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H. Doug Matsuoka
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H. Doug Matsuoka @hdoug.bsky.social · Apr 22
I just changed my profile pic from one smoothed out with AI (Lensa, I think) to just a raw photo of old-guy me. Hoping to convey that I’m a real old-guy and not AI-dependent or a bot. I also make posts with errors, misspellings, and awkwardness just as further evidence.
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That’s the sun setting today a few hours after the Winter Solstice beyond the reef runway. At 245 degrees. In summer, the sun sets behind the Waianae range from where I am. Huge difference. I’ll post similar pics at Summer Solstice, God willing…
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December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Browsing on your iPhone? This super short video shows you how to turn a web page into a Kindle ebook accessible from the app and any and all devices you have. The app and account are free in case you are an Amazon abstainer:

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Easy "send to Kindle" from iPhone while browsing web
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Last night and tonight lots of Army helicopters heading off to Maui (and back). They usually follow H1 though. Anyone know what’s up?
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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@ohitsthatone.bsky.social I think some don’t know/remember. Anyway, just saw yours…
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Hawaii offers to pay TSA, FAA workers

(article is paywalled)
The state Department of Transportation has offered to advance the full salaries and benefits of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration airport screeners assigned to Hawaii during the federal funding lapse in a bid to avoid a 10% cut to air traffic that could severely impact the state’s economy and public safety.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it but...

#pedophileformerlyknownasPrince
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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SNAP-Ed works in Hawaii! Can State Legislature restore funding?
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EBT for Hawaii Seniors: SNAP-Ed & Food to Grow cancelled by Big B Bill!
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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October 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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No Kings drive-by in Honolulu, Hawaii. #NoKings #NoDictators

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Honolulu, Hawaii: On the way to No Dictators demo
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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October 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I wake up, look at my phone, and have nightmares
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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For Hawaii seniors, a short instructional video about how to apply for EBT:

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Hawaii Seniors: How to apply for EBT
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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September 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Ball of Thread: How a Batshit Letter May Help Trump Bankrupt America

Episode webpage: sites.libsyn.com/528757/how-a...

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So in a couple of cases. One is called Wilcox. They basically said you can go ahead and fire everyone, even if Congress says you can't fire these people. And you know, in three years, after we do the legal review, maybe you'll be wrong. So in other words, the most important holding from Wilcox, which is now being applied elsewhere, is not that Trump can fire everyone, although that's a problem, it's that Trump can fire everyone and avoid a stay. So in other words, even if there's a good argument that he can't fire people, Supreme Court gave him the green light to just fire everyone, and if he's breaking the law, we'll come back in three years and clean everything up. And that precedent Wilcox now is being applied to other instances. There's a case called DVD where a judge said, you can't deport these guys to South Sudan. They have no tie to it. There's a civil war going on, and Trump serially got the Supreme Court to say, not only does it matter if they're in contempt of that judge's order, but same thing has happened with Wilcox. We don't have to wait to find out whether this is legal or not. We can deport them to South deport them to South Sudan, and by the time they get their day in court, they'lI be dead. But fuck it. ... scOTUS is saying Trump can go ahead and break the law, and then if we later find out that he was breaking the law, then we're going to have to unwind the decisions of the law breaking. And of course, given that he's trying to be a fascist, you see the problem.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The doc I sent to Kindle in the last post was a book review>

Dan Moller decided as an adult he wanted to play Bach fugues on the piano. He had to learn to read music. Then he had to learn how to play the piano. What a lunatic.

He wrote a book about it. I read it:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
H. Matsuoka's review of The Way of Bach
5/5: Lunatic Obsessions Dan Moller’s The Way of Bach reminds me of the opening essay in neurologist Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, where a regular guy literally gets struck by lightning, develops an obs...
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June 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Short video about how to send your Word doc to your Kindle library. In this case, a draft of a book review I wanted to review later for any edits...

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Short video: Send to Kindle from Microsoft Word
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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June 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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How did a neomaniac like me end up giving Nassim Nicholas Taleb's #Antifragile five stars on GoodReads? Read all about it:


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H. Matsuoka's review of Antifragile (Incerto, #4)
5/5: As a newly retired “neomaniac” as Nassim Nicholas Taleb might describe an IT guy, and self-proclaimed (amateur) scholar of the stunning curves, modulations, and structural forms of “ancient music...
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May 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
hdoug.bsky.social
I just changed my profile pic from one smoothed out with AI (Lensa, I think) to just a raw photo of old-guy me. Hoping to convey that I’m a real old-guy and not AI-dependent or a bot. I also make posts with errors, misspellings, and awkwardness just as further evidence.
April 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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For documentation purposes, two low res (Facebook download) videos for the #Handsoff rallies on April 5, and April 19, at the Honolulu Capitol.

4/5: youtu.be/DkDMCynEr4M?...
4/19: youtu.be/KalJq3_W4aA?...

And a Flickr of screen grabs for the 4/5: www.flickr.com/photos/hdoug...
Hands Off April 5 Honolulu Capitol walk around (bumpy low res)
YouTube video by H. Doug Matsuoka
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April 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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When is a novel a ricercare? Like, I gotta 'splain everything? Pics and video as excuses for your attention to this important matter>

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#booksky #books #literaryfiction
When is a novel a ricercare? - H Doug Matsuoka
I call my novel, The Seventh Partita, a novel in the form of a ricercare. But what is a ricercare and how can this be? Ricercare is a contrapuntal Western musical form, a predecessor to the fugue perh...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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During the Hawaii Legislature's 2023 midterm update, I asked Rep Gene Ward (and Sen Joy San Buenaventura) on their position on LGBTQ students. It seems now that 2023 was a long time ago. RIP Gene Ward.

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Doug's question to Rep Ward and Sen San Buenaventura regarding assurances to LGBTQ kids.
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April 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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My Goodreads review of Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Nearer."

www.goodreads.com/review/show/7300626372?
H. Matsuoka's review of The Singularity Is Nearer
4/5: First off, I have tremendous respect for Ray Kurzweil. I’m an old guy (although I’ve got longer to reach “Longevity Escape Velocity” by a few years), and I remember the Kurzweil Synthesizer from ...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Are my readers at Leipzig Book Fair? Particularly for this novel about an obsession with Bach's music. Link is to Instagram post with quotes, link in bio, and pic of me at Leipzig's Bach statue.

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#leipzigerbuchmesse2025 #booksky
March 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Was trying to get Instagram to boost this to the Leipzig Book Fair (#leipzigerbuchmesse2025) because of high proportion of English language fiction interest...

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March 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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As a long-time IT guy I have to say that getting staff to not use their dedicated company smartphones for personal purposes or to not use their personal smartphones for company purposes is pretty much impossible. And I’m glad to see it’s not just me.
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM