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Published Tuesday, May 05, 2020 @ 11:56 AM EDT
May 05 2020

While I'm in Facebook jail, I've decided I'm just going to post stuff I would have posted there to here. It's a bit of a pain because this blogging software currently takes over an hour to do an update, but what the hey...

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Among other things, today is Childhood Depression Awareness Day, Cinco de Mayo, GivingTuesdayNow, Hug a Shed and Take a Selfie Day, International Midwives Day, Museum Lover's Day, Nail Day, National Concert Day, National Hoagie Day, National Silence the Shame Day, National Teacher Day, Oyster Day, Poem on Your Pillow Day, Revenge of the Fifth, Totally Chipotle Day, and World Asthma Day.

sinko

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On this date in 1962, the West Side Story motion picture soundtrack albumn reached #1 on the album charts, where it remained in that position for 54 weeks. In the United States, it was the best-selling album of the 1960s, certifying three times platinum by the RIAA on November 21, 1986.

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Remembering Erie, PA's Ann B. Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014):

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Actress/comedienne Pat Carroll is 93 today.

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Monty Python star Michael Palin is 77 today:

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He called it:

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All about the Asian giant hornet, aka Murder Hornet.


Categories: Ann B. Davis, Michael Palin, Murder Hornet, Pat Carroll, Ricky Gervais, West Side Story


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Maybe soon
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Published Tuesday, May 05, 2020 @ 8:33 AM EDT
May 05 2020

This social isolation business may mean I'll have the time to migrate to new blogging software. I've found a few static website generators (I'm not a fan of WordPress or other server-side content management systems) and have actually looked at some of them.

Facebook's artificial intelligence-based post scanner doesn't understand concepts like irony or satire. I got banned for three days for posting this photo, which apparently set off alarms when a Nazi flag was detected:

While the number of people the KGB Report Facebook page reaches is not trivial (>10,000), I'm getting really tired of being warned about posting items which "violate Facebook's community standards," the standards being what a piece of brain-dead AI software can comprehend.

Stay tuned.


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