Smorgasborder
@smorgasborder.bsky.social
Pseudonymous hedge wizard. Winner of the 2012 Doberman Prize for Inconsequential Findings.
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Honestly, this poem runs through my mind probably once a day.
Just randomly, without my intention, it’s in the back of my mind and I can’t help hearing it.
Just randomly, without my intention, it’s in the back of my mind and I can’t help hearing it.
January 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Honestly, this poem runs through my mind probably once a day.
Just randomly, without my intention, it’s in the back of my mind and I can’t help hearing it.
Just randomly, without my intention, it’s in the back of my mind and I can’t help hearing it.
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I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.
January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.
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cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
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watching valve slowly turn gamers into linux users without them even realizing
January 18, 2026 at 10:29 AM
watching valve slowly turn gamers into linux users without them even realizing
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As Pratchett said:
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
As Pratchett said:
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Complaining about Linux people has eclipsed Linux people being annoying at this point, it was neck and neck for a while but they managed to be outdone.
January 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Complaining about Linux people has eclipsed Linux people being annoying at this point, it was neck and neck for a while but they managed to be outdone.
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Part of the reason Costco pursued the apartments on top was to take advantage of a @cayimby.bsky.social sponsored bill (AB 2011) that allows housing projects in commercial zoned areas to go through an expedited permitting and approval process.
Removing local control of land use is good!
Removing local control of land use is good!
Costco is co-locating housing above a new store in South LA, 800 units.
Unbelievable that we've been building malls & big box stores for, what, sixty years, and never figured this out
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
Unbelievable that we've been building malls & big box stores for, what, sixty years, and never figured this out
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
www.entrepreneur.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Part of the reason Costco pursued the apartments on top was to take advantage of a @cayimby.bsky.social sponsored bill (AB 2011) that allows housing projects in commercial zoned areas to go through an expedited permitting and approval process.
Removing local control of land use is good!
Removing local control of land use is good!
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This bit from a @lisabelkin.bsky.social story has lived rent-free in my head since the day it was published. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/m...
![Given that there are 280 million people in the United States, [Persi Diaconis, a Stanford statistician] says, ''280 times a day, a one-in-a-million shot is going to occur.''](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zijpzw75j26esk5z2oilexan/bafkreig4wkfcvj45527pjqitkhxoszlxrcijr6h3q3c45zoxqip3q4hhja@jpeg)
January 7, 2026 at 2:27 AM
This bit from a @lisabelkin.bsky.social story has lived rent-free in my head since the day it was published. www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/m...
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I have so many, but this is one of them.
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I have so many, but this is one of them.
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Reckless & dangerous.
Sec. Kennedy is now requiring parents who want to vaccinate their kids against the flu to go to the doctor before they can get a shot.
Children are dying from the flu. Making vaccines harder to get will cost lives.
Sec. Kennedy is now requiring parents who want to vaccinate their kids against the flu to go to the doctor before they can get a shot.
Children are dying from the flu. Making vaccines harder to get will cost lives.
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Reckless & dangerous.
Sec. Kennedy is now requiring parents who want to vaccinate their kids against the flu to go to the doctor before they can get a shot.
Children are dying from the flu. Making vaccines harder to get will cost lives.
Sec. Kennedy is now requiring parents who want to vaccinate their kids against the flu to go to the doctor before they can get a shot.
Children are dying from the flu. Making vaccines harder to get will cost lives.
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"From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude." - Ursula K. Le Guin
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 PM
"From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude." - Ursula K. Le Guin
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everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9
December 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9
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"Deus sive Natura" (God is Nature) sounded so romantic until I realized the guy eating a tuna sandwich next to me on the Metro is also a mode of the Divine Substance. Accepting that this chaos is part of the eternal perfection of the universe is my daily geometric proof.
#philosophy #spinoza
#philosophy #spinoza
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Deus sive Natura" (God is Nature) sounded so romantic until I realized the guy eating a tuna sandwich next to me on the Metro is also a mode of the Divine Substance. Accepting that this chaos is part of the eternal perfection of the universe is my daily geometric proof.
#philosophy #spinoza
#philosophy #spinoza
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The really good one:
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December 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The really good one:
bsky.app/profile/chri...
bsky.app/profile/chri...
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it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
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When we start reaching the point of "better a dead child," I don't give a fuck what the other half of that sentence was going to be. The trans children I have known--and trans kids exist, absolutely--have been joyous, delightful, wonderful souls. They would not be better dead. No child is.
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When we start reaching the point of "better a dead child," I don't give a fuck what the other half of that sentence was going to be. The trans children I have known--and trans kids exist, absolutely--have been joyous, delightful, wonderful souls. They would not be better dead. No child is.
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A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work.
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
A number of my works are available through the National Library Service, which provides work via audio and braille, and I encourage their use. All my contracts allow for this service to provide access to my work.
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-s...
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i would like to not be identified because i have always wanted to be quoted as a mustachioed gentleman
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
i would like to not be identified because i have always wanted to be quoted as a mustachioed gentleman
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
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This is the Will McPhail print I own. Parents will get it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is the Will McPhail print I own. Parents will get it.
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I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.