John Woodford
@jbwoodford.bsky.social
He/him. Old safety/QA person at quaint US Federal Laboratory. Emigre from the Bird Site.
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
I still miss Reveal Codes.
“I grew up learning the Corel WordPerfect macros” I tell the Gen Z member of Geek Squad, “I’ll take it from here.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I still miss Reveal Codes.
Anyone who'd play poker with Mamdani for cash stakes is definitely the sucker at the table.
i kinda agree that poker isn't very left-coded because 1) it's male-coded and 2) gambling generally is clearly right-coded now.
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Anyone who'd play poker with Mamdani for cash stakes is definitely the sucker at the table.
Thread. There are apparently people out there teaching organizing like it's fucking Amway, and that attitude breaks folks.
I think certain organizing trainings did some of us real psychological damage in teaching us that YOU, ORGANIZER, PERSONALLY have responsibility for going out and making people leverage organized power and ultimately saving the world.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thread. There are apparently people out there teaching organizing like it's fucking Amway, and that attitude breaks folks.
That sounds like some criticisms I've seen of the Wachowskis' _Jupiter Ascending_. And on the one hand yeah, it's self-indulgent, but why is that a bad thing? It was a gorgeous movie.
saw JAY KELLY last night with a bud. absolutely loved it and they had opposite reaction. interesting art discussion because they said 'it was so self indulgent' and i said 'yes but why is that bad? i LOVE self indulgent art.' been thinking on that a lot. theres so much sincerity in self indulgence
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That sounds like some criticisms I've seen of the Wachowskis' _Jupiter Ascending_. And on the one hand yeah, it's self-indulgent, but why is that a bad thing? It was a gorgeous movie.
That's the decoy we pay attention to while the little ship loaded with carcinogens, a chronopathic idiot, and a Class 3 etiologic interference psionic do the real damage.
An interstellar visitor who disguises their spaceship as (checks notes...) a comet visible from half a billion miles away, which then shows obvious - yet oddly primitive - technosignatures to everyone watching it.
Makes perfect sense
Makes perfect sense
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That's the decoy we pay attention to while the little ship loaded with carcinogens, a chronopathic idiot, and a Class 3 etiologic interference psionic do the real damage.
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
That's why we should be really, really picky about Senators and Representatives. How many current and former US Senators are there--maybe a thousand? That's less than one in 100,000 voters, so near-perfection in ethics should be the expectation.
Seriously, the one idea we need to bend society towards for the back half of the 21st Century is “The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.”
It's not normal for a professor to start a class discussing how they "regret" being best buddies with a child sex trafficker and asking them for advice on how to abuse their position to coerce sex from former students.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
He shouldn't be there at all. This is an institutional failure.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
That's why we should be really, really picky about Senators and Representatives. How many current and former US Senators are there--maybe a thousand? That's less than one in 100,000 voters, so near-perfection in ethics should be the expectation.
Another example of what Ian Hartshorn wrote about the other day. bsky.app/profile/ianm...
Robert George has resigned from the Heritage board of trustees.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Another example of what Ian Hartshorn wrote about the other day. bsky.app/profile/ianm...
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
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100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.
@scalzi.com you say this? bc it’s the best - and your the best but people should know it’s you for realz.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.
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The players opening up about this have to play their games in stadiums plastered with the logos of these casinos, and the broadcasts of those games are packed with ads for the same casinos. A colossal betrayal and failure from the league
Jesus Christ.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The players opening up about this have to play their games in stadiums plastered with the logos of these casinos, and the broadcasts of those games are packed with ads for the same casinos. A colossal betrayal and failure from the league
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every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-b...
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
Tesla bull Dan Ives: It's the 'most important chapter ever for Tesla'
With Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $1 trillion dollar pay package behind it, bulls like Wedbush's Dan Ives believe the automaker's AI future is where investors should be looking.
finance.yahoo.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-b...
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
"Ives said he first order of business for Musk and Tesla is self-driving and robotaxis."
Yeah, like he hasn't been promising "self-driving and robotaxis" any day now for at least ten years.
Thread. On the one hand, agreed. House and Senate party "leaders" have a tough job keeping a by-nature fractious, broad coalition together. OTOH, given that what I most fault Schumer for is 1) having priorities that don't match the urgency of the moment, and...
This is going to be very nuanced and very divisive. I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing and digesting it before commenting.
Okay?
Good, here goes:
I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is.
1/
Okay?
Good, here goes:
I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is.
1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thread. On the one hand, agreed. House and Senate party "leaders" have a tough job keeping a by-nature fractious, broad coalition together. OTOH, given that what I most fault Schumer for is 1) having priorities that don't match the urgency of the moment, and...
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🎶
Eggs, sugar, milk, no flour.
Set the oven to medium power.
Let it rest for about an hour,
21st century schizoid flan.
Eggs, sugar, milk, no flour.
Set the oven to medium power.
Let it rest for about an hour,
21st century schizoid flan.
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎶
Eggs, sugar, milk, no flour.
Set the oven to medium power.
Let it rest for about an hour,
21st century schizoid flan.
Eggs, sugar, milk, no flour.
Set the oven to medium power.
Let it rest for about an hour,
21st century schizoid flan.
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DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
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Don't mind me, I'll be over in the corner turning into a little pile of dust.
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Don't mind me, I'll be over in the corner turning into a little pile of dust.
My folks and I saw the Edmund Fitzgerald twice (before she went down, obv)--once at the Port of Milwaukee, and again at Sault Ste. Marie. I wouldn't have noticed it, but they both remembered the ship's name and commented on it.
I gotta go look at the lyric again soon.
Perhaps not today - somehow, the amount of time, and all that's happened since then, has turned into an undigestible lump in my throat.
Perhaps not today - somehow, the amount of time, and all that's happened since then, has turned into an undigestible lump in my throat.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My folks and I saw the Edmund Fitzgerald twice (before she went down, obv)--once at the Port of Milwaukee, and again at Sault Ste. Marie. I wouldn't have noticed it, but they both remembered the ship's name and commented on it.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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The jury deliberated for SEVEN hours on the sandwich case, and I will bet money six of them were just talking about different good kinds of sandwiches they’ve had and how they’d throw.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The jury deliberated for SEVEN hours on the sandwich case, and I will bet money six of them were just talking about different good kinds of sandwiches they’ve had and how they’d throw.
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Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)