𝚫rakakis 🇨🇦

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Wise, grey, mesomorph
QC-NFLD-Greek
#INFP
🎓: 🧠ology & 📰ism
Gratefully retired
#HealthCare executive; 📝&🎶 writer;
aid and counsel to the
#Homeless #Blind #Disabled;
O&M
👨‍🦯instructor; jack of many archaic trades.
Anarcho-liberal-socialist-non-partisan-sanearchist
#COPD #LongCovid Covid score: 💉5-2🦠

#fedi22 #Resist #Antifa #SlavaUkraini

That big bar on my activity chart is the import of >2,600 posts from my Masto account. I'd skip over it or smush it down, but I don't control that. So I'll just wait til the timeline passes.
Mastodon (via Elk)https://elk.zone/universeodon.com/@drakakis
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Present homeOttawa - unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people
BornMontreal
Had a dream last night. All about guitars. In great detail, although I haven't really played much since my second daughter was born.

My old Yamaha G, my Yama electro cutaway, my Pyramid hard body, my Fender acoustic, the Takamine electro my roommate broke, the pawn shop classical I played on top of the box-car in Alberta.

They are all gone ... somewhere. I Still hear the twang, and I'm tempted to get yet another, but I can't afford the rent for a single in this retirement home and I know it would just stand in the corner like
Chrysanthi did for the last few years.

It's a love you never lose, though.
I just spent 3 minutes on Twitter and lost 5 minutes of my life. It's all ads now from late night TV. And musk-adoration and tech bros pretending to be muscle bros. And somewhat coherent RW essays on the decline of Christian civilization. And all the reasons Wanda wants you ...
It ain't Twitter, or even Mastodon. It's Calckey. Try it.
Thermonator Flamethrower Robot Dog for some ungawdly reason ...


https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/ #BlackMirror
Thermonator

Thermonator is the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog. This quadruped is coupled with the ARC Flamethrower to deliver on-demand fire anywhere

Throwflame.com
Well, that was an intriguely freaky season finale.



#From #TV #trakt
Q&A: The Fogo Island Inn is 10 years old. Its builder, Todd Saunders, thinks it could last for 500 more | CBC News

*A true architectural marvel, right up there on Joe Batt's Arm, not 10 kilometers from where my Mother took her first steps.* - Δράκ

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fogo-island-10-years-1.6884544

#Newfoundland #Fogo
Q&A: The Fogo Island Inn is 10 years old. Its builder, Todd Saunders, thinks it could last for 500 more | CBC News

The Fogo Island Inn is celebrating a decade of standing  — and standing out — in Newfoundland and Labrador.

CBC

NEWSFLASH: Russia wracked by rebellion; Putin denounces “treason” in emergency speech

https://counteroffensive.substack.com/p/newsflash-russia-wracked-by-rebellion?publication_id=1547592&post_id=130712418&isFreemail=true

Paywall Removed

The war in Ukraine has sparked a mortal challenge to Putin’s regime: the armed mercenaries at the #WagnerGroup, led by #YevgenyPrigozhin, are now in open rebellion. The British Ministry of Defense called the latest developments "the most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times." According to Wagner Telegram channel claims and contemporaneous videos, they have seized the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don. That city is a critical site for the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. ...

NEWSFLASH: Russia wracked by rebellion; Putin denounces “treason” in emergency speech

The Wagner Group has seized territory in Russia and is trying to remove the nation’s military leadership from power. The UK assesses that the mercenaries, now on the move, are trying to get to Moscow.

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
Families tend to get bigger. This is mine (nuclear) circa 2000. We've lost a couple since then, but gained more.
I dreamt about my Dad last night night. I may have remembered that it was Father's Day but I think it was just coincidence. I dream about him as often as I do any living person, after all.

He was the Avatar for the Greatest Generation. 2nd Gen Canadian, raised in the depression, dirt poor, volunteered for combat in WWII, survived and qualified for veterans benefits, graduated McGill University (1st graduate in his family) where he met my Mom. And so on, and so on ...

Three kids, many grandchildren, several suburban homes and successful careers later, he retired. A life well lived. Perfect? No. He had more than few nagging doubts. Not about his family, but about the world. But none of us can carry that weight ...

I miss you, Dad. I am so, so grateful.

#Antifa forever
Drakakis just watched

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2x09 "Ball of Magic Fire"