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Chris Ayotte
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Happy #Caturday!!
An orange cat, named Kevin Butterscotch, sitting on a chair.
June 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
ayottechris.bsky.social
TIL that Slackware Linux is still going strong, still being updated.
June 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Take a moment today, to light a candle, burn the incense, and bless and protect every protester out there.

#NoKings in this land.
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ayottechris.bsky.social
Yay climate change!!
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Smoke smell permeates Philadelphia region after wildfire breaks out in Shamong, New Jersey
Smoke from the wildfire in New Jersey's Wharton State Forest is being smelled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Generative AI companies have stolen from everybody with the implict belief that nobody would actually have the balls to sue them for doing so, and as a result have acted with a blatant disregard for copyright law. They thought big corpos would want to pay them. They were wrong.
Midjourney’s four levels of paid subscriptions range from $10 per month to $120 per month. Subscribers can receive a discount of approximately 20% on monthly pricing by paying for an annual subscription. Image generation requires processing time on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Midjourney’s different subscription levels come with different amounts of “Fast” GPU time. According to Midjourney, it takes them approximately one minute of GPU time to generate, reproduce, and publicly display (and/or distribute) further copies of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works. 77. What Midjourney calls its “Basic Plan” costs $10 per month and comes with 3.3 hours of Fast GPU Time per month. This allows Basic Plan subscribers to receive roughly 200 images per month. The more expensive the plan, the more Fast GPU Time the subscriber is allocated, and the more images that subscriber can receive. All subscribers can purchase additional Fast GPU Time for $4 per hour. 78. Additionally, subscribers with a “Standard Plan,” “Pro Plan,” or “Mega Plan” receive unlimited “Relax” GPU Time. An image generated using Relax GPU Time, which Midjourney refers to as “Relax Mode,” does not cost the subscriber any Fast GPU Time, however, the generation is placed into a queue based on how much the subscriber has used the system. Wait times in Relax Mode can range up to ten minutes per job. 79. Copies of the images generated by Midjourney for its subscribers are also publicly displayed on the “Explore” page on Midjourney’s website. Midjourney’s Explore page is a prominent feature of its website where Midjourney advertises the images that its Images Service has generated. The Explore page is a means for Midjourney to promote its Image Service, attract subscribers to the Image Service, and encourage them to use the Image Service, thereby generating more money for Midjourney 2. Midjourney consistently and accurately reproduces, publicly displays, and distributes copies and derivatives of characters from Disney’s Star Wars franchise to its subscribers. In response to the simple request (often referred to as a “prompt”) asking to see “Yoda with lightsaber, IMAX,” Midjourney accessed the data about Disney’s Copyrighted Works that is stored by the Image Service and then reproduced, publicly displayed, and made available for download further copies of Disney’s Yoda, as shown in this screenshot
June 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Now watch this video knowing all this: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed"
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PADILLA: I didn’t barge into the room. As I mentioned, I was in a different conference room a couple doors down the hall. I let it be known, I’d like to go listen to the press conference. The folks that were escorting me in the building walked me over. I didn’t even open the door. The door was opened for me. And I spent a few minutes in the back of the room just listening in until the rhetoric, the political rhetoric got to be too much to take. So I spoke up.
June 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
ayottechris.bsky.social
My first Unix was SunOS. This picture is both painful and joyful.

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From the techsupportgore community on Reddit: Never forget.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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TIL some Wawas have indoor seating!?!

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From the Wawa community on Reddit: First ever WaWa trip
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June 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
ayottechris.bsky.social
"The suggestion that anti-discrimination law is incompatible with classical liberalism is a conservative dogma that liberals need not accept."
May 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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@susannamaeohagan.bsky.social Does this remind you of anyone? 😼
May 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Thank you, @theonion.com, I needed a good laugh today 🤣
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · May 23
Romantic Teen Stands Outside Crush’s Window Holding Up Peter Gabriel
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Romantic Teen Stands Outside Crush’s Window Holding Up Peter Gabriel
May 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Happy Delaware Grown Week to all the farmers and producers who support our state!

Choosing First State produce opens doors to community and sustainability with fresh, nutritious, delicious food— today is a great day to find a farmer’s market near you!
May 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Chairman Mao announces that he’s increasing the price of iPhones
May 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
ayottechris.bsky.social
Eiffel Tower at night
May 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Obligatory Mona Lisa picture
Mona Lisa
May 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Versailles is beautiful but the whole time I was there all I could think of was how the resources consumed building it could have been better used for the people of France.
The garden at Versailles
May 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ayottechris.bsky.social
Paris? Or Wildwood?
Tornado potatoes on the street in Paris
May 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Me and the Eiffel Tower
May 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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L'Arc de Triomphe Tour Eiffel
May 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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dividedskyfnd.bsky.social
Why do we go to nature?

Because our nervous systems are begging for a reset—
quiet without pressure,
beauty without expectation,
connection without noise.

Nature doesn’t care what you produce.
It doesn’t rush you.
It just exists—and somehow invites you to, too.
May 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Vibe check: in Mexico, watching the clouds go by
Clouds in a blue Mexican sky
May 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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wildurbanpriestess.bsky.social
Why don't Funko Pop make THESE figures? I need this in my life!

#WitchSky
April 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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In 1992 there was an "America First" party that bucked mainstream politics by calling for the reimposition of tariffs, eliminating income taxes, eliminating foreign aid, stopping immigration, restoring our balance of trade with other nations, returning education to the states, and banning abortion.
THE POPULIST PARTY OF OREGON THE POLITICAL PARTY WITH A PLAN TO RESTORE AMERICA P.O. BOX 1965 BEAVERTON, OREGON 97075 503-646-2641 FAX 503-682-8561 THE PLAN Place the interests of AMERICA AND AMERICANS FIRST in all matters. Restore jobs to American workers by re-industrializing America. Restore honest money system by nationalizing the Federal Reserve System and repealing the National Banking Act. Abolish all present income, payroll, sales, and inheritance taxes. Replace with Trade Charge and/or Asset Tax, tariffs, duties and Constitutionally apportioned taxes. Provide interest-free loans and eliminate property taxes for private residences up to $125,000. Stop all foreclosures on homes, farms and businesses that are invoked by banking, financial or insurance Stop foreign buy-out of America by severely limiting foreign purchase of America's assets. Preserve and protect Second Amendment Rights. Promote more gun ownership by responsible citizens. Eliminate foreign aid. Spend it at home where we need it! Severely restrict immigration. America for Americans! Stop diluting our country! Restrict foreign pressure groups. Prohibit lobbyists from representing foreign interests. Restore and maintain a strong national defense. Defend America, not the world! Stop meddling in foreign wars. All wars are commercial wars. The "money roaches" make millions while our children are slaughtered! Establish and maintain a policy of fair balance of trade with each foreign country. Limit terms of federal judges, including Supreme Court judges. Prohibit lawyers from holding elected public office. Since they are "officers of the court", that makes them a part of the Judicial branch of government. They violate the "Doctrine of Separation of Powers" if they become a part of the Legislative or the Administrative branches of government! Inform Jurors that they ALWAYS have the right and duty to judge the LAW as well as the facts. Stop judges from tampering with the Jury. If you, THE JURY, don't agre…
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM