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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋

@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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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋 @dd9000.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Golden (K-Pop Demon Hunters) - Brooklyn Duo

YouTube video by Brooklyn Duo

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

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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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 1h

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1h

City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history

CITY LIGHTS Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco

Current hanging banners -left to right:

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars

Whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that praises conquerors and acclaimed the bully as hero

Pity the nation that allows their freedoms to be eroded and their rights to be washed away

My country tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!

Rippling American flag spread across the bottoms of the banners

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Jack Frazee @jack-frazee.bsky.social · 5h

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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h

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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h

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.

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3d

"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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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 14h

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.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14h

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

Liz W(erewolf not swearwolf) Faber, PhD (they/them) @lizwfab.bsky.social · 18h

a jury of my peers? 12 sci-fi nerds who whine about their jobs too much?

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Malcolm & Baby Dog @malcolmandbabydog.bsky.social · 14h

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 🎃 We are having such a Fun Time! #Halloween

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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋 @dd9000.bsky.social · 13h

Sheer luxury.

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Robyn D @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 14h

I'm in an empty row! 💃💃💃 Might be able to sleep!

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·.·★✨SK Delph✨★·.· @skdelph.bsky.social · 13h

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 19h

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!

A mostly brown and white goose with black neck and head with a white throat (adult Canada Goose) is swimming from left to right with a cute fluffy yellow gosling following close behind.

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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋 @dd9000.bsky.social · 13h

I assert that I *am* a real person.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Ya this video is pretty much how I feel about living in San Diego: pretty good, except infuriatingly bad compared to how good it could be

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 1d

SB 79 was signed into law the day after I left California. It’s because they knew this video was coming

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CityNerd — California: The Delightful and the Rage-Inducing

If ever there was a city that should be designed so that people can walk, bike and take transit to meet their daily needs, San Diego should be it. But why does the city make it so difficult — and is t...

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 13h

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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Bossett @bossett.social · 13h

and playing with two hands is some kind of wizardry

Bossett @bossett.social · 14d

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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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

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

Chart showing slowdown in productivity growth across rich democracies

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 23h

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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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 13h

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 ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 19h

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."