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Zane Davis

@ztdavis.bsky.social

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Father, husband, reader, traveler. Launching new tech into eldercare. He/him.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 8h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 12h

HUGE turnout at the Milwaukee No King's Protest. Easily 20 blocks of marchers, all having a good time.

Lots of great signs.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 13h

Nothing bad happened, thank goodness.

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Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 15h

Happening Now: Thousands out for a “No Kings” protest in Chicago

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 19h

The 8:00am HRRR run for 1:00pm still looks good. There's a *tiny* green dot in NE illinois by that 4004, so it's sensing some moisture in the area around Chicago. Maybe she sprinkles, but today shouldn't be a washout.

HRR Model run showing moisture in southern Illinois, and very little I northern illinois at 1:00p during the No Kings march

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 1d

All of the broader point here is great but I especially want to give a shoutout to The Ire This Time.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Ban guns, create universal healthcare, tax wealth, welcome immigrants, imprison tyrants etc etc.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry first image is a more zoomed in version of the second.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 1d

If any violence happens tomorrow (hopefully not!) and something happens to me, please politicize the hell out of it. Liberalism. Pluralism. Americans should be free of fear and free to thrive.

The corruption, racism, and incompetence of this administration is tainting what this country can be.

Me being patriotic af in an 80s flag themed windbreaker.

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Second image is just a little more zoomed in, but basically down from the peaks but it really does feel like a stable core is forming.

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Jen Bekman @jenbee.bsky.social · 1d

NO KINGS!
This nationwide protest is tomorrow, Saturday, and there is almost certainly an event happening near you!
Show up, speak out, defend democracy and show solidarity for our immigrant friends and neighbors.
Thanks to the ever-incredible @martharichart.bsky.social for the excellent art.

Poster by Martha Rich for the nationwide No Kings protests happening on Saturday, Oct 18th. It’s an illustration of a black cat with colorful markings on its face on a golden yellow background with hand drawn black lettering that says “NO KINGS” at the top and “OCTOBER 18 nokings.org” and “POWER IS OURS TIME TO USE IT!” at the bottom.

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farndale thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 2d

I immediately hear my 7 year old, with a mirthful malice, making eye contact and intoning “six seeeeven.”

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 2d

Dublin is very much not in the UK. No Kings, and all that.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know how to make it matter but I want to pay a lot more attention to the people who refuse along the way than the little fascists destroying everything. The student editors, this fired director. People who rise to the ethical challenges before them, for no glory.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

Indiana University Media School Dean David Tolchinsky terminated Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush on Tuesday afternoon after he refused to censor the Indiana Daily Student.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 3d

КОШКИН ДОМ Ресторан; 2, 10 Yerevanyan Street, Armavir, Armenia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.14640709999999%2C44.03324910000001&query_place_id=ChIJR8vhZwDvakARtAyiGsNvWCQ

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 4d

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 4d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 4d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Zane Davis @ztdavis.bsky.social · 4d

Bikes are amazing (and cyclists!)

bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 4d

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 5d

The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.