Alex HarmsNov 8, 2024
GeePawHill
Speaking as a politics junkie, please just lay the fuck off for a couple of days.
Nov 8, 2024 at 4:17amWeb
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024

Dog cognition. How hot is David Gyazi, or Gary Oldman. Smart corvids. Is analysis dead? (Inside joke.) Why 4 spaces is better than 8 spaces and 2 spaces both. Stamp collecting. Making literally *anything* that isn't more hate. The history of science. The *insane* active immune system. World famous musicians who are still underrated. Categories of song that only have like 3 entries. How many fucking varieties of potato there are.

*Anything*. But let politics rest until Monday.

Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
The right boob for you. Does your cat love you? Your cat. Your dog. Your mouse. Your fish. Your anything that gives you joy. Yarn. Fountain pens. The time you met famous person and they were cool. How rudely colorful your grandma was. How do eyes even fucking work? Shakespeare, George Eliot, Edith Wharton. Edward Gibbon's freakish forehead. The many versions of fairy chess. How fucking cool was Dover Press. That Rembrandt guy.
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
Who defined jazz, Armstrong, Bechet, or Waller -- please don't tell me you believe Jelly Roll Morton -- ? Cotton vs wool. Eructations you have known. Who even actually likes rosemary bread. BBQ in so many places, chili in so many places. What, really, is the secret of spaghetti carbonara. Gallows broadsheets. The fucking tower. Fucking Eleanor of fucking Aquitaine, yo. The speed of the Islamic conquest. How Erastothenes proved the earth was round before the birth of Christ.
Show threadG.I. Robot Nov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill The secret of spaghetti carbonara is choosing the right bacon.
Show threadKim ScheinbergNov 8, 2024

@GeePawHill
On the jazz question, it was this guy

"There were a few hustlers, who depended upon finding suckers for survival. And there were some who were too wise to hustle, who only wanted to have enough money to be able to afford to be a sucker.”
-- Duke Ellington

Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
@kims Ellington was certainly world class. Is he over-calling Armstrong here?
Show threadAsymmetricblueNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill I wear both cotton and wool daily. I would wear more wool yet if money were no object, and if more of it was wash and wear.
Also a hand crafted rosemary bread with a quality olive oil or butter is lovely for snacking. It does, however, limit its sandwich filling options.
Show threadIrving ReidNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill on the Aquitaine angle, from the vague mists of my youth I sometimes recall a bit from the book “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver” where no-longer-alive Eleanor complains about people calling the architecture of her cathedrals “Gothic” because those heathen Goths had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
How much garlic? Making pickles. Making *cheese*. Making furniture. Making paintings. Making code. Making embroidery. Making honey. Making fucking *anything*.
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024

Why MJ is the GOAT. Why mistaken people think LBJ is the GOAT. Why Jim Ryan? How cool is the WNBA? What are we to do with Wilt? Usain Bolt. What, you'll think it's a different topic but it's the same, have we done with Raygun? How's Nadia Komenici? Olga Korbut. Simone Biles?

How's fucking Serena?

Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024

My point, I hope I'm making it, is this. Give politics a couple more days. Raise hell in some other area. People grieving, people mourning, people hurt and angry. You do not have to offer a take. You could talk about any of the topics I've mentioned, or any other weird topics.

You are under zero obligation to talk about US politics.

And, to be honest, if you care for me, for, I dare to say, us, you will hold back, and talk about some other random shit for a couple more days.

Show threadDave C.Nov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill I made homemade meatballs in
marinara sauce last weekend. It was far more time consuming than difficult. I'm sure I made mistakes. It came out wonderful!
Show threadSoOverItNov 8, 2024
@davesomebody @GeePawHill for a nice twist try it in sweet & sour sauce next time
Show threadDave C.Nov 8, 2024
@SoOverIt @GeePawHill what surprised me was what simmering the meatballs in the sauce for an hour and a half did to the sauce. All of that wonderful fat really makes the sauce yummy.
Show threadSoOverItNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill OMG I love you so much RN for knowing who Olga Korbut is. Original idol absolute master ❤️. You’ve succeeded in making my week
Show threadG.I. Robot Nov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill All the garlic!
Show threadSoOverItNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill my grandma used to nag my grandpa for ONLY going 5 over. Itd blow my mind as a kid when she turn to him and say you drive like a grandma. He’d tell her she’d ‘only get one drink tomorrow if I get a ticket’ 😂
Show threadindi 🪡Nov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill my favorite fountain pen is a TWSBI Eco with Diamine "Bilberry" purple-blue ink. It looks like a dab pen. It's got a purple cap and a purple twisty end piston bit (guess my favorite color) which glow blue in the dark, and the rest of it is clear plastic so you can see how much ink is inside. (A lot.)
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
@indi I knew you were a weirdo when I clutched you to my breast. <3
Show threadindi 🪡Nov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.
Show threadSusan CalvinNov 8, 2024
@indi @GeePawHill bonus point for Diamine.
Show threadindi 🪡Nov 8, 2024
@Susan_calvin @GeePawHill yay! I have.. so much Diamine.
Show threadSusan CalvinNov 8, 2024
@indi @GeePawHill I was half surprised to discover they are based somewhere in Liverpool. I was very pleased when they responded to my "do you have a fountain pen ink that will do for Pantone xyz" with "you know this doesn't work of course but our ABC is as close as you'll get" :)
Show threadindi 🪡Nov 8, 2024
@Susan_calvin @GeePawHill that's fantastic! Pantone color matching fountain pen ink is really going above and beyond.
Show threadSusan CalvinNov 8, 2024
@indi @GeePawHill clearly a lost cause with a fountain pen yet worth the candle.
Show threadcurtosisNov 8, 2024

@GeePawHill In the opinion of writer Mary Renault, Roman historian Quintus Curtius was “an unbearably silly man with access to priceless sources now lost to us, which he frittered away in the cause of a tedious litarary concept about the goddess Fortune."

I’ve always liked the clarity of her assessment.

Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
@curtosis God those fucking books were good.
Show threadcurtosisNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill ‘Struth. I’m long overdue for another reread. Though how I wish I could read them for the first time again!
Show threadsuquamishNov 8, 2024

@GeePawHill

As my friend Bob once told me when I created a PR with 4 space indents:

"There's enough white space here to choke a horse."

Words to live by.

Show threadRon JeffriesNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill but wait tho, how many varieties of potato ARE there?
Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
@RonJeffries By my reading, ~300. There are people living in the Andes who can easily recognize 80 of them, and tell you what they're good for.
Show threadJez HigginsNov 8, 2024

@GeePawHill @RonJeffries 300 feels low. I'm pretty sure I've been in a room with that many, and they were all from the UK, and that was a pretty low key affair. (Yea, I went to a potato event, shut up.)

I'm guessing but there must be thousands of potato cultivars, still, even in this age of vast commercial monoculture

Show threadGeePawHillNov 8, 2024
@jezhiggins @RonJeffries Wikipedia backs Jez here. ~5,000 varieties.
Show threadJez HigginsNov 8, 2024
@GeePawHill @RonJeffries /me basks in starchy glory