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Young GenXer. #ActuallyAutistic. Unapologetic leftist. I block TERFs, fascists, Zionists, and their apologists.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not the result I was expecting; my dad was born in DC, and his family have been there since the 1820's, but I never lived there myself. Moved around a lot as a kid, and my speech-formative years were spent in California and Florida, then 20 years in Georgia, then a decade in the UK.
Dialect map, showing my results as most similar to someone from Washington, DC, and least similar to someone from Minneapolis (but not more than 50% similar to anywhere particular).
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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
No surviving inscribed books that I know of, but this description of a distant cousin indicates that she was likely acquainted with law books, among others ("Judge Whittington" was William Whittington, 1770-1827, who served as chief judge of Maryland's 4th Judicial District):
Image from p. 211 of "Annals & Memorials of the Handys and Their Kindred", by Isaac W.K. Handy (published 1992, Clements Library, University of Michigan) 

1.4.2.1.2. Comfort Handy (b.1773)

Miss Comfort Handy of Nassawadux is said to have been one of the most talented women ever "raised" in Worcester Co., Md. She was well-acquainted with geography, history, and politics, and could converse with fluency and intelligence upon almost any subject. She could draw as good a bond, or deed, as any professional man in the county, and Judge Whittington used to say that he would rather encounter any lawyer of his acquaintance in debate than Miss Comfort.
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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The cover of the 1991 album "Blue Lines", by Bristol trip-hop group Massive Attack; the art depicts a square manila envelope, sealed with a red diamond-shaped sticker bearing the international hazard symbol for "flammable").The cover of the 1998 album "Psyence Fiction", by UNKLE (consisting, at the time, of DJ Shadow and James Lavelle); the art features stylised caricatures that may represent aliens. The cover of the 1998 album "The K&D Sessions", consisting of remixes by the Austrian duo of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister; the cover features an out of focus photo of two men standing in a field.
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