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Daveosaurus

@Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz

He/him. Geographer and grouch. Aotearoa. Murihiku.

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NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin.

Daveosaurus,
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@NunavutBirder I hope this is almost-three-dollars and not almost-five-octillion (2 to the 92nd power) dollars...

Daveosaurus,
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@NunavutBirder makes it a bit tricky for stamp collectors to afford one, though...

serge, to random
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Non-Jews and Non-Jews only,

Like and or Boost this post if you support Jews being safe.

Daveosaurus,
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@cferdinandi @serge I think this whataboutism is a little unnecessary.

QasimRashid, to random
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So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option

So what are Palestinians supposed to do??

Daveosaurus,
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@FrankFrank @QasimRashid If there was ever any doubt that you were merely trolling on behalf of Bibi the Butcher, your invocation of Squeaky Ben has dispelled it.

You can watch Squeaky Ben get roasted by a REAL conservative here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF3r3zUGqk

Daveosaurus,
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@FrankFrank @QasimRashid Hamas murdered, say, 1200 Israelis. Likud has murdered, say, 30,000 Palestinians so far. By the numbers, Likud is 25 times more evil than Hamas, and is only getting worse.

blogdiva, to random
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happy to say, Richard Dawkins has me blocked on Xitter because, during his Hijabi concern-trolling days, i not only dared to question his knowledge of Islamic traditions, but called him a bad atheist for not even knowing the basics of Christianity history, doctrine & theology.

i regret nothing.

https://mastodon.social/@babadookspinoza/112123357574601170

disco chicken GIF, wearing a beret with the a super-imposed JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (i regret nothing) while the twirls like nobody is watching.

Daveosaurus,
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@nicksalt @ramsey @trochee @blogdiva @SallyStrange Dawkins severely embarrassed himself a year or so back when he let himself be embroiled in a debate about whether non-white Indigenous knowledge was valid (he thought it wasn't).

I don't know if there's a word for the concept that the more brilliant someone is in a very narrow and tightly focused field, the more completely out to lunch they are in every other sphere of knowledge... but if there isn't, I suggest calling it the "Dawkins effect".

golgaloth, to writing
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One of the weird things I find with writing Fantasy is that it takes sooooooo long to get anywhere. This is a series of maps showing the time it used to take to travel across America from New York. Days to get anywhere, even with installed roads, in 1800, then down to weeks to reach Chicago.

How would this affect the way you draw your maps?

#AmWriting #writing #fantasy

Rates of travel 1857 - it still takes a week to get to the midwest, but now you can reach the west coast in a few weeks.
Rates of travel 1930 - the railroad network is now established and it takes only a few days to travel across the entire US.

Daveosaurus,
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@golgaloth Another thing about the 19th century is that the length of time it took to travel anywhere was also the length of time it took for news or letters to get anywhere. As an example... a massive piece of news in 1861 was the death of Prince Albert of England on the 14th December. The first mention of this in any New Zealand newspaper on the Papers Past web site is an unverified report on 14th March 1862 - three months later.

cstross, to random
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Prediction: this is going to go down like a head shot in a neonatal ward.

Daveosaurus,
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@tony @cstross The character's definitely been around for several decades, but has always been a bit problematic (who in their right mind would name a "hero" character after a notorious war crime?)

Daveosaurus, to random
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Next on ... It's to the 13th floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ChfmIkgNE

(13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me)

Daveosaurus, to NewZealand
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I'm now wondering what it is that Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds have done that is so terrible, so unforgivable that it is even worse than Shane Jones' and David Seymour's egregious breaches of the Cabinet Manual in their attacks on the judiciary.

#NZPol

Daveosaurus, to random
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#MidwinterTunes for #JukeboxFridayNight ... well, it's the right time of year for keeping warm and staying in bed, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2mV9JktrE

(and thanks to @swansinflight for reminding me of this song a day or so back...)

Daveosaurus, to random
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To anyone who's lucky enough to be younger than me... a poke in the arm is a hell of a lot better than a case of the measles. Get one if you haven't already.

https://bookmyvaccine.health.nz/

Daveosaurus, to random
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It's #CelebrateWomen for #JukeboxFridayNight and I may as well start with one of the greats.

Heeeeeeeere's Cathy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4lXLM34g

(Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights)

billbennett, to random

When right-wing politicians talk about “the good old days” or some similar concept, most of the warm-glow memories they are invoking are from eras when everyone’s lives had been improved by left-wing governments.

Daveosaurus,
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@billbennett I never knew whether they were being serious or exaggerating for dramatic effect (my knowledge of 1960s British tax rates is next to zero). Nineteen shillings in the pound does sound like the sort of tax rate that could have been satirical.

Daveosaurus,
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@billbennett In "the good old days" the top tax rate was 66 cents in the dollar.

Try bringing that back now and if you could harness the outrage you could probably power a small city with it.

strypey, to Podcasts
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2022: #JohnNaughton lays out the well-known propertarian and Hayekian side of crypto evangelism, then this intriguing observation;

"Lots of people will point out that the Satoshi memo, which released the idea for blockchain, more or less coincides with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and... [that] being a token for the corrupt, uncontrollable nature of financial capitalism and it's untrustworthiness."

https://shows.acast.com/talkingpolitics/episodes/the-next-big-thing

#podcasts #Talking Points #BlockChains #Satoshi #GFC #LehmanBrothers

Daveosaurus,
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@strypey I was waiting in the chemist the other day. For some arcane reason the background music stopped and one of the counter staff had the job of starting it up again.

"Alexa, play Spotify."

Nothing happened.

"Alexa. Play Spotify." Said in a "don't make me come over here" tone of voice.

Alexa obviously decided that the counter staff meant business and started up again...

bananabob, to Birds
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New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out

https://theconversation.com/new-fossils-show-what-australias-giant-prehistoric-thunder-birds-looked-like-and-offer-clues-about-how-they-died-out-221599

#Birds #Megafauna #Australia #Extinction

Daveosaurus,
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@bananabob ... Didn't I see them in a movie? "The Dark Crystal"?

Daveosaurus, to NewZealand
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Message to politicians who are out there "peddling racist lies"... time to start contemplating your own mortality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdgciNC4O_U

(Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazi Died)

#NZPol

Daveosaurus,
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@phil_stevens I'm still wondering how someone who was four weeks old when Germany surrendered can have seen any actual Nazi Germany. Perhaps he took a wrong turn in the Beehive and walked into an ACT caucus meeting by mistake?

mez, (edited ) to random
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Poll for previous toot.

Daveosaurus,
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@mez my rationale: you're going to want to be able to see into the closet (I presume it's there to be used and not to have stuff hidden away and lost forever in) therefore treat its interior as part of the room.

iangriffin, to random
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513861/2028-total-solar-eclipse-in-new-zealand-likely-big-tourism-drawcard-astronomer-says #eclipse

Daveosaurus,
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@iangriffin @williamthorpe As long as Met Service plays ball. I remember an eclipse from my high school days (so, the first half the 1980s time frame) which was a complete fizzler because of the sun being completely hidden by the traditional Invercargill rain clouds...

billbennett, to random

I had to put one of my stories into Google Docs (don't ask) and notice the spell checker wants to change Tbps (terabits per second) to Tbsp (tablespoons)

Daveosaurus,
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@billbennett @essjax

  • waits for the neighbourhood cats to arrive en masse *
Daveosaurus,
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@essjax @billbennett or maybe we should measure data storage density in terabytes per tablespoon...

strypey, to random
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Bed for sale (Woman not included)

Daveosaurus,
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@strypey How old is that picture, though? Not the ad - just the picture. That's a seriously 1960s hairstyle she's wearing.

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Well I for one will be sending Winston Peters photographic evidence of my genitalia every time I use a public toilet so he can rest assured I am using the correct one.

#NZPol

Daveosaurus,
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@jonoabroad @pezmico Pandering to terves with a ridiculous bathroom bill.

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