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cjonthehudson

@cjonthehudson@mastodon.sdf.org

Local history writer, music fan, beginning musician. Plus other stuff. Oh yeah: he/him. My grownkids are LGBTQ. Long-term addiction recovery. From Upstate NY (hence the "on the Hudson,") now in southeast PA.

#music #openmic #openmicnight #piano #ukulele #bass #bassguitar #comicstrips #adventurestrips #localhistory #history #journaling #movies #oldmovies #classicFilm #mentalhealth #lgbtq #lgbtqrights #cycling #bikeracing #vinyl #recordcollecting

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skyfaller, to random
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I hate killing plants, even when I know it's necessary. I had a maple sapling growing in my yard too close to my little rowhome; wrong tree, wrong location. I dug it up.

I put it in a pot. Help. What do I do now? Anyone want a baby maple?

cjonthehudson,
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@skyfaller Maples will follow you until you die. Don't worry about one.

Sheril, to politics
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Financial constraints to living & working in Washington, D.C. likely define & reinforce the community of people able to stay long enough to achieve senior positions, leading to a policy-making community distinct from the American public.

https://sheril.substack.com/p/left-out-of-the-room-where-it-happens #politics

So what? "Misperceptions & blind spots among decision makers may occur, in part, because their lived experiences primarily reflect those from communities with the resources required to maintain influential roles."

cjonthehudson,
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@Sheril Looking forward to reading this later on. It's definitely true that I could not, as a fresh MPA with no family money or support, have gone to DC to pursue my career – and my program was so DC-centric. And when I got there, the lower level staffers were all out of central casting, for sure. Found considerably more (but nowhere near enough) diversity in the NYS legislative staff than I saw in Congress.

cjonthehudson,
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@Sheril And I say that acknowledging that the only diversity I'd have added would have been coming from the working class.

cjonthehudson, to history
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One of the most famous aviators of her day, the now seemingly forgotten Ruth Nichols, suffered a terrible crash in a plane she wasn't piloting at the end of a "good will" tour in Troy, NY, promoting air travel. She survived and went on to great accomplishments. I've got the story of the crash here:
https://hoxsie.org/2024/03/28/ruth-nichols-and-a-tragic-plane-crash-in-troy/

skyfaller, to random
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How can I, as an adult American, get better at geography?

Today @berz schooled me when I wanted to discuss genocide in Tigray, but I guessed incorrectly the country it took place in (Ethiopia). Yes, I have difficulty distinguishing countries in Africa, and no, I'm not proud of it.

I've tried playing geography games like Globle: https://globle-game.com/

That helps me recognize countries on the map, but no details about them stick in my head as a result (such as where war crimes took place).

cjonthehudson,
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@skyfaller I have similar problems, not even just with Africa but with much of South America and eastern Europe – primarily because I have no interactions with them, so holding those map spaces in my head is nothing but an abstraction, and the abstraction goes away when I stop thinking about it. But that's true of many things.

GayOldTime, to food
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Is whipping the duchess anything like bashing the bishop?
#vintageAd #food #innuendo

cjonthehudson,
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@GayOldTime Who's the lucky tart who gets to whip the Duchess?

cjonthehudson, to 80s
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Public Image Ltd – Album
This album is evidence of the unreliability of memory, because in my mind I associate this with an apartment we had moved out of years before this album was even released. That’s probably because the summer that we did spend in that apartment included a dark period when “Never Mind The Bollocks,” by John Lydon’s previous band, The Se
https://vinyldistractions.com/public-image-ltd-album/

cjonthehudson, to random
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A little Brecht and Weill for your Sunday morning – an anti-war song written specifically for Lotte Lenya to record and have broadcast into Germany – this is "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife."

https://youtu.be/ENj1M6D_ZL8

cjonthehudson, to random
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Scanning a 1946 high school near my old hometown, and I'm reminded that the past is truly a different country.

@GayOldTime Tagging you for her quote as "The gay illiterate."

cs, to random
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#LinkedIn: Someone in your industry has reached out to you and wants to connect.

This person is in “lead forensics,” whatever the F that is.

Poke around a bit, and they are into selling and scraping leads. No, LinkedIn, that isn’t my industry.

cjonthehudson,
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@cs LinkedIn is currently my lead source of spam. Not just randos looking for leads, but real damaging scams and bots.

cs, to running
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No. No, #Runkeeper, this does not improve the GPS. This map does not “look correct.” #running

cjonthehudson,
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@cs I assume you took an Uber back.

christinamartin, to random

The five stages of wedding grief

cjonthehudson,
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@christinamartin In the US here – I have no idea what those cards are for.

dancinyogi, to random
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Unpopular opinion here. Yes, meteorologists only get it right about 60 percent of the time when it comes to Nor'Easters. However, in their defense, they are usually incredibly hard to forecast for the I95 corridor. Temperature differences, the jet stream, etc, make it tough to call the storms more than three days ahead unless they are true monsters.

That said, I think science should 'catch up' to the impact of global warming. They're still working off average temperatures from decades ago.

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi The challenge with modeling the weather is that the reactions have changed – so the same inputs don't produce the same outputs, which confounds modeling. I was recently involved in an argument over whether to use the past 30 years of data, which actually eliminates a lot of more severe events, or 50 years, which captures some extremes from the '70s that we've forgotten about.

skyfaller, (edited ) to random
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Which is the superior writing instrument? Or, which should I practice more in the new year?

cjonthehudson,
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@skyfaller @vfrmedia Useful to know about! Wasn't aware of WPM. I currently only have three typewriters – two operate, one I've been carrying around for more than 40 years with the thought that someday I would restore it, but probably I won't.

GayOldTime, to retrocomputing
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A couple of years later, the Internet became popular and wrecked the shirtless hunk screen saver market
#retrocomputing #gay #1990s

cjonthehudson,
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@GayOldTime That's an insane price for the time.

cjonthehudson,
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@StanWonn @GayOldTime Oh yeah I get that, and I know games cost about that much, it just felt like for a screensaver it was a LOT. My first Mac in 1995 was $4K, and we waited a year to buy the printer because that was another $1000.

dancinyogi, to random
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I've been thinking back to that vulnerable age of 11 and 12. Before I pushed myself to join the dance team, I was shy. For those 2 years, I'd take home the list of extracurricular clubs to join. Yearbook? Too many popular kids. Debate? Too many smart kids. FBLA? Too many popular AND smart kids. Geeky Stacy would never fit in, so she joined nothing. But then, I joined the dance team. Despite that, I was still geeky Stacy inside, though (still am!)

What were you at 11 and 12?

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi It's interesting because I don't think we had any of those options in junior high (now called middle school). I turned 12 after 7th grade started. Sports and orchestra/band; I don't think there were any after-school clubs until high school.

dancinyogi, to movies
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Who is your favorite Ebenezer Scrooge? 🎥

I would put this in a poll, but I only have four options available, and far more actors have portrayed Scrooge.

I'll kick things off. My favorite was George C. Scott.

#movies #Christmas

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi Michael Caine. The one, the only.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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Can you drive a stick shift (manual transmission)? 🚗

Answer yes even if you haven't driven one in a while.

Please boost and reply with where you are from

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi It'll probably be the last one, but I've driven exclusively stick since 1985. Greater Philly now, but most of those years were upstate NY, where a little extra control in the snow was not a bad thing.

cs, (edited ) to random
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“Mexicanized dishes and pepper sauces”? Next thing you know, you have a taco truck on every corner. Don’t get me started on coca. Mothers, you have been warned.

cjonthehudson,
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@cs The ol' pickles and pork path . . . gets 'em every time.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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Would you rather swim....🏊

#poll

Please boost and reply with your preference and why 😊

I"d rather swim in a pool. I've had a couple of bad experiences in the ocean. 😬

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi Sign of being from around here: lakes don't even enter into it.

dancinyogi, to random
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Auto-correct is being a twist today. I just texted someone and wanted to end the text with 'thanks'. Autocorrect changed 'thanks' to ''tyrant' and I ended up texting 'That's great tyrant!"

What the actual....? 🙄 🤣

cjonthehudson,
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@dancinyogi I keep turning it off. It keeps turning itself back on. Making me insane.

cjonthehudson, to random
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Our whole family is now on #COVID watch and we're not even in the same zip code. The elder one was exposed by a coworker yesterday, and now the younger one had the same situation – and that's the one I visited today, so now I'm potentially exposed too. Back into isolation.

This is definitely #TheWorstTimeline

cjonthehudson, to philadelphia
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A rare trip into #Philly yesterday, and I was thrilled to spot two new #HouseOfHades #ToynbeeTiles right near City Hall. These symbols or messages embedded in asphalt streets fascinate me as an art form.

More background here:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toynbee-tiles

#philadelphia #UrbanArt #ToynbeeTile

A series of geometric patterns with the letters "HOH18," meaning House of Hades 2018, within one of the shapes. These are primarily three squares arranged into a right angle; within each square is a circle filled with small fragments that look like confetti. There are horizontal and vertical line elements as well. The overall effect is an abstract design. This art form is surreptitiously laid onto asphalt, usually in the middle of busy streets, in only a select number of cities. Philadelphia appears to have been ground zero for the original Toynbee tiles.

dabertime, to random
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"What do you do for a living?"
I don't particularly like this question as a means of getting to know someone. Is that who we are?

If we lose our job, are unable to work or are retired.. are we are still the same person?

When we take some of our work roles out of the mix, we may be freed to find out, or be more, who we are.

cjonthehudson,
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@dabertime So rare these days that people do ask me … Most of my interactions are within the musician and arts community and no one wants to know about your day job, just your interests.

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