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Colin

@egnowit.bsky.social

Interests include quiz bowl, Boise State University, math, sports, religion, politics and indigenous communities.

created August 16, 2023

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Profile picture Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted

Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.

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3/9/2025, 10:55:34 PM | 1201 291 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Which is kind of weird, since Trump is a teetotaler. (I don't know about Kennedy's use of alcohol.)

4/9/2025, 12:27:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

"Planet Earth?"

4/9/2025, 1:46:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, I usually get carryout because it's cheaper, and maybe once there was somebody there when I was there and I had to stand in line.

4/9/2025, 1:25:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Or how much money they donate to Trump.

3/9/2025, 11:29:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Now you tell me...

3/9/2025, 10:51:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted

They bombed without warning a non-threatening small boat, which is insane and a violation of international law even if it was carrying contraband which we have no way of knowing, and then gleefully shared it as a snuff video.

3/9/2025, 2:16:00 PM | 1874 493 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Sunken cost fallacy!

2/9/2025, 4:21:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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co-signed

1/9/2025, 11:47:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Spuddy! Buddy!

1/9/2025, 11:45:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's Idaho, on the Palouse River. Probably lentils.

1/9/2025, 11:45:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, It's That Native Guy. Just about any time somebody needed a Native-coded role, he was there.

1/9/2025, 11:41:31 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Because he's not the one who did the rear ending?

1/9/2025, 11:34:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

More math questions need to ask why?

1/9/2025, 11:32:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he's a Boise native (or lives in the TV somewhere). Breaking records is his thing. He will be invited (well, a paid speaker) to go somewhere, and he'll break a record. (I think that the Boise-area Science Bowl had him one year?) www.boisestate.edu/alumni/2024/...

1/9/2025, 10:50:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

This is lentil erasure. Idaho State should be the one with this helmet.

1/9/2025, 10:15:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)

Which is funny, because taters aren't grown in that part of the state. Should be fighting pulses or something.

1/9/2025, 10:11:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Gurgling Cod (he/him) (@thegurglingcod.bsky.social) reposted

Boise State volleyball player Nora Hayd has been called a "Gothlete." This implies the existence of Gothletic directors, which is now the job I want. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

31/8/2025, 6:41:38 PM | 230 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Ours required a longer password (harder to crack, but it feels like I'm writing a novel when I log in), and we now only have to change it once a year. Big improvement, IMO.

31/8/2025, 6:49:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Putting the Multi into M.

31/8/2025, 6:47:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

lewisartwilliams.com/works

31/8/2025, 6:39:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Both the subject and the style remind me a lot of Lewis Williams.

31/8/2025, 6:37:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia. There has been no peace.

31/8/2025, 5:23:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm a non-expert. Maybe he should trust me.

31/8/2025, 5:20:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Soon, there's not going to be any funding left to target.

31/8/2025, 3:47:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

And doesn't include people held abroad? (They're not in the US or its territories.)

30/8/2025, 10:46:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted

Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)

30/8/2025, 1:23:33 PM | 10597 2854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope it's because you read the manual.

30/8/2025, 12:34:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)

Canada catching strays.

30/8/2025, 12:20:05 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Our season starts today, in about 5 hours. Go Broncos!

28/8/2025, 4:43:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably on the radio, somewhere.

28/8/2025, 4:40:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)

I'll watch this any time I see it, and probably retweet it, too.

28/8/2025, 4:33:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Indiana Dunes State Park?

28/8/2025, 6:29:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Mine is filled with chess puzzles (I guess chess groups that I'm not a member of, and don't intend to join), probably because I occasionally click on them to see the solution.

27/8/2025, 11:43:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

When I first moved there, I had no idea!

27/8/2025, 2:34:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

When I lived in AZ, we got monsoon rains regularly. From late July to early September, almost like clockwork, it would pour rain at about 4 PM.

27/8/2025, 2:32:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

And Tulane, somehow.

26/8/2025, 5:33:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this double jeopardy, or does that not apply to different charges for the same act?

26/8/2025, 2:07:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

But he's not racist.

26/8/2025, 1:31:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Even in the math building, I don't think we have any more chalkboards. (Well, I can think of one chalkboard in the entire building. Maybe some professor still has one in their office.)

25/8/2025, 1:17:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

You can care about big issues and still pay attention to smaller issues. Smaller issues are often times pretty big to some people, too.

23/8/2025, 11:53:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

They think that these powers were wielded by the Democrats already, and aren't afraid of that again. (Prosecution of enemie, like raiding Mar-a-Lago, prosecutig J6 insurrectionists, etc.)

23/8/2025, 7:35:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

The appropriate wording, though, would not be to ask if their students would revive the tradition, but if the WSU students would revive the tradition.

22/8/2025, 10:54:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Just post a link to the main page of TikTok, I guess?

22/8/2025, 8:28:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)

Return "Alligator Alcatraz" to the alligators.

22/8/2025, 11:59:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catholic Democrats (@catholicdems.bsky.social) reposted

Read @JamesMartinSJ robust public letter in @AmericaMag to President Trump providing pastoral guidance to him – rooted in the Gospel and the Catholic tradition - on “how one enters the reign of God.”

On the left, a color photograph shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump seated together in the Oval Office, smiling and sharing a light moment. Behind them is ornate gold décor. At the bottom of the photo, a caption reads: “President Trump says he wants to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously.” On the right, the logo of America: The Jesuit Review appears in red. Beneath it is text that reads: “So how does one enter into the reign of God? Jesus has some clear answers in the Gospels.”
22/8/2025, 12:20:37 AM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

They should include "teams that have made the playoffs multiple times in the past few years" as a quality non-conference team, too.

21/8/2025, 11:21:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

There's at least one error on here. One student who is listed as going to UW is actually going to WSU. (But we're in touch with him, and he's potentially starting a club at WSU.)

21/8/2025, 1:08:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

@sarahtaber.bsky.social did a thread on how this statistic might be misleading. bsky.app/profile/sara...

21/8/2025, 3:44:39 AM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)

I can guess which Scripture passages they're *not* quoting.

21/8/2025, 3:34:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I can guess which Scripture they're not quoting.

21/8/2025, 3:27:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you need my address?

21/8/2025, 12:42:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

That's how they've become experts in recognizing this crime!

20/8/2025, 2:32:15 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

The *Trump* administration is investigating people for mortgage fraud and bank fraud? How ironic.

20/8/2025, 2:29:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, oh no, is this me?

20/8/2025, 1:20:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Every exhibit about slavery that gets removed should be replaced with an exhibit about Epstein.

20/8/2025, 1:02:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

There have always been "it wasn't such a bad thing" apologists, back to when it was "it isn't such a bad thing."

20/8/2025, 12:58:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

This sounds like an anti-American ideology. Maybe the DHS shouldn't get any benefits?

19/8/2025, 9:24:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I used to keep my car's clock on standard time so that I could remember what time it was in the rest of the state.

19/8/2025, 9:01:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt that he's ever visited one. There are lots of museums, with lots of different exhibits, focusing on lots of different things.

19/8/2025, 8:46:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

My family are harvesting huge figs right about now!

18/8/2025, 11:29:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Dare I ask what happened?

18/8/2025, 11:25:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

18/8/2025, 9:13:59 PM | 11946 1629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LearnedLeague (@learnedleague.com) reposted

Happy LL106 Opening Day, LLamas! Also less happily, to those who observe, condolences on "Oh Man I Thought I Was Registered" Day.

18/8/2025, 6:11:37 PM | 75 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Rwanda, not Uganda. Somebody downstream listed them all. bsky.app/profile/em-j...

18/8/2025, 7:45:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he's taking credit for the India-Pakistan blowup ending (they don't credit him), the peace treaty with the Houthi rebels (which didn't last), and the DRC-Uganda peace treaty. I don't know the other three.

18/8/2025, 7:43:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Our neighbor used to have those thick-skinned muscadines, and I have lots of fond memories of standing under the arbor and eating them in late summer as a kid.

18/8/2025, 1:36:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

There Was An Incident

18/8/2025, 5:25:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

The Bee Ell Tees.

18/8/2025, 5:01:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, it's like 15 seasons long, so that's a huge commitment.

18/8/2025, 2:04:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

That was, what, 20 years ago? Have you updated it? (Does it need to be updated?) I mean, it's great that you did that! It would be good for others to have the same forethought.

18/8/2025, 1:54:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Dad died a few years ago, and we had to deal with some of this. (Fortunately, he had written passwords down a few years earlier before going through major surgery.) But having gone through that, we're in a much better position with Mom.

18/8/2025, 1:52:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it depends on how the contract is structured. A lot of places spread out the 10 month salary over 12 months. Some places let teachers choose which model to get paid with.

17/8/2025, 3:50:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I think that in a lot of these sports (maybe internationally?) "canoe" includes kayaks. Like the canoe racing is really kayak racing (including a portage!).

17/8/2025, 12:31:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I imagine it would be theoretically easy to intercept data sent to the printer, even if somebody were there to pick it up. I didn't know how secure hotel printers are. If it is known that gov. employees use hotel printers, an agent just has to get there first.

16/8/2025, 11:31:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the feeling you have when the fish that's this big gets away.

16/8/2025, 11:10:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

This is blocked in a lot of red states.

16/8/2025, 7:17:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I imagine that a boa is a constrictor.

16/8/2025, 6:34:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Rubber boa baby bumper

16/8/2025, 6:33:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Needs a GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! call.

16/8/2025, 6:19:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

At first I thought you meant Sri Lanka, but then I remembered the show (which I've been making my way through lately) and remembered that episode.

15/8/2025, 3:12:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know what my reaction to the word is, but this is close.

15/8/2025, 3:10:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, so you already had those? You didn't have to make them?

15/8/2025, 2:07:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I try to avoid caffeine so that when I need it, it's effective. I don't want my body to get used to it. (I don't always do a good job at that, though.)

15/8/2025, 2:01:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Cash is king, but if you're going to donate food, I guess personalize it and make it more than just staples.

15/8/2025, 1:59:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

The drones need to be bigger so that they don't look like bumblebees buzzing around.

15/8/2025, 1:41:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

What's the part for? How did you do the metal? Or did you just need to 3d print the plastic frame?

15/8/2025, 12:36:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Catholic Democrats (@catholicdems.bsky.social) reposted

What Cross am I Called to Bear, Lord? As a boy, #StMaximilianKolbe had a mystical experience that he would later recount to his fellow friars: 1/7

LEFT: A black-and-white photograph of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe (sourced from Wikipedia), with white text overlaid reading: “Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, 1894 – 1941. Pray for us.” RIGHT: A blue panel featuring a quote from Franciscan Media’s Saint of the Day entry for August 14, 2025. The quote reads: “As a boy, Maximilian prayed to Our Lady. She appeared to him holding two crowns — one white for purity, one red for martyrdom. She asked, ‘Would you accept these?’ He said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.” Between Our Lady’s question and Maximilian’s answer are two digital crowns — one white, one red — rendered in oil painting style by Catholic Democrats’ AI Assistant, Sophie, for symbolic and devotional use when alternatives could not be sourced. Catholic Democrats adheres to the ethical principles outlined by the Vatican in Jan 2025 in
15/8/2025, 10:08:54 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a name that is common in a certain part of the world, so I get all sorts of interesting misdirected e-mail.

15/8/2025, 12:36:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Or the best.

14/8/2025, 4:19:21 PM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I took his name for confirmation.

14/8/2025, 10:49:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, the crime problem is that people are woefully bad at recognizing how low the crime rates are, historically.

13/8/2025, 11:49:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

He probably feels the same way about Catholics, too.

13/8/2025, 9:06:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's set in 1905, 7 years after the book was published. Did the world change that much in 7 years?

13/8/2025, 9:00:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's coming...

13/8/2025, 6:51:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like the difference between trying to read 20th century numbers in Roman numerals and 21st century.

13/8/2025, 6:20:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

The lady taketh the head, and she giveth the head.

13/8/2025, 6:15:30 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is brilliant.

13/8/2025, 6:10:36 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

8 million years ago? I don't think it was done by humans.

13/8/2025, 5:51:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent

8 million years ago. Crossbreeding can happen naturally, too.

13/8/2025, 5:50:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view