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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 3m

Thanks! It's a fun way to spend an afternoon near Seattle.

Here's some background on the place, with a pretty horrifying incidents section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...

Northern State Hospital - Wikipedia

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1h

More asylum pictures: a common room #photography #spooktober #windowsonwednesday

A decrepit, creepy metal framed institutional window from an abandoned insane asylum in WA. The room has seen better days Nikon D850 24-70 2.8

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 12h

One of my acquaintances made it on the initial episode of the Intelligence Tradecraft Podcast - give it a listen/watch! #infosec #threatintel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnf1...

Insights into CTI: From Government to Private Sector - Interview with Garrett Carstens (S1E1)

YouTube video by Intelligence Tradecraft

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 12h

That had to be intentional. Looks like Carolwood own a bunch of "fast casual" things like bagel places and a couple of strip malls

If they're going to kill Indian I hope it's quick and clean and not slowly stripping them of their assets to sell off to some third rate mfgr in god only knows where

Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 13h

Unaware I'd already bought an Aprilia V4, my former coworker sent me some Duc V4 propaganda: #motosky #motorcycle #ducati

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYaS...

Michael Rutter on board the Ducati Panigale V4 Speciale - PART 1

YouTube video by Johnny Rides & Rambles

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 14h

That's not the new ride is it? And how did it compare to similar 450 race'ish bikes?

I saw one at the dealer in Redmond - it had really nice specs but I'm wondering how well it would fare against the Austrian and Japanese competition

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 14h

Nurse Ratched would flee in terror from this place:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...

Northern State Hospital - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 20h

I think that's actually a pretty popular opinion. Content aside, he's a brilliant writer and manages to get the reader hooked like no other

Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 21h

Some others from the same trip, including an ancient moldering seattle dog spotted on the side of an abandoned building in a blackberry forest

A seattle dog graffiti showing "rise and unite". The seattle dog has seen happier days

An abandoned backroom in an abandoned building in an abandoned insane asylum. It's abandoned all the way down

A puddle reflects light from a leaf tinted window in one of the housing units of the former northern state asylum

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 21h

I think this was a surgical prep room from the recent photo outing to the abandoned asylum. What kind of surgery? The Rosemary Kennedy kind. #spooktober #photography

A crumbling surgical prep room that doesn't look like it's ever heard the word "sterile". Nikon D850 24-70 2.8

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 22h

Great detailed thread on evolution (and lizards)

James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 1d

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

(1/n)

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Charlie Bertram @cbertram69.bsky.social · 1d

More backyard birding - Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) - Shadeville, FL - October 2025

#Birds #Nature #Wildlife#birds #birding #photography #nature #wildlife #canon #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birdphotography #bestbirdshots

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 23h

What an awful day to have eyes and/or be able to read

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 23h

Neat, I didn't know REI made their 8 person tent in navy blue

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Wow, their opsec is on point. It's so good maybe Whiskey Pete himself was their mentor

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

I just tried the News app for the first time. I like the design and relevancy, but maybe having an option to group similar topics together would be nice

Example: if I click on the USA button, four of the stories are all very similar content (trump bragging about Gaza)

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

I'd really love to find someone responsible there I could make a donation to (aka bribe) for a self guided tour. I have too many adult responsibilities to just go B&E like I did in the past

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Terraform did WHAT now?!

FKP// @fastkidpunk.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

In ambulance. Need sub-plans.

Mike Day @rashaverak58.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

There is no backup.

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Something had made a nest in the backroom of the abandoned asylum I explored, and had collected a pile of rotten apples. I didn't see it, but heard it as it slunk away #spooktober #photography

A backroom of an abandoned institutional kitchen filled with piles of rotting fruit. The roof was collapsed and the entire structure was rotting. Nikon D850 24-70 2.8 handheld

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

I just did the same. 10 Aug at six weeks, vs yesterday at around 3.5-4 months

They're such a PITA but it's all worth it in the end

a very young puppy is trying to make a break for it through an open car door

a slightly less young puppy sits and stares at the camera. she's standing on a bed of fallen maple leaves on fall color

a slightly less young puppy loafing around in a bed of fallen maple leaves on fall color

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🩷🕊 Sara Flacci @saraflacci.bsky.social · 2d

Mountains are silent teachers
and make silent disciples [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
🖤 #ClassicMono
#MountainMonday #Alps
Happy new week 🍀

Black and white photo. View from the village of Echallogne (Arnad) over the central valley.
In the foreground, meadows and a mixed forest of chestnut and oak trees. In the background, mountains with a haze below.

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Mark Skaggs @markskaggs10.bsky.social · 1d

Big time snowliage took place yesterday in the North Cascades! ❄️

📍Cooney Lake (7300’) #wawx

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

Index and Stickney both had a dusting of snow on the top this afternoon. Any word when they're closing Hwy 20? I still haven't done <the larch hike that will remain nameless> this year

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 1d

like if the Delorean’s lineage developed the Hapsburg chin

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Ex-Parrot⚜️ @broken.com · 1d

No'ish.

1. The Pinto was reliable
2. The Cybertruck bursts into flames without being rear ended

But on the other hand Henry Ford was also an anti-semite and a Nazi, just like Elmo

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