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  1. @BobCollins

    The peculiarly USAnian institution of the Home Owners' Association (HOA) (I'm Canadian) is notoriously filled with the kind of busybody Mussolini/Franco-wannabe dictators and martinets that want nothing more than to (a) be all up in everyone else's business, and (b) be upset about it.

    They get on the boards (no one else wants to be on them), and they set crazy control-freak rules [1] like:

    No vehicles parked on street.
    No vehicles parked in driveways outside the hours of 8am - 6pm.
    No flags allowed.
    No advertising allowed, including company branding on vehicles parked in the neighbourhood.
    All yards must be covered with lawn consisting of approved grass seed types and be maintained between 2 and 3 inches long at all times.
    All windows must have blinds or drapes that show white to the outside.
    Only the colours of these three approved paint chips may be used to paint fences with.
    All houses must be stucco of one of these 3 approved colours.
    House numbers must be displayed in this approved font, and be between X and Y inches high.
    No overnight guests without advanced approval.

    ... and on and on and on. And then they go around the neighbourhood looking for violators to report to the board (that they're on) for punishment and correction.

    It's downright nutty.

    [1] These are all examples I've seen online.

    #busybody #martinet #Mussolini #Franco #dictator #control #ControlFreak

  2. @GroupNebula563 @BobCollins @nocontexttrek

    You are very much saying "you're internetting wrong", and you think I'm the rude one.

    #plonk

  3. More on Southwest Airlines.

    "I’ve never seen an airline–or almost any business, really–blow up their brand and do so voluntarily the way that Southwest has. This is just another way they’ve become customer-unfriendly, virtually overnight. And it’s an example of one way they used to offer a better experience than competitors, and now do not," wrote View From the Wing's Gary Leff.



  4. Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, is at it again.

    First, it was madated Return-To-Office full-time. The corporate order was for all employees to go to AN office full-time.

    His new order has him commanding employees go to specific offices, full-time.

  5. We really lost a great company to the greed of a hedge fund. RIP Southwest Airlines. Our country's short-term greed is a perverse and ugly type of capitalism.

    The Downfall of Southwest Airlines
    youtube.com/watch?v=BD-rLIz9XU


  6. Confused here: What was wrong with singer Grace Potter's rendition of the US national anthem at the Kentucky Derby horse race yesterday?

    There appears to be a lot of pissed off people out there.

  7. has a new path to create a formal language specification for and .

    Ferrous Systems is donating their work on a language specification to the rust project and the wider community.

    rustfoundation.org/media/ferro




  8. @ingalls
    Hello Mark,
    Nice pictures of the weather.
    I am new to the area, having moved to Bellingham a year ago.
    My interest in weather included flight training.
    Cheers,
    Bob

    , formerly

  9. When I look at US #politicians wearing their formal costumes, it reminds me of English #barrister's wearing gray wigs.

    It is certainly not about respect. It is mostly about identity and conformity.

    #Zelinzskyy

  10. When I look at US wearing their formal costumes, it reminds me of English 's wearing gray wigs.

    It is certainly not about respect. It is mostly about identity and conformity.

  11. When I look at US #politicians wearing their formal costumes, it reminds me of English #barrister's wearing gray wigs.

    It is certainly not about respect. It is mostly about identity and conformity.

    #Zelinzskyy

  12. When I look at US #politicians wearing their formal costumes, it reminds me of English #barrister's wearing gray wigs.

    It is certainly not about respect. It is mostly about identity and conformity.

    #Zelinzskyy

  13. The US service was down for about 90 minutes this morning.

    The Canadian NOTAM service was down for "a while" later in the day.

    Somehow, these exceedingly rare events are unrelated. Label me suspicious.

  14. Another productive afternoon at Bob Collins' portrait class at Post Road Art. The lovely Rachel was our model today #watercolor #watercolorportrait #portraits #watercolorpainting

  15. Great #indiepop tune from this Kent & Swansea based band. Bob Collins once played guitar with #TheDentists. And we all like The Dentist, do we? »Toxic Energy« by #SwanseaSound
    youtube.com/watch?v=X-CJU3Iscq

  16. 🛩️

    “As a United States Army Guard raised an American flag on the pole in front of the Aviation Center, Bob Collins informed Paul, and those who had assembled, that the flag was the same one which had draped the coffin of Peter Poberezny, Paul's father.”
    © Henry M. Ogrodzinski, «A New Beginning», October 1983.

    Peter, Paul's father & Tom's grandfather, born in Terebovlia, a small town in Ternopil Oblast, .
    📖 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pob

  17. I'm about to be the guy who fires up the snowblower before sunrise .

    6.5" in Woodbury with . 39" water content.

    #minnesota
    #mnweather
    #mnstodon

  18. I love cold crisp pre-dawn mornings when a waxing crescent moon is rising, the paper is where it's supposed to be in the driveway, and the space station is passing directly over the Twin Cities at the same time.

    #minnesota
    #mnstodon

  19. @bcollinsmn_tgot @Berg
    Except that #MolsonCoors doesn't make anything that's remotely interesting to drink!

  20. Keith Olberman?! Really?
    I see that #BenCollins is keeping tabs on the suspensions.
    I hope they all come here! I know a few have already
    #TwitterImplosion #banned