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We could use that hashtag.

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On Weibo, China’s dominant social media platform, the hashtag “Trump suffered a complete and utter defeat” was trending as results were announced.

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Source: New York Times

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@philipbrewer The point was that the director could use the positive to project each day’s film and see that he got his shot.

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I mention it because although the negative was very nicely color-correct, the positive had a distinct blue cast to it, making a picture of a cold breeze look chilly indeed.

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@JohnPhilpin Years and years ago, I used this odd 35mm film intended for use in motion pictures. What was fancy about it was that it produced two images of each exposure: A positive (that was cut and mounted as a slide), and a negative (that could be used to make prints).

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Changing perspectives on falling stock markets: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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What sort of monster would send me “Important Health Information” bulk rate?

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@mroutley It’s about the time of year that I switched from bicycle riding to bus riding. (And we’re just a few days from the end of Daylight Saving Time, after which it was way too dark to ride home in the evening. Doubly so, since the drivers were driving home in the dark for the first time in months.)

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@iChris I’ve been known to spend 10 minutes tracking down a podcast’s episode (to share) or its feed (to subscribe). So many people obscure them! (Mostly, I assume, just because they don’t understand that a podcast is an RSS feed of MP3 files.)

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Three views of today’s sunrise \"Sunrise\"Panorama\"Another : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@dwalbert Fortunately I’m not feeling fewer well today than yesterday.

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A couple of new stickers \"My : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Limited willingness to verify my humanity: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@Miraz Thank you!

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Being handy: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Not a victory lap: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@help Got this error: “Bluesky: Error refreshing token. View logs” It would be nice if the error (or the log) included a link to the page where I can re-login to Bluesky, but I expect I can find it.

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@hollyhoneychurch Lovely.

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@philipbrewer.net My brother @stevendbrewer.com suggested that it didn’t look right for hopscotch.

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Investing for FIRE in (and after) 2026: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Sidewalk-chalk agility ladder \"An\"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Got both Covid and flu immunizations yesterday. The pharmacy attendant fit both shots under a single bandaid.

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My arm is slightly sore, and I feel just a trifle achy. I’ll focus on stretching and mobility work for today.

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@amerpie One thing my wife is really good at is organizing the leftovers into actual meals. I used to waste all kinds of food (along with eating too much, imagining that as a way to reduce waste).

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Now we just have healthy, home-cooked meals almost every day. It’s such a luxury.

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@ReaderJohn Until maybe 20 years ago I might have. Now I think things are so clear there’s no need. The already long-ago disqualifying scandals are so bad I can’t really imagine anything worse.

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I’ve written before about my own take on verifying citizenship for voters (at registration time, not at voting time) and on how the right to vote should be treated like other rights (not abridged without due process).

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Critics fear that states could use the system to purge large numbers of valid voters from their rolls ahead of the midterm elections.

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Source: Supreme Court Allows Use of Trump Administration’s Expansive Database for Voter Screening – NYT

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I was briefly worrying about this, but then I remembered that I have already voted. Phew.

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Jackie and I have exercised the franchise.

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@Miraz Thank you! I’m not sure I can take much credit, but she did seem to feel much better in the afternoon and evening.

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Poor achy doggie \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Recommended reading: A Dubious Clamor \"\" : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@marick Barbarian. An en-dash is used in a range (like “read pages 16–19 for the next class”). I don’t know of any other uses for it.

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@writingslowly I use shift-option-hyphen on a Mac keyboard. On a phone keyboard I press and hold the hyphen, then pick the em-dash from the options (but I try pretty hard not to have to type that much on a phone keyboard).

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Sleeping well is the best revenge. Like they always say.

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@writingslowly I used em-dashes back in the day when you had to type them as two hyphens.

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@Miraz Latest headline from the Journal of Who Cares what Words Mean Anyway.

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@ryanlcooper.com And don’t forget, unless you are quite unlucky, however young you are when you get the surgery, you will soon enough be over 40.

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@mattmcneilshow.bsky.social Of course, that’s going to make red meat a whole lot more expensive. Probably healthier though. And much, much better for the planet.

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@mattmcneilshow.bsky.social I’m not a vegan. In fact, I rather like red meat. But spending that much on, and burning, fossil fuels, just to feed cattle seems like a poor long-term plan for us and the planet.

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Cattle are perfectly capable of feeding themselves, if given enough grasslands in the right climate zone.

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The problem isn’t AI hacking tools, it’s computer security: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Long-term interest rates are rising. Yay! philipbrewer.micro.blog

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The supposed dangers of AI: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Guides for cashiers and tellers \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Fixing immigration without a police state \"Border : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Playing at being poor \"\" : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Me (giving empty electrolyte supplement to my wife to carry back to the kitchen): I had foot cramps in the night last night.

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Jackie: You had [mumble mumble]?

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Me: Foot cramps.

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Jackie: Oh. Okay. That makes sense. I thought you said foot prints.

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Me: You mean, like foot prints at a murder scene?

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Jackie: I hadn’t...

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Creating a magazine with my brother \"\" : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Another prairie sunrise \"Orange : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@sockynoob.bsky.social Start running really long errands, where your car is someplace else for hours whenever your mom is likely to want it?

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@Miraz Yep. Everything seems fine now. :-)

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@drewcastillo I still have lots of MP3s on my phone, from back when you kickstarted Zombies, Run. :-/ (I mean, there have been several new phones since then, but it’s the same collection of MP3s.)

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@drewcastillo I’m toying with the idea of getting back to Zombies, Run! I really enjoyed it, back in the day.

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@gelliottmorris.com by inflation or deflation.

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@gelliottmorris.com Maybe. I think it’s more a matter of who was a debtor (farmers and small businessmen who needed to borrow to buy seeds or raw materials) versus a creditor (the wealthy). Since there were no credit cards and virtually no consumer debt, ordinary people didn’t have debts to be wiped out or made ruinous

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