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HJ Armstrong
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It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers!

ND. Misfit. Searcher. Restless. Entrepreneur-ish. Genealogy is my jam, but I only post about it at @suitcasegen.bsky.social and @yoretravel.bsky.social.

Avi: 2011 US Navy Birthday Ball
Pinned
Went to my first Celtic festival last weekend in Tucson, and a couple from Paradise, CA, had a pop-up shop there. I lived in Chico for about 6 yrs (moons ago) and was devastated when the Camp Fire decimated Paradise. These folks lost everything in the fire and have rebuilt their lives there.

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Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.

president.yale.edu/committees-p...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I desperately want this bird to go batshit crazy on everyone there.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Look at all of these sweet special babbies The Cattery has saved. 🥺😻
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I laughed so hard I started coughing.
Amusing Myself, Part 5
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Multiple of these squeezed at the same time make a horrid sound. This is hilarious.
Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police.

So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.

#GeorgiaProtests

📷 MOSE
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I miss the early days of social media. *sigh*
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This made me smile.
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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If you need a smile today this is it.

Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Michael Tsai pulled together this list of apps on sale for Black Friday.

Thanks for all you do for the community, Michael! 🙏🏻

mjtsai.com/blog/2025/11...
#Apple
Michael Tsai - Blog - Black Friday 2025
mjtsai.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
😻😻😻
TODAY Phoenix area friends- Clancy hopes you can visit our Adoption Event @Petco, 1415 E Warner Rd., Gilbert, AZ. 11am - 4pm, Saturday 🐾 Read bios & apply here: savethecatsaz.org/adoption-form/
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
😂😂😂 I read this in Flower's voice, which makes it even funnier.
Trump ten minutes after meeting Zohran
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It’s that time of year again. I’ll have a handful of slots open for needle felt creatures. Most people give them as gifts or hang them on tree. Message me if you are interested.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"Help is here. Love is here." Dania, WCK partner in Jamaica
When Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica, Dania didn’t hesitate to shelter a dozen neighbors in his shop in Savanna-la-Mar. (1/2)
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I loooooove posts like this. So many new and interesting facts to learn.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883
How the Fitzgerald Sank Twice
An excerpt
greatlakespeopleandplaces.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I love this.
Every time I go to an art museum, I take pictures of every dog I see in a painting/sculpture/anything and make a photo album called the Good Boys of X Museum. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has had the best good boys so far. Family and friends now send me pics of the good boys they see.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM