SupposeNot
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There is beauty in the margins. Interested in exploring, questioning my assumptions, and I stand corrected.
Like art, math, Alaskan politics, wild places, and the kindness of strangers.
Was @SupposeNot on the bird app, and am on mastodon.social.
Like art, math, Alaskan politics, wild places, and the kindness of strangers.
Was @SupposeNot on the bird app, and am on mastodon.social.
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The power is out here in parts of Wasilla. But I was reminded today that it can always be worse…
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The power is out here in parts of Wasilla. But I was reminded today that it can always be worse…
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Jon Favreau reacts to the Pete Hegseth talk about the boat strikes in Venezuela.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Jon Favreau reacts to the Pete Hegseth talk about the boat strikes in Venezuela.
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Idly had the thought “I wonder if Donald Knuth is still doing a Christmas lecture?” And the answer is of course he is, it was yesterday. Eighty-seven years old, still on the wholly Quixotic TAoCP path, and casually spitting out TeX fascicles. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc8...
![was acquired in 1911. A similar example, smaller and with more beautiful let-terforms, is object number UC 59254 in the nearby Petrie Museum of University College London [see W. M. F. Petrie, Objects of Daily Use (1927), #288]. What a pleasant coincidence that W. R. Hamilton himself would independently come up with the same concept some 1800 years later, and would proceed to find a closed cycle instead of just a path!
Now fast forward to the ninth century,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreiauxqszwklhwmktrzae3gps4zfriozp7r72nwdvexsvv7hrbr6dx4@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Idly had the thought “I wonder if Donald Knuth is still doing a Christmas lecture?” And the answer is of course he is, it was yesterday. Eighty-seven years old, still on the wholly Quixotic TAoCP path, and casually spitting out TeX fascicles. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc8...
@unac4996ak.bsky.social yup, 5% is too good to be true…
I just received notification from University IT warning us about phishing attacks that “seem too good to be true” and I can’t stop thinking about the scammer last year who wanted us to enter our credentials to register for our 5% annual cost-of-living raise.
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@unac4996ak.bsky.social yup, 5% is too good to be true…
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I just received notification from University IT warning us about phishing attacks that “seem too good to be true” and I can’t stop thinking about the scammer last year who wanted us to enter our credentials to register for our 5% annual cost-of-living raise.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I just received notification from University IT warning us about phishing attacks that “seem too good to be true” and I can’t stop thinking about the scammer last year who wanted us to enter our credentials to register for our 5% annual cost-of-living raise.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
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In order to make this origami star, you need a piece of paper in the shape of a regular pentagon. There's a standard method of cutting a pentagon from a square piece of paper. The interesting thing is: it is only an approximation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQV...
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
In order to make this origami star, you need a piece of paper in the shape of a regular pentagon. There's a standard method of cutting a pentagon from a square piece of paper. The interesting thing is: it is only an approximation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQV...
They really are terrible people, defiling history for the LOLs, and perverting the words of better people to their own racist and hateful ends.
#EndICE
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#EndICE
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Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They really are terrible people, defiling history for the LOLs, and perverting the words of better people to their own racist and hateful ends.
#EndICE
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
#EndICE
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Damn! Wish I’d thought of that!
First year my son came to live with me in the Alaskan bush, he was 10, we didn't get a xmas tree. But we did get a chest and did "Pirate xmas" set it up with lights that turned on when he opened it, with all the xmas booty wrapped up inside. That's all he wants since. He's now 17. That's me, boy!
a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
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December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Damn! Wish I’d thought of that!
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If fewer people would have their heads shoved up their own assess life would be so much better
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If fewer people would have their heads shoved up their own assess life would be so much better
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
I’m partnering with Rep. Massie & @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social to introduce a War Powers Resolution that will force a vote in Congress to block Trump’s insane escalations against Venezuela.
No one except Trump wants this war—so I’m going to use every tool I have to stop him.
I’m partnering with Rep. Massie & @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social to introduce a War Powers Resolution that will force a vote in Congress to block Trump’s insane escalations against Venezuela.
No one except Trump wants this war—so I’m going to use every tool I have to stop him.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
I’m partnering with Rep. Massie & @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social to introduce a War Powers Resolution that will force a vote in Congress to block Trump’s insane escalations against Venezuela.
No one except Trump wants this war—so I’m going to use every tool I have to stop him.
I’m partnering with Rep. Massie & @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social to introduce a War Powers Resolution that will force a vote in Congress to block Trump’s insane escalations against Venezuela.
No one except Trump wants this war—so I’m going to use every tool I have to stop him.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com There's a lot of discussion about the affordable housing crisis, especially in cities, but not much discussion about how much housing has been taken off the market and converted to short term rentals for AirBnB and Vrbo (and there's a LOT). Discuss?
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com There's a lot of discussion about the affordable housing crisis, especially in cities, but not much discussion about how much housing has been taken off the market and converted to short term rentals for AirBnB and Vrbo (and there's a LOT). Discuss?
“Very few people are aware that Argentina … had the 7th-highest per capita GDP of any nation at the time of World War I. It then spent decades destroying all that via terrible governments…
But of course that can’t happen to America, because …”
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
But of course that can’t happen to America, because …”
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
The grift bubble - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The always interesting Timothy Snyder has some thoughts on what he calls the “grift bubble:” Imagine that you are a first-rate grifter: the president of the United States, say. Your grift is that you ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Very few people are aware that Argentina … had the 7th-highest per capita GDP of any nation at the time of World War I. It then spent decades destroying all that via terrible governments…
But of course that can’t happen to America, because …”
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
But of course that can’t happen to America, because …”
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
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For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
For the AIDS Dead The plague that you have thus far survived. They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
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Why oh why did Bluesky decide that the differentiator between seen and unseen notifications in dark mode should be a barely noticeable difference in shades of dark blue? Continues to be very aggravating. I just can’t tell the difference most of the time.
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Why oh why did Bluesky decide that the differentiator between seen and unseen notifications in dark mode should be a barely noticeable difference in shades of dark blue? Continues to be very aggravating. I just can’t tell the difference most of the time.
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In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In college, I had to read the Department of Defense’s Law of War manual.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I kid you not when I tell you that firing at the shipwrecked is quite literally provided as an example of an illegal order.
I sometimes think that to feel nostalgia for the eighties is to be in a state of denial.
At 15 I was certain we would all die of nuclear fire, or AIDS, or whatever came next. Probably before I turned 30. I was 16 before they had a name for what caused AIDS.
At 15 I was certain we would all die of nuclear fire, or AIDS, or whatever came next. Probably before I turned 30. I was 16 before they had a name for what caused AIDS.
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I sometimes think that to feel nostalgia for the eighties is to be in a state of denial.
At 15 I was certain we would all die of nuclear fire, or AIDS, or whatever came next. Probably before I turned 30. I was 16 before they had a name for what caused AIDS.
At 15 I was certain we would all die of nuclear fire, or AIDS, or whatever came next. Probably before I turned 30. I was 16 before they had a name for what caused AIDS.
“These days, pandemic-era pain points such as supply-chain bottlenecks have eased, but tariff-related volatility is creating more uncertainty and prompting price hikes.”
No, tariffs are not making Americans lives better.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
No, tariffs are not making Americans lives better.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
The Best Time to Buy Luggage
The best suitcase and carry-on luggage sales usually happen near the end of the year. But you can find similar deals at other times — if you know when to look.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“These days, pandemic-era pain points such as supply-chain bottlenecks have eased, but tariff-related volatility is creating more uncertainty and prompting price hikes.”
No, tariffs are not making Americans lives better.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
No, tariffs are not making Americans lives better.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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Something telling about all these leaks is that Epstein can barely construct an email and, for years and years, the people who made excuses for spending time with Epstein loved to say it was because he was such a brilliant guy. I think it's abundantly clear that's not why anyone spent time with him!
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Something telling about all these leaks is that Epstein can barely construct an email and, for years and years, the people who made excuses for spending time with Epstein loved to say it was because he was such a brilliant guy. I think it's abundantly clear that's not why anyone spent time with him!
Immigrants make America America.
* Pizza rolls are a potent symbol of midcentury USA culture. The guy who sold them was the son of Italian immigrants, born in rural MN, made his first fortune selling frozen Chinese food, then tried putting other things in wonton wrappers...leading to pizza rolls.
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Immigrants make America America.
On this Thanksgiving, I ask that all of my fellow citizens give thanks. And when you do, be sure to make note of something you didn’t earn, for your luck and good fortune.
The most harmful myth you can tell yourself is that you earned it all; it makes you blind to fate and uncharitable.
The most harmful myth you can tell yourself is that you earned it all; it makes you blind to fate and uncharitable.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On this Thanksgiving, I ask that all of my fellow citizens give thanks. And when you do, be sure to make note of something you didn’t earn, for your luck and good fortune.
The most harmful myth you can tell yourself is that you earned it all; it makes you blind to fate and uncharitable.
The most harmful myth you can tell yourself is that you earned it all; it makes you blind to fate and uncharitable.
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I want this moment for us
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I want this moment for us