Michael Ormsby

Michael Ormsby

@michaelormsby.bsky.social

Interests: Hiking, nordic skiing, bicycles, woodworking, photography, watercolor sketching, architecture, urbanism, classical music, vintage iPods, Alzheimer’s support. @michaelormsby@mastodon.art

121 Followers 130 Following 67 Posts Joined Dec 2023
9 months ago

Over the top narcissism. In fact nobody noticed or cared. But little Donny is having a meltdown “Look at me! Did you hear what I said? Pay attention to me! Me! Me!”.

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10 months ago

Emoluments Clause anyone? Congress? Hello? ?

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11 months ago

Replacing class with schlock.

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11 months ago

They’ve all kissed Atlantic City Don’s ring.

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11 months ago

Maybe bring back something like Budd RDCs. Between late 1940s and 1960s were very popular for low traffic passenger rail.

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11 months ago

If there’s one thing you can count on in these uncertain times it’s how stupid Trump actually is.

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11 months ago

Now I’m really glad we purchased our Tern cargo bike last August.

It’s been wildly successful. We use it just about every day.

Trump is the mad emperor.

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11 months ago

US citizen here. Interesting viewpoint, I never really thought about the different educational approach.

Obviously we have a stupidity problem here that we can’t ignore.

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11 months ago

So much that is stupid and dangerous here it’s hard to know where to start.

It’s not just the language. Before you even think about code ask how existing system is documented. Are there usecases for _every_ single aspect of the system?

Data integrity / migration/ backup. Transaction integrity.

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11 months ago

When considering the Trump administration it’s hard to wrap your brain around how low they can go.

It’s stunning how useful Gabbard’s idiocy must be to Vladimir Putin. I bet she was more Putin’s nominee than Trump’s.

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11 months ago

Remember how people groaned when Gabbard was nominated for Dir of Natl Intelligence? The nightmare just keeps getting worse.

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11 months ago

The strongest confirmation is Trump’s denial.

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11 months ago

An interesting twist on the modern deification of the automobile. You get more jail time for desecrating a motor vehicle than murder.

Oh well, I guess now we understand society’s values.

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1 year ago

I wonder if putin is finally threatening to publish the epstein tapes in his possession?

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1 year ago

In fact I’m not making light of anything. I think everything is pretty sad. I have no respect for Trump. He’s been a crook since he came on the scene in the 1980s in NE US and he still is.

I won’t express disrespect to you, all I ask is you not disrespect my experiences either.

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1 year ago

Sadly, I know exactly what dementia is. My wife has Alzheimer’s Disease.

Dementia is not a very precise term. Basically it represents functional impairment resulting from the confusion that engulfs a person with a neurological condition affecting key parts of the brain.

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1 year ago

Trump is very much tied to the past. When he was a “businessman” in the 1980s and 90s he insisted that male employees wear ties and suits, women had to wear “feminine” attire. Now that Trump is in dementia he is even less capable of understanding today’s world.

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1 year ago
Sketch of the monastery of Saint John in Galicia, Spain.

Sketch of the monastery of Saint John in Galicia, Spain.

#watercolor #watercolour #penAndInk #galiza

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1 year ago
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Now listening to Dutilleux's Symphony 1 recorded by Jan Pascal Tortelier. Although the Second Symphony is even finer, the First Symphony's luminosity, beauty and colour make it a marvellous contribution to the 20th century symphonic literature. Henri Dutilleux born on this day in 1916.

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1 year ago

My favorite composer.

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1 year ago

Perhaps this peculiar rating suggests that too many people chose to not vote?

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1 year ago

Thank you. 😀

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1 year ago
Sketch of Sant’Andrea, Mantua, Italy.

Sketch, the Basilica di Sant’Andrea, Mantua, Italy. Designed by Leone Battista Alberti, over 300 years before completion. The buttressed dome is by architect and engraver Filippo Juvarra. To the left is preexisting bell tower

#RohrerUndKlingner #watercolor #watercolour #Italia #Mantova #UrbanDesign

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1 year ago

Hey, Hey, Hey It’s Fat Don John Rotunda.

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1 year ago

Well, it makes sense… after all he is kind of rotund.

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

Same here. I make a point of telling personnel in businesses that we got there on the bike path.

I think we’re kind of notorious locally as the frumpy old couple in bicycle helmets and winter clothing. I’m not proud of it nor ashamed of it. But change will only happen when people start changing.

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1 year ago

Maybe Elon & Donald could occupy Mars-a-Lago.

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1 year ago

So was Trump “targeted” by Pan Bondi when she was Florida’s AG and investigating Trump University (before getting a check for $25,000 to make it go away)?

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1 year ago
Watercolor sketch of Cathedral in Reggio Emelia, Italy.

Sketches of Cathedral in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Layers of religions and architectural styles. Residence of wealthy Roman citizen w/ pagan floor mosaics, Romanesque church, Baroque partial facade, sculptor = architect.

#RohrerUndKlingner #watercolor #watercolour #Italia #ReggioEmilia #UrbanDesign

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