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irisblue

(37,390 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:11 AM 10 hrs ago

Breakfast Monday 16 March 2026

Later this morning, I'm planning on fried potatoes & onions with scrambled eggs and sausage, toast and the usual pot of hot tea.

I lost 2 card games after dinner.
🃏🃏

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Breakfast Monday 16 March 2026 (Original Post) irisblue 10 hrs ago OP
How do you have those emoticons irisblue? jfz9580m 9 hrs ago #1
I can use emoji from my phone. buzzycrumbhunger 5 hrs ago #6
I actually just was thinking I wish DU had a private journal jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #9
This website I think irisblue 3 hrs ago #10
Oooo neat jfz9580m 3 hrs ago #11
Enjoy your breakfast. Dunc 9 hrs ago #2
They are cute little jokers NJCher 8 hrs ago #3
Coffee with cream, now gademocrat7 7 hrs ago #4
Black coffee ☕, and pork rinds. Emile 6 hrs ago #5
Cheddar cheese & spinach omelette MolecularDust 4 hrs ago #7
Fave. NJCher 4 hrs ago #8
Never thought to add onions MolecularDust 2 hrs ago #12

jfz9580m

(17,060 posts)
1. How do you have those emoticons irisblue?
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 03:05 AM
9 hrs ago

They are cute and don’t seem to be in my palette. Reminds me of an image I saw long back where my comp picked up a bug in 2010 and something labeled “mirrorhost” with a joker’s image was where my normal icon is. Some version of Windows.

jfz9580m

(17,060 posts)
9. I actually just was thinking I wish DU had a private journal
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:20 AM
4 hrs ago

Option. I don’t mind the public at large accessing any information that one is obligated to post as a publicly funded scientist.

But as I become more honest, which is appropriate, as far as science goes, I found or find my style is ill adapted to honest conversation outside the strictly routine. I was only entirely unstilted with my mom. She knew me inside out. It’s weird how present circumstances force ..yuck.

Well there..it is in such poor taste it should fall out of favor. Like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (A book! I learnt English from books not crap produced by outfits like Google). She makes her kid consume a small amount of alcohol when he is sick so he learns to have an aversion for alcohol. Except that would be a creepy product.
No. The Texas Cadaver Scandal should set the standards re data mining.

Yeah there should be a private journal option. But I have no reason to think that these poorly managed things one is in these days online (to varying extents depending on who you are) work so people one might conceivably want to share information with (though the forms altogether..I just feel this too much deregulation to keep going along with the..oh well one more intrusive excess…eh it’s inevitable.oh another creepy thing..creepy is the new Cool! Where will it end I ask?)

There should be private journal option but DU is kinda niche. It is not like Facebook so it still would be seen by few outside DU. And DU is a big enough pond. Who the hell would want that nightmarish and awful crowd out there gaping. They are all crazy. They don’t get that the net is killing their brains.
It really is. And not as they would think of it.

DU is mostly retired people or activists etc. It would be a very tacky think (especially as a young person with their life ahead of them to have gone and read stuff that people post not that willingly or celebrating it except for niche underground audiences where information transfer without kayfabe..)

Sort of a citizen’s underground. But I am now in a different country than the one where I got tangled up in these fucking awful things..
Bloody California. I hate that place.

I really feel like if we aren’t in a WW3 crisis moment much bigger than Trump or the GOP alone. And that’s no longer a drill.
Like we all grew up (or many of us reading classics like George Orwell’s “1984” and we are witnessing the growth of that exact type of surveillance state)

And well..I don’t give a shit. People keep having these blatantly discussions and I am going to throw some shit at Hennessy and exit.
I don’t want to do this. It is stupid.

This bullshit is all you spend your life and time and thoughts on and it is really pathetic ..who will save the world? Thats bullshit.. ut sort of flattens the world and then imposes idiotic demands and just no.
It is all such bullshit. All of it. Self important pompous asses. Du and Yasha and Ketcham aside and a few other people
All the junk you browse (like this post if you are not a DUer or ..) Yeesh

gademocrat7

(11,901 posts)
4. Coffee with cream, now
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:46 AM
7 hrs ago

Cheese and Canadian bacon biscuits with a tangerine, later.



Good Morning🤗

Emile

(42,028 posts)
5. Black coffee ☕, and pork rinds.
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 05:58 AM
6 hrs ago

Pork rinds, closest thing to bacon without cooking. Feeling lazy.

Good Morning 🌞

MolecularDust

(16 posts)
7. Cheddar cheese & spinach omelette
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 07:50 AM
4 hrs ago

With rye toast and hot tea.

Wishing everyone a great day today!

NJCher

(43,047 posts)
8. Fave.
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:03 AM
4 hrs ago

That is my absolute favorite omelette. The only other thing I add is caramelized onions.

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