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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 2d

Don't use plastic containers to heat or transport hot food/drinks. wapo.st/46Zw1Qd

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 3d

"Great civilizations, history shows, do not end by fate or old age. They end — or revive — by choice, ..." Johan Norberg.
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Opinion | Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.

The American experiment will soon turn 250. Is its time running out?

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 4d

“We’ve known for months that he’s been sick, but the words radiation and treatment hit differently. They landed in a place I didn’t expect. Because it feels like more than just one man enduring.
It feels like a reflection of all of us.”
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The Only Way Out Is Through

What Joe Biden’s endurance teaches us about America’s own capacity to heal.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 5d

Trump Rallies Angry Supporters Outside Nobel HQ in Oslo
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(Humor alert! This is Borowitz.)

Trump Rallies Angry Supporters Outside Nobel HQ in Oslo

“If you want to win the Nobel Peace Prize, you’ve got to fight like hell.”

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 11d

Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and Why People are Really Nervous cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/04/b...

Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and Why People are Really Nervous

The Super Bowl has always been more than football. It is a ritual, a spectacle, a national performance. It’s where America tells the world who it thinks it is, and who it wants to be. Which is why …

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 11d

Perspective from us old farts about the housing supply. wapo.st/4mTbEKD

Opinion | We’re seniors. It’s not our responsibility to fix the housing supply.

Why older adults are not downsizing.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 14d

When bow on strings stops dancing,
The people search for aid;
When reed on wood stops vibrating,
The enemy invades.
When brass stops its singing,
The economy loses trade;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music quickly fades. (3/3)

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 14d

When the composer stops composing,
The pen softens in the pot;
When the studio stops recording,
The tape is left to rot.
When the teacher stops her teaching,
Music education becomes a not;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is forgot. (2/3)

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 14d

When the orchestra stops playing,
The musicians are not paid;
When the conductor stops conducting
The instruments down are laid.
When the music stops its harmony,
The concert hall closes its doors;
When the orchestra stops playing,
The music is no more. (1/3)

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 24d

BTJ seems to be in the sophomore slump. #Jaguars

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · 27d

Colbert, Kimmel, who's next? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 12

Free Speech and Me Speech: "Free speakers, I think, see the problem with me speakers. Free speakers will not need cults or oligarchs. They will want facts and ideas." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Free Speech and Me Speech

A helpful distinction

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 10

The devices don't diagnose concussions, but they report when a player was hit hard enough to possibly have one.

Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · Sep 10

A great use of technology

How flashing mouthguards are being used to combat sport's biggest problem

The Women's Rugby World Cup, currently being held in England, is trialling a revolutionary approach to concussion management. Players are wearing LED mouthguards which light up when a player sustains ...

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lightning can strike from 30 miles away, the proverbial bolt from the blue. Best 2025 officiating call hands down to suspend the game until the weather moves out of the area. The game will resume as it looks clear to the west. #NFL #Jaguars

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is why he went bankrupt six times. When it's something he wants, he spends money without bothering to estimate how much it will sum to.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is why he went bankrupt six times. When it's something he wants, he spends money without bothering to estimate how much it will sum to.

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Politico @politico.com · Sep 5

House GOP leaders are forging ahead toward a second major domestic policy package. But hopes of getting it done by the end of the year are dwindling.

Plans for second GOP megabill face growing skepticism

Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead with new reconciliation plans but there's declining faith it could come together.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Sep 5

NEW: SCOTUS' unwillingness to explain itself while handing Trump a slew of far-reaching legal victories has drawn a flood of criticism from legal experts. Federal judges are fed up with it now, too.

Here’s what they have to say👇

Federal Judges Are Fed Up With SCOTUS

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 5

About those cellphone bans--it seems students have found library books to be an acceptable substitute.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Legal Doctrine That Says Censorship Is a First Amendment Right
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The Legal Doctrine That Says Censorship Is a First Amendment Right

This is worth digging into the legal weeds because A) it's going to keep coming up and B) a Florida case successfully beat it.

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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 20

NYT has a new game to play, thereby adding to the time suck we experience daily. Pips #3 Hard 🔴
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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 17

Jaguars gonna jag ha ha ha ha ha. 😆

Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sad state of affairs when the purple category is purple (hardest to get), but the green (second easiest) is green. Connections
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Greg Sampson @grandgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 16

Jacksonville City Council members want free tickets to ball games as they cut healthcare, affordable living, and senior meal assistance from the city budget. www.news4jax.com/news/local/2...

Councilmen want easier access to the city’s free event tickets, like Jags games. One member says they’re ‘out of touch’

A prominent Jacksonville city council member is calling some of his colleagues “out of touch” as they push for easier access to perks at a time when the council is cutting some critical community prog...

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