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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"I think you’re eminently worthy of a state-sponsored honeypot scheme" One of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

In America, we elect our government officials based on who the burger restaurants endorse #uspol

A post on social media app NextDoor that says, "That statement from Steak and Shake seems that Jon Husted is very caring about their customers. Aren't their customers our citizens? Jon Husted is a good man and deserves our vote for senator!"

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Raymond @raymond.social.cologne.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

It's really interesting to see which of my photos on Wikimedia Commons have been viewed the most over the past 12 months. This was my first time using @kevin's tool. Thanks so much for developing it, Kevin […] [Original post on social.cologne]

Die 5 meist angesehen Fotos: 2 x Angela Merkel, 1 x Cem Özdemir, 1 x Mel C und Udo Lindenberg

Screenshot der Auswertung mit total über 310 Millionen Abrufen bei über 66000 Dateiem

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Reviewing a Commons image for AI-generation and seeing the book titled "I Love My White Shoes", yet Pete's shoes are red. Idiot.

An AI-generated image of a book called "Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes". The cover features a black cat wearing red sneakers.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Trying my hand at creating my first Abstract #Wikipedia article. Can't say I know what I'm doing.

A screenshot of an article called Ohio, that says "Ohio is an Ohio"

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Category:Religious_controversies_in_photography currently has two articles: - Piss Christ - Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Reli…

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Category:Religious controversies in photography - Wikipedia

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Eating this to get the vibrio + RFK Jr parasite combo and immediately shitting myself to death

Screenshot of a recipe for Yum Hoy (oyster and lettuce wrap)

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

As we prepare the cabin for landing, now's a great time to wrap up your last dogshit vibecoding session and put your laptops away.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Back in the US after spending time in France and Italy. Philadelphia airport toilets backing up with poop and piss all over the floor. Very fitting.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I'm watching a guy use his iPad to remote into a Windows PC and use a virtual mouse to work on Microsoft Excel and it looks absolutely miserable

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Another day, another reminder that no one should be using Google Cloud as a serious cloud solution.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

From Sami Smith, a delightful website where you can explore #Wikipedia like it's a Windows XP file system. explorer.samismith.com

A screenshot of a website showing Wikipedia exploration in a Windows XP-like interface, with windows open for Wildlife of Kenya and Hippopotamus.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

Coffee shop playing Aly & AJ's Potential Breakup Song

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Sora was such a terrible bullshit slop machine that I completely forgot it was from OpenAl and had it mentally filed as a Meta product.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

*hands shaking as I open my third can of cold brew* What are they hiding from me 🧐

A chat with ChatGPT in which I ask, "How many mg of caffeine is too much". ChatGPT responds, "This content couldn't be shown for safety reasons".

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Not a Wikipedia edit war on Ali Khamenei for changing "is" to "was" and back again 😭

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Someone suggested that a photo looks AI generated. I took a look and it was from 2013, taken on a BlackBerry Curve. I'm having a weird realization that the newer generations don't recognize that washed-out early-smartphone camera look.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

The Samsung T7 Shield 4TB SSD that I bought on sale in Nov 2024 for $269.99, just jumped in price from $499 to $799. We’re cooked 😭

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

I've been working on a script to edit photo metadata, and the more I learn about the nuances of EXIF and XMP and IPTC the more horrified I become.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

San Francisco city inspectors photograph graffiti violations across the city. Riley Walz scraped 100,000 of these photos. "Street art, through the lens of the law." walzr.com/sf-graffiti

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San Francisco Graffiti

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Just saw a "Sent from AOL on Android" I didn't even know that was a possibility

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

[elon musk, grok, nazism] Last year, Musk criticized Wikipedia's coverage of his infamous salute. Wikipedia has an article on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_sal… Was curious to see Grokipedia's own coverage, and found that there's an […] [Original post on payravi.xyz]

A screenshot of a Wikipedia article covering Musk's gesture that was compared to a Nazi salute. Musk comments, "Since legacy media propaganda is considered a 'valid' source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!"

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

For Wikipedia's 25th birthday, I'm sharing Wiki Arcade, a virtual directory of wiki-powered games made by amazing people. 🕹️ playwiki.games There are too many games to highlight in one post, but some of my favorites: 🕵️ Wiki Mystery: A Wikipedia […] [Original post on payravi.xyz]

A virtual arcade cabinet featuring various wiki-themed games

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

#Wikipedia essay by Christophe Henner, worth a read: "Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call. The internet is booming. We are not." meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Schist…

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User:Schiste/what-now - Meta-Wiki

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Fun Wikimedia discussion header of the day: "Third Geneva Convention, Article 13 and Wikimedia Commons"

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

"What an unprocessed photo looks like", a great look at processing a RAW image, by @nothacking maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo

A series of six photos showing various steps of exploring and processing a RAW photo of a Christmas tree

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

I guess there was an attorney somewhere at some point.

A screenshot from the Epstein files released on December 19, 2025, showing a post-it note with multiple words blacked out. Only the word "attorney" is visible.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Website was getting slammed by a shitty AI scraper, and I found this user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.) Makes me want to scream, but I also appreciate how upfront it is.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

On a flight from Helsinki to JFK and noticed the northern lights while north of Iceland (first time seeing them!). Took my camera out and I'm quite happy with this 2.5 seconds hand-held exposure. ✈️🌌

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

New CEO of Wikimedia Foundation announced :wikipedia: diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/09/welco… "The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will officially join on January […]

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

I know it's just a terabyte but, incredible to me that this is all for free.

An email from Cloudflare that says: Your 2025 Cloudflare Year in Review. Here is how we improved security and performance for your 23 domains this last year.

Total Bandwidth: 1.3 TB
Total Bandwidth
Total Requests: 57,386,059
Cached Bandwidth: 1.1 TB
Bandwidth Saved: 87.9%
Threats Mitigated: 5,036
Requests Mitigated as Threats: 0.01%

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

Great things happening in Ohio :ohio_flag:

A Facebook Marketplace listing for a homemade mobile picnic table built onto a stretched John Deere riding mower frame. The listing text says, "Mobile picnic table" for $1,750 in Medina, Ohio, with a description noting a 22-horsepower Briggs & Stratton engine, working headlights, and spare belts.

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Going to the moon was awe-inspiring! Flying a helicopter on Mars, mind-blowing! But apart from the eradication of smallpox, I honestly believe #Wikipedia might be the greatest achievement by human kind! The collaborative effort of millions of people, spending countless hours to gather […]

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Kate Zimmerman @kzeta.wikimedia.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in January, and our amazing creative teams in the Wikimedia Foundation put together this video that I love. Fun fact! There are something like 500 attributions for images, sounds, and text in the video 🤯 […] [Original post on wikimedia.social]

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Loving the new #Wikipedia 25th anniversary video, from the Wikimedia Foundation :wikipedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP2…

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Jimmy Wales doing an AMA on Reddit, if anyone wants to see his answers or ask any questions :wikipedia: www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments…

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

I keep getting this targeted ad on Meta platforms, and I appreciate that my habits have somehow tricked them into thinking I'm a woman (wrong) in California (wrong) who has been incarcerated (wrong).

An ad that says, "Were you sexually abused at a California Women Prison? Check for settlement"

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

"Nothing unifies people like a factoid"

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

The juxtaposition in the "Read more" section below a New York Times article about Jimmy Kimmel's show being pulled.

A screenshot of two article titles. The first is, "Washginton Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting". The second is, "Fox Host Apologizes for Suggesting Lethal Injections for Mentally Ill Homeless People".

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

All those years of FarmVille ended up being worth $34.28 🤑

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

#Wikipedia friends and game developers around NYC! :wikipedia: We're hosting a WikiGameJam in Brooklyn, October 3-5. This will be a hackathon for brainstorming and building cool wiki-themed games. 👾 wikigamejam.org

WikiGameJam 2025 at Hex House, Oct 3 to 5

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

I look like one of those business types on planes with my laptop out before takeoff, furiously making deals. Except I'm just selling stamps on Neopets.

A screenshot from Fergie's "Glamorous" music video, showing Fergie walking on an airport tarmac, carrying a bag towards her private jet.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Back in 2009, I wrote one of my earliest Wikipedia articles on Mandazi, a form of fried bread from Eastern Africa. Now that I'm in Kenya for #Wikimania, I finally got to try it for the first time!

A photo of Kevin Payravi holding a Mandazi in one hand, and a phone displaying the Wikipedia article about Mandazi in the other.

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Kevin Payravi @kevin.payravi.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Fellow Wikimedians at London Heathrow, en route to Nairobi for #Wikimania ! :wikipedia:

A group of six Wikimedians in an airport terminal, posing and smiling for the photo

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