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
@dcreemer @lovelylovely Hahaha, yes. A truism but a disturbing one to consider.
It was first presented to me long ago (I'm old) as: "Always remember that half of all doctors graduated in the bottom of their class."
@johnb48 Sounds like you're a fellow fan of old time radio. I have been since the 1960s.
Much can be found on the Internet Archive. My favorite source has been around for a long time and is called Are You Sitting Comfortably. https://www.rusc.com/
I'm a paying subscriber and highly recommend it.
@lovelylovely Yes, it's impossible to have a conversation with them. Up is down, blue is yellow, water is not wet. It's a mass psychosis. West Virginia is full of such people so they all feed off of each other.
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A Marquette Poll 50% OF Republican don't believe Trump had Classified Documents and that shit-hole called Mar-A-Lago This is insane, And if anybody still pretending that the GOP is still a party is fucking blind.
@black_intellect This should have been done a hundred years ago.
@mike_k What kind of balun? Some baluns are a short circuit at DC but not at RF frequencies.
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It’s good when a plan mostly comes together. Ridge beam in place. Rather proud that I got it up there all on my own. #Nunavut #Arctic #CabinLife
@lauren Yes, sickened is about the best way to put it. Exhausted from seven years of unbelievable nonsense that would have gotten exactly nowhere in the 1960s when we still had reasonable and principled people in government.
Sad and very disappointed in humanity, but no longer mystified over what happened in Germany in the 1930s. It wasn't a fluke. Humans have this in them. It's all very disturbing.
Revenge is a thought but I don't do revenge. It's mentally and spiritually unhealthy to the "revenger". And in Trump's case, revenge would accomplish nothing because he's mentally ill and would misinterpret the whole thing.
I'm left with an empty sadness. I just want to never see or hear his name again. I want him gone, banished to Elba.
@wdlindsy Yup. just as I said when Trump became a candidate in 2016. I knew that some news media people would be thrilled because they knew Trump would introduce endless chaos -- a scandal every day -- perfect for "selling newspapers".
My grandmother pointed out this mechanism to me in the early 1960s.
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"Moonves added, 'The money’s rolling in and this is fun. … (T)his is going to be a very good year for us,' concluding, 'Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going.'"
Mitch McConnell Rigged Kentucky’s Process So That Even If He Dies He Won’t Be Replaced With A Democrat
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Do you think there just might be a problem with an #economic system where #elon #musk becomes the richest person in the world?
Who has more #wealth than some countries? Who can single handly, on a whim, change how society functions for millions, destroy livelihoods?
Just maybe the way #government (s) manage the #economy should change?
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White House condemns Fox News over dangerous & extreme Holocaust comments
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/white-house-condemns-fox-news-over-dangerous-and-extreme-holocaust-comments-from-top-host-1.6494581
* Greg Gutfeld on Florida’s new Black history standards that requires instruction on “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”
* co-host Jessica Tarlov expressed disapproval of those standards, questioned whether arguments to defend them would be made re: The Holocaust
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Me: I went to the pet store to buy a frog but they tried to sell me a lizard instead.
The Supreme Court: Was the lizard gay?
Me: I have no idea, it was literally a reptile.
The Supreme Court: Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will now make it illegal for gay people to vote.
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Anne Frank’s Father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member (1960)
The #photographer Arnold Newman recalled taking of this photo: “The mood was depressing, and I immediately began photographing him. After a few moments, the Westertoren bells next door began to ring, and Frank turned to me and said: ‘Those were the bells that Anne wrote about.’ He suddenly broke down completely, weeping uncontrollably, and then so did I.
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WAS solar astrophotographer Franco Fellah shared two amazing new views of the same active region on the #sun #AR13379. The blue in Calcium H, the other H Alpha from #WestportCT on July 23rd. The calcium was imaged with a 150mm APO refractor and the Ha with a 203mm HT scope.
@lauren Lol. I hate it when something works but it shouldn't. Or works when you're not expecting it and you don't know why, which is basically what happened here. Disturbing.
@AchesAndPains But you can still make it through without a name.
- 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
