StoneAndSky

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by StoneAndSky 17d ago
I have started adding a footnote superscript to my first use of an emdash in any document. The footnote is just: "1. All emdashes on this page were written by me."
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by StoneAndSky 6mo ago
I will never forget, and neither should you, that the last time we had a budget surplus, instead of doing _anything_ useful with it, the Republicans decided the best thing to do was to send everyone a check in the mail. Among the useful sug
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by StoneAndSky 7mo ago
I don't remember it being a "sleeper"; I recall it stirring quite a bit of controversy at the time. It came out in the pre-Columbine "Going Postal" era. But agreed: it's worth a watch.
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by StoneAndSky 7mo ago
In 1995, our art teacher used a full week of class time to screen this for us, for no other reason than she felt it was an incredible film that deserved a wider audience. She was right.
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by StoneAndSky 8mo ago
Agree with everything being said here. However, it is no longer even remotely paranoid to be concerned that the current administration plans to do one or more of: 1. Put its thumb on the scale by "guarding" urban polling places wi
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by StoneAndSky 8mo ago
Thanks to Roberts and McConnell, the United States has a Presidential "Purge" window: The President can "officially" suborn the murder of anyone, and as long as there is insufficient time for an impeachment trial or he l
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by StoneAndSky 9mo ago
I love Squoosh. I have used it since it launched. However, IIRC, Squoosh was built largely by Surma and Jake; or maybe they were just the "face" of the project. Either way, at one point it even had a CLI. Since their departure fro
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by StoneAndSky 10mo ago
The People have spoken, and they want squircles.
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by StoneAndSky 10mo ago
Would that the mainstream press had treated the Gawker episode as the five-alarm free speech fire that it was.
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by StoneAndSky 1y ago
It exists: XMAG https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/XMAG/ > The index aims to provide a comprehensive and balanced representation of the U.S. equity market by including the largest 500 publicly traded equity securi