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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis

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Former medic, former prison counselor, former criminal defense investigator, former almost academic, photographer, writer of detective fiction, Edgar Award winner.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · Nov 7

Remember, in totalitarian states, among the first people to be silenced are the artists, the poets, the writers. There's a reason for that.

Be that reason.

If you do art, keep doing art. Do it with as much passion as you can muster. Express yourself.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · Nov 7

This is your reminder that writing is a political action.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 22h

Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Irresistible Force & Immovable Object edition. Adventures in Parenting.

#ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography

A bald parent in a hoodie, hands on his hips, looks down at a child lying on their back on a sidewalk while others look on from a nearby bench.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 23h

That's NOT fun. Anytime you're cycling in fear from traffic is NOT fun, especially at night.

But when you have safe infrastructure--when you don't have to worry about being hit by an inattentive driver--cycling at night is weirdly peaceful. Or at least I find it so.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

The DM Public Library is a great photo location.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

Cycling at night (especially when you have SAFE cycling infrastructure) is a special pleasure. It feels completely different.

Katie Raver @katieraver.bsky.social · 1d

Thursday Night Social Ride came for a visit during a NightWalk, the Austin skyline in the background #tnsr #austintexas #cyclists #bike #night #skyline #ladybirdlake

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

"Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon"

No. It's not like NPR somehow misplaced their access to the Pentagon. The Pentagon is TAKING it away, because they've refused to be stenographers for Hegseth's bullshit.

Stop the passivity. Be accurate. Even when NPR gets it right, they get it wrong.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

I wrote about Sylvia Plachy back in 2008. "That’s my sense of Sylvia Plachy and her photography. It’s a constant, consistent expression of gratitude for simple, honest things."

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Sylvia Plachy – Sunday Salon

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

Fact!

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

New York clam chowder.
Letter to Brezhnev
Kung Fu Fighting

Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Canned tuna

Pineapple Express

Closer to Fine

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Dill pickles (of common foods you actually encounter)

Cars (my toddler OD'd me on this)

Muskrat Love (Cap'n & Tenille version, muskrats farting underwater, swear to god)

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

Susannah, it always makes me smile when I get to see your face.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

I chatted with this guy. He was waiting for his wife, who was shopping for something (he didn't know what). He said, "She waited on me while I worked all those years, I guess I can wait on her while she shops."
#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography #monochrome

An elderly white man in sunglasses sits on a bench, waiting for his wife to finish her shopping.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 1d

Hope you have the happiest of birthdays.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

The fact that this blatantly corrupt asshole hasn't been impeached is evidence that SCOTUS needs to be massively reformed.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

See how complicated this gets when you see this philosophy as anything other than "Republicans win and Democrats lose."

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

A good reason to swing more keyboards.

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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 2d

It could have happened a long time ago if Netanyahu wanted it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "What we're doing now, it could've happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. There was a hatred toward Israel."

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

But if it's one thing leftists know how to do it's get rejected and still want everyone to be okay. Right wing reactionaries get rejected once and decide to burn the world down.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

SO MANY times I've completed the NYT crossword, only to see "there's something wrong". When I can't find a mistake & hit 'reveal' it congratulates me for completing the puzzle...but ends my streak. I don't care about the streak, but it pisses me off that once again I can't trust NYT to be right.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

Under Roberts SCOTUS is no longer respected. That lack of respect is a direct result of the Court's abandonment of precedence & its embrace of partisan politics. The Roberts Court handed Trump a gas can & a Zippo, then asked him to please not set the US on fire.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

That explanation may be improbable, but I rather like it. I'd much rather that be the case.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 2d

Weird & normal get confused in a small town festival.

#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography

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weird and normal

The great and horrible thing about people is that they’re unpredictable; they do weird shit in ways that seem normal and normal shit that in ways that seem weird. If you’re on the stree…

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 22d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 3d

I wrote about this last week when a friend mentioned being flamed for 'virtue signaling' by posting an "I Voted" selfie.

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civic virtue selfies

A friend recently said she was eager to vote in the coming local election next month, but was a wee bit sad that she wouldn’t be comfortable posting her usual “I Voted” selfie. I …

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 3d

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 3d

A wee skeleton at the Covered Bridge festival.

#ricohgr3x #ricohsnaps #photography #DemocraticCamera #streetphotography

A street scene involving a kid wearing a skeleton costume and some traditionally normal-looking people.

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 3d

If you need yet another reason to dissent...

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 3d

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent.

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