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d_j_fitzgerald

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IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer, Amateur Photographer, Polythiest, Druid, and Collector of Crap. Co-Founder, Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie. Views are my own and not my employer's.

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futurebird , to random
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Sometimes an F5 tornado will grind the bark off of trees. The cyclone, nature's sandblaster, is full of metal scrap, glass, broken, tile and cement, it turns entire buildings to dust, scrapes the ground down to clay, strips asphalt, lifts & flings sidewalks. Everything pulverized into further grist to grind the earth.

To see a cyclone in the big midwest sky is to look on the angry face of God.

And I often think: Like a cosmic horror, perhaps they make Americans a little crazy.

d_j_fitzgerald ,
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@futurebird @noricenolife I've seen stories being written in real time.

I've known of Capitalist folk heroes.

I've heard tall tales spun on doorstoops and front porches, seen old Gods brought to new lands, watched mythos rise and fall in rapid, spinning succession.

Humanity is always growing and being unoquivically itself. Folk lore and folk religion will always sprout, like weeds through the concrete, given enough time and love.

d_j_fitzgerald , to random
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Some highlights from the OFFICIAL opening of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie

A twentysomething feminine-presenting person is playing with the Eliza AI chatbot on an IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer.
Two twentysomething masculine-presenting people playing SkiFree on an IBM PS/2
A feminine-presenting person plays Microsoft Flight Simulator 2 on an IBM PCjr in the middle of a cubical farm. The image is viewed from above.

futurebird , to random
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Kittens, have met their match!

Eartha Kitt with Cats.

(photo by Gordon Parks, 1952)

d_j_fitzgerald ,
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@futurebird I'll always boost Gordon Parks and I'll always boost cats

18+ futurebird , (edited ) to random
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There are all kinds of people in the world who see things in all kinds of different ways.

(US pol/ Trump tw)

A "truth" from Lara "Women For Trump" on Truth Social. Trump2024 Our very last chance to save our Country. (praying hands, US Flag) An AI image of Trump and Melania Holding hands, as they never have in life, as they look at a candle together. They both look sad and pensive as they have never looked in life. "Re-electing Trump is no longer a political choice it's a survival choice."
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    @futurebird @ThatWeltschmerz @tersenurse and that is the quiet part out loud. Laws are for other, "lesser", societal undesirables.

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