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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Share an image that shows how many years you’ve been online.

Photograph of a DEC VT220 terminal with amber-phosphor monitor displaying text output

SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Fortunately, it appears this new passport design is a "limited edition" only available to in-person applicants at the DC passport office. Anyone applying elsewhere (i.e., nearly everyone) would instead receive the prior established standard design, which DC applicants can also request:

How to Avoid Receiving a Trump Passport
• Renew Online or by Mail: Most US passport renewals are done online or by mail. These methods will not issue the Trump-themed passport, so you will receive the standard design.
• Apply Outside Washington, DC: If you are applying for a new passport in person, choose a passport acceptance facility outside the DC office, such as libraries or clerk of court offices. Only the Washington Passport Agency will issue the limited-edition Trump passport by default.
• Explicitly Request the Standard Passport: If you must visit the Washington Passport Agency, inform the passport specialist at check-in that you want the standard passport, not the commemorative design.

Additional Considerations
• The Trump-themed passport is not mandatory; standard passports remain available for all applicants who follow the above methods.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"it is not complex. he must be seen to get something. its that simple." ~Jeffrey Epstein

Email from Jeffrey Epstein to Thorbjon Jagland on 6/24/2018:

churkin was great. he understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something. its that simple.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

OP here: bsky.app/profile/giga...

Screencap of a thread from Bluesky
(for text just follow the link to the original post also provided here)

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Sage advice. 🧠👊 Source: www.reddit.com/r/GirlDinner...

Screecap of a comment thread from subreddit r/GirlDinnerDiaries
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ashbash-25:
You feel guilty because you think deep down you can hang around for his “potential”. Don’t.

New-Shake7638:
My therapist told me that often, the potential you see in others is more of a reflection on what your potential would be if you were in their shoes. It’s not actually their potential, it’s yours.

Waiting for someone to live up to what YOU are capable of is a losing game.

WatercressDizzy228:
I think you just changed my brain fundamentally. Oof.

kylielapelirroja:
Omg, same.
This is the same advice as “you don’t see the world as it is, you see it as you are.” Which also changed my life.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

*pours one out for my late, lamented '84 Audi 5000S wagon* Now, THAT was an attractive wagon.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Or if that still seems too risky, you can remove the pit by pushing your thumbs against the other side:

Photo of half an avocado, with a person's hands removing the pit by pushing their thumbs against the other side.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

If you can at least cut the avocado in half around the pit safely, use a folded towel to hold the half with the pit, lightly tap the heel of a chef's knife blade against the pit just hard enough to embed it, then twist to remove.

Photo of half an avocado held in a folded towel, with the heel of a chef's knife blade lightly embedded in the pit, allowing the pit to be removed safely with a twist.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love my Vessel ball-grip driver with the 6 different bits including 3 sizes of JIS and 2 sizes of Pozidriv—often provided with IKEA furniture, these also look much like Philips but aren't, and strip out worst of all trying to use a Philips driver with them.

Vessel ball-grip screwdriver handle with 6 driver bits including flathead, 3 sizes of JIS, and 2 sizes of Pozidriv.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Speaking of, spotted this one myself at the grocer:

Trunk lid of a white Toyota Corolla with a bumper sticker saying:
"I ❤️ GETTING BUKKAKED"
rendered in rainbow-colored letters with a rainbow stripe below

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Pretty darn close to the famous 27% Crazification Factor: kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...

Excerpt from a blog post by @JohnRogers.bsky.social:

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is --

Tyrone: 27%.

John: ... you said that immmediately, and with some authority.

Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Indeed, and for those who haven't seen it, behold the future Pope Bob as a young man:

Photo of Robert Francis Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV, as a young man dressed in a manner resembling one of the Blues Brothers -- wearing a black trenchcoat, black fedora, horn-rim black sunglasses, and long sideburns

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

These exist! They're called rear fog lamps, meant for being seen from behind in thick fog. Required equipment in Europe, so some exported Euro models also have them. The icon looks like the one for front fogs, but facing the opposite direction & usually with horizontal beam lines:

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Insane, you say? It's pretty darn close to the famous 27% Crazification Factor: kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim, easy million there for me.

Front cover of the album Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim

Back cover and CD jewel case spine labels of the album Elizium by Fields of the Nephilim

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Heard a rebroadcast of the @waywordradio.org episode mentioning "fnēosung" as an Old English word for "sneeze", thought I'd point out that's related to the Old English "fnese" which evolved into "sneeze" via misreading or misprinting the initial "f" as a "ſ" (long-s), per the OED:

Oxford English Dictionary excerpt:

sneeze, v.
(sni:z)
Forms: 5 snese, 6-8 sneese (6 scniese), 6- sneeze, 7 sneez.

[app. an alteration of FNESE v., due to misreadin gor misprinting it as 'ſnese', after the initial combination of fn- had become unfamiliar.
Fnese had app. gone out of use early in the 15th cent., its place being mainly supplied by NEEZE v. The adoption of sneeze was probably assisted by its phonetic appropriateness; it may have been felt as a strengthened form of neeze...]

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ngl, reading that screencap I was like:

4-tier reaction meme depecting Bernie Sanders:

1. Senator Ted Cruz: This morning I sent a letter to Speaker Johnson [somber Bernie]
2. urging the House to advance [alert Bernie]
3. articles of impeachment against [excited Bernie]
4. Judges Boasberg and Boardman [somber Bernie]

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Opposing terrible things is all fine & good, but it's never enough to know what you're against—what are you FOR?

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
~Buckminster Fuller

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Always be motivated by what you DO want, rather than by what you don't want. It's not enough to know what you're against; rather, what are you FOR? And on a related note: