John Dumas
@johndumas.bsky.social
Gay man. Likes art, photography, cooking. Esperanto. Science adjacent. Probably should write a better bio.
Feĵiĉan Zamenhof-tagon al ĉiuj kiuj festas!
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Feĵiĉan Zamenhof-tagon al ĉiuj kiuj festas!
I knitted these socks four years ago, started another pair, then stopped knitting. I wore them today as I'm contemplating getting back into knitting. They're really nice. I need to make more.
December 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I knitted these socks four years ago, started another pair, then stopped knitting. I wore them today as I'm contemplating getting back into knitting. They're really nice. I need to make more.
La krokodilo estas memoraĵo de Brno.
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
La krokodilo estas memoraĵo de Brno.
Uh oh. Are the pencil police coming for me?
Let's tell those kindergarteners that they don't need the box of crayons with 64 colors.
Is the MAGA crayon box just 2 or 3 shades of white?
Let's tell those kindergarteners that they don't need the box of crayons with 64 colors.
Is the MAGA crayon box just 2 or 3 shades of white?
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Uh oh. Are the pencil police coming for me?
Let's tell those kindergarteners that they don't need the box of crayons with 64 colors.
Is the MAGA crayon box just 2 or 3 shades of white?
Let's tell those kindergarteners that they don't need the box of crayons with 64 colors.
Is the MAGA crayon box just 2 or 3 shades of white?
I recently read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and the gimmick/twist is indeed fantastic. You find out that [redacted].
(I have read the book, so I'm only joking in keeping this spoiler free. I know, but I'm not telling.)
(I have read the book, so I'm only joking in keeping this spoiler free. I know, but I'm not telling.)
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I recently read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and the gimmick/twist is indeed fantastic. You find out that [redacted].
(I have read the book, so I'm only joking in keeping this spoiler free. I know, but I'm not telling.)
(I have read the book, so I'm only joking in keeping this spoiler free. I know, but I'm not telling.)
When these stamps were affixed to an envelope it probably seemed a good idea.
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
When these stamps were affixed to an envelope it probably seemed a good idea.
Sad news, BIC, the corporate parent of Rocketbook, has decided to cease operations of that division. BIC should have made a pen that actually worked with Rocketbooks, which would have better tied them to the product.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sad news, BIC, the corporate parent of Rocketbook, has decided to cease operations of that division. BIC should have made a pen that actually worked with Rocketbooks, which would have better tied them to the product.
Clearly my oven gloves need to be opera length. Ouch. #kitchenMishaps
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Clearly my oven gloves need to be opera length. Ouch. #kitchenMishaps
"Willingly and enthusiastically." Seriously. The headline makes it sound like he realized one day he was in a racist chat group. "How'd I get here?" He wasn't a bystander, but one of the people making racist comments.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"Willingly and enthusiastically." Seriously. The headline makes it sound like he realized one day he was in a racist chat group. "How'd I get here?" He wasn't a bystander, but one of the people making racist comments.
Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread. 😏
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November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread. 😏
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
For the completist there's the 1925 silent, with Betty Blythe (Sidney Blythe, the cinematographer on the film is unrelated. Ayesha rules over a tribe of racist stereotypes.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
For the completist there's the 1925 silent, with Betty Blythe (Sidney Blythe, the cinematographer on the film is unrelated. Ayesha rules over a tribe of racist stereotypes.
Life when you’re married to a professor. Word has it that the spec midterm was “epic.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Life when you’re married to a professor. Word has it that the spec midterm was “epic.”
Halloween challah horrors!
I bought a bread mixer, but even after an extended kneading, my dough was still glop. Fortunately, I do know how to hand knead. The bread went up a bit late, but it's looks okay.
I bought a bread mixer, but even after an extended kneading, my dough was still glop. Fortunately, I do know how to hand knead. The bread went up a bit late, but it's looks okay.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Halloween challah horrors!
I bought a bread mixer, but even after an extended kneading, my dough was still glop. Fortunately, I do know how to hand knead. The bread went up a bit late, but it's looks okay.
I bought a bread mixer, but even after an extended kneading, my dough was still glop. Fortunately, I do know how to hand knead. The bread went up a bit late, but it's looks okay.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In a moment of nostalgia, I bought some NECCO wafers last year. I found myself thinking "are those even good any more." Turns out the rolls are dated best by May 23, 2027.
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
In a moment of nostalgia, I bought some NECCO wafers last year. I found myself thinking "are those even good any more." Turns out the rolls are dated best by May 23, 2027.
I recently found that they released a 50th-anniversary release of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the option of watching the movie in black-and-white up to when the doors open during "The Time Warp."
It hits differently in black-and-white. I noticed things I hadn't noticed before.
It hits differently in black-and-white. I noticed things I hadn't noticed before.
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I recently found that they released a 50th-anniversary release of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the option of watching the movie in black-and-white up to when the doors open during "The Time Warp."
It hits differently in black-and-white. I noticed things I hadn't noticed before.
It hits differently in black-and-white. I noticed things I hadn't noticed before.
Oh, oh. What nasty stuff did I do?
I shared photos of art. From what I can figure out, Facebook considers late-medieval paintings of the Crucifixion objectionable.
Seriously. There are famous paintings that ought to pass muster but probably won't. This was tame stuff.
Facebook fears art.
I shared photos of art. From what I can figure out, Facebook considers late-medieval paintings of the Crucifixion objectionable.
Seriously. There are famous paintings that ought to pass muster but probably won't. This was tame stuff.
Facebook fears art.
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Oh, oh. What nasty stuff did I do?
I shared photos of art. From what I can figure out, Facebook considers late-medieval paintings of the Crucifixion objectionable.
Seriously. There are famous paintings that ought to pass muster but probably won't. This was tame stuff.
Facebook fears art.
I shared photos of art. From what I can figure out, Facebook considers late-medieval paintings of the Crucifixion objectionable.
Seriously. There are famous paintings that ought to pass muster but probably won't. This was tame stuff.
Facebook fears art.
A quick review of contemporary reaction shows that the lynching had broad support. The Sunday Herald and National Intelligencer of Washington DC called the acquittal "a disgraceful miscarriage of justice." How do you avenge a murder by killing those who were acquitted?
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A quick review of contemporary reaction shows that the lynching had broad support. The Sunday Herald and National Intelligencer of Washington DC called the acquittal "a disgraceful miscarriage of justice." How do you avenge a murder by killing those who were acquitted?
Columbus Day has its roots in the 1891 mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans. They were accused of murdering the police chief, acquitted, then lynched. It was the largest ethnic lynching in US history, part of our long tradition of demonizing immigrants.
Let's call it "Honor Immigrants Day."
Let's call it "Honor Immigrants Day."
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Columbus Day has its roots in the 1891 mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans. They were accused of murdering the police chief, acquitted, then lynched. It was the largest ethnic lynching in US history, part of our long tradition of demonizing immigrants.
Let's call it "Honor Immigrants Day."
Let's call it "Honor Immigrants Day."
Wow, that's a pretty bad case of scriptor pigmentatus. #LeftiesKnowTheStruggle
October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wow, that's a pretty bad case of scriptor pigmentatus. #LeftiesKnowTheStruggle
Today is the centenary of the birth of Gore Vidal. Can we, as a sort of birthday present to Vidal all agree that William F. Buckley really was a crypto nazi?
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today is the centenary of the birth of Gore Vidal. Can we, as a sort of birthday present to Vidal all agree that William F. Buckley really was a crypto nazi?
There is something satisfying about wiping your journal clean at the end of the day.
September 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There is something satisfying about wiping your journal clean at the end of the day.