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1. You’re using it wrong in many ways that personally offend me

2. This place was better without any people

3. Open-source software

4. You’re being polite but not in the way I prefer

5. The Fediverse (“fedora universe”)

6. Should we de-federate Toyota if they start a server?

7. Top 20 Fediverse alternatives to Wikipedia

8. Historical evidence that Hitler invented quote tweets

9. Cats

10. It’s weird how people create accounts but don’t stick around

@ai6yr What worries me is this could stall the Gulf Stream current.

Birdwatchers Unite!

Do you participate in Cornell University's ornithology programs? Do you use the eBird database? Do you use the eBird or Merlin apps? If so I want to follow you and build a list of fellow eBirders so we can share knowledge, experiences, photos, etc.

@dj3ei @N0ZB@mastodon.radio @k8ket @megahertz I'm sorry to hear that. I spend all my time on CW these days and, outside of contests and DX pileups, haven't yet encountered a "jerk".

@jstevenyork @mastodonmigration @davidaugust I wouldn't be mortified but I would be willing to explain the context and mindset I was in when I wrote it, right or wrong by today's standards and in light of education I've picked up since then.

I mean, back in the 70s I was a libertarian, oblivious to all the factors that make libertarianism a useful academic concept but disastrously unworkable when applied to real human beings. I'm not embarrassed about that. I was young, ignorant, full of hubris, with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Haha. We're not born with experience and deep knowledge of sociology.

@SpockResists Indeed. One of my email siggies is:

You cannot claim to love liberty while insisting that others live the way you want them to. -- says I

@IanDSmith Yikes. Seems this could be stabilized and corrected with internal tensioning rods.

No word of a lie.

"Just wait until they don't want to print your Bar Mitzvah invitations because that's coming too."
- Larry Baeder

@SrRochardBunson @stevesilberman I don't see The Doors as a 70s band. They formed a few blocks north of where I lived in Venice, CA when I was in junior high. I was in a band then and we won a Battle of the Bands in 1967 with our rendition of Light my Fire. Not 70s.

Beach Boys were an LA band, of course. Creedence also originated in Los Angeles. Most bands were/are LA bands, like Three Dog Night, Chicago, Steely Dan, you name it. The record business lived in Los Angeles at that time. That's where the best musicians and best studios were, were so it makes sense that bands would form there constantly. This was great for me, being a musician and growing up in a Hollywood connected family. Haha.

So I'm not sure what LA Band means.

@SrRochardBunson Well, it's difficult with such a short list. You have CSN, CCR, Allman Brothers, Doors, all of which are popular overseas too. But I think on U.S. soil, the Beach Boys were, at the time, the most resistant to the British Invasion. They were the one band the Beatles couldn't beat.

The most insidious myth that I was taught in American schools was that inequality and injustice are somehow artifacts of the past, and that America marches inexorably towards greater freedom and equality with every generation.

Not only is this take entirely unsupported by actual history, but this comforting myth absolves us of having to take action to fight inequality and injustice. Just sit back and relax and everything will just get better.

Medical professionals say that there is no basis whatsoever to RFK Jr.'s claims about the dangers of vaccines. But at this Tiburon acupuncture clinic, they aren't so sure.

One of Steely Dan's engineers' daughters have just found a DAT tape of the infamous song that got accidentally destroyed - and it's gorgeous #SteelyDan

youtu.be/cAtOuLuO3vU

#introduction. Hello. I’m a center-left Twitter refugee from #Kansas #USA looking to engage in topics such as #politics #news #currentevents #realitytv #truecrime #sports and learning about other countries and culture. Nice to meet you, in advance.

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