@joshuapsteele LOL! Okay you're in. :)
@joshuapsteele LOL! Okay you're in. :)
@johnjohnston @Miraz You are welcome. Thanks for the feedback. The UK is doing similar work with bison and I think I read somewhere Poland may also be doing the same.
@michael_martinez Lots of points there but you did a good job or summarizing them. I can't go over each one but in general terms I think you are right.
Trump has no Grand Plan that he made up himself, he is an opportunist and he wings it. I think he's roughly following Project 2025 a Big Plan written by others. I doubt he's actually read it but he's going off a verbal summary told to him by people who have read it.
Trump has other influences like Musk and some other billionaires and corporations, so that gets bolted on alongside Proj. 2025. And then he also gets distracted by anything shiny he hallucinates on his own like putting resorts and casinos in Gaza. And he will say anything that excites his public mob of followers, because he loves the attention.
I still think Putin might be blackmailing Trump but that is just speculation so I don't want to dwell on that.
I do think Trump is not very brave, he fears nuclear war. Also I think he knows Putin is dangerous, so many oligarchs that have opposed Putin have had fatal accidents near windows and stairs which is an old Russian Communist MO, so Trump knows he's dealing with someone dangerous.
Not sure we are solving the problem but it's good to write out my thinking and to read yours.
@Miraz Happy Birthday!
@michael_martinez I'm painting with a broad brush. Whatever Trump wants he's up to no good.
@jean Yea log! Yea our driftwood reporter.
@JohnPhilpin That would leave evil Google's Android as the only phone OS in the UK. This is why we need more operating systems.
@cheribaker I really should buy a Moka pot and try it. I can't let watching all those episodes of Inspector Montalbano, and seeing Moka pots, go to waste.
@thedimpause The gallery worked just fine for me. Very good photos. Thanks for posting those.
@amit No worries. You are always way ahead of me in finding cool stuff! You introduced me to /e/OS years before it was even ready and now I have a a phone by them. So thank you.
@hollyhoneychurch I was last in Cambridge in the early 1980's but I really love that town. A good place to be.
@pratik I heard about Pika discontinuing their Pulse a couple of days after I published that. I can see it being a lot of work.
@amit I have to admit I did not dig to deeply into the Svbtle website. I've not seen any blogs hosted on the Svbtle platform but then sometimes it's hard to tell. I am seeing a fair number of blogs on Bear Blogs and Pika. So they seem popular hosts. @pratik
@pratik @amit I'd say it depends on what market the blog host is going for. Many hosts are aimed at personal blogs and not corporate or commercial blogs so it might make sense for the host to offer some sort of assistance in discovery. I just blogged about this a bit. I found some very interesting personal blogs using the host provided streams so it was useful.
@amit Svbtle is new to me, so I'm unaware of any changes or updates. I always kind of worry about blogging hosts that have been around for awhile but have no way to help the public discover the blogs on their service.
@cheribaker Really good deal. I enjoyed this book and the series.
@chuckwendig.bsky.social and stay away from raw cat food
@jtr I saw it mentioned. Trump has to know it will never fly.
@jtr Crazy and stupid. Welcome to the new normal.
@pratik Yes exactly. Trump was a big critic of being in Afghanistan during his first term so he should know better. But then he's never been consistent or stable. The US should not be on the ground in the Middle East.
@manton It would not surprise me if Adam Newbold has been going after others besides just you and Vincent. Perhaps one of those other people have lawyered up.
@johnjohnston Congratulations John and happy blogging anniversary!
@brendelbored.bsky.social Fucked up thing about a Google robot killing you is that it’ll probably stop and show you a 30 second ad midway through and you’ll be trying to click that little button
@vincent My signature is terrible and getting worse.