James Scripko

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James Scripko

James Scripko

@JScripko

Chemistry teacher, (not really fast) runner, hiker

Katılım Mayıs 2013
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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@kolbeprolife If you're (the generic "you", not the OP in particular) trying to avoid the "stigma" of reading aloud to high school students, pick a play - those are MEANT to be heard. Shakespeare is way better when heard than when read, just to pick one example.
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KolbeProlifeMama 🇻🇦
KolbeProlifeMama 🇻🇦@kolbeprolife·
I still read aloud to my teens. I just finished reading CS Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters aloud to them. We had great discussions. When I was a high school teacher, I read aloud to my students. They looked forward to Read-Aloud Fridays.
MartinCothran@MartinCothran

We should read aloud in class at least until the 4th or 5th grade. I also read to my kids at home every night until they left home. It is one of my kids most cherished memories. Now they read to their kids too.

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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@papistlurker My daughter and SIL named their two sons after family mambers. It turns out, through pure circumstance, both the first names and middle names are famous English kings' names. VERY famous English kings. Rather the opposite of that trend, and both families are happy about it.
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Viper 🇻🇦
Viper 🇻🇦@papistlurker·
My wife is flabbergasted by these kid names at this 1st grade recital she's accompanying. Winter, Envy, Solo Do parents forget their kids will be adults someday?!
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Steve Demarest
Steve Demarest@go_demarest·
@MikeyDiMercurio Sound is weird. Is it possible the source is outside the house? It might sound different outside, but frequencies get damped or filtered so you are hearing part of an oscillation noise inside. Try opening a window or door.
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Michael DiMercurio
Michael DiMercurio@MikeyDiMercurio·
Serious problem at Ice Station Mercury. Crowd-sourcing this. For the last 6 days there has been a high-pitched repeated beeping noise (a "queep") but not like a smoke detector. Pulse repetition rate is 4x/second or 240x/min. Very faint but very distinct. Almost like a cheap alarm clock sound. Actions taken: 1. De-energized ceiling fan in cathedral ceiling. Fail. 2. Unplugged water reverse osmo unit. Fail. 3. De-energized surge strip to wifi router and UPS. Put my earballs right up to the equipment. Fail. 4. Smacked around the refrigerator like cornfed Fred teaching Zelda a lesson. Fail. 5. Visited all 3 bedrooms and put earballs to the alarm clocks. Fail. 6. Visited the basement. Pin-drop silence down there. 7. Visited the Mancave of Cold War Victory. Checked printer. Unplugged a vintage alarm clock. Fail. 8. Visited laundry room. Both machines quiet. Fail. 9. Pulled the new 10-year battery smoke detectors out of their mounts and put them right at my laptop. They are quiet as mouseys. Fail. 10. Visited all smoke detectors. All quiet. Fail. 11. De-energized the surge strip powering * TV * apple TV box * VCR * bigass stereo. (Results pending due to washing machine noise pollution at the moment.) Now, after all this, I'll be opening the Station's master breaker to see if this noise is AC-powered. If the noise stops, it is AC-powered. If not, it's running on a battery that has to die at some point. If the master breaker opening stops the noise, then I will re-shut the master breaker and I'm going to open one breaker at a time to isolate the source. It makes me wonder if I somehow got hacked, because this noise is making me fookin crazy. Any ideas?
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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@DavidJohnButler @gruevy Just pull the cover blurlbs from your books - there's enough "humans are dangerous" in those to satisfy any requirement.
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Ryan English
Ryan English@gruevy·
Tonight I have seen two separate AI-written short article tweets on the dangers of AI
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James Scripko@JScripko·
@benlandautaylor Go forward a few centuries, and look at electronics. The first transistor used essentially the same physics as a modern integrated circuit, except the technology to make the IC wasn't even a dream in Bell Lab's wildest imaginings.It takes advances to make more advances.
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Ben Landau-Taylor
Ben Landau-Taylor@benlandautaylor·
People say this a lot but it's very misleading. Left: Hero's "steam engine". It's a cool scientific demonstration but you can't do anything with it. Right: Newcomen's steam engine, one of the the earliest primitive steam engines to be commercially useful. The principle of motion from steam pressure is neat, but the hard part of building a steam engine is turning that into power you can use. If you went back in time and gave Hero the plans for a Newcomen engine he couldn't build it. The tools to make all those precise machine parts didn't exist. When James Watt invented his improved engine half a century after Newcomen and kicked off the Industrial Revolution, some of the critical tools (like Wilkinson' boring machine) were only invented after Watt had been trying and failing to build his prototype for decades.
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Aleph@woke8yearold

In the first century AD Hero of Alexandria created both a working steam engine and automatic doors

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M.J. Piazza
M.J. Piazza@MJPiazza2·
So turns out the real reason that Oklahomans drink soda all the time is because they never know when a city water main will break and leave them without running water for a day or so
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James Scripko@JScripko·
@DavidPaternostr Totlally tangential to this post, for some reason I had it in my head that Ascension Thursday was next week! Thank you for reminding me it's today, and I can make the 7 PM Mass at my parish in the Philadelphia suburbs. Whew.
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Fr. David Paternostro, SJ
Fr. David Paternostro, SJ@DavidPaternostr·
For a hot second, I thought I was going to celebrate Ascension a second time when I got back to the States, until I remembered that I live in the only ecclesiastical province in the US outside the northeast to observe Ascension Thursday
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Jason Córdova 📚
Jason Córdova 📚@WarpCordova·
I have a weird ADHD function where my brain sees numbers and instantly starts identifying trends, patterns, and repeating instances. Probably should have been an accountant.
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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@Gormogons We don't have to "imagine" what that can do to a human body. There are plenty of reports from the era of what it does to a human body, and where it hits the body.
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The Gormogons
The Gormogons@Gormogons·
GP I challenge the AP reporter responsible for this crapfest of a blurb to reload a musket and reprime it in under a minute. Also, you can get standard slug loads for 12 gauge shotguns (.73 caliber, if shotgun loads were so denominated) that average around 1,500 fps.
The Associated Press@AP

A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.

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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
Hmmm, does the algorithm have a sense of humor? This was in my "For You" timeline today.
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The Gormogons
The Gormogons@Gormogons·
GP New Jersey shouldn't even really be a state. The northern parts should be NY because they're functionally NYC and the southern parts Pennsyltucky because they're functionally Philly.
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James Scripko@JScripko·
@SarahAHoyt This is a great example of people sharing knowledge that otherwise might be lost to posterity, fitting nicely into your "Knowledge of the Ancients" blog post. x.com/SandyofCthulhu…
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu

Public Service Warning. Years ago I decided to eat a pill bug. Also known as sow bug, woodlouse, roly poly, だんごむし. On my first I chewed it up. Thus I learned pill bugs store ammonia and taste like stale pee. Ick. Determined to succeed, I tried again. It rolled into a convenient ball so I swallowed it whole. All went well till halfway down my esophagus. Then the bug unrolled and began to creep back up. Pill bugs are streamlined, with lots of legs to push their way through detritus so my puny attempts to swallow were easily overcome. It crawled all the way. Up to my mouth. Every inch. When I spat it out, it walked off, serene in victory. Do not eat pill bugs. Let my sad case be an example.

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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@Strangeland_Elf How about Bye-kus? Those are an art form in and of themselves. In the 2016 R primaries, James Taranto wrote one for every candidate that got Trumped. For example, a Bye-ku for Ben Carson: Politics is hard It’s even more difficult Than brain surgery
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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@abegreenleaf @Strangeland_Elf Even better: add a 3rd person reference to yourself as the cake baker! "A cake was baked for my husband by his caring wife." It'll confuse the daylights out of trolls.
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AbeGreenleaf
AbeGreenleaf@abegreenleaf·
@Strangeland_Elf You should have said "a cake was baked for my husband." Non personal passive voice is known to be superior by everyone.
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James Scripko
James Scripko@JScripko·
@BradRTorgersen Notice the additional psyops going on here, in the photo they used of the spy. It shows an attractive young adult woman, totally to get your sypathy of her as naif. SHE'S 58 YEARS OLD, and hasn't looked like that photo in decades.
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