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My "Tweets" on the left side of the full screen version of this page are from Bluesky now. It's been about a year on Mastodon, which I liked just fine, but I can't find anyone to follow over there. Bluesky seems fine for now. So to round them up, Twitter is full of nazis, Mastodon is a ghost town, Threads is full of stupid, and Bluesky is the closest I've gotten to Twitter in its heyday. I'm still looking for some of the comedians that I liked to follow. Scroll to the bottom for a little surprise having to do with this topic.

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New Orleans, Taylor Swift, and Another Poem

October 31, 2024

We don't pass too many October without spending a week or two in New Orleans. We welcomed our dear friend Camilla this past weekend for a long day of being tourists. For the nightcap, Camilla and Ko went to the Taylor Swift concert in the Superdome. After picking our girl up at the airport, we dropped off gear at the house where we stayed in the Bywater. We changed and went to brunch in Mid-City (Katie's, yum) and then spent a few hours wandering around the French Quarter.
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This bot randomly chooses one of this site's daily photos from any time over the 18 years that they have been posted, and it posts that image to it's Bluesky feed. Before I launched, it chose this entry on only my second succesful test from my laptop:

My mother teaches the local children about the joys of smoking cigarettes during a vacation to the Virgin Islands several years ago. (Another photo from the archives of old scanned pictures.) Originally posted August 01, 2007 on theskinnyonbenny.com

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— theskinnyonbenny photo bot (@theskinnyonbenny.bsky.social) October 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM