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mjf_pro

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All worn-out and tired after a long squawk 🦜

IT Cloud Solutions Architect. Other interests: sci-tech, astronomy, weather, music. He/him. DMs are not guaranteed to be private; I don’t block them, but please use a non-Mastodon channel for private communications.

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mattblaze, (edited ) to photography
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Commuter Trains, Ewing (West Trenton), NJ, 2010.

All the pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4377309058

mjf_pro,
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@acsawdey @mattblaze The wheels are so he can more easily move it around, I guess? It’s like a shoulder-mount hand truck with a camera adapter…..

ai6yr, to random

Happy Guilted Into Buy Flowers-And-Chocolate Day, And Maybe Stand In An Endless Line For A Horribly Crowded Brunch Day for those that celebrate!

(hint: if you truly want to celebrate your mother, do what we always did for my mom, and do the buffet the week BEFORE or the week AFTER, when the buffet is better and you don't have crowds; I also used to go to the chocolate/flower stores the DAY AFTER and had gotten flowers for 90% off and chocolates for 50-75% off... 😉

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr Steak dinner comin’ up next weekend. As for this morning, we have a brand-new “not just good, but legit freaking great” #bagel shop that just opened around the corner from us in far north Dallas. Yeah, you read that right — New York bagels in #Dallas (n.b.: it ain’t the water, it’s the recipe & the technique). We bought Mom an everything bagel, and an olive cream cheese schmear which we haven’t been able to find locally here in a decade. Happy wife, happy life! 🥰

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr For those interested: Starship Bagel, Hillcrest Village shopping center at Hillcrest & Arapaho. They just opened last week and I expect lines out the door by mid-week this week once word gets around.

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr Just don’t get me started on the Chinese food. Still searching. 🤣

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr Very good BBQ, Tex-Mex, pan-Asian, Indian, French, continental Italian, and more. We’re not quite the same level of “foodiness” as Chicago or Philly, but we ain’t bad either. Just NY/Philly working-class Italian-style deli and bagels — and Chinese — have tended to be weak or nonexistent here.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked🤷🏿‍♂️

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

mjf_pro,
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@mekkaokereke Good read here: https://hachyderm.io/

mjf_pro, to random
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How To Speak To Voters Who Say They Can't Support Biden Because Of Gaza https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-gaza-israel-2024-election

mekkaokereke, to random
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This paper is trash. We do this every few years.

The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is:

  • Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies.
  • Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/05/believes-the-most-taboo-conspiracy-theories-it-might-not-be-you-think/

1/N

mjf_pro,
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@mekkaokereke White women are “finding out” in a parallel context now, as they see the anti-abortionists coming for their infertility treatments. Only then did the whole roadmap start getting their attention.

the_etrain, to random
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I forget if SaaS means sausage as a service, or software as a sausage.

mjf_pro,
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@the_etrain Satan As A Service

mjf_pro, to random
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Joe Biden, that’s your cue. https://mastodon.social/@uspolitics/112333890714822619

dgar, to random
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US election is like choosing between Xitter and Facebook.

mjf_pro,
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@dgar It’s like choosing between kale (bland, boring, hard to digest, but supposedly healthy for you) and sewage.

ai6yr, (edited ) to H5N1

Bird flu virus found in grocery milk as officials say supply still safe (Gift Link, thanks @firefly !) https://wapo.st/3JxBHpf #birdflu #h5n1 #hpai #cows #milk

mjf_pro,
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@CStamp @tiamat271 @ai6yr @firefly >> Folk drinking raw milk should rethink things. <<

🎯

CultureDesk, (edited ) to music
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According to Vox, it's impossible to be neutral on Taylor Swift because the discourse surrounding her is so pervasive. We've added to the chatter by curating a @Flipboard Storyboard about the arrival of her 11th studio album, "Tortured Poets Department," and we also want to know: How do you feel about Swift?

https://flipboard.com/@theculturedesk/what-to-make-of-taylor-swift-s-tortured-poets-department-1dcdbk7mvis46cka

#Music #NewMusic #TaylorSwift #PopCulture #Culture

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@CultureDesk @Flipboard Agnostic-plus. She doesn’t reach my core taste in music personally, but she’s got a ton of talent and does a lot of good things right. I wish her well! 🫶

GottaLaff, to random
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The bird flu spreading through cattle in the United States is an “enormous concern” the chief scientist of the World Health Organization said Thursday as he called for more tracking and preparation for the virus.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/health/bird-flu-who?cid=ios_app

mjf_pro,
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@GottaLaff @AE4WX Important note (of course buried at the very end of this typical “EVERYBODY PANIC” CNN piece):

“In an update posted to its situation summary on Thursday, the CDC said is studying the virus isolated from the recent human case in the US and found it to be susceptible to antiviral medications.

The agency also said it has created a candidate vaccine virus that can be used as a template to make a vaccine if needed.”

mjf_pro, to HashtagGames
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“Grandma, I think I found your teeth!”


https://oldfriends.live/@hashtaggames/112295168178619697

mjf_pro, to fediverse
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https://tcrn.ch/3Q3LZkL

mjf_pro, to random
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Dig a little deeper - they didn’t so much as uphold the lower court ruling as much as they declined to call it up for their review. May not be the right set of facts to try to set national precedent on. Wait for a conflicting decision from a more liberal appeals court on similar facts and that’s when the question will be ripe for review. https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant/112275772329361356

paul, to random
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Trump is so upset he either forgot, or was too agitated, to comb over weave his bald spot. ;)

I don't normally bring up baldness, but he has notoriously pushed the lie he has perfect hair.

Images from his live press conference after arriving to the courthouse on day one of this NY criminal trial.

:youtube: WKYC Channel 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFmZmR-KHUw

mjf_pro,
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@paul My expectation has been this guy’s gonna have a mental meltdown that will leave the GOP stranded with their pants down looking for a replacement Presidential candidate with maybe weeks to go before the election. A guy can dream.

mjf_pro,
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@paul And then let someone do him an Epstein favor.

ai6yr, to random

Hmm, took a zinc and hoping for the best. One of my relatives was sniffly in the car, I should have just wore an N95 when picking them up from the airport and dealt with the crap I'd get about wearing a mask from the family. (I generally don't care about what anyone things, but in-family politics are something else...). "But the pandemic is over, that's what the CDC said" normies.

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr “When the CDC said ‘get yourselves vaccinated’ you didn’t listen to them then; what’s changed?” would be an awesome answer, if true.

mjf_pro,
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@ai6yr That’s at least better than some, anyway. We normally don’t mask around here at this point and just keep our flu & COVID shots current, but when any of us is feeling sniffly or coughing outside of normal allergies, that person masks up outside the house to try to avoid exposing others.

Bam, to random
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I see the Iranian regime simps are out in force today (while actual Iranians are saying something completely different, no less)

mjf_pro,
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@Bam Whatever they’re saying, they sure can’t say it in public or on the record.

dgar, to random
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Went shopping around for a cheap circumcision and got ripped off.

mjf_pro,
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@dgar The shudder that just went through my privates was detectable by seismographs in San Francisco.

mjf_pro, to random
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If this gets released our next home PCs will be Macintoshes. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112259904395780233

the_etrain, to random
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I'd like to see a Love Boat reboot called Slut Boat.

mjf_pro,
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@the_etrain Would air in the time slot right before Sexual Fantasy Island 😂😂

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