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Larry Kollar

@farfetched58.bsky.social
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Human, dad, granddad, author, and involuntarily retired tech writer. Politics is important, but don’t let it consume your life (IRL or online). Check out books.larrykollar.com for stuff I’ve written.

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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 13h
I think we might be a little more swingy here, and suspect that oil companies are making a left-handed campaign contribution to goplets on the ropes.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 14h
Amazing… gas prices here have dropped 60¢/gal in the last week. You’d think there was an election coming up or something. 🤪
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mileslynd.bsky.social @mileslynd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
mileslynd.bsky.social If you live in Broward County Fla. Please vote yes on "School Board Question 1". TEACHERS WILL LOSE $8,000 to $12,000/year if this does not pass. Many will have to leave the county. Please repost this. Thanks!
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 17h
I just got a drop of $90 from SSA this morning. I wonder if it’s related to this.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice! I thought maybe the leaves were basil.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hi all! Warmed-over coffee has been drank, van is nearly loaded… yup, heading home. 🎶 On my way back to Georgia 🎶 youtu.be/xidAyyoucmc?...
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Bad Company Oh, Atlanta on Vinyl with Lyrics in Description
YouTube video by Southern Rocker
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey hey from vacation!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had it done about 10 years ago. Keep up with the exercises you’re supposed to do, and you’ll be 💯 in 3-4 months!
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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This virus therapy supercharges the immune system against brain cancer
Scientists have found a way to make one of the most aggressive brain tumors vulnerable to the immune system. A single injection of a modified virus can invade glioblastoma, kill cancer cells, and summ...
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Kay 💙 @kayfultz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hope you’ll be off the ground!
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Ginny @gmoyer17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is Butterbrot Day Today celebrates the traditional open-faced buttered bread staple. Butterbrot - literally "butter bread" - dates back centuries in Germany as a basic part of breakfast, packed lunches or Abendbrot, traditional cold evening meal. Referenced as an alternative meals in 1339.
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm harvesting the last of my summer #garden salad greens, including these Garden nasturtiums, which typically #flower from midsummer right through to the first autumn frosts. Both the flowers and the leaves are edible and add a peppery bite to salads #BloomScrolling #KitchenGarden #FlowersOnFriday
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If Hawley is in the right side of an issue, you know it’s a stinker!
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Love this, M! And if you can, please place your ballot during early voting?! Ours begins 5 October! #LFGBlue #EarlyVotingByState
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reality has a liberal bias! 😄
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*trying to figure out where Tuesday went *
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/09/2026
“We need a comprehensive federal privacy law that covers this sort of data collection and misuse,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @theverge.com. That means requiring opt-in consent, no deceptive design tricks, & data minimization that limits companies to only what’s needed to provide the service.
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There are ways to protect yourself from your spying TV
“Hi, LG”
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
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WESH 2 NEWS @wesh2news.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Great 6 hour today with this crew! If anyone is looking for their drone please call Hot Spots!” charter captain Daniel Arsenault wrote. >> Details: www.wesh.com/article/florida-fishin… 
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Evening here, now… everyone survived Monday?
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Top tip: when using a new stove top coffee pot for the first time it is best to remove the little leaflet of instructions before making the coffee.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey all!
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Man, it is such a trip moving from vim to Atom, especially when you learned vi around 1983.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Got new tires for Little Zook, so it’s now fully operational. Good timing, it gets 60 MPG with no hotdogging.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I didn’t really think he was all that good, but it was fun to rile the libs.”
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ours just started, and my garden is happy.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s been threatening to storm here all afternoon. It rumbled shortly after Charlie and I returned from taking off recycling and trash. I asked Mason help me load the hardtop gazebo the wife bought & had delivered yesterday. He took his time coming down, so I rolled Little Zook into the garage.
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m glad I planted tomatoes and peppers in my little garden patch. Gonna can some peppers and make hot sauce soon!
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Vesna @vesnavoice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good Saturday morning everyone🤗☀️ from Lake Ontario with sparkly diamonds🥰
View of Lake Ontario on a sunny day, sky is blue, there are diamonds sparkling on the surface of lake. Rocks on shore line with some bushes at side
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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Any official emails from the team will be from an @/can-con.org domain Anyone else is an imposter 👀 Please do always feel free to reach out if you're concerned about the validity of an email!
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I refer to him as Mental Yahoo.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In 2007, I bought a little motorcycle that got 60MPG. You can bet I commuted on that scoot in 2008 and beyond. Today, I got new tires on it and it’s once again fully operational. I’ll reconfigure it for groceries if needed. Being involuntarily retired, commuting isn’t happening.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I can relate, but it’s not constant. Mostly, there’s a 15-45 minute window between “Hm, maybe I should figure out what’s for lunch” and “EAT NOW.” Mostly snacks are either nuts or crackers with pimento cheese.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah. I know melon husk is trying to nazify Grok, but it keeps drifting back toward reality.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How long before Bozos “fixes” that?
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are things to see
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If that was yours, good one. The glossary was helpful; I recognized most of the terms but Bex had me stumped. We Yanks will say “pull your head out” (i.e. of your rear) instead of pulling it in, though.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1/ Maybe we’ve been fighting disinformation backward. Fact-checkers chase lies after they spread. But a growing body of research suggests something more powerful: teach people the manipulation tactics first, and they become harder to fool later. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Eiscomic (Vic) @eiscomic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
cara.app/post/6e9f36d... Hope you feel better asap, and hope you like this :)
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Vic P Gar (@eis1) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
This is a little longer than i've posted 'til now story... it's clearly inspired by a certain 90's comic book and, i have to say, i'm really happy how the story went. i like sope pages, i like some ot...
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wonder what motivated him to turn himself in. Had enough of Texass? Assurances that the fix is in? I’m not going to assume an ICEhole is going to act honorably.
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi all! Charlie and his school (and a bunch of others) have a field trip to a Gwinnett Stripers (AAA minor league baseball) game. Good seats!
Pregame view of Gwinnett Field from along the first base line. No nosebleed seats here!
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some time back, someone got annoyed enough with troff being locked behind proprietary licenses to write GNU Troff, often just called Groff. The Groff community learned the book was made an OpenBook, but the original source wasn’t available. We OCR’ed our hearts out & rebuilt “UTP Revival.”
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
G’Evening! I’m making extensive revisions to a 40 year old book called “Unix Text Processing.” Back then, what was super high-end is now routine, but the old software is still around and available under either open source or personal use licenses. I’m recreating utilities as a side project.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas." -- Johnny Cash, who died #OTD 2003
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Psst. Hey. Looking for some free/cheap entertainment this weekend? Find out which parks are hosting youth and/or adult sports. No admission, bring your cooler along (and maybe a folding chair for soccer) and enjoy it. U19 soccer can be really high-octane, especially in the higher level leagues.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good morning happy Caturday ☕️
Smol cat held in a humans hand
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Larry Kollar @farfetched58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I guess it’s time for my annual declaration: pumpkin spice isn’t my thing, but I will never stop someone from enjoying it.
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