dfprovine

dfprovine

@dfprovine.bsky.social

Teacher. Likes to read. Mostly Harmless.

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dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

What is it with Republicans boasting that they don't know anything about other countries as if that's a flex? 'We're unqualified, and that's why you should trust us!'

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

'And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.'

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

He _did_ vote for an adjudicated rapist. He just doesn't want to face up to the moral responsibility that goes with doing what he did. He wants to be respected despite acting disgracefully. (An attitude one would expect of both a rapist and someone who voted for a rapist.)

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

Apparently there's something called a Reverse Rainbow: #Connections Puzzle #1224 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

_Mayday_ (2026): a US pilot ejects over the USSR in 1987 and his only chance to get out is with the help of a KGB agent who wants asylum in America. Story is so-so, Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh make a good pair. Flunks the Bechdel Test.

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

It Follows For Tax Purposes The Muppets Take Manhattan For Tax Purposes Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle For Tax Purposes

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: The Accountant For Tax Purposes

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

Things I think about: in #Hamilton, when Alexander Hamilton talks about a 'financial diuretic', is that a word he or anyone else present would likely have understood the way we do? The word apparently dates from the 1400s, but medical research into the topic is from the 20th century.

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, 'Do you all want a beer?' The first logician says, 'I don't know.' The second logician says, 'I don't know.' The third logician says, 'Yes.'

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

'The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.'

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

Not great, but the bot failed. Never saw the bot fail before. #Wordle 1,929 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

In case anyone's wondering, the phone number for the president of Cornell University is 607-255-5201, and his email address is president@cornell.edu. In case, you know, you wanted to express an opinion on how the University is handling things.

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

I think this luck score is overstating it a bit. I spent 30 seconds thinking of word #2. #Wordle 1,924 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 93/99 Luck 86/99

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

For the record, I did have 'Ban the free press and start a state-run news service which lies to support the government.' on my Dictatorship Bingo Card. #dictator #trump #republican www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com‘Literally state-run TV’: Trump launches YouTube channel amid boycott by US networksWhite House press coverage row continues while anchor-less channel of the administration’s ‘latest and greatest’ streams propaganda for the Maga faithful
dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

I hope everyone had a happy Unification Day! I put on my favorite #browncoat, when to an Alliance-friendly bar, and met some people who weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. Now I'm basking in the #serenity.

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

Has any other administration ever bragged so loudly about their complete failure to lead? 'We've made the USA so backwards that we're still relying on obsolete fuel sources, unlike more technologically advanced countries' is a weird flex, isn't it? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

epa.govEPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants | US EPAToday, U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the majority of the Biden administration's greenhouse gas requirements for U.S. power plants and proposed rescinding every remaining gr...
dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

I can't decide which is worse: (1) he thinks this is a genius insight only he was smart enough to see, (2) he thinks Ukraine is unreasonable for not letting an invader just take whatever they want, or (3) he has no clue the damage he did to our alliances with Taiwan/Japan/other countries near China.

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

The thing I don't understand is why people think it's safe to let the government hate anyone. Do they really think the hate will never get around to them? Didn't they ever read that poem? The letter from Birmingham Jail? Watch _Star Trek_? How many times does the same lesson have to be taught?

dfprovine
@dfprovine.bsky.social

'What does his lucid explanation amount to but this, that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is?' - Benjamin Brewster, 1882

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