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BrisVegas

@BrisVegas@aus.social

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Barely old enough to appreciate Kate Bush the first time around, and still have a soft spot for 90’s girls bands (zigga zig ahhh!) Dads to a one-eyed rescue dog called Bertie and an elderly rescue Chihuahua called Louie.  Interested in wearable tech, and starting many projects but never finishing them.  Partnered for 23 years.  Be kind - remember, everyone is somebody’s child 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧🇦🇺 #KateBush #LGBTQIA+ #DogRescue #TransRights #BlackLivesMatter #Atheist

Pixelfed

https://pixelfed.social/BrisVegas

BrisVegas Jan 23

@marcoarment I was thinking exactly the same thing - Apple kissing Trumps ring was vile and disgusting. Steve would never have stopped so low. Seriously making me rethink my ecosystem and move away from Apple.

BrisVegas Jan 23

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

BrisVegas Jan 23

Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson Jan 23

#Tesla #Hitler #meme

BrisVegas Jan 21

@JoshuaHolland in Australia, he is what we colloquially refer to, as a cunt.

BrisVegas Jan 16

I spent most of a decade traveling to authoritarian countries and teaching people how to circumvent internet censorship. I am appalled that this is now something I have to do in the US.

BrisVegas Jan 16

@macrumors anybody going to ask him why Apple donated $1million to Trump inauguration. Shameful and disgusting

BrisVegas Jan 16

Democracy Matters

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

Fortune

BrisVegas Jan 16

I’ve been trying out Bluesky, but I just can’t get into it.
It doesn’t have the same vibe or interactions that Mastodon has - it’s a bit of a peculiar place tbh, kinda like a Stepford Wives place 😑

BrisVegas Jul 27, 2024

Your weekly Sunday reminder: Your religion prevents YOU from doing things, not others. Keep that mumbo-jumbo shit to yourself.

Here endeth the sermon 🤭

BrisVegas Jul 27, 2024

Augie Ray Jul 27, 2024

A Christian family member just posted an apology to God that the opening Olympics ceremony used an image of da Vinci's Last Supper. I've never once seen her apologize for most American Christians supporting a lying, unethical, dangerous, narcissistic, adulterer who violates every tenet of her faith.

I do not understand faith that is obsessed with the meaningless and not the vital. Stop obsessing over symbols and start raising your voice about what matters in our spiritual and physical world.

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Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

Gregor Kalinkat Jan 23

@mike
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Doug Baker - Elbows Up!Jan 23

@mike Sending her a card (actually MAILING IT!) thanking her for her courage. "Speaking truth to power" is almost an empty cliche now - god knows #MSM isn't doing it. I'm not a religious person but I support her and her injunction 100%.

Georgiann Baldino Jan 23

@mike
GOP congressman wants bishop ‘added to deportation list’ after Trump prayer service

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/gop-congressman-wants-bishop-added-to-deportation-list-after-trump-prayer-service/ar-AA1xFWIG

MSN

Ash_Crow Jan 23

@obtener @mike deported to where? New Jersey?

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@Ash_Crow @obtener I'm he's thought it through in detail.

@obtener @mike "deportation" of people that don't agree with you was all the rage 80 years ago... in some places it still is, and apparently it's all the rage now in the "Land of the Free" as well.

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@drchaos @obtener It's funny, for YEARS we've had TV shows with names name "The Nazis: a Warning From History" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nazis:_A_Warning_from_History but we've treated them as entertainment rather than actual warnings.

The Nazis: A Warning from History - Wikipedia

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@drchaos @obtener "funny"

@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE Jan 23

@mike this is the funniest post I have seen for a long time. Actually Laughed Out Loud. Thank you for brightening my day!

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@NovaNaturalist Glad to help! (Only passing on someone else's joke, though.)

Tim Hergert Jan 23

Justin M Jan 23

@mike 😆. That was the laugh I needed this morning.

Margaret Sefton Jan 23

@mike Absolutely. Who has the power, baby. haha. Best take ever.

Pelican Dock Music Jan 23

yeah, the whole 4d chess propaganda is just to slop the base

just small circles 🕊Jan 23

@mike not in 1D chess however.

Moka Blissful [he/fae]Jan 23

@mike yet he's afraid to even move forward because he fears being struck en passant.

ferricoxide Jan 23

@mike

And can only move directly forward (except when taking another piece).

Friede Freude 《🕊🙃🥞》Jan 23

@mike
But he is cheating in chess too.

@mike just Jesus in a church

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@Cordell1 Exactly. Most self-identified American Christians would HATE Jesus if they met him.

@mike tyvm. im just learning

@mike tyvm

Bill Zaumen Jan 23

@mike Very funny, but as a "point of order", a pawn can move two squares at a time for
its first move, and only one square at a time after that. A pawn can also move diagonally when capturing
another pawn.

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@bzdev More appositely, if all the circumstances fall *just so* a pawn can become a monarch 😠

Two squares on day 1 though. And if he makes it to the end he can transition to a Queen

Mike Taylor 🦕Jan 23

@felix That's beautiful 🙂

Josh “Space Phrasing” Cubert Jan 23

@mike @kevinrns Yes except for his opening move or during en passant which is when WHY DOESNT HE GO AWAY?!?

@mike well played, Sir 🥰

booyaahedron 🆗Jan 24

@mike https://icosahedron.website/@booyaa/113884549612183217

booyaahedron 🆗 (@booyaa@icosahedron.website)

Attached: 4 images “Budde vs Trump” - story behind the print in the thread . First Open Session at the new Norwich Printmaking Hub. Finally got to use my chess type that I bought from the Jeremy Winkworth. . Took an age to sort out the type: black/white squares, white pieces on black/white squares and black pieces black/white squares). Thank goodness the workshop had a pair of compositing tweezers otherwise I’d really struggle my fingers are just too stubby! . Made a school boy error and forgot the chess board would be reversed so yes it’s the wrong way around . The type is 18pt Stephenson . 🏷️ #printmakersofmastodon #letterpress #chess

Icosahedron

@mike @luciedigitalni
As a pawn he can also (back-)stab people in passing

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