me (fuming): imagine if someone gave you an eggbeater with no handle jimmy (confused): like the crank kind? me: yeah with the crank part still but no handle for your left hand jimmy: *makes right hand flailing circular motions* woOOo!wooOOo! me: anyway that's how I feel about this API #dataBS

Lux Patrum is hiring! We are looking for people to produce bilingual editions of texts. Required: - a reasonably strong command of Greek or Latin - competence in Microsoft Word. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.

staying with friends who have a cat and I now understand the "trapped by a cat sitting on you" posts

agents, but only for closing the tabs they know I’m not going to look at ever again

I posted earlier today about a whole bunch of ePubs and diglots of early Christian writings that are available from github.com/AppianWayPress. Now that it is in semblance of order, I can use it to fuel a simple RAG system to answer questions based on early Christian writings. Like this:

things I never quite seem to finish before a trip: - the laundry - emptying the fridge someday I will start on these projects

trump has trapped america's leading evangelical theologians in a room with top officials at the SEC until they come up with an interpretation of the gospels that exempts cryptocurrency from jesus' idea of what makes a man rich

Thanks to @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social I've been able to read through Jerome's comments on Psalm 90 (Lat:89). He says some fascinating things. 1. Psalm 90 being a psalm of Moses means all the following psalms are Moses', until another psalm comes along with a different author (101 is David's).

The amount of alpha in this post is off the charts www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-...

I don't get Gene Wolfe's short stories. The prose is great, but somehow I can't stick the landing and end up baffled. Is this a generational thing where I'm missing cultural context or are they intentionally inscrutable / subverting genre expectations? halp!!

My favorite thing about the magic men in the Exodus is that when Moses and Aaron make the water into blood, they… also do that. And when Moses and Aaron make all the frogs, the magic men are like… look, MORE frogs. Not fewer. Not like, hey we can get rid of these frogs. Nope. More frogs.

Why are all my friends buying ice cream makers? Is 2025 ice cream maker summer or something? Is this a normal thing people do now or are we gonna see 'em all for $10 at the thrift store in six months? pls explainnnnn

wowee just finished The Lathe of Heaven. Terrifying and wonderful. Need to reread, I think..

first time making chokecherry jam. The bushes in the backyard are going crazy this year so I didn't feel like I was competing with the birds too much. needs some work on the stone-separation process but otherwise a great success!

new book has endnotes 🤢 in Kipling's words: What is the sense of Religion and Faith? Look how the Gods have afflicted me!

The #dataBS call for speakers closes 31 July. That's just a few days away! This is your chance to share your story about that creaky-yet-mission-critical data pipeline ... or your company's "AI" that's really three linear regressions in a trenchcoat ... Sign up here: bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs

I got a D&D party commission from Rossy. He was great to work with and I was extremely satisfied with the end product. Would recommend without hesitation to anyone looking for character art!

I’m not ready for half the country to start going, “Acktually, it’s ephebophilia.” Can’t anyone let the libertarians have their one thing?

OTD 1381 roving preacher John Ball, a leader of the Peasants Revolt, was hanged, drawn & quartered in the presence of Richard II. Challenging class norms, he was famed for asking "when Adam delved and Eve span,who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike."

I'm generally quite fond of living in a small town, but it's raining today so I'm totally cooped up in the house or my office/shed. I'm oddly nostalgic for rainy days in Atlanta when I'd walk to Cafe Momo and watch lustrous I-75 traffic from the loft windows with my laptop or a book.

I need a really good fiction recommendation. Books that stuck with me. I love sci-fi, really good lit, and weird stuff. Any good ideas bluesky?

"With sufficient imagination a man could write a whole series of versions of his life; it would form a union of sets in which the facts would be the only elements in common." ~ His Master's Voice, Stanisław Lem

[Hitler Youth meeting as imagined by a GOP senator] "Gather 'round, children, and let's repeat our slogan: WE LOVE EVIL! WE HATE GOODNESS! WE LOVE INJUSTICE! WE HATE FREEDOM! WE ARE THE BAD GUYS AND PROBABLY SECRETLY MUSLIM! Ach der Scheiß here comes Dietrich Bonhoeffer with an AK-47, take cover"

Welp. I am about to become a statistic no thanks to funding cuts leading to pauses and cancellations on contract work. I will be either furloughed or laid off on July 23. If anyone anywhere in the US is looking for a PhD P.I. or P.D. for full-time #CRM #archaeology work, I’m available. I will travel

Come read Origen with us!

I didn't read Bleak House so much as Bleak House is a thing that happened to me. Much like every all hands I have ever attended.

Putting together a lil southern gothic spooky adventure for my ttrpg group and I'm having so much fun. It feels really good to pull these muscles out of retirement - we have three other DMs in our group so the last time I ran anything was something like 2021.

some Minot ND #nokings protest www.instagram.com/christodesti...

Minot, ND

‘No Kings’ protests swept the nation Saturday, including here in North Dakota.

update: I am bad at arts and crafts. I have paint and glue all over myself. yay.

arts and crafts time woo

The best part of summer in North Dakota is watching the goslings grow up. They're in their chunky yellow/grey goblin phase right now, running around in groups of half-a-dozen with their very alert chaperones. If only I could pet!

Leaving these here for no reason. I'm sure no-one here would need this information in the near future. *cough* #NoKingsDay Source: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

I think I like the blue prince soundtrack more than the game itself.

I didn't realize how much I miss in-person pair programming. Haven't done any since pre-covid. :( - this reflection brought to you by trying out cursor and sparking memories of ye olde in-office days.

It is extremely weird to pick up an author whose writing style is basically identical to your dad’s. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the “voice“ keeps throwing me off.

This is really interesting. More people are starting to say they're not too happy. It's across the partisan board. Notice the timing of the uptick.

I feel like most couples probably don't have 2hr conversations about the comparative moral/ethical duties and obligations we have regarding wind-borne seeds that may migrate to a neighbor's yard under divine command and non-aggression principle based moral theories. Welcome to Stephensland. 😛

@atlassian.bsky.social why do I have to click a button to see my sprint details with this UI update? there's plenty of whitespace here to tell me how many days are left!

war update: the dandelions have forged an alliance with the local mosquito population casualties so far: 1 blister 3 mosquito bites 3 5-gal buckets dug up and binned (maybe 1/4 of the total front yard cleared)

true data engineering work happening here today (sticking random stuff in the where clauses and hoping something will work)

Not sure which is worse to dialogue with, the Facebook brained or the Fox news brained. I've got one of each. The former explains reality via conspiracy, and the latter lives in a totally different reality.

What there is: a monk with strong opinions about the filioque clause and a terminal need to be right

What if there was a betting website, but for project estimates? "What's the over/under on Q2 deliverables?"

eeeee I'm starting to chunk recognize long words and even scan lines (simple ones anyway). Feels like progress! #koine

today was for PUTTERING - washed the car - dug dandelions out of the lawn - read for an hour - crocheted on my cool shawl - took a nap I need to retire - I'd get so much more done!

I got to run my first 5k with an adoptable beagle on Saturday. T'was so much fun! He's so sweet and needs a good home - I'd give him one but Jimmy is not a dog person and adopting a pet is one of those two-yes decisions so... Anyway he was the best! www.adoptapet.com/pet/37717861...

o/ Hi internet friends! What is an actually good Bonhoeffer biography? Bethge's? (I've unfortunately only read the Metaxas one >.>)

App / tech question: Let's say I encounter an ICE raid, or witness police brutality, or see something else that needs documenting. So I pull out my phone and start recording? But if I myself get arrested during the recording, I'll have no time to upload. Is there a good livestream solution?