David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org
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- http://www.dvorkin.com/
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
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The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
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This is a mug from 1674. Doesn’t it look like something you could buy at Starbucks?
Coffee shops were common in bigger British cities in the 1670s, and according to Pepys, they shouted out your name when your drink was ready. People sometimes gave hilarious fake names for a laugh. Very little truly changes ☕️
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Twitter right now be like the last day of summer camp with everyone crying and exchanging contact info
It seems to me that, strictly speaking, you can't write your autobiography because you don't know how it ends until you're at the end, at which point you're unlikely to feel like writing or to be able to if the end is sudden and unexpected. Even if you could write the end, it would be something like this: And now, my friends, as I reach my end, I want to sum up everything I've learned in my long and eventful life in the form of this vitally important messa
Hmm. I could swear I've seen you somewhere before.
New account. I’m trying to fly a little lower nowadays. Not under the radar but not so much in the radar’s face.
These replies are quite telling.
(I have no idea what I mean by that.)
"Time will tell" is an odd expression. Of course time will tell. It always does.
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birdsite, finance
That should work, shouldn't it?
birdsite, finance
Tonight, after I put my hearing aids to bed in their little padded container, Leonore heard them making noises (which I couldn't hear because, of course, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids). They were turned off and therefore, in theory, shouldn't have been able to do anything. And yet they were doing something. I wonder if they were uploading the day's data to the FBI or someplace even scarier. Probably not.
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I thought Boebert was toast, but it seems she's only somewhat singed.
The ancient Greeks would say that Trump is just about to be punished for hubris.
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Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.
It was so long ago that it no longer feels quite real to me.
@DavidDvorkin In Aerospace industry myself and, damn, that's an impressive resume.
#introduction
Before retiring, I was an aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander), software developer, and tech writer. But that was to pay the bills. I think of myself as a writer -- mostly sf, some horror, some mystery, some (yet unpublished) fantasy. Lots of details at www.dvorkin.com
My wife and I also help writers self-publish. You can find out more at www.dldbooks.com
In theory, I should be writing much more now that I'm retired. In practice, that's not happening. I blame the Internet.
Perhaps some day, someone will write the definitive account of Boebert's career: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF LAUREN BOEBERT: A SHORT BUT NOISY BOOK. It will sell very few copies.
- Website
- http://www.dvorkin.com/
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
