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
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This is weird.
Remember the assassination of Shinzo Abe?
Apparently the assassin wanted to attack the Unification Church (the Moonies) but couldn't reach them. However the assassin thought Abe was deeply involved with the Moonies...
And it turned out to be true.
The assassin was angry because his mom had fallen under the sway of the moonies and donated all of their families money to the moonies bankrupting their family and forcing them into severe poverty.
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Dangerous cartels
Blocking roads, cutting power lines
Soldiers intervene
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Sending text messages old school.
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Republicans passed a ~$2 trillion tax cut for the rich and added $7 trillion to the national debt under Trump. And we're supposed to believe they're risking a shutdown because they care about "fiscal responsibility"?
It's all just a game to them.
@TruthSandwich @freemo CP/M is all you should need if you use a computer the way God intended it to be used.
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It's amazing how shitty people are to service workers. These people will scoff at service workers being paid a fair wage. They'll be incensed when service workers don't act like it's a privilege to take their orders. They'll point at them and tell their kids to do good in school or they'll end up like them. Yet, despite all of this, these same people will lose their shit when these jobs are understaffed and just blame the problem on "People not wanting to work."
@rwalker1501 @HighlandLawyer @ChrisMayLA6 It's very believable. He walked that walk. Through his smart investments in the burgeoning steel industry and in Pullman cars for railroads he became stupendously wealthy -- wealthiest in the U.S.A. By the end of his life he had given 90 per cent of his fortune away on large-scale philanthropy.
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The media will never show you these real Americans giving Trump Tower the finger.
@black_intellect Assholes being assholes just because they can. I'm not impressed.
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A reigning homecoming queen in Texas wore a Mexican heritage stole to her graduation. Now, her school says she can't crown her successor. | https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/us/texas-homecoming-queen-mexican-heritage/index.html
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Recommendation regarding 'curated' accounts @ClimateMigration and @AstroMigration
Some users do not like how these accounts flood their home feed. Here is a suggestion. You can now remove the contents of a List from your home feed. Create a new list, add the curated account, and go to settings (slider bar icon at top right) and toggle "Hide these posts from home". Your home feed will no longer receive boosted posts from this account, but you can still view them by clicking on the list.
@Anke @JimsPhotos I did not. But am not completely surprised. I've spent hours watching anhingas fish. Very impressive. They dive down and stay down for long periods, then surface quite some distance away.
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When he realized red is the good part of the watermelon.. 😅
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@lovelylovely [Trump voice:] "You put up signs saying, Vote for Trump — big, beautiful signs, three feet wide at least — and right after the first rainfall you see it, the paint washes right off, and those stupid signs suddenly say, Republicans for Biden. It is such a disgrace. Biden got money from Ukraine, and they bought all the sign companies, and now Hunter Biden is printing those signs in the basement of a pizza parlor using the laptop from hell. And the signs are rigged! They are rigged!"
@ai6yr I haven't messed with telescopes in 15 years, but through the 70s, 80s, and 90s, I've had good experiences with Celestron. I've used their 8-inch and 12-inch scopes. If the quality hasn't changed, I'd say it's hard to go wrong a Celestron product.
@N3VEM Yeah, looked at it without enlarging it. Looks Kenwood to me too. 850?
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"Even Satan is using a fan"
Brazil Bakes in Unprecedented Spring Heatwave With Devastating Ferocity!
The country, with a tropical climate and the most populated in Latin America, is under the effects of a phenomenon of extreme temperatures in a large part of its territory, with devastating effects in the southern region, where the passage of a cyclone left 50 dead.
#AureFreePress #News #GlobalWarming #climatechange
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David McCallum (1933-2023) — Emmy-nominated star of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. and NCIS.
He also appeared in movies like THE GREAT ESCAPE and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD in a 70-year career.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235598793/ #RIPDavidMcCallum
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Nothing says, "social media need no public oversight", like Elon Musk sharing copyright protected video, then being told that he is breaking the law… but not responding, because he does not need to, as he is both the lawmaker, the police and the judge in the virtual world he now controls.
American lawmakers really need to wake up.
@TruthSandwich @Researchbuzz @StillIRise1963 Yes. Slavery actually creates big problems for capitalism, royally screws up the economy, and royally screws people who are not rich and not slaves. The economy of the slave states before the Civil War demonstrates this. Even if you ignore the inhumanity of it, slavery is a bad idea.
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- 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
