Dr Samuel McLean

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Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. #@$& the Wallabies, England, Yankees & Red Sox. He/Him.

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No bloody kidding

Is very pretty in Toronto harbour tonight

I've just realized I can't remember when my contract ends.

My goal for next week is to drink rosé (fine, rhubarb wine) in my garden

Hydrangea. Sweet peas. Bee balm.

I believe these are black cherry tomatoes. And the birds have taken the second half of my gooseberry harvest.

Tomatoes are coming

More back garden things

Took a good run at thinning my tomatoes. Maybe I can afford to plant fewer calendula next year

Added more support for my runner beans

Almost completely forgot I actually have to go to work today. Boo. So I guess I really do need to get up and get moving

Question: if MFC, who is 15 years older than MMC (he's in his late 20s) is questioning whether he's mature enough to be in a relationship together, is there any way back from that? or are thing irretrievable?

I need to find the bag of little zipties I bought next year so I can build the second tier of supports for my runner beans. And my broad beans have fallen over, (I hope they survive)

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I call again on the power of the palaeographic hive mind for the words underlined in yellow: "...par un simple acte de notoriété par led. Sr. Macintosh [son frère?] et ayant cause pour être par eux remis à la personne dont on va parler..." I am confused because Macintosh was *not* her brother. #c18

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Today is publication day for A Pedagogy of Kindness! I am so thrilled to have this book out in the world and to have people play with the ideas, expand them, take them to new places, and have fun.

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A lot of people are choosing to look away right now in the face of something that is making Doctors Without Borders say things like this

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Uncle k8 🏳️‍⚧️

Or maybe if it hadn’t been made for a straight audience? Idk. Either way, it should have been better and more exciting than it was.

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Guy literally had secrets in his bathroom, selling them to foreign nationals. Calls people to steal votes. Sends a mob to keep himself in office. This country pissing all over its history to bend over backwards for this guy? This is the guy we bring down the whole experiment for?

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Read this as necromancy at first and tbh it tracks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just didn’t expect him to have been that up front about it

If you’re now a JD Vance beat journalist, you should read this book for background on the neoreactionary / neomonarchist things he believes (and so do the tech billionaires like Thiel and Andreessen) amzn.to/3zSojue

Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right: Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack: 9781986913997: Amazon.com: Booksamzn.to Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right [Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

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"One—and we cannot stress this enough—staff at government agencies do not typically threaten open-records requesters with a massive, punitive fine right off the bat."

A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine.tonemadison.com A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.

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🌱Dahlia Cornel Bronze. Not quite meeting the brief with this one. Must be the heat.

Is it weird that I cheer for the NL in all star games?

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Why can't more see that generative AI is clearly a new colonialism? Data subjects as slaves with no rights. An extractive enterprise, built of rapacious labour practices. | Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI www.wired.com/story/youtub...

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AIwww.wired.com “It’s theft.” A WIRED investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce to train AI.

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Do not obey in advance.

When I was 14 I was just getting mix cds together at friends houses since they had burners and I didn't. Um. Beatles appeared a lot. Oasis. The Doors.

Please tell me: Who was your favorite band/music artist WHEN YOU WERE 14. Speak honestly. We can share shame together if needed. Or bow to your everlasting coolness. I don't know.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

Tell Seymour to fuck right off

#NZpol: A quick note on just one of Seymour’s points, “improving child immunisation rates will be critically dependent on Pharmac’s role in vaccines” Really? My impression is the major issues are access to med. services within NZ, and education/awareness of need www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/07/16/s...

Seymour tells Pharmac to stop embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi across health sectorwww.teaonews.co.nz In the letter, Seymour believed that embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi across the health sector was not an appropriate expectation to place on Pharmac.

I'm curious whether Bachelor/ette or MAFS couples have more success on average

I talked to Newsweek for this article about the Bachelor/ette franchise and the fact that the couples rarely make it after the show.

The Bachelorette's big problemwww.newsweek.com With "The Bachelorette" now in its 21st season, is the ABC reality show failing to deliver on its lofty promise?

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literally defund these people who do not do their actual jobs

Anyhow here's Wonderwall

I'm really struggling with this story that I've been working on. I have a bunch of neat scenes, I have the characters pretty much sorted out (though I'm constantly finding more outfits for them) and I've figured out what the "crisis" is, but I'm having trouble sorting out the order of the scenes