Negative12DollarBill

https://techhub.social/@negative12dollarbill

• Coder in Sydney, Gadigal land
• Bass/Rhythm/Lead guitar
• Bouba in the streets;Kiki in the sheets
• I run a couple of bots.
• I do #WebDev, currently working with a #perl system and learning #Golang at the same time, which is giving me mental whiplash

User image and header are both from the animated series "Gravity Falls" in which a fictional President of the USA issues a bill worth -$12.

website: https://negative12dollarbill.com/

Public Key

npub1kgmrjzpzgngflt9afpjcsz99rrttzl3k8q5a7yfmmujyk2rhmrjqcyef3q

NIP-05 Address

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Profile Code

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2024-09-19 20:55:35

It just struck me that the weirdest thing about the #Springfield #Haitian misinformation is that it included the accusation that people were eating ducks.
Killing and eating ducks used to be one of the most right-wing, MAGA-type things you could do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Dynasty

2024-09-18 20:47:35

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Do pagers work on planes?
I've seen people saying this attack could have killed many more if they had gone off on a flight.
The timer theory could have caused that kind of disaster but the signal theory not, if you can't get paged on a flight.

2024-09-16 07:32:29

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At one point in history, being able to read and write was considered a new technology which would ruin the next generation's minds because they wouldn't need to remember things.
https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/

2024-09-16 07:27:01

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Weirdly, the new movie Twisters qualifies, although the obstacle might not be huge enough.
The lead character’s struggle is to use science to overcome a force of nature, a tornado.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12584954/

2024-09-15 06:17:12

#JDVance is REALLY focused on #cats, right?
Women who like cats are contemptible. But also evil people are EATING cats. Not sure what's next:
• Cats are illegally registering to vote
• Regular cats from the heartland are great but bicoastal elite cats are unamerican
• A cat was behind the assassination attempt

2024-09-15 06:01:21

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nta;dr
Needs Twitter Account, didn't read

2024-09-14 23:54:28

@npub1hyj…avly
Bit confused by "URLs can't have @ symbols in them" in your latest email?

2024-09-13 03:32:58

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OK so very much NOT “Lola” by the Kinks, but “Whatever Lola Wants” by Sarah Vaughan. That was confusing.

2024-09-13 02:13:38

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“Lola” by the Kinks, just to clarify?

2024-09-10 06:46:38

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Her first chord or two sounds wrong, she stops playing and says something I can't make out but sounds like it ends in "key". After that she continues fine.

2024-09-10 03:41:42

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What happens at the start there? She briefly plays in a different key to the band, and says something to that effect?

2024-09-10 02:12:58

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I think your alt text could be improved: the elephant is caged and in chains. Also "Capitol".

2024-09-09 01:50:59

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You can always trust a chonger if it's made in Hong Dong

2024-09-08 22:11:50

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So hard to tell if this is a troll or not

2024-09-08 09:39:04

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3)
Now all your strings are on the guitar and you tune them. But they're new, they'll go out of tune right away. Pound on them like you're a cartoon gorilla, pull them and let them snap back like the elastic in underwear; don’t be shy; destroy your tuning and recreate it. The second time it will take.
One player grew up poor and left handed too. Left handed guitars exist but they're expensive and hard to find. He took a regular guitar and played it upside down. The strings were the wrong way around—the fat ones where the skinny ones should be. It didn't sound the way it was supposed to … and that changed the way guitars sounded forever.
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THE END

2024-09-08 09:38:38

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2) Guitar strings are fat and rugged at the top, and slim and smooth at the bottom. We could take the strings off and replace them in order, but for some superstitious reason I don't do it that way: I replace number one, then number six; number two, then five; number three, then number four.
That four-string guitar is known as Mr Micawber: it's one of the most famous guitars in the world, like the red guitar hand-built by a boy and his father in 1963 and still being played on stage today; like the guitar lost in a plane crash in Peru and returned 31 years later; like the guitar rescued at the last moment from a Louisiana nightclub fire.

2024-09-08 09:38:20

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Full text in chunks, because there's too much for this instance's Alt text.
1)
We could just take all six off, leave the guitar bare, and put six new ones back on … but no. I never take all six strings off at the same time: the essence of a guitar is tension. Six steel cables pulling forward and the guitar's neck holding back. I replace the strings one at a time. Like a kitchen which keeps the same stew boiling in the pot for years, the tension never leaves the guitar.
One famous player has a guitar with only five of the strings, the top one discarded altogether. It looks weird — it feels weird—but when you play some of those classic songs with that configuration you find they make sense to your fingers.

2024-09-08 09:36:49

I wrote this ages ago for a #CreativeWriting class assignment. #Writingprompt: “Describe a Mundane Task”.
I figure #guitar people might be interested or #music people in general…
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/101/241/467/911/957/original/e53a3aa403f6fffa.png

2024-09-08 09:01:56

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Oh I feel so dumb now! CSS cascades through the DOM and the other layer most of us don't know much about. Thank you.
I think my obsession with crossword puzzles sent me in the wrong direction.

2024-09-08 08:28:36

You know how long I've been a web developer?
#web #webdev #CSS #programming #Javascript
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/100/974/377/119/549/original/2936372465b6b7a3.png