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ThisIsTrue, 19 days ago to random

Press Send. snerk

ThisIsTrue, 24 days ago to random

Things have improved considerably since.

ThisIsTrue, 27 days ago to random

So, they say it's brand-spanking-new, eh?

ThisIsTrue, 27 days ago to random

Who ever knew that "Poo-Poo Pee-Pee" was a driving route?

ThisIsTrue, 1 month ago to random

My photo, spotted in Amsterdam today. A little something lost in translation.

ThisIsTrue, 1 month ago to random

Yep: I was engaging with someone via Facebook this week who just can't grasp the point. Once I had the realization, I just dropped out of the conversation. It was SO freeing!

ThisIsTrue, 1 month ago to random

The latest news: we are now at sea ...but not quite on our ship yet. No, not confusing, it's just Blog Post #3.

https://residentialcruising.com/on-our-way/

ThisIsTrue, 2 months ago to random

ThisIsTrue, 2 months ago to random

The eclipse a few minutes ago, as seen from Las Vegas. You don't need to build a pinhole camera. Just go look for shadows of trees and bushes on a flat surface, such as the pavement or a wall. Or smooth dirt. Or your hand. It's VERY easy to see without glasses, and without endangering your eyes by looking at the sun.

ThisIsTrue, 2 months ago to random

Don't do this today.

ThisIsTrue, 2 months ago to random

When we were kids and "our" magazines wrote about stuff, we laughed. The problem is, a lot of it was true ...and still is. This really is from MAD, from the September 1969 issue. Yoiks!

ThisIsTrue, 2 months ago to random

Gannett recently revamped its comic strip selections, and female creators were nearly all wiped out. Readers LOVE comics, so this is another example of newspapers shooting themselves in the foot.

“There are more dead men than living women in the funny pages,” says Georgia Dunn of “Breaking Cat News”. More at the Washington Post (gift link, so you don’t have to have a subscription): https://wapo.st/48Wd9ki

(Illustration: a “Rhymes With Orange” panel by Hilary Price.)

ThisIsTrue, 3 months ago to random

“While Big Tech sites like Spotify claim they’re ‘democratizing’ culture, they instead demand artists engage in double the labor to make a fraction of what they would have made under the old model. ... Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — now have to be entrepreneurs, too.” Bingo. The struggle is real: I’ve been living it for 30 years now, and it’s VERY hard. At Vox.

https://bit.ly/3OX73Jg

ThisIsTrue, 4 months ago to random

When this went viral this week, "Texas Patriots for Secession" took their Facebook group private.

ThisIsTrue, 4 months ago to random

Sunday Reading - It was THE This is True story of 2000 -- Mike the Headless Chicken!
https://go.thisistrue.com/mike

ThisIsTrue, 5 months ago to random

New on my blog: Why I’ve stopped publishing TRUE on Substack.
https://go.thisistrue.com/substack

ThisIsTrue, 8 months ago to random

This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe: Molly Holzschlag’s work is one of the big reasons we have an “open web.” The story in just 2 minutes: https://owowi.com/of

ThisIsTrue, 9 months ago to random

From my Facebook memories on this date a few years back. Gave me a chuckle again.

ThisIsTrue, 10 months ago to random

Headline: Convicted Computer Hacker Kevin Mitnick dead at 59 from pancreatic cancer.

I had never met him, but we knew someone in common who is VERY well known who gave me Mitnick’s metal business card (clever design: it’s a lockpicking set).

I just put it on eBay since I’m guessing someone will enjoy having it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115866173486