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We're Eating The Emergency Cheese Right Now!
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(So that goes on the list for tomorrow's grocery shopping trip!)
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06agile software developer of several decades
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My father never was one to just believe or do what others told him. And neither am I.
We were never really into television all that much. Let alone televangelism.
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[anyone] "Alien lizard people have taken over the government!"
[me] "OK, that's interesting. What kind of supporting evidence do you have?" 🙄
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Nearly half my mother's family went off to join a cult. We (with my father's leadership) pretty much just said, "Love ya! Have a nice time at that!"
I've been a skeptic most of my life.
Lock ness monster?
Sure.
Bigfoot?
Cute.
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Social media post by serendipimoose:
Realized my attitude towards AI is this quote from “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe”: “But in general, take my advice: When you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” – C.S. Lewis
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Three pigeons on a roof, two talking:
1st: “I’m over this.”
2nd: “Over what?”
1st: “All of it.”
2nd: “Can you be more specific?”
1st: “Specifically everything.”
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Hamster, holding a sign, saying “So if I don’t go big, I can go home?”
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This is what should have been done when he declared his candidacy the first time. 💢
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Replacement?
Do you mean that you don't normally put gin in your tea?
You just don't know what you're missing!
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[And, honestly, neither do I. Maybe I'll try it some time!]
Image source:
https://hendricksgin.com/sg/cocktails/hendricks-grand-cabaret-iced-tea/
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"The seven-day week comes from the ancient Babylonians, who created it around 4,000 years ago based on the Sun, Moon, and five visible planets."
Record keeping since then has had it's gaps.
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I'm sorry, but I can't find the "a" without using my eyes. And the instructions say that one can only use one's brain.
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But think of it from this perspective:
In 1913 dollars, that Trump dollar coin today would be worth …
… just a little under three cents.
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5. Same guy, with two black eyes, more blood from nose, blood from mouth, missing teeth says, “My five thousand dollar Trump check should be here!”
6. Same glove hits him from the mailbox with a “SMACK!”
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It was this thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Communion_International#1970s:_Scandal_and_conflict
Several siblings moved their families out to East Texas with Garner Ted (the leader's son).
A few bailed and moved out after a while.
Later, the whole thing in East Texas collapsed, leaving everyone, including a good chunk of that side of my family, still living there. And doing OK.
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Cartoon of animals on a branch talking, with a burning city of tall buildings in the background.
The black crow says, “Plot twist: Turns out it’s the humans who are bad luck.”
Black spider says, “Oh word.”
Black cat says, “duh.”
Black bat says, “Pfft, yea.”
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Text: “Diesel was so cheap under Biden, trucks could drive from all over the United States to Washington D.C. to protest Joe.” over photo of several diesel truck cabs (no trailers) parked on a tree-lined street with a “Make trucking great again!” sign on the grill of the first, and American (United States) flags on the trucks.
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Social media post from Branko Petric 00:
“A backup isn’t a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it is just a very expensive file upload called ‘Schrödinger’s Data’.”
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Hmmm…
Well, I happen to like tea. And also gin.
I guess *I'll* have to try it!
I was out tasting spirits some time ago, as one does when visiting distilleries, and found aged gin quite appealing. I haven't done anything about that. But I keep thinking that I *should*. 🥃
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“I’m not saying I’m old, but back in the day, we pulled maps out of the glove box and traveled like pirates.”
on a painting of an English gentleman, dressed in blue, sitting next to a table, smoking
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AAND, ...
That $30 is a GIFT to a FRIEND.
So it's NOT TAXABLE.
A *friend* would drive you to the airport, wouldn't they?
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Six panel political cartoon:
1. Man in red “Make America Great Again” cap, standing in front of mail box, says “I bet my DOGE check is here!”
2. Red boxing glove on a spring pops out of the mailbox and hits him in the face with a “BAM!”
3. Same guy and situation, with a black eye and a drip of blood from his nose says, “My tariff refund check is here!”
4. Same glove hits him from the mailbox with a “KAPOW!”
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Social media post by Maryam (@hell_line0)
The first time I watched the movie “Return of the Jedi,” I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous slimy mound of evil who could barely move around, and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.
I get it now.
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Photo of a beach packed with people, with text
“Florida beaches be like
“You came for peace and quiet…
You left with sand in your ass, a sunburn shaped like regret, and a newfound hatred for every human being who also thought this was a good idea.”
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Two monkeys talking to each other:
1st: “You’re going to Hell.”
2nd: “What’s in hell?”
1st: “People like you.”
2nd: “What’s in Heven?”
1st: “People like me.”
2nd: “You need to work on your threats.”
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I'm already not so sure about the alphabet. 😆
https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/new-book-reveals-how-questioning-the-alphabet-can-help-us-push-typography-further/
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Trump, with a baseball bat, saying “You have the right to remain silent.” On the ground in front of him are smashed CNN and MS NOW cameras and a Politico microphone. Title on the image is “new bill of rights.”
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Press representatives, with cameras and microphones, outside a door labeled “White House press access.” Next to the door is a sign saying “You must be this tall to enter. All others are banned” with an arrow at about knee highght. One press person explains, “Bootlicking height.”
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Waffle House.
It's not even close.
Biker gangs don't terrorize a Waffle House. They ain't that stupid.
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When I first heard of him, running "The Apprentice," and observed that he wanted to be known by his tag line "You're fired!", I knew he was a bad person. A person no sensible person would want to work for. A person who should *NEVER* be put in any position of real trust or power.
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Really, I'd think that DJT's "statement" would most likely be released around 24 hours after he consumed that.
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a cartoon Trump is shown destroying the pillars under a classic Greek Cornice and Pediment (the triangular part at the top). He has destroyed the legislative, executive and judiciary pillars, and is now attacking the “press” pillar.
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A competent president would not confuse "associate membership" with "major membership."
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“Seems to me, instead of destroying the entire fucking country and half the world, we could have just released the Epstein Files in full and put everyone who raped kids in prison.”
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A small green tractor, labeled “farms” is harvesting the grain crop.
A huge red tractor, labeled “tariffs” is coming at it from the side, also taking the crop.
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There's a Twilight Zone episode for that.
It ends with the last man alive in the word, a reading addict, like this:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/683611884456252
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Me: The voices won’t stop.
Therapist: Those are people; they’re allowed to talk.
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Why it's "Mother Mary" of course. 😇
I don't know what else one could possibly have been thinking. 🙄
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“My young coworkers asked me to show them pictures of me in high school. I said I’d go home and dig some out. They said, ‘can’t you just look on your phone?’
“And I laughed and laughed and laughed, and then I cried.”
Background image shows a desk with several printed photographs on it, a framed photograph in the background, a pile of four old books, and a tea cup on a doily.
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“VOTE” in very large red letters – about three times as high as the four cartoon people walking in front of it to put their mail-in votes in a post office box