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jplafitte.bsky.social
I like cats, dogs, pets, cooking, history, finding anomalies in AIs, and working on puzzles. I used to code. Not really into mainstream politics, and usually, I speak and type in complete sentences, but I have a tendency toward run ons. 😉
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Print the money! No will to. They use the national debt weapon to force payments for war, and they could also print more without a care of paying it back for infrastructure too but they don’t: We’re not in a position to fix a thing Trump doesn’t fund.
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Boundaries: These two think you’re attempting murder if you attenpt to pick them up too. Sweet otherwise.
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I hear you but feral ferocity is it’s own deal comparatively. I’m used to enormous dogs, Irish Wolfhounds, Newfoundlands, and a Great Pyrenees. They were born during a dog lull but it stuck. I don’t know from domesticated versions’ behavior except from friends’ leg rubbers.
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I did my share in my youth. I don’t recommend any hallucinogens without adequate instruction and guides. The bounds of MKULTRA research are not known either. What’s the “best” course of use that’s therapeutic for each person? Like all things, reactions vary, and especially here.
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My born feral goofs are very friendly, all things considered, but belly rubs are a domesticated deal. They’d still rip up anyone’s hand going there. But they are plenty cute, and spoiled, just the same.
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“human metapneumovirus (HMPV)”, which is “spreading rapidly.” Faster than “we” can quit the WHO?
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I was watching Something About Mary and he occurred to me for some reason. 😉 #MartaTrump
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Mind blowing
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Truth is just unwanted noise in the signals of national security.
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Yet another big player in the modern crop of national security billionaires. PayPal mafia crony. They generate the new news and ops.
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HB T!
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You have to run a lot of mental what-if’s to pick the “best” routes to belief from any partisan media. You have to dump whole narratives too in favor of better: I think that’s what holds up human progress, nostalgia for “hard-won”beliefs to still count for as much as possible. Next stop, denial.
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18 back in the 70s: Then I took a Tolkien course next semester and found out the trilogy was definitely his best work by a lot. Turning the Hobbit into three movies was quite the stretch, but hey, the box office and streaming and merch dollars were way too easy not to keep fans flocking.
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Good on you WMHS! đŸ„ł
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Pod Save America Hosted by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, 3X/wk podcast. The Daily Beans Hosted by former federal employees, daily news. The Damage Report Hosted by John Iadarola, daily progressive commentary. The BradCast Hosted by Brad Friedman, progressive news & analysis.
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Size, topic, author’s last name, predominantly non-fiction except for Gore Vidal and other historical novels. 10 shelves worth and those are the ones I like to peruse. I have plenty in boxes I’m going to drive to Moe’s Books (Bezerkley) for store credit! I can spend hours on end in Moe’s.
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Yeah, when four are descending the fence to get to the cats water bowl, the hose still comes out. I like’em but the fleas they bring into the yard and then onto the cats are gargantuan. A lot of Wondercide and combing goes into keeping the kids’ fleas tiny or absent.
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Where’s the Ha-Ha icon?
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Bring extra glasses, a few old pairs. With glasses that thick, you’d think Meredith’s character would have many pairs on the way to those bad eyes or at least carry a spare monocle. 😉
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New Yorker 11-4-24: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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More used books in independents, please. That’s where Amazon seems to be cornering the market. They don’t digitize or reprint enough older gems. Thus, Abe and Amazon, when I don’t feel like driving 100 miles to Moe’s Books! đŸ€“
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I see they contribute part of the profits to independent bookstores. I hope to used bookstores too. Not many left as excellent as Moe’s Books, if even another is nearly as good! I drive more than 100 miles there and back to seriously shop for hours.
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It’s good to have the numbers in mind, especially if you tend towards run-ons, because they can add a lot of unnecessary words in addition to flowery language and multi-syllable words where one syllable will do to linguistically facilitate an amelioration of written verbosity. 🙃