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sometimes artist, everyday ratboy ghosts of art posts past: mason-santomare.neocities.org

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
this is... wild actually? it's just been a birthright trip fund for east coast teens this entire time?
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I will never be tall but I will always look good in high-heeled boots
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱
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Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment
Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
CASEY IS SO GOOD!!!!!! I have shown this to everyone I know
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
me when I go for a run
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
going through my watch list is so funny because there's really only three categories of movies on there: Horror, Despair, and Lesbian
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
the first guy to assemble an orchestra to play must have felt like god
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"one of the things that impressed me the most was that you could get on a subway car and see everybody—businessmen, construction workers, teachers, homeless people, students, teenage breakdancers, every race, all types of nationalities, all together, at least momentarily, in the same space, equal."
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
thinking about the guy in front of us at CVS who was on a very long call to move funds around to purchase 4 bottles of water, a container of astroglide, and a huge box of condoms. godspeed to you I hope it was worth every penny
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Bicicleteiros @bicicleteiros.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto
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hii i'm 𝙯𝙤𝙚 @tipcalculator.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED BABYYY
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Happy Pride
Daddy's Car Wash, a business whose electronic sign also adds "bottoms blasted here"
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
the wildfire resource you're actually looking for is "water" and you're wasting it by running a totally useless AI. thanks
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I finally got my T auto-injector approved after fighting with insurance for a year and then I was TOO SCARED to use it even though I've been doing regular injections for 5 years!? I made Carol Ann do the first one...it was fine lmao
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
you guys ever seen a movie?? thinking of trying one out
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
wikipedia table of content with sections: sexuality. musical interests. special abilities. hot dog.
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mattmatatt.bsky.social @mattmatatt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Father Pizzaballa himself @adamcarey.bsky.social created the image. Together we will choose the new pope.
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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
but im a jeep im a vehicle what the hell am i doing here beep beep honk honk steer
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Fraser @condimentwords.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
There’s a tornado warning for the Texas town with the world’s largest knife, and baby, I wanna see some results
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
getting Goggins whiplash going between Gemstones and White Lotus
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
curious to know whether this was a coincidence, an homage, or a ripoff. The 2007 piece Fringe by indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore vs. the movie poster for The Substance
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
it's finally been long enough that I can replay Return of the Obra Dinn
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
another win...my wrist injury preventing me from working qualified me for the hospital charity program, so my two heart surgery balances have been waived 💸 Between those and my MRI getting reimbursed I've been spared $4200 in additional medical bills. Now it's only Obi bills left
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Taken from a FB account:
Time for a decidedly unusual news story.
It has been a shade less than 3 years since former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated. The man responsible for that crime, Tetsuya Yamagami, said that he did it because Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were in bed with the Unification Church. And the Unification Church, as part of its approach, is in the habit of shaking down adherents for all of their assets. Yamagami feels that the Church is responsible for his family's financial ruin, and that Abe and the LDP are, in effect, accessories. Since the Unification Church (Full name: Family Federation for World Peace and Unification) is based on South Korea, it's beyond the reach of a Japanese national. Abe, by contrast, was not. Hence the assassination.
And now, the most unusual aspect of the story. The Japanese government has spent the years since Abe's death investigating Yamagami's claims, and concluded that he's 100% correct. His family really was ruined by the Unification Church. Abe and the LDP really were in bed with the Church; more than three-quarters of LDP members in the Japanese Parliament had received financial support from the Church. And so, while the assassination certainly was not legal, it was rational. Undoubtedly, Luigi Mangione smiled and nodded when he heard about this story.
Consequently, although this is not generally how this is supposed to work, the Japanese government got to work trying to solve the problem that Yamagami had highlighted, in violent fashion. Prosecutors took the Unification Church to court, and this week they won. Assuming the decision stands up on appeal, the Unification Church will lose its tax-exempt status and will have to surrender its ill-gotten gains. And this is actually the third time Japan has implemented this penalty; the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult (sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways) and Myokakuji group (gross fraud) got the same treatment.
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I had a dream I missed a deadline on a book, and was frantically checking my email for the file. When I found it the book was called AAAAAUUGGHHHHH and it was a single page that said AAAAAUUGGHHHHH
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory
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West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
once again awake at 2am for reasons unknown to me or science
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Chappell Roan’s The Giver, a song literally about lesbian topping she did as a country anthem cause she thought it was funny, used for Hockey Night in Canada’s opening tonight & it’s even funnier
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
1 problem
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
how it feels buying food right now
a Royal Farms gas station sign that says TURKEY SUB 2 FOR $500
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Thank you everyone who is sharing this and donating, I was able to pay off about $1k of Obi's $7k bill so far, which is a huge amount! even having to pay a little less interest/month is a lifesaver
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I hate having to make a Post, but I'm having a hard time financially. I lost my cat of 14 years in November, and paying off vet and medical bills has become impossible after sustaining a wrist injury in January. If you want more details here's a link yourwormhole.com/2025/03/12/t...
me and my beautiful boy taking a napobi in a funny pose, sitting like a little man on my bedme and obi tucked into bed
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
this just played on tv with no audio and almost killed me
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
if you ever feel really intimidated by someone, just remember: at some point in their life they too once had crippling diarrhea
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
biggest regret of my life is explaining internet slang to my dad in 2012 after he made a print-on-demand shirt order. I could have had a family photo where we had matching shirts that said "I'm so Fappy"
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
hawk tuah? I'd rather honk shoo-a. is this anything
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
snubbed this valentine's day by the pizza place that sent me & my roommate a normal round pizza instead of the heart one we ordered. i'm truly heartbroken!
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
filleted a vegan fish
a little cucumber fish skeleton
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
low-key get kind of offended when I clean the whole bathroom before guests come over and no one pees even once
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
peeled the tiniest piece of skin off my lip and it's been profusely bleeding for like 10 mins now. this is my new life
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/02/2025
Oh.
Searle's paper, titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots. The study revealed that reCAPTCHA extensively monitors users' cookies, browsing history, and browser environment (including canvas rendering, screen resolution, mouse movements, and user-agent data) — all of which can be used for advertising and tracking purposes. Through analyzing over 3,600 users, the researchers found that solving image-based challenges takes 557% longer than checkbox challenges and concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection, with the value of tracking cookies alone estimated at $888 billion.
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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
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𝔾𝔼ℕ⭑。𖦹°‧ @papayaya.online · 03/02/2025
i've been low-key obsessed with this article since i first read it a few days ago, it's written by someone in the DeafBlind community about how hearing and sighted people have recently been obsessed with the morality of accessibility & how it's annoying lmao: audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/...
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McSWEENEY’S 64 - The Audio Issue
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
what I've learned from being stuck at home with a wrist injury is that everyone around me is a psychopath who watches their TV at full volume
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
a fun scribble I found while cleaning
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
thinking about going fully insane this year. tired of half-assing it
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it's elliott @rat-star.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
me & Carol Ann's new nightly routine is that we both pet White Cat at the same time and chant "DP! DP! DP!" (Double Pets)
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
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