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One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well
in reply to Laura Manach

Wait... You mean spinning history is a bad thing now? Politicians are going to be very disappointed.

We did it in our day, too.... We just didn't have the worldwide platform we do today.

Fwiw, I hear you. I watched Columbia explode on live TV. Had a kid try to tell me there were no shuttle accidents ever.... Of course, the same kid thinks birds aren't real, so...

Edit: Challenger, not Columbia. Thanks for the correction.

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@admin
You mean Challenger? It was on my 25th Birthday. I was excited to have such a gift... and then. But Columbia broke up on re-entry and I don't remember that being shown live on tv. Maybe I'm wrong too.
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Yes.. Brain fart. Call it old-timer's disease.

@cmconseils

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@Laura Manach
Oh yeah, been there done that a gazillion times, and in the mix when I recount what happened, the outraged person will demand a web link to what I just said. Good friggin grief.

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Me: If R2 is short for R2D2, Chewie is short for Chewbacca, and Ani is short for Aniken, what is Luke short for?

Them: I don’t know, what?

Me: A stormtrooper.

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My mother suggests you go play with the cassowaries.




@mlansbury@despora.de:

#US absent from #UN condemnation of #Russia's #war in #Georgia


In a joint statement, representatives of five Security Council members — Denmark, France, Greece, the U.K., and Slovenia — along with incoming member Latvia, denounced #Russian #invasion of #Georgia 17 years ago and its continued military presence in the country's #Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.

The U.S., which in previous years joined similar condemnations, did not join the statement. The U.S. has not publicly commented on the decision.

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#TrumpIsARussianAsset #ComradeKrasnov #trump #DictatorTrump #traitor



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Yeah, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe he will accept the No Belle instead?

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What realities are you currently ignoring in your work? I'm currently ignoring a deadline, but that's just normal for most writers.

#memes #writing #AmWriting #acting #WritingCommunity

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I laugh because my WIP has a classic set up for a tense, dramatic conclusion and after months of working toward it, I still have no idea what that dramatic conclusion is. Instead I have a long list of discarded less than dramatic conclusions. I'm a plotter and it drives me nuts to know that unless I have an eureka moment I'll be pantsing the ending!
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@alan Take an hour and write ten different outlines for the ending. Speedwrite. Don't think. Five minutes max on each. That will at least give you the negative space around the ending, if not the ending itself.
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It's complicated and there's not much room to manoeuvre. I have two non-cooperating groups of cops and my protagonists all descending on my antagonist at the same time. He's trapped. His empire has been laid in ruin.

Ending 1: surrender. Rating: OMG WTF? No.

Ending 2: suicide / suicide by cop. Rating: Meh.

Ending 3: Cops argue, antagonist escapes. Rating: Oh goodie, now it's a fucking series. Kill me now.

Ending 4: escape, but thwarted by unexpected, possibly humorous circumstances. Rating: Best of a bad bunch.

Ending 5 will be brilliant though. 😂

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@Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏 @Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
You might well consider Alfred Hitchcocky twisty endings. He was very good at that...rather, choosing writers whose stories provided such a thing...which is why I sit through the closing credits of Hitchcock Presents because therein lies a reading list. To whet your appetite in this direction, I now point the way to Hitchcock's magazine as well as to that of Ellery Queen for inspo.
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@Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) @Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏 In reality if you have the gift, before it time will slow down and you'll notice silence around you drop out, there is not about 5 full minutes but a matter of seconds > or it is done. Smile.

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Hey, writer friends! What's a good writer/journalist friendly instance to join? I am getting back into freelance writing and need to set up an account focused on that.

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I’ve been saying when the #AI bubble pops, it’s going to be so disastrous it will make the dot com bust pale in comparison.

Almost every online platform and SAAS I use has gone all-in on “integrating” AI in some form.

futurism.com/ai-agents-failing…

#technology

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and 2 more wrinkles i saw the other day: the data center boom is what is keeping the commercial property market afloat. so the ai bubble is going to take down the property market, and most retail investment products are now deeply linked to ai. anyone with savings is going to get hit

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@cuan_knaggs @Rod Faulkner
Except in Stillwater OK, where the headline in today is how locals are suing Google over the data center it's building there, not the least of which was the big fishkill in the neighborhood.

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this is *fascinating* - the creator of the Kryptos Sculpture is auctioning off the solution to part four of said sculpture, and expects to fetch $300K-$500K. The mythology around this thing is amazing. schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

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if you aren't familiar with Kryptos, it's a sculpture installed outside CIA headquarters at Langley, containing multiple encrypted messages, one of which remains one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

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I'm expecting it to be replaced with something more at Trump's level, like 2+2.

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If putin could strike your house in the US without risking reprisals, he absolutely would.

apnews.com/article/russia-ukra…

#USpol #UApol #war #russia

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Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate projects. techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/ecos…

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europesays.com/2348172/ Gallego Holds Nantucket Fundraiser With Wall Street and Crypto Lobbyists #business #Economy #markets #WallStreet

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Today in 1888, 137 years ago: The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

#OnThisDay

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WATCH: Vance highlights Trump’s ‘big bill’ in Georgia remarks
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-vance-highlights-trumps-big-bill-in-georgia-remarks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour

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europesays.com/2348174/ Why do world financial leaders meet in Jackson, Wyoming? – Deseret News #Economy #FederalReserveSystem #NewsFeedNational

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“Seeing faces in mountains are we?” says the psychiatrist as the patient senses their doom.



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Using the 74HC595 Shift Register to Drive 7-Segment Displays

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europesays.com/2348176/ Lebanon needs IMF for fiscal ‘discipline’ rather than $3bn loan, Carlos Ghosn says ##banking #BusinessTeam #Economy #IMF #InternationalMonetaryFund #Lebanon #Standard #story

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dry wit levels are 54% and steady

(54%) ■■■■■□□□□□

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Trump admin better-placed than courts to release Epstein files, judge says ukrainetoday.org/trump-admin-b…

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I'm still grieving about the loss last month of our boy Percy, adopted at age 9 and with us until age 15. He was the light of our life. He was his normal loving, playful, empathetic self until just the last couple of weeks, when he was taken from us by an aggressive cancer. I have known many cats but never one more amazing.

#catsofmastodon #cats #caturday

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🇺🇸 CBS News has learned that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, issued a directive weeks ago to the U.S. intelligence community ordering that all information regarding the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations not be shared with U.S.-allied intelligence partners.

cbsnews.com/news/gabbard-barre…

#usa

#usa

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I doubt the Four-Eyes would believe any of it anyway.

Trump destroyed any trust, so they must assume that they would be fed misinformation or disinformation anyway.

It is just performative nonsense at this point.


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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
-- Joseph Joubert

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephJoubert #Debate

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sealions #Beach #Galapagos

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“Trump says Missouri will revise congressional districts to favor Republicans” electionlawblog.org/?p=151698

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#HashtagGames
#EarlyMorningSongsOrPoems

When I woke up this morning
You were on my mind,
And... you were on my mind.
I've got troubles, woe, oh woe,
I got worries, woe, oh woe,
I got wounds to bind.
#WeFive

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I was showing Summer the work the grandkids did to make my bicycle all shiny and functional again.
I even sat on it for a minute to ride down the driveway and see if she would follow.
She did.
I asked if she would give me her honest opinion about something.
She said always.
I told her that the seat that was on my bike when I bought it was tiny and hard as a rock. I replaced that seat with a larger cushy seat. Now that I sit on the newer seat a couple of years later it isn't as large or as cushy as I remember. I think she should tell me honestly what she thinks might have happened?
She gave me a look where her eyebrows alternate going up and down. She said she needs to research this further before responding.
I'm not sure if my almost seventy year old bum needs a next level seat.
Summer will get back to me on that.

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you can buy slip on covers with a lot of squishy comfy padding.

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Popular Chrome VPN extension caught secretly spying on users — uninstall it right now

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europesays.com/2346332/ Orange Belgium Enhances Cyber Security After Major Data Breach #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #CustomerData #CyberattackIncident #Nachrichten #Nieuws #Nouvelles

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Little Donnie Small Hands

bot by @davidaugust
This is satire, not sedition: rescind the warrant.

#satire #potus45 #funny #USpol

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