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I am a wanderer with no real business here. But I cannot just lurk and read posts from others, so I will shortly begin talking to myself in rather short blurts. There will be typos.
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Is the resemblance my imagination? Kind of jump scared out at me

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/pd4IV0y0Lpg?...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

NYT games spoiler for Connections 1/29 in first comment. Why do I not much like Connections? Leaving aside the silly stuff of made-up connections, sometimes the "connection" doesn't work right.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe by prohibiting federal agencies from releasing info to the public Trump's intent is to "cure" bird flu and drop the price of eggs. Just because they're first & foremost malevolent doesn't mean they're not stupid.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Who could imagine a guy whose family grew rich in apartheid South Africa would be a Nazi sympathizer and think a Sieg Heil would be cool. With apologies to anyone who grew up in apartheid SA and became a decent person

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Self inventory: Instagram: deleted Threads: deleted X: long deleted Facebook: keeping for connections TikTok: waving bye Rednote: trying it out Neil Gaiman: stays on my shelf, not adding more. Disappointing, horrified, but nothing horrible is surprising anymore. US Government: horrified

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Reading a piece of fiction published in 2021, where a revelation comes from a viral video -everyone believes it. Thinking video sharing emerged early 2000s. Thinking with current and emerging tech videos are losing their default credibility. Is that plot device dying in fiction and reality?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Citizens of Canada and Greenland should be terrified, no matter how wild the thought, that they might have to trade their healthcare for the predatory system the US has.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

On a tiktok Cory Doctrow attributes this to "Without", asserting it describes Musk's view: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Schadenfreude. May they eat each other As Elon Musk Embraces Far Right, Some of Its Top Figures Reject Him www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/t...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

What am I doing today? Busily manufacturing stress & sharing.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇 Just one guess. 🇺🇸

submitted 67 days ago • 957 comments

If you point out grammatical errors, fine. I want to sometimes too. If you describe yourself as a "grammar Nazi" here is a rule to remember: More important than any point of grammar ever, never be any kind of Nazi, ever.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Presumably an insured party has access to their full policy. If Optum's SOPs adhere to policy terms why do the SOPs need to be hidden away? Claim evaluation should be wholly transparent unless there is something to hide. Oh. techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

But we want to keep private "health insurance"? We who? Torrent of Anger for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/n...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

If I were a policy maker in "health insurance" I would take serious note of the response to Thompson's shooting. www.thedailybeast.com/leading-medi...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like the good doctor has gone over the top. But youtu.be/vWA2aQYXDbo?...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

If it's what it seems I'm kind of surprised it hadn't happened already

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Occupationally Induced Personality Disorder ought to be a thing if it isn't.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Received an unsolicited book through AbeBooks. Nice book. I did not order it. Gift? Possibly. Account compromise of some kind? Possibly. AbeBooks harder to reach than Amazon? Much harder.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The Fox news cabinet picks: I am willing to concede you usually only become (even) a Fox contributor by having some background. But the best people in a field aren't commentators, they're doing stuff, or teaching others.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

In 2 days on FB I clicked on current stories on Kentucky basketball. Yesterday, an article on the Duke game quoted "Kentucky guard DJ Wagner" from the locker room. Today, a current UK recruit was quoted as saying he liked John Calipari's plans for him. Calipari and Wagner left UK after last season

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Elle Cordova strikes again. 🤣

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

Going to take a while to find whose here I guess, but not posting Wordle here 😂

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment