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ddouglas πŸ’Ž πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ¦‹
@dd9000.bsky.social
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Liberal Californian by choice. Interested in so very many subjects about which I know little or nothing. #321,010. First 10%. Registered July 17, 2023.
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we're now a hair away from it being "treason" to utter a single critical syllable about Dear Leader on any topic whatsoever
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City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
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With SNAP benefits ending Nov. 1, now is a good time for everyone who is able to donate food or money to those who need it.

Time for solidarity among us even if political leadership is bailing on people in need.
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Foods that to me sound like the name of an alien species in a science fiction work:

Gremolata

(add yours in the comments)
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YES THIS. If you are one of the "all is lost" people please feel free not to say so in the comments of my posts, it'll save me the two seconds it takes to "hide for everyone" your comments. All is not lost. All is never lost. I prefer not to have you infecting others with your doomerism in my space.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.
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A jury of my peers? 12 people who know what HACTRN is and differentiate between veridical paradox, falsidical paradox, and antinomy? Yeah, I might know some fora where I could do voir dire.
a jury of my peers? 12 trans women who post in lowercase because they imagine it makes people read their posts in daria’s voice? yeah that makes sense, that’s probably the average person who lives in my neighborhood
a jury of my peers? 12 sci-fi nerds who whine about their jobs too much?
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Friends! We’ve been so lucky… Mum let us unpack all the Halloween Decorations and play with them. We had such a Great Time that none of the Decorations actually got put up until late last night. So tomorrow will be the Big Reveal of how the house looks now πŸŽƒ We are having such a Fun Time! #Halloween
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I'm in an empty row! πŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒπŸ’ƒ Might be able to sleep!
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I reached 25,000 followers today! Yay! or maybe not

When I scan my new followers' profiles I see about 8 or 9 out of 10 are empty accounts, mostly porn bots but many others with no followers, no profile pic, gibberish name, etc.

So to all the real people reading this: THANK YOU! I appreciate you!
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I know I'm not the most functional person in the morning, but really a very large number of people at breakfast buffets in hotels act like they've never been in the company of other humans before 😀
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and playing with two hands is some kind of wizardry
after something like 30 years I'm taking piano lessons again and my main takeaway so far is that ode to joy didn't get better with age
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Just need to keep repeating this point. Stagnant zero sum economies create political ungovernability. Productivity growth has collapsed in many rich countries since the financial crash on.ft.com/4hwRuoB
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Less than a week to cast your vote! Get those ballots turned in, preferably at a drop box. The federal shutdown is affecting postal delivery! Please vote and then help 5 friends to vote! You can find your nearest drop box here. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
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When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, the Israeli government had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret β€˜wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
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Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."
Hmmm. Far right. I think the leftmost is a bit, well, too cute for her.
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Eviscerating my mouse toy!!