Lisa Kadonaga

Anthony Atamanuik on Instagram: "I wrote a book with @notneilcasey in 2018 American Tantrum, we knew what would eventually happen. Anyone with half a brain should have. 2025 and we have military incu... 32 likes, 2 comments - therealactualtony on October 13, 2025: "I wrote a book with @notneilcasey in 2018 American Tantrum, we knew what would eventually happen. Anyone with half a brain should have. ...

The prescient @therealtony.bsky.social , maker of the Trump Dump, Trump v. Bernie, and #ThePresidentShow -- there's a quote for every (Trump) occasion. From pre-2019.
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That dancing mushroom is probably aimed at Trump -- lol!

Artist says Ireland’s ‘transformative’ universal basic income program benefits her art and life Visual artist Elinor O'Donovan started receiving money from the Government of Ireland three years ago as part of a universal basic income pilot project. O’Donovan tells As It Happens guest host, Saroj...

On CBC Radio tonight -- Ireland UBI pilot
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AGATHA CHRISTIE SOLVES THE MYSTERY OF SURFING: "IT IS ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT PHYSICAL PLEASURES THAT I HAVE KNOWN" Agatha Christie, the British-born "Queen of Crime," whose colle...

"...oh, it was heaven! Nothing like it. Nothing like that rushing through the water at what seems to you a speed of about two hundred miles an hour; all the way in from the far distant raft, until you arrived, gently slowing down, on the beach, and foundered among the soft flowing waves."

It's cool to read her description of how exhilarating she found it, in her memoirs (looking back on it in her 70s). She even brought a surfboard home with her -- though it looks like the shorter type she tried out in South Africa
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I think there's a Heinlein novel where the crew flying a spaceship are looking up log tables in a book

I did not see "inflatable animal taxonomy" as a trending topic for 2025

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

I like Bennett's take on it
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The URL in the link seems to have been active in 2017 (I'd just commented that I went back that far on archive.org ) and there does seem to be something there re: Compaction

When I went back to 2017 (thanks to archive.org) there does seem to be a set of documents there, including one on the Compaction Cycle -- not sure if that's what you recall?

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: ITT a reformed authoritarian cultist explains how the Alt-Reich (and other extremists such as Objectivists) function and takes the communities quesito... Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

The same person did a similar post to many other subs, with a link to a page that's since been deleted
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I checked on Reddit -- is this a summary?
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Howitt teaches at Brown U but was born in Guelph
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Abundance returns to wetland after man-made sheep pasture removed A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the...

I love stories like this one. It shows that there's a lot still that can be done to recover from the damage done to our environment.

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Yes -- how far the dial would have to spin back before the next number! And later on, the keypad locations.

Between Alaska, the Jersey Shore, and the SW -- a lot of damage over the past couple of days
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Ow! Hope you don't have much of a wait and that he heals up soon!

Thanks John! I'm going out to get emergency snacks (friend arriving from SFO tomorrow and I suspect he won't eat before the flight and will land hangry, before a 90-min ferry ride then 2+ hours on the bus). But after I get back I'm putting a salmon in the oven and starting the rice cooker.

I'm guessing he saved way more money than Musk ever did. Prevention = people not getting sick, not having to go into hospital.

that last line

My lung capacity needs work -- I'm smaller than most adults so that's probably a factor. I trained on a trumpet, but that was decades ago.

Photo of Acme Two-Tone Taxi Whistle. Silvery metal, two parallel pipes with a mouthpiece on the top (open) end. Source: https://www.acmewhistles.co.uk/two-tone-taxi-whistle-143

Photo of Acme Plastic Samba Whistle. Yellow plastic, curled "snail/escargot" shape. Different from other snail types, there is a holed protrusion on each side of the cylindrical body of the whistle -- looking down from the mouthpiece, the left one is red and the right one is green. Users can cover one or both of these side-holes with their fingers, which varies the whistle tone. Source: https://www.acmewhistles.co.uk/acme-plastic-samba-475-1

Photo of Fox 40 Classic whistle, black plastic. Similar shape to the "snail/escargot" type, but with a large vent on each side. (This whistle does not have a pea or dowel inside, so there's nothing to fall out.) Annotations added to the photo "Chambers are designed to self-clear when submerged in water" "No moving parts to freeze, jam or deteriorate" "The harder you blow, the louder the sound" Added in red lettering -- "(listed at 115 dB)" Source: https://www.fox40world.com/classic

This is a useful site, if you've got a whistle and want to measure how loud it is. My Acme Samba Whistle came in at over 90 dB (about as loud as my Fox 40 Classic). My Taxi Whistle (also by Acme) was a bit softer at around 80 dB. (I got it secondhand, so showing age?)
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I actually overheard the "its own little house" quote when I was standing next to one of the few pay phones left in Hamilton a couple of years ago, and a small child walking past with her parents pointed at it in amazement.

And if you didn't receive one of those giant books, you could look for a phone sitting outside in its own little house, and usually there'd be one in a binder attached to the bottom of the phone.

I see people in the PNW have their raingear set to go

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a couple of years ago (he'd have been 100 this year).
I didn't hear him rhapsodizing about how great his early jobs had been, and that his teaching work wasn't manly and "real" enough.
(Also he had a Carhart's notch -- hearing impairment from all the heavy equipment, explosives, etc.)

My own dad worked in lumber mills and on fishing/tugboats as a teen, then on a road-building crew (Hope-Princeton road) in the internment camp, then in a chemical factory and as a bricklayer's assistant when he was going through college after the war. Became a teacher and school counsellor. He died

Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939 by Barry Broadfoot: 9781551995045 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy t...

It must have been incredibly harsh, especially during the Depression. I was reading Broadfoot's book (firsthand accounts). Some funny anecdotes, but mainly pretty bleak.
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