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David Hand

@ptolemar.ch.bsky.social

Little teapot. Laparoscopic code surgeon. Unabashed user of Gentoo. Acceded to #NAFO on 2023 Apr 25. He/him/etc.

324 Followers  |  183 Following  |  162 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  2.251

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How many troubles have been caused by rivers which suddenly felt they needed to accomplish more?

15.11.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If I suggested the proper, traditional penance for this kind of behavior, I'd have to sit in the corner for 72 hours.

15.11.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing a darth vader helmet is talking to two men in suits . Alt: A clip from Spaceballs, the movie. President Scrood is telling Dark Helmet and another character: "12345? Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage."
13.11.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

If you're watching people dig into the newly-released Jeffrey Epstein documents, but you are sure where they are coming from?

They're from here: oversight.house.gov/release/over...

12.11.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 10

Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leafy:
Then sigh not so, & c.

12.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never:
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

12.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The song sung by Balthasar in Much Ado About Nothing can be sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Use this information wisely.

12.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Published ΒΌ of the way through the month in question. Many of these events have happened already.

This might have been more useful in the final days of October.

08.11.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taqiyya trucks on every corner.

08.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Huh. My wife will be beginning immunotherapy for melanoma very shortly. Now I'm gonna hope they've read your brother's research.

07.11.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Guggenheim Baseball Management - Wikipedia

No. Dodgers ownership hasn't changed since 2012. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenh...

02.11.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm three hops from Richard Feynman. (Two from Murray Gell-Mann.) Doesn't exactly make me a theoretical physicist.

02.11.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Knowing that you'd done this gave me the courage to do so myself, when that suddenly became necessary for me. Thank you.

31.10.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

A five-year-old boy stands before a closed door wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

A five-year-old boy stands before a closed door wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

A five-year-old boy stands in a driveway wearing a blocky costume made from cardboard and copper paint.

My first time making a #Halloween costume from scratch. Mr 5 has become a Copper Golem, from Minecraft.

31.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It just occurred to me that Igor is a graduate student.

30.10.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy is likely to be eaten by a grue.

28.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re in line to pitch for the Dodgers stay in line

28.10.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Catholic priest who reforms vampires by keeping them sated and drunk on consecrated wine.

23.10.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Senior status - Wikipedia

It's my (non-lawyer) understanding that "Senior" in this context means something like "semi-retired".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_...

23.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Irony as a way of life has been a disaster for society

21.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey I’m urgently looking for a contact in HHS who might be aware of if an β€œOffice of Disability” is being formed. Please email me with any info (will keep you anon) Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com

21.10.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

nuqDaq yuch Dapol?

19.10.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A normal president could actually defuse this by saying:

Oh you silly hysterical protesters. I'm your elected president and of course I don't want to be king.

As far as I know, Trump has not taken that tack because he wants to be treated like royalty and can't even bring himself to pretend.

19.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Here we are.

18.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fight on! ✌️

17.10.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But, then, I just bought an inflatable penguin costume for Saturday. How cringe.

16.10.2025 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The entire concept of "cringe" as "haha, these people care about something; what rubes" makes me want to burn something.

16.10.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's so important not to believe that the Resurrection is God getting His revenge on the evildoers as if bringing the permanent presence of forgiveness into the world were some sort of act of violence

14.10.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

For every cool (neo/)vim tip or script someone shares with me I will share one in return

13.10.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 2

Nicely done.

13.10.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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