Good at self-recriminations, bad person, regretful of the past, scared of the future, increasingly indifferent to the inconsequential, friend to animals, have been known to hug a treehttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3mc3yvj2aok2rTo the damned robots (a poem) Keep reading, please: Our oldest story begins “In those days, in those distant days.” We barely know the wolf, and have forgotten the bear In despairing apotropaic euphemism.10 Jan 2026 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3yvj2aok2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lz7viqmcf22cDismiss this as magical thinking all you want, humdrums, but I choose to believe that if Judges Steven Merryday and Sparkle Sooknanan find themselves a third we can turn this whole thing around. This dismissal is short and scathing. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.5.0.pdf19 Sep 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7viqmcf22chttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lk6yktr3nk2nHappy Birthday Larry Nickel! https://youtu.be/4h0pXY_WxR4?si=pvTq2u2WPJYvwbDY&t=1212 Mar 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6yktr3nk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lk5larcw3k2rHappy Birthday Leroy Jenkins! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F3mPalRjk&ab_channel=MedicineForNightmare12 Mar 2025 02:52 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk5larcw3k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lk2rt2vxns2bHappy Birthday Bix Beiderbecke! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJ5-1JGqPI&ab_channel=DonaldHerbertHolmes11 Mar 2025 00:12 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk2rt2vxns2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ljgylq4vc22aHappy Birthday Kurt Weill! https://youtu.be/5ygp9rK_p3E?si=aRDJyqcFUnLUeguh&t=153403 Mar 2025 03:20 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljgylq4vc22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ljb7fstgu22v28 Feb 2025 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljb7fstgu22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lismnpfgos2cHappy Birthday Buddy Tate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuED83VL9423 Feb 2025 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lismnpfgos2chttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lighhshdms2wHappy Birthday Sir Karl Jenkins! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLTngmUgWQ&t=2s18 Feb 2025 04:48 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lighhshdms2whttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ligheqyzik2wHappy Birthday Usko Meriläinen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ4B8gjrVvw18 Feb 2025 04:47 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ligheqyzik2whttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3li6lxnru622rHappy Birthday Jørgen Bentzon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvwrjylQPU15 Feb 2025 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3li6lxnru622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lhzqyr7yuc27Happy Birthday Albert Huybrechts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATGRr_a-M013 Feb 2025 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhzqyr7yuc27https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lhurn7tmwc2pHappy Birthday Vasily Kalafati! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFxivUKBCw411 Feb 2025 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhurn7tmwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lhpbx4vb4223Happy Birthday Grigor Yeghiazaryan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrTMuoMFY2I08 Feb 2025 23:38 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhpbx4vb4223https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lhirmn6d322rHappy Birthday Stephen Albert! https://youtu.be/JPnvOWBTKKc?si=QpXL3H9umRihOtPn06 Feb 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhirmn6d322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lhgbjdulws2vHappy Birthday Grażyna Bacewicz! https://youtu.be/XfqDx0x8kt4?si=nJyEMw7EYTtHyaBF&t=67605 Feb 2025 09:37 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhgbjdulws2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lfo6g7hiok2oHappy Birthday, Maxime Jacob! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lniziu7KfNQ14 Jan 2025 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfo6g7hiok2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lflnbzjj2s2vHappy Birthday, George Duke! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHFJ9qhR0VM13 Jan 2025 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lflnbzjj2s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lfjf7xirxk2hHappy Birthday, Christian Sinding! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Gaddlgqgo12 Jan 2025 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfjf7xirxk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3lej6tjghpk2tIs there a tool to follow back those following you?30 Dec 2024 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lej6tjghpk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3le6er5rf7c22Happy Birthday Jose Ximénez! https://youtu.be/m2rEqfiy3Gw?si=qT6si7rV9mOiPPs726 Dec 2024 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3le6er5rf7c22https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3le6epiy6jc22Happy Birthday, Jan Seidel! https://youtu.be/uAmUhfatIoM?si=YgCZOB-lBd7nyrh526 Dec 2024 01:57 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3le6epiy6jc22https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3le6efc5eus22Happy Birthday, Fran Lhotka! https://youtu.be/0t_W3igHrjY?si=tZYP-pvS_2SNTZ8w26 Dec 2024 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3le6efc5eus22https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3le6ecibcp222Happy Birthday, Kid Ory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxf4YOjgHUc26 Dec 2024 01:50 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3le6ecibcp222https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3le4w2xeixk2dToday I'll put up some tunes from musicians born on this day. Happy Birthday to Cab Calloway! https://youtu.be/apYTtNu1x_U?si=rcLYHggonxMitxJI25 Dec 2024 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3le4w2xeixk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ldzi7j64g22pThe word akimbo feels like it has a Japanese or African origin, rather than Old Norse via Middle English. I'm trying to find a fancy word for this sort of word. The wikipedia article for "List of common false etymologies of English words" sadly jumps immediately to curses and slurs.24 Dec 2024 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldzi7j64g22phttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ldssshznkc2wHappy Solstice! Make sure to tell off the sun today! (Too much solstice music is just barely adapted X-mas tunes with a vaguely Celtic veneer, so until pop culture gets with it a Tim Follin 1990 chiptune prog-rock NES theme song is what I'm going with.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZAnUDAj94Y21 Dec 2024 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldssshznkc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ldcqg3qcec23That Hochul convening a meeting of CEOs to assuage them with increased taxpayer funding for gifting intelligence against corporate "domestic terrorism", 1\215 Dec 2024 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldcqg3qcec23https://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ldccomnnok2zJolabokaflod? How quaint. Hit me when the eilíft bókaflóð leads to forced outdoor cooking and the fashioning of makeshift paperback pallets.14 Dec 2024 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldccomnnok2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/curbludgeon.bsky.social/post/3ldbeqt3y3c2yAlex Lawson, dramatic yet accurate "Andrew Witty is the high priest of the temple to Moloch and Mammon, murder and money... (a)nd there is no way for him to wash his hands of it, except perhaps to resign and then dedicate every dollar he has to dismantling the current system brick by brick"14 Dec 2024 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:u64oo2ipidtisl6eilak47d5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbeqt3y3c2y