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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1h

Based on knurling and manufacturer's marks, I have at least 4 partial sets of wrenches.

I'm in luck if I need to turn 3 12mm bolts at the same time though.

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 5h

Any time I hear 'sugar beet' I sing this song internally.

youtu.be/KuZNSGdg2ms

Sesame Street: Sugar Beets

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 5h

A novel I love by Charles Palliser, THE QUINCUNX, set in the first half of the 19th century in and around London.
After much adventure the narrator works as a tosher, roving the sewers of London looking for valuable lost items, loose coins & sellable scrap.
This is presented as a pretty good option.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 7h

wooder

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 7h

'Are names words?' and other adventures

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 7h

Kissimmee

(Names are kind of cheating though)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

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

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 9h

The Good Specialist Schweik

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1d

The start of the 21st century

shaking the habitual 🏳️‍🌈 @rafaelteixeira.bsky.social · 1d

A saída mais digna pra Vale Tudo é meter um Too Many Cooks com todos os atores da Globo do passado e do presente

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 22h

Finally a milestone!

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, is this me re-creating “act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law” ??

Well, sometimes:

bsky.app/profile/wtdo...

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · Feb 23

A screenshot from THE GOOD PLACE in which Eleanor says to Chidi: "what if certain actions aren't universally good or bad, like Jonathan Dancy says?"

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

0: never do this.
1: ok? Do this as a special circumstance and exception. Don't make it a habit.
Many: make a sustainable and repeatable process for doing this.

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

my mental model is basically that we have 'ruts' in the roads of our thinking. (Neurons that fire together, wire together)

It's dangerous to set and reinforce certain patterns.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

my mental model is basically that we have 'ruts' in the roads of our thinking. (Neurons that fire together, wire together)

It's dangerous to set and reinforce certain patterns.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

my way has been the (free) low grasp and arcana build.

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

It's such a small amount, compared to the stupid stuff and easy gains. You're right, it feels like contrarian astrotrufing.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

The CO2e for a full Ventolin rescue inhaler is the same as 2.3 gallons of gasoline.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

More anglo-dutch history

bsky.app/profile/jfru...

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

"The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

Ridley Scott tried!

R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 1d

eating my morning bowl of gruel while I listen to rumors of war, consider the recent pronouncement of the Pope, thank God for delivering me from the pestilence, ask if we're being punished for our sins, all before I go to work on the cathedral in the French style.

Picture unrelated.

The Peasant (or Ploughman), from "The Dance of Death"
Hans Holbein the Younger
Printmaker Hans Lützelburger

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

Two peoples who never got over the sinking of their own personal swampy atlantis.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerl...

Doggerland - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

And they're mostly right, because for a long time the culturally dominant people were WASPs with anglo-dutch ancestry.

Calvinist tightasses who hate food and hate family.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

Mexicans, Indians, Slavs, etc. Peoples all over the world do this, but come to the USA and think they're different than the dominant culture.

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

So people have started to notice members of various ethnic groups going "you know what makes us different? We love big meals and we love spending time with family. And we have a plastic bag full of bags!" And are realizing this describes A Lot of different peoples.p

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R. Burh Vitae @wtdore.bsky.social · 2d

The roundhouse guy! Nice.

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