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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 10/10/2026

Stepping away from the #Ubuntu #Linux OS I've used for many years. After testing options, I chose the "Fedora" Linux distro - free, open-source OS backed by the capable folks at #RedHat. Considering my lifelong interest in gangster history, I probably should have embraced the #Fedora OS long ago.

Image of Linux mascot "Tux" wearing a blue fedora. Image from PngEgg website.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 04/10/2026

Confused #clouds this #morning. Photos taken at #WhitingVT about 6:40 a.m. EDT. #Sky #Dawn #Sunrise #Vermont

Two views. Streaky pinkish and purplish clouds appear at odd angles in the pre-dawn sky. Fog and faint low clouds obscure the view of distant dark blue mountains. Trees and grass appear closer.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 01/10/2026

After today, we shouldn't see temps over 70°F (21.1°C) for a while. Photo taken just after #sunrise on 1 Oct 2026 at #WhitingVT. #Vermont #Weather #VtWx

Hazy sunrise. Sun climbs over distant mountains. There are bright clouds, dark trees and fog shrouded hayfields.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 16/07/2026

The view is much better and the breathing is much easier when the air is less visible. (This stuff looks like it's the chunky style.) Breathe at your own risk. Photo taken July 16, 2026, about 6:15 a.m. at #WhitingVT #Vermont. #AirQuality

View of lawn, hayfields, trees, distant mountains blurred by a smoky haze.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 12/07/2026

These days, I find I much prefer a distraction-free #desktop (mine shown), and I'll just stick with #Gnome for now. I thought the blur effect in #KDE #Plasma might be helpful and fun. Tried it out. I was quickly annoyed.

An Ubuntu Gnome computer desktop showing a simple bluish gradient background, an application dock on the left side and small items placed in a narrow black panel at the top of the screen.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 13/06/2026

There's a bit of #fog as the sun rises this #morning in #WhitingVT #Vermont. Photo taken at about 5:15 a.m. EDT on 13 June 2026 #Dawn #Sunrise

Thick fog blankets a field, with dark trees emerging from it. Bluish mountains sit beneath a pale peach-colored sky in the background.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 31/05/2026

View east from #WhitingVT #Vermont this morning (31 May 2026) at about 5 a.m. EDT. #Clouds #Sky #Dawn #Sunrise

Strings of clouds appear bright pink and dark blue against a pale blue-gray sky over blue mountains in early morning. Dark trees and deep green fields are closer to the viewer.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 05/04/2026

I'm looking for well-researched, well-written articles on the history of #OrganizedCrime in #LasVegas for an issue of #Informer to be published in November. Please get in touch if you're interested in contributing. #Skystorians #MafiaHistory

Image resembles the famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign but text reads: Organized Crime in Las Vegas Nevada."

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 26/03/2026

Sure seems early. But it really is #baseball opening day! #MLB

Peanuts comic strip showing Charlie Brown waking up at sunrise. Vague area of sunlight focuses into a large baseball.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 25/03/2026

It may not seem like it, but I hear it's #baseball season. #BugsBunny #ElmerFudd

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 21/02/2026

For some reason, Snickers ( Icelandic #horse ) prefers to leave his cozy stall and supply of hay in order to dig through the #snow for bits of grass in the field. (Prefers his cereal with frosting, I guess.)

At left foreground, Icelandic horse digs in a snow-covered field. Row of trees in background.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 19/02/2026

Good #morning from #WhitingVT #Vermont Photo taken about 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 19, 2026. #Dawn #Sunrise #Clouds #Mountains

Aqua morning sky is covered by mass of bright reddish and purplish clouds in upper right and streaks of various colors to lower left. Distant dark purple mountains, a dark row of trees and snow-covered fields.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 02/02/2026

Seems to be quite a crowd waiting for #PunxsyPhil

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 21/01/2026

Good #morning from #WhitingVT #Vermont . Colorful #sunrise here at about 7:10 EST on January 21, 2026. #dawn #sky #clouds #horse

Wide shot of a cloudy morning sky alive with color. Mountains in distance. Snow-covered fields in foreground.

Solitary horse in a snow-covered field. A line of trees. Hazy mountains in the distance. A dramatic dawn sky with bright streaks of magenta and yellow.

Large maple tree at right. A row of trees cuts across snow-covered fields. Mountains in background are topped with a brightly colored dawn sky.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 09/01/2026

No "BlueSky" here, but not complaining. Our horse Snickers in a snow-covered field about 7:15 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2026. #WhitingVT #Vermont #Horse #Sunrise #Dawn #Clouds #Sky

Horse scratches at a snow-covered field. Trees and mountains in background. Cloudy pre-dawn sky shows bright red-orange glow fading to purple and shades of blue-gray.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 23/12/2025

Wishing you joy and peace this #holiday season and all the best in 2026. #Christmas #NewYear #Santa

Small Santa, sleigh, reindeer silhouetted against a brightly colored morning sky over purplish mountains. Text: "Merry Christmas!"

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 18/12/2025

Looking southeast, about 7 a.m. EST on December 18, 2025, in #WhitingVT #Vermont. We're already at 27°F (-2.78°C) and expect to reach a daytime high of 43°F (6.11°C) just after lunchtime. #VtWx #Sunrise #Dawn #Clouds

Large leafless maple tree at right of image, row of trees cross the bottom of image, background shows snow-covered fields and silhouetted mountains against a predawn eastern sky with magenta, pink and gray clouds.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 05/12/2025

Bundle up. Outdoor thermometer says -1°F (-18.33°C) at 6 a.m. at our home in #WhitingVT #Vermont. And I hear that makes us one of the warmer spots in the state. #VtWx #Weather

Digital thermometer shows one degree below zero Fahrenheit.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 02/12/2025

Close to 4 inches of very light, fluffy #snow here at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Still falling. #VtWx #Weather #Winter

Several outbuildings at the far end of a snow-covered lawn. Various trees have branches coated with snow.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 11/11/2025

Looks and feels like #winter out there. #WhitingVT #Vermont at 7 a.m., Nov. 11, 2025. #Snow #Trees #Horse

Horse in a snow-covered field in front of snow-covered trees and snow-covered distant mountains under a gray sky.

Snow covers lawn, tree branches and shrubs in foreground and hilly fields and mountains in distance.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 09/11/2025

Woke up to just a bit of #snow this chilly morning at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Photos taken about 6:30 a.m. EST on November 9, 2025. #Morning #Weather #Clouds #Trees

Outbuilding roofs, lawn and tree limbs show a recent dusting of snow.

Hayfields with a light dusting of snow. In the distance are thick woods. Beyond, a stripe of low clouds appears to cut through a distant mountain range as other clouds appear to crash over the mountaintops. There are gray waves in the cloudy sky.

Surveillance camera image of two miniature donkeys walking out in a snow-covered field. There are trees with snow-covered branches, distant mountains and wavy gray clouds.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 07/11/2025

Here's some #bluesky (and red and orange and pink and ...) Scenes from another colorful morning at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Photos taken between 6:26 and 6:28 a.m. EST. on November 7, 2025. #Sunrise #Sky #Dawn #StickSeason #Horse

Leafless tree to right of image. Hayfields in lower foreground, interrupted by rows of leafless trees. Dark bluish mountains in background. Above the mountains is a band of bright rose streaked with gray which fades upward through levels of orange, pink and dusty purple to blend into a blue sky.

Horse grazing in frosty hayfield oblivious to the brightly colored sky above.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 05/11/2025

Looking southeast from #WhitingVT #Vermont just before #dawn on November 5, 2025. #StickSeason #Sunrise #Sky #Clouds

Streaks of yellow, gold, bright rose and dusty purple lie between dark mountains and a grayish blue sky.

Streaks of yellow, gold, bright rose and dusty purple lie between dark mountains and a grayish blue sky. Leafless trees in foreground.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 24/10/2025

Snickers posed for this late #fall photo this afternoon. #Horse #Autumn #Foliage #Leaves #Vermont

Top and bottom of image are filled with red-orange and gold fall leaves. Between is an Icelandic horse grazing in front of an outdoor ring and some brush and trees.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 18/10/2025

Views of the #fall #foliage from our back deck at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Photo taken afternoon of Oct. 17, 2025. #autumn #trees

Two images. Both show a deep row of colorful trees - gold, orange, red, green - at the far end of a grassy field, with hazy mountains and pale blue skies above.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 10/10/2025

A refreshing number. We're (finally) below freezing at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Image of thermometer from just before sunrise, Oct. 10. #VermontWeather #VtWx

Thermometer shows at outdoor temperature of 30°F.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 07/10/2025

Good #morning from #WhitingVT #Vermont. Photo taken 6:49 a.m. EDT on Oct. 7, 2025. #Dawn #Sunrise #Clouds #Mountains

Clouds form contrasty ribbons of color - gold, pink-orange, dark orange and gray - in a pale blue sky. Hazy bluish mountains stand under the bright clouds and behind dark trees and hayfields.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 25/09/2025

Seeing a bit of #autumn color in #WhitingVT #Vermont on a rainy September 25. #fallfoliage

Pale green fields lead to a row of colorful trees with cloud-shrouded mountains in background.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 29/08/2025

#Rainbow at #WhitingVT #Vermont, about 4:45 p.m. on Aug. 29, 2025.

Two images of a rainbow. Upper image shows left side of the arc passing across blue-gray clouds, shadowy mountains and a line of trees. Lower image shows a wide shot of a double rainbow with trees and fields beneath it. The date "29 August 2025" appears between the images.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 19/08/2025

Our #horse is having his breakfast at about 5:50 to 6 a.m. EDT (Aug. 19, 2025) at #WhitingVT #Vermont. Earlier pinks and reds gave way to yellow and gold by 6 a.m. #Morning #Dawn #Sunrise #Clouds

Horse grazing in green field in foreground. Rows of dark trees behind that, topped by dark blue mountains and yellow, pinkish-red and purple-gray streaks of clouds in the predawn sky.

Clouds are yellow, gold, orange and gray, behind distant mountains, rows of trees and a grazing horse.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 04/08/2025

Breathe at your own risk. AirNow.gov says local #AirQuality here in #Vermont is 109 (unhealthy for sensitive groups). WeatherUnderground shows a worse index of 132. Looks like this will linger about one more day. #Smoke #Wildfires

Map of continental U.S. showing air quality alerts.

Map of northeastern U.S. showing air quality alerts.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 03/08/2025

Orange sun again this #morning At #WhitingVT #Vermont. I guess the Canada wildfire #smoke is back. (Breathe at your own risk.) #Dawn #Sunrise

Orange sun sits in pinkish sky. Hazy mountains in distance. Rows of trees closer. Horse grazing in field in foreground.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 26/07/2025

#Sun obscured by some #fog, some Canada wildfire #smoke. Eerie to see what looks to be a sunset so high in the sky. Photo taken at #WhitingVT #Vermont, about 6:20 a.m., July 26, 2025.

Sun smothered in clouds glows orange. The rest of the landscape is gray.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 07/07/2025

It is quite a bit warmer than I'd like it in the #morning (starting out at 73°F). But we are treated to a very interesting sky. Photo taken about 5:30 a.m., July 7, at #WhitingVT #Vermont. #Dawn #Sunrise #Clouds #Sky

Green fields, lines of dark trees, distant mountains, with an early morning sky above. The light blue sky is crossed by two levels of clouds. Lower clouds are dark purplish blue-gray splotches. Upper clouds are bright streaks of pale yellow and light orange. A bright orange glow seems to emanate from the top of a mountain.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 24/06/2025

Seemed a good joke in 1984. Not so much today. "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." #deportations

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 04/06/2025

#Smoke from Canada #wildfires produced interesting effects at #sunrise here in #WhitingVT #Vermont. Smoke appears to be thinner and higher than it was when it produced a dazzling red sun in years past. #dawn

Morning sun with pink halo seen over mountains with trees and fields in foreground.

Three images of sun as it seems to emerge from a red-pink wrapper.

The sun is a better defined pink smudge, hanging over a mountain with trees in foreground.

Rising sun is little more than a pinkish smudge seen over a mountain. Trees in foreground.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 20/05/2025

I'm sorry. There is no plan to produce an issue of Informer in 2025. But you're invited to check out MobHistory on Substack: mobhistory.substack.com #MafiaHistory

I am sorry to announce that, due to a variety of factors including competing commitments and recent (now apparently resolved) health concerns, there is no plan to produce an issue of Informer for 2025.
I am hopeful that Informer readers will find my newest (a bit more casual / far less demanding) venture, MobHistory on Substack, to be suitable as a substitute at least in the short term.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 29/04/2025

#OTD in #OrganizedCrime #History: trunk at #Manhattan pier contains salesman's body, strangers search for Joe Tocco in #WyandotteMI, Bompensiero is convicted in #SanDiego, Dio gets 4 years, new #Philadelphia mobster is murdered, Ferrara faces #Boston gambling charges. #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

Collection of crime history items from April 29. Image of John Dioguardi.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 24/04/2025

Near #sunrise at #WhitingVT #Vermont - about 5:50 a.m., April 24, 2025. #Dawn #Clouds

Glowing magenta and purple clouds appear in a pale sky above dark mountains, trees and fields.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 21/04/2025

Good morning from #WhitingVT #Vermont. Shots taken between 5:15 and 5:50 a.m. EDT. #Sunrise #Dawn #Clouds #GreenMountains

Bright reddish and purple clouds stretch across a pale sky above distant mountains and nearby trees and dormant hayfields.

Deep blue sky streaked with pinkish clouds above a bright yellow horizon.

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Tom Hunt @tom-hunt.com · 17/04/2025

Seems to be a bit of snow in the mountains this morning. Looking east from #WhitingVT #Vermont at about 6 a.m. on April 17. #Morning #Snow #Clouds #GreenMountains

Snow-covered mountains under dark clouds in background. Trees and still-dormant hayfields in the foreground.

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