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Taradox @avataradox.com · 06/10/2026

Oh, yes, Lingthusiasm is amazingly good, and I've been following these two brilliant women for years now. If you're a word nerd like me, and you're not subscribed, what are you waiting for?

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 30/09/2026

My office desk phone actually rang for the first time in several years. We do everything with Teams and other online services, so the ringing phone startled me. Wow, something so urgent that somebody is actually calling me! It was a wrong number. #theUniverseIsLaughingBehindMyBack

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 15/09/2026

I have been sick enough to stay in bed all day exactly once since the Covid lockdown. I attribute that to a combination of good handwashing practice, healthy diet, exercise, luck of the genetic draw, plain luck, and (drum roll) remote work. #lateStageStupidity

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 08/09/2026

Apparently I'm the only one who thinks Funko Pops are creepy.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 25/08/2026

Will Google kowtow again and rename Lake Ontario on their maps, as they did with the Gulf of Mexico?

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 07/08/2026

Absolutely! I'll take evidence-based research over political grandstanding based on scientific ignorance every time.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 05/08/2026

It seems there's a consensus forming that the first decade of the 21st century is referred to as the "aughts". This disappoints me, as I prefer the "naughties".

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 20/07/2026

Surely I'm not the only one who thinks that the Orange Fascist's second term official portrait, which is now illegally on a coin, actually looks not tough or determined, but constipated? Or perhaps it's the face made by an infant filling a diaper/nappy? #DonTheCon

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 30/06/2026

I couldn't have said it better. Spot on!

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 10/06/2026

What's taters, Precious?

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 10/06/2026

No, furniture company that's spamming me! Associating your particle board crap with the World Cup doesn't make me want to rush out and buy it. Quite the opposite!

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 02/06/2026

Annoyance: Boost Mobile voice mail always goes to my phone's speaker, at maximum volume, even if I have headphones connected, or volume turned down very low. This is annoying in cubicle land, when I'm retrieving an important message that I don't necessarily want my coworkers to hear. #Boost

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 19/05/2026

Having fled the cesspool sites of Musk and Zuck, I am astounded when people complain about Bluesky. Perfect? Oh no, far from it, but It's a breath of fresh air by comparison to those places. The community is mostly respectful, and when they aren't, it's easy to control. The UX is mostly sensible.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 07/05/2026

Winning primaries by going more extreme on a fading agenda may not prove to be the big win some people think it is come November

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 26/04/2026

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." – Hanlon's Razor

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 25/04/2026

I have absolutely no interest in the NFL or any other sports drafts. There, I said it!

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 01/04/2026

I like Nuremberg Jury, but this is good, too.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 08/03/2026

My mother would never have allowed me or any of my siblings to wear a baseball cap to a funeral. Just as well bring a skunk into an Ulta store.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 28/02/2026

Why must this be the most stupid of possible timelines?

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 24/02/2026

No, I will not be wasting my time watching the State of the Onion. I don't need to fill my ears with the hate, narcissism, and other garbage I know it will be. #Gaslighting #LyingLiars #LoveNotHate #NoKings

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 23/02/2026

Safety in fascism is a false hope, in any case. Better to fight the long defeat, as Tolkien put it.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 20/02/2026

Right on. I have never wanted one of those insidious things, as I'm not interested in letting #Amazon and anyone they contract with see and hear everything going on at my house. Don't sell your privacy out of fear! #spyware #ringCamera #ringDoorbell www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-you...

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Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer

Home and life improvement.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 15/02/2026

Back from a 5 km recovery run in the rain to catch up on #BM100. My little jog seems like not much more than a trip to the kitchen

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 15/02/2026

My non-runner partner: "I'm sorry, why would they do this? It just seems stupid." Me: "Yep", as I continue refreshing #BM100

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 15/02/2026

Staying warm while following the #BM100 crazies. #BarkleyCats

Black cat on rug in front of space heater

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 07/02/2026

He stuck a feather in his cap, and called it M ake A merica C are A gain, R espect O ur N ation's I mmigrants #YankeeDoodle

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 06/02/2026

Unlike some people, I choose to live my life in a way that that at least there won't be huge celebrations when I inevitably shuffle off this mortal coil. #ChooseLoveNotHate

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 06/02/2026

I'd be OK with renaming the toilets at Penn Station after DJT. And maybe a sewage treatment plant or two. #narcissist

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 06/02/2026

Sometimes I spent considerable time writing a reply to a message, and by the time I press "Post", I find out that the careful word craft will be lost to the void because the original message was deleted. Time to scream into that void.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 05/02/2026

And here we still are, 400 years later. #immigration #goldenRule

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 05/02/2026

Hmm. A costume idea for Mythmoot XIII? I have worn costumes some years, or a cocktail dress, or nice blouse and slacks yet others. I've had fun, but nothing earth shattering. Parking that in the back of my brain for offline cogitation. Maybe something will come of it. Or not. #mythmoot

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 05/02/2026

I woke up this morning from a dream in which a huge, peaceful crowd was marching on the US Capitol, demanding the immediate removal of the whole pedophile-protecting, racist cabal from Congress and the White House. Well, I can dream, anyway. And the Supreme Court, too? #epsteinFiles

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 03/02/2026

The principle of "we know some deep, hidden truths that the rest of you don't, and therefore are superior, and God, if s/he exists, is lucky to have us" is a powerful temptation showing up in many ways, both religious and political. #gnosticism #prideOfLife #brologarchy

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 31/01/2026

"Judgment" is ridiculous spelling that isn't even true to the etymology. In my judgement, an "e" is necessary between the "g" and the "m"; otherwise, it's unpronounceable. See also "abridgment", "acknowledgment". #itNeedsAnE #autocorrectSucksEggs

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 30/01/2026

A new DHA directive requires the use of "mental health" instead of "behavioral health". I'm sure that came down on stone tablets from the Department of War Crimes, but I'm not sure what New Speak game they're trying to play here. Thoughts? #newSpeak #euphemism #trumpRegime

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 29/01/2026

News video someone took holding their phone in portrait gives me claustrophobia with those rectangles on either side of my TV. Hold your phones in landscape mode while filming out of control fascists, people!

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 27/01/2026

It annoys me that the punctuation marks I particularly like, semicolons and em-dashes, are now used as signs of AI slop. So I guess it's back to boring old full stops and commas. But you will have to pry my parentheses from my cold, dead typing fingers #punctuation #IamNotAnAI

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 25/01/2026

Early childhood in rural East Africa and middle school in urban West Africa, following multilingual news sources, certainly influenced how I see the world, and my awareness of how the world sees us. Most Americans don't have the slightest idea

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 25/01/2026

"Honey, I know, I know, I know times are changing It's time we all reach out for something new That means you too You say you want a leader But you can't seem to make up your mind I think you better close it And let me guide you to the purple rain" – Prince

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 24/01/2026

I was thinking of this song while out on a run this afternoon

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 24/01/2026

The gaslighting isn't even subtle, or well done.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 21/01/2026

The federal agency that I work with as a contractor did not acknowledge Martin Luther King, Jr Day this year, other than a brief mention of security gate scheduling due to "the federal holiday". That was it. Always in past years that were inspirational messages from the leadership. Not this year.

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 20/01/2026

I'll say it again: if all you ever do is share other people's posts, and never provide any new content of your own to the discussion, I will block you. I don't need the clutter #noEcho

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 20/01/2026

This is not normal. Quit pretending it is. We're not looking at minor opinion differences, or eccentricities. We're looking at the guy with his finger on the button who is clearly insane, and who is destroying the nation and the international order as his supporters cheer. #Trump #SaveTheUnion

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Taradox @avataradox.com · 19/01/2026

I got an email celebrating January 2025, followed immediately by a correction. It's a mistake anyone can make, but it got me thinking: if one were to ask the "Stable Genius" (who knows a camel from a giraffe) what year it is, would he know? I'm not so sure. #mentalDecline

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