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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 04/03/2025

Minor quibble: democratic republic. Plenty of democratic monarchies (ie, a constitutional monarchy) in the world (see: UK, Denmark, Spain, Japan… etc) It’s solid slogan for the US tho, agreed. I like how they characterize it as the principles of the three core wars too.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 03/03/2025

Yeah, the actually awesome & useful parts of crypto do not require buy in AT ALL, lets along ponzi-style trading. They are, unsurprisingly, the least used & seen parts (like how UPS, or shipping companies, use blockchain tech)

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

Yeah, exactly. I can disagree with Hamas and still find Israel’s actions abhorrent & criminal. These are not mutually exclusive positions, but you’d never guess from The Discourse.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

And yet, for all their similarities, both are incredibly different & great in their own way. It’s really never about the idea. It’s about the execution.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

In the sense that doing absolutely nothing is practice for doing *more* nothing, yes. Slacktivism doesn’t work, we have decades of evidence of that. It also tricks people into thinking they’ve done something when they haven’t & disillusioning them when it does absolutely zero. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

Yeah, but with old cruddy iron, sometimes it’s the only way. If you scrub it directly after any flashed surface rust will come off instantly. Just oil it up & season it in the oven for 90 mins at 400F and it’ll be fine. (tho I’d personally do that 2-3 times more before *cooking* on it)

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

Random note: do you know your website isn’t working? Says it can’t make a secure connection

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 02/03/2025

Eh, it would be fine as long as it’s not on the high heat setting. Of course you’d have to re-season it a bunch to get it back to working order tho. Not a good idea, but it’s not as disastrous as many make out.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 01/03/2025

Ah ok, got it If you’re equating being a dick with being a Nazi you’re just not a serious person with a working logic center.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 01/03/2025

Elon being a dumb asshole != Elon being a government overthrowing Nazi. Conflating the two is just silly & unserious.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 01/03/2025

Plus, ironically, the whole thing makes their resale value plummet (even more than Elon’s own behavior has) so that *makes them harder to sell*. Do I wish I could swap it for a Rivian or similar? Yes. But those are twice as expensive as the resale of a Model Y

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 01/03/2025

Same situation. The idea that people can just sell their cars & buy a whole new one as a protest is some of the most privileged bullshit I’ve seen from too-online faux-leftists (and I’ve seen a lot of that before). Like, sure, I’d love to get rid of it. But kid needs to get to school, what now?

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 28/02/2025

Honestly? BlueSky has gone VERY downhill. They catered to the worst kind of shit posters & “content creators” (read: outrage baiters) for features & now we have just a less right wing version of shitty Twitter. Really sad. What it could have been—and was—has been destroyed chasing growth.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

It’s partly because membership rotates

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Start your own freshman football league… with blackjack! And hook… wait… … ok so maybe I got ahead of myself there.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

I’m so sorry. I literally yelled “NO” involuntarily when I heard. Gone far too soon.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

It’s also factual. It was white supremacists. Stop making excuses for fascists.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Sadly makes sense. Once you allow at-will firing all bets are off.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Unfortunately Boox devices have a habit of self destructing (likely heat damaging the screen) & the company then pretends it’s not their fault & the user must have pressed hard on it. So… caveat emptor & all that

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Sounds like a monkeys paw: good knees but the eyes & memory giving up the ghost

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Anyone paying attention didn’t laugh.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

This has been known for many years. I just assume anyone with a substance is ok with Nazi’s at this point. It’s been a tell for a LONG time.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Which organizations are in the WH press pool that you consider legitimate? Not that it matters much: any organization picked by his admin now can be crossed off that list

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

No! Oh that poor woman, that’s so sad. She was, by all accounts, a light in everyone’s life who knew her. 😢

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Whole Foods has really gone to shit since they took over anyhow so it really shouldn’t be any hardship to cut them out.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 27/02/2025

Should start targeting THEIR business/work

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 26/02/2025

ಠ_ಠ Have some noodle soup John, you’re getting cranky. ◥█̆̈◤࿉∥

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 26/02/2025

3yr old: what do firemen eat? Me: err.. normal food? They’re regular people. 3yr old: No, Fire Crackers! *cackles in my face*

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

Ok so if it’s two genres & Dan O’Bannon it’s likely sci-fi horror. Hmm… didn’t he do a movie about Space Vampires frozen in a comet or something? Is this that? Pretty sure I’ve not seen it. Think it was based on a book tho

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

No, it’s faux-leftists. I’ve blocked about 500 of them doing exactly that shit to marginalized people since the election. While there are some liberals doing it, certainly, the vast majority are not. They’re the types with DSA emojis in their bio/handle who’ve never read any foundational texts.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

lol, you think it’s *liberals* saying that stuff? No, it’s too-online faux-leftists who think that shitposting is the same as protesting/action

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

Hmmm this screams 80s Dan O’Bannon to me (or inspired by) but I’m not quite sure *what*.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

There aren’t many organic spaceships out there shockingly. This is the very underrated Roger Corman masterpiece Battle Beyond the Stars.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 23/02/2025

Movie, and again, too easy. Great robots tho! Not quite as iconic as VINCENT from The Black Hole tho…

Three two legged drone robots from the movie Silent Running.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

Both are contained in that text, technically

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

BUT… That is the Serenity, a mid-sized bulk transport (Class B) 03-K64-Firefly. Owned by Malcom Reynolds, piloted primarily by Hoban “Wash” Washburne, it’s also been piloted by River Tam

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

They prioritized the things most people care about. That’s not your use case, but… still true

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

Very very few premium phones even have SD slots anymore. It’s the lower end stuff that usually does (and needs to, because they have barely any storage on them). There’s a good reason for that: it’s not particularly needed & people do not care

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

I update every year but that’s because I’m on the Apple Update Plan so it’s seamless, transparent, easy, and the cost stays the same If I wasn’t on it..? Hell my iphone 8, that’s in a drawer somewhere, probably still works ok My recent MBP update was after 6 years (and my wife still uses that one)

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

The Barbican is freaking lovely… when well maintained & not stripped of its specifically designed in trees, water features, & plants (which it was for *decades*, sadly). Same with the giant brutalist “sculpture” in SF. It’s actually a fountain & looks really great when used correctly!

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

Yeah some were definitely more art projects rather than functional (ironically going against some of the founding ideas of the field)

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

Never mind articles like this try to place blame on the Dems rather than the electorate. Which is plain false.

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Gregory Wild-Smith @gregory.wild-smith.com · 22/02/2025

Of course the Democrats abandoning law & order to fight back would be nice… but it’s also a recognition that the US has fallen, because at that point *the country no longer exists*, not as a functioning entity. So rock vs hard place

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