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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1h

"And his hair was perfect."

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2h

"Trevor Cole’s winning image, “Pastoral Peoples and Practices,” is much less colorful than some of the other awarded works, which helps"
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25 Award-Winning Photos Show the Power of Color in Photography

25 award-winning color photos.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2h

“The Mundari gather the fresh dung each morning, dry it and use it to fuel their fires. The ash from the fires is then used to massage their Ankole Watusi cows to mitigate against bites from tsetse flies & mosquitoes. They also veneer themselves with ash for the same reasons, hence they appear... "

“Pastoral Peoples and Practices,” © Trevor Cole | All About Photo Magazine #51: Colors

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2h

It's been Black Friday since USSC Citizens United in 2010.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 3h

"No to regime change. No to coups d’etat orchestrated by the CIA,” Maduro, the leftist leader, said in an address to a committee set up after Washington deployed warships in the Caribbean for what it said was an anti-drug operation"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump confirms he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela

Move marks sharp escalation in efforts to pressure Maduro as Trump says US considering land attacks against cartels

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 3h

None of this has anything to do with drugs

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5h

Oil. Trump Petroleum Corp. is the prize.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 6h

Great way to fix the scheduling issue, watch AI matches.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 6h

Most of them have playing styles that are almost as similar as they look. Slug It out from the baseline and look pretty doing it.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 6h

The industry is selling personalities just like pickleball. The point is to sell merchandise. To do that heroes must be featured so fans will pay $150 for a t-shirt.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 6h

George Washington often drank at George Weedon's Tavern in Virginia. Weedon fought at the Battle of Trenton and commanded a Virginia militia at Gloucester Point, holding off Cornwallis. In 1875 George Weedon went on to be Mayor of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 8h

America's state's are far from united. It's the divided states of America.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 8h

It's called kidnapping.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 8h

That's the playbook. Troops show up in a city run by a Democratic mayor knowing that protesters are likely to assemble. Then treat them like the enemy combatants.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2d

'After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of the universe to its utmost limits, we can finally, confidently say that the universe is infinite.'
www.space.com/astronomy/is...

Is the universe infinite, or does it have a limit?

If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into, and what is it expanding from?

www.space.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 8h

Every act of domestic violence is a potential murder. Criminal Court judges need to know that before adjudicating abusers.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 9h

Ughhh, we do?

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 9h

The whole story
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

This is what "grooming" looks like:

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 9h

Sure is

a fish facing another fish with a hook in it's lip asks the other fish 'is this serious?

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 9h

"They were born in the same week of the same month of the same year. A few years before Chaplin became famous as the Tramp, Hitler was a tramp. Both were outsiders who left their homeland to conquer the world. They became the best loved and most hated men of their time."
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

www.npr.org

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think it's even up for debate that artists have done FAR more for humanity than politicians could ever dream of doing.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 10h

"The federal agency alleges cartels are offering $2,000 for intelligence gathering and doxing of agents, $5,000–$10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard ICE/CBP officers and up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials."
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Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 20h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.'
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Should have added to the message in the bottle, "HELP"

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the artist formerly known as 'that guy' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 1d

It is cool that we don't know.
I mean, there's stuff right outside our front doors that we don't know. The point is to be open, to want to know, and not make up convenient answers.
The whole damn galaxy is hurtling at breakneck speed into the unknown. We just have to trust with child-like wonder.

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