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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 40m

Habeas Corpus is on first.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 5h

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1h

side note: i still have not recovered from the mortification of being a young hitch-hiker in England 30 years ago and asking a local how to get to Gloucestershire, which apparently is pronounced "GLAWSTAH" not glow-chester-shyer

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1h

Toronto

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1h

Every 80s metal drum solo ever recorded:

he's doing the "speed up my paradiddles" thing sigh
his paradiddles are very fast
now he's slowing them down again
they are very slow
he's speeding up again and people are cheering because woo fast

Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 2h

One of my favourite things about Facebook is that once you leave Facebook it is startlingly easy to forget that Facebook ever even existed.

One of my least favourite things about Facebook is that it still exists even if you've forgotten it.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 4h

...apply it in novel ways in constantly changing contexts while "listening" to, predicting, and responding to the conversational patterns of your partner / opponent.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 4h

...which got me to thinking (and I stand by this thought) that these sorts of real-time pvp combat games are in fact a form of conversational jazz improvisation.

They have a syntaxes and a rhythm, and they require you to first memorize and master a vocabulary, then...

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 4h

...and then I thought to map the ASDF and arrow keys to a piano keyboard and learn them as scale patterns / note combos instead.

It worked. I could translate the melodic cells back to the keyboard waayyy more efficiently than just memorizing letters....

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 4h

My kid B was trying to teach me how to play Guilty Gear Strive a couple months back. I was really struggling to remember keystroke combos and to catch the rhythm required to input complex moves consistently.

So we got to talking about how I can remember complex combos and rhythms on guitar....

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWRj...

Oh my god someone did it, dark souls controlled via a program capturing trumpet notes and mapping them to key presses

Defeating Taurus Demon with a Trumpet

YouTube video by Challenger Andy Clips

www.youtube.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 14h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 1d

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 20h

This is, perhaps not coincidentally, also the most important and significant thing about rich people.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 20h

On Sunday afternoon I injured my (55 year old) wrist chopping parsley.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21h

Real life is kind of a reverse Metroidvania if you think about it, you start out being able to climb and wiggle into places and fall from great heights without a scratch, and then one day you're ability gated by such as waking up wrong

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 21h

There was a brief window of time where it was theoretically possible for Abraham Lincoln* to send faxes** to the samurai shogun***

* died 1865
** invented 1843
*** abolished 1867

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 22h

Richard Nixon lived long enough to play NBA Jam

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 22h

Albert Woolson, the last surviving veteran of the Union army in the Civil War, lived long enough to hear Elvis’s debut lp

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 23h

My mom (who has a background in chemistry so idk maybe she's right) claimed that pouring a small amount of cold milk into a hot cup of tea "denatures the proteins" in the milk...

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 23h

I was raised in a household where tea can only be made in a pot, and if you take milk you add it to your cup _before_ you pour the tea.

Adding milk after is an affront to the Irish tea gods.

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Joshfrai @joshfrai.bsky.social · 1d

As explained by @juliusgoat.bsky.social ...

Excerpt from an interview with Andrew Moxon (aka @juliusgoat):

At the end what I heard expressed were three core lies, each of which rested upon the next. The first lie is that we bear no relation to one another; that society is purely individualistic-which negates any suggestion of the truth that we live in an interconnected system, and allows us to see the abuse and suffering and death of others as something that poses no threat to us. The second is that life must be earned, and profit is how you earn it-which means that some haven't earned it, and makes all abuse and suffering and death that a spiritually sick society produces the fault not of those who cause the abuse but those who suffer it. The third lie is that violence redeems the crime of having not earned life-which means that when those who are deemed to have not earned life are abused or harmed or killed, the violence is not only something that doesn't threaten our safety, but represents safety itself.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Habitant split pea soup is against the will of God but soooo oleaginously good. Made with real French Canadians, too! www.campbellsoup.ca/product/habi...

Habitant French-Canadian Pea Soup - Campbell Company of Canada

Habitant® soups have been made using traditional recipes since 1918. This soup has become a classic among Canadian families for its creamy texture of blended peas with just the right amount of seasoni...

www.campbellsoup.ca

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Next person who asks, I'll tell them I caught a falling school bus.

Queen Maeve, from The Boys. She's a mighty Celtic warrior queen in spiral-worked metal and burgundy leather armour, wearing an iron circlet on her brow. She has long red hair, and is facing off to the right but has turned her head to look back to the left. She seems concerned.

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned that Good King Wenceslas was murdered by his brother, Boleslaus the Cruel, and that Boleslaus--in a master stroke of PR--was significantly responsible for the cult of veneration that led to his murdered brother's sainthood.

My family has some pretty strange dinner conversations.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Thomas P @tpshea.bsky.social · 1d

My buddy T said "Parsley? That's like the _weakest_ of the herbs, dude. Tell people you blew it out chopping garlic, at least."

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