If you're reaction to an old lady waving her hands in your face is like this then you're a fucking nutter. And the other staff then join in?!
Three Tom Hortons Employees allegedly beat a 75 year old Black Woman to death but don't worry, service is still provided at the side window.
...what the fuck is this?! 😡
https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/altercation-at-tim-hortons-precedes-womans-death-fwpd/
#TimHortons #FortWayne #AnitaGrayson #Whiteness #Rascism #WhiteNationalism #USpol #USPolitics #AnitaGrayson #BLM
Fort Wayne’s charming kitty curators of used books
One perk of loving to visit independent bookstores is every now and then you get the added bonus of meeting the resident cat(s) who live and/or work there. As everyone knows, cats in a store are the true brains of the operation and they stay there to make sure their human subjects follow all store policies to the letter.
Recently, on a day trip to Hyde Brothers Booksellers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, we were treated to just such a welcome by their kitty curators, Scout and Sherlock.
Scout on her ottoman throneThese two oh-so-adorable cats are brother (Sherlock) and sister (Scout) from the same litter. They are 12 years old and definitely the official rulers of the roost.
Sherlock strolling the History aisleScout was striking a restful pose on her cushy ottoman throne in the Literary aisle, while Sherlock was roaming and relaxing in the History aisle. Scout was immediately endearing to us newcomers by allowing us to softly rub her ears and pet her head, as well as give her a kitty back massage. Well-placed chairs on either side of her royal daybed were at perfect petting level for guests to bestow homage upon Scout, while deciding which books they wanted to purchase. Her quiet purrs were delightfully dainty and demure.
Just a touch more hesitant, Sherlock was very welcoming if you let him smell your hand first. Once acquainted, he was your buddy, though you do need to avoid sudden moves or he may scamper away. While not as regally positioned as Scout, he was no less triumphant in his ruling of his domain.
Both Scout and Sherlock were lovely and welcoming hosts into their literary world. It was a heartwarming reminder of how much we adored our Gus (a.k.a. Secret Agent 47) who passed away a little more than two weeks ago at 17 years of age.
Thank you, Hyde Brothers Booksellers for sharing joyful kitty moments with these two humanoids through Scout and Sherlock. It was very cathartic and healing for our recently broken hearts. 💔
Peace and love!
#animals #books #bookshops #bookstores #cats #cities #FortWayne #fun #history #Indiana #kitties #landUse #pets #pictures #retail #travel #usedBooks
Councilman Unveils Book on Indiana Women's Political Pasts
A Fort Wayne councilman released a new book about Indiana women in politics. Learn how this history project highlights local female leaders from the state.
#fortwayne, #indianapolitics, #womeninhistory, #localgovernment, #indianaauthors
https://newsletter.tf/fort-wayne-councilman-indiana-women-politics-book/
A Fort Wayne councilman has published a new book about Indiana women in politics. This work is the first of its kind from him since he joined the city council.
#fortwayne, #indianapolitics, #womeninhistory, #localgovernment, #indianaauthors
https://newsletter.tf/fort-wayne-councilman-indiana-women-politics-book/
I ran into the web page 'Vintage Fort Wayne' while on a websearch:
Retail: https://vintagefortwayne.weebly.com/retail.html
Restaurants: https://vintagefortwayne.weebly.com/restaraunts.html
The page has lists of many grocery and retail stores that are now only remnants of the past. - reading the lists was like a walk-down memory lane! I do have some I could add to the list!
#FortWayne #RetailStores #GroceryStores #Nostalgia #LocalHistory
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#AssertContext reminder
My learning of Canadian Marshall McLuhan and New Yorker Neil Postman and Eva Berger from Israel - all 3 in media studies / media ecology
I did not study this at university. I was in #SocialMedia at age 13 via Christmas 1982 - I was given unrestricted access to adult social media with #CBRadio #KBRV0896 I would talk to adults late night - often lonely truckers resting long-haul in #FortWayne where #NorthAmericanVanLines was based.
Christmas 1984 age 15 I started developing social media apps and selling them mail order on floppy disc. I was a #SysOp and creator of dozens of social media sites. All self-taught, my schools did not have Commodore 128 computers nor was anyone in my family into computers (my father worked for Pepsi, chemist).
From Fort Wayne Indiana I published academic books on IBM OS/2 where I was both author and technical editor. I never finished college, I got recruited to Philadelphia and then Dallas, then I worked my way to Seattle and was teaching employees of #Microsoft and was hire for the private staff of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. NBA basketball owner, NFL team purchase (I represented the owner in social media messaging takeover on purchase). Again, I have no university degree, my published books and experience got me jobs as a complete outsider.
I couldn't cope with the office pressure of such world-reaching job after 3 years and in late 1999 I left corporate office job forever and worked at home. Autism burnout at age 30 before I fully understand. I did not know about my #autism until a decade later.
I was learning about autism that I started re-reading Canadian Marshall McLuhan 1950's, 1960's, 1970's and applied it to my own first-hand childhood social media experiences and what was going on with the Apple iPhone in year 2008, 2009 in #Austin where I had settled. I then predicted the #ArabSpring2010 a year before it became famous and was in #Algeria #Africa December 2010 before it was world news. And over to live in Middle East (Jordan) to study outbreak of the #Syria war in 2011.
So I take McLuhan's teachings based on experience. I am not an academic ... I've spent since 1999 trying to make sense of hands-on experience with media systems from the 1990's Bellevue Washington billionaires (2 of the 3 richest people in the world when I was on private staff in 1998).
With Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and all that is going on today, McLuhan's 1960's and 1970's teachings have been extremely articulate.
Coney Island in Fort Wayne is the oldest hot dog stand in America. It has to be doing something right to be in operation and going strong now for over 112 years.
They haven't changed much in the way they run, their menu, recipe or how they make their famous coney dogs. It's pretty simple, if something works don't change it!
(BTW - I ordered with extra onions - yum!)
#FortWayne #ConeyIsland #History #Hotdog #ConeyDog #Nostalgia
I grew up in #FortWayne #FortWayneIndiana
and I did indeed purchase this Canadian Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNdJyr4kqpA
"The Great White North is a Canadian comedy album by the fictional television characters Bob and Doug McKenzie (portrayed by actors Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), released in 1981 by Anthem Records "
" rose to the #1 position the following week where it remained until 23 January 1982."
I was born in year 1969, this was highly influential to me in 1981 1982.
Cleaning the garage & came across this tidbit of #FortWayne #computing #history.
It's a laminated folded business card for Adaptive Micro-Ware, Inc on State Blvd. The reverse has an ASCII Chart and an RS-232 pin breakout.
Looks like AMW filed bankruptcy in 2023.
https://www.digitalbroadcasting.com/doc/adaptive-micro-ware-inc-0001
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