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sgazzetti
@sgazzetti.bsky.social
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Never broken a bone. Mercator’s projection deplorer, Grice’s maxims supporter. Like patience on a monument. Fascist-hating army vet in The Land of Enchantment.
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The two dots in this case are called ‘diaresis,’ and as far as I know the New Yorker is the last place insisting on it like grammar prisses.
Screenshot of Wikipedia page about a diacritic nobody uses.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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*Sigh* Fine, I guess it’s the Christmas season.
A large jar of pickled jalapeños with a single anomalous red slice. A frah-gi-lay leg lamp broadcasting electric sex into the north valley of the Rio Grande.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Clicked on ‘Watch credits’ for once at the end of “Stranger Things” because huge Tiffany fan from way back and was pleased to see this:
Screen grab of “Stranger Things” credits with the “filmed in in New Mexico” and Albuquerque logos. #albuquerque
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Jimmy loves catnip. It’s like catnip for cats.
An entitled gray male tabby cat beetles above your POV in the highest echelon of his tall tall tower. You, below, hope he doesn’t turn face-hugger while you snap his pic.
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Doin the Thanksgiving shopping just like Fantastic Mr. Fox.
A janky picture of the grocery store scanner ringing up “Tractor Blood” for the big feast
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I have opinions.
A Spy Magazine (which made Trump-hatred a thing circa 1986) listicle debating the start/end points of the 1970s. This appeared in the December 1988 issue, and is part of a ballot readers could use to vote on when they believe the ‘70s began and ended. Options include: “I believe the seventies began… - the day the guy was killed at the Altamont festival (December 1, 1969) - on January 1, 1970 - with the Kent State killings (May 4, 1970) - when The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered (September 19, 1970) - the day the first American craftsperson produced an owl made out of two twigs and macraméd synthetic yarn (circa winter 1972) - the day the Paris peace accords established a truce in the Vietnam War (January 27, 1973) - the day Richard Nixon resigned (August 9, 1974) And I believe the seventies ended… - with the release of Elvis Costello’s first album in the U.S. (1977) - when Roller Boogie failed at the box office (1979) - on January 1, 1980 - the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated and the hostages in Iran were released (January 20, 1981) - the day the first AIDS-related story appeared in the New York Times (August 29, 1981) - when they stopped manufacturing quaaludes (1983)
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Opinions vary:
Spy Magazine (which made Trump-hating a thing circa 1986) listicle debating the start/end points of the 1970s.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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C.f. 5 November 2024:
A view of the Sandía Crest from a similar perspective with sun shining on a more robust coat of fall snow. The cottonwood thicket abides.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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First light snowfall on the Sandías, 20 November 2025. Over two weeks later than 2024.
A steely blue-gray granite ridge, lightly dusted with snow, under a slate sky. Bright golden cottonwood leaves form the foreground.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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November has been unseasonably warm (record-setting, even) in Albuquerque. Here’s a fruiting tree cholla in Juan Tabo Canyon, 16 November, 2025. At this time last year we’d had two snowfalls on Sandía Crest.
Bright yellow new growth on spiny green cacti with a conical peak in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Hey, @seinfeldism.bsky.social, look what Edgar Allan Poe and I made:
A meme. A still frame from the Seinfeld episode “The Junk Mail.” Kramer stands in front of his mailbox, which he has bricked up to avoid Pottery Barn catalogs. The Impact font reads, “Fortunato, the whole catacombs is brick.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A frame from the third season of “Stranger Things.” Robin (Maya Hawke) and Steve (Joe Keery) are both wearing the cheesy sailor suits required for employees of Scoops Ahoy. She confronts him with a whiteboard chart tallying his successes (“YOU RULE”) and failures (“YOU SUCK”). The former shows no marks; the latter, six. The subtitle reads, “It’s this stupid hat.”
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Moon over the Needle, Sandías.
A pale moon, just shy of full, floats in a mauve sky over a rugged granite ridge, with golden cottonwood leaves in the lower right foreground.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I wasn’t exercising adequate situational awareness so I got scared by my colleague’s Halloween decorations.
A spooky skeleton bound to a chair with red ‘DANGER’ tape sits outside an office door. An orange trick-or-treating bucket full of spooky Runts sits between its femurs.
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Returning from Santa Fe National Forest.
An eroded canyon landscape of volcanic tuff in shades of beige and tan. Beyond the Sangre de Christo mountains wear an early dusting of snow below blue October skies ruffled with pale clouds.
October 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Heading up to Santa Fe National Forest.
An austere sign reading “City of Albuquerque,” with young desert willows sprouting around it. The Sandía Crest provides the backdrop.
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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An impressive cloud pinks up over Santa Fe, New Mexico
A massive cumulus cloud empinkens over the capital of New Mexico, viewed from the south as the sun sets.
October 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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And WTAF is this giant golden hookah dildo doing in front of the Resolute desk?
A declining dotard reads poorly from ill-prepared remarks about how rich he is behind a desk we own in a house he doesn’t. A giant golden dong dominates the scene. No one knows why.
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Diarrhea Caligula with his bullshit plastic bric-a-brac.
An addled, incontinent loser hunkers in front of a marble fireplace defaced with tacky faux-gold tchotchkes that the pure of heart will have to burn with fire when the spirochetes are done with what remains of his brain
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Jimmy loves Taco Tuesday even when it gets bumped to Wednesday.
An entitled gray male tabby cat perches at a kitchen island that bears a tray of taco fixings. He looks hungry but shouldn’t be, since it’s just after ham o’clock.
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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The Albuquerque sky says trans rights are human rights.
A pink and blue dawn over Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Parked near the massive No Kings protest yesterday in downtown Albuquerque. Clearly an Antifa staff vehicle.
A bumper sticker reading “HONK IF YOU’D RATHER BE WATCHING THE 1999 CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE ‘THE MUMMY’ STARRING ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS BRENDAN FRASER AND RACHEL WEISZ”
October 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Gorilla protesters keeping ABQ weird. #nokings
A street protest scene of the 10/18 November Kings rally in downtown Albuquerque New Mexico. The scene is dominated by two people in gorilla costumes holding signs reading “NO KINGS BUT KONG” and “APES TOGETHER STRONG”
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Jimmy Legs in typical #caturday gam-dangling mode. Note the new lip scar courtesy of a recent tussle with Garfield.
An entitled gray male tabby cat perches on the back of a colorful arm chair. He gazes steadily into the camera as if to say “come at me, bro”
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Forgot to post a pic from Albuquerque’s 53rd annual Balloon Fiesta that wrapped up last weekend. Here’s my favorite from the Friday night ‘Glowdeo’:
A nightscape with a row of balloons illuminated from within by their gas burners. At center is a vivid orange cartoonish fox balloon.
October 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM