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 November 29, 2020 at 11:52:11 AM
@sedno1d @ShittyChallenge The logo is from the KMZ plant. I’m going to guess that it’s a Zenit
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 27, 2020 at 7:19:33 PM
Having bought one of these from the last cache, I have to say you would be a fool not to jump on this. Sol’s photos look gorgeous in this setting…. https://twitter.com/solexposure/status/1332467325874835456
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 26, 2020 at 6:10:07 PM
Turns out the Constitution *is* a suicide pact, after all…. https://twitter.com/deepakguptalaw/status/1331982256433401860
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 25, 2020 at 3:00:31 PM
RT @markrendle: RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar. https://t.co/ZaaniaOdvi
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 25, 2020 at 3:02:58 AM
@SaraSoueidan Ten years ago, he would have been a Flash/Flex programmer and would have thought the same way, substituting ActionScript for JavaScript….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 24, 2020 at 9:06:25 PM
Watching @maddow show HTML code from the Biden web sites. Love it!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 24, 2020 at 11:31:02 AM
@khimscho Congratulations!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 24, 2020 at 9:36:05 AM
@markjfine Yeah, that’s not characteristic of powerline Internet. Would be worth a walk to check the coax.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 24, 2020 at 9:02:26 AM
@markjfine One reason why it’s nice to have an SDR…. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 24, 2020 at 8:40:13 AM
@markjfine If it covers a few hundred kiloHertz, it’s probably powerline Internet. One of my neighbors appears to have it, because a few months ago, 60m and 31m started looking like this: https://t.co/iDNZ9dBKzV
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 22, 2020 at 10:42:46 PM
@danrubin Think I’m going to wait for the next round. My 11 year old cheese grater Mac Pro is starting to feel its age, but the new Mini isn’t that much faster than it according to Geekbench. I suspect the upcoming iMac may blow it out of the water, though….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 21, 2020 at 9:28:14 PM
@StaceyJSpiehler Josephine and Doris
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 21, 2020 at 7:58:21 PM
@jenstrickland They’ve been online for many years, but the product they sell, shortwave radios, are sold cheaper by Amazon, and the Internet has made the medium of shortwave radio nearly obsolete.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 21, 2020 at 7:02:45 PM
@markjfine It’s the last of the shortwave broadcast focused ones. Ham Radio Outlet is still open and has a dozen locations, but they don’t really get broadcasting, even if they’re the only place in the US to buy one of the most popular SDRs, the SDRPlay.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 21, 2020 at 6:18:48 PM
Heartbroken. I’ve been a customer of Universal for decades. I placed my most recent order there a month ago. When I called to place the order, I spoke to the owner, Fred Osterman, who recognized me. The Internet ruins everything. https://twitter.com/SWLingDotCom/status/1330284673289875459
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 20, 2020 at 11:30:57 PM
@Amy_Siskind Are you sure your liver can handle all these wins?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 20, 2020 at 3:43:59 PM
RT @GovMurphy: The mask goes over your nose.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 20, 2020 at 12:23:42 PM
300 baud acoustic coupled modem, paper tape, and teletype terminal https://twitter.com/yoruba_dev/status/1328987589391622151
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 19, 2020 at 9:08:47 PM
January 20, 2021, 12:05 PM https://t.co/Z7JNvQSLiz
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 18, 2020 at 7:15:44 PM
Same. Met my wife there, in fact. https://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/1329197627536191490
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 17, 2020 at 10:40:01 PM
As a native born son of Wayne county and a descendant of one of the founding families of Detroit, Bravo! https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1328882122724155393
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 15, 2020 at 12:31:48 AM
Also a spelling bee winner. The year after I won, I went out in the first round on EXERCISE…. https://twitter.com/katswansey/status/1327842130497310722
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 15, 2020 at 12:30:54 AM
RT @katswansey: I was a spelling bee winner and celieng... I mean ceiling effs me up every single time https://twitter.com/SamMaggs/status/1327723764663033856
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 15, 2020 at 12:00:26 AM
@danrubin Best. Birthday. Ever!!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 13, 2020 at 7:27:01 PM
I might lose followers over this, but it needs to be said. I find it extremely disrespectful when people don’t stand for the national anthem. As soon as you hear “Louie, Louie, oh baby, me gotta go,” you need to be OUT of your fucking seat. https://twitter.com/stribs/status/1327377674008977410
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 13, 2020 at 7:08:58 PM
Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1327343021764079617
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 13, 2020 at 12:06:21 AM
@aklingus https://t.co/yr7i28XTK0
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 11, 2020 at 10:27:27 AM
@Amy_Siskind Nope. 12:01 January 20. He doesn’t get a grace period. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 8, 2020 at 4:33:11 PM
RT @ewarren: Donald Trump did a lot of damage on his own. But he’s just the worst symptom of a corrupt system—and it's going to take more t…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 11:07:05 PM
RT @RichardEngel: Biden speech. None of the Trump swagger. Not sarcastic. Not all about him. It’s about America. About healing. About respe…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 10:22:54 PM
A hundred years from now, Americans will not believe that a Residency ended this way. https://twitter.com/BrentSirota/status/1325203615309590528
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 9:47:16 PM
@stribs Former Senator “Frothy Mix”? People listen to him? I can’t think of him without thinking of the effort to make “Santorum” a synonym for the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 9:06:28 PM
After those speeches, anything Дональд Трамп says that doesn’t respect the results of the election will be small, petty, and irrelevant. January 20th can’t come soon enough.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 8:45:32 PM
Suck it up, buttercups. https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1325243239927066625
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 8:22:20 PM
@stefsull Five year old Belgian Strong Ale (which means it predates the current regime), with a name, “One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty”, that refers to the number of days in four years, the length of time that motherfucker will be limited to as Resident.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 6:04:38 PM
No. He was the logical progression of 50 years of the “Southern strategy”, where the elites in the Republican Party rode herd on racism thinking they could control it, only to find that it devoured their party. Far from an aberration, he was the apotheosis. https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1325207602440118272
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 3:24:10 PM
Germany didn’t. Italy didn’t. Hungary didn’t. Poland didn’t. It ain’t easy. But yay us. Still a lot of work to do to ensure this isn’t just a respite. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1325167846532505601
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 3:17:02 PM
@khimscho Hallefuckinlujah!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 12:59:01 PM
@JulianCastro @leahmcelrath Indeed! https://t.co/kuSkc1jBFc
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 12:17:40 PM
Much better headline from @washingtonpost: BIDEN DEFEATS TRUMP https://t.co/OxY4iEdyI9
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 11:52:41 AM
Still wearing this shirt https://t.co/2ia9L4P0K4
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 11:50:32 AM
RT @sarahkendzior: The US faces a long and dark road as it deals with the systemic problems that allowed Trump to take power and the brutal…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 11:42:54 AM
The @washingtonpost calls it https://t.co/9tN6G5ZM0O
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 7, 2020 at 8:42:23 AM
RT @markjfine: In other words, you can’t save conservatism from itself because it doesn’t know nor want to be saved. They think they are al…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 6, 2020 at 8:27:16 PM
Current mood: https://t.co/fmwPArRazj
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 5, 2020 at 7:22:30 PM
@markjfine all your fault, dude.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 5, 2020 at 7:07:48 PM
RT @robcrilly: Amazing work by AP's @evanvucci https://t.co/63iFyVg5h8
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 5, 2020 at 5:52:47 PM
@solexposure Sweet! Thanks!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 5, 2020 at 5:45:57 PM
@solexposure Hoping mine comes soon. Those are gorgeous!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 5, 2020 at 1:13:59 PM
RT @WFMU: Propaganda, pirates and preachers: the weird wide web of shortwave radio https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/propaganda-pirates-and-preachers (h/t @bourgwick) https://t.co/1r…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 10:48:59 AM
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 7:37:55 AM
@khimscho I’m not going nuts. Трамп’s only realistic path to victory at this point is through the courts. I’m disappointed that this wasn’t a thorough repudiation, but I’d still rather be Biden than Трамп in this situation. It’s going to be messy for a few days, but I’m still hopeful.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 6:13:28 AM
@khimscho STFU. They’re still counting votes in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. Biden has more paths to 270 than his opponent, and Wisconsin and Michigan, which both look promising, will put him over.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 12:26:33 AM
@markjfine Yeah, I’ll never understand why people get so mad when someone wants to make sure they have adequate healthcare. (Actually, that’s the racism too. It’s okay with them to do without if it means they’re not paying for healthcare for the hated, undeserving Black people….)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 12:19:20 AM
I think the saddest thing about tonight is that there are 232,584 reasons not to vote for Дональд Трамп, but racism is so strong that a huge percentage of the people who voted for him in 2016 still voted for him in 2020. Trumpism is a nihilistic death cult, and they don’t care.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 4, 2020 at 12:14:17 AM
@markjfine You’re going to be awake all week, then….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 11:51:26 PM
RT @johncusack: Truly long live death - @avapiemama: @johncusack Almost quarter of a million Americans dead, and people are still voting …
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 10:37:49 PM
RT @leahmcelrath: We won’t know the results of the election tonight, but we do know one thing: We hoped for a complete and overwhelming re…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 10:35:03 PM
Going to really need this if Дональд Трамп wins…. https://twitter.com/MarijuanaPolicy/status/1323815101384871937
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 5:26:13 PM
@markjfine Two others you might find useful: http://www.topazdesigns.com/ambc/ Great for formats https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php really strong for stations outside the US
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 3:13:32 PM
My wife @JerseyGrrrl voting about four weeks ago. NJ went to all mail-in ballots because of the pandemic, with drop boxes all over the place. Thanks, @GovMurphy, for making it so easy to vote. We should move to secure, unhackable #HandMarkedPaperBallots from this point forward. https://t.co/3FzdHmocs0
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 10:49:56 AM
He knows. I think this makes me feel better than anything I’ve seen in the polls. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1323608060590477313
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 3, 2020 at 9:27:38 AM
RT @balkowitsch: VOTE! "POTUS Revealed" - I took this wet plate on January 25th, 2017, four days into his Presidency. How quickly he reve…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 2, 2020 at 10:24:17 PM
@leahmcelrath Tell us what you really think. 🤪
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 1, 2020 at 9:09:03 PM
If everything the media says is “battleground” breaks toward @JoeBiden.... https://t.co/Ew0L6W30V0
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat November 1, 2020 at 2:48:02 PM
@markjfine Nah. We already passed 100 years in August, the anniversary of the beginning of broadcasts by WWJ in Detroit. 🤪
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2020 at 10:04:43 PM
The Republican party must be destroyed. It’s not enough to defeat them. They have to be absolutely demolished, humiliated to the point where they crawl back into the holes they crawled out of four years ago. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1322719750997352451
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