Or something like that. What's going on online and offline...
First, welcome aboard all new followers here, though I do recommend you follow @Chuff instead as that's the main place I post if'n you really want to see what's occupying the echo chamber between my ears.
Speaking of #wafrn , anyone know of anyone providing hosted instances? Some time in the future I expect to replace this blog with a personal Wafrn. Kinda a big deal as #friendica has been my primary #Fediverse software for years, whether on someone else's instance or my own.
Life, there's not much to talk about, work, kill time, work, that's about it. Every now and then the fact that I'm growing old slaps me in the face, like last Sunday. At around 0300, I got up to use the bathroom, checked my apps and found Amazon was throwing money around. Well Ok, guess I'm working, day 6, leaving the house at 0330, few hours of work, then home, nap and errands, perfect. Grabbed second breakfast on my way home, and found I couldn't nap. That took a few days to recover from. That on top of my main gig burying me in work. Yay. Valentine's Day came and went, me and Vik never really did much for it, so was just another day for me. Wrapping up the process of moving my investments that I inherited, the whole process will likely take to around the end of the year, only because the courts will have to be involved in some of that due to the lack of a will or TOD. Also getting my taxes done, same company, that took a while, joint return, and couldn't find Vik's 2024 so that might complicate things a touch.
Got a flea market coming up, I'm actually prepaid for tables at Sunset Hills flea market at their community center for Mar, Apr and May. Still have to sell stuff here, running into problems on that front, each time I think the comics are sold, it falls through, and books should be a fairly easy matter. Once those are gone along with giving his mom's stuff to his family, this place will be mostly cleared out, so once legal matters are done we can downsize. Speaking of downsizing, I think I know where I'm going to wind up, prolly somewhere around IllFallon... I mean O'Fallon, IL. Not real far from here, and certainly not really closer to my family, but I have to say I like that area. That's where I was delivering for Amazon, at O'dark 30, and gotta say, despite not being able to see things and mostly running in and out of suburbs, I gotta say I like it over there. I think somewhere over there or a little bit east, between I64 and I70 will likely be where I wind up. It feels comfortable, if feels like somewhere I could easily move in and just feel right. I've actually seen a property I like in Edwardsville on Marketplace, but that one would be best if'n my family would want to join me. Its not a large property, but its kinda triangular with one corner and the address in a cul-de-sac, and one side on another street. Could buy it chop it up and have street facing for three houses. But, the property has been on Marketplace for a while, so its either a zombie ad, something is wrong with the property, or its a scam. Oh well, obviously time will tell, but we'll see.
March of the Covers is going on, just like this time last year, however this one is happening over on my Wafrn, just look for the hashtag #March-of-the-Covers or follow Chuff. Posts may get occasionally boosted over here. And as always we're building a playlist over on YouTube.
Pictures of me from the WebCam always look so far away, maybe if'n I move it to the shelf over there...
Nah, only improvement is that the camera isn't looking down at me. Oh well, at least y'all can see that I'm bald again, I did that for the new month after not cutting for 2+ months.
Any other news... Well, I'm recovering. Anyone with sense knows that eating at Jack In the Box is risky, but the food is so good... In a junky guaranteed bad for you way, which is why I grabbed breakfast for dinner last night on the way home. Considering how much of a fiasco things were at that store, my order took over 10 minutes to be made, I prolly should've expected this morning, but... Oh well, spent way too much time in the bathroom, limped off to work for a nice light day, then came home napped for an hour or so.
So, that's really everything going on in my #life , what about y'all?
Yeah, more country, but this time an interesting one, He Thinks I Still Care. If'n the title has you scratching your head, its a gender change cover by Anne Murray, the original and otherwise identical version being She Thinks I Still Care first recorded by George Jones. To make it more interesting, Anne Murray was more of a pop start, this being her first country hit.
I swear every time I hear about Fetterman I can't not think of Neil Stephenson's Interface; a story where a stroke victim is implanted with a device in their brain that, basically, allows them to be puppeted by the ruling class. Not that I think that's what's actually happening here - he's just an absolute asshat.
"ICE can deny wrongdoing, but the reality remains the same: Alberto Gutierrez Reyes died while in their custody," Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez told HuffPost.
Weβve noted repeatedly how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been abusing the FCCβs βequal opportunityβ (or βequal timeβ) rule to try and threaten daytime and lateβ¦
US States are introducing data center water usage legislation to address concerns about water consumption, with California, Iowa, and Michigan considering bills that require operators to submit regular reports on their water use.
Ukraine offers to trade its drone interceptors (which work better against Iran's small drones) to Gulf States in exchange for their Patriot missiles (which work better against Russian aircraft and larger missiles)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is quietly pressing California to tighten voter registration verification for military and overseas voters β part of what it calls a βnationwide β¦ enforcement program.β
If you are confused about why Iran is attacking all of their neighbors, the reason is very simple:
their neighbors are mostly being armed by the US anyways. So regardless of whether they attack a US carrier directly, or attack an air base in Kuwait or Bahrain, either way they are depleting the armaments of their attackers. They can also grind the economies of these US-friendly nations to a halt as everyone takes shelter, further harming the US and their ability to wage war. The goal is a war of attrition: make the US use up 10 missiles and drones for every one missile or drone the Iranians use. Make their neighbors question the logic of cooperating with the US.
This strategy is very obvious, and very effective. There is no doubt in my mind that every single military advisor to Trump told him that this would be Iranβs defense strategy. But try telling Trump or Hegseth that they arenβt the smartest one in the room, you already know what Trump would say: βYOUβRE FIRED!β
There is still always the nuclear option (literally). Although if you watched the interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor I posted earlier, nuclear strikes might be enough to convince China and Russia to begin open hostilities against the US in the Middle East.
All people of conscience must oppose this war, and demand the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu face justice under international law.
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NEW: Police Make Mass Arrest at Whipple, Ending Week of Action Against ICE in MN
Dozens of people were violently arrested by state police and Hennepin County sheriff's deputies after a march against ICE to the Whipple Federal Building on Sunday, March 1, during the last planned protest of the 'Bring the Heat Melt The Ice!' week of action in Minnesota.
At least 15 protesters were arrested during the last planned protest of the Bring the Heat Melt The Ice! week of action in Minnesota. A march against ICE to theβ¦
A Sunday morning march to the Whipple Federal Building ended with state police and sheriffβs deputies making mass arrests once again, continuing a trend among state and local law enforcement to crackdown on protests against ICE in Minnesota.
Dozens of people were arrested by state police and Hennepin County sheriff's deputies after a march against ICE to the Whipple Federal Building on Sunday, March 1, during the last planned protest of the 'Bring the Heat Melt The Ice!' week of action iβ¦
Whoops, one of the more complicated formulas on my mileage sheet, not that its particularly complicate, somehow got messed up resulting in me making 1049$/hr at Amazon yesterday. Yeah, it was a good day, but not that good.
Interesting, but I'm more looking for a log book rather than a tracker as I collect a lot of info (mileage, time, packages and stops), and need a way to get it into a spreadsheet, everything on Play does that by using Google Sheets and I'm trying to avoid Google whenever possible. But, thanks.
In late 2024,Β Trump Republicans killedΒ a very popular program that provided low-income Americans $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCCβsΒ Affordable Connectivity ProgramΒ (ACP) was, unsurpβ¦
Yay⦠Well, sorta yay, finally got 2 new M2 cars to add to my collection, its been months since WalMart had anything I wanted, in fact their stock has been real low for a long time. Unfortunately I seem to have lost my database of my collection, so that's annoying, going to have to re-do that. That said, here's the collection ![media-1] Admittedly kinda hard to see as its just so many of them, 32 if'n I'm mathing right. From top to bottom, the first shelf and the left cars on the second shelf are all VW's, mostly vans or van-pickups. A pair of oddballs fill out that shelf, a 50's American cargo wagon and a 70's Bronco in patriotic paint. Below that are the American cab overs, whether Dodge A series or Ford econolines, so far 16 of those taking up just over two shleves. Finally at the end are the rest of the miscellany, a pair of 50's Ford conventional trucks, and the newest addition⦠![media-2] A 1970 C900 pickup. 100 was ½ ton, 200 ¾ ton, 300 1 ton, so⦠? Not sure what the weight class were on these, but they were heavy duty trucks typically box trucks, flatbeds or other service vehicles, a pickup is very interesting to see, and I always love the styling on these.
@Zhi Zhu πΈοΈ Honestly it doesn't surprise me with how expensive medical school is, its easy to imagine that some doctors would justify it as a small price for all the good they'll do. It does make me wonder if'n the price is a bug or a feature.
"He directed women to get pelvic exams, liposuction & mole removals...
some of his #doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.
One sent Epsteinβs sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to #PublicHealth authorities, they wouldnβt be tied to #Epstein. Some doctors shared patientsβ private #health information with him" nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/jeffβ¦
This is absurd. If another country hit our top civilian and military leaders and wiped them out, then bombed 1,000 targets and threatened five more weeks of bombings, we'd say it was war. Get real or get out of here with this.
@kirbygoulet it actually wasn't because only congress can rename it and they didn't do that. So you can keep calling it the Department of Defense just like you can keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico.
#SCOTUS cleared the way Monday for #California #schools to out children identify as #transgender to their parents without getting the studentβs approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.
The order blocks for now a state law that bans automatic parental notification requirements if students change their pronouns or gender expression at school.
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