Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.

We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

They may own the rights to the articles but not to the writers’ NAMES. Not being able to remove your name from a byline if there’s been an editorial issue or whatever is fundamentally different than your employer attributing things to you that you didn’t do.

"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?"

Unfavorable: 15%
Favorable: 7%

Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79%

Echelon / April 2026

A mensch among men.

Don’t kink shame.

“I dared to speak my mind and support free speech, unlike that person who used their speech to criticize me.”

Smallpox killed more US soldiers than the fighting did in Revolutionary war.

A green and yellow mistake for breakfast. In a cup.

So I’m not a breakfast person, but I saw something that looked…fun and healthy. So I made it: matcha-mango chia pudding.

Folks I feel lied to. This is gritty and slimy tropical fruit tinged grass clippings. Its so bad it makes carob instead of chocolate look ok

Back to not eating breakfast we go.

Omg I didn’t notice the painting in the background. Amazing.

More on the nose, during WWII 35% of our army was incapacitated by the 1918 influenza! It trapped the Royal Navy in port for 3 entire weeks!

Vaccines work and this materially harms the preparedness of the army and the safety of the United States.

President Washington hesitated and it cost us the Quebec Campaign. But by 1777 he ordered the entire army inoculated. Multiple governors said they couldn’t recruit enough men bc everybody knew joining the army meant you’d get smallpox and likely die.

Tweet picture: Secretary Hegseth The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

There were a few different drafts of this but here goes.

Pete you stupid motherfucker, disease killed more soldiers in virtually every single pre-germ theory war than the fighting. George Washington ordered the troops inoculated against smallpox pox because it was killing so many American troops.

Think you read that wrong. It’s showing that in sub zero temps it still charges in 9 minutes! 33% increase but at those speeds that’s still remarkable.

Ours or theirs?

He knows what he did.

That episode was released closer to 1973 than to today!

Plim what’s?

I had to look that one up. Never heard that term before!

Feeding an NFL team for a week? Start with 700 pounds of chicken It's no surprise that an NFL cafeteria serves a staggering amount of food, but in this health-conscious era don't expect burgers and fries.

People don't realize what 3,500 + calories looks like let alone when it's not burgers and fries. Just an inconceivable amount of food.

www.espn.com/blog/buffalo...

The ESPN article a decade ago on how much food the Bills cafeteria goes through a week is permanently ingrained in my mind. It is absolutely insane how much food it takes to stay that big and muscular.

Cowards

Hey, at least you're not a Mets fan. Hope that helps.

and here's what I have from Claude. I need to make tool more readable. The text colors are impossibly bad. But with so few message on free version before it locks me out, I keep pushing off making a not working tool readable.

It’s evil incarnate. They are floating BETWEEN the columns. And most OCR biffs it so even trying to copy and paste a quote from extracted text using e.g. adobe is impossible.

So a tool that can take my quotes as I write and add in citations for me later from the pdf version would be amazing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a small umbrella ("Beerbrella") which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun. The apparatus of the present invention has particular application for use in sunny locations (e.g., poolside, at the bear, outdoor bars, and the like). However, the apparatus of the present invention may also be used to prevent rain or other precipitation from contaminating a beverage. In addition, the apparatus of the present invention may be used in other locations (e.g., indoors) purely as a decorative novelty item or the like. The apparatus comprises a small umbrella approximately five to seven inches in diameter, although other appropriate sizes may be used within the spirit and scope of the present invention. The umbrella may be made from any one of a number of materials. A small paper-like umbrella may be used, with balsa framing (e.g., in a similar manner to a cocktail umbrella) if low cost and disposability is an objective. A solid plastic umbrella may also be inexpensively made and may be reusable and waterproof. More elaborate umbrella types such as cloth or the like may also be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Suitable advertising and/or logos may be applied to the umbrella surface for promotional purposes. The umbrella may be attached to the beverage container by any one of a number of

Same text as first one (mostly) but formatted with two columns

Okay yeah. Let’s use the beerbrella. An umbrella for your beer obviously.

Here’s the pdf showing columns. Versus the web readable version sane humans prefer.

patents.google.com/patent/US663...

patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/34/45/4c/a84...

But yeah I had Claude taking the PDFs from Google Patent. And had it recognizing you have cover page, drawings, and two columns on each page, exact word start and end. Manually count lines if w/in top or bottom 10 lines bc of previous errors occurring there.

Column and Page boundary crossings 💀

he double column with floating line numbers is exactly the problem!

And the inverse. Take a quote, give the patent no. and have it generate the cite in format eg ’123 at 1:23-34

When I’m writing a legal memo or brief, it’s clunky to read and extract text from the actual doc. Or to stop and cite.

Hey, @atticusgf.bsky.social sent me your way!

what about a patent quote citation generator?

E.g. the ’123 patent col 4 lines 30-37.

I’m an idiot hammering away at Claude and I got one to mostly work with the caveat that it wouldn’t work on quotes that crossed page boundaries.

How toxic was your relationship with your father figure(s) that your idea of strength and what people should be is being one of those mountain men from Jeremiah Johnson?

I thought it was having enough small arms to start your own military dictatorship Fallout/Last of Us town and telling everybody about how well stocked your bunker is with old dried beans you’ve never cooked.