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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:47:28 JST hankg
♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:Get. Involved. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 08:59:02 JST hankg
Watching The Wheel of Time series has me wanting to power through Asimov's Foundation series so I can start jumping into those books. That is *a lot* of reading though, on the order of 10,000 pages and 4.3 million words. #WheelOfTime #literature #fantasy #scifi -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 06:40:21 JST hankg
I highly advise people to not travel to the United States for the time being. A French scientist was denied entry to the US and expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forth by the Trump Administration. More disturbingly these messages were being equated with terrorism because it was "hateful towards the Trump Administration". This person at least didn't have to deal with weeks wasn't disappeared and suffer through torture like other tourists have been at the hands of ICE for absolutely no reason whatsoever. When I was a kid my school was trying to arrange a trip to the USSR. They would talk about all the precautions to take to not get in trouble with authorities and then god knows what would happen. I hated the idea of setting foot in a country like that. Now we are living in it. Thanks MAGA supporters and Trump voters! Sadly, as of this date the majority of them say they like what he's doing on immigration, in other words they like this shit. Fuck you all for that too. #uspoli #maga #rant lemonde.fr/international/artic… -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 14:26:06 JST hankg
♲ @kennyc@diasporasocial.net:The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 14:23:05 JST hankg
TIL there is something called "The Eastern Continental Trail" which is an ~6000 mile mega-trail running from Key West to Newfoundland (with some help of ferries) made by assembling several trails including the Appalachian Trail. Interesting... #hiking
Introduction to the ECT - The Trek -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 14:22:21 JST hankg
It took ~7500 years to make your avocado toast...and humans in the Central America have been cultivating avocado even further back than that: 11,000 years or so. #history #archaeology #food
News - Scientists Investigate Origins of Avocado Domestication in Central America - Archaeology Magazine -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 06:46:06 JST hankg
TIL that Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent, who often played murderous rivals but sometimes compatriots in many mob movies over the years, were in a band and then comedy act. I'm still simultaneously stunned and amused :) #movies
When Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent Had a Vaudeville Comedy Team -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 03:31:57 JST hankg
We need an element with the energy, fight, and direct messaging potential of the Tea Party to take over the Democratic Party. Where are those people/orgs so I can give them my time and money? These Do Nothing Democratic leaders aren't cutting it and never will. The Democrats that are doing stuff are maybe the kernel around which such a movement can build: AOC and Frost in the House, Pritzker and Walz at governor level. I'm sure there are others. But it needs to be a consolidating movement not a handful of politicians spread thinly throughout the country. It probably needs to be some sort of insurgency at first, like the Tea Party, that then overwhelms the party and then take leadership. If we can have it without all the batshittery that'd be ideal. At this point even some batshittery is a price to pay for getting rid of these Do Nothing Democratic "leaders". And no, a new party isn't a solution. If you can't take over a shell of a party lead by feckless mealy mouth do nothing leaders you can't start one from scratch that takes real power in the country. Also, no this is not about needing far left policies. My frustration is coming from the position of a pretty centrist but left leaning person. I know I see that frustration from across the political spectrum. There is a vacuum that can be filled. It *needs* to be filled if we are to survive as some semblance of a representative democracy rather than some Hungary or Russia-like autocracy. #uspoli #rant -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 23:53:58 JST hankg
As a citizen of the United States, after hearing more and more stories like this I have to say it's probably best if people don't travel here. ICE has been bad from day one (created-post 9/11) but it's like horror stories from the Soviet Union I remember hearing as a kid now. It doesn't matter if you are coming from countries MAGA considers "good" like this German lady or "bad" ones. It doesn't matter if you have your documents in order and your nose clean. No one is safe from this sort of secret police style treatment. I'm sorry half my country voted for these monsters and cheer this shit on. We've failed ourselves and the rest of the planet. #uspoli #rant
German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US - The Trek -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 12:33:47 JST hankg
♲ @christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com:THIS!
#ukraine #ovalOffice -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 01:36:03 JST hankg
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 11:17:33 JST hankg
Originally seen on "The other 98% Facebook page" #uspoli #BillionairesShouldNotExist -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 07:10:18 JST hankg
This video makes me want to go out for some Chinese Hot Pot. #food #china #sichuan
I Survived China’s Hot Pot From Hell!! -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:24:16 JST hankg
♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:Trying out organicmaps.app while we're in Lisbon. Looks pretty nice. -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:23:49 JST hankg
I find the concept of this Solid data pod merged with ActivityPub federation concept fascinating. This short FOSDEM presentation gives a good overview of it vs. current AP fediverse and Bluesky, which for data storage has a similar model. #fediverse #fosdem2025 -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:04:22 JST hankg
♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 07:04:18 JST hankg
♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:kottke.org/25/02/is-social-med… -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 10:54:03 JST hankg
♲ @christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com:Good one :) -
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 08:18:45 JST hankg
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hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 23:22:40 JST hankg
♲ @joyce_donahue@diasporasocial.net: