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UberZeitgeist

@UberZeitgeist@mstdn.social

Testing the Mastodon waters in an #UnTwittered world. Seasoned trial lawyer trying others' patience daily. History nerd, policy wonk. All challenges eagerly accepted. Native of the Connecticut Western Reserve. All photos posted are mine unless otherwise credited, and all photos, prose, poetry, and other stuff is copyrighted as posted. It's a no-coffee year, so I might be occasionally grouchy, but it will pass.

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UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Turning 100
Historic Summit County
Celebrates today

May 22, 2024

KokopelliBFree, to Haiku German
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a whiff of Autumn
on a cool Spring evening
dissolves time and space

- Spring mist

@dailyhaikuprompt
@poetry

UberZeitgeist,
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@KokopelliBFree @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry - Very nicely done.

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Sometimes difficult
Even when it's in plain sight
Forest for the trees

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Forest #Trees #Lake #Yeti #Bigfoot

April 20, 2024

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Northeast Ohio
Often smothered by gray skies
Glorious sunrise

March 5, 2024

Great_Albums, to random
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- – Born in the USA (1984). One of rock's most misunderstood songs, "Born in the USA" is the pitch-black recollection of a Vietnam vet – made subversive by the massive airplay it garnered (fooling Ronald Reagan in the process). The rest of the album sweetens the E-Street sound with Roy Bittan's glittering keyboards and a little more 80s pomp, but when you dig in further, songs like "Downbound Train" and "Dancing in the Dark" are prime Bruce.

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@Great_Albums - Except this was Buff Bruce, married-to-a-very-young-dancer-on-the-video Bruce, and not the gritty, hard-hitting Boss we all loved. This was Bruce Light, pumped and primped and primed and pop-tune coated.

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Farmer breaking ground
An early spring early start
Catches early worm

February 6, 2024

UberZeitgeist,
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@BsCreativeLife - Hard Red Spring Wheat, grown in NE Ohio, destined at harvest for New York to be made into bread.

ElleGray, to random
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I could capture 80% of mastodon with this trap

UberZeitgeist,
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@ElleGray 100%

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

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@RickiTarr - Completely, entirely ensconced and committed to her - and it goes both ways for us. I would, however, never ever do it again, with anyone. Never. Ever.

dnc, to Steak
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The place I go when I need my prime rib fix. This isn’t even the biggest cut they sell. Yes, I had a lot of leftovers. https://www.diningandcooking.com/1098218/the-place-i-go-when-i-need-my-prime-rib-fix-this-isnt-even-the-biggest-cut-they-sell-yes-i-had-a-lot-of-leftovers/

UberZeitgeist,
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@dnc - all I can hear as I see this is The Flintstone's opening song.

UberZeitgeist, to random
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@Flipboard @bookgaga @brianbilston @Codgerverse @TashPoetry @worded_art @wordswithnima

To end or not end
Year of
Quickly approaching

UberZeitgeist, to random
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Rust Belt Viewpoint-2023

1931 Art Deco YWCA, Akron, Ohio, USA


November 10, 2023

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Penultimate day
Before the Eleventh Day
Ended The Great War

'Armistice
November 10, 2023

Black and white image of downtown Akron, Ohio, November 11, 1918, wiht parades and citizens celebrating the end of hostilities and WWI with the signing of the Armistice.

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Moon-Jupiter chase
Same scene running all night long
Victorious orb

October 30, 2023

noelreports, to random Dutch
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Longer version of the video from the attacked airport of Berdyansk. At the end, Russians even run away to exploding ammunition.

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UberZeitgeist,
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@noelreports - Wow! The end!

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The Israeli police claim that as a result of a successful chase, they destroyed a car with a group of Hamas militants heading to Ashkelon.

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UberZeitgeist,
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@noelreports - I can't begin to understand this video. Does the shooting ever stop? That must have been hundreds of rounds.

keithmorrisnm, to random
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are you sure that's a tarantula?

UberZeitgeist,
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@keithmorrisnm - Looks to be an after-the-car-hit-it rendition. Fair play.

oldmke, to random

We often forget that Milwaukee is an old city. This photograph, taken in 1885, shows some beautiful Victorian homes along W. Wells St. near 24th St. The sidewalks were wooden in those days, and no automobiles would be seen for quite a few years. You can make out the hitching posts for the horses. The trees were small, the street unpaved. If you look closely, in the foreground you can make out horse car tracks for the West Side Street Railway. Ele ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeW8MSsua00

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@oldmke - Gorgeous! In the eastern Midwest around 1885, 60-year-old Akron, Ohio too was lining its main thoroughfares with the opulent mansions of the industrial revolution's new wealthy class, farm implements, clay products, and boxed oatmeal leading the way, with rubber just emerging. Streets just west of the burgeoning factories were opened to new homes and rising classes, like Adolph Avenue, lined with graceful Victorians.

UberZeitgeist, to Haiku
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Rainy gray days dim
The light of Autumn's changes
We know what's coming

September 27, 2023

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If it wasn't for the roof line of the Central Library in the background, it would be hard to know just what street the photographer was on when he snapped this picture back around 1916. The crew working on the street light in the 700 block of Grand (now W. Wisconsin) Ave. might be planning to stop at the Queen City Lunch, which, judging from the sign inside the steamy window, was featuring oysters that day. But the clientele wasn't exclusively ma ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUXLiNii00

UberZeitgeist,
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@oldmke - In Akron 469 Midwestern miles east they were changing light bulbs with equal aplomb, having first leapt from gaslights to arc lamps on 200' moonlight towers. Local legend claims that Thomas Edison's marrying Mina Miller in Akron at dad Lewis Miller's Oak Place Mansion in 1886 turned the tide and left an original Edison bulb burning, but a closer examination casts some shade on that shady claim.

Carbon arc lamp foreground, new mercury vapor lamp higher above, new lighting in Akron, Ohio, circa 1947.
Lewis Miller's Oak Place Mansion, Akron, Ohio, where Thomas Edison married Mina Miller in 1886 - and where there's still an Edison-style lamp mounted on a pole in front, legendarily attributed to Edison.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Nature is crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

UberZeitgeist,
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@lowqualityfacts - Interesting. It renders "giving head" an entirely different meaning.

oldmke, to random

One of the old pioneer hotels in Milwaukee, the Kirby House, was built in 1844 and stood on the corner of East Mason and North Water Sts. First intended as a boarding house for arriving immigrants and called the City Hotel, it was renamed under a later owner, Milwaukee Mayor Abner Kirby, who also had it expanded and remodeled in the 1860s to the structure here. Its 130 rooms and 230 seat dining hall were first tested to full capacity during an 18 ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeS3ST-Ca00

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@oldmke In Akron, Ohio's parallel universe, the Empire Hotel on Main & Market was built in 1846-47 by William Burroughs & Judge Leicester King at a cost of $38,000. In the cupola on top of the building a man was always stationed to watch for approaching packet boats on the O & E and P & O canals, running on both sides. Each time a boat came in sight the look­out rang a bell to inform the staff that new guests might be coming. It was razed in 1911, replaced by the 8-story, $600,000 Portage Hotel.

oldmke, to random

This 1895 photo is of the residence of Emil Walber on the northwest corner of 6th and Galena. Most local historians think of Walber at first as mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. But Walber figures prominently in other capacities in public life. Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1841, educated in New York and admitted to the bar in1864, Walber in his career served as municipal court judge, county court judge, German consular agent for Wisconsin, member ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeQ0zBqKq00

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@oldmke - Meanwhile, in Akron, Ohio German immigrant Paul E. Werner built an international publishing company that by 1894 had offices in 20 North American cities and Europe, printing newspapers, stationary, books, magazines, art, and reference works, only to have his empire collapse in 1909 under the weight of baseless copyright suits. Once the largest publisher in the world, it was gone by 1914. His Victorian mansion on West Market Street was razed in the 1960s. r https://bit.ly/487bSHB

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Flipboard, to poetry
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If you want in your timeline, this is for you.

@bookgaga — Booklover contributing to

@brianbilston — Social media poet with six published collections

@Codgerverse — "Poet Laureate of the Eastview Cement Workers Union"

@joel — Artist, writer in the American Southwest

@TashPoetry — Poet, writer, martial artist

@UberZeitgeist — Trial lawyer who posts poems daily

@worded_art — Poet, author, lyricist Randy Gerritse

@wordswithnima — South-asian writer, poet

UberZeitgeist,
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@Flipboard @bookgaga @brianbilston @Codgerverse @joel @TashPoetry @worded_art @wordswithnima

Nice to be noted
Among so many writing
In this quiet place

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I remember learning this in elementary school.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

UberZeitgeist,
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@lowqualityfacts How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!

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