Bill Dunlap
@sparrow432000.bsky.social
Retired salesman, blogger, and novelist working to publish my first. I have been with my partner for 41 years, and now I am their caregiver. If my rotten kid didn't live with us, I don't know what I'd do.
I see no difference between Bluesky and Twitter. The same serotonin junkies that made X a neoconservative hellscape is already turning this site a neoliberal hellscape. Peace out. The Dude is abiding elsewhere.
November 30, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I see no difference between Bluesky and Twitter. The same serotonin junkies that made X a neoconservative hellscape is already turning this site a neoliberal hellscape. Peace out. The Dude is abiding elsewhere.
Damn. Windows Defender stopped a nasty virus from taking over my computer. James at Microsoft took it off for me. All this within half an hour.
November 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Damn. Windows Defender stopped a nasty virus from taking over my computer. James at Microsoft took it off for me. All this within half an hour.
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Earnestly very tired of computer scientists and tech-brains making broad declarations about the nature of human creativity.
November 25, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Earnestly very tired of computer scientists and tech-brains making broad declarations about the nature of human creativity.
I just reported my first bot. I've only been here two or three days, and so far, I've only dealt with two unpleasant people. One of whom I'm sure works in a troll farm. The other blocked me because I wouldn't argue with him. Not bad, Bluesky; not bad at all.
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 AM
I just reported my first bot. I've only been here two or three days, and so far, I've only dealt with two unpleasant people. One of whom I'm sure works in a troll farm. The other blocked me because I wouldn't argue with him. Not bad, Bluesky; not bad at all.
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What about this for an idea, instead of grifting strangers and demonizing marginalized groups, we promoted stuff we like without making anyone pay for it and tried to treat people with some decency?
Too wild?
Too wild?
November 24, 2024 at 12:55 PM
What about this for an idea, instead of grifting strangers and demonizing marginalized groups, we promoted stuff we like without making anyone pay for it and tried to treat people with some decency?
Too wild?
Too wild?
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My rotten kid just bought six entire pounds of pearl barley. Who the hell is going to eat that much barley in his lifetime?
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 AM
My rotten kid just bought six entire pounds of pearl barley. Who the hell is going to eat that much barley in his lifetime?
Damn, we had nearly ten full minutes of fireworks, industrial explosives, and weapon fire. I'm still shaking, the rotten kid has a migraine, my partner is still trying to contact the police, and the doggies are traumatized. A half-hour later, we hear sirens.
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Damn, we had nearly ten full minutes of fireworks, industrial explosives, and weapon fire. I'm still shaking, the rotten kid has a migraine, my partner is still trying to contact the police, and the doggies are traumatized. A half-hour later, we hear sirens.
Are any of you kids old enough to remember when Donald Trump was a regular at Studio 54? You remember? The place that dropped cocaine from the ceiling?
November 24, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Are any of you kids old enough to remember when Donald Trump was a regular at Studio 54? You remember? The place that dropped cocaine from the ceiling?
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Hallmark needs to start making Hallowe’en romances. She’s a gal from the big city seeking a new life in a small town. He’s a mysterious horseman cursed to throw his flaming head at passersby for eternity. And when these two meet one night, sparks, and heads, will fly.
November 23, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Hallmark needs to start making Hallowe’en romances. She’s a gal from the big city seeking a new life in a small town. He’s a mysterious horseman cursed to throw his flaming head at passersby for eternity. And when these two meet one night, sparks, and heads, will fly.
Flooding in San Francisco.
November 23, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Flooding in San Francisco.
Oily voice over the phone: "Now, I know you don't have the education to understand our HYPAA regulations."
Me: "I have an MA in American History concentrating on the colonial economy, and my brother is a medical librarian at Standford. When is my hearing scheduled?"
O.V. Dead silence.
Me: "I have an MA in American History concentrating on the colonial economy, and my brother is a medical librarian at Standford. When is my hearing scheduled?"
O.V. Dead silence.
November 23, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Oily voice over the phone: "Now, I know you don't have the education to understand our HYPAA regulations."
Me: "I have an MA in American History concentrating on the colonial economy, and my brother is a medical librarian at Standford. When is my hearing scheduled?"
O.V. Dead silence.
Me: "I have an MA in American History concentrating on the colonial economy, and my brother is a medical librarian at Standford. When is my hearing scheduled?"
O.V. Dead silence.
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Kendrick said don't let no white comedian talk about Black women and that's LAW, y'all need to take heeeeeeeed
November 22, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Kendrick said don't let no white comedian talk about Black women and that's LAW, y'all need to take heeeeeeeed
According to Linked-In, a "White Collar Recession" had finally hit the tech industry. This is what happens when people don't listen.
November 23, 2024 at 12:39 AM
According to Linked-In, a "White Collar Recession" had finally hit the tech industry. This is what happens when people don't listen.
I am hoping somebody will be able to answer a question. Why do doctors and nurses in poor people's clinics assume poor people are stupid? Why do they think poor people won't fact-check? I'm not asking for a friend. I'm asking because I'm on my last nerve and need to be talked down.
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I am hoping somebody will be able to answer a question. Why do doctors and nurses in poor people's clinics assume poor people are stupid? Why do they think poor people won't fact-check? I'm not asking for a friend. I'm asking because I'm on my last nerve and need to be talked down.
Not my circus and not my monkeys. But I'm intrigued nonetheless. I've decided to stick around because I only had to deal with two trolls and only had to report one. That's pretty good for me, as unsocial media goes.
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Not my circus and not my monkeys. But I'm intrigued nonetheless. I've decided to stick around because I only had to deal with two trolls and only had to report one. That's pretty good for me, as unsocial media goes.
Help a guy out! Does anybody know who said, "Should Satan win the throne of heaven, he will be forced to take on the trappings of divinity?" Or words to that effect?
November 22, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Help a guy out! Does anybody know who said, "Should Satan win the throne of heaven, he will be forced to take on the trappings of divinity?" Or words to that effect?
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But understand this is only to be used in the correct situations.
Never stop giving a fuck about what actually matters
Never stop giving a fuck about what actually matters
November 21, 2024 at 10:01 PM
But understand this is only to be used in the correct situations.
Never stop giving a fuck about what actually matters
Never stop giving a fuck about what actually matters
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Crescent Earth seen from the moon. Captured by Orion
November 20, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Crescent Earth seen from the moon. Captured by Orion
There's only one thing that scares me more than Californians driving on wet roads, and that's Floridians driving in sleet.
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
There's only one thing that scares me more than Californians driving on wet roads, and that's Floridians driving in sleet.
There's only one thing that scares me more than Californians driving in the rain, and that's Floridians driving in sleet.
November 20, 2024 at 9:49 PM
There's only one thing that scares me more than Californians driving in the rain, and that's Floridians driving in sleet.