October 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Wouldn’t you know it, that a rock star like Steven Tyler would sing the line “Life’s a journey not a destination.” That would be a rock star who has spent half his lifetime touring and thus been on a journey. But every journey has its destination. If your life is the journey than the destination can be no other place than death.

I prefer not to say my whole life is a journey. Maybe it’s many little journeys. I can live with that. Then half my destinations are going home which is a lot more comforting than saying my final destination is death. And many of my journeys away from home I’ve enjoyed, too. So I’ve enjoyed more than half my destinations. It sounds like I very well might enjoy my life more than Steven Tyler who is going straight to death.

So I guess my line would be, “Life is journeys, not just one big destination.” Awkward perhaps but still better than Tyler’s line.

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A month or two ago I saw something on the news that made me think. It was a drug bust where the cops carefully showed the wares they had nabbed.

Some of the drugs were in a package. I was impressed that they tried to make the package inviting. The packages said “Road Runna” as the title. There was a cartoon drawing of a road runner that was a little bit different than Warner Bros.’ Road Runner cartoon.

I laughed at all this. Underground gangs are so scared of copyright law that they will not use the normal road runner on their drug packets. They felt they had to change the name and not completely rip off the art.

I can just see them in prison comparing notes.

“What are you in for?”

“13 Years for drug trafficking. You?”

“I’m in for a couple millennia for violating copyright.”

A hush would descend on them for a couple minutes out of respect for the crime.

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I would like to make a public service announcement about Artificial Intelligence and how to spot it. From now on, Anything named Al is not to be trusted. No matter how many human tests it passes anything named Al is likely to be A. I. and not a person.

Same with Alan, Allen, Alf, Aladdin, Aiden, Sal and Hal. Note that this last, cutesy, dressed up name was already used for the A. I. in 2001 a space odyssey. You didn’t get it then, until Hal started having ideas of his own. So get it now before the real world substitutes A. I. for humans.

#artificialIntelligence #canTTrustNamesIwthAlOrAiInThemAnymore #didNotRipOffWarnerBros #drugs #everyJourneyHasADestination #gangsWouldNeverViolateCopyright #Journey #lifeOnTheRoad #packaging #RoadRunna #StevenTyler

Anyone want to give @vulpinelabs @Kuniti_shino some food and a month's worth of backlogged laundry money?

Hungry engineers and mad scientists want to be fed well and cleanly clothed for their preparations for winter!

They are bureaucratically held back from "just getting a job" right now unless they can #getfedihired as #digitalnomads or informal work.

Edited: $300/$100 for today and tomorrow and some groceries! Thanks!!!

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#MUTUALAID $0/450 #URGENT #EMERGENCYMUTUALAID #URGENTMUTUALAID #PASTDUE

Help a #trans #nonbinary #pansexual #salmacian #otherkin #kitsune to deal with life in this bullshit society a little longer.
Athamanatha is struggling to cover past-due #urgent car loan, credit card, car insurance and overdraft payments. These debts need to be caught up with to reduce the burden of fees and make it possible to afford food and #vulpibus fuel.

Please help hir to get on top of the problem! It is hard to think properly when under constant stress and fear of losing your #schoolie #skoolie vehicle which is also your home and/or losing your only runabout car to something as banal and bullshit as debt collectors or the cops spotting a lapse in insurance.

$450 would be a great start to take care of some of the immediate needs. Can we raise that today?

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Let's have our #transcrowdfund #MutualAidRequest for the #Vulpibus really take off please.

We need to raise $2000 for immediate bills and needs. So far we are on about $90.

The plan is to make a home, #lab, #hackerspace and #rescue vehicle all in one.

Then there is a Nissan Leaf as runabout.

Every #donation makes a difference.
I have seen their progress.

I direct you to Athamanatha's pages and accounts:

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Zelle: ask
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#sendhelpplease #mutualhelp #fedihelp

#travel #RV #motorhome #roadtrip #investment #money #lifestyle #lifeontheroad #camping #retirement

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The joy of living in HQ aka motorhome while doing admin. Yesterday, she was in for MOT, while waiting I called up and booked a gas check, near the place where we are getting the heating system fixed, less driving around you see.

Just after picking up HQ with a MOT that she passed \o/ I started to smell gas. Parked up, checked all the connections and that the gas was turned off. All good but nose and gas checking toll said that there were gas leaking. Unhooked everything, took the tanks out and found that the safety valve had kicked in.

Somehow the shaking about at the garage and standing in the sun made especially one tank, the full one, annoyed so the pressure got to high for the safety valve.

Left the cannister outside for the night and the valve isn't leaking anymore this morning. Sadly I found that one of the seals had broken, so new parts needs to be ordered. And the stupidity of it all it's not just a bit of rubber seal, it's the whole fecking hose. More money for something that works just fine but manufacturers wants to make more coin and therefore more waste.

So no running before tonight hopefully as we are clocking 28c by early afternoon.

#MotorHome #OffGrid #LifeOnTheRoad #MOT

I am once again left hard up against my bills. It's another week to my next payday but my phone renewal, car insurance and car loan are all due before then. #mutualaid is #urgent ly needed to cover these bills so I can get us back on track.

$0/$400 ASAP please.

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@trans_rescue @lgbtq_plus @QueerSatanic @queerde

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More reason to #donate to us at the #Vulpibus: we are not cute >.<
We are also totally not going to be the ones that set up a communal spot somewhere hidden where all can be themselves and work for a free future...
That would be heresy!

#MUTUALAID please keep us afloat!
$600 of $920 goal this week raised
$420 still needed - can you help?

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The I-20 West from Texas to California is peaceful and very beautiful.

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