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4. Double checked the other photos I took to confirm.

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Yup.

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An exclamation point after his own name and title. But Biden is old.

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OK, just learned that Rihanna's songwriter has apparently claimed credit for that and what the hell, I'm sure I was hearing that line like 20 years before the song.

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So I haven't had time to figure out what the whole "abundance" thing is but basically it's just rebranded neoliberalism right?

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Iran's foreign minister has apparently Tweeted, because hell is empty and all the devils are in the tubes, that there is no agreement.

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Yes, not calling it a kink clearly changes everything.

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But remember: YKINMKBYeahhiskinkisn'tOK

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Y'know, given that firing doesn't seem to be ceasing, I'm kinda having doubts about the whole "just spontaneously announce a ceasefire on social media and see what happens" approach to global diplomacy.

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Actually, that's probably depressingly common.

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And Bill Clinton. So kinda got trifecta potential there.

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Yes. And that does distinctly add to tankie d00d's risk, yes.

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Length. The phrase is "as stated at length." HTH, HAND.

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It only looks like that because it's full of hot garbage.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

You really keep reading very poorly. Are you OK?

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I'm honestly kind of amazed that I've still got a rude-labeled tankie in my mentions insisting that I'm a doomer because of this post.

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Now TELL ME that didn't help you think about something besides war that also matters for a little while. (It's ok I'm still thinking about all those lives and habitat and resources lost while I also think about the other things.)

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October 2024 Term #SCOTUS rulings to date from which all three Democratic appointees dissented: On the merits docket: 3 On emergency applications: 9 That tells you quite a lot about where the most important action is...

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The continued insistence that I'm a doomer is risible. But his threat to the chickens is credible.

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The record does not demonstrate substantial evidence in that regard.

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Yeah, this was immediate postwar construction.

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It's been tried before, in other words. More than once.

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Can't sue the federal government in state court. When you try something like what you suggest, the AG declares that the individual defendants were acting as fed employees, removes the case to federal court on behalf of the individual defendants, then has case dismissed under sovereign immunity.

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I don't know. I found living in a house with central heating downstairs but not upstairs was both a fact and really funny. Nearly as funny as the two-tap sink in the washroom next to the little room the upstairs toilet was in.

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Sigh. Still not reading too good, are you? Keep working, practice will help.

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That's...not how you do that.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

Lawyer here. The federal government has sovereign immunity, meaning it can only be sued when it has consented to be sued. The Federal Tort Claims Act allows suits for many torts, but not for intentional torts. Defamation is an intentional tort, so the federal government can't be sued for it.

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No AC. But it did have central heating. Downstairs.

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Look, I can understand why you aren't getting less weak, you maxed, that's fine, but how are you managing to get weaker with every reply?

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

Been saying this this for years. Ever since the house in the UK that had the thermostat that only did whole number centigrade degrees. Which resulted in it bracketing the number my wife and I were both good with.

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And it's not even close.

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Wasn't really a chess reference my dude.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

We need a laughing face react, not just a heart.

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"they shimmied to the 'Church Clap'" has so many layers.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

I *REALLY* don't want to have to hand it to Tom Massie...

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This is just pigeon chess at this point.

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I did not need this approval. And I would not have changed how I write if they were arguing the opposite. But I'll take it.

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lawless

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Same, but also I don't want repost notifications.

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*Sigh* Social media participants can live in less sheltered information environments than those who do not participate. This statement can remain true even if every single individual social media site has echo chamber features. I'm not sure why this is hard to...checks poster bio...ah. Carry on.

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Everyone's a winner. Almost.

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The Merry Painters of Nottingham by Billy Shakespeare (I expect to see the play on YouTube by midsummer's end. Get every painter and hobbiest in 40km together for it)

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Let me give you a harder target for your predictive skills: Sunrise tomorrow: yes or no?

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Does pineapple change the clearance of the pizza?

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Spectre thinks it makes him look witty, and is 50% correct in that assessment.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

Oh bless your lil heart some more, you thought that was witty or something?

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Our primary redeeming feature is having more redeeming features than you.

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Could be a decent Paranoia thing.

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‘Girgrim’s been at the beans again.’ ‘How’d you know?’ ‘Portaloo’s launched’

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100% true. Also, military brats are heroes.

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I've seen a copy of the letter. Read to me more as good-natured and slightly self-deprecating than sarcastic.

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Or is that Asterix I'm thinking of. Need more tea.

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To be clear, I despise Tintin for being to European copyright law what Disney is to American law.

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Ok bye.

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I posted a picture of chickens.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

Also, if you have a hammer and sickle in your display name and "feral dialectics" in your bio, I'm just going to save all of us time by assuming that you don't know what those words mean - jointly or severally.

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To explain, no, to sum up: Rude d00d, who has a bio reference to "feral dialectics" in bio, decides to jump in my mentions to criticize me for things I didn't say. Then proceeds to announce that they can outlast anyone in the thread. Now asks what a threadnought is.

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According to the internet, I hate waffles because of my clear and obvious hatred of the Belgian proletariat.

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According to the internet, I hate waffles because of my clear and obvious hatred of the Belgian proletariat.

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Bluesky. The place where the suggestion that it's OK to post animal pix and stuff like that can rapidly devolve into a thread where dialectic misunderstanders call you a Nazi.

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Who the fuck said "be silent"?

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Highly performative internet communist.

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Mostly the pineapple.

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Grrr

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They asked Heinlein for a license, and what he would charge. He laughed, said something like "send me a copy of the script and we'll call it even, also I think I stole it from Ellis Parker Butler."

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Bluesky. The place where the suggestion that it's OK to post animal pix and stuff like that can rapidly devolve into a thread where dialectic misunderstanders call you a Nazi.

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Oh, sweet pea, you're trying so very hard. Bless your little functionally illiterate heart.

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The number of people who seem to be reading this as suggesting that people shouldn't talk about politics is painful.

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Oh, sweet pea, you're trying so very hard. Bless your little functionally illiterate heart.

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This raises a difficult-to-resolve perpetual question from sci-fi past: Was "The Trouble with Tribbles" adapted from "The Rolling Stones"? (A little googling should turn up some interesting facts for anyone interested, and, with slight adaptations, could make a fun IP exam fact pattern.)

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It's complicated, but you're not far off. They're descended both from escapes of domesticated fowl brought by the original Polynesian settlers and later escaped European chickens.

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Oh, good. Nothing like starting the week with tankies in your mentions.

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Tonight's photo post: The abandoned officer's housing at Hickam AFB - the old Ft. Kamehameha.

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Accurate. Book wasn't totally terrible, though.

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I tell you what. Take a look at the last 2 or 3 days of my timeline, then ask yourself if maybe you have badly misread what I was saying.

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💙

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Probably would have been if still connected.

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Wut??

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It really is.

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I wouldn't call Tokyo refreshing, and I'm not sure about Osaka. But Kyoto absolutely.

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Fair question. Overall: it's on a military base, not in a spot within the base where there's good connections to services, it's directly under the final approach to the most commonly used HNL runway, at a point where planes are under 400', and it's now about 100 yards from the sewage plant.

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I don't know about live there - but I could go back over and over and over. Next trip, I want to find a quiet shrine somewhere, preferably woods or mountain, and just sit quietly for, oh, I don't know. A day? A week?

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Here are some feijoa flowers. The petals are delicious!

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#Bloomscroll aside… Spangled fritillary feeding on a milkweed blossom; in my own personal No Mow Zone.

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Tonight's photo post: The abandoned officer's housing at Hickam AFB - the old Ft. Kamehameha.

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Mine was a last date. And also a first date.

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The Puppet Masters, and it's not even remotely close. Absolutely terrible without being redeemed by being "so bad it's good." And I went in with such teenage naive hopes - Heinlein and Donald Southerland, how could it be bad? And that was only part of the single most disastrous date of my life.

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Possible, but TBD. My upcoming week looks like a bear, so I'm not 100% positive there will be a stream this week.

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Boomers.

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More Americans think they can beat a grizzly bear in a fight than want to fight Iran.

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Chlamydia's approval rate generally runs a little higher than war with Iran is polling at. But then there's at least a reasonable chance that chlamydia has an occasional association with pleasure.

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Dropped by a FLGS earlier to find Waterloo underway. Napoleon's Battles rules, 15mm figures, mostly from Essex. 6mm buildings. Game started yesterday, I think they said they were on Turn 13. As you can see in the 2d picture, the French flank was about to get rolled. #wargames #miniaturepainting

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moar popcorn please

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If JD Vance has a genuine humiliation fetish, his life is going great. But if not, damn.

The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social):

Good theory.

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Oh, is the sex pest endorsing the sex pest? What a surprise.

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Listening to Vance talk about dumb presidents makes me want to propose a community bomb shelter at the next HOA board meeting.

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When the national anthem plays, I stop walking, face the flagpole, and remove my hat. I do not oppose this incompetent, corrupt, and lawless administration out of a lack of regard for my country. I oppose Trump because fidelity to American ideals and aspirations demands nothing less.

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Same place it’s been every time Trump has taken the piss.