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Kafkaesque
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Recovering lawyer & former historian, turned fragrance critic. #ExPostie.

Love: German shepherds; history; space; photography; art; science; TV; Star Trek; Top Chef; Camus; animals; nebulae; cooking; gastronomy; & yes, fragrances.
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Just an FYI:

- my first search for the word "thong" brought up documents with the word "thing" highlighted instead.

- second search for "Bikini" gave me the following Error message:
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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🧵 4. "I like big butts, I cannot lie!" 🎶

So true for #dogs! Look at the floofy butts here & their equally floofy, glorious tails. 😍

Their Hooman & I always have extensive conversations about shedding. I mean, we're #Husky & #GSD people, shedding is THE one thing we understand like no-one else! 😂
Three dogs stand around a dog watering fountain inside an enclosed dog park. Two are husky mixes, one is a red-and-black German Shepherd dog. The black husky smells the white one's butt, but the GSD ignores everyone including the kindly husky owner who's pressing on the water button for him.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🧵 3. Apollo, like many (trained) #GSD #dogs is aloof w/ others. Extra w/ males but occasionally he'll pause his Fetch & ball obsessions for a pretty female. I guess Chloe's Eau de Chien isn't great bc he doesn't even bother w/ a butt sniff! He runs off.

Dude, she's gorgeous! WTH?! #Husky #RomCom
Three dogs hang out at a dog park. One dog is a floofy black and white husky; next to it is her sister, an all white husky that is extra extra plush and well-groomed; the third is a German Shepherd, Apollo, who stands further away, staring at the other two dogs. His blue ball lies in the grass area between the dogs. A large German Shepherd dog with striking red and black colouring walks away from two husky mixes at the dog park. He's literally picked up his toy to run away from them, even though one of the young huskies is a gorgeous white floofy female who really likes him and is always trying to get his attention. You can see in the photo how she's springing into action to chase him, her pink tongue eagerly out and striking against her white fur.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🧵 2. Meet Chloe, Ellie's stunning all-white husky sister, a floof on steroids! Her curled tail is in & of itself a thing of beauty in its impeccable blow-dry. I love her.

Chloe loves Apollo. She chases him, flirting whenever we meet, her eyes sparkling w/ delight. #Dogs #Husky #GSD #GermanShepherd
An ultra floofy ball of hair on legs, aka a well-groomed white husky on legs, stands at the dog park, her tongue out. It's a splash of bright pink against the green of the grass and the white of her fur
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🧵 1. An impromptu birthday party today at the dog park included match-making attempts for Apollo w/ 2 diff. husky-mix beauties -- a story in 4 photo parts.

First, please meet Ellie whose exquisite blue eyes match the sun. Unfortunately, Apollo was unimpressed. #Dogs #Husky #GSD #GermanShepherd
An incredibly floofy husky mix stares at the camera, looking slightly upwards at a ball hidden out of sight. She has electric blue eyes that match the blue sky. They stand out against her black and white. She has her mouth open in a happy grin and her pink tongue sticks out. She's in an enclosed dog park area, eager to play Fetch.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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My heart goes out to MAGA with the world's smallest, practically invisible violin. My thoughts and prayers also, since we all know how effective those are in times of crises and grief.
A man's hand covered up to its wrist in gold glitter gives the viewer the middle finger. Photo of two smiling, happy Trump voters in 2015, a man and woman, wearing identical navy blue tshirts with the text: "Trump 2916 Fuck your feelings'
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Misery loves company; if I must suffer with the ghastly mental visuals and the subsequent brain bleach needed, then you must as well. I'm not going to need therapy solo, nuh-huh. #Trump #MAGA #LauraLoomer #WorstPeople #Nightmares #HorrorMovies
Screenshot of a tweet from Peter @notalawyer in 2024 asking: "what sexual position do you guys think Trump and laura Loomer enjoy the most" The tweet refers to numerous ongoing rumors of an affair between the two.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Cheeseburgers & presents for the birthday puppy. Apollo was more patient than my prior GSDs when it came to sporting a bday hat, but not enough for me to repeat the experience.

He had a tough vet visit yesterday (they hit the nail quick!), so today hugs, kisses, toys & alas, diet food. #Dogs #GSD
Blep! A German Shepherd dog sits in front of a birthday banner in blue and white. He's wearing a bandana in blue and black plaid, as well as a hat with a tall gold cone topper with a light blue pom-pom. A balloon floats behind him. A birthday puppy wearing a blue and gold cone hat and a plaid blue and black bandana around his neck, sits on a wooden floor with a colourful array of 6 birthday toys in front of him. To the side is also a cheeseburger with a circular gold "happy birthday" sign stuck into the center of its top bun.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Happy birthday to my best friend, my naughty Pestaroni Pupparoni, my loving imp, Apollo, who turns 5 today.

Enjoy photos of his 1st bday party. He was patient but so miserable that I promised I'd spare him future dressing-up.

First, "Why am I wearing this stupid hat?!" #GSD #GermanShepherd #Dogs
A German Shepherd dog wears a birthday hat and poses in front of a big "Happy Birthday" banner in blue with white writing. A selection of brightly coloured dog toys and stuffed animals lies on a counter in front of him and at the bottom of the screen.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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5. “Hornbill In A Hurry”

"This hornbill was spooked by the incoming tawny 🦅 eagle & decided a quick exit was probably wise. Its ungainly departure was captured in a sequence of shots but this one for me perfectly captured" its panic in the moment. 📷 Geoff Martin (It escaped safely.) #EastCoastKin 🐦
A hornbill bird looks completely panicked and freaked out as he runs, one bony leg kicked back in his flight. His black-tipped wings are erect and up in the air, while his curved orange beak almost matches the colour of the sand beneath his talons. In the background to the right of the shot is a blurry figure of a bird of prey, a tawny eagle, in mid flight, aiming for the hornbill and looking as if he's coming to eat him for dinner.
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🧵 4. “What do you mean I need to see a dentist?!”

📷: Bingqian Gao. A porcupine fish with a mouthful of algae has trouble closing his mouth. So he has this eternal shocked look. Gao said: "His dental hygiene is probably bothering me more than it’s bothering him!" 😂 #EastCoastKin #Nature #Photo 🐠
Close up photo of a porcupine posh staring at the camera with an open mouth that looks filled with something green inside. The water is turquoise and clear, the sands are white, and he's centered at the middle of the shot, seemingly asking the photographer a question.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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🧵 3. "GO AWAY! It's MINE! All mine!"

A white-tailed sea eagle w/ an intense yellow beak screams angrily when another eagle comes to steal the fish supper he'd hidden in the snow.

📷: Annette Kirby. 2025 Nikon comedy #Wildlife #Photography competition. #EastCoastKin #Nature #Animals #Birds #Funny
A small brown bird is captured standing upright in snow, his bright mustard yellow beak open as he stares at something off screen. His eyes are wide open, and he seems to be yelling or screaming in anger as he gestures with a wing to something in the snow.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🧵 2. Class is in session! As a lemur demonstrates his embrace of the universe, his student contemplates whether enlightenment is really worth this much effort before breakfast.

📷: Andrey Giljov. 2025 Nikon comedy #Wildlife #Photography competition. #EastCoastKin #Nature #Animals #monkey #Funny
Two lemurs sit on a rock. One lemur on the left holds his arms up in the air, spread apart, as if he's explaining something. His legs are open as he sits upright, his head turned to a second lemur on his right who stares in profile with a questioning or doubtful look on his face.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🧵 1. The 2025 #Nikon Comedy #Wildlife #Photography Awards announced their hilarious #animal finalists on Nov. 6th. Here are a few shots as a timeline cleanser from bad political news.

First up, lion cubs throw a toddler tantrum, while the adults lose it. "Enough!" 📷: Ben Saalwaechter. #EastCoastKin
Two female lions snarl while two tiny lion cubs shriek out at the same time, wanting milk in a toddler tantrum. One hidden lion in the back hides from the other 4. All are shot lying atop a big rock.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The Democrats' election successes were only 4 days ago & yet, tonight feels like the fall of DC & the Democrats. I can't wrap my head around what utterly useless, whimpy, pointless & pathetic scabs they are.

@schumer.senate.gov & @democrats.senate.gov, u are cowards & an embarrassment. Be ashamed!
Black and white meme showing the Roman Colosseum on the bottom and a computer laptop screen on top. The text reads: "What a time to be alive, it's like the collapse of Rome, but with WiFi."
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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📷🧵 3. The majestic, snowy Himalayan mountains are a beautiful backdrop to Tibet's starry skies. Photo: Samuchenko again. #Photography #Tibet #Zen #EastCoastKin #Nature #landscape #Astro #Scape #Travel 🏔️🌌⭐
Gosainkunda Lake in Tibet is photographed using a fish eye lens and techniques that seem to capture the stars in motion in white-flecked circular pattern in the dark blue night sky. Underneath are mountain ranges tipped with snow at their highest peaks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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📷🧵 2. The Milky Way gleams brightly in the night sky above a cloud-covered lake in Tibet. Shot by Samuchenko again.
#Photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #landscape #Astro #Scape #Night #Travel 🏔️🌌
The Milky Way shines like a tunnel to the stars in this photo taken in Tibet. The night sky is covered in pink, peach, and silver at the furthest edge of the far horizon but the colours change as you move up the sky from peach to purple, navy, and black. The stars and galaxy are in silver or white.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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1. "The Calmness of Eternity" won 🇺🇦 Yevhen Samuchenko many photo awards, incl. CNN 2019 Photographer of the Yr, Runner-Up.

He's known for his shots of starry night skies; #Tibet lacks light pollution making it a top 📷 destination. #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Astro #Nature #Scape #Night #Travel 🏔️🌌⭐
The Milky Way stars shine in this night photo of Gosainkunda Lake in Tibet. The night sky looks purple and black except for the tunnel of stars rising from the horizon from one side of the lake. The mountains hug the sides of the lake and they curve the stars in a crescent-shaped curve. The snow covering them shines white in the photo while the water glitters an inky black.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Oh my, yes! Starring the only woman who could possibly live up to the description of the queen's otherworldly beauty: the spectacular Ursula Andress.
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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It's probably just me, but man, De Niro's Netflix cyber-terror thriller #ZeroDay is just so bloody f*g tedious & irritating to watch.

Great actors in a thin boring story that's a mishmash of cartoon characters & conspiracy theory tropes. Literally forcing myself to finish it. May skip ahead. #TV
Photo of a German Shepherd dog. He's staring straight at the camera, a laser beam focused look in his eye. He lip on one side is curled and raised upwards in a sneering snarl of contempt, his sharp fangs glowing white underneath. His entire expression oozes disdain and contempt. Possibly disgust.
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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📷🧵 7. Kanas Lake is in China, not Tibet, so technically Florian Delalee's photo doesn't belong in this thread, but I'm struck by the similarity of the serpentine, turquoise water to his photo of Yamdrok Lake. #EastCoastKin #Nature #scape #Travel #Landscape #Photography #Himalayas #Mountains #Zen
A photo of Kanas Lake in China shows a curving, inverted-s-shape ribbon of water in a striking electric blue turquoise colour. It weaves in a watery canyon in-between two mountains covered by thick forests. Most of the trees are coloured a dark coniferous green, but a few on the south side of the vista have leaves in yellow.
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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📷🧵 6. Yamdrok Lake (L) is considered a sacred lake; in local mythology, she's a transformed goddess. Known for stunning electric turquoise water set agst snow-capped mountains.
#EastCoastKin #Nature #scape #Travel #Landscape #Tibet #Photography #Himalayas #Mountains #Zen
Striking photo of a stormy, cloud-filled grey sky above snow-capped mountains all around electric turquoise waters.
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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📷🧵 5. Urban density takes on new meaning when you see Seda, also in West Sichuan, Tibet. It's the largest Tibetan Buddhist academy in the world w/ 40,000 Buddhist monks coming from all over Asia to study.
#EastCoastKin #Nature #scape #Travel #Landscape #Tibet #Photography #Himalayas #Mountains #Zen
Hundreds upon hundreds of tiny houses in red and brown dot the mountain side. A large number of the religious devotees who study at Seda are women. Here's a photo of 5 older nuns sitting on a bench dressed in colours of burnt orange, brown, and navy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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📷🧵 4. Monks pray on a misty mountain top overlooking the incredibly dense city of Yarchen Gar, a #Buddhist monastic complex in W. Sichuan #Tibet. It's one of the largest concentrations of nuns & monks in the world! #EastCoastKin #Nature #scape #Travel #Landscape #Photography #Himalayas #Mountains
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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📷🧵 3. Namtso Lake, Tibet, with the snowy peaks of the Himalayas behind.
#EastCoastKin #Nature #scape #Travel #Landscape #Tibet #Photography #Himalayas #Mountains #Zen
Photo of a huge lake, curving against golden sands under blue skies filled with clouds. The snowy Himalayas lie in the back.
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM