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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. #CozyGroveCampSpirit

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

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

We call them gym shoes round here.

Human	Not Immortal. Really.
Location	In far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner Image	Fall 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.
Toots	Toots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.

Jimijamflimflam 9m ago

I’ve missed a lot of news this week as I’ve been working in that flood ravaged orchard in the Motueka Valley that was featured on TV last weekend. I’ve been clearing flood debris from the fruit trees.
Note that I’ve caught up a little one item “amused” me, and that’s the campaign by Federated Farmers to get the public to donate a fence post to them to go to farmers for restoration of their properties. The thought that one of the worst organisations for dodging the responsibility of its industry for its part in causing climate change is now looking for charity to help repair the damage of climate change is a bit rich.

Jimijamflimflam 10m ago

It's Going Down 6h ago

Free the Spokane 9.

"The arrests in #Spokane — not the first time in recent weeks that the government has aggressively gone after anyone involved in resisting the ICE raids — are a window into how this police state plans to operate."

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-protesters-arrested-spokane-20250717.html

The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along.

Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane, Wash., reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jimijamflimflam 12m ago

I’m pretty sure that the ladies there made me blush too.😂

Jimijamflimflam 46m ago

Indeed! I like the way you put that. 😊

Jimijamflimflam 47m ago

Weiner Circle in Chicago. Used to go there after hitting up the Laugh Factory or Kingston Mines. Back in the fricking mid-90’s. I’m talking with my spouse’s (younger) cousin, an Oak Park native who is all like, wait, wtf, way back then? I’m like yup, used to drive down there from the Aragon brawl room after shows occasionally too. I can’t remember most of the joints we used to stop at in the late 80’s after shows. As I was a far-West suburban kid, the names didn’t stick.

#Chicago #hotdogs

Jimijamflimflam 55m ago

@Jimijamflimflam

This is the true lifestyle, isn't it? I also love and enjoy such moments mostly on kayak/canoe hiking tours in the club. You can't buy true luxury for money, you just have to know how to enjoy it ..
👍

Jimijamflimflam 1h ago

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops 2d ago

Taught some pinball repair classes a few times. During tournaments we'd bring in techs from all over, but we RAN OUT AND HAD TO GROW OUR OWN, so I started off with coils and power supplies and how-the-hell-do-an-electron-go, y'know, the fundamentals.

Did a quick bit on bridge rectifiers and smoothing caps and coil drive transistors and then held up one of these lads and said right let's fix one of these and everyone, all these pinball teching newbies, took this Indrawn Breath because HOLY SHIT JUST LOOK AT IT, you mean we gotta UNDERSTAND that?

I said don't worry. The biggest, most complicated, most intimidating system you can think of, is made out of smaller, simpler systems, and then those systems are themselves made out of even smaller, simpler systems, until you get right down to stuff that's very understandable and very fixable by the average person, and if all the little easy bits work then the big complicated thing has no choice but to work.

I'm posting this now because someone just called that post "philosophy" and it's not philosophy it's just literally how pinball machines work lol

Jimijamflimflam 1h ago

AI6YR Ben 4h ago

Head's up, the "you must confirm your profile" scam is proliferating on the Fediverse. I wonder if they are trying to gather driver's licenses and credit card numbers? It's a scam.

#scam #MastoAdmin #cybersecurity

Jimijamflimflam 1h ago

bythehandofbob 10h ago

Today is the birthday of Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler of Black Sabbath (bassist and writer). So here is a sketch page that may or may not be related to that fact.

Jimijamflimflam 1h ago

Astronomy Picture of the Day 1d ago

The Rosette Nebula from DECam

Image Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) & M. Zamani

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250716.html #APOD

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

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Butts

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#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
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Corvettes everywhere

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

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
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All Toranas should be painted in In Your Face colours

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Always good to get a mix of makes and marques

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

This Buick RIviera was a piece of art. Check out the engraved bumpers.

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

I see Fiata, I take photo of Fiata @Ali

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#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

The only time I've come across an Ariel Atom with registration plates they've all been NSW ones. I wonder if you can even register them in my state.

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

This Merc was looking well cared for

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

I find Miata, I take photo of Miata @Ali

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

I love an unmolested RX-7, so rare now.

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Hot rods departing

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

That Buick is just amazing

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

This Mercury was looking very nice

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Some Audi porn!

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

Took some last shots of Harry and then we toodled on home

#Cars
#CarShow
#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars

/endthread

Bob O'Shaughnessy 1d ago

@vwdasher Makes notes to self to get pinstripe job if I ever get a boattail Riviera.

@Oshaughnessy it just works!

@vwdasher That Mazda RX4 is just as amazing imo.

@captainb I was hovering around and around trying to get some decent shots but the owner and others kept standing in front of it! God dammit, so this is all I could get. Bastards.

🇵🇸16h ago

@vwdasher But still it looks gorgeous.

@captainb It does but it needed better photos

Make Subaru Gay Again 3d ago

@vwdasher #brown

LoseFriends_AlienatePeople 3d ago

When did Corvettes turn from cool cars to old man cars

@LoseFriends_AlienatePeople 😆 all the original owners aged

Ben Foote 3d ago

@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

neverbeaten 3d ago

@vwdasher
Someone at work drives this… beauty?

@neverbeaten fantastic! I bet they grin every time they get in!

Coach Pāṇini ®2d ago

@neverbeaten @vwdasher @assaf

This person is #winning at life

@neverbeaten @vwdasher

OMG, I love it. Unironically.

Save on gas by pulling it back really far to wind up the spring before you 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.