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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, I *kind* of agree, but I don't think he'd appreciate it.

Does "disrupted" mean "more expensive to consumers, less secure for workers, legally dubious and spending tons on lobbying and ballot measures to not be shut down, while ultimately not improving services nor turning a profit"?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 10h

At the very least, "If you stay in the race, it may keep Cuomo from winning" is presumably the message one would keep hammering to make sure he *doesn't* drop out.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 12h

For anything truly critical it stays redacted, I'd not trust software someone else wrote -- or software I wrote, for that matter -- and err on the side of "the file can't contain information that was never there", the redaction with black tape on a hard copy, and scan is really all I'd be sure of.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 12h

Not a lawyer, and haven't personally tested the redaction functionality to high confidence.

But even if I had, there is so much data in a pdf, and lots not easily human read. A bug that left traces of redacted text in, say, binary image data is the kind of bug that can go undetected for years.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, if there is nothing other than the bare minimum of what everyone expects, that would qualify as really bad without needing anything unexpected.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew that the "Conscious Incompetence" step in between "Unconscious Incompetence" and "Conscious Competence" matters, and serves a purpose!

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like the process of developing those skills to execute your ideas simultaneously develops a better understanding of what constitutes a good, let alone great, idea.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 4d

I can't imagine any of them believed it any more than the administration did.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly the way that "a few bad apples" gets deployed as a defense of bad actors these days, the speak often seems to be implying that if there are "bad apples" in a group, that's not just fine for the group, but that we need to accept the bad ones *staying* there too.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 4d

A few bad apples are totally fine in a bushel, as their process of decay and spoilage has no impact on other nearby fruit, and can be picked out later with zero consequences?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 6d

Of course, but I meant purely mechanically.

Vampire lore varies, but people often extrapolate not showing up in mirrors to not being photographable. So, if you screenshot a posting vampire's post, do you just get a blank image?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 6d

How do screenshots of posts interact with vampire rules?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, the movie was whatever. But how many quarters did Round Table Pizza make off of my overconfidence in timing my corners on the damn lightcycle game.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 6d

It's the oldest story -
Masses are oppressed
Faces, clothes and bladders
All distressed
Rich folks get the good life
Poor folks get the woe
In the end
It's nothing you don't know

You're in Urinetown!

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 7d

My "Carbon Black" Preppy has been inked without a deep clean for 18 months. Maybe twice over that time, the flow got annoying. So I pulled out the nib out for a quick rinse, stuck it back in, and all was good.

I wouldn't be so casual with, say, a piston filler, but the Preppy's been fine.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 7d

I've enjoyed the Maruman Spiral Note basic notebook in B5, dot grid. It's not the sleek black cover but the basic "student notebook" Maruman line. And while it's metal rings, by flipping pages all the way over, I get one landscape B5 page for notes where an open A5 notebook would be too big.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, in my experience (in the US) B5 sized notebooks are far more common with Japanese brands. Leuchtturm1917 is only European brand I see making them, and it's the expensive, hardcover kind -- nice if you like that, but a bit much for general note taking.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

I mean that one should be like the free space in Bingo. How anyone ever gets that wrong is *wild*

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

For well-priced notebooks that perform well with fountain pens, Kokuyo Campus are far better than they have any right to be. Maruman also makes a bunch of styles of "business appropriate" basic black notebooks and notepads with great paper inside in a lot of rulings.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

And not as rough to clean (in my experience) as I feared due to warnings about pigmented inks.

It's best in permanence, has good flow even in a pen that's sat for a bit, and it also *looks* the best with a smooth matte look when dry. I truly love it.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

Well, his doctor the previous term is now a Republican Congressman from Texas, perhaps this one does not plan to remain in the medical profession either.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

On the subject of pumpernickel, are deli sandwich orders also a mandatory disclosure in NYC?

I am picturing someone getting corned beef with American cheese on a baguette or something equally atrocious.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat pointing at something .

Alt: A black and white animation of a scowling man in a suit and hat, who raises one arm to point away from him while speaking. Subtitled with "Get out."

media.tenor.com

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

Cinnamon Raisin?!? WTF!

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

Completely ungrounded speculation, but did she drop something diving for cover from a border patrol car trying to run protesters over?