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FlagSSS Day 2025
An annual tradition in Troy, NY. The theme for the 2025 parade was RED. In a time of multiple, intertwining emergencies, we call on our community to create red flags, banners, capes, accessories, and other art work and to come together in simultaneous rage/resistance/grief and solidarity/celebration. Red is…
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Archiving your Meta accounts
Before you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts, I recommend downloading an archive of your data first.
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Starting to leave Meta
I’m withdrawing from Meta social spaces and investing my attention elsewhere. This short guide is about the part you do to prepare for a Meta departure.
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After Big Social
I now regard Meta and its products as untrustworthy. By making their online properties unsafe for people I love and care about, those spaces are now unsafe for me as well.
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In 2025 I will take and print more photos.
A resolution I’m making for the new year: take more photos and print at least one good picture per week.
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New Year 2025
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Ricardo
The first photo I posted in the last iteration of the site was of NYC musician Ricardo Molfa, shown above. I saw him busking on my daily commute at 14th St – 6th Ave station.
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Rebooting this website
phiffer.org has been dormant for several years and I intend to start using it again. I’ve never been very consistent as a blogger, but I have enjoyed having posts to look back on all the same.
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Forty two
Me on my forty second birthday.
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Forty one
Me on my forty-first birthday, and some pics from the party.