Jimijamflimflam

@Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social
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I’m Jimi.

I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.

#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.

Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.

We call them gym shoes round here.

HumanNot Immortal. Really.
LocationIn far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner ImageFall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky.
TootsToots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.
#3115 - Unsolved Physics Problems

I was a labourer in the fruit industry in canada for a decade. I migrated to BC, picked apples, cherries, tended vinyards etc. 1990s.

The wages were still from 1979.

The locals were often rude. The children of the people who ran the fruit industry were often spoiled, and apathetic & frankly unable to do the work their parents paid people like me to do.

I got squeezed out for TFWs because the farmers could pay them even less, AND charge them rent for living on the land they worked.

"Monday’s [SCOTUS] ruling would be offensive to the rule of law in any scenario, but for Chief Justice John Roberts, in particular, to do so in a case involving the Education Department, in particular, it is little more than ... laughing in the face of Americans and the rule of law."

This evening, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-allows-education-dept-dismantling

The Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling

Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it." Also: In two Sunday essays, a contrasting reality of this moment.

Law Dork

This headline is ridiculous. The US is currently cracking down on the people who harvest US tomatoes and sending them to a swamp concentration camp with no representation and due process, and publicly hoping people get eaten by alligators.

#politics

Did you know? A large part of the Education Department’s job is enforcing regulations and providing funding and services that states cannot or refuse to. — Anyone claiming states will do what the Department of Education does is blatantly lying to your face.
Another thing that I think we are LONG overdue at doing is politicizing PTAs. This just gave us the opportunity to do teach-ins at PTAs about what SCOTUS just stole from parents.
Like complete histories of everything *ever* submitted electronically.
A Denver dinosaur museum finds a fossil deep under its own parking lot

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display. The find happened when the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was drilling to study possible geothermal heat for the building. Museum experts say retrieving part of a dinosaur vertebra from the narrow hole was extraordinarily unlikely, but it happened. They believe it came from a smallish, plant-eating dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago. They say only two such finds are previously documented in the world. The hockey-puck-shaped fossil sample is now on display in the museum.

AP News

I cut this image out of a sale catalogue years ago. Never been able to find its source since (and I have tried a lot!).

If you know where it is from, I'd be thrilled to find out.

Beer brewing from planting all the way to over drinking the product then being laughed at?

Which doesn’t help sourcing it, sorry.

@jdmccafferty

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Took Harry to a little cars & coffee last Sunday. There was a huge show going on in another suburb but wasn't in the mood for the traffic and crush so went to this instead. Nice wintery morning.

🧵 (a little one)

#Cars #CarShow #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCars

This Cadillac El Dorado was crazy

#Cars #CarShow #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCars

I love a panel van. Work horses, but still loved and restored.

#Cars #CarShow #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCars

Just a couple of MGs hanging out

#Cars #CarShow #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCars

You just don't see this style of fibreglass seventies mods happening in Bugs any more. Check the Torana taillights.

#Cars #CarShow #WeirdCarMastodon #ClassicCars #VW

This Beetle just hanging out

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Wandered inside to see what was for sale

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Weirdly have the same as my friend - a Moke and a Mini Clubman.

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

A Smart Fortwo! I hadn't seen one in ages then saw a red one recently and now this one.

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Not sure what the hustle is but I hope it gets them something younger than a worn out Commodore

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

When did Corvettes turn from cool cars to old man cars
@LoseFriends_AlienatePeople 😆 all the original owners aged

@vwdasher Need to modify that thing with a Hyabusa engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgwzHJo3IXM

Smart Car with Hayabusa Turbo Engine! Smart Hayabusa Donuts and Burnout, Brutal Exhaust Sound!

YouTube
@vwdasher
Someone at work drives this… beauty?
@neverbeaten fantastic! I bet they grin every time they get in!
@vwdasher Euro butts of Woodland Hills #weirdcarmastodon
@slirt awwww that Pug is delightful!
@vwdasher the QR code in the pic will launch vintage racing video, incl. car & owner!
@slirt look at all those wonderful adventures its been on, how fantastic.
@vwdasher some things are better left in the past.

@vwdasher

Had a mate with an XP van. He lost the pin that holds the gear lever in. Every time you wanted to change gear you'd have to pick the lever up off the seat and stick it back in the slot.

Except when you'd been cruising for a while and the lever had fallen under the seat 😳

@vwdasher
Cool panel van...we didn't get those here.
@samuraiplumber no panel vans and utes were truly an Australian thing

@vwdasher

I could graze 3 horses on that amount of sheet metal.🤫

Wild old bus. 😎

@Arapalla insanely looooooooong