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Despite Stage 4 Kidney #cancer I'm living my best life!

30+ year career in technology - now retired (see above).

Music of all sorts a lot of the time. Playing around with electronic music production, 3d printing, and Lego.
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Meanwhile, in New South Wales….
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Why Are You Singling Out Israel?

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has six panels. PANEL 1 An outdoor park environment. In the background, a bearded man with a blue shirt holds a "Save Gaza" sign. In the foreground, a man in a polo shirt and a woman in a red skirt and black vest are talking about the bearded man. POLO: Why does that guy single out Israel for criticism? Lots of countries do bad things! VEST: I'll ask him. PANEL 2 The woman in the vest has approached the bearded man. From this angle, we can see that under the vest, she's wearing a shirt with the Israeli flag on it. VEST: There are so many evil governments, and yet you've decided to protest the only Jewish state. Do you have something against Jews? PANEL 3 The bearded man earnestly replies. BEARD: Huh. I guess I was raised to care about Israel. We talked about Israel a lot in Hebrew school. When other kids fundraised for UNICEF we donated our allowances for growing trees in Israel. PANEL 4 The bearded man looks angrier. BEARD: Also, I'm American. We give tons of weapons to Israel. So when Israel commits genocide, my tax dollars enable it. PANEL 5 The bearded man smiles; the vest woman looks unconvinced. BEARD: Besides, no one can focus equally on everything. I bet you pay more attention to Israel. If it's okay for you to prioritize some issues, why isn't it okay for me? PANEL 6 The vest woman has returned to talking with the guy in the polo shirt. POLO: So what did he say? VEST: It's like we thought, he just hates Jews.
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content

None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.

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← Posts 15 October guidetolofoten Lofoten Islands, Norway Follow THIS IS HOW CHATGPT IS KILLING OUR SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS Drop an emoji... . WHEN AI TAKES OVER. GUIDE TO LOFOTEN 19.2K 950 ✓ 716 4,653 8 1/11 Liked by summerscarf and others guidetolofoten We feel a bit like the newspapers before the internet came. Like the CD sellers before streaming took over. Like the film cameras when DSLRs hit the market. 71 ← Posts 15 October guidetolofoten Lofoten Islands, Norway Follow THIS IS HOW CHATGPT IS KILLING OUR SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS Drop an emoji... . WHEN AI TAKES OVER. GUIDE TO LOFOTEN 19.2K 950 ✓ 716 4,653 8 1/11 Liked by summerscarf and others guidetolofoten We feel a bit like the newspapers before the internet came. Like the CD sellers before streaming took over. Like the film cameras when DSLRs hit the market. 71
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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butlerian jihad now
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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David Horsey, Seattle Times
October 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A major Australian retailer is defying rulings by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and is once again using facial recognition and covert surveillance cameras to identify thieves in its Victorian stores www.channelnews.com.au/exclusive-ma...
channelnews : EXCLUSIVE Major Retailer Defies Privacy Ruling, Reinstates Facial Recognition in Select Victorian Stores
UPDATED: A major Australian retailer is defying rulings by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and is once again using facial recognition and covert surveillance cameras to id...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jodami.bsky.social
Never gets old.
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
American business and media elites have the same relationship to American democracy as Yossarian had to the Pianosa officers club
September 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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10/10 resistance - No notes
September 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The #MarchForWhiteAustralia is the dog that caught the swasticar.

Boo-fucking-hoo.
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?” A.R. Moxon
September 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#auspol To be fair to Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, I'm beginning to understand why she may not want to Advance any critical public discourse about the March For White Australia or the neo-Nazis who formed its leadership.
A tweet by the right-wing corporate-sponsored lobby group Advance: "It's time to put Australians first. For too long, Australians have been forced to pay higher rents, higher house prices, or worse: go homeless. All so that Labor can bring in more voters. Enough is enough. It's time to END MASS MIGRATION." The text appears above a badged image of a woman strolling past a person sleeping on the street with additional text reading 'Housing UNAFFORDABLE thanks to immigration'.
September 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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if you have nazis openly marching in your country you're in a nazi country.
August 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Letty-Lou our very playful baby donkey, happy Wednesday
August 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Average Suburban Republican Dude's Perception of Risk, Illustrated

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
EF 24-105mm f/4L IS
A black and white photo of a man on a Harley Davidson motorcycle with open pipes. He is wearing shorts, a tee shirt, flip flops, and no helmet. He is openly carrying a stainless revolver in an outside-the-waistband holster.
August 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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"Americanism", the Smithsonian, and the Hostile Takeover of U.S. History
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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August 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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My thoughts on those recent alien headlines…🔭🧪
July 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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ICE: You're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
July 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Predictable that in this comment piece, The Australian doesn't actually say what Antoinette Lattouf posted. Also seems to confuse that the post in question wasn't actually on ABC platforms. 🙃
THE AUSTRALIAN The point is, the ABC is not the platform for political activism. Full stop. End of story. If you don't like it, don't work for the ABC.
June 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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In a June 23 instagram video, Liver King says “Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out, my name’s Liver King. Man to man, I’m picking a fight with you. I have no training in Jiu-jitsu, you’re a black belt, you should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you. Your rules, I’ll come to you.”
June 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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New: A senior official at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations told an anti-poverty campaigner her 'Free Palestine' sign "may cause someone distress"

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'Free Palestine' sign may 'cause distress', federal bureaucrat tells anti-poverty campaigner
A senior government official raised concerns over a campaigner's 'Free Palestine' sign that was visible on a video call
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June 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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brilliant
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Not one lie detected
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Jun 8
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM