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Tamara Keel
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Producer and consumer of the written word. Casual photographer. Liker of cats, cameras, fast cars, and faster apertures.

No one is coming. It’s up to us.

Cameras: binaryfossils.blogspot.com
Cars: carsgoneby.blogspot.com
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A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.

“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”

over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I feel extremely awkward finding amusement in someone having a very public psychotic break.

Does Owens not have any friends who could intervene in her mental health crisis before she does something really bonkers and unrecoverable?
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Summer Yellow is a great color for a Porsche 911 Cabriolet out for a summertime drive!

carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/11/1987...
1987 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet
Introduced as an entirely new model for 1964, it didn't take long for the 911 to become the  Porsche. The Carrera 3.2 version, introduced tw...
carsgoneby.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Leaving me free to do the interesting bits, like the logistics...

North Africa: a trucking contest between two armed groups.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Looking at MPB and KEH, Pentax K-7s are going for a few bucks either side of $150. Unlike a D3xxx/D5xxx or Rebel, they're weather resistant and built like tanks, which are good features for a beginner DSLR.

binaryfossils.blogspot.com/2025/11/bett...
Better, Yet Smaller: The Pentax K-7
In the summer of 2009, the K20D was supplanted at the top of Pentax's DSLR lineup by the new K-7. While it had an APS-C sensor with in-body ...
binaryfossils.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Nope.

It is LITERALLY the first thing I would do if I was a billionaire. I would form a company, hire all my friends and a shitload of logistics 'officers', buy a venue. Get uniforms. The full works.

Money is wasted on people like Musk.
Has anyone ever played the full version of The Campaign for North Africa all the way through?

Like, documented?
Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Has anyone ever played the full version of The Campaign for North Africa all the way through?

Like, documented?
Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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“Siri, show me a Millennial so out-of-touch that they don’t know what a mirror selfie is.”
a man is doing pull ups on a bar in a gym while people watch .
ALT: a man is doing pull ups on a bar in a gym while people watch .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Live look of the infantrydort:
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Uniform checking dudes with *multiple* valor decorations is certainly a flex.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.

This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Remember how Ivan Throne got dunked on so hard over there that he self-deplatformed?

I think about that a lot.
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Too Big To Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is the moderate position.
the establishment brunchlord press really should be burned to the ground and the Earth salted where its feckless carcass once did its pathetic gyrations
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"long-range, one-way, jet-powered dr--"

NO THAT IS A CRUISE MISSILE. STOP THIS RIGHT NOW
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This is just how we sing it now.
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Threatening someone with a uniform inspection is the most POG shit I've ever heard in my life.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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We used to have nice things
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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1. He can't extend the subsidies. That's what Congress is for.
2. MAGA spent some political capital through the shutdown saying they had a better plan.
3. The plan was a nonstarter.
4. Now the Dems re opened the GOV and Maga gets to swallow more Obamacare.

Dems succeed. Against all odds.
Trump to announce extension of ACA tax credits for two years
President Donald Trump planning intervention to stop expiration of Obamacare subsidies sending insurance premiums skyrocketing for millions of Americans
www.the-independent.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My days of taking Barro seriously came to a middle some years ago.
This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Cars in autumnal colors spotted in Charlotte this morning.

#cars #weirdcarbs #carspotting
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
National Guard O-4 trying to break bad on an 0-6 Naval Aviator is so fucking pathetic and comical.
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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What’s bullshit is known 5th place anti trans bigot Riley Gaines, her husband is from the UK and had overstayed his visa and she went public with it. Instead of arresting and detaining him they helped push his citizenship through. Funny how that works huh?
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Summer Yellow is a great color for a Porsche 911 Cabriolet out for a summertime drive!

carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/11/1987...
1987 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet
Introduced as an entirely new model for 1964, it didn't take long for the 911 to become the  Porsche. The Carrera 3.2 version, introduced tw...
carsgoneby.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM