BeDeeP
@bdp501.bsky.social
World-traveling geek in my 50s. Far too much of my luggage is taken up by books and dice. Yes, I also own a Kindle, but sometimes a fella's gotta have books.
Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber," and it's not even close.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber," and it's not even close.
"You're what passes for an extrovert among professional IT geeks."
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
January 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"You're what passes for an extrovert among professional IT geeks."
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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
December 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
- It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’
- It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’
- It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’
- It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’
- It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’
No worries if not!!!
Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate!
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate!
Brioche french toast, oven-baked candied bacon, and a half-pot of decaf.
Sometimes a person just needs breakfast-for-dinner at the tail end of a one-week staycation from work to round out the soothing, pleasureable, vibe of it all.
Sometimes a person just needs breakfast-for-dinner at the tail end of a one-week staycation from work to round out the soothing, pleasureable, vibe of it all.
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Brioche french toast, oven-baked candied bacon, and a half-pot of decaf.
Sometimes a person just needs breakfast-for-dinner at the tail end of a one-week staycation from work to round out the soothing, pleasureable, vibe of it all.
Sometimes a person just needs breakfast-for-dinner at the tail end of a one-week staycation from work to round out the soothing, pleasureable, vibe of it all.
Dude could bellyflop down those 4 stairs and his hair come undone and his girdle snap from the stress, and his supporters would still claim he is the Achilles and the Adonis of presidents.
The 79-year-old president cautiously climbed down the steps at his Mar-a-Lago estate as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump, 79, Gingerly Descends Four Small Steps
The president cautiously descended a short staircase as he welcomed his pal from Israel.
trib.al
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Dude could bellyflop down those 4 stairs and his hair come undone and his girdle snap from the stress, and his supporters would still claim he is the Achilles and the Adonis of presidents.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
I'd like to say that this is a public domain work by a known author that Hollywood won't try to rip off into a movie, but I suppose someone would take that as a dare and ask me to hold their beer.
J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896) — A genre-defying work by the creator of Peter Pan about the pleasures of smoking: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-lady-nicotine
December 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I'd like to say that this is a public domain work by a known author that Hollywood won't try to rip off into a movie, but I suppose someone would take that as a dare and ask me to hold their beer.
One day after Christmas, and the local supermarket has stopped playing its Christmas medley but I'm now listening to a muzak version of "Don't go chasing waterfalls". One door closes, another opens, I suppose.
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One day after Christmas, and the local supermarket has stopped playing its Christmas medley but I'm now listening to a muzak version of "Don't go chasing waterfalls". One door closes, another opens, I suppose.
Because, let's be clear, Alito is okay with Shadow Docket Rulings that *increase* the power of this particular president, but not when it goes the other way.
Alito berates SCOTUS colleagues for shadow docket ruling that limits presidential power
"Local police departments have provided insufficient assistance," Justice Samuel Alito rages in dissent. "The protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should not be thwarted."
lawandcrime.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Because, let's be clear, Alito is okay with Shadow Docket Rulings that *increase* the power of this particular president, but not when it goes the other way.
Explain your username.
So, BDP (pronounced 'BeDeeP' by my late mother, hence the display name) are my initials. And '501' is for the jeans, since my first BBS name back to the late 80s/early 90s was 'Bluejeans'. If you've ever read the old Usenet 'Dead' series, I was that Morgan 'SysOp' Bluejeans.
So, BDP (pronounced 'BeDeeP' by my late mother, hence the display name) are my initials. And '501' is for the jeans, since my first BBS name back to the late 80s/early 90s was 'Bluejeans'. If you've ever read the old Usenet 'Dead' series, I was that Morgan 'SysOp' Bluejeans.
Explain yer username.
I was on a BBS and got sub-sysop powers for a forum, so if the sysop was god, I was an archangel.
I was around late 15 then and am roughly 40 years older and I've been Archangel Beth the whole time (sometimes ArchBeth on MMOs, or AB when I'm incognito.)
I was on a BBS and got sub-sysop powers for a forum, so if the sysop was god, I was an archangel.
I was around late 15 then and am roughly 40 years older and I've been Archangel Beth the whole time (sometimes ArchBeth on MMOs, or AB when I'm incognito.)
explain your username:
I was on ICQ talking whilst a friend visited, and described myself as Not Quite A Hippie. some few weeks later I needed a username for the LJ I had just bought myself a token for, and I had a crush on @rahaeli.bsky.social, so. NQAH met aeli, and here we fuckin' are.
I was on ICQ talking whilst a friend visited, and described myself as Not Quite A Hippie. some few weeks later I needed a username for the LJ I had just bought myself a token for, and I had a crush on @rahaeli.bsky.social, so. NQAH met aeli, and here we fuckin' are.
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Explain your username.
So, BDP (pronounced 'BeDeeP' by my late mother, hence the display name) are my initials. And '501' is for the jeans, since my first BBS name back to the late 80s/early 90s was 'Bluejeans'. If you've ever read the old Usenet 'Dead' series, I was that Morgan 'SysOp' Bluejeans.
So, BDP (pronounced 'BeDeeP' by my late mother, hence the display name) are my initials. And '501' is for the jeans, since my first BBS name back to the late 80s/early 90s was 'Bluejeans'. If you've ever read the old Usenet 'Dead' series, I was that Morgan 'SysOp' Bluejeans.
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Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please be aware of possible scams! My client, Mel Curth, is not seeking any donations at this time.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
She is grateful for your support, and asks folks that want to help to give back to the community by donating to a local organization of your choice.
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I lost, but only because I didn't win. And I could have easily won. So in a way, I did win. I won that fight.
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I lost, but only because I didn't win. And I could have easily won. So in a way, I did win. I won that fight.
They have officially reached what at least one attorney friend of mine calls the "Well, we failed to get the case dismissed at a go, let's just bury them in discovery and hope that it just overwhelms them while we skate past" phase.
The Department of Justice announced what could be "a million more documents" related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
DOJ announces 'a million more documents' related to Jeffrey Epstein on Christmas Eve
The Department of Justice announced what could be "a million more documents" related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a Christmas Eve post on X, the DOJ said that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI located the documents."[T[hey have uncovered over a million more docu...
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
They have officially reached what at least one attorney friend of mine calls the "Well, we failed to get the case dismissed at a go, let's just bury them in discovery and hope that it just overwhelms them while we skate past" phase.
Let's assume for a moment that we buy the story that the Nasser letter was determined by analysis to be false ... wouldn't the supporting documentation for the research which proved the letter to be false also be part of the files and released accordingly?
Not that we do buy the excuse, mind you.
Not that we do buy the excuse, mind you.
DOJ Publicly Unravels Over Epstein Files Backlash
Name-calling and endless copy-paste replies defined the Department of Justice’s holiday posting spree.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Let's assume for a moment that we buy the story that the Nasser letter was determined by analysis to be false ... wouldn't the supporting documentation for the research which proved the letter to be false also be part of the files and released accordingly?
Not that we do buy the excuse, mind you.
Not that we do buy the excuse, mind you.
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This should be the bombshell news that ends his presidency. But we’re living in an alternate reality.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This should be the bombshell news that ends his presidency. But we’re living in an alternate reality.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
Got my copy of OLNN in the mail today. A lovely surprise given how long packages often take to get to me. Thanks, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social!
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Got my copy of OLNN in the mail today. A lovely surprise given how long packages often take to get to me. Thanks, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social!
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billionaires can buy the cupcake factory and then start producing piles of shit that they insist are actually cupcakes but it doesn't mean anyone has to believe them, or eat the pile of shit
December 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
billionaires can buy the cupcake factory and then start producing piles of shit that they insist are actually cupcakes but it doesn't mean anyone has to believe them, or eat the pile of shit
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
This entire thread is straight up fire.
Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable.
Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate.
Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.
Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate.
Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This entire thread is straight up fire.
Ah, "The Vortex of Discombobulated Shoppers," a little known holiday-themed D&D module, I believe, from the late 1980s set in the Winter Festival markets of The Free City of Greyhawk.
And if it ain't, it should have been.
And if it ain't, it should have been.
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ah, "The Vortex of Discombobulated Shoppers," a little known holiday-themed D&D module, I believe, from the late 1980s set in the Winter Festival markets of The Free City of Greyhawk.
And if it ain't, it should have been.
And if it ain't, it should have been.
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Hello, all.
tl;dr @nerdykeppie.bsky.social is donating 10% net profit of December's resin item sales to the legal bills of anti-ICE protestors, including a trans woman I'm writing to in detention.
Here's what gets stuff donated:
nerdykeppie.com/collections/...
tl;dr @nerdykeppie.bsky.social is donating 10% net profit of December's resin item sales to the legal bills of anti-ICE protestors, including a trans woman I'm writing to in detention.
Here's what gets stuff donated:
nerdykeppie.com/collections/...
December 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hello, all.
tl;dr @nerdykeppie.bsky.social is donating 10% net profit of December's resin item sales to the legal bills of anti-ICE protestors, including a trans woman I'm writing to in detention.
Here's what gets stuff donated:
nerdykeppie.com/collections/...
tl;dr @nerdykeppie.bsky.social is donating 10% net profit of December's resin item sales to the legal bills of anti-ICE protestors, including a trans woman I'm writing to in detention.
Here's what gets stuff donated:
nerdykeppie.com/collections/...