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f800gecko

@f800gecko@mastodon.online

Current events, politics, images, lit, music, movies, art, aviation (lapsed PPL), travel, science/tech, cats, dogs, nature, cycling. Happiest under a hat & behind a lens, on a bike, or playing drums & guitar. Greyhound rescue home. BLM. Slava Ukraini! Friend of LGBTQ+. Lived corporate IT/ Projects / Strategic Sourcing 30+ years—loved/hated it. I follow stochastically—a bio and a few resonant posts help tip the scale. ADHD+ive. CDN/SW Ontario.

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f800gecko, to LGBTQ
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Not only are the whackjobs anti-LGBTQ, they have no boundaries. It’s just a sadistic game of random torture to them; they get off on victimizing others. That’s their sexuality - real criminal perversion with real victims.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/selfie-with-windsor-ont-woman-s-hospitalized-dad-leads-to-charge-against-london-man-1.6878935

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Good Job Amazon >(sarcasm)<

f800gecko,
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@Radical_EgoCom

No one should be boosting this unless they’re shopping locally and using only with great reluctance and only when there is absolutely no other viable source.

Otherwise, you’re just a massive fucking hypocrite and just as culpable.

Let’s not pretend this is some surprise or that it’s unexpected.

We know how these companies work.

It’s called .

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Capitalism Destroys us

f800gecko,
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@Radical_EgoCom

Socialism, too.

Is there a system that works?

esther, to random

Big-expensive-car drivers are such embarrassing people. This just played out here:

Older guy in a huge black SUV wants to make a left turn on a notoriously clogged-up intersection. People even make plenty of space for his ridiculous hunk of metal and wait for him to turn but apparently he's too incompetent of a driver and just sits there, honking. And when he finally inches his way across the intersection, he rolls down his windows to yell at other drivers who had absolutely no control over any of this.

Truly a spectacle to behold.

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@esther

Babies in giant baby carriages.

willallen, to random

I don't see nearly enough people talking about the staggering cost to the US and allies as a result of The Former Guy's theft.

Politics is one thing, but in the Intelligence and Counterintelligence communities, there are protocols. And one protocol you can take to the bank: When a man who is known to have back channel connections to literally every one of our enemies steals a trove of classified documents, you treat every single one of them as if they are now owned by our enemies.

Let the gravity of that sink in. Every single agent mentioned is now compromised. Every agent alluded to is compromised. Every combat plan is now available for all our enemies to develop countermeasures for. Every secret plan to develop intelligence on our enemies is now a dead end.

There were nuclear secrets in there.

How do you begin to calculate the impact and cost of the enemy knowing our nuclear secrets, including potentially our plans if Putin were to launch a limited nuclear strike?

We will never know the cost of it, because it's all SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET TO PROTECT US FROM OUR ENEMIES. But however much you think it cost, it was probably more.

The Defense Department and Intelligence Community don't have the luxury of hoping he didn't make the sales we all know he made.

They have to assume he sold all of it. Whether it's ever proven or not.

This is one of the worst crimes ever committed by a US citizen against the US.

f800gecko,
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@Litzz11 @willallen

Trump, like Canada's CrackMayor, Rob Ford of some years back (brother of current Ontario premier Doug), is just a cudgel for the RWNJ haters. He's an unwell, partial human being who lends himself to instrumentalization. Each seemed/seem to enjoy it, but Trump comes across as a truly sociopathic, narcissistic sadist, whereas Rob appeared to have some latent humanity buried somewhere down in the mess.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Woo-oo!

f800gecko,
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@Mrfunkedude

Fun one! - yours?

f800gecko, to internet
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By the way, on today’s big golf news:

The know a big distraction is exactly what their industry needs. It’s why they underwrote Musk’s purchase of .

You can’t watch the news when the game is on.

f800gecko, to random
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This item on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Russian-occupied Ukraine is well worth a read.

https://counteroffensive.substack.com/p/nuclear-engineer-who-escaped-russian

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Word to the wise, if you canceled your Netflix account any time within the last few months you might want to go back and make sure it's actually cancelled.

I cancelled Netflix two months ago and I just found out that it's still active. So I deactivated the account AGAIN.

Next I'm going to call my credit card company and dispute the bill. This is straight up bullshit.

f800gecko,
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@Mrfunkedude

Everything is a lobster trap now. Once in, never out.

gemelliz, to random
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Hey !
Mayoral candidate Mark Saunders is vowing to cut "waste" to rescue the city’s pandemic-ravaged budget — but we must wait until after the election to know what he would cut.

👉​ Same playbook as "Just Trust Me" Doug Ford and his secret mandates.

"Get It Done"

Reminder: Doug Ford's public endorsement of Mark Saunders comes with a long list of PC's donors funding the campaign.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/05/31/mark-saunders-says-that-as-mayor-he-would-root-out-wasteful-spending-with-little-on-specifics.html

f800gecko,
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@dougsamu @gemelliz @jjarmasz

While meanwhile, the public sector people they are attacking are actual work-doing resources blowing their brains out trying to keep shit together (think nurses - one of many examples) who are woefully under-compensated.

I did years of IT work in and with public service. I saw my share of duds, but most I met were committed to the old-fashioned idea of service and well understood “value for money” in ways no executive ever could or would.

vicgrinberg, to random
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    f800gecko,
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    @vicgrinberg

    Let’s all be wary of any account posting photos without attribution.

    seldo, to random
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    The guy who can't keep a blogging site running would like to implant a chip in your brain and is looking for volunteers: https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

    f800gecko,
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    @seldo

    Incredible. This reads like dystopian fiction.

    victor, to fediverse

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    @victor

    Truth.

    f800gecko, to random
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    Gin-Man (aka ‘Orangie-guy!’) & Frederick

    steveroy, to random
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    I would love to see fighting banned in . It’s a sport that I grew up playing and watching and enjoying so much, but I feel shame during fights that everyone is acting like it’s a spectacle when real people are getting hurt. Humans are better than this.

    “ enforcers die 10 years younger than other players, study suggests”

    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2204838979658

    f800gecko,
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    @steveroy

    Baseball resembles modern warfare
    Football resembles a set piece battle before the advent of airpower & armour
    Hockey is nothing but a barroom brawl

    adamjcook, to internet

    This is a really, really dumb thing to do on the part of the .

    It plays right into ’s hands and damages your journalistic credibility more than if you did not initially suspend your activity in the first place.

    Obviously, nothing has changed in terms of and editorial interference over the past month on Twitter - if anything, it has become far worse.

    Really dumb.

    f800gecko,
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    @adamjcook

    Here’s perspective on the platform thinks is good for Canadian taxpayer-funded news distribution.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65539698

    stevesilberman, to random
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    I loved eating breakfast with the late David Crosby and his wife Jan in , a quaint little town in the Santa Ynez Valley. It's too bad the once-friendly Danish-flavored town is now overrun with dumbasses and homophobic bigots. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-01/copenhagen-danish-mayor-solvang-california-homophobic

    f800gecko,
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    @stevesilberman

    Sadly, not an isolated thing. See Canada's own shameful example:

    https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/04/ontario-town-bans-pride-flags-and-people-are-furious/

    The town has said "the Canadian flag is sufficient to represent everyone" - but guess which flag the rednecks hang like a giant fascist rag from the beds of their pickup trucks as they brake-stand over rainbow sidewalk crossings and otherwise aim to terrorize these communities...

    rbreich, to random
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    RT @imcivicaction
    Republicans don't actually care about the debt. If they did, they wouldn't have passed massive tax cuts for the rich. They are just using the current debt ceiling situation as an excuse to gut social programs that millions rely on.

    f800gecko,
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    @rbreich

    Hate Before Business™️

    LeeFromVT, to photography
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    Are there any small drone users/pilots on here that could answer a question.
    Are that you can purchase for home use stable enough in a hover that if you mounted a / with telescopic lens it could take a non blurred (from movement)

    Thinking i could get better photos of night sky above even the small amount of light pollution is near.

    f800gecko,
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    @LeeFromVT To escape light pollution, you’d need to get above the haze and cloud decks, assuming the platform is stable. That could be many thousands of feet and depending on the airspace you’re in, it may or may not be legal and/or a risk to aviation.

    mastodonmigration, (edited ) to internet
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    Let's make it a game to figure out the insane overreach are attempting.

    Hint directly from their Terms of Service (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos):

    a. "...website located at bsky.social (“Site”), [AND!] the Authenticated Transfer [AT] social protocol (“Protocol”)"

    b. "...our Site, Protocol, and App... are collectively called the “Services.”"

    c. "By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Bluesky..."

    Any guesses?

    1/4

    f800gecko,
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    @mastodonmigration Ethernet is the dominant network upon which the internet runs today. The internet itself is based on TCP/IP which has a long history pre-dating and later overlapping ethernet’s development and rise.

    f800gecko,
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    @mastodonmigration I’m neither a lawyer nor a copyright expert. I’m just pointing out ethernet is not the foundation of the internet. I used to install token ring/Novell networks way back when, and the internet (then mostly usenet and early http) ran just fine. The issue of content ownership and the monetization and exploitation of everyone’s last private detail these days is why mastodon is the last social network I’m on. I’m not fighting your overall point.

    f800gecko, to photography
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    - 10 km of traffic-free trees, farm fields and fresh air from Hickson to .

    rbreich, to random
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    What’s really behind Republicans’ mounting transphobia? (And why all of us must speak out against it.) https://bit.ly/3Hkh13B

    f800gecko,
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    @rbreich Why everyone needs to speak up, right here. I’m not trans, I’m not gay, but unlike a lot of people it would seem, I’ve met, worked with and befriended many from the LGBTQ community and I know they’re people - human beings - just like you and me. I also had parents who grew up under and suffered under fascism, so I have an understanding of its stink and its self-serving blood lust. We will all have blood on our hands if we all just sit here like dummies, doing and saying nothing.

    TexasObserver, to politics
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    Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in . This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune

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    @TexasObserver @texastribune

    It strikes me as less about sex these days and more about simply clobbering the smallest and least powerful minority as a first step by the “moral majority” to establish street cred for punshment, vindictiveness and violence before it moves on to the other enemies of a good Christian state in America, like poor people and people of colour…

    victor, to photography

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    @victor One of the old water towers up there as well.

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