@PAHoyeck I see he had remarkably neat and legible handwriting.
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Tim Hamilton
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Tim Hamilton
@TSHamiltonAstro
🇺🇸 Mild-mannered professor by day. Astrophysicist by night. Methodist, Smoky Mountain hillbilly. Observational research on active galaxies & galaxy evolution.
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The single coolest moment of my PhD was when a professor took us to visit the McGill University David Hume Collection. I got to see and hold documents written by Hume’s own hand, like this letter, as well as books from his library and correspondence he’d received from others.
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I got a letter from a cremation organization, and it used the phrase “existing customer“ which is the best industry euphemism ever
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@GregTrayling @PhillipHelbig I remember the ballista from reading books on historical warfare as a kid.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @PhillipHelbig A related interesting one is ballistics, which comes from the art of firing the ballista, the ancient Roman terror weapon.
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etymonline.com/word/gun Interestingly, the word “gun” might stem from that name.
Wylfċen@wylfcen
Gunhild Larking at the 1956 Summer Olympics↓ I like the name Gunhild because it means ‘battle-battle’. The Anglo-Saxon equivalent would be Guþhild.
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@EnterpriseCPU Don’t mind him. He took too much LDS at Berkeley.
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Tim Dillon is insane. He rejects reality because he doesn’t like the implications.
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra
Tim Dillon says he wants President Trump to come clean and admit to the world that he staged his assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. He wants President Trump to do a one-hour special on CBS with Bari Weiss and explain how he “staged” his assassination attempt. “I don’t care if he staged the assassination attempt.” “Explain to us how you did it.”
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Came across the backing paper from a Polaroid I took with an oscilloscope camera around 1995. Has a neat Daguerrotype sort of look to it.
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The WW1 execution ground at Ghent where heroic Belgian men and women were shot for helping in secret operations for the Allies.
The posts mark the spot where they were shot.
Their sacrifice deserves to be better known.
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@jacobin Lowering it to newborns would make even more democratic. Neither of those are good ideas.
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Changing the voting age in the US from 18 to 16 would make the country more democratic.
It could also boost support for ambitious socialist politicians like Zohran Mamdani. jacobin.com/2026/07/democr…
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@JennMGreenberg I remember how stupidly ridiculous the premise was at the time, and it was only possible to make it as a silly comedy.
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Come to think of it, a lot of people seem to have been confused by this.
Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️@JennMGreenberg
@JennPellegrino @Just_A_Bill_ They watched Junior and thought it was a documentary.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @bernardtjoy The question exposes the hidden lie: the movie was based on time travel - not biology.
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Why has no one asked this Jurassic Park question in 33 years!?
The Devine Comedy@darylthedevine
@bernardtjoy Actually how did they bring the plant back?
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@TPNdustries @GoonBoolder Yep. They had a limited edition run of these when they first moved to Maryville.
I keep suggesting that they should give out free samples on factory tours, but so far they’ve ignored me.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @GoonBoolder Did the tri-star come on it from the factory? Nice.
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@TSHamiltonAstro @Lunar_Luster All those posts on textual spacing, and you get hooked by "some day"?
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What does "Some day smoker" mean? Like, if I plan on starting one day? 😂
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@GoonBoolder First roll mark I've seen on one that says "Maryville, Tennessee"! When they start showing up on rifles, I will get a Volunteer Series AR. Like I need it...
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@LadyDemosthenes I read all of these to our youngest daughter. These were especially popular with Dad ‘s side of the family. Grandmother had written to Laura Ingalls Wilder and had gotten a litter back from her, which we have. My sister and a cousin were both named for her.
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Why not just stick to the books?
The books DIDN’T highlight men with guns.
The books highlighted real life on the frontier. There was SO much in the books about the daily life of WOMEN on the frontier.
The source material is perfect… why change it to make a point that doesn’t need to be made?
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens: "I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity." Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?
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@WKCosmo There is, in fact, an amateur radio astronomy group who also meets there. But our observing noghts are going to be with optical telescopes.
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