Fran Skafka
@keitechnical.bsky.social
Portlander, boat-enjoyer, etc. I'm interested in history, ecology, trek, and culture. Brillat-Savarin enthusiast.
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Yet another city plan from Big Hollywood Theater
Also, maybe a dumb question, but are these proposed additional lines supposed to interline? Or are they all going to require a transfer from existing lines?
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yet another city plan from Big Hollywood Theater
Nothing will ever be as good as wandering through a good used book store before the modern web, but I have read a lot of books based on half-understood comments and footnotes, with the same feeling of stepping onto an unmarked trail.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Nothing will ever be as good as wandering through a good used book store before the modern web, but I have read a lot of books based on half-understood comments and footnotes, with the same feeling of stepping onto an unmarked trail.
I know it's not the point, but this is a fine turn of phrase
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I know it's not the point, but this is a fine turn of phrase
Who doesn't love well written criticism?
"Taken together, these qualities leave the impression that Kuang imagines her readers to be bright but easily confused children." www.thebulwark.com/p/cheap-tric...
Cheap Tricks
In R.F. Kuang’s novel ‘Katabasis,’ two philosopher-magicians wander Hell to rescue their thesis supervisor. Jejunity ensues.
www.thebulwark.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Who doesn't love well written criticism?
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"Worm Drive Circular Saw"? uhhh. no. worm drive apple car
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Worm Drive Circular Saw"? uhhh. no. worm drive apple car
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not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
They don't work for the peasantry
These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
They don't work for the peasantry
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The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached
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I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
My Penzy's order came, and they threw in what I can only call a nickel bag of garlic powder
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My Penzy's order came, and they threw in what I can only call a nickel bag of garlic powder
This is a good point, but on the other hand this would lead to no flag with Stephen Miller coming out of a barrel captioned COME OUT YOU CUCKOLD
Not going to criticize a protestor, but we really need to get some cosplayers to go as Rebel troopers or pilots
Matching cringelib posters with the most bellicose beliefs is how we'll win.
October 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is a good point, but on the other hand this would lead to no flag with Stephen Miller coming out of a barrel captioned COME OUT YOU CUCKOLD
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Dracula Flow really was the weirdest Enya song
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Dracula Flow really was the weirdest Enya song
God I hate it
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
God I hate it
Did you hear about NPR's new Beowulf program?
It's called Æþelingas Considered
It's called Æþelingas Considered
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Did you hear about NPR's new Beowulf program?
It's called Æþelingas Considered
It's called Æþelingas Considered
Understatement of the year. Chimichurri, tapenade, compound butter, most things that need an herbal touch. If you're a double the garlic person, you should divide the world into cilantro meals and parsley meals.
Parsley kind of underrated imo
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Understatement of the year. Chimichurri, tapenade, compound butter, most things that need an herbal touch. If you're a double the garlic person, you should divide the world into cilantro meals and parsley meals.
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okay but real talk, atproto needs atphpbb
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
okay but real talk, atproto needs atphpbb
Good thing contemporary people could never believe in a magical correspondence between sign and signifier and enact costly, useless rituals to bring prosperity and order
Who says the sixteenth century is irrelevant?
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Good thing contemporary people could never believe in a magical correspondence between sign and signifier and enact costly, useless rituals to bring prosperity and order
Hey look, it's the start of like .75 of the dinners I make
October 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hey look, it's the start of like .75 of the dinners I make
There is no day this old thread will not brighten
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September 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
There is no day this old thread will not brighten
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"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"
September 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"