Ndgree, the Grand Remonstrator
@ndgree.bsky.social
Travel tips, complaints, and observations from 6 years of full-time travel.
Mom of @Faineg but not responsible for Alf except tangentially.
Likes are free. Don’t be stingy.
Mom of @Faineg but not responsible for Alf except tangentially.
Likes are free. Don’t be stingy.
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When you believe that everything that matters is Online, you will inevitably miss crucial information from that pitiless old bitch that is tangible reality.
It's a lot like confidently walking into a forest full of hungry tigers at night, because you see, you don't believe in tigers.
It's a lot like confidently walking into a forest full of hungry tigers at night, because you see, you don't believe in tigers.
January 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
When you believe that everything that matters is Online, you will inevitably miss crucial information from that pitiless old bitch that is tangible reality.
It's a lot like confidently walking into a forest full of hungry tigers at night, because you see, you don't believe in tigers.
It's a lot like confidently walking into a forest full of hungry tigers at night, because you see, you don't believe in tigers.
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We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
January 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
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That's a falcon, not a bald eagle.
The windmill is in Israel.
The photo is from 2017. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2...
The windmill is in Israel.
The photo is from 2017. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
That's a falcon, not a bald eagle.
The windmill is in Israel.
The photo is from 2017. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2...
The windmill is in Israel.
The photo is from 2017. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2...
Moor door. Toledo, Spain, 2024
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Moor door. Toledo, Spain, 2024
Hugh Laurie twice at restaurants in NOLA and Hollywood and the second time he stared at my rack (not lamb). But age appropriate and I was wearing a fetching sweater so fair play.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hugh Laurie twice at restaurants in NOLA and Hollywood and the second time he stared at my rack (not lamb). But age appropriate and I was wearing a fetching sweater so fair play.
Huh. Grandma was right about “real” furniture, it’s way less flammable than modern furniture which is mostly made of petroleum products. youtu.be/CTqizMtS4zU
ATF Fire Research Laboratory Modern versus Legacy Furniture Compartment Burns w/ Tenability Data
YouTube video by Adam St. John
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Huh. Grandma was right about “real” furniture, it’s way less flammable than modern furniture which is mostly made of petroleum products. youtu.be/CTqizMtS4zU
Happy Boxing Day!
December 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happy Boxing Day!
Is the Santa letter courtroom reveal in “Miracle on 34th Street” the best courtroom reveal in movie history? If you say no, it’s because you can’t handle the truth.
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Is the Santa letter courtroom reveal in “Miracle on 34th Street” the best courtroom reveal in movie history? If you say no, it’s because you can’t handle the truth.
My suggestion of high fiber cereal for Christmas breakfast in the manner of Tiny Tim was met with disdain.
December 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My suggestion of high fiber cereal for Christmas breakfast in the manner of Tiny Tim was met with disdain.
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My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
The USA Bans Foreign-Made Drones, in Trump's Grand Idiot Tradition
It's December 23rd, and the USA has officially banned the import of all foreign made drones and "critical components."
Here's a very quick and dirty run-down of my thoughts.
Although if you'd like t...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
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I've written a quick newsletter about this drone ban - which will make us less safe.
bsky.app/profile/fain...
bsky.app/profile/fain...
My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
The USA Bans Foreign-Made Drones, in Trump's Grand Idiot Tradition
It's December 23rd, and the USA has officially banned the import of all foreign made drones and "critical components."
Here's a very quick and dirty run-down of my thoughts.
Although if you'd like t...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I've written a quick newsletter about this drone ban - which will make us less safe.
bsky.app/profile/fain...
bsky.app/profile/fain...
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow.
#HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters
I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow.
#HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters
California Don't Need RFK Jr.'s Damn CDC, California Gonna Have ITS OWN DAMN CDC
States, sir, are doin' it for themselves.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow.
#HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters
I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow.
#HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters
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God I love a mean restaurant review, especially of a place owned by rich guys from a football team that I hate.
Delighted to have @lizcookkc.bsky.social writing for us and she is in her damn wheelhouse defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
defector.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
God I love a mean restaurant review, especially of a place owned by rich guys from a football team that I hate.
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This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is extremely important
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A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
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wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
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I am so grateful for this man and his bravery.
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am so grateful for this man and his bravery.
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My brother, who is a HS English teacher and a softball coach, keeps aluminum bats in his classroom just in case.
Years ago, I would thank my lucky stars I didn’t live in Sarajevo, but, well, here we are.
We don’t have to live like this.
Years ago, I would thank my lucky stars I didn’t live in Sarajevo, but, well, here we are.
We don’t have to live like this.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
My brother, who is a HS English teacher and a softball coach, keeps aluminum bats in his classroom just in case.
Years ago, I would thank my lucky stars I didn’t live in Sarajevo, but, well, here we are.
We don’t have to live like this.
Years ago, I would thank my lucky stars I didn’t live in Sarajevo, but, well, here we are.
We don’t have to live like this.
Bless @faineg.bsky.social they do try. Did not occur to them to make this the bottom of the box. Zoom in on the tag too.
Watching them try to wrap a gift is a gift to me.
Watching them try to wrap a gift is a gift to me.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bless @faineg.bsky.social they do try. Did not occur to them to make this the bottom of the box. Zoom in on the tag too.
Watching them try to wrap a gift is a gift to me.
Watching them try to wrap a gift is a gift to me.
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Before we had drones, we had guys who jumped off buildings with wings attached to their arms, and medieval fan fiction about how Alexander the Great spent his free-time attaching hungry eagles to thrones to make inefficient flying machines.
My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-anc/
My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-anc/
The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Tower-Jumpers and Hungry Eagles
To get to drones, we needed to learn to fly first. And throughout the generations upon generations that were required to get humanity into the air, that process often involved a lot of very hands-on e...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Before we had drones, we had guys who jumped off buildings with wings attached to their arms, and medieval fan fiction about how Alexander the Great spent his free-time attaching hungry eagles to thrones to make inefficient flying machines.
My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-anc/
My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-anc/
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the wingnut industrial complex has turned on her- none of this trash ever sells, it's all bought in bulk by conservative groups to inflate #s and make their bullshit look popular, that they didn't bother in this case means she's on the outs
Yikes!
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the wingnut industrial complex has turned on her- none of this trash ever sells, it's all bought in bulk by conservative groups to inflate #s and make their bullshit look popular, that they didn't bother in this case means she's on the outs
It is important to be very careful when using the words "adult" and "toy" to search for something. Really quite exceedingly careful. In fact, you might just want to rethink the whole thing.
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It is important to be very careful when using the words "adult" and "toy" to search for something. Really quite exceedingly careful. In fact, you might just want to rethink the whole thing.