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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 21:29:32
We, the Internet command-liners, really did the world a disservice by not defining email etiquette/usage as akin to sending a telegram.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 18:36:28
Boss gonna sit where boss gonna sit.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 00:25:31
Love sports, love books. Have just grown to detest the modern NFL.
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@ 91ced586:3c571ef7
2025-04-25 00:24:29
Watching any sports is a bore for me. I rather much read a book.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 00:23:10
Back in my day, nobody gave two shakes about the NFL Draft, but hats off to the NFL for keeping the meatheads fixed on football this long.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 00:16:21
"What else do we need for disaffected X users who don't care about decentralization, but just want 'ole blue back? What about the arbitrarily awarded checkmark?!"
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-25 00:15:08
Dunno if I missed the conversation, but Blue Sky is actually issuing blue checkmarks now. Hard to abstain from writing them off as total sell-outs at this point.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-24 23:26:14
I don't nose.
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@ 75656740:dbc8f92a
2025-04-24 23:25:35
Any clear sinuses of who will be Pope?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-24 23:12:18
After a week, the sinuses are clearing and I feel like Noah after the Flood.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-24 21:05:06
Glad to see you here, Ross!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-24 21:01:47
https://blossom.primal.net/2340fdf094ec204f88f2908365445079aea14e95675d854e0bc43d42a912cb65.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-24 20:20:04
Just IRS agents, most likely.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-13 23:50:36
Back in the day, I had a typewriter. Been wanting to get back into this game for a while now.
nostr:note1gm3ugqvq5ppmj00r2yh7qqu46fa40c9zs9efxv9z03m5cucdthzs9mym7g
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-12 15:21:40
For us, all depends upon what kind of clergy you are. Technically, our nuns and priests/brothers religious aren't "paid." But diocesan priests, who can own property, need a salary to live in the world, since that's where they work. But it ain't much, let me tell you.
An old saying: "Religious take the vow of poverty, and the diocesan clergy live it."
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-12 15:20:06
I whine about this once a year, and have for 15 years... so see you again in a year. https://image.nostr.build/4f3cc38a430460e1fd158dab5bc76e6be412bb67bcdb15b6ef217c362917958d.gif
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-12 15:16:28
One of the realities of taxes for priests: the IRS, because it operates on a Protestant model, sees us as "self-employed." I'm about as self-employed as a prisoner making license plates, as the nature of the Church dictates that the Bishop "employs" me to assist him in his ministry; I am fully dependent upon the consent of the Bishop in everything that I do.
A long way to explain that I pay both sides of Social Security, which I shouldn't.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpzhmwh72ryutegfs8cpv0td4qnhvfl9q8ug5r3tq02lshlhazjdjqy2hwumn8ghj7erfw36x7tnsw43z7un9d3shjqg4waehxw309ajxjar5duh8qatz9aex2mrp0yqzqvfl63jhn7apqqc6h8z3lc5v3yhj3qug6jzp6deaewwqupdtcdjtxm52jg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-12 15:13:08
Got absolutely decimated by taxes this season.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-07 01:32:26
In these times of compassion
Where conformity's a fashion
Say one more stupid thing to me
Before the final nail is driven in
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-07 01:31:19
Music night with the Master.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUT7N8RYgSI
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-04-04 16:50:28
Pegged crypto going down just like everything else in the market, eh.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-27 01:01:03
I follow anyone who may be bitcoin hostile/skeptical. Like pearls of great price around here.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-26 22:12:48
Pretty great.
https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-26 21:53:02
You kids with your AIs and your Bitcoins and whatnot
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-21 22:01:51
When the French do something sensible, it deserves a mention.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-21 20:29:22
Splurging out on social media (with regard to a comment that was likely right) is not the way.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2025/03/21/dan-bernstein-is-out-at-the-score-after-social-media-flare-up
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-19 17:52:29
Just want my Necco wafers back.
https://image.nostr.build/315ef8d6561dc0842838e565d1ede0f0149f4cda8f7bd3c3493dea3aebeee5cc.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-19 17:45:06
Someone brought me a plate of bluegill. Happy St. Joseph's Day, indeed.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-18 19:48:58
Fun opener for the Cubs and Dodgers in Japan. Falling back asleep in the 7th inning was not in the plan, but I apparently needed it.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-17 16:17:49
Wakeup time is 4:45AM CST tomorrow, but it's back. Go Cubs! Go Ohtani! Give the Japanese a show.
https://video.nostr.build/53111ccb82d558ca6eae5b73fc5a19667ef139f25ad82366bae2bbab4033280b.mp4
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-14 23:43:37
You’re right. There hasn’t been one.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-14 19:17:49
Good article. Know thy enemy.
nostr:note1ekpm6507tf3apjwgts8npvsyy6agxv6x9xfxhx4zupkddtukx7fqg9z66g
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-14 17:46:50
Beautiful day, windy. The sun shines off all the garbage blowing around.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-13 01:45:10
Saw this earlier. Issue is that nobody knows who Linus is. And I suspect he's probably ok with that.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-11 20:37:33
National Emergency on Electricity = a (temporary) displacement of regulation = actually getting things done building new plants.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-08 17:40:30
What if I simply do not want to 'spring ahead?' This nation's hubris. Time belongs to God.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-03 16:47:57
It's important to keep a key presupposition in mind as we examine Trump/Russia: the intention of the West has never been to win the war, but to keep it going perpetually. The utilitarian advantages of a stalemate are many, and among them the State feeds the military industrial complex, all while keeping an expansionist tyrant in Putin locked down. Much commentary becomes derailed by claims like, "Ukraine can't win!" or "Ukraine isn't winning." This was never the point of Western intervention; don't punch a straw man.
I think it's good that we're finally having a conversation about this path, instead of just locking ourselves into a mindless narrative repeated by cultural forces. I also side with Trump's intention to stop the casualties, which have been immense. At the same time, Russian containment until they ""elect"" a leader with a better vision for the future is also important.
So in the end: 🤷♂️
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-03 01:42:35
If BTC is to be anything more than a (relatively volatile) investment, me thinks the enthusiasts should not be celebrating yet another tie to the U.S. economy.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-03-03 00:37:38
Of all the nominations, I thought Kieran Culkin deserved it. So we're actually starting strong.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-27 23:33:07
Primal will clip em which is why I don’t bother with screenshots. https://image.nostr.build/c2a4c8a55a91fd2cb3d72dcb5f2f5c5ce9e3d9dded96aecb1d79a2b0c677d52e.jpg
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@ 19b1f845:e9066010
2025-02-27 23:31:35
I don’t click on X links. What’s the tweet say?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-27 23:12:03
If you use Firefox because something something privacy, let this be your last nudge to install Brave.
https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1895231159040385198
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-26 16:53:37
Quit gaming some time ago, more a result of no time, but also because of the state of modern gaming. After much deliberation, picked up a Play Date for some casual handheld when I have opportunity to relax, and it's been great fun. Maybe not for everyone -- the screen requires an overhead light source -- but it takes me back to my gameboy days for sure.
https://play.date/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 17:03:58
This is in response to Apple. They're removing encryption from iCloud in the UK, *because* the UK is demanding a backdoor to everyone's encrypted information. They're not roaching out: they're taking a hard line on what encryption is fundamentally, and what cannot happen with it.
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@ b809513a:2e36e1b9
2025-02-21 17:00:37
Signal is the least of our worries, Apple are removing encryption from iCloud in the UK. They don’t have the balls to withdraw from the market though.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 16:52:00
Encryption must never be backdoored. This is something so fundamental to the notion of what encryption is, that there must never be a compromise here. Pulling an encryption feature rather than rendering it worthless is the only noble path, when faced with these options. Removing Signal from the UK app store (when the addled bureaucrats target it next) is the only noble option.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 16:39:38
I dunno why I am so annoyed by this, but no: caving would have been compromising encryption with a backdoor. They went with the only other option available to them, which was to pull encryption altogether.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 16:13:32
Rather than backdooring the encryption, and thus giving consumers the illusion of protection? Yes. Those were their options.
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@ 5dfe1160:e3ffeed2
2025-02-21 16:10:46
Just confirming in case I missed the context: your referring to Apple discontinuing iCloud encryption in the UK. It is *sort of* admirable?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 16:02:21
If anything, they did the very opposite of "cave." You want a backdoor on encryption, as if this isn't an oxymoron to begin with?
Fine. We'll take away the encryption altogether.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 16:00:47
Let's be clear: I'm far from an Apple apologist, but they didn't "cave" here. A publicly traded company exists to make money, and they'll tap dance to any song the government plays if it means the money keeps flowing. Beings act as they are.
It's UK officials who failed, and by proxy, the people who allow them to exist as officials in the first place. That you've allowed mentally addled goofballs into office who think backdoors in encryption are even an option is the failure.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-21 15:34:57
The UK is an embarrassment.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-encrypted-icloud-security-feature-uk/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-20 20:33:33
I am watching Cubs preseason baseball. Even as they prattle on about the NFL locally (as if there's anything to talk about, really), the thinkin' man's game is back, and I am grateful.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-18 18:38:33
I own the Japanese version of this deck and highly recommend for those who are or might be in to distraction free writers.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pomera-full-suite-typewriter-for-focused-writing#/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-18 01:31:20
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-02 20:33:35
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-02 16:46:07
Punxatawny Phil — the past-his-prime fraud who has a success record of 35% — saw his shadow. Thankfully, that hack doesn’t hold a candle to Woodstock Willy, who is 85% correct since he made his way into the prediction game in ‘95 — Willy says an early Spring!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-02 01:07:40
nostr:nevent1qgsg47m4ljse8z72zvp7qtr6mdgyamz0egplz9qu2cr6hu9lalg5nvspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummvv9ejuctswqhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsqgxkkya5etwcf45r6hdukn9dsa3vpf9mzqfcmlhhwy7ejfgk54lhzvjy6p68
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-01 17:34:37
Someone gave me a bag of venison jerky he'd made this week, from a deer harvested this season, and let me tell you: best jerky I've ever had, and I've had a lot of it.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-01 16:48:36
And yes, I'm your typical red-blooded American male who hates musicals, even musicals done well.
That said, there's JOKER: FOLLY OF DOO DOO, and then there's this. I can at least see some beauty in the song-and-dance numbers as they blow their nose all over the Joker character in this film.
EMILIA PEREZ is like assembling every mockery I've ever made of musicals and then running with them, as if they're good ideas.
Man, what garbage.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-01 16:44:28
I will sit through nearly anything, by the way. You'll rarely find a guy more open to even bad art. But this film is just bad. Horrible all the way around.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-01 16:42:48
New challenge, wherein your task is to sit as long as possible through a viewing of EMILIA PEREZ. It is by far one of the worst things I've ever (mostly) seen, and the Oscars people who thought it deserved a nomination for Best Picture need to stop huffing their own farts.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-02-01 16:13:55
Hello from the new Damus Purple Notedeck alpha, now with 100% more note posting!
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-31 17:45:04
Actual creation vs. that which is known as "content creation."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/trust-me-you-dont-want-to-go-viral/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-30 18:37:18
Smart, smart, smart. Good read.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-ai-fad-just-burned-to-waterline.html
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-28 02:46:05
It’s all a matter of where the model is hosted. I wouldn’t use their service (just like I don’t use OpenAI) but I’d locally host a model, as I have in the past. I’d give code auditors time to look at this particular one, since it’s all open source.
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@ e5308b9c:cf8f4c08
2025-01-28 02:41:10
I have no idea where my data is going. That’s why I refuse to use LLMs at this point.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-27 21:06:38
So the Deepseek model blew the covers off the AI scam, huh? A lot of technocrats were relying on those expensive models.
Meanwhile, wake me when AI gets cool.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-27 16:19:20
Just saw a YT clip of "Tales of the TMNT," which is apparently a 2024 animation. How is it that cartoon animation and art quality is getting worse than it was when I was a wee lad, watching my 1987 Ninja Turtles with glee?
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-27 16:15:01
Indeed. Unfortunately, I'm also half-Belgian. 😮💨
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-27 02:54:58
Good luck. 😂
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@ 571803e6:5fd93cda
2025-01-27 02:54:10
I wanted them to win. So they could get hammered by the dirty birds
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-27 02:52:35
Always the Bills, never the victors.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-22 21:13:02
Notice the subtle rhetorical twist here, which I appreciate (because that's how they get nefarious things done): "Anonymity is not a fundamental right," she says, because she cannot use the word "privacy" and expect people to accept the message.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-22 21:09:20
nopers.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-19 19:24:43
I see nothing here about divestment; TikTok won't do that, as they've stated multiple times. Nothing short of an enforced ban will push them towards a sale. Rather, Trump is going to try and use this as some kind of leverage, possibly with the CCP. This is what it always comes down to with him, and I can't see much gain coming from any of this. Best just to take it out behind the shed right now.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-19 14:50:41
There's a legitimate argument to be made in defense of TikTok contra the ban, but the really tasty part is that those emotionally impacted by the death of the platform are completely incapable of making it.
Completely on-brand.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-19 03:50:41
https://m.primal.net/NnRp.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5HxJgyaMU
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-18 23:17:43
The greatest timeline, wherein the President of the United States of America is about to rugpull the citizenry.
https://gettrumpmemes.com/
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-17 21:57:58
Finally went to the new grocery store in my area. My test for grocery stores:
1) Does the produce look fresh? I won't buy any, but fresh produce means a good grocery store.
2) Do you sell 4-pound cans of peanut butter?
It was a yes on both. I shall return.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-17 03:12:11
Good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q_I3npwX4Rw
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-16 21:17:57
As cool as it gets. RIP.
https://m.primal.net/NjsK.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-16 16:43:02
He was the last of the great ones. Those old voices who could hold an entire broadcast all by themselves with humor, with stories, with wisdom. Grateful I prioritized listening to the Milwaukee broadcast last season. RIP, Bob.
https://m.primal.net/NjZK.png
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-15 17:44:42
As much as I love clowning on TikTok and their users, here's the reality: ByteDance will sell. Maybe not their algorithm, but they'll sell a name that is worth nothing to them stateside if they remain on course. Someone will shell out the billions and the brain rot will continue.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6xkv5v7gwcjzjkx370jhk7y8pk5rtrxkgx95fstnvzpqfuyqa8fqqsx5rjtsdn7m60pa0cqjv5nlr2z85s2j66m460kvftcuzr2vayg6sq8rmd0a
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-15 16:33:21
What did you think? It's on my eventual watchlist.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-15 15:46:54
Less than a month before pitchers and catchers report. Cubs still need a closer. Sox still need a team. Yankees aren't any better. But who cares. Baseball >>> Other Sportsball.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-13 00:28:17
What's the difference between the Bears and the Packers?
The Packers got to play an extra game.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-10 16:42:45
Only nine (9) days until the country is freed from TikTok, at least temporarily.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-10 03:41:22
One hidden little nugget: most priests ordained after a certain year can't stand Notre Dame football and actively root against them, mostly because of the "fumbles" regarding Catholic identity at the university.
This University of Illinois grad from Nebraska says: finish strong, Penn State.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-08 20:03:35
Look at it becoming all fashionable now, to say you're "free speech."
In reality, the goal posts have shifted. What matters now is whether or not you have the ability to censor content in the first place.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-07 20:59:31
I'd trust Nixon.
https://m.primal.net/NWlj.jpg
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-05 20:59:15
Sweet mercy, are the Bears bad. But it’ll all be over soon.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-04 01:48:12
Just noticed "Don't Look Back" is on Criterion Channel, so I'll roll it for the 8,000th viewing. Dylan wears fame about as well as I handle non-EEE shoes, which is what makes this great.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-02 22:12:29
Watching from the sidelines, what's going on over at Elon's X is worse than what happened when it was publicly traded. Booting people because corporations with advertising dollars had a knife to your throat? Problematic but understandable. Booting people because they hurt your ego? Horribly childish way to betray your supposed ideals.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2025-01-01 00:00:07
You know Elon stepped in it when Sam Hyde is forced to border on seriousness for a while.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-12-29 23:47:03
Jimmy Carter. Perhaps a better man than president, which begs the question: can a good man wield power in the modern landscape?
St. Louis IX, ora pro nobis.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-12-28 23:31:20
Oh, and an equal condemnation -- required here on Nostr, it seems -- of Elon's latest goofiness/temper tantrum. A regular Veruca Salt, that one.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-12-28 23:29:39
Too many stories of Bluesky arbitrarily banning people because they don't meet the status quo over there.
Hate to say it, but they're sealing their own fate.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-12-28 17:05:27
Good thing you’re not bound by Euro law.
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@ 8afb75fc:efd149b2
2024-12-27 18:12:02
They were always the perfect place for spare coins.