Peter H. Coffin

A Celebration of Life for @hellsop.ninehells.com has been planned for Sat. July 12 in Milwaukee, WI. If you knew him, and would like to attend. Please private message @geekers.bsky.social for details. Obituary is here: obits.cremationsocietyofmilwaukee.com/peter-coffin

This is @geekers.bsky.social logged into Peter's account: For those who haven't heard, he unexpectedly died due to a medical emergency Monday night while riding his bike home from the gym. Autopsy report is not final/no official cause of death. Attached is the press release from the police on 5/13.

Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Maybe don’t use such a biblically resonant word like “strangers” when pushing an anti-immigrant agenda that directly contradicts every passage you’re unwittingly alluding to.

Sympathies to Ontario rum fans who must have been hopeful to see that block of shelves filled with something tasty instead.

THE PRESIDENT, WHO HAS NUCLEAR CODES AND TALKS TO HEADS OF STATE CONSTANTLY, CAN'T FLY AROUND ON A JET GIVEN TO HIM BY THE MOST CORRUPT OIL WIERDOS ON EARTH THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY

Couldn't think of food I wanted. 1 part barley, 2 parts rice into the rice cooker with a pat of butter. That'll hold me until I can figure out real food.

Somebody the Trump admin wanted to promote nuclear families, didn't they?

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Cat stomachs being gassy and gurgling are not quieter than human stomachs being gassy and gurgling. Stella is really annoyed by her own guts today.

Wrote about just how insanely quickly the ODNI responded to this FOIA request from @freedom.press, contradicting Trump *and* their own boss, Gabbard.

The problem with y’all calling Joe Rogan “intellectually curious” … the man is nearing the 6th decade of life with curiosities that should’ve been quelled by a library card and community college enrollment

"Pocket Full of Bagels" is my 90s coverband name.

Excited to announce my next farm video, Ten Crops You Can Plant & Harvest Faster Than Jefferson Griffin Can Concede An Election

Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall McLuhan

Utterly incredible thread by a pilot on when everything hits the fan with radios, radar, and "ATC Zero." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1919686227001053361.html

The yard (since it's untreated by chemical application etc) sprouted a bunch of yellow rocket (Barbarea vulgaris, aka wintercress). @geekers.bsky.social spent 30 minutes digging up about 4L volume of the stuff and I trimmed it down to flowers and leaves. Blanched in salted/lemoned water. Delicious.

About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want. Anyway, they’ve made that.

There's current IBM hardware out there still running code that was last *compiled* in the 1990s. After generations of operating system and platform architecture changes. Through dozens of layers of abstraction and compatibility shells. MS does a GOOD job of this, but IBM is better.

declaring a moratorium on “I bet you could get Trump to do X” posts, the risk is too great

“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Keep in mind always the two constant Laws of Frisbee: 1. The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this force is technically termed "car suck"). 2. Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!"

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VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

Q: What do you do with an elephant with three balls? A: Walk him and pitch to the rhino.

This week on @treadperilously.bsky.social, we watch an episode of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' featuring Richard Dawson as either Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, or both. Listen here to find out if I ever decide who he's impersonating:

The fsckers treat everything like it's a corporate board position with one meeting a year that they can expense. Positions that require no attention, only presenteeism occasionally, and someone can have dozens of them with no impact on anything.

No, it's not.

In summary, trade wars & threatening to withhold your bulk export goods is a terrible way to get what you want from the world. All US farmers are doing with this trade war is make openings for other countries. Because bulk exports can be replaced a lot faster than you'd think. And so can we.

The odds of an LLM finding "2+2" associated with "4" is quite high. The odds of it finding "450 / 1.15" associated with "391.30" is not much higher than "450 / 1.15" associated with "250". And that's why LLMs make shitty calculators.

"Tariff" or whatever else, from a practical and pragmatic standpoint, the best way to calculate is "compare what it costs now to what it cost twenty years ago". Because almost every increase since then is a downstream outcome of "rich people fucking with you" at some layer of abstraction or another.

It doesn't matter how much range an EV comes with. On any model-specific forum, there will be some new owner popping up with a "great idea" for wiring in more battery and asking how feasible it would be to do in his garage. Usually multiple times per year.

Oneida Nation Gets Federal Funding to Help House Tribal Veterans

Do not adjust your screen. Viewing this tree does not require special 3-D glasses. That's just what the 'Rising Sun' redbud (Cercis canadensis) looks like. Native to North America, it was found growing wild & propagated. The trippy 3-D movie effect is a consequence of two factors:

Stella eats this and NEVER wanders away until the plate is basically sterilized.

The real shocking twist of Fight Club was the testosterone-fueled manosphere-adjacent dipshits were also anti-corporate.

I am very glad my trash was actually picked up today. (The city is repaving the alley where my driveway is, and from which refuse is collected, for 2.5 weeks so far. Last week the alternate place garbage was to be collected from was ... skipped and I had to accumulate for another week.)