Sunday, March 15, 2026
I critique Trump’s aggressive foreign policy tactics, suggesting they jeopardize U.S. interests and fail to garner necessary international support, particularly in relation to China and Iran.
Really digging what Ben is saying about The next four years<\a>. I said it in 2017, and I’ll say it again: We sometimes need the worst of us to bring out the best in us.
This sums up my thoughts about the TikTok ban charade right now:
Isn’t this a “promises made, promises kept” moment from OrangeMan? Or will he reverse his own-goal and look like a savior… even though he was incessantly shoving this down our collective throats since forever ago.
🤷🏾♂️
They said it wouldn’t be much snow in Atlanta on the news last night.
Right now:
#snowday #atlanta
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Reblog via StarrWulfe (JLGatewood) http://YIMBYsforHarris.com ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HARRIS/WALZ!! Support better neighborhoods/affordable housing/sustainable development!! @KamalaHarrisWin
#LFG.
In honor of Father’s Day, I’m going to engage in one of my favorite past-times: $#!+posting dad jokes. 😏
If you’re a dad (or you have a dad– I guess that’d be everyone here except my immaculate conception, clones, androids and the asexual reproduction homies) please add to the ensuing and possibly annoying thread. Consider yourself warned for irony, cringe and general rando post fun & mayhem.
–Also go wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day before you forget 😜
Let’s get it started:
Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
It’s very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; worried about having enough time/money to simply have a few days off to spend with wife/husband/kids/parents/family/friends… Or just sitting in a cafe and sipping a coffee or tea and enjoying a book or something. Now just endless war and death for what? Someone in a palace far away with some random agenda decided whatever and now their entire vicinity is rubble.
This will be my album cover if I were a musician right now.
Of course we picked the only day it’s raining down here to be camping at the JAX beaches. Well we’re gonna still make the most of the time off!
But our campsite is a flooded mess at the moment so I guess it’s a movie day inside the camper for now.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Bluesky has opened up and requires no waitlist now, so if you were searching for a Twitter alternative, then here you go: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.social/about/blo…"] Once registered, find me here: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/s…"] For reference: Feature Bluesky ActivityPub/Mastodon Other SNS Decentralization Yes Yes No Open-Source Yes Yes No Account Portability Yes (ATProto was designed with this in mind.) Yes (but it varies with the app/site you're working with No Moderation community based community based Centralized Focus Text, photo (video on roadmap) Various Varies Customization High Very high None Access Just made public Most instances public but some are not.
…Now they’re just grasping at straws. We asked for something like this back in 2018 complete with a framework to provide AirBNB style housing and helping with Japanese government services like hoken, and the like. I’m sure none of the support part is included here and we all know how hard that is for anyone new to Japan.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Here we go again with the bullshit. This time, my sense of smell is 90% gone. 😩 Paxlovid enroute and no real symptoms other than post-nasal drip from hell and sore back though, so hopefully this'll be over in a few days. 🤞🏾
Me looking hella disheveled after getting a giant qtip up my snout. All I wanted was more powerful meds to dam up the waterfall in my sinuses.
👩🏾⚕️:“We gotta check you for flu and Covid”
🐺: “Y’all didn’t do that so the my wife when she was here a few days ago”
👩🏾⚕️: takes out big ass q-tip from quantum space “look up right quick…”
an entire eternity of poking all my childhood memories into mash later
👩🏾⚕️: “give it 15 minutes and we’ll know…”
🐺: achooooo!!! “I can’t stop sneezi—" aaaaachoooo!!!
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Do you have your ticket to ride? 明けましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
Sunday, December 24, 2023
メリクリ🎁🎄🎅 May you and yours enjoy all 12 herbs and spices during this season of joy. Also on "ABC🌟🐺XYZ"
Saturday, December 23, 2023
If 2010-2020 was the Great Social Media Consolidation, looks like 2022 and beyond are gonna be the Great Innanet Decentralization, and I’m 1oo% present for it. Thanks to our friends #indieweb and #fediverse, you already know how easy it is to plug into some great communities on the interwebs while keeping your content under your control and being able to keep a record of the dialog around it at your own site.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
It has started: Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗 I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in order to gain more traction and usage. Understand that ActivityPub itself is a protocol not unlike IMAP and HTTP under the W3C.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
In combination with some great news about funding a lot of sorely needed railroad projects and studies at the federal level, Georgia's U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock announced new grants to explore three new Georgia passenger rail corridors made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The new rail routes would connect major economic centers in Georgia and neighboring states, providing additional public transit options, increased mobility, and a sustainable, clean-energy future.
Friday, December 8, 2023
As the [AJC](https://www.ajc.com/news/fulton-board-to-consider-10m-tax-break-to-x-formerly-twitter/4V66VOJ73RCFPA5DI54FAFVLBA/) reported, X (formerly Twitter) appealed to the Development Agency of Fulton County to try and grab over $10 million in property tax breaks on their data center here in Atlanta to upgrade the server farm... But providing no additional jobs... which is why the tax breaks are there in the first place! 🥴 source: Atlanta Journal Constitution dated 3 Dec 2023 Everyone knows that these tax breaks should be going to fund any development that directly enhances the livelihood of Atlanta residents and for no other purpose.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Over the past few days, the “Father of the Beltline” himself, Ryan Gravel, created a massive 70-something-odd long FAQ in response to the NIMBYist action group that popped up opposing the transit portion of the Atlanta Beltline. His post is massively detailed and as pointed as one would expect of having to literally defend their graduate thesis even after half of it has been edified. It’s also a masterclass in how to keep fighting tooth-and-nail without resorting to name-calling and pettiness which seems to be the norm these days.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Last time in this series, I talked about an organization called Better Atlanta Transit that counter to its name, wants to end all talk of having light rail alongside the Beltline Trail, the very popular, used-to-be-murder-tracks encircling central Atlanta that’s now a multipurpose trail, linear park, and real estate gentrification money printing machine. Of course in a way only Upside/DownLand Atlanta could do, we somehow got the multipurpose trail part built first, and are behind in the light rail installation.
Monday, November 13, 2023
A rollover event is about to take place and geeks, nerds and neckbeards around the world will be refreshing their datecommands tomorrow evening to check out the counter tick over from 1699999999 to a cool 1700000000 seconds. The current Unix epoch time as I slave over a hot keyboard is: Unix date epoch time is a way of measuring time that counts the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 at midnight UTC time, not counting leap seconds.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Then how is that wacky NY Times poll from last week correct?!
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Richard Roundtree, AKA "John Shaft". RIParadise, 1942 - 2023