Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
Phil Landmeier
boosted
The most insidious myth that I was taught in American schools was that inequality and injustice are somehow artifacts of the past, and that America marches inexorably towards greater freedom and equality with every generation.
Not only is this take entirely unsupported by actual history, but this comforting myth absolves us of having to take action to fight inequality and injustice. Just sit back and relax and everything will just get better.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Police seek people who targeted multiple D.C. sites with explosive devices https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-seek-suspects-targeted-multiple-dc-sites-explosive-devices-rcna92288
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Medical professionals say that there is no basis whatsoever to RFK Jr.'s claims about the dangers of vaccines. But at this Tiburon acupuncture clinic, they aren't so sure.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
One of Steely Dan's engineers' daughters have just found a DAT tape of the infamous song that got accidentally destroyed - and it's gorgeous #SteelyDan
Phil Landmeier
boosted
#introduction. Hello. I’m a center-left Twitter refugee from #Kansas #USA looking to engage in topics such as #politics #news #currentevents #realitytv #truecrime #sports and learning about other countries and culture. Nice to meet you, in advance.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Ron DeSantis’ pastor says gay people should be “put to death”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-pastor-says-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death/
#RonDeSantisPastor #GayRights #LGBTQ #HateSpeech #ReligiousExtremism #FreedomOfExpression #Politics #News
Looking over the headline stories in the news, this story doesn't even appear. So I thought I'd post it here:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/7-shot-2-trampled-shooting-nightclub-kansas/story?id=100593361
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Donner... party of 5?
Donner? party of 4?
Donner?
@N0ZB@mastodon.radio @k8ket @megahertz Yes. It's a pleasant relief to hang out with polite considerate CW operators.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Normally I'm willing to force my way into spaces that don't prioritize me, because that's the only way to exist as a citizen of the internet when you're blind. I'll use inaccessible apps and I'll share posts with undescribed images and I'll click unlabeled buttons just to see what they do. I have to if I want to participate in online culture.
But some days I don't have it in me, and this is one of those days, and it's indescribably nice to have a place like this that doesn't expect me to.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Seeing content no longer part of Twitter algorithm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Phil Landmeier
boosted
@lauren I absolutely agree. Here in West Virginia, the people who constantly piss money away on the lottery are those who can least afford to do so. Lotteries and gambling in general prey on people who don't understand the scam.
@smellsofbikes @reneestephen Exactly. It's hard for ordinary people to get their head around this, around the mindset of a despot. It's entirely foreign because it's psychotic.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
@reneestephen This is something I don't think enough people appreciate. Kim Jong Un is perfectly happy being a zillionaire ruler of starving people. They don't care how bad things get as long as they're on top of what's left.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
Please tell me again about how Mastodon is harder to use than the site where you have to keep track of how many posts you read each day.
Phil Landmeier
boosted
John D Macdonald on #enshittification, long before that useful word was coined.
@JonPowell I hadn't considered this before. It's accurate.
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
