bill-n1vux.bsky.social
semi-retired. Perl & other FLOSS software. Scotch+Armagnac. Genealogy. old coastal fortifications. Radio. Maths. ^Sarcasm thus.^
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FIFA did WC 2022 in Qatar, is likely going to Saudi, so they have a large tolerances. Exempting competitors, government reps may be enough to ignore visa limits, enforcement. 🤨
The impact on the private hi-end spectator tourism that LA was counting on to make hosting worthwhile, though, that tanks.
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👍🏻🖤
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(Or if the county/town has injury-liability insurance, instead of self-insuring, paranoid underwriting.)
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Oh, double thank you!
(a) I had previously promised to explain this to some non-C-programmers
(b) I collect programs that can re-fiddle PDFs for reasons, glad to have another, as different ones do different things well.
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👍
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Is this an ode 🎶 to a famed regional petrol&convenience ⛽️ 🛍?
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Similarly my Offline fam&friends are mostly still on FB (because they're not TikTok young)
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Yes, this is not yet a place for finding our IRL folks (other than the terminally online like thee and me and a few other local mutuals).
I have re-connected with quite a few that I'd missed from old old 🔵 🐦 . (And a number of others w some overlap over on Fedi.)
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As with other socials, gotta curate your feed(s).
I've found a number of pinnable feeds with interesting content that aren't the lifeboat drama
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That may qualify as a soft landing.
(Quite rough for the FOMO late entrants who may jave thought speculative investment was can't-miss sure-thing but FAFO.)
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½ mile to K-3 elementary school, no crosswalk or crossing guard, just a blinking light at the crossroads (now a major controlled intersection!). At least there was a sidewalk along on the main drag.
(A year or two later, Cub Scout Den meeting was ¾mi on a dirt road to the winterized pond cottages.)
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Fascinating!
Glad to see the Field family house being included in renovations.
(It was originally on the corner and moved back to build the block including Post Office as original anchor tenant.)
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It's a great deal if and only if the publisher actually honors it, it's a lousy contract if they can't afford to or choose not to do so.
(which might have been a hint.)
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FWIW, I recently heard a podcast with a researcher who'd discussed Quipus with Andean villagers who still held some. Would've been easier to find but BBC sometimes spells it khipu!
Science In Action, May 29
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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not quite.
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Well that's two reasons now.
(Rather than buying more pens this year, I bought a small jewellery-sized ultrasonic cleaner from Harbor Freight so I can restore the old ones I've ignored too long.)
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that would color-coordinate with my '77 prom ^tux^
(more like a wedding band suit!)
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... reminds me of a silly-spotter-tricks story i heard from a Major of Art'y.
Yes, getting too close to target will mess you up.
(Moral of story was How Close is close depends upon who is providing the support fires.)
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Maybe they presumed your Church building was a MegaChurch with such amenities ?
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see bsky.app/profile/mass...
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or both?
Leaders/Lawyers concluded so, AND didn't explain to members at large, as it was a non-issue at the time.
(An MLS club getting into CWC during the 6 years of the CBA wasn't likely - prior to Infantino expanding it from 7 teams to 32, and pumping in $prize to attract clubs he wanted.)
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The MAGA carpetbagger from Brookline running as a "Democrat" in non-partisan Mayoral primary in Boston.
(Better known as the lesser Failson of the Patriots owner.)
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* unless he can bring Brookline into Suffolk Co & Boston finally, much overdue to have a unitary authority.
(Disassembling MDC may have been advantageous from a budget pov, but having a single regional authority made sense!)
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Yes But. Josh getting a fake address in the city and spamming us with ads is offensive: his greater wealth doesn't entitle him to a greater voice, nor even any voice*.
We might need to require a record of having actually voted in the city to run for office, not just a brand new maildrop.
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Now 35, and their spouse is even more sarcastic.
❤❤
(I love 'em both.)
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Such a good joke of a story ruined by facts.
(Hal imports forks from France because his mother had shown him Continental table manners, but his AngloNorman courtiers mistake then for the latest in Italian dueling mains-gauche (sword-catcher&breaker to parry); hilarity ensues.)
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^They're ahead of their time?^
(😉 In another decade or so, as with California fire 🔥 season and Swiss landslide 🏔 season, hurricanes 🌀 will be a 12 month season, and tornadoes🌪 too.
But no, in their case, they're just as (in)competent and (un)prepared as expected from this (mal)administration.)
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Are you intimating that the "Thomas à Becket" Historical Novel's portrayal of the first Forks in England in the 12thC is as ahistorical as the insertion of the à in his name?
(It's hilarious bit of comic relief in a tragic tale.)
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Next game, having seen this wing-back&wing-back treble, there's a good chance Cinci puts defenders on Ilan and Peyton to shut them down — which one hopes will create space for Carles and whichever forwards are fit.
(It was nice to see ref protecting Carles early and often.)
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"feels weird" 😆👍🏻
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Whoever wasn't covered uses the space.
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In the 1980s, the firm had a campus with lettered A..K buildings.
Hotel/Bar with abutting parking was Stouffer's branded.
Code for Happy Hour was "meeting in S Building at 4."
Our team lead would also call meetings on the lawn in fair weather. & Trivial pursuit on the lawn outside cafeteria.
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(Narrator: In Mass., Happy Hour is half-price appetizers (and waived cover-charge if a band is setting up later), as the NannyState banned discount booze. Not _just_ Puritan brother's-keeper, tho', as it was part of the response to DUI death toll.)
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Indeed. (I was collating a social group's history and the number of "F*ck Cancer" and "Absent Friends" toasts in 20 years is ... well ... it is.)