@grumplemac.bsky.social
Retiree. Into #Genealogy since 2021. Committed to collaboration through #WikiTree. 12K+ CC7 connextions. #FamilyHistory is #TruthTelling. Our pasts are our future, diverse and messy.
Relaunch of Patch family history series. #familyhistory #Genealogy #Queensland. Evergreen, a revised Book 1 has now been released and is available on Kindle and Amazon. The second is to be released soon, Emu Creek. Bruce welcomes input on the Patch family before their arrival in Australia.
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Relaunch of Patch family history series. #familyhistory #Genealogy #Queensland. Evergreen, a revised Book 1 has now been released and is available on Kindle and Amazon. The second is to be released soon, Emu Creek. Bruce welcomes input on the Patch family before their arrival in Australia.
Inspiration for my #familyhistory #localhistory #genealogy quest to link #DNA cousins through Co Wicklow. Today found a marriage record which links three families Byrne/Cullen/Healy atop 11 matches. I'm pretty happy and it isn't even uncorked....
June 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Inspiration for my #familyhistory #localhistory #genealogy quest to link #DNA cousins through Co Wicklow. Today found a marriage record which links three families Byrne/Cullen/Healy atop 11 matches. I'm pretty happy and it isn't even uncorked....
Chipping away at a #brickwall w/ #DNA Cuz half a world away looking for #MCRA on 3rd Continent 200+ years ago on the farmlets of Glendalough Co Wicklow. #genealogy #familyhistory is amazing stuff. We are close to cracking it. Its a small world. Please don't blow it up!
June 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Chipping away at a #brickwall w/ #DNA Cuz half a world away looking for #MCRA on 3rd Continent 200+ years ago on the farmlets of Glendalough Co Wicklow. #genealogy #familyhistory is amazing stuff. We are close to cracking it. Its a small world. Please don't blow it up!
Testing #ChatGPT with #Genealogy research tasks. Transcribe/translate handwriting from archival images. Correspondence from Downside Monastery Bath. For efficiency does not provide a direct transcription as asked but firstly #makesitup from trained content, so a generative paraphrase. 1/2
June 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Testing #ChatGPT with #Genealogy research tasks. Transcribe/translate handwriting from archival images. Correspondence from Downside Monastery Bath. For efficiency does not provide a direct transcription as asked but firstly #makesitup from trained content, so a generative paraphrase. 1/2
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
I'm the #DNA guy for my siblings 7 of us in #MyHeritage. Prev took mgt of 4. MyH now only allows result sharing which achieves much of the same for the other 2. I get a good view of the variability across siblings seeing cousins who are not shared by all or who are major on some minor on others.
June 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I'm the #DNA guy for my siblings 7 of us in #MyHeritage. Prev took mgt of 4. MyH now only allows result sharing which achieves much of the same for the other 2. I get a good view of the variability across siblings seeing cousins who are not shared by all or who are major on some minor on others.
Seeing how #ChatGPT goes on my Dom Bede Sumner brick wall. Did some nice things, used a lot of the #WikiTree profile which took me a couple of weeks to research. We? both ended up down the same barren rabbit hole with no definite answer to my question. Asked it to reformat into #Wikipedia. Messy..
June 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Seeing how #ChatGPT goes on my Dom Bede Sumner brick wall. Did some nice things, used a lot of the #WikiTree profile which took me a couple of weeks to research. We? both ended up down the same barren rabbit hole with no definite answer to my question. Asked it to reformat into #Wikipedia. Messy..
Builders back Mon. Weekend on Q&D #onename #oneplace study Kennedys at Glendalough Co Wicklow from RC Parish records. A manageable number. incl my 2xGGM and her parents and siblings. To understand the #brickwall and to collaborate with a DNA cousin.
June 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Builders back Mon. Weekend on Q&D #onename #oneplace study Kennedys at Glendalough Co Wicklow from RC Parish records. A manageable number. incl my 2xGGM and her parents and siblings. To understand the #brickwall and to collaborate with a DNA cousin.
No #familyhistory today builders to repair Cyclone Alfred damage not so bad.
May 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
No #familyhistory today builders to repair Cyclone Alfred damage not so bad.
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Open letter to Ancestry: Show me the information already!
No, I don't want to do a quick compare
No I don't want *help* from an AI
I want to see your lousy indexing on the record page without you getting into my face.
I don't see how two more levels of abstraction is any *help*.
#genealogy
No, I don't want to do a quick compare
No I don't want *help* from an AI
I want to see your lousy indexing on the record page without you getting into my face.
I don't see how two more levels of abstraction is any *help*.
#genealogy
May 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Open letter to Ancestry: Show me the information already!
No, I don't want to do a quick compare
No I don't want *help* from an AI
I want to see your lousy indexing on the record page without you getting into my face.
I don't see how two more levels of abstraction is any *help*.
#genealogy
No, I don't want to do a quick compare
No I don't want *help* from an AI
I want to see your lousy indexing on the record page without you getting into my face.
I don't see how two more levels of abstraction is any *help*.
#genealogy
Finished 1st draft profile of Fr. Bede Sumner on #WikiTree
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...
He needs parents so he is not an orphan as well as spouseless and childless.
Baptised my 2nd GGF at the Parramatta Female Factory Sydney Australia
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...
He needs parents so he is not an orphan as well as spouseless and childless.
Baptised my 2nd GGF at the Parramatta Female Factory Sydney Australia
Joseph Sumner OSB | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
www.wikitree.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Finished 1st draft profile of Fr. Bede Sumner on #WikiTree
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...
He needs parents so he is not an orphan as well as spouseless and childless.
Baptised my 2nd GGF at the Parramatta Female Factory Sydney Australia
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sumner-...
He needs parents so he is not an orphan as well as spouseless and childless.
Baptised my 2nd GGF at the Parramatta Female Factory Sydney Australia
Working on #FAN for my GGF baptised Parramatta 1838 by Rev. Joseph Sumner. #FamilyHistory. Sumner 1st catholic priest ordained in Australia. reading private corresp. of Bishop and officials on Trove Nat Lib Australia. handwritten untranscribed. Candid comnents, revealing.
May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Working on #FAN for my GGF baptised Parramatta 1838 by Rev. Joseph Sumner. #FamilyHistory. Sumner 1st catholic priest ordained in Australia. reading private corresp. of Bishop and officials on Trove Nat Lib Australia. handwritten untranscribed. Candid comnents, revealing.
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Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."
May 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."
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If you have to cover your face to do your government kidnapping job, then you are DEFINITELY a homegrown TERRORIST.
May 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
If you have to cover your face to do your government kidnapping job, then you are DEFINITELY a homegrown TERRORIST.
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If ICE agents in the US are ever held to account for their actions (seizing people without due process, etc.), “I was just following orders” didn’t work at the Nuremberg trials either.
May 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If ICE agents in the US are ever held to account for their actions (seizing people without due process, etc.), “I was just following orders” didn’t work at the Nuremberg trials either.
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So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice.
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice.
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When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!”
ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
May 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!”
ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
May 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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“‘Elon Musk Thought’ shares disturbing similarities with previous totalitarian ideologies. It is, in effect, a plan for the rationalization of the American social and political order based on an unwavering faith in modern technology and AI.”
Read the story by @vodkapolitics.bsky.social:
Read the story by @vodkapolitics.bsky.social:
Is Elon Musk's "tech-bro Maoism" really something new? Not at all — and it's always disastrous
The 20th century was full of techno-utopian visions of the ideal future society. None of them ended well
www.salon.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“‘Elon Musk Thought’ shares disturbing similarities with previous totalitarian ideologies. It is, in effect, a plan for the rationalization of the American social and political order based on an unwavering faith in modern technology and AI.”
Read the story by @vodkapolitics.bsky.social:
Read the story by @vodkapolitics.bsky.social:
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50th! Feels like we should have it a party.
April 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
50th! Feels like we should have it a party.
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It's not easy to upstage Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band but my word Tom Morello was absolutely melting faces. One of the greatest performances in Rock history.
#EStreetBand #BruceSpringsteen #TomMorello #RATM #TheBoss #RockHall #HOF
youtu.be/e9f-F1CAB24?...
#EStreetBand #BruceSpringsteen #TomMorello #RATM #TheBoss #RockHall #HOF
youtu.be/e9f-F1CAB24?...
Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - "The Ghost of Tom Joad" | 25th Anniversary Concert
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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March 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's not easy to upstage Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band but my word Tom Morello was absolutely melting faces. One of the greatest performances in Rock history.
#EStreetBand #BruceSpringsteen #TomMorello #RATM #TheBoss #RockHall #HOF
youtu.be/e9f-F1CAB24?...
#EStreetBand #BruceSpringsteen #TomMorello #RATM #TheBoss #RockHall #HOF
youtu.be/e9f-F1CAB24?...
4 hours to Easter Sunday here. Egg at camping ground #ByronBay on Wed when arrived. 100s kids later. Still there. #abandoned #eggcrisis even the #Ibis have left it alone and they do garbage dumps
April 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
4 hours to Easter Sunday here. Egg at camping ground #ByronBay on Wed when arrived. 100s kids later. Still there. #abandoned #eggcrisis even the #Ibis have left it alone and they do garbage dumps
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Remembering the “Father of British Blues.” Alexis Korner who was born today 19th April 1929
#blues #MusicSky #ClassicRock #photography
#blues #MusicSky #ClassicRock #photography
April 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Remembering the “Father of British Blues.” Alexis Korner who was born today 19th April 1929
#blues #MusicSky #ClassicRock #photography
#blues #MusicSky #ClassicRock #photography