pyat.bsky.social
Poorly curated personality advertisement for an actual mouse. Former reporter, sometime writer about orcs & rabbit samurai. Now Infosec bureaucrat. As seen on TV. Ponderous whimsy a specialty, sometimes factual. Squeak.
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Thank you for your service.
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*eyebrow waggle* Just ask weird.
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Recently on Telegram: "Grapes of Wrath is really low tier. There's no overall theme and the author never explains the title."
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Man, I bet Bulgaria is relieved.
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And your last fleeting sparks of self will look up from the identity-less, formless, ideal-less, wireless, gestalt-less gestalt and shout...
'Save us!'
And I’ll look down and I’ll whisper…
'Sorry, but can you just help me set the clock on my VCR?'
(Source: Me, about 10 years ago)
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My early evangelical education has part of me nodding along. "Yep, the Beast out of the Sea was injured in the head but did not die, everything ticking along according to plan."
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Iran (in my limited outsider opinion) can launch missiles in response, but that would be a pretext for a larger response. The US is talking about regime change and went from "No, Israel, don't!" to "Iran, sign a deal or Israel will blow you up even more" literally overnight.
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HOW DARE
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French person: *does something* England: "IS THIS WATERLOO?"
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A friend of mine once spent some time writing about how before Hitler, Napoleon was the secular Satan that everyone compared things to. (*Walloon rattles a sabre in Flanders* Everyone: "IS THIS NAPOLEON?")
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It's like how that Hitler guy was totally ripping off Star Wars, right down to the uniforms.
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What's this about Gwynne Dyer?
gwynnedyer.com
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I'm Canadian, but I was an adult (barely) when the riots happened and a news junkie.
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Yes, and the investigation into the massacre was Colin Powell's first big white wash for the Pentagon.
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It's something that happened during the Rodney King riots.
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allthatsinteresting.com/roof-koreans
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I think this is a reference to instances of Korean shopkeepers firing on people breaking into businesses during the Rodney King riots.
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Once upon a time around 1990 I was walking through Queen's Park, the Ontario legislative building. The squirrels living in the green space around the building would activate motion-sensor water fountains by hanging their tails over the sensors.
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The NDP said that would not be supporting the throne speech, basically means "We're not supporting the PM." In practice that might just mean they want to make a deal.
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The Speech introduces the government’s direction and goals, and outlines how it will work to achieve them, basically it's the policy platform, which parliament can then approve, fine tune, gut, or whatever.
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I promised it as a birthday present for my youngest. I was in a meeting at 11 AM EST, and left the meeting to find "Father" "Father!" "Father?" "Father!" texts reminding me gift it to her on Steam.
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My apologies - I'd forgotten the alt text on the image, so in comments.
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Alt text 2: How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?
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ALT text - Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians:
What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and GPS? (Before them) millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions.
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Oh, Arizona tea. I thought maybe the state. :D
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Isn't that a wolverine? 0.0 (It's all Mustelidae I guess)
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*follows*
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Apparently it is a formal name for a lobby or waiting area.
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Pardon me, Brother Andre
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It took a bite and discovered "Damage Stamina" and then a bunch of Jesuits wrestled me to the ground.
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This feels like a trap. :D
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I always felt that one to be a sort of metatextual reference, what "the kids" call "lampshading." But an incredibly lame example of such. :D
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So where do the Andorians come from, smart guy?
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I asked the Payolas and they didn't know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12S...