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Babbling Brooklyn

@deftestleftist.bsky.social

Word nerd, progressive, chasing the next chortle. 📷: By my camera.

created August 14, 2023

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This is a masterpiece

13/9/2025, 12:00:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did the US take control of southwestern BC? ; )

11/9/2025, 8:20:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ll never forget the look on peoples’ faces when I explained to them what the V stood for. As if they’d been lied to for years.

9/9/2025, 7:17:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a good way to sus out those freaks who pronounce it dahtah

9/9/2025, 4:51:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s not a live presentation this year is it?

9/9/2025, 4:44:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s an excellent and hilarious show that you really should give a try. Watched the whole series twice during COVID lockdown.

9/9/2025, 12:10:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is located on Ralph Ave, which also has a whole different meaning.

8/9/2025, 1:05:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Scrolling too fast and read this as Carlos Alcaraz

7/9/2025, 8:54:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RE: Cleaning up Potamia

7/9/2025, 1:56:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Removing page numbers from a book is called exfoliating

4/9/2025, 10:48:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also would have accepted: Do or do not, there is no try.

2/9/2025, 11:40:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No it’s like the British Royal family. Only one or the other. But her first born son will be.

2/9/2025, 11:00:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Haha I had the same thought!

2/9/2025, 2:15:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incorrectly applied tzatziki has fixed me

2/9/2025, 2:14:38 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m over the moon! (It’s just a gray rock.)

1/9/2025, 4:15:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎵 Moooooose moose 🎵 🎵 Mooooose moose 🎵 🎵 moosemoose moosemoose moosemoose moosemoose 🎵

1/9/2025, 3:15:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Truly Sabotage was a masterpiece. But so you didn’t mean Bjorn Bork’s love song? ; )

31/8/2025, 11:03:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jerry no

31/8/2025, 6:17:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like Sleeping Beauty

30/8/2025, 5:20:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The beguiling beauty of a cemetery. 📷 📸 🪦 🇯🇵

Photo of a cemetery in Japan, showing hundreds of tightly packed rectangular headstones with kanji script on them.
30/8/2025, 6:11:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do anonymous bird photos count?

27/8/2025, 12:30:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sunset skyline from Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open. 📷 📸 🌆 🎾 🏟️ #photography

Photo of the Manhattan skyline at sunset showing a gradient from red to blue. Trees are faintly visible in the foreground and obnoxious photo-ruining power lines are visible across the upper third.
25/8/2025, 6:21:18 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are in for a treat. There’s not a waste line of dialogue in the series.

25/8/2025, 3:05:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alanis, impersonating a skeksis. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🌑 🔮 #photography

Photo of the black-crowned night heron named Alanis (for their ironic daytime activity) standing on a log in Prospect Park lake, looking evil with red eyes sneering at the camera and back hunched.
24/8/2025, 2:44:18 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did it make a sound?

22/8/2025, 6:22:21 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you ever let it loop forever on a device just to get another penny? Because I’m convinced I would.

22/8/2025, 5:21:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👀 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 #photography

Photo of a great blue heron in Prospect Park lake in profile, neck extended high, staring down into the water intensely.
22/8/2025, 2:16:17 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mourning dove makes the mistake of landing on the A/C unit near my camera. 📷 📸 🪶 🕊️ #photography

Close-up photo of a mourning dove in profile against a bokeh background.
21/8/2025, 1:22:38 AM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look at the mesc u got us lin

20/8/2025, 5:18:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You just know he’s doing voices and bouncing them around.

20/8/2025, 12:14:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love deciphering a “bonjour, hi” for clues on how best to proceed

19/8/2025, 11:58:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We thank you for your loyalty. As a symbol of our on-going gratitude we’re crediting your account with 100 BabblingBucks™.

19/8/2025, 9:39:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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~Limited time offer~ The next 5 followers can follow this account for free* (* Limit one per person)

19/8/2025, 6:16:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mute swan, after seeing the rerelease of Shin Godzilla in 4K. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🦢 🗼 #photography

Photo of an adult mute swan, reared up with neck stretched high and wings wide open, as if pretending to be a kaiju. Photo taken in Prospect Park while the swan was drying off.
19/8/2025, 3:44:50 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s actually MS KNOW, but the K is silent.

19/8/2025, 3:24:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I learned the hard way that this kind of separation anxiety in dogs is sadly made worse when you give them a ton of attention before leaving and when returning. If you (painfully) ignore the dog for 10 mins on either side it will help them in the long run.

18/8/2025, 10:45:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great blue heron reflected in Prospect Park lake this afternoon. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 #photography

Photo of a great blue heron in Proespect Park lake in profile, hunting for fish amidst the dogweed. Their reflection is visible below.
18/8/2025, 9:44:46 PM | 85 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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This film is fantastic. So moving. Run don’t walk to go see it while you can.

18/8/2025, 3:30:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tell me it’s Sunday night without telling me it’s Sunday night

17/8/2025, 11:43:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Typical bodega art design. Nothing says authenticity quite like a well-worn sign. 📷 📸 🪧 🐓 🇯🇲 #photography

Photo of a large sign on a building that reads “Jerk Chicken” in dark green block letters against a bright yellow background. The sign shows signs of aging with many scuff marks and it’s covered in old stickers. Photo taken in Prospect Lefferts Garden.
17/8/2025, 4:55:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which insect? Ants, ants, ants

17/8/2025, 2:55:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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don’t tell me they’re eating that crap

16/8/2025, 4:38:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This installation, one of the first discoveries I made after getting a telephoto lens, is hiding in plain sight if you know where to look for it. 📷 📸 🗿 👩‍⚖️ 🪷 🏛️ #photography

Photo of an installation called NOW by Shahzia Sikander, depicting a golden female form with braided hair in the shape of ram’s horns, fluid arms, atop a lotus flower. This is located on top of the Courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the State of New York, and stands in stark contrast to the gray statues of men also on the rooftop.
16/8/2025, 4:22:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s so criminally nice out in NYC for yet another Friday night that I’m issuing a citizen’s arrest.

15/8/2025, 11:27:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pomegranate would like a word with you

15/8/2025, 11:18:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Black-crowned night heron growing increasingly skeptical of how I’m going to use their images. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🤨 #photography

Photo of the black-crowned night heron named Alain (Alanis’s partner) standing on a mostly submerged log in a dogweed-filled Prospect Park lake. Their eyelids are caught here closed halfway giving them a look of extreme skepticism.
15/8/2025, 10:13:06 PM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you put on your puffer jacket for the first time of the season. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 #photography

Photo of the black-crowned night heron called Alanis, on a log in Prospect Park lake. Their feathers are all puffed up in an attempt to dry off after an unsuccessful dive into the water for fish, making them look very silly.
15/8/2025, 11:13:31 AM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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(Seeing someone with a Prada bag): You know who else wears Prada?

14/8/2025, 10:40:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pine cones in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 📷 📸 🍃 🌲 #photography

Photo of three pine cones on a tree branch, against a green bokeh background. Pine needles can be seen on the edges of the photo.
14/8/2025, 11:35:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We know who the real hero was in this story

14/8/2025, 2:03:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alanis, flying from one log to another, searching for fish. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🪽 #photography

Photo of the black-crowned night heron named Alanis flying away from the camera, low over a Prospect Park lake covered in dogweed.
14/8/2025, 1:12:43 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He keeps telling me that he’s never gonna give me up

13/8/2025, 10:43:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But I think all of your base already belong to someone else

13/8/2025, 6:04:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Swiss Army duck 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🦆 🇨🇭 #photography

Photo of a female mallard standing on a rock in Prospect Park lake. Her head is folded backwards laying on her back as if ready to flip forward like a Swiss Army knife.
13/8/2025, 1:38:45 PM | 56 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Acquaintancebawamba

13/8/2025, 4:06:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks! I hadn’t realized this was out, just got tickets.

13/8/2025, 1:30:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can confirm that it’s impossible to visit Tasmania without holding out hope that you’ll somehow spot one.

13/8/2025, 1:18:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eastern amberwing, somehow finding camouflage on a mostly green lake. 📷 📸 🍃 🐉 🪰 🍁 #photography

Photo of an eastern amberwing dragonfly, atop of leaf floating in Prospect Park lake. The leaf has almost exactly the same coloration as the dragonfly. Dogweed can be seen in the water.
13/8/2025, 1:13:40 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I applaud you for avoiding the absurdist term “deplaning”, but I’m not convinced that ‘deboarding a plane’ is much better. Exiting?

12/8/2025, 11:46:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks! All credit due to the subject.

12/8/2025, 2:41:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is it removing the seats?

12/8/2025, 1:42:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Après qu’il s’installe sur les billets de banque.

12/8/2025, 1:25:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wood duck, covered in duckweed. 📷 📸 🪶 🍃 🦆 #photography

Close-up photo of a female wood duck floating in Prospect Park lake. Duckweed drips from their beak.
12/8/2025, 1:14:16 PM | 32 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The sky bridge on W. 15th street. This connects to the building that was once Nabisco’s headquarters where the Oreo was invented in 1912. 📷 📸 🌉 🍪 ⚫️⚪️⚫️ #photography

Photo of West 15th Street looking East showing the iconic sky bridge connecting two buildings high above the street below. Photo taken from the High Line.
12/8/2025, 3:02:05 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exciting, but that image suggests they’ll be awful translations. ; )

11/8/2025, 10:51:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You left out the part where a drone takes out one of the planes because some guy wants video of the fire.

11/8/2025, 7:02:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brown-belted bumblebee, seemingly in their version of heaven, in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 📷 📸 🍃 🐝 🌺 #photography

Photo of a brown-belted bumblebee in a see of red flowers.
11/8/2025, 1:47:09 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blue dasher (not dashing). 📷 📸 🍃 🐉 🪰 #photography

Photo of a blue dasher dragonfly on a leaf at the edge of Prospect Park lake.
11/8/2025, 2:04:04 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cuomo accusing Mamdani of growing up rich is — say it with me — rich

10/8/2025, 4:11:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mallards having brunch on Prospect Park lake. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🦆 #photography

Photo of two female mallards in Prospect Park lake, the duck in the foreground has some (tasty?) green vegetation in her beak that she just grabbed from underwater. The duck in the background has her beak open.
10/8/2025, 3:34:09 PM | 44 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alanis, seemingly reacting to the etymology of their name. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🪵 ⁉️ #photography

Photo of the black-crowned night heron named Alanis (because of their ironic daytime activity), contorting their head in a manner that makes it look like they’re reacting with shock and disapproval at something they just heard, while perched on a log in Prospect Park Lake.
9/8/2025, 11:19:02 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that the opposite of divide and conquer?

9/8/2025, 11:09:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes absolutely, but also, to be fair as someone who’s lived in rent stabilized units for over 2 decades, I have to stop myself every time and say the opposite of what I naturally think. The names really feel reversed. Stable sounds like it doesn’t increase and the other like it goes up a bit.

9/8/2025, 2:09:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome back! Don’t miss Mordor on Dekalb and all the many other new condos.

8/8/2025, 5:30:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mute swan parents take a break from their cygnets. 📷 📸 🍃 🪶 🦢 💤 #photography

Photo or two mute swans with their eyes closed on the bank of Prospect Park Lake, near their offspring (not pictured).
8/8/2025, 1:31:26 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the many great, oft overlooked, spots to sit in the Lincoln Center terrace. 📷 📸 #photography

Photo of two people seated crossed-legged on a stone wall at the base of a large building between its long stone columns.
7/8/2025, 10:35:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lode Runner

7/8/2025, 1:04:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thought about it, but I can’t live with the kitchen cabinet colors.

6/8/2025, 4:37:57 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Reclining Figure”, although I’ve yet to make it out. 📷 📸 #photography

Photo of the “Reclining Figure” statue in the reflecting pool in the Lincoln Center plaza.
6/8/2025, 3:41:22 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you hope they won’t notice your nose job. 📷 📸 🗿 🤥 #photography

Photo of a statue of a man with a recently replaced nose that’s bright white because it hasn’t been weathered like the rest of the face.
5/8/2025, 4:19:15 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m still waiting for that Nicole Kidman movie to come out. They’ve been teasing it for years.

5/8/2025, 3:09:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bird within a bird 📷 📸 🪶 #photography

Close-up photo of a rock dove’s white and brown head. Even closer-up crop of that same image highlighting the end of the bird’s beak that oddly looks like a different bird.
5/8/2025, 1:10:56 AM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Live, Laugh, Love (Choose one)

4/8/2025, 11:24:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Illustration of the Empire’s logo from Star Wars
4/8/2025, 7:53:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have yet to find a comfortable pair of shoes. Can you recommend a product I could place between my feet and the shoes?

4/8/2025, 4:06:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lone pine tree in Shirley Chisholm State Park (one of the city’s hidden gems) 📷 📸 🍃 🌳 #photography

Photo of a pine tree standing nearly alone in a see of tall grasses on a hill in front of a partly cloudy sky.
4/8/2025, 4:04:29 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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shhh they’re sleeping 📷 📸 🚇 💤 #photography

Photo of a row of tightly packed 7 trains at night in Flushing, Queens, at the end of the line.
4/8/2025, 12:40:11 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Haha I feel your pain, if that helps any. It won’t stop so you can’t take it personally.

3/8/2025, 10:43:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But I thought in Soviet Russia the ice creams you?

3/8/2025, 10:38:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where 7 trains go to sleep. 📷 📸 🚇 🫅🫅 #photography

Photo at night of row after row of the tops of tightly packed subway cars shimmering in the streetlights. Photo taken in Flushing, Queens at the end of the 7 line.
3/8/2025, 10:29:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just guffawed embarrassingly in public no thanks to this

3/8/2025, 10:20:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tardis

3/8/2025, 10:19:03 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a bilingual Montrealer with a clearly anglophone name I know this phenomenon all too well.

3/8/2025, 10:17:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just learned that this statue of William Henry Seward is rumored to depict his head atop a repurposed sculpture of Lincoln’s body. 📷 📸 🍃 🗿 #photography

Photo of the statue of William Henry Seward at the entrance to Madison Square Park next to road signs indicating the corner of Broadway and E 23rd street. The backdrop are lush green trees.
3/8/2025, 10:42:40 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On this date in 1862 Alberto Pastor perfected his signature chicken dish.

2/8/2025, 10:45:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beat me to it. Is it departing at 8:17?

2/8/2025, 10:31:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is hilarious. Thank you.

2/8/2025, 10:28:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cinema led me to believe there’d be more Will Smith, but I’m not complaining.

2/8/2025, 10:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When the flag reads the room. 📷 📸 😞 #photography

Photo of a flag pole with an American flag at half staff looking completely deflated and depressed as it doubles over itself without any wind. Photo taken at Lincoln Center.
2/8/2025, 10:04:20 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you’re in NYC and not talking a long walk outside right now I can’t help you.

1/8/2025, 11:48:04 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view