Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
@knittingknots2 It is getting to be a little over the top. I hope that at some point soon, people see that nobody needs someone like that leading them.
@glizzyborden@mstdn.social Bahaha. If only.
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They finally cracked the Mayan calendar, and the reason they couldn't before is that the 819 days of the calendar have to be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand, and that is just 🤯
The Mayans were wild, man
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a43645858/how-the-mayan-calendar-works
@msbellows @tchambers @georgetakei Happy birthday, indeed!
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@tchambers @georgetakei It's George Takei's birthday??!!
Happy birthday, Mr. Takei!!!
@SocraticEthics Accidentally? I find that hard to believe.
@the_Effekt @MeanwhileinCanada Yes, Portugal discovered this years ago but nobody paid attention even though it was in the news.
On the other hand, the Drug War wasn't really about drugs.
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@MeanwhileinCanada Who'd have thought the war on drugs could be won just by making it all available.
As a Coloradan, there are less people here buying MJ than ever.
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“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”
My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that buying Twitter Blue makes you look like such a loser that Elon personally paid for multiple celebrities' blue checks in order to humiliate them
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Anti-trans laws come from right wing think tanks like the Claremont Institute. To take away the right to vote from young people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda
The Claremont Institute is funded by GOP billionaire donors to end democracy
http://conservativetransparency.org/org/the-claremont-institute/
https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wz9b/claremont-institute-desantis
They are deliberately creating a civil war for financial gain & keeping the proceeds of bigotry & economic looting
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/claremont-ryan-williams-trump/620252/
@ai6yr Lmao. You've got to be kidding. Bahahaha.
@j258853@toot.community @MicheleV_AK For some, it's the reason they sought high elected office in the first place: immunity.
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You cannot make this shit up!
"A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has learned.
About six hours after being confronted by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Rep. Scotty Campbell gave up his seat in the Tennessee General Assembly.
Campbell, who served as vice chair of the House Republican Caucus and who recently voted to expel three Democrats who engaged in a gun violence protest on the House floor, had suffered no previous consequences as a result of his actions."
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-gop-leader-who-voted-to-expel-tennessee-three-found-guilty-of-sexually-harassing-interns
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Pope Francis lost his Blue Check status today because the Catholic Church wouldn’t pay $8/month to Twitter.
I guess the Pope sees Twitter Blue as a needless indulgence.
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@oliphant That's along the lines of an attitude or opinion I've had my whole life. You can say it in many ways: Two is twice as much as one. Nine is three times as much as three. But one is infinitely more than zero.
I don't know what a mathematician would say about that, though. Hah.
@Peace_out_art Yeah, when I heard of it I went to see if it had the usual boilerplate and it does. I want to opt out but am not sure what my username was or which email I might have used. I started using FB in 2006 or 2007 and deleted my account in 2012.
@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social 57 times. That's right up there with an execution by a Central American drug lord.
Who's the third-world country again?
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Statistically, 1 in every 3 people in a relationship cheat so I only need to figure out if it’s my boyfriend or my husband.
@therobburgessshow I've always been a nobody on Twitter.
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
