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I like this use of "Columbus" as a verb, will use at the first opportunity.

The Peripheral (2014)

It's "Heroes," isn't it.

It's database software now😭

YouTube video by geddesd21 Corgi Flop

Today is a day I am grateful for Corgi Flop

youtu.be/glii-kazad8

Someone was saving it for the book they'd pitched?

This just makes me curious if anyone has done a retrospective analysis of his time at HUD.

Cut flowers in vases on a wooden table. The flowers are a mix of unopened pink peonies and half-bloomed American wisteria.

#Flowers

Thank you for sharing this thought with me. It has made me smile AND giggle.

Typing?

I hope to never encounter a more Thesaurus-assed argument than "the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office" because “'Executive' is a literal synonym of 'monarchical'".

It was used quite a bit in 2017, and here we are again.

🎶I'm making a changelog, whoa-oh🎶

Above all else, I try to give people room to surprise me.

Institutions? LOL no, absolutely not.

Things that have re-wired my brain: every piece of testimony on the Horizon Post Office IT Inquiry channel on YouTube: youtube.com/@postofficeh...

That, and the fact that it ships with NO bloatware, are what convinced me the extra upfront cost would be worth it. I've had my refurbished model for nearly two years with zero regrets.

The Human Use of Human Beings - Wikipedia

I think you are looking for this book and its descendants, as well as interdisciplinary work that focuses on textile production? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum...

... governing force that punishes arrogance. If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. The feeling that you can strip and paint nature bare–there's something very existentially dangerous about that; that's my theory about L.A., in fact, that the smaller you make your area the bigger you can feel about it. People live in their houses and their cars and you're so large in those spaces that it makes the sprawl of the place easier to manage. - Excerpt from interview with actress Heather Donahue of The Blair Witch Project

This may haunt me for a while.

Me?

– An entry-level civil servant whose life was changed by a copy of Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (First Edition), found on a random bookshelf at their first clerical job.

This thread reminding me to finish reading Glut, mine its bibliography for more reading material, and dig in to more recent scholarship...

At first I laughed at the phrase "sad band for high school".

Then I remembered when and how I became obsessed with Belle and Sebastian.

As may be obvious, I've settled on using the hashtag #BadActorBingo for my case studies of common spam and scam patterns. I'll go back and append it to the other threads on the topic. I will be making this a semi-regular feature as I find common bad actor signifiers to dissect for you!

Although I'm inclined to call it "fieldwork," I think in this case we should consult the classics:

www.tumblr.com/half-ginger/...

Petition to call all database documentation focused on data entry and the end-user a "Field Guide".

#dataBS

I've been waiting for this announcement since you first posted about attending FIT!

A femme child talking with a femme adult in autumn clothing. Child: But what if they lose? Adult: Then we keep fighting for the rights of all people. Child: And if they win? Adult: Oh, dear girl, it's the same answer.

I feel like people on Bluesky really needs to read this comic today.

Artist: Chirp and Whimsy

They called her an acrobat's daughter
She swung by her teeth from a noose
But one matinee, her bridgework gave way
And she flew through the air like a goose

What Would Grace Hopper Do?

A question I might ask election officials in Michigan: is it possible for a registered voter to submit a completely unmarked ballot and still show up in the database as having voted?

A question for anyone who has submitted a completely unmarked ballot: why?