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Bill Shirley

@bshirley.shirl.com

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Houstonian, cyclist, board gamer, iOS dev, hypnagogic podcast listener. ♌︎ 🤘 bsky #23,719

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · Dec 4

no plutocrats
no kleptocrats
no oligarchs

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 14h

To build a body of work on the quicksand of the internet feels almost impossible. We don't want to reinvent the wheel every time we write about the same topic--we want to build on it!

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 13h

Trump is a murderer.

Trump has made murderers of our military.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Republican Senator Rand Paul dismantles Trump’s justification for blowing up those boats and murdering people he claims are running drugs

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 15h

copy edit: unfunded

(spell check tried to correct it for a second time)

Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 21h

No unfounded edicts from the Governor!!

Send him a bill.

Montrose rainbow crosswalk is gone after HPD arrested 4 protesters

Protesters stood in the way of construction crews scheduled to remove Montrose's rainbow crosswalks at Westheimer Road and Taft Street overnight.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Last night, the rainbow crosswalks were removed from an intersection in the historically LGBTQ neighborhood of Montrose in Houston, Texas.

Protesters were arrested.

It’s the neighborhood in which I grew up and where I live.

This too is a form of violence.

Rainbow crosswalk at night

Photo via @kissphoria on X

Protesters with a “LOVE IS NOT POLITICAL” sign

Photo via @kissphoria on X

A protester handcuffed with zip-ties being carried away by multiple cops

Photo via @kissphoria on X

Overhead view of the grey crosswalk in the harsh morning light

Photo via @BillBishopKHOU on X

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

if Lindsey Halligan thinks you’re wrong there’s one and/or twelve people she needs to prove it to

Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

"under the rules of the package, Musk could receive the biggest payday in history for returning below average returns "

electrek.co/2025/10/20/e...

Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla (TSLA) if he doesn't get his ridiculous pay

Elon Musk has openly threatened to leave Tesla, or at least his role as CEO, if he doesn’t get his...

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

I remember in the '90 Ben & Jerry had a 7:1 max ratio of executive pay to lowest-paid employee. (That was of course, abandoned after the Unilever buyout in 2000).

Elon Musk's $1 trillion stock award gets more ridiculous the more you look into it

Tesla is engaging in an all-out assault, exploiting employees and attacking shareholders to encourage retaining a bad CEO and giving him $1T.

electrek.co

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

Houston voting…

Early voting for the November 2025 election begins tomorrow | Off the Kuff

From the inbox:

www.offthekuff.com

Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

Elon's specialty: transferring wealth between his companies.

Tesla investing in xAI: the good, the bad, the ugly

While Tesla shareholders are focused on giving Elon Musk a huge CEO compensation package, there’s a potentially even more impactful...

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

NPR’s Up First asks the riddle “what kind of ceasefire is it if both sides are shooting?”

A: Trump “ceasefire”

Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

javascript should be banned everywhere

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 1d

is /that/ why Connections is down…

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

Come on then, and remove him.

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 3d

How the shutdown has “enabled” the Trump administration’s illegal mass firing spree that is would have done anyway - there, i fixed it for you, Axios

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