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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was 2 years old when the French finally closed the prison at Devils Island. Truman was president, Stalin was in power. Feels like things have not gotten much better.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In his theory of Asynchronous Evolution, V. Geodakyan asserts that females exhibit a broader reaction norm and males exhibit a narrower one. Is this a fact or a postulation that I’m too dense to detect? Because subsequent assertions hinge on it.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sylvia Beach interviewed about the post WW1 expatriate community in Paris goes on to describe her life in Paris under the Nazis and her rescue by Ernest Hemingway. We can all take heart from Sylvia Beach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zb...

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Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962)

YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

$> cat ‘food in tin cans’ cat: cannot open food in tin cans $>

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The president is a chancre on the organ of democracy.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Russia has always been a drunken circus bear riding a bicycle with a machine gun.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My first boss at Bell Labs described his hierarchy of employees * motivated competents: they burn through tasks quickly * unmotivated competents: they take constant prodding * unmotivated incompetents: they’re benign * motivated incompetents: the bane of your existence

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From a human factors perspective iOS is a freaking mess of inconsistent design with controls and even methods varying wildly from app to app, most egregiously the native ones.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

When I send a txt message and don’t see a delivered notice right away I send another one to try to force the first one through.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Marcus Aurelius emphasizes that we must be indifferent about things that make no difference. It is not about being numb to life nor is it about ignoring our emotions.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apple is disabling F1 in the TV app AND in the browser on iPad if you have not updated the OS to their latest POS version. This is new for the Miami race, it worked fine previously but now “there are difficulties displaying this content in this browser” It’s their f’ing browser ffs.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

”In 1957, hydrogen bomb architect Edward Teller and other Livermore weapons scientists proposed a gigawatt-level electrical plant, based on steam generation from 1 megaton bombs dropped every 12 hours into a 1,000 ft cavity. American research on such plants continued throughout the Cold War.” wiki

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

F1 on Apple iOS prior to the new (hated) version 26 is possible only by updating your device to the latest version or by watching via browser at tv.apple.com and logging into your Apple account. This is by design to force us to update, which I will not do.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Hey Apple, wanna sell me some more stuff? Make a 13” or 15” touchscreen Neo tablet running MacOS that can take bluetooth keyboards and mice. Downgradable to Sequoia would be nice.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The best F1 action I’ve seen in 30 years is over on the soon-defunct F1Tv site. It’s a series of documentaries called ‘Inside Tracks’. They’re short and are entirely in-car cameras with commentary but mostly team radio exchanges, they synopsize whole races. They are riveting.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Catholic theologian John Haught described fundamentalism: an inability to abide nuance and ambiguity; an inability to accept multiple answers, explanations, or layers of meaning.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Rename Penn Station to Stormy Daniels Station I say.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Dear Apple: Why have my two iPads and one iPhone consumed 3.5GB of my data plan in just over 24 hours solely through traffic to Apple servers? I quit using Amazon tablets because I couldn’t control them. iCloud is off, backups are off, unused apps deleted. OS Versions are all 17.x.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thinking today of Princess Samuels, a 22yo woman who wanted to see the world and serve her country but was killed in Iraq. I happened to be at the Joint Personal Effects Depot when her property was being processed, 12 foot lockers filled with pink girly stuff & hello kitty backpacks. What a waste.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Make a real UPS for p02w using 18650 or lipo bag battery and: www.amazon.com/dp/B07PZ6V937 * TP4056 Type-C USB 5V 1A Battery Charger Module Charging Board with Dual Protection Functions www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5YCSZFP * XL63802 Boost Buck Voltage Converter, 3.7v to 5v, clean and low loss

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

After you’ve owned a sailboat with lots of teak trim on it for a decade or more you come to appreciate the way dirt blocks damaging UV even better than varnish.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

First time homeowners: if you’re like me you agonize over things to the point that you can become virtually paralyzed. Remember this: it’s a house, not a piano.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It happens like this: the people who know what he is fail to stop him because they want to use his power, they think they can control him. By the time they find out they can’t it’s too late. 1933 2025

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Ok, so I remove the bag from the boxwine and squeeze out the last drops... What’s your point?

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Oval racing is about as engaging as a farting contest.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Clearly impeding is legal at Monaco during the race but penalized during practice and qualifying. What a joke. The mandatory 2-stop is a terrible solution to the problem of gaming by the teams — ban them from deliberately impeding the field to gain advantage for team mates. Ugh..

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When life gives me lemons I squeeze them in peoples eyes.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The word for them now is ‘collaborator’. Those who could act, swore to act, yet do nothing or even assist in closing the ring of our destruction.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When using arduino-cli on esp32 chips I use this script to reset the processor without causing the USB port number to change. This can be very handy, for example the script is named espreset: espreset; tail -f /dev/ttyACM0

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

me in the national security team group chat

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For 2026 onwards F1 proposes to regulate fuel flow via it’s energy vs fuel mass or volume. How is this done? Anyone? Engine output is reduced to 540bhp and the Motor Generator Unit is increased to 470bhp. Cars will be so much quieter the spec is changing to make them noisier for the fans.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Jeff Bezos couldn’t carry Katherine Grahms purse.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s a small thing but I miss the old days when the Unix command: cat ‘food in tin cans’ produced the correct output: cat: cannot open food in tin cans

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

An hour ago in the Walmart egg isle a woman conversationally asked if I thought egg prices would start dropping now. I patiently said no, they’re going up. Twenty million chickens died or were culled due to bird flu this year. It wasn’t Biden or the dems and T can’t fix it.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My coping strategy is to stay up all night playing Ori on the Switch until I’m so exhausted I can fall dead asleep the instant my head hits the pillow.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Well I now know that with outside temps below 10ºF my little 10kbtu heater runs continuously trying to hold 70º in my tiny cabin. I have bigger heaters but I’m too stubborn to go fetch one.

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Paul 🏳️‍🌈 @nerdy70.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've done my best to mute words associated with today's activities. PLEASE people, don't be sharing screen shots or other things which might escape peoples' filters. Please respect our need to protect our mental health.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

9º and a couple of inches of snow in the smokies

my driveway in the smokies with a couple inches of snow

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"The October 7, 2023 attacks—the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust—not only occurred during an ongoing Israel-Hamas ceasefire but was also planned and led by Yahya Sinwar, a prisoner released in a previous hostage swap." t.co/jVdNd8GCzr

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https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/01/hamas-ceasefire-deal-means-one-thing-israel-loses/

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oh no. What did the authorities say ?

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I can hear him thinking “It’s weird that I can’t tell if Nancy Mace is attractive or not….”

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My cabin in the smokies is up on a ridge and my driveway is very steep with a hard turn right before a 100 ft ravine. Usually I park down on the flat before it snows but I forgot this time. So I’m kind of stuck until it thaws, luckily I don’t need to go anywhere for a week or two.

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It’s a nice sunny day today so I’m finally trying out a new air fryer. I’m totally offgrid so this is running on the solar panels. Nine hundred watts, 70a @ 13v - not bad. I don’t have an oven so this is the only way, chicken wings for lunch :)

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Ahhh, temps are finally above freezing outside. A couple more hours of this and my pressure water will work again. #TinyCabinLiving

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Paul @melloman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If you want to know what god thinks of money look at who he gives it to

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