Tommaso Sciortino
@sciortino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev
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unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
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anyone talking to Socrates:
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
anyone talking to Socrates:
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Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
Making my traditional pecan pie: smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
pecan pie
Six simple tips to send your pecan pie game into the stratosphere, because just-good-enough pecan pie would never cut it around here.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Making my traditional pecan pie: smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
White Guy who never interacted with many Asian people: Truly amazing that they made so many terracotta warriors and they all look exactly alike!
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
White Guy who never interacted with many Asian people: Truly amazing that they made so many terracotta warriors and they all look exactly alike!
"Euphemism treadmill? Hey everyone, check out this asshole over here doesn't know we call that shibboleth generators now!"
Where there is a group people are yearning to be a part of, Shibboleth generators will be there.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Euphemism treadmill? Hey everyone, check out this asshole over here doesn't know we call that shibboleth generators now!"
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
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@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander everyone else, and nobody was going to gerrymander them. In half a hundred places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
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Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
Most embarrassing civil war injury.
Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Most embarrassing civil war injury.
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Anyway, the main defining feature of the AI discourse, whether it's on this platform or anywhere else, is that it's very silly.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Anyway, the main defining feature of the AI discourse, whether it's on this platform or anywhere else, is that it's very silly.
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
I have to read this just to make my friend @matth.bsky.social mad.
From Douthat's latest: "I'm just saying, if you look at larger world conditions, there are reasons to think that we've kind of hit a certain limit on secularization and the decline of religion."
I'm surprised he hasn't read Christian Smith's latest book where Smith argues against this sort of thing
I'm surprised he hasn't read Christian Smith's latest book where Smith argues against this sort of thing
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have to read this just to make my friend @matth.bsky.social mad.
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seeing a lot of this kind of claim but did you know that hippos actually kill more people every year than Isaac Chotiner?
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
seeing a lot of this kind of claim but did you know that hippos actually kill more people every year than Isaac Chotiner?
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loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
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on this day in 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
on this day in 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published.
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
"Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."
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I find it irrationally irritating when people are like "2 is the only even prime!!"
Oh really, 2 is the only prime number divisible by 2? Did you also know that 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3? And 47 is the only prime number divisible by 47?? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT PRIMES ARE
Oh really, 2 is the only prime number divisible by 2? Did you also know that 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3? And 47 is the only prime number divisible by 47?? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT PRIMES ARE
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I find it irrationally irritating when people are like "2 is the only even prime!!"
Oh really, 2 is the only prime number divisible by 2? Did you also know that 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3? And 47 is the only prime number divisible by 47?? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT PRIMES ARE
Oh really, 2 is the only prime number divisible by 2? Did you also know that 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3? And 47 is the only prime number divisible by 47?? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT PRIMES ARE
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bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
Posting these for posterity.
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Posting these for posterity.
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Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
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the only human character should be Natalie Portman as Janice's doppelganger
honestly i don't know why they decided to remake Annihilation so soon
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the only human character should be Natalie Portman as Janice's doppelganger
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
My wife: Did you read the article?
Me: Why? It's the acoustic version of AI slop.
Me: Why? It's the acoustic version of AI slop.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My wife: Did you read the article?
Me: Why? It's the acoustic version of AI slop.
Me: Why? It's the acoustic version of AI slop.