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I have reached the ear-embiggening stage of the male aging process.

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Alan Alda, 90, Realized He Was Old When Daughters Went on Medicare

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@elithebearded Come up and climb in the Tin Man’s lap, kids.

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www.tumblr.com/cleverlys…

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I haven’t accomplished enough to have imposter syndrome.

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@dave You don’t have much to say about Mastodon or the Fediverse anymore. Have you given up on them in favor of Bluesky, Wordpress, Twitter and of course the web and RSS?

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Overheard: “Every marriage has one person who reports whenever a celebrity dies and one person who says, ‘Oh.'” via

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@mitchwagner.com I ran into the woman who owns the pig this morning — I think it was the first time we’ve seen each other in all the intervening years — and she seems to be doing fine. She did not have the pig with her but she says the pig is fine too.

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Here’s something I saw one day in 2012, at a neighbor’s house a few doors down from ours — a pet pot-bellied pig.

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I ran into the woman who owns the pig this morning — I think it was the first time we’ve seen each other in all the intervening years — and she seems to be doing fine. She did not have the pig...

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@joelhamill Possibly, but in that case you would not know.

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@lopatto.bsky.social I am humble about my own journalistic skills, but I know those two things.

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@lopatto.bsky.social And access is worth far, far less than many journalists think it is. Getting the interview with the CEO or whoever just isn’t a big deal.

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@lopatto.bsky.social A promise of an interview is worthless. I have been told a million times that if I hold off on publishing a story I’d get an interview later, or I’d get an exclusive later. After the first few times I got burned on that, I no longer am even tempted by those promises.

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@mitchwagner.com ​Donald Trump is a rapist who is now using police authority to bully his 82-year-old victim.

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@mitchwagner.com However, sometimes I feel the need to speak out, even though I know speaking out doesn’t accomplish much. Now is one of those times.

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@mitchwagner.com But I don’t feel like my ranting about it online does any good. So I don’t do it much anymore.

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@manton Sounds great!

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@manton I don’t understand what that means — and following the link did not help clarify much — but I support anything that makes it easier to share posts that are longer than 300 characters. I’m looking forward to seeing how Micro.blog implements, um, whatever standadrd.site is. :)

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@mitchwagner.com “Our government should focus on helping Americans afford their lives, not lock people up in for-profit detention centers where corporations like GeoGroup and CoreCivic make billions. No profiting off of human misery.’”

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@mitchwagner.com “Kim concluded: ‘Spending tens of billions of dollars from American families to perpetrate cruelty against people who aren’t violent criminals or felons is a waste of money and wrong….

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@mitchwagner.com “… a man from South America being threatened with deportation to Congo, where there is an active Ebola outbreak; and so on.

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@mitchwagner.com “… a mother who was largely separated from her four-month-old baby, the husband of an American citizen wife and child; spoiled food; a court docket showing one judge with 74 cases to handle in one day, allowing the judge about five minutes per case….

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@mitchwagner.com “He said he found an eighteen-year-old high school student crying and saying she just wanted to graduate; a pregnant woman without full OBGYN care; a woman who had suffered a miscarriage and had no medical care….

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@mitchwagner.com “Kim posted on social media that the detainees had accurately represented conditions there.

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@mitchwagner.com Inmates at Delaney Hall have complied with US laws, but they have been denied due justice, and are kept in filth; denied medical care, including to the elderly and medically vulnerable; and denied due process.

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@mitchwagner.com

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@mitchwagner.com My keen deductive powers tell me that the owner of this car is a practitioner of sapphic love.

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@ffmike He’s wondering what’s taking the driver so duckin long?

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Do you handcode hashtags on your posts or have you found a way to automate the process?

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@mitchwagner.com I don’t plan to ever watch this again but it was enjoyable for one go-round.

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@mitchwagner.com And yet I enjoyed the movie for its performances of Wayne, O’Hara and an ensemble of talented comedic character actors, as well as the look of the film and its joyful energy.

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@mitchwagner.com “McLintock” is a retelling of “Taming of the Shrew” in the Arizona Territory in 1895, starring Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in a celebration of sexism, ethnic stereotypes, domestic violence and right-wing politics.

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