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one i heard was low, slow, quiet, with eye contact.

'You need.... to stop .... right now.'

My young kids were like young troops: small chunks of information.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 15h

@gork is this true?

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 16h

These kinds of dense, defensible, mutually-supporting fortifications are illegal to build in most American cities

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 16h

I've had 'Irish egg rolls' (corned beef, cabbage) and they were amazing.

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Gnomon Chronicles @gnomonchronicles.bsky.social · 19h

#GnomonIndustries
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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

Look, if the exact precise true things I said just happened to come together in such a way that someone else came to an incorrect conclusion and took my preferred actions, that's their own business.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

Classics (World)

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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 2d

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

It's very big, went way over budget and schedule. People speculated that was because of SECRET tunnels and underground facilities for basically NWO purposes.

Also the murals.

www.uncovercolorado.com/denver-airpo...

How Denver Airport’s Murals Feed Conspiracy Theorist | Painting Location and Meaning

Among some of the strangest art that populates the surrounding grounds and terminals of Denver International Airport (DIA) are two murals that were commissioned and installed when the airport was bein...

www.uncovercolorado.com

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

I used to be really into conspiracy theories and collect them, which became a lot less fun when I learned people I thought were also collectors were turning into true believers.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

That's twice now a colleague has asked me how much my children's sports activity costs.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

there's always climate doom

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

I have a whole list of hobbies that are excellent for this kind of induced friction (or exposure to the unassailable forces of nature).

But they don't want real risk and real stress - this is something highly controlled and safe.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

You got that rite.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we'd be better off calling it a tribunal, instead of a word meaning "to fawn over" with monarchical associations.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

Doing the "thermal battery" strategy again this season. We'll see how much electricity this saves.

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 16d

It's more cost effective to heat and cool at night and in the middle of the day, and let the temp float / drift in a larger range in the morning and evening 'duck curve' hours

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

Based on knurling and manufacturer's marks, I have at least 4 partial sets of wrenches.

I'm in luck if I need to turn 3 12mm bolts at the same time though.