David Seaver
@davidseaver.bsky.social
Not a product made of mechanically recovered and processed meat.
He/Him.
Master & Commander of the Obvious.
He/Him.
Master & Commander of the Obvious.
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
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Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
Wakefield: Police Appeal to Public for Help Locating 60-Year-Old Woman Reported Missing - Norwood News
The NYPD is appealing to the public for help locating a 60-year-old woman who is reported missing from the Wakefield section of The Bronx.
www.norwoodnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...
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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
@rjbarker.bsky.social @cupcakegoth.bsky.social We can retire the old joke about only wearing black until they invent a darker color, as they apparently have:
www.popsci.com/science/dark...
www.popsci.com/science/dark...
The darkest fabric ever made is now a dress
A bird’s ultrablack feathers inspired this versatile material.
www.popsci.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@rjbarker.bsky.social @cupcakegoth.bsky.social We can retire the old joke about only wearing black until they invent a darker color, as they apparently have:
www.popsci.com/science/dark...
www.popsci.com/science/dark...
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New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
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Mr. Peanut with William S. Burroughs
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Mr. Peanut with William S. Burroughs
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ok to any Edinburgh publicans or anyone interested in a model of their house/business i want to big up a local artist that done amazing stuff for me for over 25yrs. He does painting as well but his latest thing is amazing model work
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
ok to any Edinburgh publicans or anyone interested in a model of their house/business i want to big up a local artist that done amazing stuff for me for over 25yrs. He does painting as well but his latest thing is amazing model work
A really good overview about how a Wallachian warlord became identified much later with Stoker's vampire.
Plus a good deal of material about primary sources and their problematic reliability.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBq...
Plus a good deal of material about primary sources and their problematic reliability.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBq...
The Origins of Dracula
YouTube video by ESOTERICA
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A really good overview about how a Wallachian warlord became identified much later with Stoker's vampire.
Plus a good deal of material about primary sources and their problematic reliability.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBq...
Plus a good deal of material about primary sources and their problematic reliability.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBq...
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This is just to say
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is just to say
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
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NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start.
via White Rose Resistance
via White Rose Resistance
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start.
via White Rose Resistance
via White Rose Resistance
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Department continues its tradition of professionalism:
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Bay Area police captain allegedly lived in station, commuted from Idaho
"Please stop using rooms for sleeping," a notice from a city inspector read.
www.sfgate.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Department continues its tradition of professionalism:
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info! #Blackademics
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info! #Blackademics
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Weavers: there are looms in Philadelphia needing a home. Spread the word. Gift article: share.inquirer.com/IdOGai
Are you looking to buy looms? The Weaver House in the Bok building is closing.
The shop owner is looking for a single buyer for the floor looms acquired from the University of the Arts after the school shuttered.
share.inquirer.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Weavers: there are looms in Philadelphia needing a home. Spread the word. Gift article: share.inquirer.com/IdOGai
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My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
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There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
There is an IG page
@blacktransscam
that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇
You can buy something called a "universal remote," but it only works on nearby electronics. So disappointing.
September 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You can buy something called a "universal remote," but it only works on nearby electronics. So disappointing.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
Behold: potato archaeology in the Four Corners area.
archaeology.org/issues/march...
Behold: potato archaeology in the Four Corners area.
archaeology.org/issues/march...
Letter from the Four Corners - In Search of Prehistoric Potatoes - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2020
Native peoples of the American Southwest dined on a little-known spud at least 10,000 years ago
archaeology.org
September 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
Behold: potato archaeology in the Four Corners area.
archaeology.org/issues/march...
Behold: potato archaeology in the Four Corners area.
archaeology.org/issues/march...
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The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
August 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
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This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
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Teaching AI literacy.
(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)
(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)
July 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Teaching AI literacy.
(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)
(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)