Bill Hemphill
@incompleteidiot.bsky.social
Accidental academic (STEM education, CAD & CNC) 30+ years. Drummer who designs guitars. Self-identifies as 'cis-het male & recovering Republican.' Opinionated. Crippled by periodic bouts of impostor's syndrome. Definitely married up.
Never underestimate the power and reach of malicious compliance by thoughtful academics.
Cowards.
January 31, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Never underestimate the power and reach of malicious compliance by thoughtful academics.
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FunFact: Noem is just not worth the extraordinary amount of delta v required; a sun synchronous orbit would be just fine. Miller could/should ride share.
Author is terrible generally, but that’s all the more reason that this is good
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Fire Kristi Noem into the Sun | National Review
At a minimum, the DHS secretary should immediately become the least visible member of this administration.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:00 AM
FunFact: Noem is just not worth the extraordinary amount of delta v required; a sun synchronous orbit would be just fine. Miller could/should ride share.
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The memes are in. Which one wins?
Vote A for the Ark
Vote F for Frageelee
Vote A for the Ark
Vote F for Frageelee
January 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM
The memes are in. Which one wins?
Vote A for the Ark
Vote F for Frageelee
Vote A for the Ark
Vote F for Frageelee
"Trump's import sales tax."
Four simple words.
Keep it simple... for the base.
Four simple words.
Keep it simple... for the base.
Be real, WSJ. The tariffs are import taxes imposed on businesses (and individuals) in the United States who import goods into the United States.
Donald Trump said he will impose a 10% tariff—that will rise to 25%—on European countries that don’t support his controversial plan to take over Greenland.
January 19, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Trump's import sales tax."
Four simple words.
Keep it simple... for the base.
Four simple words.
Keep it simple... for the base.
These tariffs won't ever end until it becomes common to hear them referred to by pundits and around the watercooler as "Trump's import sales tax."
This endless tariff game needs to come to an end. It is out of control!
January 19, 2026 at 2:33 AM
These tariffs won't ever end until it becomes common to hear them referred to by pundits and around the watercooler as "Trump's import sales tax."
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TFW you realize even your household infrastructure has gone full Howard Beale exiting 2025.
Anyone else have a shower door just spontaneously absolutely explode into pieces? Fortunately nobody was there.
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
TFW you realize even your household infrastructure has gone full Howard Beale exiting 2025.
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Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Nine: Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a film that sits atop a small but diverse and, for some people, extremely enjoyable sub-genre of film: Competence Porn. This has nothing to do with actual pornography (well, I guess it…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it:
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whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/29/t...
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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They have altered the pronunciation. Pray they do not alter it further.
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
They have altered the pronunciation. Pray they do not alter it further.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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Tilda Swinton will star in the A24 adaptation
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Tilda Swinton will star in the A24 adaptation
At least one sector of the US guv'mint remains a trustworthy source of information. Thank you, @cpsc.gov
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
At least one sector of the US guv'mint remains a trustworthy source of information. Thank you, @cpsc.gov
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This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.
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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
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November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.
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It's Nov. 23rd.
Celebrate #Wolfenoot responsibly.
Celebrate #Wolfenoot responsibly.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It's Nov. 23rd.
Celebrate #Wolfenoot responsibly.
Celebrate #Wolfenoot responsibly.
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The correct term of art is, "Hood robbin' ."
Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The correct term of art is, "Hood robbin' ."
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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A reminder that if you have a subway sandwich in your home, be sure to keep them locked up and store the buns separately from the meats.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A reminder that if you have a subway sandwich in your home, be sure to keep them locked up and store the buns separately from the meats.
#ProTip: On Halloween, when you run out of candy, do NOT begin handing out over the counter medications such as 325mg aspirin or Tums (even the berry flavored ones).
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#ProTip: On Halloween, when you run out of candy, do NOT begin handing out over the counter medications such as 325mg aspirin or Tums (even the berry flavored ones).
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My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy.
He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.
He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy.
He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.
He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.
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/4 “Tulane must be held responsible,” Secretary Kennedy insisted. “The monkeys escaped because of inhumane treatment. They clearly don’t have good health care or they wouldn‘t have all these diseases. Except for herpes. That one can happen to anybody.”
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
/4 “Tulane must be held responsible,” Secretary Kennedy insisted. “The monkeys escaped because of inhumane treatment. They clearly don’t have good health care or they wouldn‘t have all these diseases. Except for herpes. That one can happen to anybody.”
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If you arrange the toilet paper so that it feeds from the bottom of the roll you are a deeply flawed human being crying out for re-education.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you arrange the toilet paper so that it feeds from the bottom of the roll you are a deeply flawed human being crying out for re-education.