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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 12:05:03 2025
  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Apr 22 21:21:41 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:05:03 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    PIC <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Give me plain text; I can (sometimes) understand that.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 23 00:23:16 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:41 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote in <20250422212141.b99634edba79f55d5ad1cb8e@127.0.0.1>:

    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:05:03 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    PIC
    <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Give me plain text; I can (sometimes) understand that.

    Wouldn't it spoil the joke to give a textual representation
    of a photo meme?

    --
    -v

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to admin@127.0.0.1 on Tue Apr 22 20:09:30 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:41 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Give me plain text; I can (sometimes) understand that.

    Trump in Pope's clothing....Trump declares himself new Pope; "No one
    knows more about poping than me"

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to vallor on Wed Apr 23 17:35:00 2025
    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:23:16 -0000 (UTC)
    vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:41 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote in <20250422212141.b99634edba79f55d5ad1cb8e@127.0.0.1>:

    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:05:03 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    PIC
    <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Give me plain text; I can (sometimes) understand that.

    Wouldn't it spoil the joke to give a textual representation
    of a photo meme?

    Ok, if you must; please give a link to a plain picture (jpeg for
    preference) and a Clue why I should click on an otherwise raw link.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Apr 23 17:36:12 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:09:30 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:41 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Give me plain text; I can (sometimes) understand that.

    Trump in Pope's clothing....Trump declares himself new Pope; "No one
    knows more about poping than me"

    Ta, sometimes text is better than a thousand pictures.
    (Did I get that wrong? ah well)

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to admin@127.0.0.1 on Wed Apr 23 15:29:25 2025
    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:35:00 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    Ok, if you must; please give a link to a plain picture (jpeg for
    preference)

    https://i.imgur.com/C2lMM8Z.jpg

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Apr 24 09:14:27 2025
    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:29:25 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:35:00 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    Ok, if you must; please give a link to a plain picture (jpeg for >preference)

    https://i.imgur.com/C2lMM8Z.jpg

    Sorry, that's not a plain jpg; Imgur hijacks the reference to run some scripting (I guess), blank screen here (scripts off).

    But thanks for trying.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to admin@127.0.0.1 on Thu Apr 24 05:56:12 2025
    On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:14:27 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    that's not a plain jpg; Imgur hijacks the reference to run some
    scripting (I guess), blank screen here (scripts off).

    Correct....their web page comes up, with pic shown.

    Bluesky...their URL ending suggests a jpeg https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/.....@jpeg

    All I see here is a pic, with black background. <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to John" on Thu Apr 24 16:36:24 2025
    "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:09:30 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Trump in Pope's clothing....Trump declares himself new Pope; "No one
    knows more about poping than me"

    Ta, sometimes text is better than a thousand pictures.

    Even may back in the days of dial-up people thought it was kewl to
    substitute a 10K image of a 5-letter word for the requisite 5 bytes.

    (Did I get that wrong? ah well)

    Nah.

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to John" on Thu Apr 24 16:31:12 2025
    "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:

    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:29:25 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:35:00 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    Ok, if you must; please give a link to a plain picture (jpeg for
    preference)

    https://i.imgur.com/C2lMM8Z.jpg

    Sorry, that's not a plain jpg; Imgur hijacks the reference to run some scripting (I guess), blank screen here (scripts off).

    I get:

    If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been
    disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work.

    Ho hum.

    BTW, K-M, I see you have a "GNU: Terry Pratchett" NNTP header. You
    might adjust that to:

    X-Clacks-Overhead: 4GH GNU Terry Pratchett

    where "X-..." marks a non-standard header. And where the prepended
    "4GH" is adopted from Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" to update the Clacks
    code in the digital era. (Well, there is no misc.news.clacks.discuss
    is there?)

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Mike Spencer on Fri Apr 25 09:46:41 2025
    On 24 Apr 2025 16:31:12 -0300
    Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

    []

    BTW, K-M, I see you have a "GNU: Terry Pratchett" NNTP header. You
    might adjust that to:

    X-Clacks-Overhead: 4GH GNU Terry Pratchett

    where "X-..." marks a non-standard header. And where the prepended
    "4GH" is adopted from Brunner's "Shockwave Rider" to update the Clacks
    code in the digital era. (Well, there is no misc.news.clacks.discuss
    is there?)


    Thanks, amended now (I hope).

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Apr 25 09:43:02 2025
    On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:56:12 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:14:27 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    that's not a plain jpg; Imgur hijacks the reference to run some
    scripting (I guess), blank screen here (scripts off).

    Correct....their web page comes up, with pic shown.

    Bluesky...their URL ending suggests a jpeg https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/.....@jpeg

    All I see here is a pic, with black background. <https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4lx6nur5wstwoc4wtgj56kyu/bafkreic7kl2qrpq6hxgfaetsqh4h4pn2x3nbhf773c4b5aydvow3xjd3nm@jpeg>


    Thanks! That worked here on my olde computer with an outdated browser, no scripting.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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