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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
January 31, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
"Aren't you a little short for a 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖒𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖕𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖗?"
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"Aren't you a little short for a 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖒𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖕𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖗?"
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NEIGHBOR: are you still feeding your crows?
ME: oh yeah, 100%
NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its-
ME: right, that's Gray Feathers
NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them?
ME: not...all of them?
ME: oh yeah, 100%
NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its-
ME: right, that's Gray Feathers
NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them?
ME: not...all of them?
January 31, 2026 at 4:03 AM
NEIGHBOR: are you still feeding your crows?
ME: oh yeah, 100%
NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its-
ME: right, that's Gray Feathers
NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them?
ME: not...all of them?
ME: oh yeah, 100%
NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its-
ME: right, that's Gray Feathers
NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them?
ME: not...all of them?
This is a great way to get guests in your house the WiFi easily
January 31, 2026 at 1:11 PM
This is a great way to get guests in your house the WiFi easily
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A flock of starlings doing their thing around the World War II Lookout Tower in Cape May.
January 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
A flock of starlings doing their thing around the World War II Lookout Tower in Cape May.
Tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Films of the 1980s
2. Linear Algebra
3. Intro to Poetic Forms
4. History of Air Power
5. Senior Design Project
1. Films of the 1980s
2. Linear Algebra
3. Intro to Poetic Forms
4. History of Air Power
5. Senior Design Project
Tell me five classes you took in college:
Macroeconomics
History of Rock and Roll
The Gnostic Gospels
Politics and Film
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Macroeconomics
History of Rock and Roll
The Gnostic Gospels
Politics and Film
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Tell me five classes you took in college:
History & Literature of the Old Testament
Stellar Structures & Evolution
Russian History I (up the the Romanovs)
Queer Literature
Linear Algebra
History & Literature of the Old Testament
Stellar Structures & Evolution
Russian History I (up the the Romanovs)
Queer Literature
Linear Algebra
January 31, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Films of the 1980s
2. Linear Algebra
3. Intro to Poetic Forms
4. History of Air Power
5. Senior Design Project
1. Films of the 1980s
2. Linear Algebra
3. Intro to Poetic Forms
4. History of Air Power
5. Senior Design Project
1. "Hot End, Pointy End" - a rocketry primer
2. Organ Fugue: recurring themes in Neal Stephenson
3. Construction and Critique of Heist Films
4. Cyber threat modeling for the non-enterprise defender
5. Leadership in technical organizations
2. Organ Fugue: recurring themes in Neal Stephenson
3. Construction and Critique of Heist Films
4. Cyber threat modeling for the non-enterprise defender
5. Leadership in technical organizations
What 5 classes would you teach based on your life experiences/interests?
January 31, 2026 at 2:59 AM
1. "Hot End, Pointy End" - a rocketry primer
2. Organ Fugue: recurring themes in Neal Stephenson
3. Construction and Critique of Heist Films
4. Cyber threat modeling for the non-enterprise defender
5. Leadership in technical organizations
2. Organ Fugue: recurring themes in Neal Stephenson
3. Construction and Critique of Heist Films
4. Cyber threat modeling for the non-enterprise defender
5. Leadership in technical organizations
A driving motivation for this administration is to cause a TV segment to be produced that makes the Boss feel good. Hence:
- perp walks w/ no chance of conviction
- obviously horseshit pressers
- DHS guys in tacticool gear fast-roping onto Chicago apts
- blowing up boats full of brown people
- perp walks w/ no chance of conviction
- obviously horseshit pressers
- DHS guys in tacticool gear fast-roping onto Chicago apts
- blowing up boats full of brown people
the weird perp walk stuff they've tried to pull is a good example of this. it is *far* more important to them to produce those posts than it is to successfully go through a legal process (or say, be legally appointed to the job they claim to have).
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A driving motivation for this administration is to cause a TV segment to be produced that makes the Boss feel good. Hence:
- perp walks w/ no chance of conviction
- obviously horseshit pressers
- DHS guys in tacticool gear fast-roping onto Chicago apts
- blowing up boats full of brown people
- perp walks w/ no chance of conviction
- obviously horseshit pressers
- DHS guys in tacticool gear fast-roping onto Chicago apts
- blowing up boats full of brown people
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Damon.exe has stopped working
January 25, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Damon.exe has stopped working
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He’s so photogenic
January 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
He’s so photogenic
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it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that ICE be banned from violating the Due Process clause, or using violence to suppress speech protected under the First Amendment.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that ICE be banned from the use of tactical nuclear weapons without a judge's order.
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 AM
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that ICE be banned from violating the Due Process clause, or using violence to suppress speech protected under the First Amendment.