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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ in 2020 - proud of my ‘Drafts Inbox; having only 6 entries. - compare and contrast to 259 as of this morning.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Biggest surprise here is that it is still marked 🚧 - so I guess I need to finish it off!

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Bit by bit we are being divided and β€˜taken out’. That was 2022.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ 2019 - national gun awareness day.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ This was two years ago … nothing has changed

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Reflecting on the pillow guy back in 2022 - and thinking also how easily it all went away.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Retro.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Filling in some Burbank history.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ The Simple Life

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ I should do more Snickelcasts

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Don’t Trust The Silos

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Calling BS on ‘Great Thinking’ nearly three years ago.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Syria - 2019 - Subject - Oil

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Brexit Explained … πŸ˜‚

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ DIKW - 8 years ago

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ A Misnomer? This is no surprise - even 6 years later.

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Today’s Surprise From History - πŸ–‡οΈ Fonts are not just a 2025/6 thing

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A Reply from Brad to Me by @bradenslen

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@JohnPhilpin The little sign that tried. It’s being 902ed otherwise it would be in service and a very good sign.

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Trying an idea … courtesy of Micro Social .. I will report back.

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People are getting behind this … by @dave

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Elon you can’t speak for your customers. The car is great, but you suck. newrepublic.com

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😎

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The Fediverse by @jaredwsmith

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Now that I had a few minutes to import my Mastodon follows, Micro.blog is really taking shape quite nicely as my primary Fediverse presence. Kudos to @manton for how he’s rapidly evolved his product to be a first-class Fediverse citizen.

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Concurrence - I just wish he made it clearer which part of the Fediverse is being followed when you look at follow lists.

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Ambrose - courtesy of Brad by @bradenslen

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The covers of this book are too far apart.\nAmbrose Bierce

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Magic! Love Ambrose.

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Revenge Is Power by @bradenslen

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Headline: Musk threatens to sic the government on people β€˜pushing’ Tesla β€˜propaganda’ | The Verge

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Elon Musk says he’s β€œgoing to go after” Tesla critics

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Sounds like he’s starting to crack under the pressure. Keep going.

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The share value is still positive compared to only a year ago .. still a lot of work to be done.

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🎲 Surprise Me! is now the phrasing in my single post footer - replacing ‘Random’ .. seemed more in keeping with the tone that I am trying to achieve on this blog - not to mention that it is consistent with the other places I reference this functionality.

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