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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 18h

For sure I'm expanding the kitchen just so I can have this.

Victoria Arduino Black Eagle Maverick Matte Black Three Group Gravimetric Espresso Machine

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

Seen at Sarge's Comics in New London, some dope work from @gregpak.net Bought the Lawful #1 for myself. Sarge's is the real deal, friends. Tons and tons of comics vintage and new, mangas, and games galore.

A shelf of comic books, with an orange and black NEW tag hanging from the shelf above. The most prominent and notable comics are a compilation of Lawful from Pak, Galindo, and Kniivila, and also Lawful #1 from the same trio.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

There's hardly enough in my memory of "The Bad Seed" to remember why it scared me, but it put a shiver down my little boy spine for weeks.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Still from Ganja & Hess showing a vampire seated in a rolm with a lot of dark wood furnishings and a ca. 18th century large portrait of a woman.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

AYFKM (Athletic [NY Times]) and the whole article's in the hed.)

NY Times/Athletic headline: EA 'aware' of FC27 glitch showing women in their underwear, promises fix in next update

There's then a picture of two short-haired people head-and-shoulders from the back, with a large gaming monitor in front of them. On the monitor screen in a soccer-looking game.

Photo caption: EAFC27 was released in September
Photo credit: Bruno Fahy / Belga Mag / Belga / AFP via Getty Images

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

The Barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) lives 2,434 feet down in the ocean. The green blobs are eyes that usually point up through the transparent head, but can swivel 90° to point toward its mouth.

Barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma)
Monterey Bay • 742 meters (2,434 feet) • Image: © 2004 MBARI
The fish is 15cm long and is mostly dark-brown/black, except for the top 5/6 of the head, which is transparent! You can see organs and stuff inside the head, notably 2 greenish hemispheres that are its eyes. The things that kind of look like eyes and that are where you might expect eyes to be are more like nostrils.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

From the paper that put this hed on another of this reporter's stories.

Washington Post online headline:
The nation's premier
business group is hitting the road to stamp out socialism

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Happy to sell you this beaut with a non-functional tape deck for $100 if you've got money burning a hole in your pocket lol

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

La police _secrète_ de l'immigration américaine.

Homer and Bart Simpson's panel #2 of the "worst day of your life so far" meme

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

A person whose beliefs (allegedly Christian principles) allow voting for a cheating lying racist misogynist rapist hateful person 2x for prexy and elsewhere in the piece says she doesn't agree with Talarico's morals? Not voting for Talarico, no chance. 100% will vote for Paxton.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired

I am someone who has voted for our current president twice because I didn't feel like I had another choice based on the beliefs I have. But I do believe our current president has caused a lot of the extremes and a lot of the rhetoric and a lot of the issues where people cannot compromise and people can't get along. I personally am just praying that we get better candidates in the future.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

This is zombie Napster, of course. The name has been bought and sold so many times it's just a cheap container of name recognition.

In March 2025, Napster was sold for $207 million to Infinite Reality, a technology and entertainment company specializing on digital media and artificial intelligence.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Eating lunch in the castle's shadow, as one does.

Up-shot of a large stone collegiate Gothic building. (Sterling Memorial Library, as it happens.)

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026

And if that interests you, check out this Penny Singer (Diné) ribbon jacket with her prize ribbons, situated in the history and future of Indigenous ribbon garments.

Penny Singer, Diné (Navajo), Prized Ribbon Jacket, Award Ribbons from SWAIA, HEARD, Pueblo Grande Art Show, NACC, 2024–25, cotton and satin-lined ribbons and photo transfer

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

Well now look what I had to go put on. (I would tack on his pronuciation of "value" to the estimable Dr.'s comment.)

Front cover of Commodores' "Blood on the Tracks" record.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026

Then again, there's the blocks of dry ice that came in a delivery and can get used to do this

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 27/08/2026

Would have expected this, but it does kinda dilute your brand.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

Love to get a chat interference that I can't close on mobile. Do I have questions? Yes: Why are you like this?

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

When the MAGA accounts say it, you know what the deal is.

Post from me:
"DSA is killing the Democrats' chances"
is the new
"defund the police is killing the Democrats' chances"

Then a reply from aston90909.bsky.social, an account labeled MAGA:
The DSA is not killing chances
The DSA is killing the party

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 18/07/2026

"Radical leftist" in bio "Misogynoiristic" in the responses

Skeet from Samurai
@changemypitchup.bsky.social in response to someone asking them why they would say Zendaya probably hasn't read the Dune series to Messiah:

pc answer: I don't think a star of her caliber would have the free time to read to The Messiah
non pc: Zendaya doesn't look like
somebody who reads hard scifi

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 15/07/2026

firesmoke.ca says we have some, but I'm a little surprised it's doing this much.

Screen capture of firesmoke.ca for 14 July 2026, zoomed and panned to center on Trenton, NJ, and cover about 300 miles around it. There is a cover of pale yellow, indicating mild wildfire smoke in the included area.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

And I love that there's a photo of him as a much older man from this book by William Henry Ferris: www.loc.gov/resource/gdc...

Photograph of Prof. Edward A. Bouchet, PhD from a book, "The African Abroad; or his Evolution in Western Civilization"
The caption to his photo is
First colored graduate of Yale University, who for twenty-six years taught in the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 03/07/2026

You might be happy to know that France is currently an odds-on favorite to win and currently holds the top spot in FIFA's tanking system.

ESPN's odds for who will win the 2026 Men's World Cup. The order from most likely (of the ones in this screenshot) is France, Argentina, Spain, England, Brazil, Portugal, USA, and Mexico.

FIFA's top 5 ranking of men's national teams as of 11 June 2026, in descending order: France, Argentina, Spain, England, and Brazil.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 25/06/2026

So exciting! For a fantastic mail-delayed Father's Day gift, the family got me the third of Gnarly Pippins' "Pomological Series", the catalog of the 2021 wild apple exhibition they host every year. Pages and pages of pomological goodness like this. 🍎

Page 56 from Vol 3 of Pomological Exhibitions
MATHILDE
A seeding apple from Stanstead-Est, Québec, Canada. Submitted by Shaun Pett and Leila Ashtari of Pomme Fauve. The multi-trunked mother tree was found growing in a former cow pasture. It is noted as a prolific bearer, and is the oldest of over 50 apple trees in the field. Fruit size small to medium, 2" - 3" average. Roundish, lumpy form, stands somewhat oblique, or lopsided. Lightly ribbed, irregular plan view. Skin smooth, dry, uniform chartreuse ground coat. Cavity obtuse, moderate to shallow depth. Basin abrupt, small, and shallow with an intensely furrowed rim. Stem medium length, exserted, thick, inclined, flared at tip. Lenticels prominent, large, round, dark brown russet. Calyx closed, sepals erect convergent with some wrinkling around eye. Flesh firm, coarse grain, juicy, and tender. Flavor bittersharp. Citrusy front is full of succulent rounded acidity, reminiscent of strong lemon water. Mid-palate and finish have a strong body, velvety tannin and balanced astringency. Ripens late September in its state of origin and can be picked over a long season. Stores well. A cider apple of very good quality.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 21/06/2026

Good morning. Time to make the yoghurt. Again.

Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day", looking at the viewer while holding a TV news microphone and looking disheveled and sleepless.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Finally, from the front page, a reminder that integration, to say nothing of true freedom and equality, has always been fought tooth and nail by white governments at all levels.

Partial article from the front page of the 15 November 1969 Washington Post, titled "Miss. Schools Given Dec.31 To Integrate".
The article notes that the Nixon government wanted to take more time before requiring school integration — to slow-walk enforcement of the October 1969 US Supreme Court ruling requiring immediate school integration unto not actually enforcing it at all.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

And, naturally, a friendly article about cops preparing to gas antiwar protestors at the Moratorium March on 15 November. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morator...

The front page of the City Life section of the 7 November 1969 Washington Post. There's an article titled "Police Civil Disturbance Squads Get Ready".

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Also in the same paper! Roberta Flack! She would have been, in part, supporting her first solo album, First Take.

Advertisement in the 7 November 1969 Washington Post for the Roberta Flack Trio. The ad text is
THE ROBERTA
FLACK
TRIO
Do Their Thing
Nightly At
Mr. Henry's
Upstairs

Sunday Sessions
4 to 7:30 P.M.

Gospel Singing
Downstairs! Featuring
Francine TAYLOR,
Sister BEA & Others
Sunday, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

Below the fold of the Style section (for why?) in the same 1969 paper. Anyone could have known some of what slavery was like. Don't let people lie and say it's brand new knowledge.

Part of an article from the 7 November 1969 Washington Post. The article is titled "Memories of Slave Days." Despite the slightly warm title, the article is about the horrors of enslavement in the USA, from oral histories of formerly enslaved people.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

What, in 1969 America, was Compu-car? (Looking through an issue of the Washington Post my dad saved for 57 years.)

A portion of the Washington Post sports section from 7 November 1969. There is a small ad that only reads,
"COMPU-CAR
IS COMING
IN 10 DAYS"

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 17/06/2026

Yeah, but this is the thing you see in your mandrakemares.

Enlarged detail from the quoted post, showing a humanoid with a plant-like head and rhizome-like arms.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13/06/2026

Buster Keaton appears in some of his films in an undershirt or shirtless, and you can see how for the time he was really athletic. Wiry and small (5'2" IIRC), but fitter than other stars who didn't do their own stunts like he did.

Buster Keaton, sitting on a chair in a tank top undershirt. It's a sepia-toned promotional still from Battling Butler.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 05/06/2026

Photographs from the 1964 Freddy Fixer Parade in New Haven. The parade is the oldest Black American parade in the northeast (www.elmcityfreddyfixerparade.com/history). Digital library: collections.library.yale.edu/catalog?f%5B... Archival finding aid: archives.yale.edu/repositories...

Black and white photo of a parade and viewers at a street intersection. In the foreground are two Black boys in suits with close-cut hair. One has has back to the viewer. The other is half-turned toward the viewer. In the middle ground is a flag corps with white shirts, dark pants, white shoes, and cavalier hats with a long white feather each. In the background is a line of spectators in front of a single-story grocery store named Capitol Market.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

The prison gang he's going to make, though.

A still from the movie "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin". In the foreground, a figure seen from the thighs up and from the back is wearing black pants and a wide yellow belt. Their arms are outstretched to the sides and each hand is holding a wide, short sword. In the background, a row of people wearing saffron-yellow robes. In the middle ground a person holding a staff in with their arms also outstretched, but vertically. He is wearing white spats-looking cloths and black pants.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026

Amazing. This woman feeling it was the capture of the vid for me. But also the brickyard white man hitting the handstand and his wallet fell out!

Screencap from YouTube Shorts (same video as this post replies to, though) of a Brown woman filming the scene. The look on her face seems to be "Ooh, that's nasty" (complimentary)

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 20/05/2026

There's always using the master's tools to renovate the master's house (h/t infosec.exchange/@isotopp)

Screenshot of a Google search interface, where someone has used the search prompt "You are Google website from 2004. User enters a search query and you
respond with 10 web links to web pages most relevant to the query. After each link, provide a couple of sentences of real text present on
the corresponding URL and containing the search keywords. The"
(The search prompt is cut off abruptly as above.)

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