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  @eff@mastodon.social @earthlingusa@mas.to I’m so glad I talked myself out of the Ring doorbell idea last year. This seems like something straight out of dystopian science fiction.

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  @faraiwe@mstdn.social @flamulous@social.the-gdn.net I hate it when I see this. But I guess that means the website in question really doesn’t want me to see whatever they are offering that badly.

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  I’m kind of at my wit’s end about something, and out of desperation I’m reaching out hoping someone might have a clue about what to do about a strange thing that’s happening with my iPhone. In a moment of insanity, I agreed to get put on the board of our homeowner’s association. I was added to a text group with the other board members. Now here’s where it gets weird. I’m not getting any of the messages in the group. They have my phone number right, and they get messages I send, but I see none of...

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  For the last 15 or so minutes I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out what I wanted to write, and I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that, tonight at least, I’ve got nothing. The man a majority of voters thought would be a good choice for #POTUS is a deranged lunatic, and the Secretary of Defense is clearly a religious zealot. Does his rhetoric strike anyone else as similar to the calls for #Jihad from the likes of bin Laden back in the day? So, yeah, what else is there? Bed seems lik...

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  Good morning Mastheads. I was not alive yet when America endured the Cuban missile crisis, but I’m pretty sure I now have a taste of how people were feeling during that time. Of course, the difference in this case was JFK was not telling Khrushchev to get his fucking missiles out of Cuba, adding sick bastard for good measure. I have a pretty strong hunch that the orange menace will pull a #TACO and say that the peace talks in his head have achieved a breakthrough, or something. Even still, I sus...

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  Everything is terrible, but at least I have one good thing tonight; the sweet gray fluffy cat crashed out on the arm of the chair next to me. She’s good for my heart. Sorry, no pictures. #CatsOfMastodon #CaturdayEveryDay

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  I think I might have stumbled upon why I’ve been having such a hard time emotionally. Recent bloodwork indicates my Vitamin D levels are completely in the tank. Like, the norm is 20, and I’m at 9. Time for some Vitamin D supplements, I would say. This won’t do anything regarding all the external things that are terrible, but maybe once my Vitamin D levels are up I’ll be better equipped to handle it.

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  Regarding Artemis II, I admit I haven’t gotten much into it. I’m not against it or anything like that, it just hasn’t grabbed my attention. But I’m thinking about America’s relationship with space travel. To me, it’s a miracle that we went from #JFK putting out the challenge to put a person on the moon to Neil Armstrong saying one giant leap in only 8 years. Then there were six more trips to the Moon in the next 3 years, with five actually landing, the only exception being Apollo 13. Then the mo...

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  I thought some people might appreciate a kitty picture.

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  I don’t want to wait anymore. You can’t make me! #ImmatureSongOrPoem #HashtagGames

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  Well I suppose this is a good thing to know if I ever find myself owing $100 million in taxes. I do wonder what other methods of payments are possible? I’ve never heard of a credit hard with a $100 million limit. I’d be tempted to pay it in pennies, but I hear they’re not making those anymore. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116269138939569729

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  Those of us who keep up with my personal stuff here probably remember that last month I underwent some cognitive testing because I was experiencing some short-term memory loss and other things that alarmed me and I wanted to at least rule out something like dementia. I passed the cognitive exams with flying colors, and an MRI did not detect anything amiss. But last week I’m pretty sure I figured out what’s probably at the root of this. It hit me, like a ton of bricks, actually, that I had pretty...

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  @jackyan@mastodon.social @Tengrain@mastodon.social I’m wondering who wouldn’t use headphones as a matter of course? Seems like that would just be common sense, though I’ve been in restaurants where somebody thinks it’s okay to share their phone conversations to the world at large.

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  This is truly awful! #Blind A Rohingya refugee wanted freedom. America left him for dead in frigid Buffalo. https://share.inquirer.com/b16gWH

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  If there was ever a day when #Caturday was absolutely necessary, it’s today.

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  I’m just feeling tired. Bone weary. There’s so much out there right now that’s screwed up and wrong that it’s hard to remember there’s a lot right as well. #Caturday posts help. I often wish I were a cat, I’d get all my needs met, get petted all the time, and the only thing I’d have to worry about is why is my human so late with the treats? Even with all this, I still believe in the power of prayer. Faith is a hard thing. When I wake up tomorrow morning that will be a victory. Take care of yours...

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  @Yehuda@turtleisland.social Dammit! In that way they’re no better than the former bird site or the book of faces. For me it’s just another example of how baked in white supremacy and privilege and all the rest is. And I’m speaking as a straight white male, with all the privilege that implies, though I’m also a person with a disability so I have at least a taste of what it’s like to be undervalued and sometimes outright dismissed. But, again, my privilege cushions me there too. Keep fighting the...

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  #Books #CurrentlyReading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. Got to say, I’m totally into this book! It’s historical fiction, focusing on two families in a small Ohio town beginning around WWII and continuing into the 60s and beyond, I haven’t gotten to the end yet. It is extremely well written. There’s plenty of family drama, but it’s not overly dramatic. Don’t be surprised if it grabs you and holds on. And expect your feels to, um, feel.