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Christina D Cody

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Cave enthusiast, dancer, enjoys the outdoors. Science rules! I try to live the Scout Oath and Law. Blue dot!

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Mar 20

I have a thought about the (small, but dedicated) #Trump2028 groups. We need to mobilize now, I think to enforce the boundary on the voter’s side in case the states don’t follow the Constitution. What does everyone think about a #22ndAmendment pledge? Especially one signed in more red/swing areas?

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 2d

My grandmother went through the era like that for a time. She was divorced back in the 60s.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 6d

Found the date! It was in December 2005. Here’s a good video about the incident.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zRM2...

The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

YouTube video by Practical Engineering

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 6d

Are you talking about when it overtopped and flooded the nearby Johnson Shut-ins State Park? That was back in the 2000s. Think it was 2007?

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 9d

Past is prologue.

Forbes @forbes.com · 9d

In 1980, Trump destroyed Art Deco sculptures he'd promised to the Met to speed up Trump Tower's construction—now he's demolishing the White House's East Wing for a massive ballroom despite preservationists' objections.

Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 12d

I didn’t get out of it. Wish I had. Hung an American flag at the campsite and signed a copy of the Declaration of Independence as the closest I got. Heard a bagpiper play “Coming to America” in the distance while there.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 18d

So it feels weird that I will be going to Fort Massac Encampment where there’s representation for three historical kings (and one nascent republic) on the same weekend as the “No Kings” protest. I can’t really get out of it as I’m a trained scout parent, but wondering how I can make it work subtly.

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 20d

If it makes money he’s all for it…. Yeah that tracks.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 20d

What is that? I haven’t heard that acronym before.

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 20d

While true, this doesn’t help the rest of us. The best we can do is band together to minimize harm. While true that it might help us in the next life to suffer peacefully, there is a boundary between the two worlds that makes it so we must help ourselves as much as those around us.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 23d

Oh this is SO going to bite Trump’s team in the behind (not necessarily Trump, unfortunately). The traffic controllers are already calling out. The moment this is official, air traffic will come to a halt (further there’s already been one or two stoppages) and it won’t be all.

AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 24d

In addition:

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · 23d

@pbsnews.org is still the best bet on this, at least as it pertains to government generally. They’ll have biases associated with major sponsors, so be cognizant of that and listen for the disclaimer.

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Benedict Garman @benedictgarman.com · 24d

We might have thought a "post truth" world would stem from politicians presenting "alternative facts", or mis- and disinfo going viral. Turns out AI is doing the job more insidiously and comprehensively than that. Society has embraced a technology which is fundamentally incompatible with truth.

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 24d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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NathanL75 @nathanl75.bsky.social · Oct 1

My interest level in the AI “actress” in one image:

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 29d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Sep 18

It was a rough week last week. I wish I’d had the courage to be more than a witness for a friend. I love them, but must work on my bravery, it seems.

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rj @rj.dcellgames.com · Sep 4

hmm. i feel like perhaps a middle ground between "you need to follow your dreams blindly" and "following your dreams is an idiot choice" may in fact be reasonable

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Sep 2

These changes feel so slow. Too slow to be the companion I want to be.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Aug 6

There are changes in my life afoot. Who knows what happens next?

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Aug 21

And after I wrote that, I realized I had made a fail at listening and comprehension. The person who said that the Nat guard should be sent to the 8 states with the highest homicide rate was from a liberal network of media, not conservative.

Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Aug 21

Does this guy realize that the top 5 are all Republican run states with an authoritarian perspective?

usafacts.org/articles/whi...

Which US states have the highest murder rates? | USAFacts

Mississippi’s homicide rate — the highest in the nation — is more than 11 times New Hampshire’s — the nation’s lowest.

usafacts.org

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Aspen Valley @aspenvalley.bsky.social · Jan 10

Bumpass Hell is a geothermal region in Mount Lassen National Park. It’s an area filled with boiling pools, bubbling mud pots and the ever present sulfur vents waft the breezes to entice your nasal senses. 😉 It’s a great place to (safely) see geothermal forces in action. Well worth the hike in/out !

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Elly @rvaareaandhomes.bsky.social · Jun 23

Hey #RVA...Richmond is heating up. sometimes #airconditioning doesn't work. Here are some #tips to #staycool

#summer #heatwave #swamp

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Aug 10

This poem is lovely!

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Christina D Cody @christinadcody.bsky.social · Aug 6

There are changes in my life afoot. Who knows what happens next?

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Aug 3

For many people, Sundays used to be a time of solace; a soft place where they experienced belonging, felt an abiding sense of community, and believed they saw the face of God, if only for a few moments.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/sunday-mou...

Sunday Mourning (A Letter to Religious Prodigals and Church Orphans)

The calendar can be cruel sometimes.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Mark Gila @mark-gila.bsky.social · Jul 19

I am grieving many things right now but I feel the US has totally given up on supporting life on earth. We will become a failed species because we never learned anything about being good stewards of our small blue planet.

EPA Is Closing Its Scientific Research Arm
www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-is...

EPA Is Closing Its Scientific Research Arm

The Environmental Protection Agency is terminating the Office of Research and Development, which conducted studies on environmental pollutants.

www.huffpost.com

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