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nrmacdonald

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old man
He/him/they/them/it/that/she/her however you see me, presented in my expectations of likely impressions.
done lots
been lots of places
boost things that need attention or are just interesting or pretty and/or curious/
I try to keep my cynicism to my self so I don't publish much.

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AmiW, to art German
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🔴 Ein "Dankeschön!" für all die
schönen Fotos für meinem
Geburtstag. Ihr habt mir eine
ganze Gallery geschenkt. Ihr seid
großartig. ♥️
🔵 A "Thank you!" for all the
beautiful photos for my birthday.
You have given me a whole
gallery as a gift. You are great.♥️
(📷 by Artist:
South Korea 🇰🇷)

nrmacdonald,
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@AmiW
one more London 2006

nrmacdonald, to random
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ain't none of this shite funny no more
I've lost my sense of humour
the worlds gone wrong
the shadows grown long
mankind has become a tumour

derpostillon, to random German
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Wow! Bauern, die Habeck auf Fähre bedrängten, ernten überraschend große Kartoffeln https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/01/goesste-kartoffeln.html

nrmacdonald,
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@derpostillon Der offensichtliche nächste Bundeskanzler

arstechnica, to random
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Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

"Ship production needs to be roughly an order of magnitude higher than booster production."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-needs-to-build-starships-as-often-as-boeing-builds-737s/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

nrmacdonald,
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@arstechnica
⬆️
The stupid it 🔥 🔥 🔥

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Drop one of your family secrets.

nrmacdonald,
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@BlackAzizAnansi
During the second world war my uncle whilst on military duty had a non-platonic relationship with a priest in [redacted] who later became the archbishop of [redacted] and travelled half way round the world to attend my uncles funeral over fifty years later.

_ohcoco_, to random
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Doctors testified ’s was nonviable. When asked if he would have "allowed" Kate to have an , argues nonviability was not a fact, even though her dr said it was: "Not a viable pregnancy is...is...viable to what age until after birth? I think these are separate nuances and debates that we deserve to have, rather than telling the public that that baby would've never made it to term."

😑


https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKFXdO_UvpM&si=osStksROKwnwns8n

nrmacdonald,
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@_ohcoco_
is a paid chaos agent. He has no ideals, beliefs or values other than his bank accounts. The commercial media entertains him and so many others like him because they have exactly the same values.
Donald Trump is a product of the same media ecosystem and a populace obsessed with celebrity.

msquebanh, to music

Please enjoy this playlist - filled with songs from 1968-1974. There was always a huge music scene in & wartime didn't stop the musicians. More songs were inspired from the horrors of war. Bands kept performing wherever they could. My big Auntie told me about music jams in tunnels by resistance musicians too.

Music kept people going, when bombs kept falling. Music helped people survive war horrors.

https://youtu.be/Hy5SThZC19A

nrmacdonald,
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@msquebanh
Vietnamese bands were always the best! Not only that but their covers of American songs were way better than the originals.

nrmacdonald,
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@msquebanh
333 memories

Mrfunkedude, to random
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This is your reminder not to censor yourself because you're afraid you'll lose followers.

Only the people who stay are worth knowing who you are. Be you. Be as much as yourself as you want to put out there, but be yourself.

We need more sincere people who aren't trying to put on a show to get followers. People just being themselves. Sometimes goofy, sometimes angry, sometimes brilliant, but always true selves.

To me, that's what makes a great social media platform. People being who they are.

nrmacdonald,
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@Mrfunkedude
But, b b b b but there are so many different people in here and they are all fighting to get out

RickiTarr, to random
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Today's theme is Normal!

You can take this test to see how "Normal" you are, and also how radically left wing you are! LOL Please share the results if you feel like it, or do nothing at all, because it really doesn't matter!

https://www.idrlabs.com/4-axes/test.php

nrmacdonald,
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@RickiTarr
Shit test .Some of the questions were really loaded with assumptions of audience and language (in)sensibilities. but here's me.

kierkegaank, to random
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On new years, a wretchedly drunk Rudy who has pissed himself is doing My Way three times in a row in a karaoke bar before the cops show up

nrmacdonald,
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@kierkegaank
I really didn't need that image but, yeah

kaia, to random
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I just want to comfymode, but there's church at 1800 :tanya_sigh:

nrmacdonald,
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@kaia
comfymode > church, unless of course you're going to get grief from your rellies.

skinnylatte, to food
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My jaw kinda dropped a bit when I saw Martin Short on this YouTube video saying the most horrendous things about why he’s never tried Korean food. I know the schtick of trying to get someone to change their mind on a show is interesting, but in this case his comments are so horrendous I just don’t care if he ends up liking the food or not. How can you live somewhere with the best Koreatown, be alive in 2023 and still say these things?

https://youtu.be/TyUqQJrIXlM?si=7pCcLGmlEBRr44PV

nrmacdonald,
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@skinnylatte
Having watched it, I think he was attempting "humour" which is something at which he fails frequently and he just came of as a provincial arse.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

nrmacdonald,
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@taylorlorenz
no shit?

kcarruthers, to random
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Yes Lara Marlowe is right: Americans are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. Why aren’t they more afraid?

“Worldview: A second Trump presidency could spell the disintegration of the Nato alliance, and would have far-reaching consequences for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East”

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/16/lara-marlowe-americans-are-sleepwalking-into-a-dictatorship-why-arent-they-more-afraid/

nrmacdonald,
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@kcarruthers
The are sleepwalking into Gilead because the media is complicit and owned by oligarchs that only care about their wealth and power and the opposition is timid, process obsessed, and fucking spineless and scared as rabbits in a dog run to speak the bare truth..

nrmacdonald, to random
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About Father Christmas/ Santa Claus/Weihnachtsmann etc., you've all got it wrong, he is the pied piper, the prototypical great seducer and indoctrinator of children, the demon of desire and greed, the hedonistic god of commerce and war in pursuit of wealth and power regardless of consequence, an icon of gluttony and self indulgence.
He is a subtle long game "jolly" Krampus,.

mmiasma, to random
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Dietary supplements.

Low-fat milk on high fibre cereal tastes pretty good when you add sliced banana and M&M's.

I could learn to love healthy eating.


nrmacdonald,
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@kierkegaank @mmiasma
Everyone needs theit daily ration of cardboardhydrates

donni, to random
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Bro, do you even grapple with the essential loneliness of the human condition

nrmacdonald,
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@donni
No I rejoice in it.

shoq, to random
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TAKING BRIBES IS A FEDERAL F-ING CRIME. They probably already have enough evidence to prosecute this corrupt shitbag. Or at least open a public investigation. Why are we not far more vocal over this? I don’t get it.

Clarence Thomas’ Money Complaints Sparked Resignation Fears

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus

nrmacdonald,
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@shoq
Ithe answer is as tragic as it is obvious, the oligarchy owns the justice system so there is no justice for them and their agents.

NickEast, to Meme
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Now this is a scary ghost, I hope I don't get grammar in my stocking... 😂

@linguisticsmemes @bookstadon



nrmacdonald,
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@NickEast @linguisticsmemes @bookstadon 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

kierkegaank, (edited ) to random
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Every time I can’t avoid ads I wonder why they’re communicating things that make me want to avoid their product.

Do you experience this too? Or am I being a difficult ungrateful bitch?

nrmacdonald,
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@kierkegaank
I never see ads, unless I'm visiting someone and they have the telly on. I do not consume where I cannot block. I do not own a telly and haven't for years.

Daojoan, to random
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I quit drinking 4 years ago. But I still randomly remember moments where I was obnoxious. Where I could be cruel. Where I could be mean spirited and manipulative. I'm still reaching out to folks I treated badly back then and I'm still making amends. The truth is - you can always start again. You can always rebuild. But you have to acknowledge you were wrong first.

nrmacdonald,
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@Daojoan
Odd but I'm a bit the reverse, a happy clappy friendly drunk and a complete cynical intolerant arsehole when sober. So, having stopped drinking, I've become a recluse because I've no truck with eejits.

Streetsweeper, to random
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@shekinahcancook

I do not know if you have seen this yet.

https://youtu.be/cTQKmR6a9fw

nrmacdonald,
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@Streetsweeper @shekinahcancook
There is NO true form of any religion they are all based on cultural imagination recorded in texts that amount to recitations of oral histories and cult fan fiction. Religions are defined by the practitioners, not by any traditional or historical idealisation preferred by purists.
Sooooo... this is just faffing

nrmacdonald,
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@shekinahcancook @Streetsweeper
Yah maybe but this assumes that there is some unique valid form of the belief system, and sorry to say, there cannot be, however the more benign and sympathetic forms are definitely more desirable delusions.

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nrmacdonald,
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@thepoliticalcat
Ich arbeite nicht mit „Leute“

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