P J Evans has moved to mas.to

retired map reader; amateur genealogist since 1974; knitter since 1969; SF fan since 1961.
Cactuses (but not opuntias) are fun!

Location: Los Angeles

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2024-06-27 01:31:13

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@npub1k0g…fz06
Donnie can't play by any rules he can't make up himself

2024-06-26 04:16:09

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
Maybe Russia should get the F out of Ukraine, including Crimea.

2024-06-26 04:10:27

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@npub1dq0…glnl
That, and eat prison food. Most guys who com out with "prison bodies" were in decent physical shape to begin with.

2024-06-26 04:07:40

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@npub1nyq…vvvs
I pay a tax person to deal with mine, because investment income (IRA and inherited share of parents' investments). It's worth the hefty chunk of money.

2024-06-26 03:55:13

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@npub13tf…6v48
Water bombers are usually pretty effective. (L.A. County has leased a couple from Quebec, for years. We're used to seeing those yellow and red planes leaving Van Nuys airport.

2024-06-25 23:44:04

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@npub1g97…y82s
It looks like any other truck. Only caught my eye because it wasn't GM or Ford.

2024-06-25 22:34:35

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@npub1pcr…tq84
I wonder how much Ronnie benefited from Medicare, after hitting 65.

2024-06-25 22:00:17

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@npub16hv…sz5u
Suggestion seen elseweb: Kirk is never hurt, because his uniform shirt explodes/shreds first and protects him.

2024-06-25 21:54:21

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
That's rough.

2024-06-25 21:53:43

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@npub1khx…geyg
Heat does that to wax objects.
Back in the mid-60s, we had some 2-inch-diameter candles in our church soften and bend over. There was AC, I think, but it was either not on or not up to the job.

2024-06-25 17:51:59

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@npub1psd…9sr7
"I've read your books. I liked most of them."

2024-06-25 17:31:20

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@npub1qth…6mja
Yeah - and he was immediately, obviously, trolling and still thinks we can't tell.

2024-06-25 07:59:22

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@npub1qth…6mja
I wish I could block or at least hush some of them. They're more obvious than they think, with their trolling.

2024-06-25 02:51:09

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@npub1kk0…f3t4
Watering during mid-day in a heatwave just wastes water. Do it like you are, early morning and late evening, and the water will soak in instead of evaporating.

2024-06-25 02:42:44

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Dear sweet Ghu, does she understand that he says something derogatory about a judge or a lawyer and his cult members all attack them?

2024-06-24 21:08:00

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@npub1guu…sy0z
I have to assume that the people who are in charge of those areas aren't willing to deal with their problem residents, probably from fear.

2024-06-24 20:59:12

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@npub15eq…96sv
Some girls can't handle that, either.

2024-06-24 18:02:47

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@npub1g97…y82s
It should be all-MAGA. Since they seem to like beating up people, let them beat up each other. No weapons, just hands.

2024-06-24 04:38:48

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@npub1khx…geyg
Taking the bus part of the time...because some places I have to go have crappy *paid* parking.

2024-06-23 23:57:51

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@npub1e0a…eww0
If your job is writing opinion pieces for NYT, it probably could replace you. Most jobs require actual thought, though.

2024-06-23 06:15:25

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@npub1pu3…qd8v
Ursula Vernon did a series of posts where she gave Midjourney a prompt and then posted the more interesting results. Some were almost worth cleaning up.

2024-06-23 06:08:02

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@npub1866…c9yh
hey're in favor of whatever gets them the results they want, regardless of whether those results make sense or are even strictly legal.

2024-06-23 01:24:00

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@npub16hp…87l4
He's now claiming his "beautiful body" has "wounds", in a meeting with fundies. Nothing like adding more blasphemy to his other broken commandments.

2024-06-22 17:36:18

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@npub14uk…2erc
There are a lot of politicians who benefit from fossil fuels and won't admit that solar and wind are cleaner and will work in nearly every state.

2024-06-21 22:13:55

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Joe McCarthy was a cruel POS. It's no coincidence that Donnie's mentor was Roy Cohn, McCarthy's aide.

2024-06-21 21:54:26

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Someone needs to pin her down on why you need firearms to buy groceries. Or anything else.

2024-06-21 18:28:03

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@npub1dq0…glnl
Pants were invented for riding horses. Gender has nothing to do with it.

2024-06-21 05:21:48

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@npub1cda…ud3k
I read that NASA has plans for them to stay until a reliable ride shows up, if necessary.

2024-06-21 05:20:18

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@npub1rqh…wkac
For something like a custard pie, you can bake the crust at least halfway before filling it. For a cream pie, you could bake it all the way. The problem is actually the freezing, for custards and meringues.

2024-06-21 05:08:29

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@npub1rqh…wkac
That's a different set of problems - think of prebaked crusts with cold fillings.

2024-06-21 03:17:41

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@npub1rqh…wkac
I think it's that it's not really freezable. Custard filling and meringue top...

2024-06-21 03:14:00

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@npub1xg3…nyjk Likely the same ones who said they wouldn't donate to insurrectionists, and then did - quietly.

2024-06-20 17:36:42

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@npub1rjx…s8y3
Must be people who never saw the original series. (Some of the worst episodes were written by Roddenberry.)

2024-06-20 17:19:01

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Where in the Constitution does it say that? Next to the one about women not being human?

2024-06-20 17:14:45

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@npub1g97…y82s
Maybe they should have thought of ways to defend it that didn't involve going through a court that's unpredictable on the good days.

2024-06-19 18:13:36

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@npub1gds…cvzz
It was the day that emancipation was proclaimed in Galveston, TX.
It was still legal in Northern states.

2024-06-19 18:02:09

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@npub1dq0…glnl
93 million miles of vacuum and 10 miles of air. Not good shielding, given how many people have gotten radiation burns from being outside.

2024-06-19 16:12:04

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
That pic is a fine example of Backpfeifengesicht.

2024-06-19 03:41:40

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
She told her father, and he threatened to kill Morris if he didn't get out of the house.
The question is how many more girls and women did Morris abuse.

2024-06-19 03:31:36

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
One of my favorite books about baseball is "Willie's Time", by Charles Einstein. It's about the 50s and 60s, and into the early 70s. Baseball, and society, and Willie.

2024-06-18 21:17:40

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
IF you can't run a company anyplace but into failure, you shouldn't get the pay package or the golden parachute.

2024-06-18 21:15:48

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@npub14rq…36xt
There are cancers caused by viruses. But no, they aren't "turbo" anything, and they're known to doctors.

2024-06-18 18:02:06

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The stories in my head come with pictures. If I can get that picture across in words...

2024-06-18 17:59:24

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Hawley's guy can't stand for 90 minutes - he has to lean on the lectern/podium for support. And he does that very very obviously. Biden, on the other hand, doesn't have to do that.

2024-06-18 17:39:25

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@npub1lgk…5rtx
Two classes I don't regret taking: typing and engineering drawing (it wasn't drafting).

2024-06-18 05:28:51

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@npub1xr6…mddg
They need to do a cognitive assessment on him NOW.

2024-06-18 05:26:26

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@npub1sqf…5skr
That warning belongs on smartphones. The number of people who are looking at or talking on their phone, and oblivious to everything around them, including vehicle traffic and even traffic lights, is amazing.

2024-06-18 05:24:30

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@npub1ggm…7842
They may be more afraid of what his cult members might do.

2024-06-18 05:21:53

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@npub1vck…jt40
Make sure that you know what they want, first. Your idea of their best interests may not be their idea.

2024-06-18 05:19:03

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@npub1rv4…ft5j
I used to have to clean crud out of my trackball, when I could still get wired trackballs that I liked.

2024-06-17 21:27:42

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@npub1dq0…glnl
If it's a choice between 7 or 8 am five days a week, and 8am two days a week, and there are no other options...

2024-06-17 18:28:26

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@npub1g97…y82s
I'd say it's less than the problems caused by people walking around glued to their phones.

2024-06-17 18:06:48

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@npub1pl9…4nzh
I remember the day when we were all ready to go Out The Door, and that was the moment the cloudburst hit.

2024-06-17 07:06:16

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@npub10cx…xgme
Developers do strange things when naming streets - I know there's a track with Kenobi and Corellian!

2024-06-17 04:20:57

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@npub1fqp…rx3u
Buenos noches, Amadeo!

2024-06-17 04:18:24

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@npub12fh…je70
Never had an endometrial biopsy, but i disrecommend cervical biopsies. Been there, done that, and Pap smears aren't that painful.

2024-06-17 01:17:17

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@npub1dq0…glnl
She looks like her face is plastic.

2024-06-16 17:38:50

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@npub1g9z…4puw
My father died 30 years and one month ago. That first father's day after was when the cat for whom he was person disappeared (not a trace - and we did look). I like to think he came for her.

2024-06-16 00:59:58

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
It's the *documentation* that's counterfeit. The *metal* is meeting the specs - they're testing it to make sure.

2024-06-15 23:16:28

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@npub1ywy…cksd
Vehicles already exist that can do all those things, and they aren't allergic to water and aren't oversized, ugly, and expensive.
I grew up with cars and pickups. They worked just fine.

2024-06-15 23:11:29

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@npub1rkt…sqek
If you can't get your AI to stop lying, then stop putting your AI in everything. (It will also save you a lot of money for cooing and electricity.)

2024-06-15 20:24:52

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@npub1866…c9yh
Surrender will get them food and medical treatment.

2024-06-14 19:52:16

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@npub1rkj…ufed
They should ditch their slogans about being green and climate action, then, because AI is absolutely against those.

2024-06-14 17:48:22

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@npub1g97…y82s
They're making record profits, and their CEOs are grossly overpaid. They need to pay MORE taxes.

2024-06-14 05:03:54

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@npub1jup…77gr
Also their views on vaccines, and especially the CDC.
These are people who are in it for power and money.

2024-06-14 04:45:28

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@npub1vn9…3keg
Would still help. That, or concrete that glows slightly in the dark. (Stored energy from sunlight?)

2024-06-13 20:32:53

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@npub1dss…l0fr
pre-ordered!

2024-06-13 20:22:22

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@npub1g97…y82s
Fck the GOP and their obvious desire to return to sometime before 1920.

2024-06-13 20:21:15

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@npub1v0s…u5nn
I'm not surprised. Most of them are making plenty of money - at least when it comes to the top brass. ($20/hour is $40K per year. That's enough to live on, but not a lot.)

2024-06-12 06:14:10

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@npub1v0s…u5nn
I turn mine on when it hits about 84 inside. It keeps the bill down, and the heat tolerable.

2024-06-12 06:10:23

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@npub1vj9…dakh @npub1x9v…2lj0
Amazing tilework!

2024-06-12 06:02:07

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@npub1l74…runl
teeny baby turkle!
(We had baby box turtles, a couple of times, and they're about the size of quarters when they hatch. And nearly invisible in grass and weeds. Amazingly cute, though.)

2024-06-12 02:57:07

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@npub1v0s…u5nn
He sounds like anti-tax people in the US, who claim paying taxes on income is "double taxation".

2024-06-11 20:19:27

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@npub1g97…y82s
The answer to that question is "Hell to the no!"

2024-06-11 02:24:36

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@npub1alm…57vz
You don't need a mask that hides your full face, or your neck, for COVID. The RWNJs do it to keep their identities secret - they know they're breaking laws.

2024-06-11 00:53:16

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@npub1ux9…3vvl
Even Tumblr doesn't do that - but the current owner hates trans people and bans them.

2024-06-10 18:29:23

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@npub1qyn…gc4x
They are insane. They consider him to be at least a demi-god, if not an actual deity.

2024-06-10 02:38:43

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@npub1rv4…ft5j
Check Dick Blick and places like Kelly Paper! (I was looking for large tracing-type paper a couple of weeks ago.)

2024-06-10 00:52:13

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@npub1zh0…egwm
The people who are avoiding those taxes are the ones who are going to benefit from raising that threshold.
Did they think past "I can get child-care payments"?

2024-06-09 17:50:30

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@npub17a9…mv9a
The professors are well over the line into nastiness: it isn't any of their business what students do in their private lives.

2024-06-08 21:06:00

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@npub1yme…r5de
It's what the former guy wants to hear, but he doesn't function well enough to understand that their goal is not his goal.

2024-06-08 18:37:36

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@npub18jh…phdn
If they weren't a unique design, it might work better.
(I saw an UgliTruk yesterday that had been painted black. Or somehow finished in black. Not glossy.

2024-06-07 22:25:02

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@npub16hv…sz5u
Ah, the [ ]-pollen. Usually its a three-letter word with an e, an s, and an x. Sometimes it's something else that they didn't expect and why don't they wear N95s?.

2024-06-07 22:12:54

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@npub1v0s…u5nn
Aunt did a visiting-professor thing in Edmonton (IIRC). She was from Houston...

2024-06-07 05:10:12

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@npub14uk…2erc
There are a surprising number of cricket players in the US. There are at least three pitches at Sepulveda Basin, in Woodley Park.

2024-06-07 05:06:01

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
At that temperature, you shouldn't be out any longer than you absolutely have to be. And have about a liter of water with you.
A political rally is not a necessary reason for being out in that heat.

2024-06-06 20:15:00

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@npub1dq0…glnl
How are we supposed to stop what other countries do with weapons we sell to them? It's like holding the car dealer responsible for what the buyer does.

2024-06-06 18:39:47

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@npub1nf4…z0nt
ISTR that one of the Apollo astronauts was a creationist. It doesn't seem to affect their work, unlike the political ones.

2024-06-06 17:05:14

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
I question that "63%", because it got a *lot* of coverage, outside of the far-right media.

2024-06-05 20:02:46

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
None of them are qualified to run the country, in anything more than the absolute minimum required.

2024-06-05 02:17:08

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
2.8 - most people outside the immediate area wouldn't even feel it. It isn't a thing unless it's at least a 3.5, and that's a "Yeah?"

2024-06-04 17:13:07

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@npub1tra…npqw
They can't manage their own budgets, and they think they're qualified to manage the country. Oops.

2024-06-04 07:42:06

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@npub14h3…a8u2
"The three 'A's of getting old: arthritis, amnesia, and I forget the other one."

2024-06-04 07:39:05

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@npub1nxr…re4t
And we still don't know where Mikey's paychecks are deposited, since he claims to have no bank account.

2024-06-04 02:34:07

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@npub1g97…y82s
Much of the public would stand up and cheer loudly if he got put behind bars.

2024-06-04 02:23:18

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@npub1dq0…glnl
I am so glad my computer isn't able to run that hot mess of an OS.

2024-06-04 02:16:04

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@npub16vh…xssj
I wonder sometimes if we really need all the categories we have now.

2024-06-03 21:01:48

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@npub1lqr…cqzp
It's a sensible solution.
(It reminds me of my parents talking about fast drivers: they'll get to the next red light five seconds sooner.)

2024-06-03 18:38:38

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@npub1thd…h8wc
Most of us will stand for him being jailed, and we'll be *cheering* as he's taken in.

2024-06-03 05:44:27

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@npub16q6…eaqd
It means they're guaranteed an editor's ear.