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Can we just get private prisons banned in this country? Just that? Seriously. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Found an unowned cherry tree near the corner of 12th and Market, SE. Got a haul. #Portland #beingtall

How do you make a GenXer laugh? Mention our social security benefits.

For good or ill, a few thousand years after Protagoras, man is still the measure of all things. #pdxlocal

sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal

BREAKING: 9 baby cygnets have hatched.

Think that war in #Iran and the Middle East is bad for oil companies? Think again...

TLDR #banks cannot function in a war zone. substack.com/profile/3229...

You quiero an end to #transphobia. And also #homophobia. Neither of which I have experienced at #TacoBell... substack.com/profile/3229...

Why this chair? Read on...

Bonus content. Straight up from Substack. substack.com/@lotusrose/n...

New York Times hasn't reported much about this, if at all. But someone should. TLDR: #Google/Alphabet really depends on its domestic spying work for revenue. Who knows? They may even have invented the #Pegasus spying app. All I can say is it's compatible with #Android products!

[2/2] A little article in the @thebaffler.com clued me into this particular problem. It was written quite some time ago, by Steve Albini. It quoted #CourtneyLove. Tom Frank was the editor of the publication back then.

[1/2] - Smart people everywhere: beware of placing too much trust in bank stocks. However, luckily, there are other stocks to invest in. For instance, #BIIB (#Biogen) and #Merck (a well-known pharmaceutical company). But be careful of signing anything that even looks like a "deal memo."

I wrote a book called Southern Cross. It is available through Amazon, at a website known as southerncrossbook.com. One state that I did not visit was Arkansas. #Christian #antiracist #Pseudonymous for a reason.

People who love to mansplain and pick out small faults may wonder what I mean when I say that not every bank will get the #FDIC bailout. Hello! I'm going to talk more about why I have concerns in a different forum soon. Hoping later this morning. Visit lotusrose.substack.com for the full report.

Believe it or not, I bought Chase [trading symbol: JPM] stock today. The reason is that I know they're too big to fail. In other words, they will get the # bailout. I'm not sure that every bank will, in our current economy.

Have concerns that may impact professional traders. Probably should not say much more until I speak with a lawyer who has expertise in this area. [Symbols impacted: RDFN, Z, ABNB]

Selling some stocks on #Robinhood. One of them, I'm even selling at a loss. It's unfortunate. It's just that right now I'm still locked out of a lot of applications on my work computer. The nearest Apple store is more than an hour away...

On a less cheerful note... artmeetscode.com/2025/08/22/c... It's important to remember that when people vanish mysteriously out of a community, it affects other people. Regardless of the reasons for their departure. #foss #opensource #safety

Just took this post live. Fixed a few typos but there may be others. Had a problem due to a vendor’s payment processing and had to visit my local bank as a result. Unfortunately that consumed a window of time I would otherwise have spent proofreading. : ( open.substack.com/pub/lotusros...

Sorry, good people but I am officially abandoning this platform. There simply is not enough activity here to make it worthwhile. It's almost as much of a ghost town as "X." If you want to read my financial writing or start a conversation about tech, please follow/message me at lotusrose.substack.com

All-time favorite #selfie #LGPL #fossforever Zappen.co #opensource #foss #augmentedreality #AR #libre #freesoftware #VisualWords #pastec #C++ #2016

I truly have to say that I have experienced more negativity and internalized #sexism from other #women than from men. #meangirls are still alive and well. That is our problem as #feminists to solve. Spouses should NEVER act as gatekeepers. artmeetscode.com/2022/02/06/h...

As far as #regionalbanks go, my bet for the one most likely to weather the coming storm is #Banner. Then again, I am prejudiced. But it's always a good sign when banks offer non-negligible interest yields to their commercial customers. #finance #stockmarket #stocktrades #investing #trading

Regarding #transphobia and #trans identity, this is one of those areas where it's dangerous to stick your neck out right now. The religious right has an agenda and it involves targeting trans persons, and using them as scapegoats. I heard one such conversation in a bookstore. It was chilling.

2. Identity @thematizer.bsky.social [thematizer] is the best name to use to find me. I use it across several different platforms.

2/3 1. Music Anyone who listens to the mix that follows is #protected. Protected from what? Who knows. But here is the link. Sorry it's on Spotify. open.spotify.com/playlist/2ED...

1/3 Talk like a pirate day is almost over. [It's Thurrrsday, silly. Didn't you get the memo?] No one is writing bylaws. My club is not the cool club. It never is. It's just where I'm @. We have two orders of business to address: 1. Music 2. Identity

If you are a professional #stockbroker, you know that America's real vulnerability is #regionalbanks. Some can cover their reserves on a good day. Most cannot. #finance #fintech #cotporateAF

Advice to professional traders: short CVS. Not Verizon.

I mean, essentially, Palantir is just outcompeting them.

I wish somebody had pointed out the truth about how Google makes its money.

I wish somebody had pointed out the truth about how Google makes its money. And done it a lot sooner.

(2/2) What is #USArmy heaven like? In army heaven, you're still army. Why? We conquered it. youtu.be/jmR9F12CVIM?... Also, they wouldn't trust those f****** and the Navy or the Marines to run it.

About Google being the main entity assigned to do the work of corporate spying in the United States over the past two decades... As in, this is how GOOG makes its money...

I wish pretty boy Snowden had done something useful like point **that** out to Oliver Stone. You know, that would have been actually useful information. Also, whether a microwave truly does work as a Faraday cage. Not everyone even knows what those are! Every IT professional really should.

Check out the top post on lotusrose.substack.com You know -- "Who killed Goldilocks? " Tldr Google as far as I can ascertain was pretty much running the show when it came to surveillance in the United States.

@taromagico.bsky.social I am guessing you are a bot. Please respond in exactly 72 days if you are. By then, I will have no need for friends.

For anyone not paying attention, TSLA is the sacrificial lamb this time around. It is quietly being devalued by professional investors, simply so that they "can have some peace." In other words, so the market doesn't get so heady that its propensity to "bounce" couldn't once again be contained.

How many linguists and how many therapists does it take to say that #suicide may be a good thing for some people? As many as came up with this linguistic change: " We don't say commit suicide anymore. We say **complete** suicide. "

Spoken humor has pretty much disappeared as part of the American vernacular in first quarter millennial English. Like, seriously people say LOL after everything, but. They. Don't. Make. Jokes. Anymore. It's kind of too bad. As to why... Well, that is obvious but also incomplete. (1/2)

AMZN. "Amazon." Kozmo of the 21st Century.