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• Post #1506598

  Hey, Texas — Don’t mess with Virginia! #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/virginia-congressional-maps

• Post #1467644

  Today I learned of the existence of "mapbacks". #bookstodon https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/04/20/dell-mapbacks/

• Post #1092273

  Saw a bumper sticker: “Vintage Tesla: Pre-Madness edition”. That inspired me to go check: #Tesla’s stock price is down 20% this year. No crash, just a long, slow decline. When gas prices are shooting up and an EV maker isn’t profiting, it gives me an optimistic feeling.

• Post #1039101

  @badbede@deacon.social Don’t try this at home! (Unless you have 299 friends, I guess.)

• Post #1037954

  @afewbugs@social.coop Now when my wife calls me “half-wit”, I know what she means.

• Post #1003859

  @randahl@mastodon.social Makes sense that someone named @Paul_stilgar@mastodon.social would be sensitive to a comment like that.

• Post #990368

  @liztai@hachyderm.io You don’t have to defend yourself if nobody attacking you, so this would be true anyway. It’s how a diplomat says they’re giving you nothing.

• Post #988613

  @liztai@hachyderm.io “if the attacks are halted, we will stop defending” sounds like they haven’t given up anything.

• Post #988307

  @zenmorph@indieweb.social @liztai@hachyderm.io Not just on social media. IRL, too.

• Post #986541

  I just figured out how #LLM can write stories so easily. (h/t Cosma Shalizi) https://wondermark.com/c/554/

• Post #979379

  @overreadprole@kolektiva.social Be really careful with manure from omnivores or carnivores. There are good health reasons to move it far away.

• Post #961372

  TIL about Smigus Dyngus Day. Usually, being raised Presbyterian means I missed out on the fun, but this time I’m going to say it saved a lot of hassle. (N.B.: the Wikipedia page omits to mention that none of the people involved is sober.)

• Post #956907

  @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social You’ve definitely put your spin on it.

• Post #949011

  @ovid@fosstodon.org Michael Walzer’s “Spheres of Justice” is right there with you.

• Post #948935

  @selzero@syzito.xyz First thing to do is to stop spreading his message. He lives on publicity.

• Post #930431

  @APBBlue@thepit.social https://swiss.social/@pacman/116348206348182569

• Post #929506

  An Adventure: A boy about 6yo and his 4yo sister come up to me in the grocery store. “We can’t find our mother!” “What does she look like?” I asked. The question baffled them. She looks like Mom. Eventually, “Um, she’s wearing a head scarf…” Well, let’s walk up to the front of the store. Everyone there was a head shorter than I, so it was easy to see on the other side of the store a small woman with a bright scarf, matching skin color, and a frantic expression. I waved to get her attention and...

• Post #929503

  On today’s menu: grape hyacinths and wild mustard. #bloomscrolling

• Post #929502

  “…seo reade netele ðe þurh ærn inwyxð…” This field was fallow last summer, so it’s got all kinds of flowers now. This is purple deadnettle, invading the field just as the old guy said. It’s an important ingredient of the charm to cure elf-shot. #OldEnglish #bloomscrolling

• Post #925524

  @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com People who are worried about a recession have an imagination less vivid than mine.

• Post #903001

  @emptywheel.bsky.social “We’re the Office of Professional Responsibility. Whenever something goes wrong, we’re responsible.”

• Post #900665

  @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social This seems credible to me. Walnut shells can easily stop an axe.

• Post #898269

  @NorcalGma2@sfba.social Lots of people have guard doge, but a garden dog is something special.

• Post #884786

  @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz My tools should work for me, not for some oligarch.

• Post #883746

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/116318587697171792 #Tolkien said the reason he cordially detested allegory was “the purposed domination of the author.” The most important lesson to take away from #LotR is that dominating other people is bad! It’s fine, and even desirable, to look for connections between Middle-earth and our primary world, but the author doesn’t force it on you, so it’s not allegory.

• Post #866988

  @Rosaliesmedievalwoman Yes, but tapestries attract woodwoses and it’s so hard to find a good exterminator.

• Post #863158

  @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com Sending J.D. Vance to campaign for him ought to finish him off. #uspol #hupol

• Post #857700

  @zachweinersmith.bsky.social Never. The whole point of money is to have more than your rival, which you can’t do if the values of money aren’t ordered.

• Post #857339

  @riggbeck@mastodon.social And the ancients had their gods. Almost makes me think there’s something really going on, which some day we’ll have the language to talk about correctly.

• Post #856421

  @Violinknitter@wandering.shop 👏🏻👏🏻