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Stacey Campbell
@stacey_campbell@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Australian/American in Los Angeles. As Spanish speakers say, jubilado, formerly digital design for FPGAs and ASICs inside digital cameras.
I'm one of the countless who had their lives radically improved by policies of the Whitlam Government. Thanks Comrade Gough.
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Spouse of @pezworld@mastodon.social.
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Joined April 27, 2022
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I was entering Zion National Park in Utah the other day, it was a long line. The group of four in front of me were interrogated by the park ranger if they were US residents. They said they weren't. She then pointed at this sign and informed them they'd have to produce $400 to enter the park.
They turned around and left, upset.
This xenophobic garbage started life as a Trump executive order, and has the stench of Stephen Miller all over it.
#uspol #trump #maga
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@futurebird@sauropods.win @MichaelTBacon@social.coop @Kishi@meow.social @lxskllr@mastodon.world Here's a couple of real fledglings I almost stepped on in our backyard last year. They blend in nicely with random mulch.
Mourning Dove parenting is basically "You're out of the egg? OK, you're out of the nest."
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @saprentice@mastodon.social To be fair, there were some absolutely rotten major hits in the 70s. Stuff you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy (if there is such a person), and it was in high rotation on the radio. I don't know really where to begin, but Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep is a reasonable place.
Warning: read about it, but don't search out the audio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirpy_Chirpy_Cheep_Cheep
'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.'
#uspol #ice #cbphttps://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3BvbGl0aWNzL2FydGljbGUvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1iaWxsLWljZS10ZWFjaGVycy0yMTMxODQwNS5waHA%3D&time=MTc2OTYxNDI1MjQ4MQ%3D%3D&rid=ZjZmMmQ3YjgtNjRhMy00ZmM1LWFlMmItZTNmNzM5MTExODA5&sharecount=Nw%3D%3D
A few days at Berkeley visiting family and the spouse's old uni. People's Park is now a giant building still under construction (surrounded by a fence borrowed from a maximum security prison). A winning strategy in the War on Cars is to have parking signs so confusing that car owners dare not risk actually parking.
Never thought I'd see the day when the United States is a coin flip away from allying with Russia and North Korea in an illegal invasion of another country.
Might be time for all ranks of all US services to re-familiarize themselves with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the US Constitution, and the outcome of the Nuremberg trials.
It might just be me, but I've found local TV news coverage of the LA fires to be mostly terrible. It's low on information and high on disaster porn/drama, and a fair bit of it has been wildly misleading. They cannot shake their bog standard reporting templates for this critical event.
- On-scene reporters asking people who are literally running around putting out spot fires at their house if they could stop for an interview.
- Picking through the ashes of houses and putting burnt photo albums and other destroyed personal items on camera.
- Certain helicopter reporters yelling mostly low information nonsense for half an hour.
- Obviously wholly unqualified opining on emergency response, and evacuations that has caused massive confusion (no, NBC4, all of LA isn't under a boil-water alert from the DWP).
There's an opportunity here for local TV news to be a useful asset for the community, and they're all too frequently blowing it.
Follow-up poll. It's 2026 in Los Angeles and there's two huge flies in the house. Who let them in:
Follow-up poll. It's 2026 in Los Angeles and there's two huge flies in the house. Who let them in:
John Bolton has thoughts about the US conducting a ground invasion in Iran. I'm sure you can guess what they are.
Here's John Bolton's thoughts on why he personally skipped out on the US ground invasion of Vietnam:
"I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
N3E repositioning from LAX to Van Nuys...which almost always means buzzing my house. If the intertubes are to be believed this 737-8 MAX business jet is owned by billionaire Evan Spiegel, Snapchat founder.
RE: @mrundkvist@archaeo.social
After living in the US for 30 odd years if they're not using football fields and Olympic swimming pools as units I barely understand what's going on.
50 years since this was filmed in Swanston St, and this version is a high quality restoration. It's a long way to the shop if you want a chiko roll.
Umpteen trams, @railmaps@mastodon.online could probably identify them.
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@anne_twain @jhaue My offer to answer questions was more along the lines of:
- Do I need to install an expensive level 2 charging station at home? Probably not.
- Do I need an (expensive) EV with 600km range? Probably not.
- After a decade, how much has your battery degraded? About 5% as far as I can tell. New battery chemistry is even better. Your battery will outlast your EV.
- What is your cost-to-own vs a petrol car. About 20% of the cost of ownership of a petrol car, roughly. I still have the factory brake pads installed from 2015.
Stuff like that.
I am always shocked at the slow uptake in EVs in Victoria when I'm back there. I can only hope an influx of cheap EVs from China changes this situation.
Record smashing heat to wrap up winter 2025-2026 in this part of Los Angeles.
101F is 38C.
Yes, New York Times, it's a real head-scratcher. We'll probably never figure it out.
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@greene Three siblings of my great-grandmother, all gone within a week.
https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/115141762297644247
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@mhoye @liquor_american They did a bit of publicity. 16 8K sensors running at 60fps.
https://petapixel.com/2018/09/28/red-and-facebook-unveil-manifold-a-3d-and-360-vr-camera/
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@jhaue 'If using an EV might save [Australians] money, then they are interested.'
So, this is me. I've owned an EV in California for 10 years. I am never going back to petrol.
I bought my EV in 2015 and it's got about 145,000 km on the clock. When new its range was about 135km on a full charge. Happy to answer any questions from the EV-curious.
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@azett@mastodon.online There's a New Zealand record on Ancestry for a Edward James Garth, he appears on a WWII Ballot list.
I can't find anything else at Ancestry for this person.
[Edit: actually WWII]
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@eniatitova@sfba.social @azett@mastodon.online @spiegelmama@infosec.exchange There's a RAN record for Edward John Garth at Australian Archives. It's not clear he ever left Australia. I don't believe the pictured person is wearing a RAN uniform.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4421804
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@liquor_american @mhoye I was working on a third party (absolutely bonkers) camera project funded by that money and even while I was getting it working I was pondering where it would end up as a piece of static art.
New York Times giving it the old college try at both-sidesing Iran history.
Of course they fail to explicitly mention the US government org that got the ball rolling to the 1979 revolution. Hint, it starts with a C and ends with an A.
#uspol #ukpol #brokentimes #nytimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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@bones@toot.boston I'm an old out-of-shape dude who found an old-timers pickup at a local rink just out of Los Angeles that's been running for decades. Took me a while to track them down. Can almost guarantee there's a skate like that around Arlington, just a matter of getting the right person on the phone.
I used to commute Hwy 17 out of Santa Cruz county about 30 years ago. It was a major commute road back then, and still is now. Through to the 1940s there was a train line over roughly the same route, and in the 1990s there was talk of reopening the line for commuters.
Back then various locals managed to shut down any chance of the rail being restored. And of course Hwy 17 is still the dangerous nightmare it was 30 years ago.
And they are still fiddling with Hwy 17 trying to reduce (but never stop) the carnage.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/bay-area-highway-speed-22092247.php
Will be heading into a measles hotspot (yes Utah, looking at you) in a month or so and asked an Australian expert what my vaccination situation is likely to be.
She informed me that Australians born before 1966 are generally not vaccinated against measles.
The assumption for people born before 1966 is that given how contagious measles is, it's almost impossible that they haven't already been infected during childhood and therefore have antibodies.
(In my neck of the Australian woods the measles vaccine became widely available starting in 1969.)
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@cstross@wandering.shop Minus $74bn here, minus $74bn there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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@Alice@beige.party My grandma was born in '89. 1889. None of those new fangled electricity appliances.
"INDIAN CIGARETTES of CANNABIS INDICA,
GRIMAULT & CO. PARIS
Asthma, Nervous Coughs, Chronic Larungitis,
Hoarseness, Loss of Voice, Facial Neuralga, and
Insomnia are rapidly relieved by using these
Cigarettes.
Sold by all Chemists throughout the Colonies."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241509753
Last coolish day around here for a while.
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@azett@mastodon.online I think as others have pointed out Ancestry DNA will likely be a huge help. I don't know how useful it is for people with German ancestry, but the results of my own test (UK and Australian ancestry) have solved several secrets and mysteries that my grandparents and others took to their graves.
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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social Whelp, my hospital system's appointments app was definitely struggling with booking an MMR vaccine for a 63 year old.
System: Why do you need an appointment?
Me: Vaccine for travel.
System: To which international plague spot will you be traveling?
Me: Utah
System: Scram.
Ultimately a phone call to a real human got the sitch sorted out and I just lined up with a bunch of babies to get my very first MMR vaccine.
(j/k, no babies to be seen)
TimeGuessr #1163 — 46,502/50,000
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@azett@mastodon.online BTW, from looking at post-WWII uniforms, I don't think that jacket style was issued in New Zealand (I had posted some info about a Garth from New Zealand). It more closely resembles US Army. I'm not sure why there's no rank or other insignia on it.
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@kwf@social.afront.org I used these over 100m at a previous job, they were flawless. Nice to know how the sausage is made!
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@mudkip@wetdry.world Can't quite make out which Spartan-6 that is, but it could probably do it with a little help from some friends.
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@atrupar@journa.host Southern Baptist megachurch televangelists, now with 200% more hate.
#uspol #trump
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@mwl@io.mwl.io @b0rk@social.jvns.ca Same, but my goal is to sneak into retirement still oblivious.