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  1. 🚍✨ Oh, you mean I could have spent 50 glorious days on a rattling bus from London to Calcutta in the 60s, enjoying the scenic views of the Khyber Pass? 😂 And all this time, I thought air travel was the only way to experience cramped spaces and questionable cuisine! 🙄 #MissedOutOnTheFun
    amusingplanet.com/2022/08/lond #TravelStories #ScenicViews #60sAdventure #BusJourney #KhyberPass #MissedOpportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🚍✨ Oh, you mean I could have spent 50 glorious days on a rattling bus from London to Calcutta in the 60s, enjoying the scenic views of the Khyber Pass? 😂 And all this time, I thought air travel was the only way to experience cramped spaces and questionable cuisine! 🙄 #MissedOutOnTheFun
    amusingplanet.com/2022/08/lond #TravelStories #ScenicViews #60sAdventure #BusJourney #KhyberPass #MissedOpportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🚍✨ Oh, you mean I could have spent 50 glorious days on a rattling bus from London to Calcutta in the 60s, enjoying the scenic views of the Khyber Pass? 😂 And all this time, I thought air travel was the only way to experience cramped spaces and questionable cuisine! 🙄 #MissedOutOnTheFun
    amusingplanet.com/2022/08/lond #TravelStories #ScenicViews #60sAdventure #BusJourney #KhyberPass #MissedOpportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🚍✨ Oh, you mean I could have spent 50 glorious days on a rattling bus from London to Calcutta in the 60s, enjoying the scenic views of the Khyber Pass? 😂 And all this time, I thought air travel was the only way to experience cramped spaces and questionable cuisine! 🙄 #MissedOutOnTheFun
    amusingplanet.com/2022/08/lond #TravelStories #ScenicViews #60sAdventure #BusJourney #KhyberPass #MissedOpportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🚍✨ Oh, you mean I could have spent 50 glorious days on a rattling bus from London to Calcutta in the 60s, enjoying the scenic views of the Khyber Pass? 😂 And all this time, I thought air travel was the only way to experience cramped spaces and questionable cuisine! 🙄 #MissedOutOnTheFun
    amusingplanet.com/2022/08/lond #TravelStories #ScenicViews #60sAdventure #BusJourney #KhyberPass #MissedOpportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  6. Oh, look! Another list of misunderstood tech #darlings 🥱. It's like a Hall of Fame for projects Hacker News shrugged at, proving once again that the collective wisdom of armchair experts is always 🔮 spot-on in its ability to miss the mark! 🏆🤦‍♂️
    hackernews.love/ #misunderstoodtech #HackerNews #techtrends #collectivewisdom #missedopportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  7. Oh, look! Another list of misunderstood tech #darlings 🥱. It's like a Hall of Fame for projects Hacker News shrugged at, proving once again that the collective wisdom of armchair experts is always 🔮 spot-on in its ability to miss the mark! 🏆🤦‍♂️
    hackernews.love/ #misunderstoodtech #HackerNews #techtrends #collectivewisdom #missedopportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  8. Oh, look! Another list of misunderstood tech #darlings 🥱. It's like a Hall of Fame for projects Hacker News shrugged at, proving once again that the collective wisdom of armchair experts is always 🔮 spot-on in its ability to miss the mark! 🏆🤦‍♂️
    hackernews.love/ #misunderstoodtech #HackerNews #techtrends #collectivewisdom #missedopportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  9. Oh, look! Another list of misunderstood tech #darlings 🥱. It's like a Hall of Fame for projects Hacker News shrugged at, proving once again that the collective wisdom of armchair experts is always 🔮 spot-on in its ability to miss the mark! 🏆🤦‍♂️
    hackernews.love/ #misunderstoodtech #HackerNews #techtrends #collectivewisdom #missedopportunities #HackerNews #ngated

  10. I wish I had taken more photos of my computers back in the interesting time before PCs and Macs took over. I went through so many.

    I so wish that.

    Edit: A small gallery of photos I did happen to take of some of my systems from long past = flickr.com/photos/blakespot/al

    #homecomputers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #nostalgia #missedopportunities #alas #wouldvecouldveshouldve #sad #archiving #photography

  11. CW: Religion, straight x gay marriage

    I was devout LDS until my early 40s. The church has always opposed "gay marriage". My wife (in my early 30s to early 50s) and I had conversations about how much gay marriage was already in the church. We were in one--i.e., she was gay, as it turns out. We knew others in gay marriages, as well. Sure, at least one of the people in each such marriage was apparently straight, but there were a lot of gay/queer/trans/other-LGBTQIA+ people in Mormon marriages. Maybe more than in the less-conservative population, IDK.

    Which the church didn't do anything at all to deter. In fact, the policies + culture aggressively encouraged it. GayIsBad + NobodyIsReallyGay + GetMarriedNoMatterWhat = lots of closeted queer folks.

    Perhaps obviously by this point in this long post, that didn't work out and there were 15+ years of guilt, remorse, anguish, and assorted suffering all around. Digging out of that has taken half our adult lives so far. This has been the dark matter influencing our relationships with friends and family (mine still devout LDS), our work productivity (we're both uni profs), our scholarly productivity or lack thereof, and even our ability to do the mundane like get our bills paid on time and make sure the car doesn't die from lack of maintenance.

    We have done everything we can to prevent this all from affecting our parenting, and our 13 y/o is amazing, so I hope we've kept their reasons-for-therapy-at-age-25 to a minimum.

    I guess TL;DR: gay/queer marriage is common in conservative, anti-LGBTQ American Christian groups, just not the healthy kind.

    (and now it's almost 7 a.m. and time to get aforementioned kid to the bus stop)

    #lds #lgbtq #marriage #mismatch #religion #missedOpportunities

  12. CW: For All Mankind S04E10 dialog discussion

    *sigh* I'm sorry, the correct response should have been, "Don't you fekkin 'Hi Bob' me!" #FAM #ItWasRightThere #missedopportunities

  13. As part of my book coaching training, I have been reading Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, about how he founded a successful business that produced creative and empowered employees who happened to also make fantastic movies: Pixar.

    As a former architect, I can't help but think that if I had ever worked in a firm that fostered creativity and inclusion and quality work the way Pixar did, I might still be working in the field. #Architecture #MissedOpportunities #Bookstodon #BookCoach

  14. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #BLAERMOUTH.N
    Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist JEFF YOUNG Explains Why He 'Passed On' Auditioning For DAVID LEE ROTH's Band In 1990
    Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has told Canada's The Metal Voice in a new interview that he "passed on" auditioning for David Lee Roth's solo band in 1990, not long after exiting the...

    blabbermouth.net/news/ex-megad

    #ExMegadethGuitarist #JeffYoung #DavidLeeRoth #90sRock #MissedOpportunities #InsightfulInterview #RevealingInterview