Enjoy The Heck Out Of Life

I believe Smoot himself retired a while ago… so is there a Reference Smoot on file someplace, as the original is not available? (Oh, never mind, he was at ANSI. Still, I’m leaving this here)

I know I know. I keep saying it. But it keeps being true.

Dropping twitter really did translate to a 90% loss of income for Biscuit. Principles are great and everything but this financial year I've 'lent' Biscuit almost £800 and its super duper not sustainable. Buy our merch! Please!

And here is where I want more native reactions other than just the heart

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oh this is my kind of trouble!

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have!*
Come dance with me!

* about #squaredancing **
** I mean, I'll probably be happy to talk about anything you want to ask about, but not in this thread!
#techsquares

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It's a 12 (13?) week class, and you should really try to make it to all of them - or miss no more than 1-2 - AND it's a class that rewards study outside Tuesday nights. What we do in 3 months is considered to take >1y in the outside world.

No dance experience is required!

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ANYWAY

The next Tech Squares class starts this coming Tuesday, 3 Feb. 2026, 8:00 PM in Lobdell, in the MIT Student Center (84 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge) (Annoyingly, if you're not in possession of an MIT ID you'll have to surf in to the building behind someone if you arrive after 7:30)

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I go, on average, to more SD weekends and conventions annually than I do SF Cons these days - which is STILL very weird for me to contemplate.
I think it's a worthwhile hobby 🙂 - though for some reason most SD organizations refer to it as our 'activity'.

Actionable info in the next post!
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Burying the Lede in probably the 3rd/4th post of this chain:
The next Tech Squares class starts this coming Tuesday!

Tech Squares has been a significant driving force in my life for the last 23 years (eep...)
Because of it I've been able to go square dancing in 11 states, and 4 other countries. 1/

The *best-case* scenario is that agents of the state executed a man for exercising his Second Amendment rights.

Yet you won't hear a fucking word from Second Amendment advocates—though this is exactly what they claimed to fear for the last half-century.

Fuck all these fascists.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?

And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?

No money for Musk, ever, please.

Sen. Kelly statement: Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that. My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve. Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that. If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

There's always a Tweet.

And if I recall correctly - it’s too late at night to google - the ratings got better for a while.
It’s a terrible term, when looked at objectively.

I don't have any news to counteract the terrible news of the last few days, so here is a thread of cute animals eating things, with most with crunchy cromchy sounds.

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DOH MONITORING FIRST WASTEWATER DETECTION OF MEASLES IN KAUAʻI COUNTY HONOLULU — The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) is monitoring a positive wastewater sample for measles virus, the first wastewater detection of the virus for Kauaʻi County. The sample was collected ...

We've been doing wastewater metagenomics for 2 years.

In the first 20 months we never detected measles once.

However, in the last 4 months we've detected it 10 times across numerous states.

It's going endemic again; good reason to get vaccinated.

health.hawaii.gov/news/newsroo...

Look, I made a joke about it before, but I'm back with receipts this time, and my logic is unassailable...

If I had a book to cover I’d be there in a second!

To make sure that the spouse never does it?

The site that this is designed to replace was never one of my top hangouts, so I’m not here a whole lot. But I am here and especially I’m here on my porn alt. ;)

I totally do not recall any place doing a barbecue sauce ice cream… why my memory Baitcon has never done one either :-) Probably

Yeah, they’ve been doing that for a while :/

At EVERY point …
#FuckMAGA
#FuckICE

I realized later that if I added a touch of orange (peel or flavor or something ), that that would also be… “Appropriate”?
This morning, I realized that adding a bit of gunpowder (green) would be similarly “appropriate”…
This sort of thinking is going to get me in trouble(s)…
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A while ago, I bought samples of the English and of the Irish breakfast teas from #MemTea and I tried blending them… And I realized that I’d just made Northern Irish breakfast tea.
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To be clear, I’m loving it, like every word she’s ever published, that just hurt :(
@tkingfisher.com
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