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Ginny Maier
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Citizen, nearabouts #rochesterny
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I just love elderly jack o lanterns
Shriveling Jack O Lantern with a happy smile
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Dying at this definitely AI quote on the back of the Melania bio
Melania's committment to excellence starts with her family, which Barron and I cherish deeply. Melania provides an insightful perspective of her tenure as First Lady of the United States, highlighting our shared experiences, her entrepreneurial achievements, plus the challenges and triumphs she experienced since her childhood in Europe. President Donald J Trump
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A cold rainy Halloween is bad for my waistline
A big bowl of undistributed Halloween candy
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Look at this absolute shit
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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He's talking about actual strategy. He is taken as a given that money to "help the world's poor" is determined by, I dunno, some inevitable force of nature, and that given that it is shrinking, we should pull back on the part of this that is climate action.
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Congratulations to the village of Fairport on its new bicycle infrastructure! Good luck sharing the lane with this vehicle, kids!
Photo of Bike in Lane sign next to large pickup truck parked in road
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Cake at today's baptism 🤣
Cake text: God Bless Lilah! bye bye original sin
October 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Reminder
Map of Claudia Tenney's district, which surrounds Monroe County and includes the shore of Lake Ontario and most of the western Finger Lakes
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Ok, this IS Rochester's Justin Murphy, cool! (helps to actually read the story lol)
Text from article: "The order to lower the flag comes frequently, but is applied inconsistently. On the day of Sitek’s statewide honor, I drove past 20 public flagpoles—outside town halls, libraries, firehouses, schools, and parks—near my house in Rochester, about 150 miles from Binghamton. Only two of them had lowered their flag."
October 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Actually just read the piece carefully, and it must be him:
Screenshot portion of Atlantic piece reading: "The order to lower the flag comes frequently, but is applied inconsistently. On the day of Sitek's statewide honor, I drove past 20 public flagpoles -- outside town halls, libraries, firehouses, schools, and parks -- near my house in Rochester, about 150 miles from Binghampton. Only two of them had lowered their flag.
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Dude agrees "most days" with DJTs policies -- ones that are so far from "common humanity" and "love one another" as to be from a different universe, but is clutching pearls when the guy just says it

Just a bag of bullshit, all the way through
More text from the blog posting: "What America needed was a reminder that we are one, that we can talk across partisan lines, that we have common cause and common humanity. That we should love one another, that we are Americans first. That's what a president should have said. But that's not what this president said. This president spoke of a world of us and them, of opponents, and his assurance that he hated his opponents. And that he did not want what's best for them. And such is the imperial nature of this president that there is no one in his circle or in his administration who can tell him how out of synch he was, or to have warned him away from his impulses in the first place. And such is the moral construction of this president that his own conscience didn't warn him away either. I voted for Donald Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies. But sometimes he plays fast and loose with things that matter. And yesterday he failed to read the room. He failed to understand what was all around him."
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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What an absolute goober this guy is:
Screenshot of Bob Lonsberry blog from 9/22/25 ""I hate my opponents," the president said, "and I don't want what's best for them." And with that, some five hours of praise and tears took a hard turn from the divine to the profane. I voted for Trump, all three times, and most days I agree with his policies, but there's a tone deafness to him, a hole in his cultural heritage, that sometimes rears an ugly and divisive head. Like Sunday."
October 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Tweet from “The Golden Sir” Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks, what the fuck
September 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I had a post go slightly viral. The number of basically anonymous accounts without profile pictures or descriptions trying to stir trouble is depressing
List of 10 accounts that recently “liked” a post, all without profile photo or any description
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Midmorning on the Canal
Photo from the Oxbow of the Erie Canal in Fairport NY
September 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Fun to (briefly!) connect with the wonderful @richardbcolon.com IRL while volunteering at Fringe last night! "Submergence" is a cool piece to experience from any angle!
September 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Another Montezuma Muckrace in the books for our "low carbon" team. 71 species in 24 hours and at least 20 miles in the chilly morning rain. Our smiles maybe weren't quite as bright at the end lol
Three nutty people in rain and bike gear smiling at the camera
September 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Lake Ontario was so clear tonight that this cute pic of my husband accidentally turned into a jump scare image of Gollum
A man with his head above water but his body visible in a crystal clear Lake Ontario
August 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Left: Susan B, 1855, committed to the cause of universal human suffrage and women's rights
Right: Susan B, 2025, learning where we are are right now.
(From Cafe 19, Seneca Falls)
Susan B Anthony 1855 image colorized Modern painting of Susan B Anthony with an exasperated and disappointed expression
August 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gutting to see this sign in Perinton Wegmans 😢
Sign reading "Due to circumstances at our warehouse, produce availability will be limited until midweek. We apologize for the inconvenience."
July 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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So, how's everybody else's afternoon?
Full container of Quaker oats spilled on the kitchen floor
July 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Also close resemblance to Epstein's home; it's like a sexual predator ID mark
Screenshot from Jen Rubin's blog of photo of Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side NYC home showing almost as ornate gold leaf on fireplace and furniture
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Lol on the amount of gold leaf now, real man of the people vibes
Image from a meeting between President of the Philippines and Trump in the Oval Office in front of a highly decorated fireplace
July 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Old trick for when you go on a long vacation
Screenshot of water wicking system
July 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Models that analyze human language patterns produce text that is coded as “woke” when instructed to be kind, helpful, and truthful. When you tell them they don’t have to be, they become Nazis. hhttps://prospect.org/power/2025-07-17-how-did-elon-musk-turn-grok-into-mechahitler/
In other words, LLMs become “woke” because they are trained to be pro-social—to be helpful, kindly, truthful, and not to say bigoted or cruel things. Training it to do the opposite—to be anti-woke—is to activate every antisocial association in the English language, including racism, sexism, cruelty, dishonesty, and Nazism. According to a vast statistical representation of the English language constructed by none other than Elon Musk, that’s what anti-wokeness is. “Elon Musk is repeatedly insisting, no, no, there’s a difference between what I’m doing and being a Nazi. And what the model keeps telling him is, statistically, that’s not the case,” said Schou.
July 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM