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UberZeitgeist

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Testing the Mastodon waters in an #UnTwittered world. Seasoned trial lawyer trying others' patience daily. History nerd, policy wonk. All challenges eagerly accepted. Native of the Connecticut Western Reserve. All photos posted are mine unless otherwise credited, and all photos, prose, poetry, and other stuff is copyrighted as posted. It's a no-coffee year, so I might be occasionally grouchy, but it will pass.

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Sun - even of glass
Brightly hued and brilliant
Melts winter's tight grip

February 7, 2026

Color image of an artisan's handmade stained glass suncatcher in the window of a residence in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA, 7 February 2026, as the morning sun outside tries to warm the snow-covered world outside above its 5 F (-16 C) morning temperatures. Image shows a suncatcher with the sun depicted in the glass as wearing sunglasses and radiating panels in yellow, orange, gold, blue, red, purple and magenta against a backdrop of a yard covered in a foot - 32 cm - of snow.
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Crunchy squeaky snow
Laid in layers like sandstone
Waiting for the thaw

January 28, 2026

Color image of snow piled up at 0 F (-17 C) in front of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA. Image shows cold snow drifts across the sidewalk and street adjacent to the school entry, a gray sky above, and snow everywhere.
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Rust Belt Viewpoint-2026

Immaculate Conception of Mary Roman Catholic church, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, circa 1952,


January 23, 2026

Color image, stained glass baptistry window, Immaculate Conception of Mary Roman Catholic church, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, circa 1952, Image shows a simple stained glass window, rectangular in presentation, a border of 28 plain colored strips of glass in red, green, blue, orange, and yellow, and upper and lower eight-panel panes surmounted by an inverted scallop shell in the upper panel in a red diamond-shaped enclosure and a column in the lower panel in a red diamond-shaped enclosure.
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Tomorrow will mark 3 years- 1,096 consecutive days of in my voyage. Is it time to get off the ship? ✍️

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Driveway salt paintings
Melt and wind and gravity
All draw together

December 8, 2025

Color image of salt/ice/snow/frost images on a concrete driveway, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA. Salt on the driveway concrete results in areas of melt and refreezing that, with wind and sun and gravity, paints streaky images on the driveway's surface, in long sinewy lines of white and gray.
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8 billion followers, huh? Seems legit, lol. Who TF is Todd?

A screenshot of the "Mastodon Most Followed" website as tracked by @mostfollowed on Mastodon.social shows the #1 most followed person is "Todd," who is said to have 8 billion followers. The next largest account @mastodon has 853k followers.
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Das est Kristallnacht
Nazi Night of Broken Glass
Never forgotten

November 9, 2025

Monochrome image from Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, courtesy of the New York Times archives. Image shows a Nazi soldier destroying the entry and windows of a Jewish business in the town of Furth, Germany as part of the Nazi progrom against Jews.
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@faab64 - That's precisely why I wrote today's haiku.

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Here there is no doubt
Accept your reality
Or see your head roll

October 28, 2025

Color image of a sign located on the wall of a beachside cafe on Edisto Beach, Edisto Island, South Carolina, USA. Sign shows a graphic image of a simple female figure knocking off the head of a simple male figure with the words "GIRLS RULE" under the graphic.
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Seventy-five years
Brother two aging with grace
Teenager smirking

October 17, 2025

Color image of a teenage male in the 1960s. Image shows a white male seated for a head and shoulders photograph, wearing a dark blue shirt and a gold tied necktie, dark hair and a mustache, gray background.
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Fall's fleeting beauty
Last of the blooms find their mates
Autumn's golden feast

October 13, 2025

Color image of fall flowers blooming for hungry honeybees to harvest for the coming winter. Golden yellow wingstem blossoms attract a hungry honeybee in the image, with the bee on one of the lowers, against a field of flowering plants and a bright blue sky.
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Run with the airplanes
Takeoff on the tarmac and
Feel like you're soaring

October 5, 2025

Color image of a runner's bib, 2025 CAK5K, Akron-Canton Airport, Summit and Stark Counties, Ohio, USA. Image shows a runner's bib ready for the run.
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Autumn just can't wait
Wrapping her colors around
You you you you you

September 29, 2025

Color image of leaves beginning to change color on a sycamore sapling by the shores of Atwood Lake, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA. Image shows the sapling in the foreground, sun dappled through its leaves, changing from green to yellow to orange to brown in the sunlight.
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Dinner with a blimp
Intriguing experience
Airship envy, yes?

September 28, 2025

Color image of N1A, Goodyear Airship Wingfoot One, Goodyear Air Dock, Wingfoot Lake, Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio, USA. Image shows the Wingfoot One semi-rigid airship at dock inside the hangar facility with visitors looking on prior to a Lighter than Air Society event September 27, 2025.
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When midnight bells strike
It is perfectly alright
To bake some cookies

September 21, 2025

Color image of 27 freshly baked chocolate chip cookies cooling on a rack on an enamel kitchen table.
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Now that quote posts are a thing on Mastodon, we need an insufferably cutesy nickname for them that everyone hates but still gets used anyway.

To that end I nominate “Quoots”, a portmanteau of ‘quote’ and ‘toot’. I believe it’s the worst possible option, solidly cementing Mastodon in particular and the Fediverse in general as having the worst slang on the internet.

Please quoot to spread the word.

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@Fruan Presenting my first "quoot" - "Now that quote posts are a thing on Mastodon, we need an insufferably cutesy nickname for them that everyone hates but still gets used anyway.

"To that end I nominate “Quoots”, a portmanteau of ‘quote’ and ‘toot’. I believe it’s the worst possible option, solidly cementing Mastodon in particular and the Fediverse in general as having the worst slang on the internet.

"Please quoot to spread the word."

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

There is a reason hardcore nerds are often against tech like LLMs(AI) and cryptocurrency

We know how the shit works-ish and what the real costs are 🤷

Same goes with "smart doorbell" this and "smart fridge" that, we do not want that stuff

The ideas behind it at the start are sometimes good and fun to play with but it always ends the same way, capitalize over everything else

If you really want tech advise, listen to your nerds :nerdcat:

We live for this stuff, good and bad

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@stux - I received a rather odd note today - https://toot.community/@SupportTeam/115113071882340940 - seems not authentic, asking for a card and authentication? Something's not right with this one, and I've done nothing with it. Please advise.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

Obviously.

A cube has three sides.
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@lowqualityfacts - 100% true. It also has three additional sides. Heck, it has one side, and two sides, and three sides, and four sides, and five sides, and six sides - plus, being a cube, it also has an inside and an outside. So - that's eight.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

That's so interesting.

Your sense of taste is strongly linked to memory, which is why licking random objects can trigger long-forgotten memories.
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@lowqualityfacts - Wait? What? No BS in this one! What happened to you, @lowqualityfacts ???

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Friends, I need your help. I know that Instagram isn't the most popular platform on here, but I recently discovered that I need 10,000 Instagram followers before Meta will start paying me to post all the silly stuff I post on Threads. I am currently 1,787 followers away from that goal.

So to be blunt, if you have an Instagram account and are willing to follow me on there, it would mean the world to me. Here is a link that I hope you will find to be most clickable:
https://www.instagram.com/lowqualityfacts

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@lowqualityfacts 1,447 to go now, so you've made up some ground!

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

Friends, I need your help. I know that Instagram isn't the most popular platform on here, but I recently discovered that I need 10,000 Instagram followers before Meta will start paying me to post all the silly stuff I post on Threads. I am currently 2,347 followers away from that goal.

So to be blunt, if you have an Instagram account and are willing to follow me on there, it would mean the world to me. Here is a link that I hope you will find to be most clickable:
https://www.instagram.com/lowqualityfacts

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@lowqualityfacts --- and you are now 1,968 away from your goal.

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@101@feddit.org avatar 101 Because there, perhaps, they would be Doctors With Borders, or Doctors With Would-Be-Czar Expanding Borders?