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 December 31, 2021 at 6:56:52 PM
@markjfine I know, but I had to post this in a way that I could use my 2020 Free pun….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2021 at 6:46:55 PM
As the calendar moves over from March 671, 2020 to March 672, 2020, and we say goodbye to 2020 Won and hello to 2020 Too, I wish everyone a Healthy New Year. Maybe we can make next year 2020 Free. Masks, vaccinations, social distancing, the whole nine yards.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2021 at 1:30:27 PM
If you’re looking for a charity to donate to on the last day of the year, I recommend Partners in Health. Charity Navigator gives them a five star exceptional rating; almost 90% of your gift actually goes to the work. They work in the poorest countries. https://pih.org/
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2021 at 9:27:50 AM
Roller Coaster Just off the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach. At large amusement parks, roller coasters look dangerous because they appear to test the limits of physics. On the boardwalk, they look dangerous because they appear to test the limits of maintenance #FilmPhotography https://t.co/KVWDv6QoCh
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2021 at 9:09:53 AM
@tarnography @ShittyChallenge @ILFORDPhoto @klizana Most important Holga tip of all times: Remove the lens cap before you shoot. In fact, remove it and throw it away. The lens is cheap plastic and would probably be improved by some grime and scratches anyway, and you don’t want to forget to take the lens cap off and miss a shot.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 31, 2021 at 8:33:35 AM
I was a heavy user of Shortwave Navigator back in the day. It was an amazing set of HyperCard stacks that had every piece of information you could want about what was on the air, and then just click on the info and your radio would tune to it. So cool. Sorry to see Jim is gone. https://twitter.com/kaedotcom/status/1476891238666223624
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 30, 2021 at 8:56:36 PM
The Cutest Nephew in the World® is 12 years old today! Happy birthday! Cc: @ksbrandi
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 30, 2021 at 6:48:55 PM
@Costco @costcocanada Not that Costco or Costco Canada will ever see this. They walked away from Twitter a couple of years ago. I don’t have a Facebook account any more, So they have no way of putting out this fire here. Pretty fucking stupid for a company that big. https://t.co/rSH5HQ1KOD
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 30, 2021 at 6:40:21 PM
Hey @Costco, you’re pretty progressive here in the US; you might want to look into your Canadian subsidiary. At least one @costcocanada employee needs to find themselves on the unemployment line pronto. https://twitter.com/tolu_xyz/status/1476614096351121410
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 29, 2021 at 10:01:32 AM
This whole thread. Seriously. Biden promised in his campaign that we would have rapid tests. We don’t. That’s a serious mistake. Not OR. AND. Vaccinations AND masks AND rapid tests AND genome sequencing. We need them ALL. Just vaccines was always going to give us an Omicron. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1476059013594943491
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 28, 2021 at 12:14:57 PM
@katswansey I hope you told him to go fuck himself with a chainsaw. We will be paying for the coarseness unleashed by TFG for decades.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 28, 2021 at 9:28:26 AM
Fun House On the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach Zenit Horizon Kompakt, Argenti Nanotomic-X EI 50, Rodinal 1:100 18 minutes. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #ShittyCameraChallenge https://t.co/KEXeqQoB6H
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 27, 2021 at 11:12:00 PM
RT @donkeyattack: Please enable Exposure Notifications (EN) on your phone if you haven’t to help with contact tracing. This is a great thr…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 27, 2021 at 6:01:56 PM
Think I hit the #ShittyCameraChallenge Daily Double today at the camera store; not only is this camera cheap plastic, it was Made In Czechoslovakia. Perfect timing for me to #GetMono in January. Cc @ShittyChallenge https://t.co/z40ln3hsOZ
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 27, 2021 at 1:13:52 PM
I like Joe Biden and think he’s done a pretty good job as President, but there’s no question that the lack of tests two years into the pandemic and nearly a year after he took office is a fuck up of epic proportions. He deserves criticism for that. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1475512418646347779
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 26, 2021 at 7:58:03 PM
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 26, 2021 at 9:17:49 AM
Bayshore Waterfront Park Raritan Bay is just over the dunes from here. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #ItJustSmellsFunny https://t.co/iNWAJS0301
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 25, 2021 at 2:13:04 PM
@katswansey Merry Christmas, Kat!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 25, 2021 at 1:50:20 PM
RT @WFMU: An informative and entertaining deep dive into the history and legacy of the Waitresses' “Christmas Wrapping with songwriter/band…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 24, 2021 at 8:23:50 PM
@danrubin I backed it. I’ll let you know how it works. The first version is still available.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 23, 2021 at 9:43:52 PM
@katswansey Thank you for posting your work to Twitter. I haven’t logged on to IG in a month or two, and I missed seeing it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 23, 2021 at 4:04:00 PM
@leahmcelrath Crap. PCR as soon as you can. Call your doctor and see if you can get some Paxlovid, the new Pfizer drug. There’s not much available, but it should be available as of today or tomorrow, and with your history, you’d be a good candidate for it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 23, 2021 at 3:08:54 PM
@leahmcelrath If have seven minutes to spare, this short film about photographer David Godlis, who shot lots of photos at CBGB in the late 70s, is worth watching: https://psyche.co/films/the-photographer-who-captured-the-cool-dark-birthplace-of-punk-rock
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 23, 2021 at 7:29:11 AM
Sea-Land Sea Warehouse across the street from the Belford Seafood Co-op Fish Market. Zenit Horizon Kompakt, Ferrania P30, Rodinal 1:50 14 minutes. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #ItJustSmellsFunny https://t.co/cxoNVlZttc
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 8:23:21 PM
These books are fantastic. Sol is an amazing photographer. The book she shot with disposable cameras is a masterpiece of sequencing (and inspired me in my own efforts on an upcoming zine). Seriously, you need to get these. https://twitter.com/solexposure/status/1473780505678004224
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 8:02:18 PM
@katswansey This is why I’m wearing a KN95 mask when I leave the house this week. Tested negative last Thurs, want to stay that way so I can see The Cutest Nephew in the World on Friday, who I haven’t seen in over two years. A rapid test on Christmas morning should cover incubation period.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 7:47:27 PM
If I read the map correctly, Middletown is now divided between @FrankPallone ’s 6th district and @AndyKimNJ ’s 4th district, and the dividing line is Route 36, which puts me in the 4th. Yay!!!!! Best possible update as far as I’m concerned. https://twitter.com/StephLSchmid/status/1473723354439983113
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 7:26:33 PM
Genocide. Deliberate murder of Democrats. Not that this is news; we knew at the time that they looked at who was dying initially (residents of the liberal NYC area) and decided to do nothing because they (we) weren’t their voters. https://twitter.com/redcrew/status/1473720499054293001
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 7:11:30 PM
RT @emilyakopp: I feel like I'm LOSING IT. I just learned that the White House is dodging calls from manufacturers with hundreds of milli…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 22, 2021 at 2:17:40 PM
@danrubin There’s this, the second version of a scanner that came out a couple of years ago https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2125914059/revopoint-pop2-high-precision-3d-scanner
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 21, 2021 at 7:10:47 PM
RT @leahmcelrath: “What’s stochastic terrorism?”
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 10:47:14 PM
@katswansey 🙋♂️
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 10:24:40 PM
@ncjay Oh, and he marked my account as read-only for the forum. Just noticed that. Fuck jks. Fuck his fucking insecure poorly programmed piece of shit radio. Taking a sledgehammer to mine.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 10:01:40 PM
@susankitchens Same, except that my wife got lucky and found an antigen test that evening. Both negative, and I’m feeling better now.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 9:59:03 PM
@ncjay I would be fired if I ever set up a web server to run that way. He calls out “run-as-root” as something that is “difficult to solve, have no solution or are way down on the priority list”. In other words, he’s too stupid to solve a problem and doesn’t give a shit about security.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 9:53:20 PM
@ncjay I took mine down months ago. I refuse to run a machine that runs a server as the root user inside my network. A fucking teenager would know better than to do that, but not jks. And when I posted to the forum asking about it, he deleted the post and closed the forum (temporarily)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 9:28:11 PM
@GovMurphy @NJDeptofHealth @vaulthealth Antigen tests, please.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 20, 2021 at 7:27:28 PM
Maybe if we passed BBB and the child tax credit and they were pulled out of poverty they wouldn’t be so fucking miserable that drugs seemed like a reasonable escape. https://twitter.com/stefsull/status/1472971073587224576
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 18, 2021 at 6:30:28 PM
I really hit the jackpot today… https://t.co/8uv5oEjolh
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 17, 2021 at 9:38:59 PM
RT @leahmcelrath: IF THE @POTUS @JoeBiden @WhiteHouse WERE DOING EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THIS LETHAL AND DISABLING VI…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 17, 2021 at 9:26:14 AM
Belford Harbor Last weekend I went to pick up a couple of Kiev II rangefinders I was having repaired at a camera store on the other side of the state. When I was there, the owner showed me a NOS Zenit Horizon Kompakt. Laura bought it for me as a gift. #FilmPhotography #Film https://t.co/JjJsN3UP5C
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 16, 2021 at 11:47:12 PM
@epersonae Donated. Love letterpress. This is heartbreaking.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 16, 2021 at 10:37:57 PM
@heysarahsweeney @stribs If that’s self care, I’ve been engaging in self care for the past decade….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 15, 2021 at 12:09:26 AM
RT @chipfranklin: Retweet if you want the NRA legally liable for EVERY mass shooting!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2021 at 9:43:34 PM
@twatson @tryglass I was waiting for you guys to open for over a year after seeing posts by my friend @danrubin of his photos there. Stopped posting to IG for months hoping you would open soon. Delighted once you did to subscribe the first day. Loving the experience now.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 14, 2021 at 8:32:19 AM
Ocean Steps away from the bustle of the Atlantic City boardwalk with the casinos and such, there’s this. Shot in mid-November with my Graflex RB Super D 4x5 on Kodak Tri-X 320 TXP. https://t.co/qSIuBxY24l
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 13, 2021 at 4:49:47 AM
This is my brother Steve on his birthday in May, 2010. He died on this day 11 years ago. I miss him. I fucking hate December. https://t.co/FDbfXHKIsp
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2021 at 6:37:27 PM
@tashmahal Will do. Have to work this coming week, then have two weeks off. Will definitely fit it in then.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2021 at 5:49:14 PM
@tashmahal How is it I never heard of this film? Love love love Sleaford Mods. Going to have to watch this over the holiday break.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 12, 2021 at 1:31:40 PM
@i_williamson1 @ChrisGreenwayUK @sommervilletv @BBCMonitoring Pretty sure I still have my Solidarnosc button from back then, too….
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 11, 2021 at 7:31:05 PM
Sitting in a diner in NJ. Two TVs. To my left, News12NJ interviewing @CoryBooker (think local CNN). To my right, NEWSMAX with a Chyron reading “BIDEN’S COMMIE CAB. NOM WITHDRAWS”. It’s like a case of whiplash going from one to the other.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 11, 2021 at 12:10:42 PM
RT @MerriMayhem: 🍁🍂 https://t.co/cvcfAnPSfa
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 10, 2021 at 7:44:33 PM
K-E-Double Hell-O-G-Double Goons Kellogg’s Goons Beat You! https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1469031094842544141
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 10, 2021 at 12:06:48 AM
For anyone wondering why Steve Van Zandt showed up in the farewell package at the end of Brian Williams’s last 11th Hour, know that both of them grew up within a mile of where I sit in Middletown, New Jersey.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 9, 2021 at 10:44:34 PM
RT @surlyshirley: https://t.co/nr7rA9lFcZ
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 9, 2021 at 10:11:50 PM
@karlgroves Fine art photography
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2021 at 7:48:35 PM
@simon_diamond @ShittyChallenge 6x12 was the giveaway. I got the glass lenses for mine, too.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2021 at 7:43:23 PM
@simon_diamond @ShittyChallenge Lomographic Society BelAir.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2021 at 1:07:16 PM
@CleverTitleTK Amazon Web Services is having problems
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2021 at 8:36:04 AM
Pinky Shrimp’s Seafood Company Seen in Ship Bottom, Long Beach Island, NJ. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #ContaxIIIa #AdoxScala https://t.co/GChU34aoOJ
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 7, 2021 at 8:32:14 AM
This is me, age 5 months, on my dad’s shoulders. My dad died 12 years ago today. I miss him. https://t.co/dyg9sMqtSh
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 6, 2021 at 9:04:02 PM
Yes, @PressSec, I *do* think the US should be sending out rapid #COVID19 tests to every household. Multiple tests. Every week. This attitude is why we’re still stuck in our fucking house. https://twitter.com/mkarolian/status/1467959999645298697
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 5, 2021 at 8:15:29 AM
Al Fresco Dining Al Fresco was a thing on the boardwalk long before the pandemic. Not so much during the chilly off season, though. #ContaxIIIa #AdoxScala #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead https://t.co/9WtKSZVN4Q
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 4, 2021 at 8:13:48 PM
@sarahkendzior Gołobki!!!!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 2, 2021 at 5:11:19 PM
This is my 10,000th tweet. I’ve been here for close to 15 years. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be here though, as Twitter moves to protect Nazis and wife beaters. WTF? This place is turning into the worst of all possible social networks. https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1466244703725047816
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 2, 2021 at 9:31:35 AM
Sky Ride In season, you can ride this for much of the length of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Off-season, no. #film #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead https://t.co/ZTpj3nnqtP
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 2, 2021 at 9:18:26 AM
RT @thereisnocat: @thomasfuchs I evaluated XMosaic for possible licensing as a help system for an XWindows app I was working on, but recomm…
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 2, 2021 at 9:16:47 AM
@thomasfuchs I evaluated XMosaic for possible licensing as a help system for an XWindows app I was working on, but recommended against because it didn’t support tables.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 1, 2021 at 9:39:18 PM
I deleted my Facebook account a couple of years ago. I stopped using Instagram a couple of months ago. If Twitter is bound and determined to turn themselves into Parler, I’ll delete my account here too after 15 years here. Taking suggestions for refugee social networks…. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1466233350218297344
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat December 1, 2021 at 6:51:28 PM
The court survived the stench of Bush v. Gore. It’s been clear for over 20 years that the court is nakedly political. Appalling as today is, it’s nothing new or unexpected if you’ve been paying attention. https://twitter.com/schwartzapfel/status/1466063159576481799