Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
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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
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"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
@Swede1952 Interesting. Then my info is 25 years out of date and wrong. Hah. Thank you.
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@georgetakei Rebecca Solnit wrote:
"Billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life. Disproportionately older, white & male, they function as unelected powers, a sort of freelance global aristocracy who are too often trying to reign over the rest of us. Some critics think that the supergiant tech corporations that have spawned so many modern billionaires operate in ways that resemble feudalism more than capitalism, & , certainly, plenty of billionaires operate like the lords of the Earth while campaigning to protect the economic inequality that made them so rich & makes so many others so poor. They use their power in arbitrary, reckless & often environmentally destructive ways."
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@shuttersparks he's fascist scum. Whatever modest competencies he's ever had, he's far outside them today. All those companies would do better without him.
@IanDSmith Well, depending on the setting, you might also get fired and evicted from your home. Lmao.
@fatsam He's a lucky investor who was at the right place at the right time, partly because those investments presented opportunities for showboating. He has a twisted sense of reality, lacks empathy, and needs attention and adulation. Such people are often attracted to fascism because an authoritarian setting lets you create you own reality if you're in power. He craves that. "I'm the greatest and I can force you to agree." It's very attractive to certain broken people like him.
@fatsam Both of those companies existed before there was an Elon Musk. Eventually, the public will slowly become aware that the technological achievements of both companies had nothing to do with Elon Musk. He'd like you to believe otherwise, that he's the boy genius behind it all. But the truth will become more widely known and when it does, Elon will lose interest in both companies because he can no longer use them to project the myth that he's a boy genius. He'll move on to other things.
@servelan @lovelylovely Depressed? No. Angry, yes.
@iembot_rlx Early winter here. Static air temp is 19F, feels like 12F, here in Clarksburg (not in the mountains).
@lovelylovely Everything they've done since then proves her right: basket of deplorables. Indeed.
@lovelylovely Hah. I'm from a different generation. Since my early teens I've hoped that life-extension would be solved and I could live much longer, forever if possible. I'm 70 now and hope for it more than ever, but I know it's not going to happen.
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⬆️ So, Puritopians, you don’t want to vote for the lesser evil? The Lesser Evil is also the Greater Good.
Check your privilege. A lot of people are depending on YOU.
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All together now.
I wanted to show you these black skimmers (Rynchops niger) gathering on the beach., particularly for those of you who haven't seen this before - I know I hadn't. This photograph just shows a fraction of the birds in this group, and there were several groups on the beach. I've already posted a couple photos of these birds and am sure to post more. I find them fascinating.
"Possibly the best description of the Black Skimmer's bounding, head-down foraging style came from the great seabird biologist R. C. Murphy in 1936. He said they look like “unworldly… aerial beagles hot on the scent of aerial rabbits.”" - allaboutbirds.org
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #bird #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #BlackSkimmer
@Swede1952 First cardinal I ever saw was in Guatemala. Now I live in West Virginia where they're common. Yes they do migrate (to Guatemala) but it's deceptive. About 80 percent of them head south for winter. The rest stay behind. They do both, probably a smart survival strategy.
@isaakubus@mastodon.social Hahaha. I learned a long time ago: read phonetically. Jajaja. Chistoso.
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Great to see the major upgrade in CDC wastewater dashboard tracking of SARS-CoV-2 by region, state, variants, and time https://cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
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Anybody thinks President Biden was not meant for this moment in history are fucking blind.
@Free_Press Not to mention that a border wall is purely symbolic and will accomplish nothing.
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“If it’s a Biden and Trump race, I would vote for Biden even if he was dead. And I’m a Republican.”
— A Pennsylvania voter to Meet the Press host Kristen Welker.
- 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
