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triplingual.myatproto.social
Trip Kirkpatrick
@triplingual.myatproto.social
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Trying to stop being the wrong kinds of annoying and to start being the right kinds of annoying.

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From the Denmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
Partial screengrab from https://denmark.dk showing a low sea cliff above a rocky beach
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Or possibly Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata in Roma:
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/decor...
Caption from original: The skeletal remains of a Capuchin friar, holding a wooden cross, are reminiscent of the popular image of the Grim Reaper. Credit: The Museum and Crypt of the Capuchin Friars
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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THIS is Vince Guaraldi? I always pictured him looking more like Dave Brubeck. Describing the facial hair for the alt text took some thinking.
Black-and-white photo of pianist Vince Guaraldi. He's wearing a dark 1/4 button-up sweater and black-rimmed glasses. He's got short receding hair and possibly a circle beard but with the mustache groomed into a handlebar style.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Nope. Nopety nope. Nuh-uh. Not reading. Do not want in my neuronal clusters.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Let's not argue over 'oo killed 'oo!
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A) Have the Dems been working at training good candidates to run on affirmative platforms and replace these magical retirees?

B) To paraphrase @karenho.bsky.social, until there is a retirement, there is no retirement.

C) Please use alt text, especially when it's so easy to do with text.
"This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all - appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened. They don't even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies. Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms. "More explosive early resignations are coming. It's a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out."
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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If not Iago, why Iagomorph?
A still from a filmed version of "Othello", with Laurence Fishburne playing Othello and Kenneth Branagh playing Iago.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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If not lago, why lagomorph?
Eastern Cottontail rabbit, from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha#/media/File:Eastern_Cottontail.JPG Taken by Gareth Rasberry, Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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An image in the style of Zohran Mamdani's campaign identity saying "HELL YES"
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Any single Dodger on last year's team got 16x that just as a bonus, but it all kinda encapsulates pro sports fandom in these United States.
Screenshot of a CBC article with some text highlighted. The highlighted text reads: "Last year saw a record pool of $129.1 million US, with the L.A. Dodgers' shares totalling $477,441 for each player. Los Angeles voted 79 full shares, 17.49 partial shares and $405,000 in cash awards in dividing their pool of $46.47 million."
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Cover image of R.E.M.'s album, Animal. Not only does it have a human (animal) — Michael Stipe — on the cover, it also has an "Animal" on the cover because there's the album name in text.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Voting is insufficient and sometimes futile, but it's also important. Hope everyone who hasn't voted early gets out there and drops their pebble in the barrel.
Badly edited image of Fantastic Four's The Thing (a.k.a. Ben Grimm) saying "IT'S VOTIN' TIME!!". (It originally and more artfully read "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!")
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, and Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's "Bande à part" ("Band of Outsiders" in USA), running through the Louvre
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
A still from the film "Bob le flambeur". There are 4 men in the black-and-white photo, but the center and most important one is Bob, played by Roger Duchesne.
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Album cover from KISS with just Ace Frehley on it, his head filling the cover space.
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Good morning. Time to listen to lots and lots of Thelonious Sphere Monk on the fabulous WKCR, the best thing about Columbia University. (Right now really defamilarizing the melody to "How High the Moon".)

89.9 FM / wkcr.org / mobile radio apps

#JazzSky
Cropped version of https://lccn.loc.gov/2023868081, a 30-year-old Thelonious Monk at the piano at Minton's Playhouse in a low-angle raked black-and-white William Gottlieb photograph from 1947.
October 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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If there were a functioning opposition party, they would leverage this same technique: Make claims about GOP damages based on headlines from sympathetic — or fictional — news sources and preemptively wave away argument by saying they haven't read the news.
Skeet from Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com [Speaker of the US House of Representatives] Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Maybe I'm just an unreconstructed tree hugger, but how can you not be awed by this? Not that I really know tree age, but it wouldn't surprise me if this unit was around for the Connecticut Compromised.
A very large and old oak, possibly a white oak, in the middle of a grassy area in some glorious midday sunshine. In the background are some cars parked on the street.
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Big problem for Cary Grant in "North by Northwest"
In a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest", Cary Grant's character holds a knife and looks surprised, kneeling next to a man's body. He's surrounded by a multiracial crowd of people and someone seems to have just finished taking his picture.
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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A. Now with alt text.
B. If the big-brained people at FIRE had sided with Black students, staff, and faculty way back when, they wouldn't need to pretend they care now.
Tweet from Brian Stelter @brianstelter Ari Cohn, counsel at @TheFIREorg, reacts: "The government pressured ABC — and ABC caved. The timing of ABC's decision, on the heels of the FCC chairman's pledge to the network to "do this the easy way or the hard way," tells the whole story. Another media outlet withered under government pressure, ensuring that the administration will continue to extort and exact retribution on broadcasters and publishers who criticize it. We cannot be a country where late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn to resist government pressure, that is the country we are." 7:01 PM • 9/17/25
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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What in the hellscape is this?
A collection of inflated, floating, brightly decorated mylar balloons printed with various phrases about "Boss's Day".
September 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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#PoliticalViolence
Skeet from The New York Times @nytimes.com on 10 September 2025: Three people, at least two of whom are students, were shot and critically injured at a high school outside Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said. [Aerial photo of a high school and adjacent football field] Photo caption: 3 Are Shot and Critically Injured at Colorado High School, Authorities Say The attack took place on the campus of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., which is southwest of Denver, according to the local sheriff's office. At... [ellipsis and truncation in original]
September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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1. Note how low the "Not Sure" line is.
2. Now with alt text, but I don't have the chops to describe the chart well. It's basically the same as at today.yougov.com/topics/econo...
Post from Twitter: G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris America is now at 2023 levels of people saying the economy is "getting worse," not quite hitting 2022 yet. Only 8 months into Trump's term... There is a chart with Americans' perspective on the economy that I cannot properly describe. It is roughly the same as at https://today.yougov.com/topics/economy/trackers/state-of-us-economy
September 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM