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From 4 different states, but; all of my grandparents had colonial Maryland ancestry. And my direct paternal 4GGM's younger sister moved to and died in the same town in GA that my grandmother moved back to from DC with my father and aunts after she divorced my grandfather in the late 1950's.

(2/2) this varies by state; most states didn't see full compliance until the early 1930s or so. The most interesting info I obtained from those was discovering that the physician who delivered my paternal grandfather was a 4th cousin several times removed on my mother's side.

Yes; 1923-1927, one from Kentucky, one from DC, one from Georgia, one from Mississippi. My paternal grandfather's birth certificate from DC is amended; there was no name initially, just "infant", but there is a note attached dated some years later with his given names. (1/2)

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Having them read back to him before being offered a last cigarette?

Rumour is that his dick broke thanks to a faulty penile implant and that's why all his kids are IVF. How true that may, one can't say, but it's highly probable that he's never had sexual intercourse with the mothers of most of his children.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's also the name of a pretty decent instrumental track by Barry Adamson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjpG...

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Barry Adamson - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Official Audio)

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get fucked, you're a gaggle of useless fucking cunts, your endorsement of Kaptur makes these words exceptionally hollow

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Washington was 6'2" and 220 lbs and was an expert horseman and swordsman; wouldn't care for my odds one on one against either.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe he's started hanging around Hot Topic to chat up 14 year old goth girls?

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My 4th g-grandfather's uncle and brother were members of the Maryland House of Delegates, his 1C1R & great-nephew were both elected US Senator and governor; he went bankrupt in the 1830s, and my 3rd great-grandfather was a wallpaper hanger and policeman.

Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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I've never been a top 40 type of guy so i hadn't paid him any mind previous but for reasons that have nothing to do with music it has been an absolute delight to watch ed sheeran eat shit this past week

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wolfenstein games and Mafia 3 are both cathartic because you get to kill Nazis and Klansmen.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The trick is presenting that in a way that makes Trump feel like he's won.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also it is hard for many people to overcome a belief system into which they were indoctrinated from a very young age. Especially if they belong to an insular community sharing those beliefs and constantly reinforcing them.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"techies" (or techies*, with the asterisk leading to a paragraph of explanation about how the site devs code with AI and one of them thought he could cool off his phone by throwing it in a swimming pool, so maybe it doesn't mean "technically proficient")

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

it's as simple as i see no evidence that national dems intend to resist, let alone stop, fascism, and i want to convice folks to stop relying on them to do so. because fascism must be stopped and they are in the way. that's it. that's my whole entire thing.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

Remember the fuel protests in the UK? Something like that from independent trucking owner/operators in places like Shreveport, Galveston, Long Beach, etc (wherever there's a refinery/port), probably.

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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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My 2nd great-grandfather's 1st cousin eloped with the daughter of a United States senator whose sister married a French duke, so that sort of thing DOES happen occasionally!

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"Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing!" -Cave Johnson

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's about what you'd expect from someplace that prides itself on its connections to Ronald Reagan, honestly.

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Man, that '53 Chevy is gorgeous.

VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Protection is a seriously slept on album, too (but then, hard coming between two masterpieces): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi76...

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Massive Attack - Karmacoma

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is pretty much what the median white US liberal believed about Black Americans' self-reported experiences of racism, until the arrival of smartphones meant that everyone had a video camera with them all the time to record, say, interactions with police, etc.

En Lilitu-Sin @enlilitusin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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The Democrats love picking fights and strategies that rip defeat out of the jaws of victory every single time. Whether it's attacking trans rights, attacking progressive Social Democrats, attacking Twitch Streamers, or just outright siding with Republicans. They are actively choosing to lose

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You have to be an utter moron to assume someone who won't vote Democrat because of transphobia would ever vote Republican! Swear to god the idea that politics is a team sport has cooked the brains of entirely too many Americans.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You see, calling out a genocide is antisemitic unlike supporting actual German fascists, which is just old fashioned free speech.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My feelings are neither here nor there and whatever I may feel doesn't alter the fact that Israel is a blood-and-soil ethnostate built on ethnic cleansing and currently committing genocide. If anything, you may wish to consider why you feel positive feelings for such a state.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

wife: did you see trump dyed his hair? me: those last two words really flopped

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ICYMI: Le Guin's assessment of the Harry Potter books, from an interview in The Guardian (09 Feb 2004). www.theguardian.com/books/2004/f...

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yep, my own German immigrant ancestors were varied, from the Rhineland Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and *possibly* what was then Bohemia (no idea on that line before arrival in Baltimore in the 1750's, but they were United Brethren, which has roots in the Hussite movement).

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VG @electrocutionist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also, there was a lot of colonial-era German immigration, but most came after 1848, which means there was an existing German-American culture to integrate into; Irish Catholic, not so much.