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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I have no idea how many hours I spent on it, but I was pretty decent at it. I remember buying a hack on tape that allowed you to skip the earlier levels if they were too easy.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I think that should be "freedom" and "democracy" rather than freedom and democracy.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Gee thanks! It's so nice to see the appreciation. 🤣

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Voting is mandatory in some countries - Australia and Peru for example. You pay a fine if you don't vote.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Well if he couldn’t tell E Jean Carrol from his ex wife, he probably can’t tell Mandan from Coke Jr. They both have beards, so close enough, right?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Mamdani probably said a great president, and that’s enough for Trump to like him. He’s so easily manipulated, it’s pathetic.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Now that was a real computer! None of these new-fangled sprites and fancy-schmancy synthesizer crap. The VIC 20 was what go me into retro-computing. I wanted to recreate the system I had in 1981. Still haven't got the right slot expander though.😱

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sign me up! That sounds like my kind of youtube channel.😂

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The only way I could keep a straight face during that bullshit-athon would be to botox my face to the point I couldn't show any expressions and then i would still struggle with the eye rolls.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Me too, I will be breathing religiously.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Don’t even start me on nerve gasses. No-one in the U.S. dies from inhaling them, and some commies in Geneva ban them under some convention or other.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I did fractions in elementary. There’s no excuse for such innumerate BS from politicians

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Yeah, those aren't great. The knockoffs on Amazon look a lot better

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There are at least 3 designs on Amazon 😀. I searched for "6502 retro t-shirt".

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

That's a Trump level word salad.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So there's actually a use for that touch bar?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's difficult to feel sympathy for farmers who voted for Trump and his tariffs, got badly burned by it and then voted twice more for the same guy running on the same tariff policies as he did the first time but are now angry about him and those policies because they are getting hurt by them again.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I don't care how they do it, as long as they succeed.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And is it 200,000 times more entertaining than the games we used to play?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

OK, that makes a lot more sense.😂 They would have had to have done miracles with a Spectrum to get graphics like that. It still looks really good though.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Those graphics are on a Spectrum? That's really impressive. Normally spectrum graphics are immediately recognizable.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Cable News is basically dragging out a 30 second news report to fill a 3 hour segment by repeating the facts in 50 different ways and stating the blazingly obvious.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

No, still spreading hate and destroying our country.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"If you live by the sword, you die by the sword". Political violence is wrong, but I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for him bearing in mind how little sympathy he had for other victims of political violence.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Charlie Kirk called for people to raise money to bail Paul Pelosi's accused attacker.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

They have to empty all the sensible stuff out first to make way.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Democrats forged the birthday card while Trump was a Democrat in the early 2000s to hurt him 22 years later because they knew he would become a Republican president. I had no idea we were that smart.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It makes sense. Bras lift them up, so their weight can be discounted.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Trump's carefully thought out response to the Russian incursion into NATO airspace

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I wrote my PhD thesis on Microsoft Word 1.0 and Excel 2.1

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Don't raise my expectations!

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

You can't even see who blocked you to get an idea why they did it. I'm sure most people who have blocked me here have never interacted with me or even seen any of my posts.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

There are some very strange people out there

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's WWMD (What would Mussolini Do) 24/7

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

There is a long and not particularly glorious history of authoritarian leaders starting foreign wars to stir patriotism and distract from their failings at home. The chance that Trump joins in that tradition is pretty high.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What are the odds that they are going to start a war just to justify the rebranding?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If the boxes were in good condition and both the 2C and the monitor were clean and known to be working then somewhere in the $200-$300 range would be reasonable, but with a mouse nest there, there's a risk the boards are probably heavily corroded by mouse urine. $75 seems about right.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It just shows you what vaccines and modern medicine have done to improve people's lives. Both of those things are unthinkable today.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

He passed 60 years ago, before I was born, but my grandfather spent a couple of years in a tuberculosis sanitorium when he was young and my grandmother died of typhoid in 1928.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Do the Dems who prefer socialism over capitalism actually know what socialism is?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Well they don't know what floppy disks are either, so it hardly makes much difference to them.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Well yes, but I think humiliation hurts them more. How about what my daughter would call a "vigorous high five to the face" while accusing him of groping your butt?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

That's even worse than the rejections I get from reporting anti-Semitic and homophobic rants on Twitter

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Can I write it? I'm sure I could write a great o-bitch-uary about him.

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Dog math: Q: You have 10 balls on the floor and your least favorite one rolls under the sofa, but you can still reach it. How many balls do you have left? A: None Or is that just my dog that thinks that?

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Doug in NC @douginnc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A loud "which pervert grabbed my butt?" would have worked. Humiliation lasts longer than pain.

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