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Ambulocetus

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Certified freak, 2 or 3 days a week.
My Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/@ambulocetusnatans
Salus populi suprema lex esto

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I just bought seven days worth of Tofu with Mushrooms in hot sauce.
It's Shart Week.

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Using make-up and hairstyle to protect yourself from A.I. facial recognition. https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle

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I am going to find the kitty cats with the biggest canine teeth and breed them together to make a tiny replica of the saber toothed tiger. I will call it the Smol-odon.

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Like @cstross , I’ve only been realizing very late that extremely rich people are necessarily crazy.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/02/more-in-sadness-than-in-anger.html

It’s logical: non-crazy people will, at some point, hit the "more money than enough even for my craziest fullfilling dreams".

People who are still destroying their social/ecological environment for more money above that level are, obviously, crazy. And dangerous.

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Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

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@mwl I always say, the only thing "smart" in my house is my girlfriend.

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Always label your canned goods. You don't want to open a can of whoop-ass and find out it's actually a can of worms.

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it's not left vs right, it's up versus down

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True things make more sense the more you think about them, and fake things make less sense the more you think about them.

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Twitter only functions by having people to attack. You sticking around there to "fight the good fight" is GIVING THEM EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. They WANT YOU THERE, FIGHTING. You're not changing a damn thing. You're playing a roll they want you to play for their amusement.
DON'T DO THAT.

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Offer no 'good' help to official persons. The field manuals for fighting fascism are filled with advice about how to throw sand in the gears by being inefficient and counter-helpful while appearing to be 'helping'
Tell them you'll 'go get help' and fuck off to your own business.
Offer to get food or drinks for their crew and disappear.
Spend ages finding the wrong information when they ask.
You get the idea.

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How to defend your house- illustrations from an old WWII manual on how to prepare your house against enemy incursion. https://imgur.com/gallery/defence-of-houses-84cvu6T

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"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." -

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there's no better mark than a con man .

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Physics: "Chemistry and Biology are just applied Physics."
Math: "Hold my beer."

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You could be the smartest person in the world, but if your emotions have blinded you to objective reality, no-one can tell the difference between you and an idiot.

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If something doesn't make sense it is for two reasons only. One: it was explained to you wrong. Two: the thing itself is wrong.

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I refuse to be anesthetized by the spectacle.

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Star Wars is just wizards and muppets in space.

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Have you heard about those new corduroy pillows?
They are making headlines.

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Congratulations to Ashli Babbitt on 5 years of sobriety.

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I'm not an expert, but from what I understand, the drugs that come from South America are extracted from plants, like Cocaine and Marijuana.
And I could be mistaken. but I thought the synthetic chemical drugs like Fentanyl were either manufactured domestically or imported from China.
I wonder why we aren't invading China?

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Does anyone else suspect that the real reason they are getting rid of the penny is because Lincoln is on it?

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"An Archaeologist is just a thief with patience."
-River Song

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The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883

The 1903 bronze plaque located in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. An exact replica of this plaque is now located in the Statue of Liberty Museum.
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Slow motion of a wasp hunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osTBzQ0zbk

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“Dude, sucking is the first step to being sorta good at something.” -Jake the dog

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Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. I don't even know what to believe any more

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“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”
― Confucius

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“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
― Confucius

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You can adjust your views to reality, but you can't adjust reality to your views.

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Beer is great because it's like having the bread and the circuses all in one package.

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the sword to kill the dragon can not be used for killing a snake.

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✨ A Joyful Pause ✨

Let's stop and reflect on something positive!

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or just enjoy your thoughts on your own!

Deep breath ...

What movie have you watched over and over and never gotten tired of?

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@joyousjoyness The Princess Bride came out when I was a kid, and judging from the TV ads, I thought I wouldn't like it. So I never saw it until about a dozen years ago, and now it's one of my favs. I was way wrong for a long time.

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sudo hal9k:~# /usr/sbin/open_pod_bay_doors

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"Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence." ― Ptahhotep

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the year is 2027. After waiting 4 hours I am starting to suspect the Google maps AI made up the restaurant I ordered from

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Every time I go to a chain store, they ask for a phone number, and every time I get a fresh wave of phishing scam attempts. I'm not giving them my phone number anymore, and I suggest you also stop. Their "rewards" programs are simply a way to get your number to sell to scammers. It's not worth it. They sell your info for pennies, and whatever "rewards" you get are worth less than that.

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Did you hear there is a Dalmatian on the loose? We hope he is spotted soon.

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Technically we have never heard the real Monster Mash, we only ever heard a song about the Monster Mash.

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If it was possible to manipulate weather, they would be selling Luxury Weather Packages to rich people.

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reporting "Has the magic"
As in, no accusations stick.

It's a sick admission from US news.

Trump is magic. Corporate grift intentionally forced into the civil discourse.

A of the body politic.
!

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@RememberUsAlways I can't tell you or anybody else what to do, but as for me, I cancelled Cable and Netflix, I found a great ad-blocker, and I don't give a fraction of a penny or a tiny bit of my personal data to any websites. If there is a show I simply must see, I know a bay where some pirates can help me find it.
They force-fed us Trump like a French farmer feeding a goose, and I refuse to ever give them money or attention again. If Trump destroys them, I won't shed a single tear.

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@RememberUsAlways A couple years ago I bought a laptop that had Windows, so I thought I'd check it out for a few days to see how the other half lives. Fifteen minutes later I was installing Linux.

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"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

  • Dr Who