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Charles Louis Richter

@richterscale.bsky.social

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12m

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1h

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 23m

autocorrect changes words to other words that would never in a million years make sense in the sentence you're writing, and is like, "hey hey hey, i'm just playing devil's advocate here"

Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 9h

autocorrect keeps changing but to bit and in to I and at this point I don't believe it has any interest in being helpful and is just trying to be a massive prick

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 32m

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 27m

pretty sure a bluesky post counts

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 35m

the Nobel goes to research on metal-organic frameworks, you say?

www.npr.org/2025/10/08/g...

behind glass, a circular frame holds a stark white humanoid figure, its legs and arms reaching out to the perimeter. it is incomplete, just a white form of muscle and exposed bone shapes.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17h

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

I never say this, but I wish this video was 3x longer

Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 17h

i love these guys

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 17h

I've been meaning to try this! It sounds excellent.

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18h

i made it; it's pretty good!

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18h

how about parmesan, miso, doenjang, chili crisp for a global tour of umami in one dish:

Miso-Parmesan Pasta With Chili Crisp

This flavor bomb of a sauce (miso!

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19h

if type an odd string of words into google nowadays, it will very often try to tell me, in its little "AI" box up top, what the origin of my unusual phrase is and what it refers to--all complete nonsense of course, but if i were credulous, i might think i had stumbled upon something