Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Right... I wasn't super familiar with the group, but this jumps out in an alarming way.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. INFJ, supposedly. Perl/Python/R/JS/SQL, APIs/DataScience, et cetera. Should be writing. Might be coding up a facebook replacement and/or modeling civilization itself, looking for improvements.
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view profile on Bluesky Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Right... I wasn't super familiar with the group, but this jumps out in an alarming way.
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Kinda seems like that safe dem states broke more for a GOP president (from having stuck with their DEM senator) than either of the other two groups. One thing I've not left out this time is the amalgamated 'other' category, so a simple t-test won't work this time around to determine significance
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Early investigative stuff in the 2nd draft (1st got so full of experimental tangents that I started over clean) ... by county, the skew at the top of the ticket 'away' from the senatorial option, broken out by state's swing or safeness.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
good stuff, as always
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Aye, I love my emdashes and ellipses ... use them often, in part, because I WANT someone to 'hear' the pause.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Was he seen doing bad things, or just seen having been deployed potentially against his will?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Been on a 238 mile battery (getting about 180 to 320 in practice) for 7 years and it’s all been good. 1100 mile trips once or twice a year and one 3900 mile trip this far
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Spread the rainbow all over Florida... exhaust them
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Important stuff... and I wanna work on it, myself
Phil Plait (@philplait.bsky.social) reposted
Did you know astronomers commonly see objects in space moving faster than light? But seeing is not believing: superluminal motion is an illusion! Me, for Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭🧪
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I ‘only’ see 25 to 28 officially … 1 should be enough for jail time
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Christ, it could be!
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry, 'having lied' ... better grammar
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I guess it's LESS EXTREME a set of odds than that of all 28 women accusing Trump of assault are lying (4.5% chance each), which is about 1 in 51,291,996,668,687,396,236,148,446,979,906,600,960.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
important
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Odds are very high
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
he always has
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 Yesterday, Arlington, TX (heart of the DFW metropolitan area) had an AMAZING turnout for their ICE recruitment event. ✊🏼
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Irish pub I guess ?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Nailed it
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure how to know
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Trump has attacked and undermined vital nonpartisan data, including: -BLS monthly jobs numbers -DC crime statistics -EPA emissions database -NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I ... what? Context and grammar needed.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Not ours; the rents have two
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
I bought a 55.2lb quartz crystal
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
This is not a phone friendly site, but …
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Build it anyway
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Time for Japanese, folks
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm conflicted between empathy for his condition and disdain for his evil ways.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Only tenuously related, but we've only had to lose one boomer fragment of one side of the family to MAGA stuff ... even their own gen-x kids barely tolerate the pair. Meanwhile, other presumed conservative family branches have been unexpectedly with us in these dark times... so ray of hope perhaps.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Oof, sorry to hear it. If he's true to his written word here, he may have to come to that point, too. Or fail to do so after all.
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah - wasn't thinking of it in those terms so much as 'not being evicted from your church' over skipping the income tithe (not a donation) terms. Being so interwoven with family, that's a big deal. I guess he talked about it a bit.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Good on them!
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, whatsherface was loudly bigoted, so easy to detect. Crichton face-planted hard with State of Fear, so I veered there. Haven't heard either from him. I wonder if the donations are in excess of the mandatory tithe. He'd have to abandon his faith not to do it, which is also a bit of an ask.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a hell of a lift -- investigate everyone and everything every time I ever encounter anything for any reason on the chance that they might privately disagree with me about something I don't know much about?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm probably just misandrist enough to find ~any~ romantic entanglements of any sort difficult to suspend disbelief for. They work against any narrative for me. It's the world building and the individuals overcoming misunderstandings that get me.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I see; not something I would have looked into. I just read the books.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess every TACO thus far has been a war avoided, right?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Dislike sanderson? Hard to imagine, but these things do happen. I'll admit he uses passive voice and 'fortunately' too much, but the stories have been compelling. Honestly, though, with the schedule he's set for the SLA, I dunno if he'll live long enough either.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
I know this spot well...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Good opportunity to make a fool of him by ensure there's no way to confuse anything going on there with an emergency
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
The world needs more of this and less of so many other things
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I cycled into DC (for the first time) not a couple-few weeks back... just before the last wave. A lot of the mall area is more congested and under construction than I remember, but overall, I was impressed by the new cycle highway leading up to and past the mall ...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Who else was also there? I sure was.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
I'd like to see a chart of political leaning on one axis and ... I dunno how to put this, but ... some spectrum between high functioning autistics and supposedly neurotypical. I'm sure this is asking for a lot, but I do wonder (possibly for selfish reasons.)
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Bring AAAANYTHING ELSE up at all and you're in their face and down their throat in a femtosecond.
Nome (@nome.bsky.social) reposted
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
the kerning on that logo is ... disturbing
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
So, methinks I'll be treating Sanders and King as democrats. Sanders ran unopposed (by a democrat, that is) and King wasn't unopposed, but THAT dem drew a tiny percent. Meanwhile both senators at like dems ... so in terms of comparing voter trends, I may treat accordingly.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Wish yawl'd stop obeying in advance. These people are powerless without us saying 'oh well.'
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
is my AI block chain nft an agent?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Capitulation to this seems unwise.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Aye, other than reaching bots helping train malicious responses
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, there's an apparent reason, re: autocracy... but there's no legitimate reason.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
A few did... most believed the lies, instead.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
We have the power we act with ... and no, it does not require guns. Fatalism like this is what they want.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
We could fight for ourselves...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Calling on 100+ million people to step out of line, please.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Pure evil
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
And... dumber than I am... by a lot. It seems blasphemous on their part.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm also having to isolate any house seats that run unopposed as they look like 100% red or blue swings when they're not... throwing the means and estimates wildly. Instead, there should be 'blank' auto-candidates that folk can vote for, and if the blank wins, a special election to find that person
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Their god is pretty awful, as they describe it
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
I'm'a try to psych myself up for some election science today by emitting random commentary on it. First: goddammit, nebraska... They had TWO senators up for election, and that totally threw some means and t-tests. This is why studying the data is such an important early set of steps.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Do we have an equation, yet, for determining the LEAST evil cloud provider?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
All I want for christmas is a two and a half bedroom, one and a half bath live-in flying saucer, capable of eluding all terrestrial armed forces, good for long term camping, et cetera.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Well said
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
It's hard... we can't really LEAVE the consequences of surrendering the USA to evil. It will follow.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
We'll need a new pres before then.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like I'm supposed to know this reference, but...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Has someone told Kirk that HE is the parasite in this situation?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
It must be tough. If their task is to 'own the libs' and libs openly and enthusiastically love almost everything...
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
These need to be at pitstops in particular... restaurants folk tend to hit while getting breakfast, lunch, or dinner on long hauls. Hotels, homes, work-adjacent parking lots, parallel parking spots, etc, should have tier 2 medium chargers instead. LOTS of them (they're relatively cheap.)
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Yes
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly there are people in and in support of this admin who are opening suggest that slavery needs to come back
Stonekettle (@stonekettle.bsky.social) reposted
Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Methinks their idea of violent crime is holding them accountable for their fraud
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly the bots are trying out Bluesky, too. They’re quite difficult to prevent
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Heeey someone spelled it correctly … pronounced either as shitter or exit-er
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Dismiss him and the regime as a whole
Bangor Daily News (@bangordailynews.bsky.social) reposted
Graham Platner, 40, served three tours in Iraq as a Marine and one for the Army in Afghanistan before returning to Maine. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/19/p...
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
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Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Hey #duolingo … how am I supposed to make any progress when stuff like this keeps happening?
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
They are the crime
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
FYI I’ve not forgotten this … and time to work on it is soon to come
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
This hotel did not understand the assignment when it came to having on site EV chargers
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Speaking of which, my uni is presently enduring attacks
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social)
Michael Soltis looks/looked more like Pete Postlethwaite than Postlethwaite's own son does
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
Glorious!
Valjurai (@valjurai.bsky.social) reply parent
And evil intent?