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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, March 5, 2024, or: Another Birthday (My 61st!)…New England Weather Woes…A Novelist’s Progress…and Log-In Issues on Facebook

Mar 5, 2024

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Late Morning, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s another chilly and gray early spring morning here in Eidelweiss, the section of Madison, New Hampshire that I now call home. Currently, the temperature is 35°F (2°C) under cloudy conditions. With humidity at 93% and the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 1…

Tuesday Tidbit: Play the Plan a Film Festival Game with Me!

Sep 26, 2023

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A fun little social interaction game that I saw on my Facebook timeline! (Grammar Rules: You can, if you like, use movie titles that begin with an article, e.g. “a” or “the,” and use the next word in the title if you like. In my case, I used “A Little Romance” for my “L” title…

On Blogs & Blogging: My Blogger Blog Hits the 1M-Pageviews Milestone Despite MAGA Fans’ Attempts to Muzzle It

Oct 27, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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If you’re familiar with the genesis of A Certain Point of View, Too, you may recall that this blog was the unexpected consequence of a grievous act of censorship on the part of both Facebook and a handful of Trump supporters back in March of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was being mishandled and…

Musings & Thoughts for October 9, 2022, or: What’s on My Mind Today Redux

Oct 9, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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Things on My Mind, Sunday, October 9, 2022: Early this morning – shortly after midnight, to be exact, I was still awake and, as is all too common with me these days, in a deep funk. I should have been asleep on my futon – I don’t dare call it a bed, because although it…

Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, September 6, 2022, or: After 11 Years, My Blogger Blog FINALLY Starts Paying Out

Sep 6, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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Well, it finally happened. Last night, while I was doing my weekly look at the AdSense account of the Blogger precursor to this blog, I noticed that after 11 years and 1,404 blog posts, I finally reached the $100 payment threshold necessary for Google to pay me the ad revenue generated by my content on…

Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, January 5, 2022, or: Playing Whack-a-Mole with Ads from ‘Patriot’ Groups on Facebook

Jan 5, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Conservatism in the U.S., Conspiracy Theories on Facebook, Donald Trump, Jenna Ryan, Patriot movement, Social Media, U.S. Capitol Siege, January 6, 2021, U.S. Politics

Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. It is a cool winter day – by Florida standard, at any rate. Currently, the temperature is 74˚F (23˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 71% and the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 4 MPH (6 KM/H),…

On Contemporary America: Conspiracy Buggery, Social Media, and the Gabby Petito-Brian Laundrie Saga

Oct 24, 2021

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Conspiracy Theories on Facebook, Death of Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, Killing of Gabby Petito, Social Media

Conspiracy Buggery Unless you have been stuck out on Gilligan’s Island or don’t pay attention to any news, you no doubt have heard about the Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie case. You couldn’t have missed this story otherwise; the tale of a twenty-something couple (she was 22, he was 23) that set out in July in a…

Hello, There…

Mar 31, 2020

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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…and welcome to A Certain Point of View, Too, my new WordPress blog. I created this blog out of necessity; apparently, someone on Facebook took issue with a post from my original Blogger blog, A Certain Point of View and reported me as a spammer. Consequently, since March 26, Facebook has been removing my posts…

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