OLD Bhawthorne account

“Voters would find out that someone making less than $15,000 a year would see their federal taxes increase by 74.3% by 2031. That is not a typo.
“Trump claims all of these cuts are necessary to make his $4.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires and corporations permanent.”
#USPol
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/one-big-bad-bill

2025-05-10 17:56:36 UTC

"I have autism and I'm not broken." At the Princeton Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, 9-year-old Teddy pushed back against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments on children with autism.
#ActuallyAutistic
https://youtu.be/mPGTCD4Baeg

2025-04-28 23:43:50 UTC

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Whichever chooses to fight on my behalf. And I hope she sings while she fights!

2025-04-27 06:02:58 UTC

After I fainted the other night, I remarked that it felt like my brain had rebooted. There was a discordant blat of sound and voice fragments right before the reboot.
I just hope that whatever update was installed does something about this long covid bug.

2025-04-14 13:47:29 UTC

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This is my brain, every day, all day long, since getting long COVID in 2022. Doing anything requires an immense effort. I had to retire early because I could no longer do my job.

2025-04-11 15:52:12 UTC

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It is based primarily on trail usage. In the northeast trails are also maintained in as wild a condition as possible. Ladders and stairs only get installed when visitor numbers get so high that people start causing erosion, or making informal bypass trails.
The white mountain national@forest receives over 4 million visitors a year, and most of those are concentrated in a small number of areas.

2025-04-03 12:39:12 UTC

Dear Democratic Politicians,
No, this is not the time to be ramping up your fundraising emails. This is time for you to be making some good trouble. Stop trying to play the same politics-as-usual game. It’s over. No, you do not need a campaign war chest because there will not be fair elections in 2026.
Now, get up out of your chair, gather all of your staff, and actually do something. Join the rest of us in protesting. Not a 5-minute photo op. Real protest.
And, update your damn ActBlue mailing lists, because I opted out of that ish years ago, and new groups just keep sending me requests for money.

2025-02-28 17:12:55 UTC

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Teams is everything corporate, clunky, intrusive, and AI-infused that you hate about MS Office grafted onto the Skype engine, with none of the personal connection stuff of Skype.
Signal is so much better.
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2025-02-09 16:41:18 UTC

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We just saw a pair of these at our feeder in western Massachusetts! So charismatic, and glad at least one of us got a good photo!

2025-02-03 17:37:14 UTC

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Now getting this from SSA.
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2025-01-28 17:43:18 UTC

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I don’t read the news any more. I just can’t. Enough of what is going on seeps in through the cracks that I don’t feel completely oblivious, but I am just focused on survival at this point.

2025-01-11 18:31:03 UTC

After reading the late Steve Silverman ‘s Neuro Tribes, I think I understand why I and so many other adults are only now discovering our autism. I won’t go into the details because you should read Neuro Tribes. When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, autism in the USA was specifically defined as to exclude all of us, because we were verbal.
I am actually glad it worked out that way, because it means I missed being saddled with the label of a disorder. The disorder is in society, not in me. I have always known this, since early childhood.
It is why I gravitated to novels that explored other possible societies, from the Chronicles of Narnia to the Lord of the Rings to Dune to the worlds of Alliance-Union, Known Space, the Culture, and beyond. The genres that came to be known as science fiction and fantasy were staples feeding my voracious appetite for words.
As a youngster, I also explored everything I could from different religions to those ads in the back of books for the Rosicrucians. I went to catholic mass with my catholic friends, broke bread and drank consecrated wine with my German friends in the Evangelische Kirche, celebrated Pesach with my Jewish friends, read the Bible in two languages (King James version and Jörg Zink’s German adaptation), and spent days and nights in the woods celebrating the seasons with my@friends who would now be called neo-pagan.
Of course, when D&D first came out, I was right there, building better worlds with my friends, role-playing characters of different genders and species. I watched Star Trek TOS with my dad, eagerly awaiting each new episode on our black-and-white portable television from Sears with the broken aerial replaced by a wire coat hanger.
No concluding paragraph because the story goes on.
(Although, this is one of those posts that started as a response, and quickly grew to be a journal entry. But I’m still leaving it here.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20161120092714/http://stevesilberman.com/book/neurotribes/
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2025-01-10 00:54:51 UTC

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What did I just watch?

2024-12-30 19:10:40 UTC

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I knew one could be committed to a mental hospital, but this is the first time I’ve heard of being committed to a gymnasium. Do they let you out if you achieve their desired BMI for you, or is this a lifetime sentence?
😏
#TongueFirmlyInCheek
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2024-12-12 14:29:33 UTC

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Congratulations! Silt loams are among some of the most productive farm soils in New England. You can also look up the general soil type in your area on the NRCS maps. If you are in Massachusetts, you can access them on https://maps.massgis.digital.mass.gov/MassMapper/MassMapper.html

2024-12-08 14:40:22 UTC

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Even before I switched to infosec.exchange, I don’t think I ever hit a rate limit when posting, so it sounds like something about your instance needs some tuning! I do like threaded conversations, but I rarely read posts that are split into multiple pieces. I gave up keeping a separate blog when I realized that I do most of my best writing when I’m not thinking about polishing it for perfection.

2024-12-08 14:32:35 UTC

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This is why I use an app (Mona app) on an instance (infosec.exchange) that runs the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon and has a reasonable length limit, so I can post everything all at once in a single post.

2024-12-05 18:58:07 UTC

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2024-12-03 16:58:13 UTC

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They were clearly following in Coca-Cola’s earlier use of cocaine.

2024-11-24 14:04:18 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-11-01 22:30:35 UTC

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Waiting for test results.
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2024-11-01 18:13:17 UTC

Heading to a “stat” referral to an ophthalmologist after seeing the optometrist yesterday. Just putting this out there in the world. I hope it is nothing major and just another of those weird long covid things, however looking up “optic disk edema” last night was probably a mistake.
Oh, and of course today is the first day of my new retiree insurance.
Well wishes welcome.

2024-10-28 20:45:47 UTC

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From the article:
Brauchli has publicly encouraged people not to cancel their Post subscriptions in protest.
“It is a way to send a message to ownership but it shoots you in the foot if you care about the kind of in-depth, quality journalism like the Post produces,” he said. “There aren’t many organizations that can do what the Post does. The range and depth of reporting by the Post’s journalists is among the best in the world.”
My problem is that if management sticks their hands in like this, then we can have no confidence in anything that WaPo publishes. Bezos has broken the cardinal rule of modern news organizations. The Washington Post is no more. Once lost, trust cannot be regained.

2024-10-27 15:57:38 UTC

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Oh lucky you, getting extracted from this timeline. Hope you enjoy the new one without fascism!

2024-10-19 22:09:33 UTC

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So, those of us with chronic illnesses who always feel unwell are no longer welcome at hospitals? How is this not an ADA violation?
If they mean, “have a cold or similar infectious illness” then say that. “Feel unwell” is a ridiculous euphemism. Nobody says that. “Feel sick”, sure.

2024-10-10 23:32:35 UTC

Took the dog out and looked up in the sky.
#Aurora #Berkshires #WesternMass #SpaceWeather
#Alt4Me
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2024-10-02 20:23:58 UTC

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Thank you! I like to think of it as the first half of the ballad of the short summary of the cliff notes version of the totally epic, Epic of Gilgamesh.

2024-10-02 16:21:09 UTC

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Most résumés never get to the hiring manager. Usually, most of them are filtered out in the online portal based on requirements specified by the hiring company. The remainder often go to HR, which does a second winnowing step, and only then do the small set of remaining résumés get forwarded to the hiring manager for review.

2024-09-30 03:51:16 UTC

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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
Of gods and beasts and death
That started with Enkidu’s birth
To tame bold Gilgamesh
The king was the lord of Uruk state.
Enkidu, wild and new.
The challenge was a feat of strength.
The king beat Enkidu. The king beat Enkidu.
Our hero friends then traveled east
To the hills of old Elam
They cut the trees of Humbaba
and laid him on the ground. They laid him on the ground.
The gods play games. A bull is killed.
Enkidu’s sick and dies.
Our hero seeks eternal life.
The gods are greedy guys. The gods are greedy, guys.
The Hero’s Journey is a trope but this here was the start,
With Gilgamesh
Enkidu too,
Humbaba and Ishtar.
The Bull of Heav‘n,
Sumerians, Akkadians.
Here on Gilgamesh Isle!

2024-09-29 14:24:57 UTC

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“Mastodon is too complicated” appears to mean “We can’t figure out how to monetize Mastodon.”

2024-09-25 16:09:07 UTC

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Because Big Journalism is owned by Big Oligarchs, and they WANT to get rid of democracy. So, even if individual journalists want do the right thing, editors and publishers aren’t going to let them. Whether that is direct interference, interfering by determining assignments, or interfering by establishing a particular political culture in the organization, the owners are always in control.

2024-09-21 16:56:27 UTC

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My advice would be to start by looking for the government agencies and NGOs who are most active in BC. Attend events they sponsor and meet the people who are working on issues in BC. Those folks are the keys, not the organizations.
The Land Conservancy of BC has their annual meeting on 28 September in Cordova Bay. That might be a good place to start making connections and finding out what the needs are and who is doing what.
Finding the people will also help you figure out what additional education and training you will need to really make a difference. Best of luck! The planet needs all of us working on conservation.
https://conservancy.bc.ca/event/tlcs-2024-annual-general-meeting/

2024-09-21 16:44:13 UTC

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Reading this makes me feel so much sorrow for the generations that have grown up this way. As a 60-something who worked in the technology field in the 1980s and 1990s, I feel like an Internet pioneer. The world described in the essay is not the world we imagined, but that’s because we originally hoped the Internet would be a way of connecting people together, and not corporations. And while we thought we foresaw the impact of the “dotcoms” on our old network of individuals’ computers, our imagination was insufficient to see just how those corporations would take over our creation.
Despite that my early pioneer days, I ended up changing careers to natural resources and spent 25 years studying and working in the conservation field. I explicitly rejected the concept of advertising, and my job performance was measured by acres of land protected and acres of rare species habitat restored. I moved to a small rural town and simplified my life as much as possible (while also building a fiber optic network for our town). In the meantime, apparently the world has gone on changing without my noticing.
Reading about the different experience the author has lived through feels almost like reading a science fiction dystopia. I guess all I can say is, I’m sorry. This is not the world we meant to create. We should have done better.

2024-09-18 14:09:45 UTC

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I left my tech career in 1999, went back to school for an advanced degree in natural resources, and spent much of the last 20 years of my career out in nature, unplugged from tech, and often in solitude. It was a good decision.
Get out in nature while you can. At 61, I’m now disabled and spend much of my outdoor time on the porch looking at the woods I used to walk in. Don’t leave it until later. Get out there now, even if it means changing careers.

2024-09-14 19:36:02 UTC

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Is the bridge two-way? In other words, can you see this comment on blusky? Or is it one way like the threads.net bridge?

2024-09-12 20:54:19 UTC

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Trump doesn’t distinguish between true and false. The only two categories he cares about are “Helps Donald Trump” and “Doesn’t help Donald Trump.”

2024-09-10 22:09:40 UTC

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10 to 1 the real topic will be: “Why Fediverse developers need to start using Bluesky’s proprietary protocols instead of the Fediverse’s free as in speech protocols.”

2024-09-10 20:40:07 UTC

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Is that little pixie sitting next to Mastodon @npub1gq5…qcul ? So cute!

2024-09-10 20:31:49 UTC

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We need a non-profit that buys up residual rights to games that are eoled and makes them open source.

2024-09-08 15:01:07 UTC

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The hyperloop appears to have been another hallucination by Musk Al to slow down high speed rail. We don’t need unproven tubes of vacuum to get high speed rail. Countries around the world already have high-speed rail running over 250 kph. All we have to do is build it. And we have plenty of places to build it; just take a couple of lanes of those huge freeways and interstates.
https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460

2024-09-04 14:12:22 UTC

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Here’s my contribution.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/079/690/314/597/944/original/1ec8706def3ff634.jpeg

2024-09-03 13:37:02 UTC

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Oh. I think this is the definition of burying the lede. Probably the most important piece of information in the article is buried as the final phrase of the article.
“These huge price increases also follow Canva purchasing the company behind Affinity’s creative software suite for a reported ‘several hundred million [British] pounds,’ and **ahead of a potential public listing in the US in 2026.**”

2024-08-30 15:53:20 UTC

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Okay, so y’all are singing a duet 🎤 🎶

2024-08-30 15:40:49 UTC

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And here I thought you were screaming as the rear claws dug into your leg…

2024-08-30 12:54:27 UTC

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We don’t even need a “new law.”
My religion:
Spirit is in everything. There are no gods. People claiming otherwise are deluded or trying to sell me something. Associating with deluded people who will not accept help in freeing themselves from delusion is an unproductive waste of my life and makes me less well. Associating with people who are trying to sell me something is offensive to my religion.
As an atheist animist, requiring me to associate with or provide services to deluded people or people trying to sell me something is not allowed under the Constitution’s freedom of association clause and free exercise of religion clause, and the RFRA of 1993 https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/1308/text

2024-08-29 19:48:45 UTC

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So, it sounds like it is the Executive Director’s job to press charges under that act. That would be Ms. Karen Durham-Aguilera, Executive Director Office of Army Cemeteries (https://armycemeteries.army.mil/About-Us/Executive-Director).

2024-08-26 16:38:41 UTC

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Is that grams of Carbon or grams of CO2e?