Charles Grammer

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Bluesky needs a button that takes you back to the post you were reading when you accidentally touched the up to top arrow.

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A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefitswww.npr.org A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

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It feels like we live in a time where pretty much all the software we interact with reached its peak at some point in the past and nothing is being improved, and we're all just hoping not to lose the things we now depend on and have given up hope on anything being improved.

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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards. They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments vimeo.com/293437684

Pet Shop Boys • Go West (Live At Brit Awards) • 1994vimeo.com Pet Shop Boys выступают вживую на Брит Эвордс 1994 с шахтерским хором.

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Cargo kitty. x.com/Yoda4ever/st...

I spent an inordinate length of time trying to get read/write access to files across our private LAN. Everything on the host side was set read/write, and I was able to get read access, but write just wasn't happening.

I remember that a 7th grade teacher called me incorrigible. substack.com/@kiwiwriter4...

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I've told this story before, but when my paternal grandmother passed, her daughters fought for DAYS over who would get her precious ever-guarded recipe book, finally agreed they would share it, opened it to copy down the recipes and found it had only 1 entry which said "Book I pretend has recipes"

Tell me something funny about someone important to you who’s passed on. Anecdote, factoid, excellent one-liner—dealer’s choice.

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Just got a news alert saying Joann Fabrics is going into bankruptcy due to decreasing demand. Article fails to say that it was purchased by a private equity firm a while ago and recently went public and is carrying $2.4 billion in debt. Private equity strikes again.

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"Ignorance", written by Kasey Chambers in 2001, released on "Barricades & Brickwalls" by Lori Mckenna in 2005. Listen to it, dag nabbit. I've got something to say And I thought it might be worth a mention If you're not pissed off at the world Then you're just not paying attention

Ignorance, by Lori Mckennasignaturesounds.bandcamp.com from the album Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection

It may be fair to think of Trump as a hallucinating AI.

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the roku remote is still mysteriously missing but thanks to those of you who pointed out that I can use the phone app, I am able to watch something other than cat tv

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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

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Make it make sense.

Things that I have one of in each of multiple rooms in the house, and sometimes car: Scissors Pain killers Packing tape Tape measures Eyeglasses (not necessarily the same prescription) Clocks (of course) Flashlights Computers

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picturing this sweet little guy choosing the fonts and a flattering photo, loading the paper in the printer, and then scampering about and posting these all around the neighborhood

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Most child predators in the U.S. are religious heterosexual men who target and isolate children within their own spheres of family and friends.

How Bathroom Bills Undermine Child Protectionwww.patheos.com I have read all sorts of commentaries lately both for and against North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill.” I agree with the 250 leading sexual abuse and [...]

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The “Expert”…

Great. I check back in to Bsky and the monkeys are still flinging sh*t at each other.

@catsofyore.bsky.social Here is an illustration by Worth Brehm, from the 1917 Harper & Brothers printing of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

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'Merry' wears a special grammatical holiday sweater in the song “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” since 'merry' describes “rest” and not “gentlemen.” It really means “may you gentlemen rest happily,” and not “may you happy gentlemen now rest.” www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/arc...

Archaic Words We Know from Christmas Songswww.merriam-webster.com Hark! Yon Yule vocabulary of yore

Kellyanne Conway wakes up every day and asks herself, "What lie can I tell today?"

Hi @catsofyore.bsky.social - Here is a 1977 picture of my sister's 25 lb cat Papel taken in Charlestown, MA at our mother's apartment (digitized 2004).

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Counties in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA saw a 25% decrease in drug arrests, a 19% drop in “violent offense” arrests, and a 24% decrease in “low-level” offense arrests (Simes & Jahn 2022). Expanding public benefits leads to lower crime rates!

I recommend following @pierinafosati.bsky.social for a daily feed of well-researched images.

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Political analysts : Biden having a quiet birthday so as to not draw attention to his age Biden : I want EVERY FUCKING CANDLE I EARNED THEM Aide : But Mr Pr- Biden : EVERY CANDLE LIGHT THIS FUCKING SMOKESTACK

Joe what the fuck man

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

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