@catboss.bsky.social if you polled your network of recent former coworkers about whether their orgs model a specific approach to writing, speaking, and presentation what would be their take?

this is a very good essay on the slopification of social life, i.e. what happens when nearly everything you see is mid-grade shit discourse, until your own brain starts to think in mid-grade shit discourse, & everybody's does, until nobody can even tell anymore what mid-grade shit discourse is

YOU HAVE HEARD of the Cod Wars in which icelanders drove back the british from the north atlantic fisheries. but have you heard of the Baskavígin, The Slaying of the Basques, in which icelanders massacred shipwrecked basque whalemen as they slept

Not to upset my beloved literature majors too much but the best part of Name of the Rose for me is, and will always be, the introduction where Umberto Eco admits to losing his major historical reference material to a woman he pissed off and was too cowardly to request it back from.

it can be an apprenticeship, 2, 4, 4+4, 4+6, or 4+4+7 (!)(*) post-2ndary education. it can be your moving costs for seasonal work or a 30-year mortgage. SSI and YOLO or defined benefits retirement. one way or the other we're making the claim to be doing economic planning, but refusing to say it

obviously if teenagers and 2ndary school guidance counselors can be expected to collaboratively make predictions on that timescale which produce a solid ROI and tolerate the risk of nondischargeable debt, we should expand their leadership role in national financial and industrial policymaking

apropos of the general chitchat about post-2ndary degree enrolment i'd like to bring out my crank take which is: acknowledging that many admins, policymakers, prospective students, and parents perceive the project as pre-employment training 1/n

In 2003 concrete was already poured either side of the Rhine for the new bridge at Laufenburg, before someone spotted that the 27cm offset between the German side referenced to the North Sea and the Swiss side referenced to the Med had been applied with a +/- error, leaving 54cm misalignment.

canadian paintings has been an incredible resource for "wow, that's stunning" and then "wow that's on consignment" and then "wow i could immerse my household in culturally fraught struggle over authenticity, provenance, and identity. all for a mere 50k CAD" @catboss.bsky.social surely sympathizes

many such cases

Nothing but blue skies

does he have hands? does he have face? his party composition includes a bard and a tavern brawler barbarian, so: yes

looking at the focaccia ("focaccia") i had resting overnight i see that in this house even the baking yeast has Depression

prompted some reckoning on the best/worst motel signs i've seen and i was like it's been a while since i browsed the society for commercial archaeology photo collection. i had a moment of sinking dismay when failed to connect, but it was just network switch on my end sca-roadside.org/the-jim-seel...

in the land of the blind the one-eyed man struggles with electrical code variances and pays exorbitant import costs to have lightbulbs shipped from overseas

lost my Chicago Sandwich Runes cheat sheet and i'm trying to come up with the name of a fancypants carvery venue in that river west to hermosa strip and my major finding is holy moly what happened to google maps

bring back (edcwiciaþ?) the first- and second person dual pronoun

Some instances of gg in Gothic represent not [ŋg] as in English “longer,” but long [gg]. These examples invariably precede the consonant w, and the entire sequence ggw represents a development from an original Proto-Germanic ww "gg" scribed xXx_confessor_wulfila311. "big dubs"

try swapping in the voice of figures from broadcast television advertising for Black Philip, the star of The VVitch, and see who comes up best. i'm thinking its the menards guy

its kind of crazy to think that the egyptians had been building pyramids for five hundred years by the time the last relict populations of snuffleupaguses went extinct on their block island, nantucket, and marthas vineyard offshore refugia

it's May and i'm not really feeling the lead weight of the winter dark lifting yet which which is not great

I fucking love accelerating the evolution of my embodied experience.

The Patara aqueduct has a famous pressurized syphon to cross a saddle without losing hydraulic head, but honestly I don't understand the point. The lowest point in the saddle is at 145m, and they could have just taken the altitude hit and followed that contour line (the red area is alt<145m ASL).

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.

"if i had my fleet of druids and a month's research," jesus christ Halsin what am i, your dissertation chair

that little known fact about shakespeare also highlights the extent to which goethe was at basis, a weeb

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

finally some good news for goldbug Piss Freaks

*M doughty intonation, tom waits vibe* we're trapped in a room with a man ... he has two podcasts ... he calls himself The Griddler

Back in the stress-baking saddle.

i got a new wellness grift which is not entirely evil, namely i'm going to hawk little bathroom dispensers with screen cleaning wipes for the phone we've been scrolling, alternating with wiping our buttholes

in any case i'm surprised none of the Sliver (1993) panopticontractors have shipped effective tools for handling tasks like that? or do mil-cop-spook types just not talk about it

o__O i guess i'd assumed this is how everyone who has to triage video or even like, unindexed historical text, fiction, etc did it.

We therefore learn from this learned commentary made by a Babylonian scribe over 2000 years ago, that in the Akkadian language, the word shitti means "shit"

Babylonian scholars in later periods, from ~500 BCE onwards, made short commentaries on sections of the, to them, pretty ancient Sa-gig diagnostic manual. They excerpted words or phrases, explained them, and added meaning to the original text with their interpretations. True ancient word nerdery

i seem to recall the san bernardinos have pretty marked evidence of past glaciation, and some of that was promoted by favorable aspect, but is there evidence for san jac and the san gabriels as well?

April graupel put a mini-glacier in the model Wheeler Peak cirque up at Mather Overlook!

on the bright side the eternal bleating about preserving our nation's sacred coal mining jobs has finally ceased

The economic issues are real, but the greatest contributor to unhappiness is an abuser shouting at us, all day, every day.

watching chemtubes and had one of those "they know what they're about, it's fine" moments at the spicy materials uni research lab where the head-of is like, "behold! our drawer of glass ampoules filled with purified cesium and rubidium!" and they're rattling loose like i store hammer drill bits

hurling yourself into a metallurgical oven and allowing yourself to slowly return to room temperature releases tension, reduces brittleness, and improves your flexibility

huge progress made by adding Isolate, Hide, and End Isolation to the right-click context menu of life

Trauer um eine Schauspiel-Legende: Mario Adorf ist im Alter von 95 Jahren verstorben. Das berichtet die Bild-Zeitung unter Berufung auf sein Management. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000315917/der-raue-charmeur-leinwandstar-mario-adorf-95-jaehrig-gestorben

Well, hello to the rest of the long weekend! #Lego #Avgeek #aviation

the joy of "has the digitizer on this 6th gen ipad finally eaten shit, or is the kindle app doing the damien thorn / omen (1976) thing again"

want to feel old? it's now the 1993rd year since the original "maybe it is no longer possible to die" posting bit

@navalairhistory.com i know in the air's your jam and not below the waves, but granted the two were often violently intersecting (and your network would have opinions), do know if there's a modern successor re: comprehensive allied pacific sub warfare to Clay Blair's Silent Victory?

The shorter the legs, the closer to hell and the better to hear Satan whispering instructions into their fuzzy ears about how to acquire the cake at someone else's birthday party.