Nils Skirnir

AUS/USA citizen. Now resident in Japan. Old. Spouse. Father. Grandpa. Veteran. Runner. Social Democrat. Did some stuff. Got old. Retired. Run much, much slower 
Orwell was an optimist, the world the over-wealthy have planned for us is closer to Soylent Green, rather than 1984. In the book 1984, folks at least had food.
Do the #era and do it right this time!!
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Boost others liberally!!
#disabled combat #veteran
#Baystars fan

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@therightarticle

Yes - I recently followed up the source of one of these media stories about the 'exodus' of UK millionaires - it was New World Wealth - which seems to be a one-man-band using a co-working space in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a 'GoDaddy' website - and if you click on its 'Britain's Wealth Exodus' report link it just takes you to a press release from last October from a 'wealth migration' consultancy (trying to encourage migration for obvious business reasons).

Nothing about the story has any journalistic credibility at all, as far as I can see.

And that's, of course, leaving aside the really big unsupported assumptions in such views - the two biggest being:
1. That tax from the wealthy 'pays for' public services (it doesn't - it just mitigates inflationary pressure, which is also accomplished by the wealthy leaving the country), and
2. That the wealthy living in the UK means they invest productively in the UK (but by and large, in fact they don't - indeed their UK 'investments' are likely to be in unproductive assets like property and shares, etc, already in circulation, so tending generally to make most UK residents poorer).

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Sean KleefeldSKleefeld
2025-03-22

I suppose an is in order. I write a lot about and comics fandom. My book on was nominated for Eisner Award in 2021. I also do the "Incidental Iconography" column for Jack Kirby Collector and I blog at KleefeldonComics.com.

I've got a day job, too, but you don't want to hear about that.

Bloomsbury Comics Studies: Webcomics by Sean Kleefeld. The first critical guide to cover the history, form and key critical issues of the medium, Webcomics helps readers explore the diverse and increasingly popular worlds of online comics.
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴HistoPol
2025-03-21

@simon

(1/n)

() has a 10% probability of causing an Extinction Level Event for humanity (1)

Thanks for this additional piece of information, Simon.

It reminded me that I had wanted to add a word in my toot: indelibly.

As any aficionado will tell you:
there should be a built-in self-destruct mechanism when tampering with these Laws or copying or moving the to another system.

Another classic movie comes to mind in this respect, ...

Image of a scene from the movie #IRobot with #WillSmith in which 4 robots with have deactivated the Laws of Robotics attac a futuristic Audi and tear it to pieces, the audience knowing that Smith is in the car, but he cannot be seen in this picture.

Source:
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/zz18WMZTzYOjKQqnGIs0eBA7Zo3.jpg
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2025-03-20

@pamela And lots of love to people who put every edge case (as well as their doom scrolling) behind content warnings. We see you and we appreciate you!

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Valerie Sonh :verigold:ValerieSonh@masto.ai
2025-03-19

(Re)introducing myself: I love #sci-fi, #politics, #news, #music, and #technology. I write #fiction and non-fiction (as my health allows) and previously worked as a teacher. I'm #disabled and closely follow health news. My politics are "left but not liberal"; I'm inclined towards #mutualism but have many #ML friends. #Introduction

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2025-03-19

Sleepy start to the day. Hope everyone has a good day!

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Katrina Katrinka :donor:katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-03-19

Hey, #Utah!

We have a Mastodon starter pack here: fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

If I follow you, but you're not in the pack, either your account settings don't allow me to link to you (see the FAQ fedidevs.com/faq/) or I don't know you're in/related to #Utah.

If you're on this list and not in/related to #Utah or don't want to be on the list, please tell me and I'll remove you.
#Utah #utpol #Utahn #SaltLakeCity #SaltLake

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Mark McDonaldmmcd
2025-03-16

If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.

Spock from Star Trek
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Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰InfoDumpTruck
2025-03-16

Once you realize how many evil people are operating solely on selfish instinct, and how many powerful organizations are a result of this, it explains so much, and you see it everywhere. From dictators and billionaires, to cults, to your worst family member and their "friends", they are the biggest thing holding humanity back from unimaginable progress. Possibly the only thing. Utopia is within reach, but they keep swatting our hands away. And we keep letting them. We HAVE to stop it.

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craque sprung 🏳️‍🌈dtauvdiodr@c.im
2025-03-16

CRAQUE
RA:RE:
REMIXES

Now available!

Rare remixes, reconstructions, recombinations, reworks, and reconfigurations by Craque.

It's only $5 for 17 songs because only five of them are remixes of original material. Music and sound that inspired me to dig deeper from Johnny Marr, Logreybeam, Twerk, Proswell, Ilkae, Christopher Willits, and more!!

#craque #remixes #idm #techno #house #dub #abstract #AlgorithmicComposition #DarkElectro #ExperimentalMusic

craque.bandcamp.com/album/ra-r

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Greys for Racial Ambiguity 🎹Davi_Dblees@mastodon.world
2025-03-16

US secessionists (and Canadian allies)!: While the new management is hell bent on destroying things, now is probably a really good time to spread the notion that 'Trump's idea' of "kicking out the blue states" for being too woke would somehow make the rich richer and of course "the libs" would hate it. Not that we'd want the jerkass to do anything impulsive now, would we?

#uspol #uspolitics

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2025-03-16

This is Walter, named for Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears. It’s a 1966 Chevy half ton pickup truck purchased for $360 by my oldest son Ryan in 2000 when we lived in Kansas. He was 14, had his learner’s permit and had money he earned delivering newspapers and mowing lawns. I had to teach him the fine art of shifting a “three on the tree.” After Ryan was KIA in Iraq, Walter was restored to how Ryan planned to have it done. I take it to car shows when possible because my boy would if he could.

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LAUREN :bacall_fire:noondlyt@hellions.cloud
2025-03-15

Dance like no one's filming you on a trail cam.

Original video by David Neils
(different music)
‪wildnaturemedia.com/‬

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Phil Dennis-Jordan 😷pmdj@mstdn.social
2025-03-13
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Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-03-12
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Guys I’m trying to help but there’s only so many times I can not buy a Tesla. I’m not buying a Tesla every day right now.

#USpol

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Antho or Whatever 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🇯🇵AnthoDerv@famichiki.jp
2025-03-11

Intro post:
Was having serious login problems on previous server, so here I am.
Former Twitter celebrity, Aussie in Kobe, gay & buff (apparently), married to an amazing Japanese guy (who teaches Japanese online)!
I'm a freelance J>E translator (+ some-time editor, writer, tour guide). Tea ceremony practitioner, kanji& language nerd.
DJ (80s synthpop, 70s disco, House + whatever I like)
Embrace diversity!
:hyogo: :69: :doge_horny_jail: :benishoga: :hentai:

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