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Seanochicago

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Books, birds, games, comics, learning French, music: these are the things I enjoy on Mastodon.

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ChrisMayLA6, to books
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I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.

@bookstodon

Seanochicago,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon It me.

w7voa, to random
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says ~300 arrests made on two campuses in response to attempts to radicalize people in the city. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-university-protests-nypd-video-hamilton-hall/5371376/

Seanochicago,
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@w7voa You know who else was a professional agitator? John and Samuel Adams, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony. Cesar Chavez.

gruber, to random
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“Argylle”: 👎
https://boxd.it/6hbiKz

Seanochicago,
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@gruber Watch Paul Feig’s SPY, starring Melissa McCarty, Jason Stratham, Rose Byrne, and Jude Law. Actually funny!! Hell, even Man From Uncle was better.

w7voa, to random
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NBC News plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following an internal on-air revolt, reports Puck News' media reporter Dylan Byers.

Seanochicago,
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@w7voa Let’s normalize shunning for all Trump toadies. Even the ones who regret it.

historianess, to random
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Bring back the guillontine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/business/biden-corporate-jets-taxes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Seanochicago,
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@ParadeGrotesque @historianess Sparkling decapitator.

eivind, to bookstodon
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Reading in the foreword to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that Verne originally envisioned Captain Nemo as a Polish noble on an underwater campaign of vengeance against the Russian Empire that'd killed his entire family, but that this version was pronounced unprintable by his publisher for political reasons. @bookstodon

Seanochicago,
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@mattmcirvin @eivind @bookstodon Nobody got worried about continuity back then. In Barchester Towers, Archdeacon Grantly has two daughters. Later there’s only one. In the Palliser books, Lady Glencora has two daughters. Later there’s only one. The Victorian era was not a good time to be a supernumerary daughter.

Seanochicago,
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@SteveClough @mattmcirvin @eivind @bookstodon Books were expensive and magazine issues were ephemeral. Also, it’s a story, it doesn’t have to be internally consistent. =)

w7voa, to random
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TechCrunch - Spam attack on Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the fediverse is open to abuse. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/spam-attack-on-twitter-x-rival-mastodon-highlights-fediverse-vulnerabilities/

Seanochicago,
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@w7voa I haven’t seen a single piece of spam on Mastodon. Meanwhile, on Twitter I was playing whack-a-mole with “advertisers” on a daily basis. I’ll take my chances on Mastodon.

w7voa, to random
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The UK foreign secretary "can kiss my ass," responds Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after David Cameron compared Republicans against Ukraine funding to Nazi appeasers. https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-rishi-sunak-general-election-keir-starmer-12593360

Seanochicago,
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@w7voa “We don’t kiss Nazi ass. We kick it.”

Seanochicago, to random
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I’ve started again. is a favorite author and I’m grateful for @gutenberg_org for making this and other books freely available forever.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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You have murdered someone.

You're confident in the way you covered your tracks. They'll never catch me, you think, as you wait to meet the homicide detective in charge of the investigation.

Who would make you rethink that confidence? In other words, who would make you hold out your wrists and say, "I give up, arrest me," the second they walked into the room to question you?

Please boost for a wider audience. 😎

Seanochicago,
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@dancinyogi Bobby Goren, the Vincent D’nofrio character in Law & Order Criminal Intent. If you see him, you might as well say “bring me a prosecutor I want a plea deal.”

Swede1952, to ilaughed

Blue Jay

Here is a photo of a blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) that I took in October 2023. I haven't seen any of these birds in a few weeks, I know that they are still around though. Perhaps they are deeper in the forest. My guess I'll see them more when it starts getting really cold, especially it snows. Yes, it occasionally snows in Louisiana.

"The oldest known wild, banded Blue Jay was at least 26 years, 11 months old when it was found dead after being caught in fishing gear. It had been banded in the Newfoundland/Labrador/St. Pierre et Miquelon area in 1989 and was found there in 2016." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #bird #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #BlueJay

Seanochicago,
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@Swede1952 Blue Jays routinely punch above their weight. I’ve seen one fight off a crow when it approached the nest. They are fierce. Not as psychotic as red winged blackbirds: those guys dive bomb me for just walking by.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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This is good advice, and it needs to be repeated again and again.

Also: it took me YEARS to understand any of this, and it's still something I struggle with.

(And it is also highly probable Lao Tzu said nothing of the sort - but it is still good advice)

An image containing the following text: - lf you are DEPRESSED, you are living in the past. - If you are ANXIOUS, you are living in the future. - If you are at PEACE, you are living in the present. Lao Tzu

Seanochicago,
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@ParadeGrotesque I’ve sent the raccoon cartoon to almost everyone I know this evening. It’s like my rule:

I have a headache for no reason… Drink water, you’re dehydrated.

18+ ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Metazooa Stats
🐿️ Animal 🐦‍⬛
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 9.6

https://metazooa.com

Not too hard.

Seanochicago,
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@ParadeGrotesque Thanks for sharing. I never played this before, but this was fun:

🦫 Animal 🐝
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
🟥🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4

https://metazooa.com

w7voa, to random
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UK prime minister under pressure to sack his home minister after she accuses the police of being more lenient towards left-wing protesters than their right-wing counterparts. https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-has-full-confidence-in-suella-braverman-after-controversial-article-no-10-says-13003991

Seanochicago,
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@w7voa Why would he fire her? She is spreading disinformation as she was hired to do.

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    Seanochicago,
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    @idoubtit Physician, heal thyself

    Seanochicago, to random
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    Siri Knowledge: how disrespectful is this fucking thing.

    gutenberg_org, to books
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    American writer & journalist Ida Tarbell was born in 1857.

    She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's from 1902 to 1904. The work contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission, and the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act.

    Ida Tarbell at PG:
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4022

    Front page of The History of the Standard Oil Company, written by Ida Tarbell.

    Seanochicago,
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    @gutenberg_org Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “The Bully Pulpit” has a very good history of Tarbell and her colleagues nestled between the dual biographies of Roosevelt and Taft.

    gruber, to random
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    What kind of team lets the guy who owns the team throw out the first pitch? https://www.foxnews.com/sports/george-w-bush-throws-ceremonial-first-pitch-game-world-series

    Seanochicago,
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    @gruber Convergent evolution: Exhibit one.

    daringfireball, to random
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    Elon Musk Predicts X Will Replace Banks Next Year
    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/27/musk-x-banking

    Seanochicago,
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    @daringfireball Not every thing a sociopath says is news. If we ignored utter nonsense, maybe he would go away.

    ct_bergstrom, to random
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    Google Scholar is a flaming piece of shit. Why do we use it for scholarly evaluation?

    Here, it misattributes 4873 citations — a decent count for entire research career — from Keeling and Rohani's landmark book, giving them instead to the authors who wrote a book review of the book.

    Yet, there's no correction or appeal process.

    Book review to which the citations are ascribed.

    Seanochicago,
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    @ct_bergstrom This does not surprise me. This is from a company that tells you that there is no country in Africa that starts with K.

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=countries%20in%20africa%20that%20start%20with%20k

    Apparently Google has decided that selling nonsense is more profitable than selling correct and well-organized information.

    w7voa, to random
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    Bloomberg - A year after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the social media platform has 13% fewer users (and of those remaining <1% are subscribing) and the top advertisers have cut the majority of their spending. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-25/elon-musk-s-x-looks-little-like-the-twitter-he-bought-a-year-ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-25/elon-musk-s-x-looks-little-like-the-twitter-he-bought-a-year-ago

    Seanochicago,
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    @w7voa 13% fewer users probably doesn’t count the people who simply walked away without deleting their account.

    w7voa, to random
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    Donald Trump fined $10,000 after judge overseeing his civil fraud trial finds he violated a gag order in the case for a second time.

    Seanochicago,
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    @w7voa Three strikes and it’s contempt of court and jail time. That’s what I’d do if I were a judge.

    w7voa, to random
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    Instructions this morning to the MAGA Republicans in the House from Trump on the speaker void: “My strong SUGGESTION is to go with the leading candidate, Mike Johnson, & GET IT DONE, FAST! LOVE, DJT”

    Seanochicago,
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    @w7voa Just yesterday he said that only Jesus Christ could fix it.

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    Seanochicago,
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    @fox Bosses love Performative productivity. I have three years of proven performance that my team is just as productive. And their work life balance is so much better. But hey, white boss man feels lonely.

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