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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22h

Trump slammed for demolishing White House before Canadians could burn it down again

WASHINGTON D.C. - US President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom, requiring the complete demolition of the historic East Wing, is being criticized by Canadians who will now never get to light the building on fire for a second time since the War of 1812.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 23h

Fans of the Face-eating leopard never think it will eat THEIR face until they feel the crunch…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

If you were that tech person, I sincerely apologize & I hope it was funny rather than enraging… cheers

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

I still wish I’d been anywhere near that room to hear the hourly cacophony of unsynchronized Eeps occurring hourly until some poor tech support person came by to turn them all off.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

So of course before I left, every unused iMac in the room was set to play the wild eep sound hourly on the hour at full volume… as a security notification for the college tech staff, naturally.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

I found an option for the computer to play a sound at particular intervals. Odd, but ok. Then I found a sound titled “Wild Eep”… then I noticed that all the machines had manually set clocks (not synchronized to anything)…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

After getting bored with the offerings of the late 90’s internet, & out of curiosity, I started clicking around into the settings… at that time no login was required on iMac computers (at least these ones as config’d at that time), which I found appalling from a tech & security perspective.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

In college (personal & institution names have been omitted to protect the guilty), “a friend”, we’ll call him me, was hanging out in one of the Mac labs waiting for a girlfriend to finish an assignment she was typing out.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

Well not OURS no…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

A former version of me (around college age), would have clicked “Deny” on every one that came up to teach the organizer a security lesson…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 1d

When I’m in a teams meeting someone else setup, waiting for it to start & it starts asking ME if it’s ok to “allow” people in from the “lobby”… #BadIdea

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about the French Market Correction of 1789.

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine

mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, if you think for a second allowing a profit motive to be part of ANY healthcare decision for anyone is ok, pull your head out of whatever ass it’s clearly in & give it a shake, because that shit is stupid AF.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

Then again if you think it’s no big deal and maybe even inevitable to monetize health care, maybe do watch it & then get up & fight against that shit for all you’re worth… #YourCall…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

Particularly if you’ve got a chronically ill loved one, consider giving that episode a miss maybe…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

Man that season opener for #BlackMirror season 7 (Common People) is fucking bleak. Not sure I’m going to continue watching that series.

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

There some 13’s on the acoustic tonight. Really liking the sound vs the original set (off 12’s…?) that it came with a few years back!

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 2d

They ask for help whenever an F-150 or an Accord gets stolen from someone…? No?

Almost enough to make you cheer for the car thief in this particular case…

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Luxury Bentley stolen from garage while owner vacationed: OPP

Investigators believe theft of 2014 vehicle occurred sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 17 and are looking for help from the public

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 3d

Oddly the clearcoat is looking a little better after a few days to fully dry… so far I’ve put somewhere around 10 hours into this finish, counting the time spent waiting for flash-off between paint coats….

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 3d

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 3d

It makes no sense to me but apparently there’s quite a bit of money to be made by worsening peoples experiences if you know how to market it…

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Scott @scottimandias.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn’t SOUND like too much, but the computers sure seem to think it is…

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