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Otay Mountain, San Diego
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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Aug 4

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Win...
leans more towards historical fiction but there are smatterings of the other elements... except for humor.

The Winter King (Cornwell novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Jul 30

Heads up: possible tsunami tonight along the entire west coast 'round midnight: www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Stay safe out there. If you're on the shore, spend the night inland, on higher ground. Definitely not the day for camping on the beach.

www.tsunami.gov

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Apr 12

Crashing the economy and plunging tens of million Americans into abject poverty is one way to bring down wages so that we're willing to work 16 hour shifts 7 days a week in hazardous conditions. It's not like we'd be doing anything important, sitting in front of computers, shuffling around bytes.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Mar 12

Apparently, being a free speech absolutist means that if I disagree with your speech, you're absolutely a terrorist.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 23

Dangit, I said we needed to implement a STREAM cipher for this stack.

AAAAA AAAAAA, AAA.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 20

Nothing this regime has done since taking power suggests that it would be deterred by the Constitution... or objective reality, for that matter.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 20

"Other people" don't appreciate your humor because your jokes aren't remotely funny, and you're actually just a horrendously awful person... Your Majesty.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 19

This is truly an ahistoric moment in America. Greatness = betraying our friends and pandering to thugs?

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 19

Given the wave of outrageous revisionism, history books in the US will soon claim that Poland started WW2 by invading the Soviet territory of South Florida, prompting Hitler to heroically come to Moscow's aid by brokering a real estate deal for a beach front resort in Crimea.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 12

Only thing missing is the "Efficiency" branch lowering the entire trunk into a wood chipper.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 10

"Cruelty is the point" was a common refrain last time.

What we're seeing now is different.

This time around, *lawlessness* is the point.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 9

Judges with the temerity to hold DOGE accountable will probably find their courts defunded and personal bank accounts empty, in short order.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 8

Instead of a presidential library, &^%* will open a center for performative cruelty where "guests" can relive the trauma of his first four terms.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 3

For the most part, tariffs are a regressive tax. They disproportionately hurt average folk buying everyday goods. The rich and powerful can afford to absorb or circumvent the added cost.

Donny's not fighting for you, MAGAns (MAGAts?). He's punching down and always has.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 3

This next term/decade/century is going to be a harsh lesson in the value of epistemic responsibility and civic engagement. Maybe those elitist snobs were actually looking out for you instead of just trying to make you look dumb.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 3

Theft of a nation.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 2

*shrug* or maybe the people will just blame diversity/wokeness for inflation because of "common sense".

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Feb 1

Story time:

The war is over.

We lost.

Barbarians are sacking the capitol and looting anything of value and destroying whatever they don't understand.

And still, our people remain stubbornly distracted by bread and circuses.

(not) The End

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Nov 23

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Nov 22

I've made hundreds of lattes and they almost always come out looking like this since I'm usually not caffeinated enough to put in the effort.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Nov 22

Just take a deep breath, and go for a swim in the ocean.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic review of microplastics and nanoplastics in indoor and outdoor air: identifying a framework and data needs for quantifying human inhalation exposures - Journal of Exposure Science & Environ...

Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology - Systematic review of microplastics and nanoplastics in indoor and outdoor air: identifying a framework and data needs for quantifying...

www.nature.com

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Nov 22

Unless you're melting them into your food you probably aren't getting enough chemicals to have much impact.

That being said, wood and steel utensils are just better all around.

The bigger problem is microplastics are literally everywhere now: oceans, mountains, the air and your blood.

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patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Nov 22

I've been running Linux on a Razer Blade 14 for years without any major issues. Rarely, it won't wake up from sleep, but that might be due to the AMD chipset.

These days I've been looking at the Framework laptops due to their modularity and repairability.

patonw.bsky.social @patonw.bsky.social · Nov 21

Dolphins at La Jolla Shores a couple of weeks ago.