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GoneOffShore

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November 7, 2022

Three words for you - Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here's a little story about someone with 80K followers

Jeph Jacques does a fun webcomic entitled Questionable Content (Which I highly recommend) And he has been on Twitter - Here's what he posted last night:


November 6, 2022 8:14pm
Gosh, how long has it been since I wrote an actual newspost? Feels like...fifty years...

Anyway! Here's how I've been doing lately.

I stopped posting all the time on twitter a couple months back, but over this weekend I did a bunch of satirical tweets impersonating Elon Musk and they went fairly viral and he got so mad he (personally, I like to think) deleted my account. Nothing of value was lost, a good time was had by all, etc etc. If you google around I'm sure you can find screenshots.

I find myself in the privileged position of being able to walk away from a social media account with 80,000+ followers (it had ballooned to over 100k before it was suspended, lol) with no significant penalties to my life or income (as far as I can tell). I should probably, like, promote my work on other social media, but honestly I'm pretty burned out on the whole concept. I'm lucky to be able to draw my comics and put them on this website and have enough of you folks reading to pay my bills and buy food for my dog (Ollie's doing good, btw), and that's good enough for me.
November 4, 2022

We voted with the FWAB from France, and our votes were received by the Phila BOE

About a week after we mailed them.

Democrats Abroad is working on GOTV efforts. Very strong organization here in France.

October 19, 2022

A bit of Paris - May 2022 - Les Editeurs - Carrefour d'Odeon.



Canon 70D - Sigma 30mm
October 19, 2022

Tango dancers in Cassis



Tango on Place Baragnon in Cassis. 29 September 2013

Canon 70D 30mm Sigma lens
October 16, 2022

Today's touch of France

Miss Marseille 1964 at the Salon des Vignerons et de la Gastronomie, Gardanne. Véritable Pieds et Paquets Marseillais

August 21, 2022

M&M has released a new flavour and colour.

Cruel that they are replicas of TuckTuck's tiny testes.

Funny though.

August 21, 2022

Parade of vintage vehicles in Aix-en-Provence today. - Added some more pics

In commemoration of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Provence, which started on 15 August 1944.
Funny how many French people still remember the fight against the fascists.


























And a couple more -




August 19, 2022

A touch of France - back after a creative hiatus -

Taken in Paris in the spring, on the Canal St. Martin -


Marseille - Vieux Port - June -

Profile Information

Name: Sam
Gender: Male
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Current location: Aix-en-Provence
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 17,339

About GoneOffShore

Moved to France in September of 2018 after buying our apartment in 2017 after the debacle of the election. We're glad to be here, but we continue to be involved with what's happening in the US.
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