Ralph Brandi
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Ralph Brandi
@thereisnocat.com
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Retired web developer. Amateur photographer (mostly film). Leftist. Amateur genealogist. Of all the places my ancestors came from the place they came from the most is Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

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Awaiting the Supreme Court Decision That Could ‘Completely Erase’ the ‘Civil Right Movement’s Crowning Achievement’ talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Awaiting the Supreme Court Decision That Could ‘Completely Erase’ the ‘Civil Right Movement’s Crowning Achievement’
A set of Supreme Court decision days, beginning Friday, could feature a...
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February 19, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Laura had lunch with a couple of former co-workers, and one of them gave her this Polaroid 1200ff to give me. The age of free cameras is not over yet. Now I just have to dig up some of my Spectra film.
Polaroid 1200ff silver folding camera
February 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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I guess he's going full fascist dictator now. Predictable, but no less disturbing. apnews.com/article/dona...
Large banner featuring Trump's face is displayed on Justice Department headquarters
A large banner featuring Donald Trump’s face has been hung on the exterior of Justice Department headquarters in a physical display of the Republican president’s efforts to exert power over the law en...
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February 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Vieux Carre

Pizza by the slice. Lotta neon on Bourbon Street. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

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Vieux Carre
Pizza by the slice. Lotta neon on Bourbon Street. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.
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February 19, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Florist

Lot of call for florists after the bombs dropped. Leica R4, Lomography Turquoise, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

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February 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Just amazing that on the same day that an ex-president gets life in prison for leading an insurrection, a prince is arrested for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

It can't happen here
February 19, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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The Channel

Seen in New Orleans. Shot on Film Ferrania P33 with my Leica R4, developed in Divided D-76. Scanned, made into a digital negative with QuadToneRip and printed as a kallitype, then toned with platinum. I think this one’s gong on the wall.

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The Channel
Seen in New Orleans. Shot on Film Ferrania P33 with my Leica R4, developed in Divided D-76. Scanned, made into a digital negative with QuadToneRip and printed as a kallitype, then toned with platinum....
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February 19, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Do Trump next.
ewacat.bsky.social Neon Genesis Ewangelion @ewacat.bsky.social · 23h
OH THEY ARRESTED ANDREW LMAO
February 19, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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What monsters they are, to prey on the very goodness in others that they so sorely lack in themselves.
jcollins.bsky.social Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 1d
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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February 19, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Still the most perfect encapsulation of who Donald Trump is and his relationship with the American people that I've ever seen.
February 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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I got a second Charmera. If I hold them next to each other set to red and blue, maybe I can make 3D stereo 1-bit images. Unfortunately, I don’t have red/blue 3D glasses to verify. I doubt it works anyway, but it looks interesting.
Two images side by side of a glass of beer, one in red and one in blue
February 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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dizzycow.bsky.social
Wake me up when arrests start happening.
angrystaffer.bsky.social Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d
Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.
February 18, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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She’s so weak after a year in ICE custody (having been ordered to be released TWICE) that she can barely hold up a phone.

This is unconscionable.
clumsyninja.bsky.social Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 1d
In case anyone cares, Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for a year for the sin of sending $ to her family back home. She has twice been ordered released by judges but DHS won't accept bail for her and also hasn't deported her.

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
ICE detainee from New Jersey suffers seizure after nearly 1 year in custody, lawyers say
A Palestinian woman who had been living and working in Paterson, New Jersey, suffered a seizure while in ICE custody in Texas, her legal team says.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Tropical Isle

Home of the hand grenade. Lotta neon and a lotta booze on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.

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Tropical Isle
Home of the hand grenade. Lotta neon and a lotta booze on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.
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February 18, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Glass of Humanity

That’s my kind of bar. Leica R4, Kodacolor 100, ECN-2 development.

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February 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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I hear all this talking about the US bombing Iran--what I do not hear is any real discussion of how air power can be used to affect regime change. People are talking as if its a case of let er rip, buts its a devilishly difficult question.
February 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Government by Keystone Kops….
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I used Lomography Turquoise to make a visual joke.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/55101741517/in/dateposted/

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Orange
Street signs in New Orleans are blue. Construction barriers are orange. When I saw a blue sign for Orange Street with construction barriers, I thought it would be a good opportunity for a visual joke in Lomography Turquoise. It turned out exactly how I thought it would. Leica R4, ECN-2 development.
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February 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Yeah, that’ll solve the problem.

Evil. The people responsible for this whole system must be prosecuted.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
February 18, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham
February 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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The documentary community mourns the loss of one of its pioneers and most vital chroniclers of society, institutions, and humanity. A past IDA committee chair and recipient of a 1990 IDA Career Achievement Award, Frederick Wiseman, 96, leaves behind a brilliant legacy.
headshot of Frederick Wiseman for Getting Real '18
February 18, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Prints

Four Kallitypes drying. Three straight up, the fourth toned with platinum.

Needed to get away from computers for a while after blowing up my Pixelfed installation.
Four Kallitypes drying in a shower
February 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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And now there are increasing signs that, by a bitter irony of fate, Ukraine may well become the final graveyard of that old empire, as today's fascist dictatorial Russia ultimately exhausts and overstrains itself trying once again to enslave Ukraine, permanently losing its status as a world power.
February 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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While I decide whether to bother with Pixelfed any more, you can see my photos on Flickr. Like this one.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/55100410452/in/dateposted/
February 17, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Blew up my Pixelfed server, and Yunohost doesn’t seem to want to reinstall it. Oops.
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM