Kyle Memoir 🍉

Current events, politics, images, lit, music, movies, art, aviation (lapsed PPL), travel, science/tech, cats, dogs, nature, cycling. Happiest under a hat & behind a lens or on a bike, drum kit or guitar. Greyhound rescue home. BLM. Slava Ukraini! Friend of LGBTQ+. Lived corporate IT/ Projects / Strategic Sourcing 30+ years—loved/hated it. I follow stochastically—a bio and a few resonant posts help tip the scale. ADHD+ive. CDN/SW Ontario.

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2025-05-01 17:11:09

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972 has been a lonely voice.

2025-04-30 12:08:27

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I'm so tired of low-effort macros/close-ups...
But the soft pastels and diffuse light here make this image a success - an uncommon accomplishment in the genre.
Lovely.

2025-04-29 18:36:40

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Love it.

2025-04-28 11:54:52

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Picture your child here.

2025-04-28 11:03:05

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Gaza has become this century's Guernica.
A template for what's to come.
We are behind thin walls, the rest of us, watching, pretending not to see.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
#gaza #guernica

2025-04-24 15:49:30

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Brought to you by Joe Biden, Donald Trump, AIPAC, a battered subservient mainstream media, 'social' network-curated newsfeeds, and the hardworking taxpayers of the United States of America.
Freedom, y'all.

2025-04-18 19:27:39

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Well dang. Been there twice and it never occurred to me one could go up the thing.

2025-04-16 23:47:11

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This is why the death penalty sought for Mangione.
Not condoning what he did, but it was a stick in the eye to these people, expressing power, threatening their privilege, but most outrageously & offensively, reminding them where the wealth they enjoy originates.
The downstairs folk are not meant to speak, most especially those of an aspiring Crown.

2025-04-15 16:00:28

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A pleasantly brief & readable essay on a topic already wearying.
What predictive-text-on-steroids AI lacks as well is the fully-immersed physical, emotional, and real-time physically-responsive experience of a live human being, the level and quality of sensory input, and the full response of a living nervous system connected to a living body.
Doubtless the engineers are working on that.
#ai

2025-04-14 13:09:57

@npub1fdr…lvhs
Seen this?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

2025-04-14 00:14:43

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Indeed.
The hypocrisy and the assumption of general stupidity out there.
I do believe most people get it.
But I think of my own career pre-retirement. I'd likely have been fired or sidelined for speaking out as I do now.
I did then on Crackmayor Rob Ford and much other nonsense, but here the state has asserted its power, and it is not to be trifled with by those with families to support.
They have successfully muzzled where they've not been able to corrupt.

2025-04-13 23:55:42

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It remains astonishing that Israel and its IDF—after all the slaughter and destruction, now morphing into forced desiccation and starvation—still pretend to be frightened rabbits ('pussies' some would call them) before the bogeyman of 'Hamas.'
How is possible the smartest people on earth, with billions upon US billions in money and weaponry pouring in, haven't yet put down a ragtag rebellion from a bunch of dirt poor fenced-in prisoners?
#fascism = #incompetence

2025-04-12 21:56:31

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Hell on earth.
Israel of all nations on earth surely stands against this human-inflicted mass suffering.
Yes?
No?

2025-04-12 11:58:57

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Trump more reminds me of the first officer who locked his captain out of the flight deck and deliberately aimed the aircraft into the ground with hundreds of souls aboard.
Less CFIT via honest error than manifeststion of insanity.

2025-04-11 00:12:51

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No deadline, matter thrown back to lower court to hash out spurious issue over two immaterial (except to rascals) words.

2025-04-10 22:05:55

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I'm about to watch S1E2 and have been wondering: is this exploitative TV? Or do the subjects appreciate what's funny, touching, etc.?
Wonder if that comes up anywhere along the way? I want to watch more. I can relate to much of the halting emotional gaps and bursts...

2025-04-10 17:45:54

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If it can be done there, it can be done here.
This is everyone's issue.

2025-04-07 19:49:50

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Routine business, or how else could we have got to 50k dead so quickly?

2025-03-18 15:25:32

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Much of the world appears to approve of Israel’s IDF mass-murdering Gazans in the name of Judaism—or at least not to give a damn.
Apart from the obscene carnage inflicted upon civilians already cut off from aid, how unfortunate as well for those Israeli Jews and Jews of the diaspora who have managed to retain their humanity and who continue to stand against the US-enabled and US-funded barbarism of the current Netanyahu administration.

2025-03-11 01:45:03

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I’m Canadian.
I don’t want to gloat.
We all just want this infantile nonsense to end.
The midterms are coming.
Members of Congress all have phones.
You have millions of votes.
Yes, voting is crap, but so is getting in a lifeboat after your man drives the ship into ice.
Please, please, America, don’t miss what may be your last chance…

2024-12-12 00:53:21

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What a wall of talk. At what time is the actual event under discussion presented?

2024-12-10 12:52:46

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USA-endorsed, all of it.
Ukraine given aid, but handcuffed.
Nuclear-armed Isreal free to act as it pleases, come what may.

2024-11-27 16:06:17

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“What the Biden administration has done is the opposite. They’ve always hesitated, always delayed, always placed limits. So it conveys to Putin that we don’t really have the resolve, or the will, or the capacity.”
Biden to a ‘t’. Another of his enormously damaging global strategic failures.
2/2

2024-11-27 16:04:55

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spot on:
“I hope what Trump does is tell Putin not only to stop the war but if you don’t, we’re going let Ukraine borrow as much money as they need, and they can buy whatever they want to buy, and use it however they want to use it. That would be the right message to convey to Putin that Ukraine and the West are in a position of strength compared to Russia and they can outlast them.”
1/2

2024-11-21 16:40:42

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‘First and foremost, Harris could have chosen to allow a Palestinian American to speak to the pain of [that] people and nation at the Democratic National Convention.’
She and the Dems disgraced themselves with this misfire.
I’ve wondered lately if Harris’s run was fully ‘consensual’ or did Biden pressure her into it & announce so rapidly to prevent the Dem estab. from having a proper say after insisting he step aside.
Harris seemed relieved to have lost.

2024-11-20 23:21:35

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Post of the day.

2024-11-19 01:52:37

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So is ‘cunt’.

2024-11-17 03:03:15

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‘Arbeit macht frei,’ wasn’t it?

2024-11-15 12:41:16

#CBC pretends this is fresh news:
‘a report released by the mayor's office earlier this week, compiled with significant input from police investigators, indicates it was Israeli fans who initiated the first attacks, which then spiralled’
‘One widely shared video taken at some point after sunset shows a large group of Maccabi fans entering an Amsterdam metro station and shouting racist slogans, including "Let the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] win" and "F--k the Arabs."’
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amsterdam-israeli-soccer-fans-violence-1.7383558

2024-11-12 18:26:45

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Then politicians should stfu about ‘uniting’ and let’s not year you complaining when we have a Poilievre majority.
Y’all deserve everything you get, libs and dippers alike.

2024-11-12 16:28:11

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How come the professional ‘uniters’ of Canadians out there (our well-paid—by us—political elites) can’t get their act together and at least unite a majority of us under one tent?
Why cannot Liberals and NDP play nice for the nation’s benefit?

2024-11-12 01:00:26

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Useful reading.
And kinda scary when we see survival depends on doing the right thing now, today.

2024-11-10 19:49:58

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Does anyone think Trump is going to respect that border the moment it doesn’t happen to serve him?
We are alone up here, otherwise bordering oceans, our population about on par with California’s and a military about as menacing as the Vatican’s.
We sit on a wealth of natural resources, both common and scarce; we’re an energy supplier to the world. We have access to more fresh water than perhaps any other nation on Earth.
One might as well hole up in a paper bag.

2024-11-06 20:18:50

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In plain language: we’ve elected the modern-day equivalent of a 1930’s Jew-hating fascist party.
Except this time women and people of colour are the ‘new Jews.’
Let’s not mince words.

2024-10-24 17:38:20

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Reminds of another fave quotation:
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. - Flashman (George MacDonald Fraser)

2024-10-19 00:49:04

Time for some fall Stratford pics.
#Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #alttext
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/331/266/834/219/658/original/2df164abe067b24d.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/331/266/955/493/210/original/650fb957470d675e.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/331/267/245/030/591/original/f28133503eb8c0b6.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/331/266/685/752/534/original/d85d5b8372de33f7.jpeg

2024-10-13 14:52:41

#SilentSunday
Photo mine from G2G rail trail #canada
Amazing how they were able to shrink those huge steam locomotives to fit through tiny openings like the one off in the distance at the end of the trail, no?
#steam #railway #photography #cycling #notsosilent
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/300/634/128/158/609/original/70515d07cb324a82.jpeg

2024-10-06 12:15:07

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What a shit-hole.
Same as the West.
One can find all this and more here, too.
If you're a privileged/blind Westerner this might be shocking.
If you're at least partially compos mentis, you'll know how fast we're racing to catch up with the great contemporary Russian dictator.
Our leaders envy his freedom, not yours or mine.
We're meat in either system; the shelf life of meat in Russia is merely shorter at present, with far more cheaper cuts available.

2024-10-03 22:23:56

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Israeli fascism has captured America’s brain and so will get away with this iron-gloved, US-funded slap at humanity.
(And we wonder how Trump could happen—are people really that stupid, we ask.
Yeah, we are.)
We—the bulk of people in our nations—eat Israeli messaging by the bag. Same as any GOP or Dem seeking votes while terrified of being tagged ‘antisemitic’.
Or just don’t give a crap.
Turn off the news so we won’t be stressed…
#complicity #genocide

2024-09-29 22:10:21

The United States looks on powerlessly as nuke-armed fascist Israel goes rogue.
Meanwhile, civilized nations are appalled.
They might as well be shooting you next.
Blowing up your children; crushing the sick and elderly. Destroying hospitals, schools, humanitarian efforts.
Israel excels at this stuff.
It’s their speciality.
And anything can be rationalized when subhuman ‘animals’ and ‘vermin’* get in the way of zealots.
* Israeli senior leadership words.
#israel

2024-09-29 12:20:04

Israel calls upon United Nations to formally declare Palestinians, Lebanese, all other Arabic people, ‘animals’ and ‘vermin’.
‘They must all be destroyed,’ Israeli leaders insist, ‘to secure and protect the holy sanctity of Judaism, the world’s only legitimate religion, and the only one that ought to be permitted the unfettered right to commit genocide and the exercise of total racial superiority.’
US officials plan to support the resolution.
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/israel-seeks-to-dismantle-unrwa-erase-palestinian-refugee-status-18213181
#israel #genocide

2024-09-23 16:25:57

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Guess what other infamous fascist-led nation shut down the free press when it got in the way of a genocide and the projection of superiority and dominance…

2024-09-20 00:47:13

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It’s not just the guns.
It’s gun thinking, and gun worship.
This guy was God for a moment in his own impossibly tiny little world. With his big manly gun, of course.
For him it was worth it.
Guns & little boys.

2024-09-09 09:43:16

"The industry says providing deeply affordable housing is not its job."
Seeing to the needs of human beings is never a corporation's job.
The corporation's role is to fuck you in the ass as hard and long as it can, same as #dougford
https://www.cbc.ca/news/financialized-landlord-higher-rents-canada-1.7307015
#housing #canada #cndpoli #onpoli

2024-07-31 21:32:30

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Ry Cooder named an album ‘I Flathead’ that includes this track:
https://youtu.be/Bt1ZBrNgAXc

2024-04-06 12:33:21

One man’s awakening:
Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
1/
#environment #climatechange #politics