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Ross Kimes

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I help build @RadarScope.app. Powered by coffee and craft beer. I post about music that none of y’all listen to, OKC Thunder basketball, and Ford Broncos. Proud Okie. 👨‍💻 📷 🍺 ☕️ 🐶 🌪️ 🎮 🏀 🏈 ⚽️ 📍 Norman, OK

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Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 13h

The worst part of this knee surgery is not being able to properly carry things. The amount of effort I just spent trying to get my coffee cup from the kitchen to the couch was embarrassing.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 1d

“Stuck in App Review”

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"The bathroom. It's... bad."

Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.

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sublime50 @sublime50.bsky.social · 3d

Friendly reminder:
The 2025 Thunder are NBA Champions.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 3d

It’s 2:42 and…

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 3d

So he got a biopsy of my current cartilage and is growing more from that and I "get" to go back in for round two to fill it in with my actual cartilage (instead of the synthetic cartilage that we were planning to use) after I recover.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 3d

Turns out right after surgery, you don't remember what the doctor told you. Way less successful than I thought at the time.

There was an unexpected MCL tear that he had to repair. And the cartilage holes he was supposed to fill in were bigger than expected and couldn't be filled as planned.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 3d

I went to buy a mower from them and it was $100 more in the store than it was online. I had to get a manager to get them to honor THEIR OWN online price so I could take it home that day.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 3d

Not a Stitt fan at all, but he’s had a good couple of weeks. This plus (what seems to be) a good pick for State Superintendent.

Okla City Free Press @freepressokc.bsky.social · 3d

NEW — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a longtime Trump ally, breaks ranks to oppose the former president’s push to send National Guard troops across state lines. | Brett Dickerson reports:

Okla Gov. Stitt: Trump’s Guard plan defies states’ rights

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a longtime Trump ally, breaks ranks to oppose the former president’s push to send National Guard troops across state lines.

freepressokc.com

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Amanda Clinton @amandaclinton.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted in Tulsa 🫶🏼❤️🌎✌🏽

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 4d

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 4d

I’ll be ready, coach!

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 4d

Knee surgery was a success. Not just have weeks of pain and recovery.

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Jon Hamm @jonhamm.bsky.social · 5d

Somebody showed me a video of a pointy-eared alien who transferred his katra to a doctor before he sacrificed himself to save his spaceship.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 6d

GroupMe's Liquid Glass update is out and it looks…really bad.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16d

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

AnxiousIntrovert, MS @anxiousintrovert19.bsky.social · 16d

How do we return to any semblance of normal after all this is said and done?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

I agree with Josh but with one caveat: Words can demoralize people. I have political science-y disagreements with people who say "America is now fascist," but more to the point, I don't want people to internalize the idea that it's all done and dusted. Trump is far weaker than may people realize.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 9d

Fighting with each other whether the Trump administration is/is not fascist/totalitarian seems kind of pointless. Labels aside, it is not a fully consolidated dictatorshp, whatever we want to call it and we need to work together to get them out.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 9d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 9d

As much as I hate this administration, seconded. The industry has been struggling for years now.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 9d

This sucks.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Craft breweries across the country are shutting down because of increased competition and flagging interest.

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

Once the darling of the alcohol industry, small-batch beer makers are shutting down because of increased competition and flagging interest.

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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 11d

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

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Manda @theweathermanda.bsky.social · 14d

Disagree - I think National Parks are one of the few avenues for the average American to see and experience the tangible effects of a government shutdown. And people care more about things that affect them. So let them be affected and outraged at their dysfunctional government.

Governor Jared Polis @colorado.gov · 14d

🚫🌲 Shutdowns put our national parks at risk. I urge the Administration to keep them open so everyone can enjoy them. Colorado is ready to step up. Let’s protect our parks—not play politics. #ProtectOurParks
apnews.com/article/shut...

Former national park superintendents urge Trump administration to close parks in case of shutdown

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 16d

Someone thought it was a Jeep I guess.

A rubber duck tucked into my Bronco’s door handle.

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 20d

Please and thank you.

Wendy Suares @wsuares.bsky.social · 20d

🚨SOURCES: Walters out as State Supt. FOX 25 learned Ryan Walters is expected to resign Friday to take another job. Gov Stitt is rumored to be eyeing former Rep. Mark McBride for the job. McBride tells me he hasn’t discussed it with the gov but would ‘probably’ accept the job… #oklahoma #oklaed

Ross Kimes @rosskimes.net · 25d

Had my phone and watch for six hours but I have at least six hours before I can open them. On a 12 hour trip and figured an hour without CarPlay wasn't worth transferring it over on the drive.