Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
They have risen!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
They have risen!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I do my own laundry because I am an adult. I do every step: I wash it, I dry it, and I leave it in the dryer until I wear it. This might just be because I hate myself too much to ever marry and burden another person with myself, but if I did not do my own laundry I would hate myself even more.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Just received my first order of the light roast a few days ago. Good cause and good coffee!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
You want me to list the lies of MAGA? That could take a very long time…
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Harvard did not do this. Aren’t there enough lies from the other side?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I found the link! I am also not surprised that it is a bad idea, but kind of surprised that apparently boiled mushroom spores would begin to grow mycelium in the blood! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you read about the medical case of the fellow who attempted to microdose psilocybin mushrooms through intravenous injection? It does turn out that you should not do that.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Aw man, you guys are still allowed to vote? Why do Canadians get to have all of the fun? down here it is looking like instead of voting all we have to look forward to is having our necks stomped on forever.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
so far the consequences seem to be limited to "growing rich beyond their wildest imaginations"... This is exactly why I do not worship you, God...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
I liked this bird in Puerto Rico. However, it was fairly ambivalent about me.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
this is why I always make sure to displace the poorest of the vegetables in my garden to build a highway or railroad track as a division line...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
In the first example of Bluesky having any effect on my outside-of-the-internet life, I ended up picking up Neoreaction A Basilisk by @eruditorumpress.com based on a rec in a reply thread. Great look at the insidious little shits behind the nRx movement...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
This is The Spoops, not technically a puppy but I like showing her off...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
if he lives to be that old, he damn well better be in jail by then...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Get yourself a dog that you can leave alone with your dinner, and take her on the grandest of adventures...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Million. "M" is the Roman numeral for 1000. "MM" is pretty standard for expressing 1 million.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Had a risk assessment class in college. We learned about micro morts (1 micromort = 1 death in a pop of 1MM). Being in a polluted city, such as Boston, for three days is one micromort. Living with an indoor smoker for three months is also one micromort.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
you are the first person other than myself I have ever seen correct the Bible thing. I have a lot of books with built-in ribbon bookmarks and it was right side up. There are 1 million real things to criticize him for, and I think we should stick to the real things...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Post dog
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you must be right, it is her dead name. Definitely the same book!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I just ordered based on this recommendation, but it had a different author's name? Is there another book with the same title by a different author?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
No bogarting while buggering the Moldbugger
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
"how did Obama cause this?"
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
if we can’t trust somebody named Farty Poop Fart, who can we trust?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
not being able to get horny enough to catch an STD is pretty much my own personal Vietnam...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Same with Western Michigan, and all of Illinois except Chicago, and the western half of Virginia...tbh, you pretty much have to check what county you are going to...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Tbh, all states are like this. Illinois would be red without Chicago. I live in a red state in the third bluest county in the country. if people want to spend money in blue areas, they pretty much have to do it on a county by county basis...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno, maybe we should take a vote. * must be 18 or older to vote *
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I learned the same thing about Drano at about that age. I also learned that my mom really overreacts to catching me drinking from the Drano bottle...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
I still haven’t been invited to a single guinea worm party... Is it me?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s what I thought! I wasn’t sure if I was remembering incorrectly, but I was quite certain it was pretty clear in the text that he was referring literally to strychnine...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought a short vodka tonic meant the same amount of vodka, but less tonic? I usually just skipped the tonic altogether...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Strangely, in the second paragraph, this article indicates that the Consul referred to Mezcal as "strychnine". I do not recall that being the case. Wasn’t he literally drinking strychnine (which was used as a performance enhancing drug at the time)? Does my memory fail me?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I grew up in Lansing! I don’t live there anymore, but I have many friends who will probably be there. If you see them, say hi!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
The list has over 1000 and keeps growing: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
One more name for the list: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude, that is awesome! I have been having a hard time under the current conditions of the country I live in remembering that there are still cool things going on in the world...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Guys! I got a full row on my fascism BINGO card without even using the free space!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Now, 80% of those who are armed stand with tyranny, with the unspoken awareness that violence in the name of the administration will be pardoned...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
May you find one I missed among the mushroom stumps! Mwahahaha!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
My spiritual accounts are deep in the red...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re not gonna believe this, but I have been looking for somebody to spit in my mouth in exchange for a dick in the eye for a decade. Would you mind hooking a guy up with a profile link to this magical unicorn you found?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
At least Elon capitalized "YOUR TAXES" to emphasize that it is indeed my taxes and not Elon‘s taxes that are being spent... everything else is BS
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in the south east and travel everywhere between Delaware and Texas for work. Many of the people that I meet *wanted* medicine to be more expensive, just not for themselves.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Home Depot contributed large amounts of money to the campaigns of the problems that a guillotine would solve...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Hadn't heard of that one!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
not even sure what this #mushroom is (giant polypore?) but it was meaty...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Now is the time to buy history books. Don’t assume that you will be able to find it online when you need it.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Has anyone tried to explain to the American bigots that USAID's work has a very direct impact on lowering the number of desperate folks crossing the US border?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in the USA. There is nothing more absurd in the entire universe... but do you think I could get one of those sandwiches?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn, that chicken is gnarly. There goes the price of eggs! Are those flies or carrion beetles?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t think that I have any symptoms of those, but you could be onto something! My sister has bipolar so it runs in the family, and I know that can affect how people respond to SSRIs. I have not been diagnosed, and if I have it, it is much more mild. Probably worth another discussion with the dr..
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
they gave me Lexapro first and later Prozac. Both times I stuck with it for maybe six months before the side effects were too much. I have been kind of frightened of trying any others!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
The biggest problem with that is that today is the worst possible day to try to eat out or go to a movie (never went out on Valentine’s Day when I wasn’t single either)
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
it does look like a picture of a couple of dicks to me...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
If it is not too intrusive for a stranger on the Internet to ask, which ones worked for you? I only ask because nothing I have tried worked for me...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate to be the "akchually" guy, but actually that just covers voters in America, non-voters and people who are ineligible to vote make up more than half the population...(though I guess one could say that the non-voters were also outsmarted by thinking it would be OK not to vote)
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
But I didn't order a statue of Donald Trump?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Bluesky is a little like Twitter, in that it's a great way to shout through a megaphone to millions of people that you don't want people to reply to you when you shout through a megaphone to millions of people...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing a little super glue can't fix! But seriously, they don't even know with mine yet. More x-rays in a week, then depending on those it's either surgery or it will heal on its own in 6 to 8 weeks. I'm hoping it doesn't ruin much of the spring mushroom season. It's already warming up down here
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like my foot! I guess nobody can get a break, or rather, everyone's getting them...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Who needs a valentine? They would probably just take up time that I could be spending with my dog.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
I am not currently opposed to the US becoming Canada's 11th province...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
I hear "we turned out fine" an awful lot from people who can't wrap their heads around the idea of survivorship bias...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/cm_Xo-ZoRAg?...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
It's always some bellend with one follower and fewer braincells...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Riiight...maybe they say that a potentially fatal disease was spreading through, and continues to exist, in the population. Odd how clearly the "excess mortality rates" were significantly higher in the unvaccinated population... I'm sorry, but this conversation is too stupid to continue.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
This isn't just a good idea, it would be absurd to do otherwise.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
If there's anything but worms between his ears. So far there isn't much evidence for it...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
He got us better than we would have got if he wasn't there. By so much that anyone who says otherwise is a nit.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe the worms are scientists. You don't know!
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
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Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I will believe that listening is the same as reading when audiobooks of calculus textbooks become as relatively popular as printed calculus textbooks.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I am also a voracious reader of books, as well as a regular listener of audiobooks. I do not *personally* find the experience to be the same for me. I do not retain audio information nearly as well as read information. I choose to read books that I wish to learn from, I listen for just entertainment
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
once upon a time, this was mostly a #mushroom account We had fun
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Thanks, Bluesky, for the DMs full of Instagram models who have no followers or content here, appear to all be in their mid-20s, and who messaged me out of the blue despite never having interacted with me in any way. My love luck has turned around! (but maybe send a few who are closer to my age)
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I was going to say "same", but my DMs are full of Instagram models who have few to zero followers, appear to be about half my age, and who messaged me out of the blue despite never having interacted with me in any way...surely my luck is changing!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
We have a 'dealership' a couple miles from my house. I was looking at them a few months ago and they topped out around $6k (used), now they're all a few grand higher! Still want... www.tokyodirectimports.com/vehicles/cur...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I still ain't forgived miss Flannery and I ain't intending to...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
hopefully, before the Republicans manage to rewrite the science textbooks to say that, according to scientists, airplanes can’t even fly...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
maybe something with the initials "DEI"? Dumbass Elon‘s Idiotmobiles?
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Definitely reconsidering how I didn't vote for him. I should have not voted for him even harder...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I have to fly 2-4 times a month for work. I'm considering getting an office job...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Sometimes it seems like we live in the worst possible timeline. But then I realize that there could be a timeline where everything is the same, except the Chiefs won and Drake played the halftime show... There's always a silver lining.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Their tongues are long and their noses are wet Their wiggles and wags help me to forget That the world is on fire, my sanity burns Hell came to earth and the flames tear and churn But give me four paws and and a thrown stick to get And let their tongues be long and noses be wet.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
One of my hobbies is eating mushrooms and trying to understand the texture of my dog...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
That's the kind of happy ending I like to hear!
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Has not been my few months. Add in the political dumpster fire and it feels like I am being blitzkrieged...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Dammit. Nov 4 2024... this is only about half of the list, but writing them down is depressing me ...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social)
Since Nov 4 2025: 1. Found out new house is across from methadone clinic 2. Got pricked on a syringe sorting dirty diapers out of my recycling bin 3. Computer caught fire 4. Car engine self-destructed at 99k (while on way to pick up new computer) 5. Furnace has broken (twice) 6. Broke fibula
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
I swore you said "Be a lot easier if he just said the message without the mind numbing music and unlistenable lyrics"... Which is: A - A value judgement B - Patently false C - Shows a distinct lack of comprehension and desire to have things dumbed down.
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
He's not even right about who it's made for. I'm over 40 and found the show was made for everyone who has the mental acuity to pick up on symbolism and the historical knowledge to recognize that oppression of anyone oppresses us all. The show was brilliant for those who don't need our hands held....
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
These are the folks who are entertained by Elon's arm gestures...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to get too serious, but this really says it all. If we Democrats want to win in the future we might have to stop eating our own over embarrassing butt-wiping stories while the other guys rally behind adjudicated r*pists. Absolutely not saying that we should rally behind actual criminals...
Baron Von Hofmann (@jaychelf.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, if even multi count felons can be politicians these days, an embarrassing story or three shouldn’t hold him back!