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Scott Nickell
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Tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout. He/him. Opinions are not those of my employer(s), past, present, or future. They may not even be *mine*.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a tiny amount of power corrupts with the fire of a thousand suns.
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Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Pulling this out of the thread it's from because it's unrelated to the main topic of discussion, but: Watch "Don't Look Now". The famous sex scene there is a great example of plot/character development through sex. It's not at all gratuitous - the film *doesn't work* (as well) without it.
The way I want to bang my gavel about why “sex as plot and character development” isn’t inferior!
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist.

While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
I don't doubt this—but it does bug me that em-dashes are used as a heuristic to spot LLM-generated text.

Fortunately I can point to my 2020 doctoral thesis and show that I was overusing and abusing ems well before el el ems.
The US National Security Strategy seems to be—at least in part—written/edited by AI.

There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGES 25-27: AUTHOR BIOS

all the bios for the 17 authors who created original pieces for this collection! you can return to previous posts to read each work!
credit in thread!

free PDF collection: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Insert a movie into another movie:

The Assassination of Jesse James and the Giant Peach by the Coward Robert Ford
Insert a movie into another movie:

The Cell Cell
Insert a movie into another movie:

Star Star Wars Trek
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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"Baby It's Cold Outside is not actually about sexual assault" is the "she's actually 800 years old in the canon, so it's fine" of the eggnog community

Thank you for your time. Please continue enjoy the holidays on bluesky dot app
November 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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The extent to which the American legislature has been completely bypassed in truly doing anything is one of the most important stories.

The American legislature was supposed to be a functional body that did things, and it does nothing. As the American executive does everything.

For decades.
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Anazing. T••••‘s so useless he‘s failing at America’s core competency, Latin Am coups
that would be last Friday, so if we’re keeping score that’s now one public failed assassination plot and one public flouted ultimatum
ON CALL, TRUMP GAVE MADURO FRIDAY DEADLINE TO LEAVE VENEZUELA WITH HIS FAMILY - SOURCES
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🎄 GOOD MORNING, and welcome back to the annual Italian Christmas Donkey Challenge 🫏

The rules are simple 🌟

You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:

youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...
Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey (HQ Audio)
YouTube video by Christmas 365
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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The scariest thing about the King In Yellow is that Green Lantern can’t affect him.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.

They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In my opinion, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is a better play than "Waiting for Godot," and Stoppard also co-wrote Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," which I rank among the top 5 or so greatest films ever made in the history of cinema.
Tom Stoppard, RIP. This is my favorite of his plays (but I've read or seen just a small fraction of his work, so there's a good chance that there's a better one out there).
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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The bit baffling administration fervor over senators suggesting that the military shouldn't follow illegal orders is making more sense now
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Use only one piece to convince folks to follow you
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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I weep for literacy.
“Trump is the WH40K Emperor” is perhaps a perfect distillation of the apparent impermeability of the right-wing mind to theme, subtext, or flat-out text in media
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Increasingly hard to deny we’ve been Lathe of Heavened into our present reality
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM