 probability that it’s being
• underwatered
• overwatered
It seems to be similar with running injuries, where the two possible remedies are
• stop running immediately or you’ll hurt yourself
• run on it—active recovery, bro!
Choose wisely!
• underwatered
• overwatered
It seems to be similar with running injuries, where the two possible remedies are
• stop running immediately or you’ll hurt yourself
• run on it—active recovery, bro!
Choose wisely!
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
With houseplants, almost every problem stands exactly 50–50 probability that it’s being
• underwatered
• overwatered
It seems to be similar with running injuries, where the two possible remedies are
• stop running immediately or you’ll hurt yourself
• run on it—active recovery, bro!
Choose wisely!
• underwatered
• overwatered
It seems to be similar with running injuries, where the two possible remedies are
• stop running immediately or you’ll hurt yourself
• run on it—active recovery, bro!
Choose wisely!
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I don’t know which makes less sense: that when my calf started hurting, I thought it might get better if I ran 7 miles anyway, or the fact that this did, in fact, work.
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I don’t know which makes less sense: that when my calf started hurting, I thought it might get better if I ran 7 miles anyway, or the fact that this did, in fact, work.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Give me liberty, or give it to me, daddy.
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Give me liberty, or give it to me, daddy.
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Also, show me the backstory of Patrick Henry’s portraitist. Like, did they bang before his sitting or after?, or both?
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Also, show me the backstory of Patrick Henry’s portraitist. Like, did they bang before his sitting or after?, or both?
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I’m not admitting I’ve had any wine tonight, just acknowledging that I fistpumped and audibly cheered the tea party scene in Ken Burns’ new revolutionary war docu.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I’m not admitting I’ve had any wine tonight, just acknowledging that I fistpumped and audibly cheered the tea party scene in Ken Burns’ new revolutionary war docu.
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Like, it’s not even poorshaming to mock Android. Android phones are just as expensive as Apple phones! They’re just … also shitty!
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Like, it’s not even poorshaming to mock Android. Android phones are just as expensive as Apple phones! They’re just … also shitty!
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It is deeply funny, to me, that two of the four “cameras” on the back of this device are not, in fact, optical sensors. One is a camera flash, and a second is a spot meter. And reading Moto’s tech specs page’s obfuscation of that would make Harry Frankfurt shriek […]
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November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It is deeply funny, to me, that two of the four “cameras” on the back of this device are not, in fact, optical sensors. One is a camera flash, and a second is a spot meter. And reading Moto’s tech specs page’s obfuscation of that would make Harry Frankfurt shriek […]
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
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The "Weather Permitting" exhibit at the Minnesota History Center chronicles the state's famously extreme weather. I loved the panels asking recent immigrants from warm countries how they adjusted to it. How can you not love this about America, man! It's so cool that people come here from everywhere!
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The "Weather Permitting" exhibit at the Minnesota History Center chronicles the state's famously extreme weather. I loved the panels asking recent immigrants from warm countries how they adjusted to it. How can you not love this about America, man! It's so cool that people come here from everywhere!
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When I was a kid I had a recurring dogsitting gig for a neighbor and I always tried to treat the dog so well that she’d resent her owners and fall in love with me instead. I think this is what is happening with my cleaning lady and my houseplants.
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
When I was a kid I had a recurring dogsitting gig for a neighbor and I always tried to treat the dog so well that she’d resent her owners and fall in love with me instead. I think this is what is happening with my cleaning lady and my houseplants.
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in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
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Trump: [seizing his monkey paw this morning]: change the conversation away from how I said there weren’t any talented Americans
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Trump: [seizing his monkey paw this morning]: change the conversation away from how I said there weren’t any talented Americans
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In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then down to the old billionaire pedophile's compound to spend extended time with one of his sex trafficking victims. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then down to the old billionaire pedophile's compound to spend extended time with one of his sex trafficking victims. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
Fellas, is it gay to trees?
I’m a little surprised that parks aren’t woke now. Like, lovingly maintaining fields and groves for the enjoyment of all, that’s woke as hell. RETVRN TO TRADITION; true tradmascs exercise in parking lots, like the Spartans.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fellas, is it gay to trees?
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Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
A car but sometimes the left pedal makes it go faster and sometimes you have to turn the wheel twice as hard and sometimes it just bursts into flames for no reason.
[mh, exercise]
Like, there are runs that feel terrible and then I look at the stats afterwards and they were technically great, and runs where the opposite is true, and days when my heart rate is awful for no reason, none.
Like, there are runs that feel terrible and then I look at the stats afterwards and they were technically great, and runs where the opposite is true, and days when my heart rate is awful for no reason, none.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A car but sometimes the left pedal makes it go faster and sometimes you have to turn the wheel twice as hard and sometimes it just bursts into flames for no reason.
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Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Donald Trump has sued the BBC for one billion dollars. The network should wait 40 days and then pay him the entire amount without a trial.
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine
by John Fetterman, Dick Durbin, and Tim Kaine