“Did you know Draziri taste like chicken?” I asked. Sean glanced at me, as if not sure if I was okay. “I had no idea.” “Orro told me,” I told him. “We’re besieged by murderous poultry.”
Today while discussing a topic that was not at all pleasant or cheerful I just had to smile. Not because of anything broached in the discourse. Rather because of the other parties moniker/ nic (display name). I did not believe it would be appropriate to comment this on their post given the grave nature of the post. The moniker I am refering to is @Juggling With Eggs and this name brings back a lot of fond memories.
As a child and likely I have not out grown this. I had a very different flavor of humor. One of the skits I used to perform for my family and friends was what I called my juggling bit. I would get family and friends together in the family room, that some of you may refer to as the living room. I would then pull out some tennis balls and tell them I wanted them to see how I hav
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Things That Make Me Smile
Today while discussing a topic that was not at all pleasant or cheerful I just had to smile. Not because of anything broached in the discourse. Rather because of the other parties moniker/ nic (display name). I did not believe it would be appropriate to comment this on their post given the grave nature of the post. The moniker I am refering to is @Juggling With Eggs and this name brings back a lot of fond memories.
As a child and likely I have not out grown this. I had a very different flavor of humor. One of the skits I used to perform for my family and friends was what I called my juggling bit. I would get family and friends together in the family room, that some of you may refer to as the living room. I would then pull out some tennis balls and tell them I wanted them to see how I have been progressing on my juggling. I would then do a very bad job of juggling those balls (mainly because I cannot really juggle). I would then make an announcement that I believed it was obvious that I was ready to step up my game. I would pull out some eggs and well really make a mess 😉. Then as a grand finale I would say. "That was interesting, time to level up" and I would pull out some very large knives and a machete 😀. Okay, even though my audience knew this was a gag and that I was not actually going to attempt to juggle those objects, they still backed up to a supposed safe distance. This routine was so popular that when new friends or family were present I would have volunteers to clean up (the eggs) if I was willing to perform. I of course agreed. I was 10 to 11 years old at this time. A happy era of my childhood. Not every period of my childhood is as enjoyable to remember. Though I prefer to focus on happiness and not misery. It is one of those little things that keep me sane or as close to it as I will ever be. 😉
I love that you went there…you actually gave juggling with eggs a go! As only a kid could do at that age.
Sadly I taught myself to juggle slightly later - I was about 15 I think. And by that point the fear had set in. I can competently juggle 3 items…but I’ve only ever been brave enough to use rubber eggs.
My handle here comes from the cognitive dissonance I thought was required between believing you can and actually juggling with eggs…
Ah, cognitive dissonance! The bases of the conservative agenda! Except of course the far right. That would be better described as sociopathy. Of course, no offense intended to my soci... I mean conservative friends. 😉
I can't seem to find tonight's #ABC #BreakingNews about financial revelations of pre-presidency #DonaldTrump regarding #UnitedArabEmirates online just yet, but further scrutiny of the #UAE is warranted with this item AND the item of news I heard via a #Dropsite reporter (Sharif Abdel Kouddous) and this #NewGaza investment/development that we all know Jared Kushner & Co. has his fingers into, deeply.
Both Dropsite and 927 Magazine are essential reading for keeping abreast of Gaza news.
Not sure if this is it or not, but this dropped a little while ago from the WSJ (link below) that CNBC reported:
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates purchased a secret 49% stake in the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, The Wall Street Journal reported late Saturday.
Tahnoon, known as the "Spy Sheikh," is a UAE royal and government official who serves as the country's national security adviser and manages its largest wealth fund.
World Liberty counts President Donald Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff as co-founders emeritus, and is run by members of the Trump and Witkoff families.
Months after Tahnoon purchased the $500 million stake, the U.S. agreed to give the UAE access to 500,000 of America's most advanced AI chips per year.
@Paul Chambers🚧 Yes, that's the one! ABC cited the WSJ and I'm just now hearing the same citation via MSNow. Thanks!
Edited to add links pertinent to my OP via Dropsite and other reporters, particularly Jonathan Wittal who reports how Iraq War's Petraeus is in on the profiteering off of the #newGaza project, and these links were aggregated by Tangents Radio, where I heard the interview with reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous last night.
Petraeus, who was a major proponent of biometric gated communities in counterinsurgency, now works for KKR whose portfolio includes companies that have technology and defense interests in Gaza.
Petraeus' org, the KKR, is being mentioned in other financial news so be aware of that, especially in the crypto arena. The following link is to a story about leaked "Board of Peace" documents regarding the exploitation of #NewGaza
I've given the link to Tangents Radio several times earlier; when you click on "playlists", the most recent one (yesterday's) comes up and you can find more links on this subject at the bottom of yesterday's entry.
#BlackHistoryMonth is, unfortunately, the shortest month of the year, especially in view of the fact that there's so very much more of it than can be done justice to. It's a good opportunity for white folk to learn what they don't get taught in whatever public school they went to. IF they make up their minds to learn, that is.
So I now draw attention to one particular whitefolk now being celebrated on HBO that apparently learned important lessons, in the form of Blazing Saddles--yep, "The 99 Year Old Man", Mel Brooks. In that movie, Brooks was able to get away with reflecting racist social realities with impunity because those realities were understood by those who recognize them.
And now I'll address an under-appreciated figure in Black History simply because society confined the nature of his performances--without noticing that he took those restrictions and most artfully took skeptical pokes at them without getting lynched, as has happened to Blacks who simply looked at some white folk sid
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#BlackHistoryMonth is, unfortunately, the shortest month of the year, especially in view of the fact that there's so very much more of it than can be done justice to. It's a good opportunity for white folk to learn what they don't get taught in whatever public school they went to. IF they make up their minds to learn, that is.
So I now draw attention to one particular whitefolk now being celebrated on HBO that apparently learned important lessons, in the form of Blazing Saddles--yep, "The 99 Year Old Man", Mel Brooks. In that movie, Brooks was able to get away with reflecting racist social realities with impunity because those realities were understood by those who recognize them.
And now I'll address an under-appreciated figure in Black History simply because society confined the nature of his performances--without noticing that he took those restrictions and most artfully took skeptical pokes at them without getting lynched, as has happened to Blacks who simply looked at some white folk sideways. This man not only got away with it but got promoted to Ziegfeld Follies fame by being as artful as he was AND served the U. S. military by being a recruiter for The Great War (WWI).
As a self-characterized time traveler, I can always guarantee that I'll get into arguments with historians about this great man--which is why I take exception to ANYONE who will call me an historian. No historian knows the Bert Williams that I know. NONE. #BertWilliams
When I first came to the Fediverse, having been chased away from Meta by censorship and witch hunts against Gnu/Linux enthusiasts, I finally checked out Mastodon. Something I had intended to do for a long time though never got around to. I just did not like the Mastodon Micro blogging format. I was never on Twitter for that precise reason. Though Mastodon was friendlier than Twitter, I still just did not like it. So I looked for other alternatives. I really like Friendica. It has its warts, make no mistake, I deal with them often. You do not even want to look at my error logs caused by the system itself. It would make a strong person stumble and weep. With that said, I still prefer it over other Instances I have reviewed which also produce plenty of errors themselves. So when I set out to setup my own Instance (3 - 5 days into my entering the Fediverse) I chose Friendica. I have not regretted that decision.
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Instance Hiccups
When I first came to the Fediverse, having been chased away from Meta by censorship and witch hunts against Gnu/Linux enthusiasts, I finally checked out Mastodon. Something I had intended to do for a long time though never got around to. I just did not like the Mastodon Micro blogging format. I was never on Twitter for that precise reason. Though Mastodon was friendlier than Twitter, I still just did not like it. So I looked for other alternatives. I really like Friendica. It has its warts, make no mistake, I deal with them often. You do not even want to look at my error logs caused by the system itself. It would make a strong person stumble and weep. With that said, I still prefer it over other Instances I have reviewed which also produce plenty of errors themselves. So when I set out to setup my own Instance (3 - 5 days into my entering the Fediverse) I chose Friendica. I have not regretted that decision.
There have been a lot of challenges. Friendica's main development team uses Ubuntu server and I will not use anything from Canonical. I could have used a Debian Server though I prefer RHEL based distros. So I went with Rocky Linux 9, which added complexities to the install but undaunted I pressed forward and got my Instance up and running. I made some really bad choices to begin with. I installed via a zip file and then decided that was a really poor decision. It complicated upgrading. So I re-installed via git, which I could have just converted my install to a git repository but seeing I really had not launched yet it was easier and faster to just re-install. I then had a constant fight with SELinux to keep it from preventing upgrades and services I required from running. After I finally completely got SELinux configured I ran into database scheduling issues. Which I found a cure for on the Friendica GitHub Issues. One issue I have never managed to resolve was how php-fpm will just decide to die for some reason without a consistency that I could track down. So I put a band-aid on it. I wrote a script to check the services httpd, Mariadb, and php-fpm. If they are down then start them. This script is run every 5 minutes on the server. Until I can find what is killing php-fpm and fix that issue the band-aid will have to do. Sometimes the instance will run for days or weeks without incident, yes I wrote in logging aspects to the script, then other days it will crash several times a day. I also wrote a script to restart all services at midnight (My servers time PDT/PST) the refreshing has helped with some issues that come from running a service via PHP rather than having a proper daemon written in a system development language.
The big take from this discussion is that if the Instance is down when you try to login give it a few minutes and it will likely resolve itself. I have had a few times when the issue was with my VPS provider but they are very reliable so I see no reason for a change. In the future when I have more time to dedicate to the Instance, other than just keeping it up and running. I will chase down these bugs and make the changes necessary to avoid the need for band-aids. Though, that is probably not going to be in the near future. The Instance still has a great up time to down time ration compared to many other Instances I have seen. So I will keep on keeping on.
“[F]or some among us,” the judge wrote, “the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”
Pour water around the canister to help seal the base of the traffic cone used to contain it. Then douse it from the top and cover it. DON'T PICK THEM UP unless you have welder's gloves. CS canisters burn as hot as 800 C. facebook.com/watch/?v=69118900…
How to handle a tear gas canister 🤔 Pour water around the canister to help seal the base of the traffic cone used to contain it. Then douse it from the top and cover it. DON'T PICK THEM UP unless...
Oops! My apologies. I was doing what I thought was going to be a routine upgrade to Rogue Project's Friendica Instance when it became not so routine. There were a lot of fixes I had to apply to the update process to get it to take. This took longer than I anticipated. Sorry for not letting everyone know I was going to update and putting the server into maintenance mode before the update. I thought it would not matter and I would be finished before it was even noticed ... it did not work that way in reality. 🙁
Well, despite the burp, and about an hour or more downtime I did get the latest version of Friendica installed. So I hope that you all enjoy my pain 😀. Enjoy the new edition, I hope it brings more fixes than bugs! 😉
Please, feel free to let me know what you do, or do not, like about the upgrade. As long as you do not expect me to do anything about it right away. 😉
I provide a very small Instance due to the limitations of my VPS. I actually have no idea how many active users I could support as I have never had more than 4 or 5 active users at one time in the year that I have been providing this service. I have the user limit cap set for 100 users. I will adjust this as I see how much the VPS can actually handle in practice.
With that said I have continually advised and will reiterate that if you are going to need to take a sabbatical, which is completely understandable, let me know. I want to make sure that there are slots open for new users. So I am constantly deleting inactive accounts. Typically I delete an account that has no use or login for 60 days. I also check profiles to be sure the account is not being used for marketing which is prohibited on this Instance. So if you have to be away for more than 60 days, let me know so your account does not get deleted.
Dzięki za ogromną prace włożoną w budowanie tej społeczności, będziem ją rozwijać dalej i też liczę że za rok będzie lepszym miejscem dla ciebie i nas wszystkich.
Powodzenia z wychodzeniem z wypalenia, będziemy się starać cię w tym wspierać.
The DOJ announced this 3.5 million document release is it. They won’t be releasing anything else, even though there are still 3 million pages left unreleased. They claim those documents are “non-responsive” or “irrelevant” or fall under one of the exceptions in the statute. (Translation: That’s where the really damning stuff is.)
Okay, I consider myself well read, owning more than 2000 books 😉 and have read countless more. Since I learned to read at 3 years old I have never spent a day without reading. Yet, I had not heard of Connie Willis in more than just passing until you started posting links to her WordPress site. I have enjoyed the site and I have even ordered a few of her books from Thriftbooks. I purchase 'The Best of Connie Willis' and 'Crosstalk'. Do you read her material? If so is there anything you would recommend that I buy?
It's most unfortunate that most of the stuff I boost over at My Portal doesn't propagate over to Rogues despite my Rogue account following my My Portal account. This post came in via MOULE , which won't even come up on a Search on Rogues. Remember the #gravy movement? it's now become the #BananaChicken movement and I for one have an appetite for some Banana Chicken Gravy.
...the DOJ released another big batch of Epstein files today. They are now using the Epstein files to distract from the ICE/Gestapo Minneapolis mess, which was intended to distract from the Epstein files.
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