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MarcC

@MarcC@wandering.shop

I write #ShortStories and #drabbles, am a member of Codex and SFWA, and like to carry on about #Alabama (especially Huntsville), #Fossils, #MetalDetecting, some ill-mannered feline co-residents, and #genealogy from my perch on #CedarGapMtn.

(Formerly @That_MarcC on the bird site.)

Bibliography #ReadMe: https://kickin-the-darkness.com/bibliography/

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MarcC, to random
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Sprinting 50 klicks is NBD, but there are things you'll have to give up.

"No S'mores For Me, Thank You!" in @omgjulia's April issue of Worlds of Possibility.

https://www.juliarios.com/introducing-the-april-2024-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/

MarcC, to ethelcain
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#NotDragQueens
#NotTrans
#NotLibrarians

#Alabama football coaches

Image of a middle-aged white male with a gray beard, illustrating an article titled, "Lawrence County football coach surrenders on statutory rape charges" Subtitle is "James Cromwell is a former football director in Loretto and is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl."

MarcC, to random
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@thisismyglasgow Hi! On the back of a clock I inherited from my grandfather (which may predate him) is the manufacturing sticker from Waterbury Clock Company in Connecticut, USA. Apparently they also had an office or factory in Glasgow, at 144-146 Ingram St.

I've looked at this through Google Street View, though I can't be sure it's showing the correct building, and of course it's also drive-by photo quality. Could I trouble you to post something from there when you're in the area? Thx!

18+ reginasbread, to random
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me trying to attract women

MarcC,
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@reginasbread "Gluten-free Dalek"

MarcC, to genealogy
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One of my late father's youngest cousins and her husband were in town for an event, so my wife and I met them for coffee and the handover of the contents of the fabled "Aunt Enid's Trunk" that was in her possession.

Significant #genealogy may come of this...

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Happened upon a new-to-me source of records for assisting with one's #genealogy endeavors: The (US) National Archive's Access to Archival Databases (AAD).

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/

Passenger manifests, military records, and much more!

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How can someone be this old, and this ignorant? This dumb #goober apparently lives in a world defined by whatever bullshit happens to be passing through his head at any given moment. He's completely untethered from reality. The people of #Alabama should be ashamed of themselves for facilitating his election to America's premiere legislative body.

https://2paragraphs.com/2024/03/maga-senator-says-700000-palestinians-coming-to-u-s-were-gonna-make-them-citizens/

MarcC,
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@slcw Uh, I didn't vote for Tuberville.

Nor did hundreds of thousands of other Alabamians who overcame ongoing voter suppression to cast their votes against him.

The right-wing Christianist GOP has a stranglehold on this state and they fight tooth and nail to keep it.

So please, if you don't mind, keep your "#Alabama should be ashamed of themselves" bullshit out of the discourse. Come here and do the work if it wouldn't be too much of a bother.

#BlessYourHeart

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Heather Cox Richardson notes that for decades now, the Republican party has rallied voters by using what Nixon and his v-p Agnew called "positive polarization." They divide the nation by generating fear among their base of white voters. The base is told it is the "true America," and those other Americans, the threatening others, are the enemy. This translates into a belief that whatever you do to win is justified.

#Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-21-2024

MarcC,
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@wdlindsy To adherents, once someone is anointed a "godly man," anything the godly man does is, by definition, godly.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Here is how you can support an author and libraries: Go to your library and ask for my latest book. If they don't have it look perplexed. "What? You don't have Teri's latest book?" See if they'll order it.

If you check out a few of my books that helps keep them on the shelves.

(I am always embarrassed when books come out because I think they are priced too high at first. A the same time, I like to announce a new book.)

MarcC,
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@Teri_Kanefield Some libraries, at least the Huntsville/Madison county AL one, have an online system for making requests.

I've had success going that route.

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What is Star Trek?

Wrong answers only, please!

MarcC,
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@cstross Incel Inside

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‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a #Japanese #photographer in #Alabama – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/12/we-laughed-and-cried-a-lot-a-japanese-photographer-in-alabama-in-pictures

> Fumi Nagasaka had never been to the deep south before visiting Dora in #+Walker County – the people she met and photographed there confounded her expectations

MarcC,
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@BigAngBlack This is AWESOME!!! Thank you for posting this and broadening the too often stereotyped perception of #Alabama.

MarcC, to random
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flivver (noun)

: a small cheap usually old automobile

-- Merriam-Webster

My granduncle John's car "The flivver"

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MarcC,
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@jeffowski Let's guess his WiFi password!

annaleen, to random
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Just a normal day looking up how to spell "passel" and then wondering why I suddenly felt the urge to use that word for the first time in my life.

MarcC,
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@annaleen A "passel" of possums!

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Here is the first act of the new right-wing Republican leadership of the House: As a condition of aiding Israel, they insist on defunding the IRS’s ability to go after rich tax cheats.

Not sure why that isn’t getting bigger play in the mainstream press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/israel-ukraine-congress-senate-austin-blinken/a47a753e-77a2-11ee-97dd-7a173b1bd730_story.html

MarcC,
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@JamesGleick Right, so the Speaker's first act is to increase the deficit by reducing revenue???

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What COVID19 has taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse is that there will be zombie denialists, zombie virus infection parties, zombie conspiracy theorists, and politicians ruthlessly exploiting lies about zombies to kill off demographics who won't vote for them—and when a vaccine against Z-virus is invented there will be zombie anti-vaxxers (some of them funded by the Kremlin for shits and giggles).

MarcC,
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@cstross That's the one thing it turns out all the pre-COVID pandemic apocalypses got wrong: There would not be militias hijacking and black marketing vaccines and treatments. No, they'd be blowing up the research labs and production facilities.

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    @marcelias I firmly believe that Dayton's narrow win saved Minnesota from suffering Wisconsin's fate.

    The GOP's push to turn Minnesota into Alabama was stymied (says me, an Alabamian that grew up in Minnesota).

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    @Teri_Kanefield Split the GOP and go parliamentarian--don't have to caucus with Dems, just vote with them.

    MarcC, to Black_cats
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    The boys are all right. #Caturday #BlackCats

    MarcC,
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    @archeaids They can be little terrors, there's no doubt about that.

    johnshirley2024, to random
    MarcC,
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    @johnshirley2024 Uh, orgasmatron?

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    MarcC,
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    @marcelias Can't get the gerrymandering, so it's now time to double down on suppression.

    johnshirley2024, to random

    As the future keeps a-rollin' toward us, we'll encounter more and more of these issues. "Oh boy--! Artificial sight for the blind! Oh no! They're pulling it from us because the bean counters said so!" "Oh boy, my implant countered my Parkinson's! Oh no, they're not supporting it because Musk said so!"

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete#toggle-gdpr

    thanks to @piratero

    MarcC,
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    @johnshirley2024 A story of mine about the bionics of a soldier-for-hire being end-of-lifed was published a few years ago and reprinted this year in Bullet Points.

    "The Golden Rays of the Morning Sun"

    https://www.nathantoronto.com/bulletpoints/golden-rays-morning-sun

    johnshirley2024, to random

    [GAH!]

    "Hire a poet to dig their own grave"

    Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
    Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.

    https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-developers-fiction-poetry-scale-ai-appen/

    thanks to @vvandinsky

    MarcC,
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    @johnshirley2024 @vvandinsky I swear that if the aliens landed, announced they were going to eradicate all human life and were offering contracts to assist in the mass extermination, there'd be no shortage of bidders.

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    MarcC,
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    @RobW Whoa! The short story I just finished a few days ago references 'ceramaglass'!

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