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  I wonder if any radio operators utilize isolated grounds in their radio rooms. These outlets are typically orange and have a green triangle printed on the cover.

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  #Winter For those in the northern hemisphere, have you begun preparing your snow blower. This could include oil change, new gasoline, running the engine or other maintenance activities.

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  Everyone knows the real dark web is only reachable by running IPX.

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  Honestly X (Twitter) could ban the entire state of Minnesota and I would be fine with it.

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  Consumer electronics made in 70’s, 80’s and the 90’s with rubber feet are experiencing chemistry first hand as the plastic and rubber turn to goo. Have you experienced said goo? #Electronics

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  Inappropriate behavior on 14.230 MHz USB SSTV KN2BD is sending nazi swastiskas

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  #Radio #Law SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) - The parent of a Pulaski County student filed a lawsuit alleging that Pulaski County Schools and law enforcement officials violated the student’s civil rights. The student, who holds a valid Federal Communications Commission amateur radio license, reportedly brought two-way radios to school with him at Southwestern High School on Jan. 31, 2025.

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  Any time I think of Rockwell Automation I think of this https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?is=NNe9Az05V_7j9kX3

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  #WTF A billionaire biohacker who wanted to live forever is seemingly questioning his life choices after being diagnosed with an 'uncurable' disease. Bryan Johnson whose viral stunts in pursuit of eternal life have included injecting himself with his son's blood plasma and tweeting details reports on his wife's vagina, recently revealed that he has developed autoimmune gastritis. It's an incurable chronic condition where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in...

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  eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists’ home. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ebay-former-execs-pay-56m-to-settle-bloody-pig-mask-harassment-case/?comments-page=1#comments

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  Ouch! Did you feel the incredibly intense humidity on Sunday? Not only was it the hottest day in four years at the Minneapolis and St. Paul Airport, but we had late night dew points of 81 degrees there, as well. That was only one degree away from the all-time record dew point at MSP but that’s not as impressive as the other statistic. Prior to Monday morning, MSP had only recorded 28 total hours with a dew point over 80 degrees. On Monday alone, we were in that range for six straight hours.

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  #News #Wisconsin A tornado struck Wisconsin on Monday, splintering homes, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 30,000 people. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Winnebago County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Damage was reported in cities including Appleton and Menasha, where Police Chief Matt Albrecht said a number of businesses and homes were “severely impacted.”

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  #History Ewa Wiśnierska (née Cieślewicz; born 23 December 1971) is a Polish paraglider, a member of the German national paragliding team, who won the Paragliding World Cup on several occasions. On 14 February 2007, in spite of a forecast of violent thunderstorms, Wiśnierska decided to try to fly in order to train for the 2007 World Paragliding Championships near Manilla, New South Wales, Australia.

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  Doc, you built a Time Machine?! Yes Marty. Get in we need to make sure Google is never created, Elon Musk is never born, and Sam Altman is eaten by a shark.

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  6.955 pirate radio 1990’s alternative music.

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  For $2400 dollars Russell Bliss sprayed every road in Times Beach Missouri. For $33 million dollars the federal government bought the entire town and burned it to the ground. Between those two numbers is the story of how a chain of decisions, each one a little cheaper than the last, erased a community of 2000 people from the map and turned the place where they’d raise their families into a grass covered mound that hikers walk over today without knowing what’s beneath their feet.

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  #Economy The number of adults who are “not in the labor force” (NILF) surged to an all-time high in June to 105.8 million, according to figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor force in June alone. The overall number of NILFs is higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic.

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  August 8th is International Cat Day and so the amateur radio community will be hosting cat pictures via SSTV on this day. My opinion is all frequencies that are authorized should be used for SSTV. We can’t really call it a competition because clearly my cat would win so instead the goal is to celebrate all cats, big and small.

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  Did you know that you can send SSTV cat pictures while using FM? Not only that, but by using an FM repeater even more people can enjoy your cat pictures. Don’t have a ham radio license? SSTV works on CB radio as well.

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  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WINONA...OLMSTED...MOWER... WABASHA...DODGE...FILLMORE...BUFFALO AND NORTHWESTERN TREMPEALEAU COUNTIES THROUGH 545 AM CDT... At 448 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Plum City to near Mantorville to near Clarks Grove. Movement was southeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

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  Taking donations to purchase a “Hack the Planet” necklace like the one captured by the FBI from the Scattered Spiders.

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  US debt surpasses 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II. The United States is officially insolvent.

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  @admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net Minnesota is contributing to the problem with our fires.

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  6 Months of AI Radio Went About as Badly as You'd Expect The experiment was simple. A company gave four AI models $20 each and a fistful of instructions, then left them to their own devices. So, how did it go? Poorly, as you might expect. Andon Labs says that the longer the experiment ran, the more ridiculous things became. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-ran-four-radio-stations-for-six-months/

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  Pirate radio on 6.975 USB #shortwave

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  Spooky that we have people living in Salam Massachusetts on Mastodon and now I learned of the Bennington Triangle which should not be confused with the Bermuda Triangle. What other spooky things are going on around us? Do others on Mastodon live in spooky areas??? There are exactly 115 days until Halloween which will be on a Saturday this year.🎃

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  National Weather Service teams are heading to the Detroit Lakes area after a suspected tornado damaged homes and businesses and left two people injured. According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, numerous trees and power lines came down during Monday night’s storm and suspected tornado. #Weather #Minnesota #News

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  #Transgender #News SEATTLE — Crow Harmony never felt at ease living in Florida as a transgender guy. The state has some of the most restrictive anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the country, and Harmony said he struggled to find employers willing to hire trans people. Last fall, after Harmony’s boyfriend transitioned, the couple lost their housing.

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  I’ve created a new non controversial age verification system for social media. It works as follows. The person on camera has to cook broccoli by boiling it and then eat it on camera. Those who can’t or won’t are definitely children, those that can are approved. Adding cheese, salt or any other flavor enhancer will automatically fail the verification. No personal data is collected.

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  Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development a not insignificant number of adult students enrolled in higher education are now reading and doing math of a ten year old.