Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 31, 2020 at 4:28:03 PM
@cwodtke I put in “Mutt”.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 31, 2020 at 9:57:43 AM
RT @AdamParkhomenko: please watch and retweet https://t.co/dfHLZldRBw
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 31, 2020 at 1:16:24 AM
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe. https://twitter.com/taydolo_/status/1244475317390958594
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 29, 2020 at 9:15:29 PM
He “won” the election in 2016 with about 70,000 well-placed votes in three states. He’s trying to kill more than his victory margin. https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1244431843291774977
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 29, 2020 at 4:55:05 PM
I would watch this over and over and over again. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1244356490816872448
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2020 at 11:11:22 PM
@leahmcelrath I think he’s not frightened *because* he’s a germaphobe. Washes his hands every ten minutes, has a body man carrying a bottle of Purell. He’s been preparing for this his whole life. That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2020 at 10:34:30 PM
Me today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM Me 18 months from now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE #covid19playlist
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2020 at 3:59:16 PM
RT @GovMurphy: No one is getting graded on a curve for their social distancing. This isn’t about whether you get an A, or a B-, or whatever…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 28, 2020 at 11:22:54 AM
@dotmariusz No gołąbki? Wonderful list. Going to have to try some of these.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 27, 2020 at 6:34:20 PM
@danrubin Going to develop the film yourself?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 27, 2020 at 1:01:54 AM
@danrubin I don’t expect to leave my house in any significant way until there’s a vaccine. Planning on 18 months or so.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 11:41:06 PM
@sidnny Worth seeing. How can you go wrong with Dustin Hoffman *and* Meryl Streep?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 11:30:11 PM
The motion picture the world has been waiting for! (Cleopatra) https://twitter.com/NSiegel_DC/status/1242967324782743552
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 8:28:15 PM
@forrestfire @danrubin Easily this one I shot with an original 1960s vintage Diana about 15 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://t.co/sCnR3qkvMm
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 6:35:17 PM
RT @anontransman: Retweet this and reply if you care about transgender people. I just wanna see something
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 10:38:12 AM
@DanaSchwartzzz First batch went into the bread maker about an hour and a half ago….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 26, 2020 at 12:39:37 AM
@stribs @KillerMartinis @blackgirlinmain :-(
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 25, 2020 at 8:15:23 PM
RT @Amy_Siskind: The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this @prioritiesUSA…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 9:03:15 PM
@nycsouthpaw @sarahkendzior Things are horrifically bad if that’s the case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 9:01:16 PM
Several guests at a party at Дональд Трамп’s golf course in LA have contracted COVID-19: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/24/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-AEMISCGTCJE5TE6WKQ7FN4ZDJA CDC recommends anyone who recently left a Трамп property should self-quarantine (yeah, right)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 1:36:16 PM
@yraMC @ReclaimTheRecs I answered “Mutt” for that question. Too many to put anything else.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 12:58:05 AM
@maupuia Four weeks here too. I may join you. At least your leader isn’t a sociopath. Really wish I lived in New Zealand right about now....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 12:48:01 AM
Props to @maupuia, who always drunktweets fun excursions through YouTube music….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 12:38:59 AM
This is what got me started tonight, an ominous cover of Once in a Lifetime that outdoes the original. Really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpnnykmzAM
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 12:36:36 AM
My building has every convenience, it’s gonna make life easy for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZYHP6IBoac
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 24, 2020 at 12:05:43 AM
I mean really, it’s like we’re living a Talking Heads song or three these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3A5CKkbH1o
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 23, 2020 at 11:58:10 PM
Portrayal of the world post-Трамp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 23, 2020 at 12:56:05 PM
RT @carolecadwalla: This is brilliant. Exactly what government comms should be doing & isn’t. Stay home. Save lives https://t.co/JG03Jt…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 23, 2020 at 12:12:40 PM
@redcrew Last month.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 22, 2020 at 1:34:33 PM
RT @tribelaw: Please retweet if you support the vital legislation Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden are introducing to make mail-in ball…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 22, 2020 at 12:15:04 PM
@coreywolfen @danrubin I was happy with how these turned out: https://t.co/sXBclKexq1
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 22, 2020 at 8:48:40 AM
Unprotected Beach. No Swimming. Another dry plate I shot last weekend at the national park near us, Sandy Hook. I think these holders aren’t holding the film in the proper plane; I have focusing problems. Look forward to getting the new holders I backed on Kickstarter. https://t.co/jrpNU5bCds
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2020 at 10:21:20 PM
Lot of this going around.... https://twitter.com/stribs/status/1241550156090281984
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2020 at 8:52:28 PM
@markjfine Also bars (and breweries)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 21, 2020 at 3:57:17 PM
This dry plate photo I took last weekend of the Sandy Hook Lifesavers station seems appropriate as we think about the growing pandemic. Want to be a lifesaver? #StayTheFuckHome #StayTheFHome #StayAtHome #StayHomeSaveLives https://t.co/wbVVXV6iwG
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 20, 2020 at 6:25:21 PM
Emergency! Everybody to get from street! https://twitter.com/megansmolenyak/status/1241126078674014210
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 20, 2020 at 3:46:47 AM
@danrubin Terrified chocolate square
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 20, 2020 at 3:38:30 AM
@cdevroe @danrubin 5x7 is rough. It’s kind of the oddball format. Very little film available for it, and none of it in color. You can cut down color 8x10, but at $150 for 10 sheets of Portra, that gets expensive quickly. 4x5 has many more options available.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 20, 2020 at 3:33:19 AM
Or as @sarahkendzior puts it, “A trans-national crime syndicate masquerading as a government” https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1240842623641890819
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 19, 2020 at 11:39:56 AM
Just got the Census mail with our code about a half hour ago and took care of this already https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1240659940328562689
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 18, 2020 at 11:29:35 AM
@karlgroves @SenateGOP @senatemajldr @SenateDems @HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats As soon as we elect a Democratic President
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 17, 2020 at 5:55:35 PM
@msjen Try having a common cold right now. Checking my temperature obsessively, no fever, but stuffy upper chest and head and wet coughs. So I totally get this rational/irrational split….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 17, 2020 at 1:08:45 PM
I so need this. I have an enlarger and very little experience using it. Thank you, @ILFORDPhoto and @VintagePhotoCo https://twitter.com/ILFORDPhoto/status/1239925754928017409
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 16, 2020 at 8:41:58 PM
@danrubin Wise move. Even Cheetoh Mussolini seems to be handling this better than BoJo….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 16, 2020 at 8:08:02 PM
Finally did it, pre-ordered the new book by @sarahkendzior , Hiding in Plain Sight. And to support local businesses in this time of need, I did it through IndieBound. https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/hiding-in-plain-sight/index.html
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 16, 2020 at 6:40:16 PM
@TartanTantrum @monaeltahawy This is true. I was looking at them on Amazon a couple of days ago, and they were sold out.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 15, 2020 at 3:01:13 PM
@stribs Does “delivery” mean delivered by you and/or Amy within a limited radius, or does it include hand delivery by a uniformed US government courier? Asking for a friend (who was asking me last week about Cookie Monster hamentashen....)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 15, 2020 at 12:56:56 PM
Proving that you can be an idiot and be a Democrat. It’s not just Republicans who are too fucking stupid for words. https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1239167513772068865
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2020 at 6:25:03 PM
RT @tina_nguyen: I have a very close friend who’s a researcher studying public health at a major NGO, and he told me that this was THE week…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 14, 2020 at 12:28:17 AM
@susankitchens @Ancestry I’m hoping that http://familysearch.org opens up access to the records they have that are locked down since they closed the Family History Centers for the quarantine
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 12, 2020 at 12:02:02 AM
I’ve been saying this for more than three years, and yet you’re still in the White House. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1237521365525282816
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 11, 2020 at 9:00:56 PM
@emptywheel “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” - Margaret Atwood
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 11, 2020 at 2:17:12 PM
I think I’ve finally found my hand washing song, one that I can remember all the lyrics to: https://t.co/V5ubYKapRe
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 10, 2020 at 9:57:28 PM
For my friends who support Bernie Sanders, I will just remind you of FDR’s response to some of his more liberal constituents: "I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it." The Sanders wing has a role even if Bernie doesn’t win, and it’s to make President Biden do it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 9, 2020 at 6:30:54 PM
Now this one I can remember…. https://twitter.com/surlyshirley/status/1237106496447668227
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 7, 2020 at 4:07:07 PM
Do this! Give money to @WFMU, get @TheRealYLT to play your request. They just played ours! https://twitter.com/WFMU/status/1236381115927191553
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 7, 2020 at 12:34:33 PM
@danrubin So sorry for your loss. 107 is remarkable.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 5, 2020 at 7:38:39 PM
I’m old enough to remember when people said they were open to voting for a woman, just not @HillaryClinton , but if @ewarren would run, she’d be a shoo-in, they could definitely vote for her. #ThankYouElizabeth #WarrenDemocrat
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 5, 2020 at 6:12:30 PM
@markjfine DRM = “Doesn’t Really Matter”
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 5, 2020 at 11:57:09 AM
Gutted. @ewarren was the only candidate who seemed to truly understand the stakes of this election, and more importantly, what was required to prevent this from happening again. No more pardons, no more sweeping under the carpet. Actual accountability. #ThankYouElizabeth
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 4, 2020 at 5:37:22 PM
Election days should be public holidays. Period. That’s the tweet. https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1235319632531161094
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 4, 2020 at 11:03:47 AM
Shot a couple of photos last Saturday on dry plates in my Speed Graphic to test if the repurposed Graflex film pack holders that I turned into plate holders with a bit of 3D printed plastic worked. I think they did. https://t.co/EGFxPjA1UP
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 3, 2020 at 11:25:43 PM
New Jersey votes in June (last primary in the nation). I hope @ewarren is still in the race at that point, because I still believe she would be the best president we’ve had in a very long time. I’ll vote for whoever gets to 1991 in the general, but my heart is still with Warren.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 3, 2020 at 6:03:49 PM
Elizabeth Warren https://twitter.com/stribs/status/1234968266424143872
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 2, 2020 at 6:15:43 PM
@ewarren P.S. #Warren2020 #PresidentWarren #WarrenCanWin #HopeOverFear
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 2, 2020 at 6:08:19 PM
I want to vote on hope. I want to vote for the person I think will be the best president. I want to vote for someone with a clear vision of what the problems are that led to the election of Трамп and a plan to fix it. And that’s why I still support @ewarren. Hope over fear. 2/2
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat March 2, 2020 at 6:05:26 PM
So much of what I see in politics, especially the past couple of days, is about fear. Fear that Bernie will win the nomination and lose to Трамп. Fear of Трамп winning pushing people to make a “safe” choice. It’s sad. I don’t want to vote based on fear. 1/2