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Mike Gale

@mikegale.bsky.social

25 followers 16 following 170 posts

Prefers: ✍️ Lists to following ✍️ Selectable audience ✍️ Full markup long posts ✍️ Program driven content ✍️ Personal control

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 5h

Wonder what happened to the materials they made each edition from?

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 11h

Yea, they're findable online.
I only tried 3. Got them. The versions online are typically a bit faded and one shows a scan of a corrugated page.
I spruced the colours a bit.
So you can make posters or desktop wallpapers, etc.

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 8d

Practically, what can be done?

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 8d

If some of these people weren't aware this was going on, they shouldn't have their jobs. This is worldwide and has been for years.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 8d

All sources can be useful if you select and give yourself time to think through them. Time is the essence, and experience. The normal interfaces try to rob you of time, rush you through many posts.
When you do this, you can determine better what others think.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 9d

Nope. I'm talking about the Google team. I find it hard to believe they're that ill prepared.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 11d

... During the 2025 Southern Hemisphere influenza season, seasonal influenza vaccination reduced influenza-associated outpatient visits by 50.4% and hospitalisation by 49.7%.
... CDC recommends that all eligible persons aged ≥6 months receive the seasonal influenza vaccine.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 11d

These people are not serious, they haven't prepared enough, don't know what they're talking about.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 13d

A provocative reply:

America is toast, gone. Time to prepare for the world that follows.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 13d

I don't believe it's intentional, but the reluctant drip feed of war supplies to Ukraine has helped them and may upend a part of the strategic balance.
1. The feed helped keep them going.
2. It gave them a handup to learn how to do it themselves.
Now they're leading the freer world in some spheres.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 19d

If I thought I had a time machine?
1. Think carefully about what I recently ate, drank and smoked.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · 23d

The channels through which information flows are shattered. If anybody has an analysis of who "reads" what it would help.

In my case I avoid audio and video, only consume them reluctantly. I know of others who consume video, and written text is only read reluctantly. ...

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm using the follows less than I used to. Lists and search queries give me more control. Works on X and Bluesky. (The X search syntax is more capable, the Bluesky way of using lists is better.)

As for recommendation use seldom.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Sep 7

Point of interest.

Do you look at X using
1. The following "lens"
2. Lists
3. Custom queries ?

Bluesky?

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Sep 5

Deeply weird?

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks very much. Time will tell, but this should be maybe the biggest news item for a day or two.

I'm not holding my breath though.

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Aug 30

What are the corroborating sources for this deportation?

Do you have information, that can be revealed, about who organised the deportation?

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pity it's surveillance locked with an email address.

I mostly don't do subscription but I'm happy with giving a tip if it's worth it, and / or a modest pay to view one item.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 31

You should tell us who it was, to better avoid falling into a similar trap.

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Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 30

I tried a few things, in all of them it wants me to start a Spotify account.

Firefox, normal and private.
Brave, normal, private, Tor mode.
Tor.

I don't use Chrome so no test.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 27

One answer is that more people get out of the "convenience death trap".

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ah. Paywalled by Spotify.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 11

Do you have publicly accessible list of worthwhile papers on "disordered discourse, verification, deliberation, and accountability"?
If so I'd appreciate a link to it.

Mike Gale @mikegale.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's subscription walled.

I wish there were a system where I could tip articles that I like, and not be expected to sign up to a subscription.

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