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banjoux.bsky.social
I spent the 80's breaking big atoms into little ones on a US Submarine. These days I do database and cloudy things for a large university. I own 4 banjos and am not afraid to use them. INTP-T
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Don’t know if you’ve looked around lately but if you did you’d see we are fast becoming one of those authoritarian countries.
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One of Husserl's students, Hannah Arendt, was jailed by the Gestapo for her research on antisemitism prohibited by the Nazis and on her release, fled Germany. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”- Hannah Arendt #AcademicFreedom 3/n
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The story of #Auschwitz is also the story of female perpetrators. Around 200 women served in the SS camp garrison: as guards (some were very brutal towards female prisoners), radio operators, nurses, or secretaries: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2021_nadzorc... Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Km...
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POYUMS @lenniesaurus.bsky.social's fierce & tender debut poetry collection written in Scots & English about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving has been shortlisted for the Discover Book of the Year! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poyu...
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@oldgodspod.bsky.social might know a thing or two about dudes wearing another dude’s skin.
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“Age yourself with the first computer you used.” Amdahl 470 running STSC APL*Plus. Mid 1970s. I was still in high school but there local university would let any one get an interactive account.
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Am I alone in thinking that if we wait for the midterms to do anything it is likely that any midterms will be a sham
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I’m pretty firmly in the C-4-W camp
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I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have the constitutional authority not that it seems to matter
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That’s like -339.79F
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I’ve been sorting and arranging all the piles of stuff in my office into other piles. It’s been much better for my state of mind
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All tests were to the web UI. The first three were s as a guest user
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I did a few tests. No VPN/Safari: locked out VPN/Safari: locked out VPN/duck-duck-go: not locked out VPN/duck-duck-go/US account: locked out