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Sally Sparks

@sallysparks1

Musician. Retired Engineer. Learning to play golf and speak Portuguese. I live on Madeira island, 500km west of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean.

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all good! Well, we have neighbors from Birmingham and Jasper now, so there's that. hope same with y'all.

16.01.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s worth remembering how new the whole idea of β€œowning music” actually is. Recorded music as something households routinely bought is barely a century old, so in historical terms we’re still in an early phase. We went from records to radio to tapes to CDs to downloads to streaming in a blink.

16.01.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm sure you know this was coming.

14.01.2026 07:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 55913 πŸ” 22626 πŸ’¬ 1874 πŸ“Œ 2155

all good here. Worried about folks back there tho.

10.10.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

congratulations!!

25.09.2025 06:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No. It’s his Horst Wessel. Still to come ….. night of the long knives then Kristallnacht

23.09.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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You didn’t invest. No tickie, no ridey

23.09.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hitler didn't attend Horst Wessel's funeral. But Goebbels did.

16.09.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool, but not a real zoom. Scopes can’t go that deepβ€”optical ones stop at microns. You need an electron microscope for fine detail. It’s stitched/CGI to show scale. Any modern VLSI chip (Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, etc.) looks like this, since they pack billions of transistors in layered patterns.

22.08.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

miss you too! Hugs

30.07.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Manifest destiny is back in style. Oh, and Thomas Kinkade.

30.07.2025 10:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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29.07.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.06.2025 07:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it looks like the type of store we had growing up. No GC, Mars (RIP), etc.

04.05.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

where is this? Is it Music 21?

04.05.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.05.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

holy moly, that MOOG was probably worth 6x more!

30.04.2025 06:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I got Calle up in 2012 and wound up as the jury foreperson

21.04.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump's 'failure' in Ukraine risks war with Russia 'in three years'
Trump's 'failure' in Ukraine risks war with Russia 'in three years' YouTube video by Times Radio

Very good analysis by Gen Hodges.

17.04.2025 07:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Written By Lynette Nusbacher.

16.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sending people from Greece or Hungary or Italy to be gassed in the Generalgouvernement was taking them from one Nazi-occupied place to another Nazi-occupied place.
That it was β€˜outside Germany’ isn’t relevant.

16.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They were all fully under control of the SS regardless of where in the Reich they were. Putting people into the concentration camp system wasn’t sending them out of control of the Reich. It was just sending them to the place in the Reich where they would be abused or killed or both.

16.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Death camps were death camps regardless of where in the German Reich they were located. They were in the Generalgouvernement because that’s where the Jews were, and the KL system drew other relevant populations there because that’s where the killing facilities were.

16.04.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to resist the temptation to explain which KLs were inside the borders of Germany (even if they were in Ostmark, formerly Austria, for instance).
I’m going to resist those temptations because it doesn’t matter.

16.04.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a meme that KL Auschwitz was outside Germany’s borders.
I’m going to resist the temptation to explain how and why KL Auschwitz, the Operation Reinhard camps and other parts of the KL system were in the Generalgouvernement rather than in territory annexed to Germany or whatever.

16.04.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

11/ In no small coincidence, Peter Thiel also happens to have co-founded PayPal with none other than Elon Musk.

03.04.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

10/ Yarvin's ideas are influential among Silicon Valley insiders like billionaire Peter Thiel, who has been friends with Yarvin for years. Thiel was an early supporter of Donald Trump in 2016 and is responsible for introducing him to J.D. Vance, whose political rise he also funded.

03.04.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

9/ What he landed on was to β€œvirtualize them” in β€œpermanent solitary confinement” with β€œan immersive virtual-reality interface” to β€œexperience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”

03.04.2025 17:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

8/ As far-fetched as it sounds, no, Yarvin is not joking about any of this. Writing under a pseudonym earlier in his career, Yarvin described trying to think of a β€œhumane alternative to genocide” to do away with the β€œunderclass” of β€œunproductive members of society.”

03.04.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0