#grandpa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #grandpa, aggregated by home.social.
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Family of 7 takes in 82-year-old widower neighbor as their new ‘grandpa’
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#film #dating #singles #single #romance #lol #funny #jokes #humor #comedy #love #couple #movie #girls #women #creepy #horror #health #monsters #wellness #fight #scifi #fitness #voyeur #relationship #marriage #lingerie #meetup #risque #sleep #clothes #fashion #scary #spooky #death #bedroom #seniors #grandma #grandpa #parents #old #elderly #aging
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#film #dating #singles #single #romance #lol #funny #jokes #humor #comedy #love #couple #movie #girls #women #creepy #horror #health #monsters #wellness #fight #scifi #fitness #voyeur #relationship #marriage #lingerie #meetup #risque #sleep #clothes #fashion #scary #spooky #death #bedroom #seniors #grandma #grandpa #parents #old #elderly #aging
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Boomer grandma challenges family norms by asking why she has to do the traveling for visits
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Created after joking with @vifon about Elder #Dragons in Monster Hunter games. Like this name suggested it should be some noble #dragon ancestor or old-school #grandpa portrait... well, like this :blobfoxlaugh:
#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #dragonart #anthro
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Boomer grandma challenges family norms by asking why she has to do the traveling for visits
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Yu-Gi-Oh Destiny Board Traveler & World Championship Tournament 2004 with David (Anime Field Guide)
Some duels are fought with cards. Some are fought with dice. And then some… are fought with the Game Boy Advance’s eternal struggle against decent menu navigation. This week on Play Comics, we’re shuffling up and drawing into Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler and World Championship Tournament 2004, two games that take everything we love about Yu-Gi-Oh!, monsters, strategy, friendship laser beams, and cram it into a tiny cartridge that smells faintly of childhood and battery corrosion.
Joining Chris for this summoning circle of digital nostalgia is David from Anime Field Guide, who brings the kind of anime expertise that makes you question whether your life points can drop below zero if you cringe too hard at English dub dialogue. Together, they’ll explore why these particular duels feel like being trapped in a friendship-branded fever dream, complete with turn-based confusion and more “draw phase” puns than anyone asked for.
So grab your duel disk, blow into that GBA cartridge like it owes you rent, and prepare to enter a world where forbidden memories and confusing mechanics go hand-in-hand. It’s the heart of the cards… but maybe also a faint cry for a player’s guide.
Learn such things as:
- Whether the heart of the cards can survive low battery warnings.
- The surprising crossover between duel monsters and chaos theory.
- Why Destiny Board Traveler isn’t just Monopoly with a Yu-Gi-Oh skin.
- And so much more!
You can find David on BlueSky @anifieldguide.bsky.social, Threads @anifieldguide, and of course hear him over at Anime Field Guide.
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You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to The Monsters that Made Us and Worst Collection Ever for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who is just sitting there waiting for me to spring the traps.
#DarkMagicianGirl #DavidAnimeFieldGuide #GameBoyAdvance #Grandpa #JoeyWheeler #Kaibaman #Konami #MaiValentine #MaximillionPegasus #Mokuba #RebeccaHawkins #SetoKaiba #Shueisha #VizMedia #YamiBakura #YamiYugi #YugiMutou -
There is nothing better than a Chocolate Truffle Cake from the Giant Market for one's birthday. #birthday #birthdays #septugenarian #senior #seniorcitizen #oldster #oldfart #grandpa #chocolatetrufflecake #giantstore #celebrate #celebration #party #entertaining #friends #cigar
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There is nothing better than a Chocolate Truffle Cake from the Giant Market for one's birthday. #birthday #birthdays #septugenarian #senior #seniorcitizen #oldster #oldfart #grandpa #chocolatetrufflecake #giantstore #celebrate #celebration #party #entertaining #friends #cigar
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There is nothing better than a Chocolate Truffle Cake from the Giant Market for one's birthday. #birthday #birthdays #septugenarian #senior #seniorcitizen #oldster #oldfart #grandpa #chocolatetrufflecake #giantstore #celebrate #celebration #party #entertaining #friends #cigar
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There is nothing better than a Chocolate Truffle Cake from the Giant Market for one's birthday. #birthday #birthdays #septugenarian #senior #seniorcitizen #oldster #oldfart #grandpa #chocolatetrufflecake #giantstore #celebrate #celebration #party #entertaining #friends #cigar
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There is nothing better than a Chocolate Truffle Cake from the Giant Market for one's birthday. #birthday #birthdays #septugenarian #senior #seniorcitizen #oldster #oldfart #grandpa #chocolatetrufflecake #giantstore #celebrate #celebration #party #entertaining #friends #cigar
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Family was mourning grandpa at his funeral. Then a 'Hello' from his coffin stunned them.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/grandpas-last-laugh-at-funeral-ex1
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#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FelineHumour #Grandpa
#floof #EdgarShe’s a Grandpappy! Only lacks a corncob pipe and dentures.
We can name her, and my Papa was an Edgar.🐾 🐾
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National Grandparents Week .
#grandparents #family #love #parents #grandma #grandpa #grandmother #grandfather #parenting #baby #grandparentslove #grandchildren #grandkids #familytime #instagood #dad #momlife #granddaughter #grandson #happy #photography #grandparentsday #children #mom #picoftheday #memories #kids #nana #life #familyfirst National Grandparents Week is celebrated every year from 27 October to 1 November. Like parents, grandparents are also very important…
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/national-grandparents-week/
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National Grandparents Week .
#grandparents #family #love #parents #grandma #grandpa #grandmother #grandfather #parenting #baby #grandparentslove #grandchildren #grandkids #familytime #instagood #dad #momlife #granddaughter #grandson #happy #photography #grandparentsday #children #mom #picoftheday #memories #kids #nana #life #familyfirst National Grandparents Week is celebrated every year from 27 October to 1 November. Like parents, grandparents are also very important…
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/national-grandparents-week/
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National Grandparents Week .
#grandparents #family #love #parents #grandma #grandpa #grandmother #grandfather #parenting #baby #grandparentslove #grandchildren #grandkids #familytime #instagood #dad #momlife #granddaughter #grandson #happy #photography #grandparentsday #children #mom #picoftheday #memories #kids #nana #life #familyfirst National Grandparents Week is celebrated every year from 27 October to 1 November. Like parents, grandparents are also very important…
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/national-grandparents-week/
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National Grandparents Week .
#grandparents #family #love #parents #grandma #grandpa #grandmother #grandfather #parenting #baby #grandparentslove #grandchildren #grandkids #familytime #instagood #dad #momlife #granddaughter #grandson #happy #photography #grandparentsday #children #mom #picoftheday #memories #kids #nana #life #familyfirst National Grandparents Week is celebrated every year from 27 October to 1 November. Like parents, grandparents are also very important…
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/national-grandparents-week/
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https://www.fogolf.com/1074642/trump-stunned-by-granddaughters-question-about-dreams-watch-his-tv-style-response-us-news/ Trump Stunned by Granddaughter’s Question About Dreams – Watch His TV-Style Response | US News #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #Grandpa #Kai #KaiTrump #netizens #TimesNow #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing #UsNews
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96-year-old #grandpa shares his stacked #dailyroutine that's kept him sharp as a whip
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I've descended from photographers on both sides of my family. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington D.C., taken by my Pawpaw in the 1960s. #photography #photographer #photographers #vintagephotography #tomboftheunknownsoldier #washingtondc #washington #grandparent #grandpa
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Mr. Smoozles season 2 episode 32
#comicstrip #cartoon #humour #noai #mrsmoozles #cats #grandpa #TV #deckchair
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No Shortcuts Taken 😂 No Matter How Excited 🐾🥰 #grandparents #grandma #grandpa https://www.moepets.com/1041601/ ##englishstaffy ##staffordshirebullterrier #bluestaffy #cute #dog #doggo #dogs #englishstaffie #family #familyvisit #Grandma #grandpa #grandparents #Inu #puppy #Shorts #staffie #staffiepuppy #staffies #staffy #staffypuppy #Trending #スタッフォードシャー・ブル・テリア
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🎂🚀 Breaking news: 60-year-old #email #relic reflects on #surviving past 30 while mocking deceased friends for not making it. 🎉💌 Apparently, adult behavior now includes gifting us with unsolicited #wisdom from the grave. 🤦♂️ Thanks, grandpa!
https://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg08034.html #humor #nostalgia #grandpa #HackerNews #ngated -
My Pawpaw treated himself to a Wild West Huntin' Trip shortly before he died. Here is a friend and their guide, trussing a kill. 1960s. #grandfather #grandfathers #grandpa #grandpas #hunting #huntingtrip #west #wildwest #westernunitedstates #1960s #photography #familyphoto
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My Pawpaw treated himself to a Wild West Huntin' Trip shortly before he died. Here is a friend and their guide, trussing a kill. 1960s. #grandfather #grandfathers #grandpa #grandpas #hunting #huntingtrip #west #wildwest #westernunitedstates #1960s #photography #familyphoto
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My Pawpaw treated himself to a Wild West Huntin' Trip shortly before he died. Here is a friend and their guide, trussing a kill. 1960s. #grandfather #grandfathers #grandpa #grandpas #hunting #huntingtrip #west #wildwest #westernunitedstates #1960s #photography #familyphoto
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My Pawpaw treated himself to a Wild West Huntin' Trip shortly before he died. Here is a friend and their guide, trussing a kill. 1960s. #grandfather #grandfathers #grandpa #grandpas #hunting #huntingtrip #west #wildwest #westernunitedstates #1960s #photography #familyphoto
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My Pawpaw treated himself to a Wild West Huntin' Trip shortly before he died. Here is a friend and their guide, trussing a kill. 1960s. #grandfather #grandfathers #grandpa #grandpas #hunting #huntingtrip #west #wildwest #westernunitedstates #1960s #photography #familyphoto
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I believe I was three or four years old when I took my first visit to the Chalk Mine near North Loup, Nebraska. Growing up there each summer, and with each subsequent visit to the mine, the experience of being surrounded by a cooling white chalk was both effervescent and full of young wonder. Heading back into the mine last summer as an old man, after a break of about 40 years, proved yet another interesting example of how sometimes things change beyond the fateful recollection of the shared memory.
The old historical marker was still there! It had been moved, but these special markers pock important places in Nebraska and they are certainly, and awfully well, done. You can actually read them, too!
Here is what used to be the entrance to the mine. When I was young, the mine entrances were open. No cages. No bars. Now, the mine is locked up, I guess because of minor mine collapses in places! Now, if you want to visit inside the cave, you have to pay up and give a tip, too!
Janna and I were early in our morning visit — so, first we trekked up Happy Jack Mountain while waiting for the mine to open — and when we returned from that first hot descent, and in anticipation of the next, cooler, one, the “office” was officially open. The entrance to the mine is inside this log cabin looking thing.
The wonder of the Chalk Mine has always been the white glow you get when the natural sunlight bounces around the interior of the mine walls. Well, those days are done. With the mine locked, and closed off, the white chalk appears mostly grey and dingy in the new darkness. You need a flashlight to see. There is some electrical lighting along the way. Oh, sure, some of that aging is due to time and tide, but you don’t get “enwashed” by the brilliant natural white chalk anymore. Those days are now dead and gone, and not even giving a good tip can bring them back!
That said, being inside the mine again was a wonderment experience. It is naturally cold and explorative. Our tour guide showed us what she thought was interesting — she was in training — and so I mainly just focused my camera on capturing new moments for exposure here, and in discovering the fossil relics preserved in the chalk. Plus, as ever, there was enough degenerate graffiti, and standard defacement, to prove the sadness of a bored society.
When the brief tour was over, our guide shared with us some stuff recovered from the early days of the mine. These were new to me! There was a respirator and a camp stove!
After the tour, I shared a memory of the Chalk Mine of my childhood with our tour guide — who said she heard the rumors before, but didn’t know if the stories were true or not. Oh, I reassured her, the telling was true: The Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang would take over, and camp out at the Chalk Mine, for a few days every summer on their trek to wherever.
We were visiting North Loup one summer in the 70’s, and my grandfather — Bill Vodehnal, the North Loup pharmacist — told me we could not visit the Chalk Mine because the Hells Angels were encamped there, and it wasn’t safe, and we couldn’t even look around outside because the gang had blocked the entrance with their bikes. He actually drove us by there in his 1966 Plymouth Fury II (with positraction!) to show me all the motorcycle choppers lined up inside and outside the mine.
Side story: Our tour guide said in the 1950’s there used to be (non-Hell’s Angels) motorcycle races inside the mine — all in and around all the cubby holes of the cavern! What noise that must have made, and what a sight it must have been to behold.
So, back to my grandfather’s story about the Hell’s Angels. Learning the gang had taken over the Chalk Mine made me feel both fascinated and scared! My grandfather went on to explain the gang never stays long — they’re just there hanging out and hiding drugs and guns deep in the mine… or they’re on site to collect the same… depending on the season, their need, and the seasons of the dead drop. I asked him if anyone ever went in later, after the Angels had left, to look for any gun stashes or drug shares, and he said a few tried, but failed because, he said, the Hell’s Angels had booby trapped their hold way back in the mine where it was dangerous too stay for long. I guess the idea of their boobytrap was, if you touched the wrong thing, the mine would collapse on you!
I’m not sure my tour guide bought into my whole story — I still testify to it all to this day; my grandfather was not a jokester, he was an always serious man on the far side of humor, and didn’t appear to ever lie, or share a false face because it would have been bad for business. Our tour guide said she’d been asked about the lore of the Hell’s Angels staying at the mine in the past, but she didn’t really believe it. Now, she told me, she believes; and isn’t that the whole point of collecting memories and later sharing them?
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https://bolesblogs.com/2024/11/04/cathedrals-of-chalk-55-years-later/
#chalk #chalkiness #discovery #grandpa #hellsAngels #home #memory #motorcycle #mountain #nebraska #northLoup #paint
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One-hundred-and-two
Would have reached that age today
Many memories#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Dad #Father #GreatestGeneration #Grandpa #Grandfather #Papa #WWII #Wise #Wisdom #Loss #Family #Proud #Strong #Smart
September 26, 2024
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When I returned to North Loup, Nebraska this summer to bury my mother, I realized I hadn’t been back to that beautiful village for 40 years! It seemed impossible that I’d been away from the braided prairie for two generations! I discovered the last time I visited North Loup was in 1984 when I published a photo memory. Today, 14,600 days later, I present a new photo memory of the North Loup that raised me, and that lifted all the hopes of my curious childhood in far away in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Popcorn is big in North Loup. There’s a popcorn factory that employs many of the residents and the yearly, century old, Popcorn Days celebration is still crowning Popcorn Queens!
The residue of the popped delight is a year-round mark of pride, and belonging, in the small village of 221 people. 40 years ago, 400 people lived in North Loup. Everything decays. Time. People. Populations. Popcorn!
One big change for me to see was seeing the new water tower.
The old tower looked like a silver, shining coffee pot percolating in the sun — this newfangled version looks like a turkey baster!
North Loup doesn’t really have addresses.
You just sort of point a person to a destination in town, or you gradually walk them through a — “turn right, then left, carry on straight a bit, there” — pathway pocked with recognizable landmarks.
There are, however, some homemade street signs for those who want navigable names along with directions.
Some of the places I remember from 40 years ago are still standing — they may no longer be there — but they are still standing; like this gas station.
My grandfather’s house is now unrecognizable. All the old wood slat character has been stripped away by siding.
It’s been remade from the outside in, and a ramp was added to what used to be the front porch.
My grandfather’s old pharmacy is now an insurance company.
No pharmacy in North Loup now.
Also, now long gone in North Loup are the three bars, the Jack and Jill grocery store, Vera’s clothing store and the North Loup Cafe. All disappeared. All lost. All not replaced. I guess if you want to eat, drink, and shop you head on up Highway 11 to Ord, 11 miles away.
Maybe the town motto might just be, “North Loup: We won’t feed you, heal you, liquor you up, or clothe you — but you can get whole life insurance coverage day or night!”
The all-volunteer fire department is the same as it ever was.
Your neighbors are your rescuers; you rescue your neighbors.
Here’s the North Loup library. I think there used to be a skating rink inside.
The building looks the same as it ever was four decades ago.
This is the building where, after my grandfather died, we spent $400 to buy four used tires for his 1966 Plymouth Fury II (with Positraction)!
His old car became my first car in 1980. I street named the Plymouth, “The Porsche.”
The “North Loup Valley Bank” bank looks the same — but now bears a new name and ownership.
The beautiful old brick Post Office is now an art gallery, and so now there’s a whole new, standalone, Post Office building right next to a new war memorial for the local missing and the dead.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers are almost as popular as Popcorn in North Loup!
Sure, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a “football school” but the Loup Valley is still prime scarlet and cream country!
Fun family members Russ and Kathy are even on the Go Big Red team with their ephemeral “Big Red Donuts” food truck that satiates palates all over Valley County!
I believe the Donut Truck began life as some sort of paramedic rescue truck. Still is, I guess. “Rescued by a Glazed Bear Claw with Sprinkles!”
While North Loup loves their Huskers — they just plain love their Popcorn more. Popcorn butters the bills. Popcorn kernels the family. Popcorn eats history.
Popcorn pops the future!
This wraps up our 2024 tour of North Loup, Nebraska. So many things have changed, and so many things that have died have not been replaced. The rise of a cross-county Co-Op brings great hope for the economic and social future expansion of North Loup.
For me, North Loup, Nebraska will always remain the beloved home I never had, and the place I never wanted to leave. Let’s hope it won’t be another 40 years before I return!
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#1984 #braidedPrairie #donutTruck #firehouse #grandpa #nebraska #northLoup #pharmacy #photographs #plymouthFuryIi #popcornDays #russAndKathy #smallTown #village
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Old people shouldn't be allowed to use the expression "I'm dying to ..."
I just received an email from my grandfather that started with the words "Dear Anna, I'm dying to hear more about how things are at work.", and my phone only displayed the first 4 words in the preview.
Almost had a heart attack. 😶
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#TIL that Trump's grandfather, the German Friedrich Trump, amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a restaurant and brothel for the miners.
Trump’s father Fred was conceived in Bavaria, where his parents wished to re-establish residency, but Friedrich was banished for dodging the draft.
====Our 45th president, Donald #Trump Jr. descended from a #draftdodging #pimp.
He’s just like his #grandpa.
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CW: re: #Meta #FacebookDating #Grandpa #meme🤨
There is a moral to these #Thread'd #Stories in #infosec about ☣️🎣☣️🎣
BOTH Grandma AND Grandpa* got ☣️🎣☣️🎣 on #Facebook #🧵's #🧁
Grandma Backstory: She took out a #FacebookDating #AD and put this at #Grandpa's bus stop.
👇* They are working on 'hacking' Grandpa's fren, obvs. 🎣☣️
Grandpa's Backstory: He took out a #FacebookDating #AD and put this at #Grandma's #knittingcircle #🧵's bus stop after finding out about her 🧁's AD.
♻️ #CircleOfAdvertising / #Retaliation in the #FacebookDatingAds on #Meta ♻️
/Continued 👇🤨
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CW: re: #Meta #FacebookDating #Grandpa #meme🤨
#Grandpa's new #FacebookDating #meme just dropped like 🎣 ☣️
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Dad's happy to have the IV line out & being able to sit in living room to watch his #Chinese news & shows. #Baby Raven Sol is holding his #Grandpa 's hand ❤
#AsianMastodon #Teochew #GrandpaAndGrandson #FamilyPhotos #Family #generational #OldAndYoung #FirstGrandchild #bonding #QualityTime #monochrome #BWphotos #MyFamily #MyLovedOnes
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#Baby #nephew is coming over for his weekly visit. His Mom's bringing him by after I'm done with my client work/wrapped meetings.
Got hundreds more seeds sowed before clocking into work this morning 👩🌾✌
New photos of baby nephew & gardening stuff will be shared later. This pic of Raven w/ my #Dad / his #Grandpa is from a past visit.#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #family #PreciousMoments #FamilyPhotos #MomentsToRemember #FirstGrandchild #Grandfather #Grandson #BabyLove #HappyBaby #SmileyBaby
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#Grandpa & #grandson - my #Dad & #baby #nephew have very #similar #family #FacialFeatures 🥰 You can definitely tell they're #related in these two #FamilyPortraits ❤
#FamilyTime #BabyLove #FamilyFaces #AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #BiracialBaby #QualityTime #BabyBonding #Cutie #Photogenic #BabyPhoto #FamilyPhoto #FirstGrandchild #similarities #NextGeneration #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #portraits #Faces #Grandfather #Grandbaby #FamilyBonding #FamilyTies #RemarkableSimilarities #MyFamily
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@idoubtit keep hashtagging it up you’ll find yer peeps right? similar situation myself as Fortean woman for two centuries. I’m meh/eyeroll on woo astronomy and karma as well as #tabletopgaming and #Comics so try to let my #FreakFlagFly and monitor hashtags for #forteana #CharlesFort #FemaleFortean. Fort worked alone anyway, right? FWIW I felt one unnamed fortean online community helmed by dogmatic #misogyny so I chose to leave chuckling ‘good luck #grandpa its 2020 out there’
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#OCR, #Hashtags & some minor corrections, to make the #TextInAPicture more discoverable, and readable on #mobile: 😉
—Dear Ms #Jayapal ,
thank you for your great work at the #AntitrustCommission facing tech CEOs.
I'm French (I had to fake my contact details in order to be able to use that contact form) and I've been grateful to watch this record as an engineer involved with these technologies.
I recently published #Déclic (declic-lelivre.com), a book about these issues we're facing when it comes to the major domination of these companies affecting businesses all over the world. It also shows solutions and alternative to these problems. It's in French at the moment.
Why I'm writing to you is to tell that a fine, even huge, won't do much harm and worst, it will not allow any opening in the market. If there's one central battle which could help in reopening the game or mom and pop business : it is #interoperability .
It's something that's at the heart of the telecommunication and we tend to forget it. Let me take an example : if you're on #Messenger ( #Facebook ), you can not send/receive message with someone who's on #Signal or elsewhere. It's all centralized . Users have adapted and we all have many apps for the same goal, which is connecting to each other, #Whatsapp for the #grandparents , #Snapchat for #teens , #Instagram for... and so and so.
But : imagine tomorrow AT&T subscribers could only call or text AT&T subscribers and if you wanted to reach people using another carrier you'd have to get another subscription. Who would accept that?
Here, we're facing the same. We accepted collectively that situation because these apps are free" to use and we didn't realize the power it gave to these companies thanks to network effect. Now we're stuck. If I want to text my #grandpa , I have to install and use Whatsapp but I don't want to give my data to Mr. #Zuckerberg . I'm stuck. Same for a #developper who would like to build a new better app for communication, it's a no-no.
So interoperability, which is fundamental to the internet and which is actually what permitted these giants to grow , back in the days, must become mandatory. If tomorrow, thanks to interoperability, I have the option to keep the contact with my grandfathers who's on Whatsapp by using an app created by another company which respects better my privacy because they are base on another business model, then we reopen the market.
Anyone should be able to use the app they want to connect with their family, friends, etc. Another comparison : if I want to visit a friend. I'm free to take the car/flight/train that I want. With interoperability, it is the same. It frees user by standardizing the protocols that connects people on the internet. Which then ensure their data can flow also freely.
If Zuckerberg want so badly "to connect the world", he knows it's the best way to do it. But that would be taking a risk on the business side and they are not willing to take it. In their early days, Facebook was actually using #XMPP for their messenger, an open messaging protocol made just for that. We were able, back then, to do exactly what I'm saying above. But then, when it became big enough, they cut.
That's a common strategy for tech companies, and well documented. First, they
#opensource and #interoperable #protocols in order to get maximum usage and trust from the tech #community then when they get big enough, because they have the biggest #userbase anyway, they cut it all, close the doors and keep everything for them. You can ask any developer about that.
On the Facebook/Google etc side, it is probable they will say they can't reverse that, that it's not possible technically to reopen the doors. It is true in a way that it may demand some effort on their side to refactor some of their infrastructure, but totally doable and they will always, for the reasons said before, overestimate such efforts. To be fully transparent, tech solutions for such problems exists already. Just ask #W3C , it's their job to work on such protocols.
On the #socialnetwork side, there's also a protocol called #ActivityPub, ask about it. And for messaging there are XMPP, #Matrix and other protocols. It's just a matter of will, and without pressure from you, they won't do.
Most people working in tech are waiting for such bold move to reopen the game and only the state can now help on that with well thought regulations. You are in position of making history and giving back to people the real promises of the internet. That would also lead to incalculable new opportunities in term of economy.
Another crucial battle which need to be fought also in parallel is about the data and who owns it. I suggest you speak with #TimBernersLee, one of the founders of the web. He's working right at the moment on such technology to re-open the web and give back data in people's hand. The protocol he's working on is called ' #Solid '.
I can go into more details if needed. I hope this helps. I'm writing to you as I believe, from watching the commission, you'd be the best to hear and support such position.
Best,
#MaximeGuedj
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