Tormod

Hi all, I am Tormod 🇳🇴🇸🇪 (he / him)

I am located east of Stockholm, Sweden, out by the coast.

My passions are in the areas of #music, #photography, #vectorArt #graphicdesign, #typography and, of course, family ❤️

Happy to talk to anyone, and I will assume you're awesome until proven otherwise.

My Online Portfolio: https://www.airwhale.com/
Mastodon feed of only my portfolio: Tormod (npub14g9…6d8x)
Profile: Music nerd, digital cover artist and proud grandfather
About me: https://www.airwhale.com/about-me/

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2026-04-21 12:33:24 UTC

Our team is moving from Azure DevOps to #Jira. In learning to navigate the new shiny, I happen to hit the very prominently display AI-button “Improve Description” on an Epic. I watch in horror as it starts to omit details and re-write the customer’s detailed description of what they want IT to do here. Luckily, I know this epic because I've been involved earlier. This enables me to catch the subtle changes that significantly alters the intent and meaning of the original text.
The new text is fine, good grammar and 100% plausible sounding, but IT IS NOT CORRECT!!!
Anyone coming in cold to the ticket would not know and then we'd possibly build the wrong thing, or at the very least, waste a lot of time backtracking why the customer claims we're wildly off track.
Scary stuff this #AI.
#Agile #LLM

2026-03-24 19:32:45 UTC

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Svar nej.
Värde noll.

2026-03-22 13:49:56 UTC

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I did like the term ”adtech mafia” 😁
Well done of them to keep the scam going for so long, but a sad state of affairs overall.
(The article was from 2019 I believe, but probably still relevant and mostly correct today.)

2026-03-22 12:38:35 UTC

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We’re pretty far into online ad-markets by now, so hopefully companies spending money with the adtech companies do see returns that can justify the cost.
However, in the case of a news outlet, the tracking installed by them also need to generate a steady payout FROM the same adtech ”partners” right?
This all seems like a mostly invisible part of the economy, but the constant growth do indicate that real money is flowing. I often wonder how significant this revenue stream is, as it comes at zero cost to the news outlet. They are simply selling their visitor’s data, because we ”accept”.

2026-03-22 10:08:45 UTC

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Yeah, might be… still, the economic model eludes me.
Of course, if these are just few-person companies, running mainly automated operations, it's a possibility that the sheer number of "partners" is just a smoke-screen to distract from the fact they are all owned by Google or Meta.

2026-03-22 09:47:37 UTC

Does anyone know where to find more info on the surveilance economy online? I was looking for an update on the unfortunate Debora Silvestri who crashed so badly yesterday, and of course, was met with "We value your privacy" banner where I could consent to giving away… something?
The Privacy Policy talks about two cookies - both Google Analytics, and two partners for gaining "audience insights". The actual cookie pop-up list 1.709 (!) so-called "partners", many with "legitimate interest". Basically all these are companies nobody has ever heard of.
I know I'm leaking info like IP-address, browser and device details. What I can't understand is how all these 1.709 little leeches can possibly deliver enough value and generate revenue based on this information. Who pays them, and for what?
Thanks!
#advertisements #surveillance #cookies
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2026-03-20 16:43:37 UTC

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Shampoo instructions can waste a lot of time too:
Lather, rinse, repeat.

2026-03-08 22:14:18 UTC

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Outer space vacuum is different from air moving through your Hoover, Ben. Trust me on this.

2026-03-08 21:45:06 UTC

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You can safely ignore any communication from ”scientists” who talk about ”storms” in the vast vacuum of space.

2026-03-03 13:32:38 UTC

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If Jesus returned today, he'd be SO flippin' angry with the US and MAGAs.

2026-03-02 19:04:50 UTC

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Ouch - that sounds serious. (And oddly specific.)

2026-02-22 14:34:44 UTC

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...and on the B-side: "Sea-Lion Woman".
I don't think that is how you spell it, Philips 😄

2026-02-06 20:52:57 UTC

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As a Norwegian, I fail to see how we can lay any claim to the F-word. Not a scholar on Old Norse, mind you, but still…
This is a just and proper win for Scotland, that’s for fuckin’ sure.

2026-02-04 17:35:10 UTC

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Definitely not familiar with Canadian politics, but at what point does a move like this border on treason?

2026-01-31 20:24:49 UTC

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Fuck you Sharon.

2026-01-28 16:26:12 UTC

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Sure, and it was a 3-4 year old model tested too, so good.
I am just thinking that we must have trusted libraries by now that would not ever include such obvious flaws. How many years have Synology been doing this? TLS is like 30 years old, we need to demand and expect more rigour be put into vital software. Enough with the endless excuses…

2026-01-28 16:08:45 UTC

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Et tu Synology?
QNAP has been notoriously insecure like forever, but I will keep an eye out for updates to my Synology. Not that it runs SMTP, but actively disabling validations for TLS does not spark confidence. In which other areas have they made similar bonehea decisions?

2026-01-21 11:38:22 UTC

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Wow, love this framing and the pattern. Reminds me of the floor in the rooms with the huge drapes, such a powerful scene in Twin Peaks.

2026-01-15 06:50:17 UTC

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It does make it very easy to explain why one identifies as a feminist though 🙂

2026-01-15 06:30:03 UTC

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Is this for real? Using a symbol that was painted on every big bomber plane and Stuka during the blitz?
Bold choice.

2026-01-14 05:07:02 UTC

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This is one thing that I have not come to terms with in the new Affinity Studio yet. Earlier, we had three se apps for vector graphics, bitmap editing and layout. Now they are all combined into a single app, and I find it harder to focus on specific tasks.
Granted, I don’t have a lot of hours with it yet and it does provide tailored workspaces, but still. These three activities are mentally distinct from each other in my mind.

2026-01-02 15:38:35 UTC

I drew another LP cover – one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums, and their tribute to Syd Barret. This is an alternate version that started as a sticker, but has later been used for casette tapes, CDs and LP box sets. The reference for this image is the 50 year anniversary edition of the album.
The original design was created by George Hardie, a graphic designer and illustrator working at Hipgnosis, a London based art design group that specialised in creating album cover artwork for rock musicians and bands. After spending hours and hours with this, I'm in awe of mr. Hardie's skills, creating this (and so many more) using analog tools only.
#Affinity #AffinityDesigner #iPad #Vector #VectorArt #Illustration #PinkFloyd #NoAI
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2025-12-09 17:20:10 UTC

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Grov misshandel i Bregottfabriken 😡

2025-12-04 12:54:08 UTC

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Thanks kat, this made my day 😀

2025-11-23 15:53:38 UTC

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One thing I know is that opening a new tab from a link via Cmd-Click will open the new tab directly after the active tab, thereby pushing other tabs to the right by one.

2025-11-23 13:26:03 UTC

A few vector drawings of Louise Brooks I recently completed. I'm a sucker for a cute face in that haircut… Original photos ca. 1929 by Eugene Robert Richee.
#AffinityDesigner #Affinity #LouiseBrooks #SilverScreen #Hollywood #Portraits #Illustration #mastoArt
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2025-10-18 19:23:35 UTC

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Lovely shot!

2025-10-10 17:49:00 UTC

Possibly the only thing I enjoy more than music is LIVE music.
Marcus Miller is on stage tonight, and I am so here for it!
#StockholmJazzFestival #jazz #MarcusMiller
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2025-09-23 11:35:50 UTC

As we welcome Jimmy Kimmel back on the air today, let's also welcome the two newest members of the team, Dan and Don, who started today!
#Disney #ABC #JimmyKimmel
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2025-09-17 16:47:14 UTC

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Bästa sättet att lagra farligt karbon är väl att låta bli att ens pumpa upp skiten. Naturen fångade upp den för länge sen.

2025-09-11 00:09:09 UTC

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All corporate IT jobs are under constant scrutiny, in an never-ending cost-reduction quest.
Cybersecurity is in an especially hard place. When your team does their job perfectly, the impact to the business is simply "nothing bad happened today".
Which nobody notices.
Staffing levels then get questioned: "Well, if nothing bad happens, why do we need to pay all of you? Let's optimize the team." (Optimize is the code word for reduce.)
It's not uncommon that bad things happen after optimization.

2025-09-10 12:05:08 UTC

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Jepp. Kom direkt dit från min Telenor-mobil just nu. Företagskund.

2025-08-21 19:52:56 UTC

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Did CoPilot check in code to production again? 😄

2025-07-30 19:34:48 UTC

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Cool that there was a trebuchet on top of Katarinahissen back then 😄

2025-07-27 10:48:34 UTC

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Will be puttering around the house doing this and that, then recline in front of the final stage of Tour de France. It will be ending with a different Paris route, so should be interesting.
Enjoy the celebrations!

2025-07-18 15:28:35 UTC

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Cool! I remember that one.
This was mighty fine work back in the mid-70s I thought. I'm still not clear on how these images were created prior to Photoshop. I vaugely recall a term call "photo montage" and there were a lot of airbrushing, but I've never done anything like this in the analog world.

2025-07-18 09:17:21 UTC

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Yes, you're probably right about that. I still remember "The Jezebel Spirit" being pretty scary, but I luckily was no longer afraid of the dark by then.

2025-07-18 07:08:06 UTC

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Good thing they added that sticker. Finally someone is thinking of the children 😄

2025-07-06 20:45:41 UTC

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You have MacDonalds and Nascar. What more could you want?

2025-07-06 15:49:46 UTC

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Yes, that was how I read it too after sitting with it for a while. It was the first Queen album I bought, and these messages was totally lost on me in the fifth grade 😄

2025-07-06 14:32:50 UTC

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Well, thank you kindly kat, nice of you to say so.
I first made the reproduction of the original cover, and it struck me how queer this ragtag group of creatures appeared 😄

2025-06-25 15:41:41 UTC

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We usually never need more than 33% of our gear. Problem is, we don’t know WHAT 33% we will be needing before we are on location 😄

2025-06-21 13:34:34 UTC

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Thanks Nathan!
One thing I have found to increase my chances of success is to define what ”success” really means for ME.
Have a nice day 🙂

2025-06-17 07:44:17 UTC

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”Did vikings really drink from the skulls of their dead enemies?”
The video would not load for me, so I need to ask. Wouldn’t a skull be totally impractical as a vessel for anything fluid? We have openings for eyes and nose, and it rolls around when putting it back on the dinner table.
These were people sophisticated enough to cross the Atlantic, remember? That theory seems like it don’t hold water, literally.

2025-06-16 09:11:18 UTC

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Lite samma som när man frågas om sin "kundupplevelse" 30 sekunder efter att man lämnat ett utlämningsställe eller paketbox för sin ehandels-beställning. 🙄

2025-06-15 09:36:41 UTC

This is my city. Sergels Torg is generally considered THE centre of Stockholm.
To the left, one of the the entrances to the subway, station T-Centralen. The exit leads out to the plaza with it’s iconic triangle pattern. The tallest building is one of five pretty much identical buildings placed like dominoes in a line behind this one. The offices of the company I work for is located in the next one behind this.
The tall monument is largely made of glass and it can be lit up as needed. The base around it is a shallow pool of water with an array of decorative fountains. (It was empty when I took the reference photo.)
#Affinity #AffinityDesigner #SergelsTorg #Stockholm #Sweden #Vector #VectorArt #Illustrator #Illustration
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2025-06-11 13:33:42 UTC

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I'm excited for the iPad FINALLY getting some love. The "Files" app, much improved audio support, background tasks (!) and an actual menu bar. Imagine that!
A little visual overhaul will probably be nice too, if they can pull off that glass-thing without making everything less legible.

2025-06-02 18:09:48 UTC

I made a short video to celebrate the start of Pride month.
This is the animated version of the Queen-cover to "A Day At The Races" from 1976, with some additions and surprises.
#Pride #Queen #Love #AffinityDesigner #LBTQIA #Queer
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2025-05-05 09:55:50 UTC

Förintelsen av palestinier accelereras ytterligare.
#Gaza #GazaGenocide
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/senaste-nytt-om-kriget-i-mellanostern?inlagg=2a57872d2357ab0d8975657f5758c3cb

2025-05-01 09:06:36 UTC

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A modern day classic 🙂. He's got so many great lyrics and is the unofficial patron saint of the Nerds.

2025-05-01 08:28:25 UTC

It's that time of year again, and If you think you saw something, no you didn't. Enjoy!
https://song.link/i/320730094

2025-04-17 12:18:15 UTC

“That's me by the router.
That's me with the lap top,
loosing my connection.”
#REM lyrics for the digital age

2025-04-07 01:26:25 UTC

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For me, place of origin is not so significant. I grew up less than an hour's drive away from where I was born. Lived there for 19 years before moving out to make a life with my girlfriend. Guess that is where I am "from".
The important thing has always been "home", which is wherever we both have a key. Soon after, where we cared for the children. For me, life has always been a journey and adventure. It has taken me to lots of wonderful places. Where I started will always hold a fondness in my memory, but it is no longer significant for where I am now.
I experience life to a large degree through music and images, and the Beatles song "In My Life" never connected with me until I heard Diana Krall's version.
"There are places I'll remember,
All my life
though some have changed.
Some forever, not for better.
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places had their moments,
With lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all."
https://song.link/i/1440830601

2025-04-06 05:38:56 UTC

The best time to fight fascism in the US was at the ballot box.
The next best time is right now.
#uspol

2025-04-01 15:34:09 UTC

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TBH, I have little experience in reading financial reports, but would these research grants be accounted for separately from the reports from Harvard University?
The federal grants are a far cry from USD 9B, but of course, these may be part of different reporting. Page 6 does indicate that 11% of research related revenue are covered by federal grants though. A grand total of just under USD 700M.
https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy24_harvard_financial_report.pdf

2025-03-30 13:22:51 UTC

#SilentSunday by Wat Karon just before sunset tonight.
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2025-02-11 12:52:59 UTC

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I grew up in Norway. In our teens, me and the boys went around to all our homes to grab lunch at each of them.
However, I do recall it being customary to check with a friend’s parent before seating them at the dinner table. Many families wanted to eat this meal together, not just for the food, but for an update of everyone’s day.

2025-02-11 08:25:45 UTC

Fråga till anställda inom vården i Sverige:
Håller ni med om påståendet att AI kan dramatisk förbättra vården i stort? I så fall, inom vilka områden?
Gång efter annan kommer tvärsäkra uttalanden om att "AI kan rädda vården", nu senast från Macron i samband med AI Action Summit i Paris.
Dock har jag än så länge endast hört detta från politiker, teknikbranchen och reportrar som inte jobbar inom vårdyrken. Hur ser ni på detta innifrån sjukvårds-yrken?
(Själv har jag faktisk svårt att se vilka uppgifter som kan avlasta vårdpersonal tillräckligt för att t.ex. korta vårdköerna, ge oss snabbare tillgång till husläkaren eller slippa sitta timme efter timme på akuten.)
Tacksam för boosts för större räckvidd.

2025-01-24 08:20:55 UTC

Good morning!
Waking up to this beautiful view today, near #Oslo
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2025-01-21 20:33:03 UTC

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As of right now, Apple Maps, Google Maps and Bing Maps all claim that particular body of water is called the "Gulf of Mexico".
Gonna be interesting to see how long it takes before that changes.

2024-12-17 20:00:50 UTC

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These two feels like an eerily accurate description of my current mental state - very powerful images ❤️

2024-12-17 13:08:34 UTC

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Jag hänger endast här på Mastodon. Mer än tidigare skulle jag säga, eftersom det finns så mycket trevligt folk här.
Jo… det blir flera gånger per dag 🙂

2024-11-24 08:12:57 UTC

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This cracks me up 😊 The way he holds that little cup… Love it!

2024-11-22 08:07:48 UTC

Good morning all!
Sunrise was 07:58 this morning, photo shot 35 minutes later. Elevation is at only 2.4° above the horizon line.
Daylight duration today is 7h8m with about 4 full ”Golden Hours”.
#photography #sunrise #GoldenHour
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2024-11-17 15:58:11 UTC

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What a cannibalistic kiwi 🥝 😄

2024-11-15 12:10:19 UTC

Current mood, as expressed by Michelle Dubois of the Résistance.
Recreation of another piece by Roy Lichtenstein, using Affinity Designer.
Speech bubble altered from the original, with a wink to the wonderful BBC series “’Allo 'Allo”.
#RoyLichtenstein #AffinityDesigner #VectorArt
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2024-11-04 14:28:07 UTC

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Possibly THE best version of "Summer In the City" too…

2024-10-31 17:45:56 UTC

Us older folks will get this #Halloween meme. 🎃
(Found online without attribution, but it's too brilliant not to share.)
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2024-10-18 18:24:36 UTC

Wishing you all a #FunkyFriday !
Retox responsibly, if you must, and party on.
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2024-10-14 07:32:07 UTC

A little weekend fun, re-created this classic on iPad. Not entirely decided on her thought bubble though, might change later…
#AffinityDesigner #vector #RoyLichtenstein
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2024-10-12 07:55:22 UTC

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Thanks for sharing, this looks like an interesting read.
Sadly, a lot of great jazzmen did fall victim to hard drugs. Some of them made it through, some didn't.

2024-10-09 09:16:35 UTC

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UPDATE:
Got my eID validated in person yesterday, and today succeeded with signing the petition. At least I’m now more ready for the next one :)

2024-10-07 13:20:48 UTC

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Oh, thank you - happy to hear that, and yes, the day just keeps improving. End of Monday is always better than start of Monday. :

2024-10-07 08:43:41 UTC

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Yeah, motivation is at unfavourable levels today, so need my mind to trick my brain into a positive spirit :)

2024-10-07 08:16:56 UTC

Finally Monday! Have a good week out there.
My view this morning, 5G Towers in the Mist.
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2024-10-07 08:07:31 UTC

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This morning, I could reach the site, but my eID requires further manual validation...
Looks like plenty of stumbling blocks for people to abandon their intent to sign, I think.

2024-10-07 07:27:49 UTC

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I’m getting a DNS error, can't even reach the site.

2024-10-04 21:29:26 UTC

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Yeah, video content was… of inconsistent quality.
May I suggest George Michael's "Freedom 90" or "Too Funky" instead? Kate Bush generally nailed it too.

2024-10-04 20:40:15 UTC

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Well, TBH, it was AWESOME!
Much of the music still holds up too, if you know where to look.

2024-09-24 19:05:03 UTC

Tonight's doodle is another album cover from the late 1980s (September of 1989).
#AffinityDesigner #Vector #Covers #JanetJackson
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2024-09-18 17:56:46 UTC

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One of my favorite tracks of hers…
The melody is, as we probably all know, written by Astor Piazzolla and played on his bandonéon. He later got an international airport named after himself in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Tango was his thing.

2024-09-18 16:20:35 UTC

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Clearly, the product was NOT used in accordance with the Terms of Service, right?
Manufacturers of nails, nuts and ball bearings can't really be held responsible when their products are being used in a pipe bomb.
Responsibility must lie squarely with the party who added explosives to the pagers, then sent the command to detonate. It seems we have a good idea about who that is.

2024-09-13 21:00:59 UTC

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Damn kat - you're SO good at portraits. This is just stunning.

2024-09-13 20:49:31 UTC

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I'm just about to rotate my summer hats to my winter hats.
It's time for gentlemen everywhere to reclaim their cool and don a proper hat. (Baseball caps don't count!)

2024-09-12 07:31:39 UTC

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Looks like something out of the Muppet Show - and beautiful work by mr. Rupérez!

2024-09-04 20:10:53 UTC

Father of the afrobeat, mr. Tony Allen
#Afrobeat #TonyAllen #AffinityDesigner
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