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Richard Ⓐber
@richaber.bsky.social
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Pressing all the Ⓦords since 2009.
This is a personal account.
Opinions are my own.
No cross, no crown.
No gods, no masters.
And I'm Batman.
He/Him
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"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." — Eugene V. Debs
Poster of a black silhouette Eugene Debs, on a red background, with his famous words in white: While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Let's eat!
Photo of a dinner plate loaded with slices of grilled pork tenderloin, roasted potatoes, and a green leafy salad topped with thousand island dressing.
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Grilled a couple of pork tenderloins for dinner. 😋
Photo of two grilled pork tenderloins, sliced thin, on a red BBQ serving tray.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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A rafter of wild turkeys is wandering through my backyard by the neighbor's driveway.
Photo of a rafter of wild turkeys in my backyard.
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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To a walk down to the ball field so I could get an unobscured view. Not as vibrant as yesterday, but still pretty.
Photo of the night sky showing curtains of green and purple aurora.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Can't get a good shot of the aurora tonight. It's more muted than last night, and it's limited to a small patch of the north sky, where I have a lot of trees obscuring the view
Photo of the night sky, with a green and reddish purple aurora. There are a lot of silhouettes of trees in the foreground, slightly obscuring the view.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Aurora is still visible in Alex.
Photo of the night sky, showing red and green curtains of aurora above the tree tops.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Aurora visible in Alexandria, MN tonight too.
Nighttime photo of the sky, a burst of red and green aurora is visible above the tree tops.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Pizza Tot hotdish for dinner 🤤
Photograph of a Pizza Tot hotdish in a casserole dish. The tater tots are golden and there is melted cheese on top.
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Eddie and the Cruisers
Poster for the movie Eddie and the Cruisers
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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"Only"

I'm pretty sure politicians ain't starving.
Screenshot of a skeet that reads" The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime. We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I love how assholes look at "things" (corporations, bots, property) and ascribe them all the rights and privileges of a human being.
A badly edited image of Mitt Romney that used to say "Corporations are people, my friend." But it has been edited to read "Robots are people, my friend."
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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My youngest is 13, he went trick-or-treating as a Ghostbuster.
Photo of a 13 year old boy dressed as a Ghostbuster for Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Faith No More - The Real Thing
Cover art for the Faith No More album "The Real Thing".
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A little no bean chili, some mustard, and jalapeños, and they're ready. Let's eat!
Photo of a dinner plate loaded with steak fries, and two grilled Nathan's Famous jumbo beef franks, on hot dog buns, topped with yellow mustard, no bean chili, and fresh jalapeño slices.
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Days are getting shorter, and it's getting colder, so I gotta grill while I still can.

Nothing fancy tonight, just Nathan's Famous jumbo beef franks.

#BBQmunity
Photo of ten Nathan's Famous jumbo beef franks on the Weber kettle grill.
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Chilly morning. 🥶
Screenshot of Android weather app showing the current air temperature as 33°F, and the "feels like" temperature as 25°F.
October 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Unsolicited Dick Pick
Photo of an article from a magazine showing Richard (Dick) Pick standing next to a '70s era mainframe computer. The caption reads: Dick Pick, ca. 1973 While working on a military project in the 1960s, Pick collaborated with Don Nelson to develop a database system that could be easily implemented on different computers
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Say the line senior engineer!
Three-panel series of stills from the TV show "The Simpsons." In the first image, classmates of the character Bart Simpson look at him expectedly, with the text "Say the line, senior engineer!" The second image is of the character Bart Simpson, looking dejected, with text that reads "It Depends." The third image depicts the classmates erupting in celebration with laughter and cheers.
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Our second ad for the candidate was almost the exact opposite of the previous ad. We won two awards for this in the Iowa Newspaper Association 2000 Better Newspapers Contest, “Best of Class Advertising” and “Best Ad Featuring Miscellaneous”
In this full page ad, the entire page is nearly empty, save for one little Post-It note reminder in the center of the page. Framed by white space, a little Post-It note reminds the reader to “Vote for Worley Tomorrow.” The spot of yellow and black stands out amongst the white space.
October 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I was a graphic designer, so I mostly worked on ads. But I was very interested in historical design, journalism, typesetting, and printing. Inspired by the old hot lead machine, the owner's son and I came up with this full page ad for a guy running for city council...
A full page black and white advertisement, in Victorian newspaper style, with multiple typefaces and manicules pointing at "important" information.
October 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Thanks Chris. He was the bestest kitty.
Photo of a large, black, domestic shorthair cat, named Wally, lounging in a sink. He is so large that he takes up the entire sink basin. He has an expression and body language that seems to suggest he is thinking "Yo, what's up?"
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Good afternoon from the Alexandria Lakes Area. Our large maple tree's leaves are turning yellow and have started dropping.
Photo of a large maple tree in a Minnesota backyard, the leaves are turning yellow and starting to drop.
October 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Oh, I'm old, so I'm gonna go with a classic, BurgerTime.
A screenshot of the arcade game Burgertime in play.
September 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Let's eat!
Photo of a dinner plate, loaded with hickory grilled pork chops, chipotle parmesan sweet corn, and mashed potatoes.
September 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM