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Same here

Just got a real jump scare, as CT sent out an Amber Alert as a Public Safety Alert, bypassing my iPhone settings not to allow notifications for Amber Alerts (I double checked the settings, since updates sometimes change settings).

A NY Times Spelling Bee array with the word LOOGIE. Not pictured is the phrase "word not found".

This is lefty erasure #baseball

And joining a FB group and (mostly) lurking is qualitatively different from registering for a specific protest. (fin)

So, the idea that association can lead to problems (even if you don't actually name names) was there. And one or two bad actors can by their behavior render a low-key local protest not so low-key. (7

And when McCarthyism was at its height, and one of their friends was called to testify (i.e., asked to name names), their support role was to keep her husband grounded (which I suspect involved carefully calibrated doses of scotch) (6/

And, in light of the recent Discourse, I've been wondering where my initial skepticism of the whole sign-up thing came from. And I realized…my parents were NY'ers through and through, and were journalists, in a milieu where newspapers ran the entire spectrum, from far right to far left (5/

More recent posts to the local Indivisible groups (state and hyper-local) have emphasized de-escalation. And several of the prolific posters to these groups are using obvious alt handles that don't appear elsewhere on FB. (4/

But there was one very shouty guy who just seemed to be trying too hard, to encourage chants, and he screamed back at hecklers. I asked the organizer abt him, and was told "oh, he's young". But he pinged my outside agitator radar, and I said so. Apparently I wasn't the only one. (3/

That just didn't feel right. So I didn't participate, even though I was in FB groups that announced some details. When I first went to a protest in my community, I felt uncomfortable giving the organizer my email address (& didn't give her my cell #). It was mostly people with pithy signs. (2/

So, registering for protests? I've been following the discourse, and the vitriol directed at folks (mostly Black) who explain why it's a bad idea…when the pace of protest rallies picked up, in my (very blue) state, a lot of them wanted to trade info about location for my contact details. (1/

I saw those kits last year or the year before. They might be sharing space with another vendor (it happens a lot), but they should tell you that.

#linguistics

Even worse than butterscotch chips: *white* chocolate chips!

You win the Internet.

I didn't take a picture, but did get both flu and Covid jabs yesterday (CVS, CT). Even with an appointment, I actually had to wait a bit, which I find encouraging. And CVS was setting up a 2nd (ad hoc) cubicle to speed things up.

My family (NY metro area, 1960s) played both ways. I think we might have called the first one "hard solitaire" and the second "easy solitaire", but it's been a long time.

I just looked. A bunch of my academic stuff is included, including my dissertation (unpublished, with last name misspelled). And one of my mother's books is included, a 60-year old children's bio of Clarence Darrow.

Hey, @snytv.bsky.social, if those things in the CItiField batters eye have been there forever, let's see some footage from earlier this season.

Here as well there have been some blips, both with sites and with SiriusXM streaming.

Yeah, it's mostly practice. Lots of practice with different fibers. If you have a local guild, it's worth taking workshops. If not, there are online possibilities as well. Essentially, tho, three things affect yarn weight: (1) the fiber; (2) how thin you draft your singles; (3) how many plies

I found a 2013 post. I also found that the search function is seriously buggy.

This one seems relevant to an awful lot of The Discourse today.

Yep. His depictions of interpersonal relationships, once I got past his kid books, were enough to put me off speculative fiction for maybe 40 years.

My farmstand had them a few weeks ago, for the first time ever. I bought 4 boxes (3.75lbs). My pitter tool only mangled a few, and after making my grandmother's stewed cherry soup w/2 cups of them, I froze 4 cups for pie this winter.

At the end of my senior yr, but still a distribution req I needed to graduate: American Constitutional History. In spring semester, 1974. The prof announced at the beginning that she wouldn't talk about Watergate, but she changed her mind.

Does she perhaps mean that a library card would be proof of residency?

All Umps Are Bad (a play on ACAB All Cops Are Bad)

AUAB?

The way he was shaking out the cobwebs when he stood up, it should have been automatic to take him out.