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Matthew Oliphant
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If they ever add pinned skeets, I'm pinning this.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
Also people who are middle-aged and not-so-healthy!

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Yet more TIL content. I think this channel is worth following to get a perspective about which I suspect most people who can see this post have very little understanding.
Farm Bankruptcy: What They're Not Telling You
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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The only White power I'm interested in:
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It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.

POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.

Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!
I'm not not saying I've worked with product teams like this, but I have said, "Who told you to install it like this?"
This operation is driving me crazy.#funny #movie #dailylife
YouTube video by Wenjiang-caihuaxiaoyuan
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Did Kirk cross home plate twice in one inning?
This is a rough 6th.

I like it.
“You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts.

In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”

— Uncle Iroh

ATLA, "just" a kid's show.
Had an uncomfortable conversation about despair this afternoon.

To my mind, despair is the enemy. No matter how bad things are, this country has seen worse, people around the world have seen worse, and things got better because they kept fighting.
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Speaking of the past...

Did you live in Portland in the early 90s? Do you know this person? I want my TV back.
I forgot to do the thing the kids do these days.

[appreciative]
Not based on this 2nd inning...
Damn that @turoczy.bsky.social!

I mean... Damn, that @turoczy.bsky.social!

Hashtag Rick is great.
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Last week I changed the stained glass in the window with a piece I made more recently. I'm really enjoying the way the light is playing with it this morning.
Added alt text.

Which is easy to do, people who run @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's account...
Paid off pretty well for the Louvre...
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Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics.
A few things to consider before committing a museum heist
Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics.
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Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise?

Yeah.
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.