Weird Socks

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu

Public sector engineer and shop steward behind a random profile name. Profile image from a DDG search for "weird socks"

West Coast. GenX. #UU
I know #Seattle and the Bay Area.

Good with corrections..

#unions #bicycles #linocut
#nobots

Riding on the train with no dough: Sucks
Preferred pronouns: he, him

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ohmu_at_social.seattle.wa.us@momostr.pink

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2026-04-24 17:20:12 UTC

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He looks like something other than your Nemesis. Just sayin.

2026-04-23 18:31:07 UTC

Today in #NotTheOnion
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/116/455/444/679/888/960/original/8bd89f618d976f10.jpg

2026-04-23 02:28:09 UTC

RE: https://journa.host/@Olympiajoe/116451585493849466
Catch the latest from western Washington's most significant New Jersey native who is also a kickass political reporter.
#note1lv6…easl

2026-04-22 18:57:06 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/116449845091815292
I have a friend in their 60s. They started transitioning last year.
I've known them for 25 yrs. The past year has easily been the happiest I've ever seen them.
#note163z…nww5

2026-04-07 14:02:12 UTC

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You have an Apple phone?

2026-03-29 05:54:41 UTC

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I wonder if the new head of DHS gave a directive.
If so, we should know soon. DHS, has been leaking like a dormitory toilet.

2026-03-24 20:00:01 UTC

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I think many and maybe even a majority of USians would agree with every word of this.

2026-03-24 03:11:33 UTC

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Ep 3
A trans woman as a real person and she is neither the butt of a joke nor a soap opera plot device.
20 years ago!

2026-03-23 06:52:25 UTC

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We *just* started watching Veronica Mars. Like this evening.
It's really *good*! I remember it having fans but I had no idea.
I mean, yes, it has lamentable problems. The depiction of the Latino gang leader is 🙄.
But I was looking for something that isn't copaganda. In VM the County Sheriff is just another bullying jerk of an adversary.

2026-03-13 22:30:25 UTC

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116223781289008238
#BadNews #USPol
I'm boosting because my gut tells me this case in TX will be used as a precedent. And not everybody has been following it.
The jury convicted a bunch of people for "supporting terrorism" under the new "antifa is terrorism" rules. They were protesting in the same place as somebody they knew who fired a gun.
#note1wnu…dadp

2026-03-10 06:34:55 UTC

From the acknowledgements in Automatic Noodle by @npub1hhs…rl5g:
"My late-night friends on Mastodon offered a lot of great ideas about what kind of personality a self-executing contract would have."
Friends. I remember that discussion. I was one the late-night friends! Was that you, too?
I finished the novel earlier this evening. It was exactly right.
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/116/203/486/844/836/459/original/54808af37bc6d0dc.jpg

2026-03-08 17:20:11 UTC

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James Ellroy is right wing tho.
I didn't know he wrote about this.

2026-02-16 18:20:54 UTC

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Ok. I truly had never heard of this.
This should be a movie.

2026-02-14 22:34:27 UTC

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In case it's worth the knowing for marketing and what not, I bought the bundle and left a big tip because I read one of your posts here.

2026-02-10 20:35:31 UTC

I would consider my work on Earth done after writing this.
(From Lessons in Magic and Disaster by @npub1zq7…g2ym)
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/116/048/196/332/488/740/original/d7659726fc232465.jpg

2026-02-10 19:24:51 UTC

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You're leaving the City?
Wow. You and @npub1zq7…g2ym were some of the last people I knew of still there after all these years (I got priced out decades ago).

2026-02-05 15:10:33 UTC

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*Mastodon
I still make the same typo with the word almost every day.

2026-01-25 01:44:46 UTC

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You might have the wrong idea.
This stuff is very much in your face.
Everyone I know is stressed every day.
We just had the first general strike since 1946.
Anyway, this isn't for @npub1lcc…lcye. He's never replied to a post of mine and he's been condescending to people here the whole time we've been trying to stop this.
This is for the rest of you over there.
Please push your electeds to break monetary ties with the US.
Yes we over here will all be fucked if that really happens. Do it anyway.

2026-01-13 04:34:07 UTC

RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/115885738678832180
Damn I forgot how awesome Fugazi was.
#Music
#note12tv…7rwe

2026-01-05 21:38:39 UTC

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To protect the coyote?

2026-01-02 18:18:18 UTC

RE: https://masto.ai/@venitamathias/115826592048122539
#union #unions
#note1wfd…wugk

2026-01-02 18:12:39 UTC

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/115824339431975101
@npub1psa…j5uh
Is this worth an article?
#note1609…uedu

2025-12-22 18:15:15 UTC

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The cartoonist probably meant this to be a poke at unionized employees but it would probably be real.
Mission-driven non-profits suck at making sure their staff takes their legally required breaks.
Seattle Children's Hospital recently got hit with a second millions of dollars class action settlement for staff breaks.
Good job, Western Nurses Association.

2025-12-06 04:19:44 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Oaktag/115670666046253272
I don't know. Are you *sure* are this quote-chaining thing is a good idea?
#note1e0p…qtrw

2025-12-03 19:44:04 UTC

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It's so bad.

2025-11-20 15:56:38 UTC

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And inspired a medium famous post punk band out of Manchester.
https://thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-the-durutti-column-expanded-remastered

2025-11-16 16:37:52 UTC

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Do you have the date when the demands of her strike were met?
If anybody remembers me, I hope it's on a day associated with the impact of my work in unions, not the day I died.

2025-11-12 05:28:48 UTC

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I'm currently in Western NY. I'm sure it's strong up above the cloud cover but we can't see a thing. We're still in a snow storm. It's waning but there's no clear sky at all.

2025-11-12 05:14:04 UTC

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It was visible even with partial cloud cover.
Amazing.

2025-10-30 04:47:34 UTC

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Please help me not be so cynical.
Because I want to hope this will mean a whole bunch of people ready to pay for a better safety net by taxing billionaires and megacorps.
But I suspect it's going mean even more people voting for Magas because they want to burn the house down.

2025-10-27 14:54:34 UTC

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What kind of internet-enabled scamming would I have to do as a Russian for Putin's govt to want to shut me down?
I suppose this person focused almost exclusively on scamming his fellow Russians?

2025-10-24 02:29:19 UTC

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How, um, fussy is it?

2025-10-21 19:53:45 UTC

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I loved this.
I'm a Willow Wilson fan so I came in biased but I thought it was a wonderful fantasy from a different lens than In used to.

2025-10-20 00:21:23 UTC

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The what rhetoric? That's ... how could anyone even begin to imagine that? :picardpalm:

2025-10-20 00:02:15 UTC

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Do you have a notion why the feds were shooting rounds at the PPB? That seems like too many to have been mistakes.

2025-10-18 21:19:37 UTC

#PNW #Seattle #NoKings
Inflatables in sight.
Axolotls: 3
Rats: 1
TRexs: 2
Cows: 1
Sharks: 2
Squids: 2
Frogs: don't ask

2025-10-16 19:53:05 UTC

#PortlandFrog
Folks, we have a non-AI frog motif complete with licensing.
Go to town!
https://typo.social/@eWalthert/115373600558696862

2025-10-13 16:47:10 UTC

@npub1prs…eh8y
Have you already covered this one?
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/115/367/872/308/798/433/original/6615069ca05ef249.jpg

2025-10-12 18:43:48 UTC

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I can't load the video because I'm on a train.
What was the venue?

2025-10-10 18:11:55 UTC

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My family didn't have enough money to fly on planes in the early 80s.
How did things go when Reagan replaced PATCO workers? I can't imaginr it was smooth.

2025-10-09 19:45:26 UTC

#Seattle! #Police! #SPD
#DoTheyComeWithChewingGum?
@npub1efl…37ju
https://social.seattle.wa.us/@divestspd/115345792588641802

2025-10-06 19:33:10 UTC

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Is Ngo down there now?

2025-09-28 05:50:04 UTC

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FYI.
"The aircraft will be used to provide mobility and communication for CBP agents"
https://www.waff.com/2025/06/05/army-delivers-10th-black-hawk-us-customs-border-protection/

2025-09-26 19:24:27 UTC

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Fact check: True by the way.
I tried that trick and it worked.

2025-09-26 19:21:46 UTC

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A working pay phone you could hack with a pop top (War Games)

2025-09-21 17:02:21 UTC

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They will whine but still won't vote for a Dem candidate. And that's the least painful way out of this.

2025-09-20 17:43:51 UTC

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What is "CRG"?

2025-09-16 22:36:03 UTC

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I was soooo into HH.
Some years later, I connected the (obvious) dots that his politics were ... problematic.
Has he evolved since dropping Fountainhead references and casting Camille Paglia?

2025-09-13 04:20:12 UTC

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It's very #Seattle local but @npub1efl…37ju has only 161 followers here. (They have 1.3K on Bluesky).
They do excellent journalism. I follow them here and I send them some $ via kofy.

2025-09-09 14:12:26 UTC

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Is it a strike if they slow work down to a crawl as Seattle cops tend to do?
They recently went for months without reviewing red light camera tickets here in Seattle. It cost the city tens of millions.

2025-09-06 16:51:08 UTC

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These pre-Wagner actions interest me now because of what I know about organizing within my own work groups.
I suspect all of the violence caused a great societal shift but I'm curious if the specific workers saw things improve in their own specific conditions.
Within my own experience, it's a pretty small slice of workers who would participate in these tactics.

2025-09-03 20:15:37 UTC

Self reminders (pinned):
- Help promote good news. Bad news travels well enough on its own.
- Get good local news and #union news out there!
- "Favorite" means "I read this". Use sparingly. It only means anything between me and the poster.
- "Boost" means "I liked this and want others to see it and know I liked it."
- Don't bother boosting or favoriting large account posts.
- Quote posts work. Use for good not for evil.
- hashtags don't do much. Set expectations accordingly.

2025-09-02 14:18:09 UTC

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Typo in the workingclass hashtag?

2025-08-25 15:14:13 UTC

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Somebody is still making money is my guess.

2025-08-25 14:44:09 UTC

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Maybe this will be what finally ends it.

2025-08-10 14:54:12 UTC

The Seattle Times posted an unquestioned police account of catching an arsonist/murderer and a second article crowing about a Dick's burgers receipt.
Here is a new article. The defense tore the police to shreds. The police half-ruined a young man's life over wishes, ignored evidence, and racism.
And the Seattle Times breathlessly played along.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/charges-dropped-in-deadly-seattle-arson-defense-cites-racist-misidentification/

2025-07-26 03:40:06 UTC

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I haven't heard of active club. Nazis?

2025-06-30 21:31:06 UTC

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Omg.

2025-06-30 19:51:01 UTC

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Did something happen in particular?

2025-06-21 19:57:52 UTC

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Now ask to see @npub12as…yvvc's Crème brûlée torch.

2025-06-15 16:19:38 UTC

@npub1h9q…fkmf
I read that liquid antacid and water is effective treating tear gas in the eyes.
I read somewhere else one should rinse with just water.
Have you run into using either way?

2025-06-14 21:47:39 UTC

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#Seattle #NoKings
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/114/683/914/326/427/748/original/42acdc228174fb68.jpg

2025-06-14 20:52:01 UTC

#Seattle #NoKings
I can't know how many are here but it's in the thousands. Just crossing Cal Anderson Park and getting onto Pine has taken an hour. The last time that happened was the Women's March.

2025-06-14 17:15:29 UTC

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Thank you!
I should have thought of Rose City Antifa! I'll check out Stumptown.
My hope is to find links there to research closer to #Seattle.
I'm guessing there's something in #Olympia.

2025-06-14 16:42:20 UTC

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Great! Thank you. Anyone else?

2025-06-13 21:29:14 UTC

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Good point.
I'm realizing I don't think I am following any antifascist researchers.
Are there any you suggest following?

2025-06-12 05:30:38 UTC

Pinched from BS
#Seattle #protest #MeltICE
(https://bsky.app/profile/bagelfather.bsky.social/post/3lrexhfcpak2e)
https://media.social.seattle.wa.us/media_attachments/files/114/668/747/950/510/609/original/808bf19292bbba6d.jpg

2025-06-12 04:25:47 UTC

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It's the wrong question.
The Republican base *want* the dictatorship.
The "low information voters" are probably whom you mean, though.
The ones I've met don't care about dictatorship. "Those are just words, bro. Nothing is actually that bad." I think they would have to see serious impacts to things they hold dear or become targets themselves.
Their antecedents in early 20th century Europe didn't ever come around on their own. They found change at the ends of Allied guns

2025-06-11 19:07:19 UTC

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About 100 crazy brave mostly white young people dressed all in black, many of them trans-presenting, were who I saw at the Federal Building here in #Seattle yesterday.
They stopped DHS leaving the building for almost 12 hrs by piling up rental scooters.
It's just one story, I know, but it gave me a little hope.

2025-06-11 19:00:11 UTC

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Copy that. I'll stand back now.

2025-06-11 18:48:48 UTC

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This was for y'all but I hope I am okay stepping in to say:
It should not be brown people up front in this fight, no matter who. It should be my kin. White people.
Yes Black people should stay home safe. Yes Latine people should stay home. My people have debts to pay.
Yes I know there is the issue of whether my white people will freaking show.

2025-06-04 17:20:43 UTC

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Is there a central list of Nazis? I recall an account titled Rose City Antifa used to periodically "out" them.
If I had the know-how, I would cross check that list with, say, Portland's list of registered vendors
(I'm not being coy. I don't know how to automate web page queries.)

2025-05-29 02:22:39 UTC

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They were really getting to mess you up.

2025-05-27 20:48:50 UTC

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Funny how this stuff isn't being reflected in the stock price enough to actually threaten Tesla as a basis for Musk's ability to remain fluid.

2025-05-26 05:23:31 UTC

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This is good. Thank you.

2025-05-25 18:24:28 UTC

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Of course I agree.
I wonder how effective this is.

2025-05-24 04:00:35 UTC

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Yeeaah. That sounds like a ringer even to me and I can be a pretty gullible.

2025-05-24 03:18:36 UTC

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Urgh. I don't see any signs of his demise, I'm afraid, but I'll hold out hope.

2025-05-24 02:15:50 UTC

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Or this guy?
https://www.wikitia.com/wiki/Joseph_A._Camp

2025-05-24 02:14:14 UTC

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This dude?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camp

2025-05-04 18:29:58 UTC

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Not yet.
I think the right word to say about that is "Inshallah". Maybe?

2025-05-01 04:51:04 UTC

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It's too bad you missed out.
Downwinders' mutant powers are pretty wicked.

2025-04-27 18:09:31 UTC

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That's an odd sounding choice: ending the narrative when the band continued beyond that point. Did he end where his own involvement ended?

2025-03-23 00:40:32 UTC

Have *you* had a good experience with something web-based that teaches reading musical notation?
In my early 50s, I want to learn to read sheet music.
I am in the process of finding a music teacher (if you know the challenge here, you know it). Until I get there, it occurred to me try out what's available.
I'm cringing because I suspect many of the people I know here don't remember *not* being able to read #music
I ask for boosts.

2025-03-19 03:38:51 UTC

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Would you be willing to post that proverb? I would like to know it.

2025-03-18 23:55:13 UTC

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I want everyone to read this.
Everyone.

2025-03-12 17:55:17 UTC

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Is there a connection to James Joyce's Ulysses given the clear allusion in the cover art?

2025-03-11 04:29:59 UTC

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Sweet!

2025-03-11 03:37:42 UTC

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This is entertaining.
So just, y'know, the perennial question: is it real?

2025-03-10 04:34:37 UTC

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I read some awful stuff happened.
I'm sorry.

2025-03-03 15:22:52 UTC

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I just voted down all three. It took about 50 seconds (since i knew where to find my REI membership number).

2025-03-03 15:10:03 UTC

The #REI #union is asking members to vote in the board election that opened up today. They are asking members to vote to withhold.
Please boost! I have this guess that REI members are a fair slice of who is here on Mastodon.
https://vote.escvote.com/REI/
(Edited to fix link)
#unions

2025-02-18 03:38:57 UTC

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Make Portland Tianenmen Square?
What does that even mean? Get shot by an armored battalion from another state?

2025-02-17 23:50:49 UTC

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Whaat?

2025-02-17 23:32:30 UTC

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The hungry caterpillar!!

2025-02-17 22:11:35 UTC

Is there a record of Germans in the late 1930s telling the rest of the world, "You are right to shun my nation and its leader but please remember he doesn't speak for even half of us."
I haven't seen it. But I never thought to look.

2025-02-17 22:00:25 UTC

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Yes!

2025-02-17 21:47:57 UTC

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I loved it. But that was 20+ years ago so I can't tell you if it's still extant.
But it's also short - which has a virtue all its own.

2025-02-17 21:35:49 UTC

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That's a more attractive soaking method than what was described in Cod...

2025-02-17 21:29:21 UTC

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I know about stockfish from reading the book "Cod'. This is an awesome twist that should have been in that book.
Do Nigerians soak it for several days first?