Jurph: the Scent of Oak Leaves
@jurph.bsky.social
Veteran of dial up BBS, mIRC, AOL federated messaging, and Google Reader. When all this is gone I will remain. The most important thing is helping people.
In Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", while the person enumerating the ways does repeat them several times with mild variations, they only actually list something like six unique ways to leave your lover.
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
In Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", while the person enumerating the ways does repeat them several times with mild variations, they only actually list something like six unique ways to leave your lover.
BALLY? Lads like FITBAH, nae BALLY!
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 AM
BALLY? Lads like FITBAH, nae BALLY!
Are they winning any cases at all? Like, are they flying in attorneys specifically to go 0-20 and get frostbite?
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Are they winning any cases at all? Like, are they flying in attorneys specifically to go 0-20 and get frostbite?
The numbskulls who think we should *stand* for that song - an honor afforded exclusively to our National Anthem, thank you very effing much - should have it played on repeat in their cells until their knees buckle.
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The numbskulls who think we should *stand* for that song - an honor afforded exclusively to our National Anthem, thank you very effing much - should have it played on repeat in their cells until their knees buckle.
The goddamn Lee Greenwood thing that some troglodyte motherfuckers think should be reverently afforded our attention when our REAL anthem slaps, and Greenwood's sloppy milquetoast dogshit pablum is not worthy to be played within 200 miles of any active or former VFW hall. No I will not stand up.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
The goddamn Lee Greenwood thing that some troglodyte motherfuckers think should be reverently afforded our attention when our REAL anthem slaps, and Greenwood's sloppy milquetoast dogshit pablum is not worthy to be played within 200 miles of any active or former VFW hall. No I will not stand up.
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it's boar vessel tuesday
September 5, 2023 at 11:42 PM
it's boar vessel tuesday
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It's been democratized, there's TV ads about it during football and sitcoms, and the plus-one-sigma user probably doesn't have a good understanding of where the faces that emerge in an inpainting model "come from".
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
It's been democratized, there's TV ads about it during football and sitcoms, and the plus-one-sigma user probably doesn't have a good understanding of where the faces that emerge in an inpainting model "come from".
In 2019, "how did you think this wouldn't work" was a good question to ask about someone who'd gotten StyleGAN or SRGAN to run on their local machine, but with all these chat-interface AI models that manipulate images, the median user has *no* mental model - it's just text-to-magic-images for them.
February 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
In 2019, "how did you think this wouldn't work" was a good question to ask about someone who'd gotten StyleGAN or SRGAN to run on their local machine, but with all these chat-interface AI models that manipulate images, the median user has *no* mental model - it's just text-to-magic-images for them.
Their “belief” is grounded in a few fictional examples and the term “AI”, rather than any sort of causal mental model of how it might (not) work.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Their “belief” is grounded in a few fictional examples and the term “AI”, rather than any sort of causal mental model of how it might (not) work.
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Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
If they actually came to fully understand causality and probability they'd quit their job and weep
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 AM
If they actually came to fully understand causality and probability they'd quit their job and weep
That's just Google being dogshit about consent. You click Remind Me Later or even Never Do That Again and on the next update, "oopsie-woopsie, we rebranded that feature and enabled it by default so users could try it on launch day" and you've got AI turned on again.
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM
That's just Google being dogshit about consent. You click Remind Me Later or even Never Do That Again and on the next update, "oopsie-woopsie, we rebranded that feature and enabled it by default so users could try it on launch day" and you've got AI turned on again.
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I remember, before the film came out, Groundhog Day was relatively unknown. I told a friend from Georgia about it and he disbelieved me. Razzed me about "Tuscaloosa Tex" predicting rain. We were in a theater together when the Groundhog Day trailer came on, and he hollered "oh shit it's real!"
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I remember, before the film came out, Groundhog Day was relatively unknown. I told a friend from Georgia about it and he disbelieved me. Razzed me about "Tuscaloosa Tex" predicting rain. We were in a theater together when the Groundhog Day trailer came on, and he hollered "oh shit it's real!"
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Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for another six weeks or if an early spring is around the corner.
bit.ly
February 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
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Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring.
Punxsutawney Phil prepares to issue his Groundhog Day weather verdict
The groundwork has been laid for a sunrise ceremony Monday when international woodchuck celebrity Punxsutawney Phil’s annual long-term weather forecast will be announced.
trib.al
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Punxsutawney Phil is set to deliver his annual weather forecast and predict either six more weeks of winter or an early spring.
Was this district the same shape & size last election or is it one the GOP carved up on purpose?
February 2, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Was this district the same shape & size last election or is it one the GOP carved up on purpose?
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wow mamdani won NYC
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
February 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM
wow mamdani won NYC
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
rehmet flipped Tarrant County, TX
anything is possible, even a new mario kart double dash
They have to sleep, and to be effective they have to sleep in territory held by Americans. They could pick a shitty fleabag an hour from town and bus in and out every day, but that takes a toll, too. And the hours they're bussing in and out, they're not cracking skulls or arresting our friends.
"[...] if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay."
#FuckICE
#abolishICE
#FuckICE
#abolishICE
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
They have to sleep, and to be effective they have to sleep in territory held by Americans. They could pick a shitty fleabag an hour from town and bus in and out every day, but that takes a toll, too. And the hours they're bussing in and out, they're not cracking skulls or arresting our friends.
In the prologue of the story, we're introduced to a villain who asks to breaks bread with strangers and then attacks them after they've offered hospitality, or kills mariners clinging to floating debris instead of rendering aid.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
February 2, 2026 at 12:48 AM
In the prologue of the story, we're introduced to a villain who asks to breaks bread with strangers and then attacks them after they've offered hospitality, or kills mariners clinging to floating debris instead of rendering aid.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
By the end of the story they always get gruesomely ironic justice.
Our grandchildren wouldn’t understand any of the jokes in King Of The Hill. “But mom, Hank is from TEXAS. Reliably blue Texas, Democratic cornerstone against the socialists and the greens?”
February 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Our grandchildren wouldn’t understand any of the jokes in King Of The Hill. “But mom, Hank is from TEXAS. Reliably blue Texas, Democratic cornerstone against the socialists and the greens?”
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This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
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Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.