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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 5h

"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 · 9h

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

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Reposted by Chris Weedon

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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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Even mailed a crayon picture of an airplane with flashlights on the wings pointing backwards. Mom addressed the envelope to NASA and mailed. A child writing NASA how to go the speed of light. About 2 months later a few boxes full of all kinds of scientific material from NASA JSC arrived.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Right there with you. The implications of the infinite, of forever. This is the part where it has to be okay not to know. As a child I thought about it as well, once thinking that we could all be someone else's imagination.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

The Bee's sting, touchdown #5 throws to number #11.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized it's Monday night, so turned on the Washington Commander's game. Couldn't tell who they were at first because their uniforms are all black with yellow trim and just numbers on the helmet. They look like bees. The Washington Bees.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

"Nobody's free until everybody's free"
Fannie Lou Hamer

I don't want you telling me to go back to Africa, unless you going back to where you came from.
Fannie Lou Hamer

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

'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 · 1d

The hummingbirds have been coming around. Can't seem to catch them with my camera. They sweep by, take a drink and fly away quick like thanks a lot didn't hurt did it?

I do not know this man.

a man wearing a red hat and a gray shirt is feeding hummingbirds with bottle caps that look like flowers

Alt: a man wearing a red hat and a gray shirt is feeding hummingbirds with bottle caps that look like flowers

media.tenor.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

'Interviewed by the BBC's Michael Charlton in 1970, Speer said he now considered Hitler to be one of the most evil people in history. However, he recalled how his friend "had some charm, too" and was "quite a normal human being".'
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'I was educated not to think': How Hitler's architect escaped the death penalty

Albert Speer distanced himself from the Nazis' atrocities at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in October 1946. In History revisits a 1970 BBC interview with Hitler's former friend.

www.bbc.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

The best version I have ever seen. Bowie seems relaxed and happy. Sound couldn't be better:
youtu.be/bsYp9q3QNaQ?...

David Bowie - Heroes

YouTube video by Broken Ridge Records

youtu.be

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

The story of 'Heroes' by David Bowie, followed by a live version in Berlin
www.musicradar.com/artists/befo...

“Before we knew it we had a sound no one had ever heard before”: How David Bowie created one of the greatest songs of all time via a range of innovative recording techniques

One of Bowie’s highest watermarks, Heroes continues to sound utterly timeless due to its layered production and passionate vocal performance

www.musicradar.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Sister and I were under 10. We remember waiting in line outside in the rain to get in because it had just come out and everyone wanted to see it.

a woman in a black coat is flying through the air holding an umbrella

ALT: a woman in a black coat is flying through the air holding an umbrella

media.tenor.com

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says different.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Soon they will be called 'security forces'

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

The point is to paint 'antifa' as some kind of funded organization so that protesters against the Trump administration can be designated as terrorists and treated as such.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

No shit

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

What a gentle creature. Read in order to protect rhinos conservationists have been cutting their horns off so they don't get killed by poachers for them.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

that is so precious

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

Sure lose all the cops so if someone breaks in your house you can just talk them out of it.

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 1d

"The Rhino and the Flock of Birds."
Non Professional - Gold - Wildlife

"The Rhino and the Flock of Birds." black and white image of a rhinoceros with birds

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2d

Have family in Pittsfield. Beautiful up there.

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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2d

That match took me by surprise. Coco didn't need a better serve and/or forehand. She adapted her game to answer Pegula's style. Gauff executed well and still has plenty of room for improvement.
bsky.app/profile/chri...

Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 2d

Gauff played smart. Pegula complained the ball wasn't 'coming off' her racquet because Gauff was not giving her the speed needed to counter-punch. Coco played junk balls taking Pegula out of her metronomic rhythm with high loopy topspin, hard flat, and low slices all at different speeds.
Brilliant!

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