John Dumas @johndumas.bsky.social

Gay man. Likes art, photography, cooking. Esperanto. Science adjacent. Probably should write a better bio.

Crap. Now I think I have bixonimania. Is there a treatment?

The article notes "Google has long battled attempts to game its search rankings with fake or misleading content." Yes, but now they've gone enthusiastically in the other direction.
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madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Bought a packet stamps for 8€. I was delighted once I opened it (should have bought more). 535 stamps from a 113 countries! #StampCollecting #Philately
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Also on the beach were some long-billed curlews. #birdsday
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It's #birdsday (I just made that up, but maybe it's a tag).

I haven't been posting enough of my bird pics.

I was at the beach a few days ago and so were the pelicans.
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Health care providers: If you're 15 minutes late, we consider that you've missed the appointment.

Also health care providers: We're going to put you in a room and ignore you for a half hour.

Looking at you @ucihealth.bsky.social
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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social
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In principle, I know that the path to being good at something necessarily goes through being bad at it. I have lots of patience for teaching people new things and having them learn by making mistakes. Not me, though.
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social
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If you’re at #ACSSpring2026 and you see @jenheemstra.bsky.social you are obliged to say “Network better” before she can knock the food out of your hand

(Read the post - one of the funniest #ChemSky ever)
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I know everyone's excited about the Ides of March, but…

Under the Roman calendar, months start the day after a new moon. The Ides of March fall on the full moon after the March equinox. That's April 1 this year, which on the Roman calendar is 15 martius 2779 AUC.

Put the daggers down.
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This reminds me of a joke:

In the days of the Cold War, an American diplomat was talking with his USSR counterpart.

"I have to hand it to the USSR for your excellent propaganda."

The Soviet smiled. "It's not nearly as good as American propaganda."

"We don't have propaganda."

"Exactly."
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Really? Street cleaning at 6:30 AM? Assholes.
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Every day my journal streak gets longer (by one day) in Day One. Today's entry puts me at 2,500 days. That's a lot of journal writing. Six years, 10 months, 2 days without missing a day. @dayoneapp.com
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I think I've figured out the "looksmaxing" thing.

Let's say they're at a 7. Then they engage in bonesmashing.

The resultant swelling and discoloration brings them down to a 3.

The swelling goes down and the discoloration fades. Now they're a 6. Wow! Such rapid improvement!
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There are major changes between the study and final version of "Saint Jerome in the Desert Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment" (1777), François-André Vincent.
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You can see how Charles-François Jalabert (1819–1901) made some changes between the study and final version of "The Plague of Thebes."
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I always love it when a museum has some large artwork but also the small study the artist prepared to plan that larger artwork out (and sometimes to get approval from a patron).

Since it's #MuseumMonday, I decided to share some studies and the final artworks.
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Five authors I've read at least five books by:

Samuel R. Delany
Terry Pratchett
Roger Zelazny
Anthony Trollope
Jane Austen (I heard of an Austen scholar who responded to a question of what novels he read with "all six of them, every year.")

(I'm sure I could do five of these lists.)
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Dude!
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It's #MuseumMonday and natural history museums count. These are all from the small natural history museum in Perpignan, France.
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I am against gerrymandering. I enthusiastically voted for California’s Prop 50.
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1. What I'm about to post is going to sound egotistical - because it is - but it has a point, so please go with it for moment:

I've learned over time that, at least in my own communities, I can no longer rely on how people approach and treat me as an indicator of their own personality.
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Ugh. I was hoping that the people who corresponded with Epstein were only going to be people I had heard of, and no one I've actually met. Mind you, already didn't like this person. (Yeah, keeping it vague.) #OneYuckyHandshakeAway
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For #MuseumMonday, we're taking a trip to the Musée d'Art Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan, France. It's a charming museum.
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Is a future without smart glasses really that hard to imagine? Haven't most of us lived in a past without smart glasses? (I have.) Isn't this like imagining a future without attacks from alien cyborgs? (So, much like last year with its lack of attacks from alien cyborgs.)
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A few years ago at a gathering a friend said that he could never remember the meaning of "gaslighting." I gave a definition, then I sighed and said, "I explained this to you yesterday."
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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com
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I sympathize with this, because I, too, have been snubbed by the Nobel Foundation, as they have failed to award me Nobel Prizes in Peace, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine despite that I am supremely unqualified for any of these. (Literature is on me though.)
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Rest in power. May we someday see the world you dreamed of.
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It's #MuseumMonday (it was a thing on the old site, here there aren't of lot of museums, so I guess I'll pick up the slack). I went recently to Montpellier's Musée d'Arts Brut, which celebrates outsider art. www.musee-artbrut-montpellier.com
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This is a fascinating reminder of the importance of science in medieval studies.
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