February 3rd.
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📽️ Cunk on Earth - I watched the first ten minutes on Netflix.
Added to the top of the watch list.
🔗 Ilhan Omar’s removal from panel was ‘stupidest vote’, says Republican
Ken Buck, a committee member and Republican congressman from Colorado, was heard calling the action the “stupidest vote in the world.
… maybe, but he still voted ’for’.
Advice from a partner at Battery Ventures …
Ray’s net worth is ‘a lot’, making (at just one gig)
“$4,564,860 as Chairman of the Board at Guidewire Software Inc.”
His point? We need to stop paying people so much (paywalled article).
I wonder how much Battery pay him?
“The Republicans have accepted violence among Congress members.”
💬 Heather Cox Richardson
🎵 Just added a few pages about music to my site that emerged from a conversation a few weeks ago with @hutaffe … enjoy.
I hope it also contributes to a better understanding of ‘why only three’ @SimonWoods 🥺
I don’t drink Pepsi and I certainly don’t drink Anheuser-Busch .. so I am delighted to report that I will not be responsible if those companies report successful returns on their planned multimillion dollar Twitter advertising over SuperBowl.
“I need your zip code to run this credit card.”
I give him the USA zip code associated with the card.
“ But you have a British passport?”
I do.
“So why is your driving license from New Zealand.”
They agreed I could drive.
I hope everyone is ok? 4.8 is not a big one … but after the rains there is surely a lot of loose ground around.
February 2nd.
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There’s a short seller out there called ‘The Hindenburg Group’.
Filed in ‘names that work’.
February 1st.
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Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. What do these people (and I use the word loosely) think they are doing? Who are they protecting? 🔗California police kill double amputee who was fleeing: ‘Scared for his life’.
Said it before saying it again ..l 🔗 this Mastodon / MicroBlog stuff is not easy is it?
January 31st.
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🔗 Chris Hedges is one of many voices I read talking about the war mongering U.S.A. … and I get it - I really do … BUT … if somebody invades a country … and we 🔗 don’t do what we are doing … then what should we do?
David Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.
💬 Wayne Hickey
The article ….
🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.
… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …
January 30th.
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As I spend time cleaning up my MicroBlog, also wandering into my ReadWise and playing with a better, consistent tagging mechanism and also fixing some of the broken ‘author’, images etc that creep in from time to time - so that the quotes that get shared are more accurate.