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2026-04-11 19:29:41 GMT

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It's a lot like work. Like many women, my legs are much stronger than my upper body.

2026-04-11 17:59:44 GMT

I need a faster way to strengthen my arms, but I guess there are no shortcuts. I cleared my mom's driveway and her walkway behind her glassed-in porch. Arms are like noodles. I briefly could not lift a bottle of water to drink with just one hand.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/387/368/024/058/025/original/8990c930dba01a9e.mp4

2026-02-24 19:06:36 GMT

"That better be a data center, and not a concentration camp" is a sentence I never thought I'd utter. Yet, here we are.

2026-01-10 20:59:17 GMT

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ha ha. Right? Some answers are just so out there, nothing to do with the original post. Invariably, someone will bring up Mamdani in the replies to the question about musicals.

2026-01-10 18:26:10 GMT

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yep. I see it with everything: "Hey can you recommend some musicals? I just saw XYZ musical and loved it." 😃
Replies: "not a musical, but I really think you'd like . . ."
🙄

2026-01-10 17:48:19 GMT

J sent me this. Long, but informative and illuminating.
As an aside, J said that Ross was not trained as an officer, because he shot one-handed. She said all of the ICE tactics so far represent a complete lack of training.
"Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old mother of three, a poet, a wife, and she died an American hero. "Loving, forgiving, and affectionate," her mother called her -- the kind of person who did not turn away when she saw her neighbors in danger. She was a peaceful resistor, exercising the most sacred of American rights: to be present, to bear witness, to hold power accountable. Yesterday, she drove out to watch over her community as federal agents terrorized their Minneapolis neighborhood. When she attempted to leave, an ICE agent fired three shots through her open driver's window, striking her in the head.
A frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting footage by CBS News, conducted with retired ICE agent Eric Balliet, showed that the agent who murdered Renee deliberately walked into the path of her car before he opened fire. It was obvious to Balliet -- a 25-year veteran who was himself injured in a vehicular assault in 2008 -- that Renee's wheels were turned to the right and she was not trying to strike the agent.
"She's trying to get around that vehicle. She's trying to get away," he observed. By positioning himself where he did, Balliet continued, the agent essentially created a pretext for shooting, noting: "You're almost inducing a shooting if that person decides to flee."
What happened next may be even more damning than the shooting itself. After Renee's car collided into a utility pole across the street, the agents refused to allow a doctor who was right there, begging to help, to administer first aid or even check for a pulse. "The ICE agents told him to back up and stay on the sidewalk," a witness reported to Sahan Journal. It took ten more minutes for an ambulance to arrive but the agents refused to clear a path to Renee's car, forcing emergency responders to approach on foot.
"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn't even have a stretcher," another witness said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes." One neighbor who witnessed paramedics performing CPR on Good in a snowbank said they "didn't rush her away, they didn't have sirens or anything."
Renee was already gone. She had died in her car surrounded by her six-year-old son's stuffed animals.
Her wife, Rebecca, rushed to Renee's side after the crash. A witness recounted how, covered in Renee's blood and brain matter, she collapsed in the snow sobbing and screaming: "They killed my wife. I don't know what to do. We have a 6-year-old at school... we're new here, we don't have anyone."
The Trump administration wasted no time in spinning lies about Renee's murder -- blatant, vile lies, easily refuted by the extensive video footage available from multiple angles.
Trump himself quickly turned to social media to post smears, calling the screaming woman "obviously, a professional agitator" -- his sociopathic dismissal of a woman shrieking in agony and horror, her wife's blood still warm on her face, moments after watching her be executed at point-blank range. He then turned his venom on Renee, shamelessly lying that she had "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense."
"Self defense." It is the same lie they tell every time. In the last four months alone, DHS agents have fired on at least nine people while in their vehicles -- claiming "self-defense" in every single case. In case after case, video evidence has later contradicted the government's account. The playbook is now familiar: shoot first, lie immediately, smear the victim before the body is cold.
The full weight of the federal government's propaganda machine is now trying to turn a poet, a mother, a woman who spent her life taking care of others, into some kind of violent assailant. It is despicable. It is a disgrace. Renee Nicole Good was one of the best of America -- a person who refused to look away in the face of injustice.
We will not allow Renee's memory to be tarnished by the shameful lies of a rogue administration. So let us tell you about the woman they murdered.
Originally from Colorado, Renee lived in Minneapolis with her wife and youngest child -- a six-year-old boy -- just blocks from where she was killed. She described herself on Instagram as "poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer." She won an undergraduate poetry prize at Old Dominion University in 2020 for a poem called "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." Her mother, Donna Ganger, called her "one of the kindest people I've ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life."
Renee's murder by an ICE agent was extensively documented by multiple eye-witness videos -- and they tell a very different story than the one the Trump administration fabricated. The footage shows her burgundy Honda Pilot stopped sideways in the street. With her window down, she waves an ICE vehicle past her. This is the "violent rioter" who was trying to "kill" federal agents -- a woman politely waving them by. Then a gray pickup pulls up. Two masked agents get out; one yanks on her door handle and yells at her to "get out of the f*cking car."
She reverses, turns her wheels to the right, and pulls away from the agents. "She was probably terrified," her mother said later. A third agent walks toward the front of the vehicle. As the car begins to pull away -- wheels turned right, clearly trying to go around him -- he draws his weapon and fires three shots through the driver's side window as the car passes him. Her car continues forward and crashes into a utility pole across the street. After walking over to look at Renee's bloody body in the car, the agent who shot her quickly returns to his car and leaves the active crime scene.
No agents were in front of the car when shots were fired. No officer was run over. No officer appeared injured. The Guardian reported "no visible sign in the videos" of any injuries to ICE agents, and the agent who fired is seen on video, walking away and holstering his weapon moments later, unharmed. Yet Noem claimed he was "hit by the vehicle" and had to be treated at a hospital. Trump, with characteristic disregard for the truth, posted that "based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe [the agent] is alive."
Kristi Noem went on to call Renee a "domestic terrorist," claiming that she had "attempted to run [the ICE officers] over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.” Blaming her for her own murder, Vance monstrously called her death "a tragedy of her own making." DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused her of being a "violent rioter" who "weaponized her vehicle" to "kill" federal agents.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's response to the Trump administration's lies was unequivocal: "Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bullshit. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed. The narrative that this was just done in self-defense is a garbage narrative. That is not true. It has no truth."
Governor Tim Walz was equally direct: "I've seen the video. Don't believe this propaganda machine." At a press conference, Walz called the shooting "the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict." He continued: "We have someone dead, in their car, for no reason whatsoever. We've been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. Just yesterday, I said exactly that."
Even Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, careful not to prejudge the investigation, couldn't hide his concern: "In any professional law enforcement agency in the country, I think they would tell you it's obviously very concerning whenever there's a shooting into a vehicle of someone who's not armed." He added that while deadly force "is possible, and at times it is justified," "most law enforcement agencies in the country have trained very intensely to try and minimize the risk" of using deadly force.
Renee's killing, while shocking, should not be surprising given what we know about ICE's current workforce. Her murder is the culmination of a disturbing pattern of misconduct that experts have linked directly to the Trump administration's aggressive push to rapidly expand ICE's ranks.
Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, set a quota of 3,000 arrests per day in a meeting where he reportedly berated ICE officials and threatened to fire field office leaders who posted the lowest arrest numbers. To meet these demands, the administration has embarked on a frantic hiring surge, doubling its ranks in the past year, hiring over 12,000 new agents -- a 120% increase that brought the agency from roughly 10,000 personnel to more than 22,000.
Multiple investigations have revealed the devastating consequences of this rushed expansion: training has been slashed from six months to as little as six weeks, the traditional interview process has been essentially eliminated in favor of online application reviews and provisional clearances, and recruits have been rushed to the training academy before background checks were completed. More than one-third of recruits have failed basic fitness tests, and roughly half have failed open-book exams on immigration and constitutional law.
History offers a cautionary tale: after a similar hiring surge at Customs and Border Protection in the late 2000s, misconduct arrests of border control officers rose 44 percent."
J has not told me the source of this, yet.
#ICE #politics #US #shooting #CBP

2026-01-06 15:55:23 GMT

The words we use are often not the ones we choose.
We must learn to be more intentional, to reject framing.
First up: saying "paid" instead of "earned." Ex: a CEO is paid 600 times more than the average worker.
We need to replace phrases like "job creator," that favor the wealthy. No one says "labor profiteer."

2026-01-06 15:11:47 GMT

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this is good stuff. Just because it made me laugh, this was the post on my timeline directly below this one:
https://godforsaken.website/@pisscotheque/115848401199062533

2026-01-06 14:39:32 GMT

Jan. 6th. I remember seeing it unfold on TV and then raising the alarm on social media. It turned out to be much worse than I realized while it was happening.
#Jan6th

2026-01-05 14:38:58 GMT

My mom has reached the wandering phase of Alzheimer's and I am losing my fucking mind!!!

2026-01-03 16:40:16 GMT

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I love Mikey. Reminds me a little of my old cat, Charley, who also tried to claim the guest room quilt. He thought I bought a bed for him!
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2026-01-03 16:36:02 GMT

If you aren't alarmed, you are choosing not to pay attention, because nothing has directly affected you yet.

2026-01-03 15:26:16 GMT

I know everyone is telling us to rise up and do something, probably something I myself have said to people in other countries, but no one ever says exactly how it should work. For example, does anyone think that the people in Russia like Putin's dictatorship/oligarchy? It's terribly oppressive, yet they don't rise up and overthrow the despot. They are very spread out geographically. They've protested, but they just get thrown in the gulag. They do not hold economic or political power.
People have also not risen up in many other countries, or they have tried and failed (like in Turkey). The people of Hungary are probably well situated to overthrow Orbán, yet he is still in power. It definitely looks like Iran is having a revolution, because those folks have nothing left to lose. I know I was devastated when the Arab Spring did not work. Remember how many people were involved in that? It was not for a lack of trying.
From what I can tell, you have to get the military (and police, if possible) on your side. Economically shutting down the whole country would definitely hurt ourselves, but the ultra wealthy can always wait us out. It's so frustrating. Most U.S. residents live paycheck to paycheck. Honestly, I need help figuring out what to do. I already protest and put pressure on elected officials. I'm sure everyone from the outside looking in would like to see us all in the streets, but without military support, it's a Tiananmen Square situation. I am willing to die for the cause, but it needs to bring about change.
#US #Politics

2026-01-03 14:37:51 GMT

Living in the U.S. is a little like being in a dissociative state. There's such a disconnect. Near me, new businesses and housing are going up like gangbusters, even though we know thousands have lost their jobs. Then I find out that my government has kidnapped the leader of another nation.
Everything feels brittle and shattered. And when everything breaks into jagged pieces, you're much more likely to cut yourself, even while cleaning it up.
#US #Politics

2026-01-02 14:31:23 GMT

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I feel like quinoa needs something, and I can't figure out what.

2026-01-02 13:33:26 GMT

I may have asked this before, but does anyone have a kickass way to prepare quinoa?

2026-01-02 01:02:41 GMT

I think the best way to make sure your baby grows up to be a power quarterback is to give them a cool name. I looked up the top college quarterbacks and they all have super cool names:
Fernando
Diego
Jayden
Gunner
Trinidad
Demond
Haynes
Byrum
Ty
Colton
Taylen
Devon
Bear
Marcel
Jalon
Bryson
Carson
Conner
Sawyer
Caden
Cale
Lunch
Catin
Arch
Cameran
Athan
Alonza
Braylon
Rocco
Cutter

2026-01-01 19:55:38 GMT

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his failure to get Michael Che to knock it off with the trans jokes makes him complicit in my view.

2026-01-01 00:52:28 GMT

Watching one of the College Football playoff games, and it might be hard for those of you outside the U.S. to imagine just how big collegiate sports are here, how much money they make, and how big some of the universities are. The student body population of Ohio State University (including graduate students) is over 67,000. That's bigger than a lot of cities.

2025-12-31 19:57:42 GMT

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2025-12-30 22:49:02 GMT

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professor, what do you think about 47 getting pushed out of office in January, by those jockeying for positions of power? It would not be an improvement except as a symbolic win, but it would matter to a lot of people.

2025-12-29 14:59:27 GMT

I really dig seeing the stuff Y'all create: photos, paintings, drawings, woodwork, ceramics, fabric arts, etc. You are a creative bunch and I'm grateful.

2025-12-27 22:30:00 GMT

It's snowing a lot on Long Island, New York, U.S.A. where my cousin and his family live. His daughter is determined to make enough snowballs to "destroy the world." Should we be concerned about this child? 😄

2025-12-27 22:25:25 GMT

I didn't realize that this afternoon was the Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl.
Can we gather funds to get a Bowl game named after a Mastodon/Fedi personality?
Bread Monkey Monkey Bread Bowl
Alice is Slice Bowl
Switch to Linux Bowl
Grimm Punch (a Facist) Bowl
Two Clowns Eating Pop Tarts Bowl
The 420 Smoka Bowl
Kierke Spanx Bowl
Que Did not Come to Play Bowl
The Future is Now FutureBird Bowl
Ricki What in Tarr Nation Bowl
LRRR OMICRON ALL CAPS BOWL
CatSalad The Internet is Cats Bowl
Bat Karen is not That Karen Bowl

2025-12-23 21:59:31 GMT

Ya know how we tend to see faces in things? Well, I was looking at the Zoom Earth radar for this storm, and that low pressure parked off the coast, and . . . Holy shit. 😾
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/771/103/523/022/378/original/20120a984697efa5.jpg

2025-12-20 14:48:35 GMT

J is attending a funeral today for a friend of hers, and she mentioned that she hoped her mutual friends would be there, even though it's an hour* away and it's so close to Christmas. (J was raised by her grandparents, and she lost her Papa long ago, a few weeks before Chistmas. After funeral expenses, they had nothing left for Christmas at all, so 10 year old J got nothing, while having to see her cousins got a huge number of gifts. No one thought to make sure she wasn't left out.)
*In the U.S. we express distances as units of time. This distance outside the U.S. would be expressed as 73 km.
It's crucial to support the people you know who feel crushed by a barrage of messages about holiday cheer. The smallest gesture can really help them feel acknowledged.

2025-12-20 13:58:39 GMT

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Swede, you've outdone yourself.

2025-12-18 03:44:18 GMT

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I want to hang out with summer.

2025-12-15 23:37:29 GMT

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okay. I looked at the description, and probably not the movie for me, but good to know it has both a good reputation and at least some fans. Just weird I never heard of it at all.

2025-12-15 23:02:53 GMT

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I kniw all of these except The Sure Thing. Never heard of it and it has no votes so far.

2025-12-14 14:32:31 GMT

In the U.S. if you received your new medical insurance premium for 2026, how much did it go up? And are you covered through work, or did you buy thru the ACA?
If you'd rather keep it private, but want folks to know how much of a crisis this is, feel free to DM and I will add it as an anonymous reply.
We get our insurance through J's work, and ours went up by $114 per month.
I'm also curious if your premium stayed the same.

2025-12-09 19:19:36 GMT

Is this . . . possible?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m7lb4mgdu223

2025-12-09 17:02:47 GMT

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dammit. None near me. I just have icky annoying pines.

2025-12-09 17:01:39 GMT

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oh. I need to do this. *looks up what kind of pines are near me*

2025-12-09 15:32:51 GMT

Is there something weird that you like the taste or smell of? I like the taste of Vitamin C tablets. Maybe you like the taste of a licked battery, or the smell of Durian fruit. Could be anything.

2025-12-08 19:24:27 GMT

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I salute this priest for this call to conscience. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary would most definitely be detained by this administration. And someone should ask the diocese about how the holy family "sojourned" in Egypt to escape Herod's violence, and why that is any different from a family in Guatemala fleeing to escape the violent gangs trying to take their kids? Hypocrisy should always be confronted.

2025-12-05 17:52:27 GMT

Getting the other car serviced today, and this is what they had on the TV in the waiting room: no sound just breathtakingly beautiful ocean images. We all looked up, and abandoned looking at our phones or reading our books, and just sat there, mesmerized. I've never felt more calm. Highly recommend.
OCEANSHUTTER | OceanShutter
https://www.oceanshutter.com/

2025-12-03 00:43:20 GMT

Dec 3rd and 4th look good for auroras.
How to Watch Back-to-Back Northern Lights This Week
https://people.com/how-to-watch-back-to-back-northern-lights-this-week-december-3-2025-11860330

2025-11-30 22:59:00 GMT

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It really is. The more I learn, the more I don't understand.

2025-11-30 22:34:06 GMT

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thank you, yes. I consulted all of the space weather production pages I could find, but could not find what I was looking for.

2025-11-30 22:06:14 GMT

I'm trying to understand how to anticipate space weather events. Please correct me if I have any if this wrong:
So, the sun spot region AR4294, an area of multiple and large sun spots, is rotating towards facing the earth. But, just because a sun spot is large doesn't mean it necessarily has magnetic complexity? And there's a way to calculate some probability and potential for various classes of flares, but no way to predict if we will have CMEs?
Can we predict anything past three days out? And is the angle of the flare as it hits earth's magnetic field also determinative of how intense the visual effects (auroras) will be? Is the class of flare the only metric we use to determine the viewing area for auroras?

2025-11-28 19:18:38 GMT

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this is fantastic!

2025-11-28 16:21:29 GMT

#Boycott Don't buy anything you don't need, all this week in the U.S. #MassBlackout of Black Friday. #WeAintBuyingIt
As Carolyn pointed out, buy from small businesses. Boycott the big box and chain stores.
WTF: Wallet the funds
LMAO: Lotta Money Asleep, Okay?
IYKWIM: If You Keep Waiting, It Matters
YMMV: You Make Money Valuable
ASAP: Alert Someone About Protest
FYI: Fortify Your Importance
TTYL: Time To Yeet Leaders

2025-11-28 15:28:40 GMT

It's a good day not to buy a damn thing.

2025-11-28 15:27:23 GMT

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Tell me what industry you are supposedly killing by keeping your stuff, instead of buying into consumerism (literally).

2025-11-28 01:29:32 GMT

Re: the "device hoarding" framing: Will I be blamed for "killing the car industry" by driving a 2012 car? How about my 1955 house?

2025-11-23 16:08:35 GMT

Today's coffee surprised me: Kicking Horse "Grizzly Claw." It's a dark roast, but they were not looking to just make a strong coffee, but rather a smoother bold coffee. None of that burnt taste at the edges that you sometimes get in what is often termed "French Roast." It's a beautiful coffee, and tied for first place with KH Smart Ass. KH Three Sisters is a very close second place.
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2025-11-22 12:49:16 GMT

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cool! I know that elevation varies in Umbria, but nice to see snow, whether on hills or in the mountains. Beautiful area.

2025-11-21 14:42:18 GMT

Ya know, the easiest "Peace plan" would be if the aggressor stopped attacking. 🇺🇦

2025-11-17 16:05:53 GMT

Serious question: what do you think would happen, in what order, if the current President of the United States were to be removed from office? He seems to be a whole lot more trouble than he's worth, for the people who have the money and power to pull the strings.
I see the sharks circling in ways I had not before. It would not be hard to justify the use of the 25th amendment to remove him from office. Certainly Peter Thiel would like to see his protégé installed.
There would be backlash, but if sycophants were also replaced in their positions of power, it could go more smoothly than one might expect. Would things get appreciably better? Hard to say. Perhaps the downward slide might even out a bit.

2025-11-14 18:34:43 GMT

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sounds like a win/win.

2025-11-14 12:41:46 GMT

Maybe the 30 in COP30 means the number of years we have left before a disastrous rise in CO²?
We could do something even now to avoid it. If I'm driving toward a cliff, I could try the brakes.

2025-11-13 15:03:01 GMT

I have stolen this meme, unashamedly, from Caroline Harrison, who is not on this platform as far as I know:
This is regarding Megyn Kelly asking if it was really that bad if Epstein wanted teen girls. A trial balloon floated to try to distinguish ephebophiles from pedophiles. We knew the rebranding was coming, but it's no less despicable.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/115/542/954/407/354/115/original/359231e797259592.jpg

2025-11-12 21:09:55 GMT

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I am glad that they closed the bridge, once cracks were seen on the roadway and on the mountain slope. It sounds like too much concentrated pressure on each end. Something went wrong with the engineering here, like too much tension focused on either side, and not enough central support structure.

2025-11-12 19:55:17 GMT

I very much appreciate all the Aurora pics in both hemispheres. My mom was a schoolteacher when we lived in the northern tier. She was too busy to be able to stop and admire the Northern Lights, and they will never be visible to the naked eye way down here in the South. So through your dedication and care, and a little luck, I can show her the beauty of this natural phenomenon. Her favorite colors are purple and green, so it is as if nature has put on a show just for her. I'm very grateful.
#AuroraBorealis
#AuroraAustralis

2025-11-12 16:59:25 GMT

I'm curious about how much it costs to get a pizza delivered to you, where you are, if it's available. You can post it in your own currency and I'll convert it.
Let's say a medium pizza with one or two toppings.
In my area, you can get one for about 12 US dollars before tip.

2025-11-12 00:07:51 GMT

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"Nuremberg" was good, not a best picture award kind of movie, but very effective. The best performance IMHO was by Russell Crowe, who played Göring. The hardest part was the frank presentation of Nazi atrocities. Even though you knew it was coming, seeing graphic footage of The Holocaust was a gut punch.
The film did a good job of reminding the audience that no one is immune from collaborating with, or becoming a monster. I think that hit all of us hard. When the movie ended, we all sat there as the credits rolled. No one moved to the exits. We had to sit there for a few minutes, processing it all.

2025-11-11 18:59:38 GMT

Everyone seems to have a lot going on today. We are headed to see the movie Nuremberg. I'll let you know how it is. As a veteran, J gets a huge 46oz. popcorn for free, for Veteran's Day.

2025-11-11 04:10:33 GMT

I am pleasantly surprised at the honor given today to the memory of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

2025-11-09 13:09:54 GMT

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag
When my mom lived in North Carolina, USA, nearly every time I made a winter visit, it would mysteriously snow. This one was in 2018.
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2025-11-06 13:08:47 GMT

Even though I've already had Shingles twice, I just scheduled my Shingles vaccine (first of two shots) for later this month. Will the side effects be terrible? Yes.
Will it also confer the only known (partial) protection against Alzheimer's?
Also yes.
Apparently, the protection is even greater if you also get the RSV vaccine, which is not an annual vaccine. I had that jab previously.
https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-study-reveals-2-vaccines-that-appear-to-reduce-dementia-risk
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

2025-11-04 14:13:51 GMT

Serious question: Do you get irritated with longer alt text on images? Or are you more bothered by unhelpful alt text, at any length? (I'll shorten alt text to A.T. ) multiple choice, for nuance and additional A.T. elements.
There's a lot here I need to work on. Thank you to Digital Accessibility for pointers.

2025-11-04 13:11:31 GMT

Since the password for access to the security system at the Louvre was just "Louvre," that might scare you into thinking that the codes for launching nukes might be as easily guessed, but that's silly.
Under the current U.S. admin, those pass codes are all likely misspelled.

2025-11-03 17:08:35 GMT

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I think a lot depends on the design and size of the fridge. Some are very narrow.

2025-11-03 16:56:30 GMT

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yeah. Some of us don't have room to open the carton inside the fridge and take an egg out.

2025-11-02 15:21:00 GMT

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there are many folks like this. My mom had to change IBM policy to accommodate tea drinkers, because every meeting offered only coffee.

2025-11-02 14:52:11 GMT

Apologies to the tea drinkers of the world for the possibly garrulous, but definitely loquacious, coffee talk today.

2025-10-30 17:53:54 GMT

I don't expect any trick or treaters. I think I've had three since 1989. But, if we do get some, I hope they like oatmeal packets and Ritz crackers.

2025-10-30 17:10:05 GMT

Had to renew my library card today. The librarian told me that people are coming in daily to ask if there is anywhere they can get some food, including an unusual number of young people in their early 20s.
We discussed putting nonperishables in the free little library over near the trailer park. (Thank you to the people who suggested that.) And, of course, we need to support food banks with whatever funds we can. No donation is too small.
The fact is, in the U.S. we are on our own. We are going to have to help each other. We are plunging headfirst into a clear and present crisis.
#SNAP #FoodInsecurity

2025-10-30 14:22:02 GMT

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ha ha ha! Nicely done.
When people see how small my hands are, I usually remark "Yeah, I have the hands of a small child," and I always want to add "I mean, not in my freezer," but that kind of dark humor definitely does not work for everyone.

2025-10-30 12:16:31 GMT

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ah, okay. I felt so out of the loop, not knowing what the appeal was. I occasionally purchase uniquely jacketed books through SST publications, but those usually have something unique, like added illustrations.

2025-10-30 11:43:20 GMT

Book Outlet just suggested discounted bundles of "The Prestige Collection" by Paper Mill Press. (Apparently not overstock or anything.)
Even looking them up, I'm still not sure what is being offered of value.
Are they just pretty display versions of the classics? Are they valuable collectibles? It's hard to tell if this is a good offer or just repackaging with fancier edges and covers. I get the feeling that these are the Hummel figures of books: something people collect and put in glass cases.
#books #Bookstodon #Collectibles

2025-10-28 12:40:15 GMT

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I would like to know how many MAGA are about to lose their SNAP benefits.

2025-10-27 18:16:19 GMT

I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.
Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX.
#Hurricane #Melissa

2025-10-25 13:42:45 GMT

We often find ourselves exasperated with people who stubbornly support political leaders who actively work against their own interests, but we underestimate how important it is to people to not be "wrong" about anything, even little things.
For example, in the grocery biz, shoppers would get mad that the thing they were looking for wasn't what they thought it was. They would insist that Orzo was rice, or that Chai was coffee. They chose to go without the very thing they were looking for, because they could not stand being wrong about what it was.

2025-10-23 16:37:03 GMT

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see also: Kash Patel, after wishing a Happy Diwali to all who celebrate, and then getting flooded with toxic replies from MAGA. What part of White Christofascism was unclear?

2025-10-23 11:36:50 GMT

This is going to be a slow-moving disaster. I hope there is help being staged right now for the people in these areas who about to be devastated by flooding.
Hurricane forecast: Melissa’s crawl through the Caribbean could unleash catastrophic flooding and destructive winds | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/weather/tropical-storm-hurricane-melissa-caribbean-track

2025-10-19 22:20:22 GMT

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gorgeous!

2025-10-14 13:39:00 GMT

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It's amazing how much distance there is between objects in space. I have to think of it in graduated steps: between us and the other planets, between our solar system and other stars, between our solar system and other galaxies. It's amazing how long it takes for our galaxy to make a single rotation.

2025-10-14 13:12:13 GMT

It's not a ceasefire, if you keep firing until everyone's deceased.

2025-10-14 13:09:09 GMT

We're gonna need a bigger jorts.

2025-10-14 02:13:51 GMT

If you are planning to attend a No Kings protest on Saturday, October 18th, do you plan to wear a costume, inflatable or otherwise? #NoKings #Protest

2025-10-11 17:13:24 GMT

Canadian Thanksgiving seems a lot more thankful and gracious than the one celebrated by their troubled downstairs neighbours.
#thanksgiving

2025-10-10 17:28:06 GMT

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I tried to play it in the background, but it cut out as soon as I opened any app. It may be a setting somewhere I need to turn off or on so something can play in the browser in the background.

2025-10-10 14:44:58 GMT

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ah, okay. Thank you for answering so quickly. It also won't continue playing in the background, so I guess Pandora is a better fit for me. Too bad, though. The sound on somafm is truly superior: so crisp and clear.

2025-10-10 14:40:47 GMT

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So, I checked out somafm, and I liked one of the stations, but I couldn't figure out how to skip a track if I didn't like it?

2025-10-10 12:39:27 GMT

Now that it's official that he lost, in his delusional pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, does he go full Nero?

2025-10-08 01:30:04 GMT

Honey, remember you are amazing. Even with so many scars, everyone thinks the moon is beautiful. And so are you.

2025-10-05 16:51:53 GMT

My best friend texted me, and I want you all to know that this is what the disability and chronic illness communities deal with, all the time:
"Omg! I'm sitting in the waiting room and from the front desk- about 20 feet away, The receptionist looked thru my papers and says loudly "[name], So, do you just Not work? " I asked her to repeat herself. She says "You just stay home? You don't work? "
I said Yes. She responded "I wish i could do that! "
I damned near lost it! I snarked back at her "I'LL TRADE YOU FOR THE DISABILITY THAT MAKES IT HAPPEN! " "Oh, you have a disability? " what tipped you off lady? The forearm crutches?
BITCH! I WILL BE TALKING TO THE DOCTOR ABOUT THIS!"
This enrages me. I know that the people here would be appalled by this, but it happens too often. The one I get is "You're too young to be retired."
#Disability #ChronicIllness

2025-10-04 13:28:36 GMT

There's an additional reason not to be on the big social media sites these days, if you live in the U.S. or even if you plan to travel to the U.S.
It starts with surveillance of social media for "deportation leads," and we already know that U.S. citizens and foreign visitors have frequently been caught up in their "need to make quota" dragnet. No one should be kicked out of the country without due process, yet here we are.
It doesn't end there. They've already made it clear that they want to "deport" people based on our (formerly free) speech. The Thought Police aren't coming; they're here.
https://evrimagaci.org/gpt/ice-expands-social-media-surveillance-amid-privacy-fears-506523

2025-10-03 18:44:34 GMT

Signs you are a USian: I've somehow chipped a tooth, and my first thought was not about my own well-being, but rather "How much is this gonna cost?"
Dentist is closed on Fridays. 😐

2025-09-27 16:09:20 GMT

Authorizing the military to kill civilians exercising their first amendment rights, seems like it should be a much bigger story.

2025-09-24 18:19:21 GMT

May I have your attention:
Autism is neither a disease, nor a birth defect. We have got to push back hard on this eugenicist garbage.

2025-09-22 17:56:16 GMT

Remember to adopt the pets of the raptured.

2025-09-19 18:43:52 GMT

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I can deal. I am very hot-natured. I might melt some of the snow by standing near it.
I lived in Minnesota before. 9 months of winter was too much.
How long is muddy slush season? If it's all of March and April, that might be a deal breaker.

2025-09-19 18:38:48 GMT

Fuck. Why is it 89°F/31.7°C today, in late September? Ugh. I need to move to Vermont.

2025-09-19 18:24:35 GMT

How can we make #FediGroups more successful? I think most people don't know how to navigate to the new groups since guppe went belly up. Basically, look for @ whatever topic @ fedigroups.social.
For instance, the old bookstodon group which had 7k members, is now @npub1q60…kp90
I'd love to see more people participate in groups, but I'm not sure we all know which groups exist, or what exact terminology is used to find them. There is a directory which I hope will help:
https://about.fedigroups.social/directory

2025-09-17 10:34:20 GMT

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2025-09-14 18:31:30 GMT

We should definitely keep track of the private companies firing people over their personal social media comments re: Kirk's death. Fight fire with fire.
Did any of these companies fire one single employee when they made comments about violence toward, or murder of, democrats?

2025-09-13 19:37:29 GMT

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I'm so sorry. Pain that wakes you up or won't let you sleep is just the worst.