If I have this right …
The US Government want US citizens to flee from the Venezuelan paramilitary and return to America.
Clearly, Trump feels that only his paramilitary can threaten and kill US citizens .. and it is NOT the job of other countries. #AmericaFirst
🎥 The Courier, 2020 ★★★
Yeah .. No.
BC did a really good job - including the transformation - but so slow …
And if you know me and historical dramas .. doubling down on the ‘yeah .. no’
I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.
If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then. We live there now.
I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I donât know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are.
Laura Karen Ingram is upset by protestors wearing masks - but seems to have no problem with ICE doing the same. 🤷🏻♂️
🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.
I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I don’t know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are.
🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee
Not wrong IMHO.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s
Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.
🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript
So I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question …
Please only consider this document and no other information. Bottom line - if you were the judge - would you find the defendant guilty or innocent. If guilty - on what counts. For each of those counts - What SHOULD the punishment be, what would the punishment be and what could the punishment be. Please keep succinct.
🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy
Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️
I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?
My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂
Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform
[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)
Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think ⦠closer look? Again ?
Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ?
Spring Cleaning
Still To Do
On the Blog
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Categories: Remove category ‘LongForm’ from Film Review Posts
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CSS: Simple Recent Posts - finish styling
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CSS: On a phone close up ‘spaces’ on home page
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CSS: Sort all home page blog styling
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CSS: Get the bullets back
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Functionality - Add the ‘Replies’ page back ❓
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Functionality - Second Archive Page to pull entire Archive
- going to need JSON/Micro.Blog Help
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Import My Instagram. It is time.
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Import The ‘Quotespace’ Blog. (Troubleshooting)
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Search - resolve PageFind, @sod search, categories, archive et al - way too confusin
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit
🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’
This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash
Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.
Final paragraph
The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.
Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize
🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.
Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.
What does the arrow say
.. asked Cliff … 🤯
In all my years of driving I had never known this.