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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 23h

WIP not at all conservative coded IMO, just workwear

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is a gift 🫩

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 2d

God fucking damnit, this regime wilil sleepwalk into another fucking mass casualty event after we memory holed the last pandemic. Great job everyone

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Apr 20

Went on @60minutes.bsky.social to talk to Bill Whitaker about H5N1. As Kamran Khan from Bluedot told Bill, we don’t know if or when this virus might acquire pandemic capabilities, but it can.

And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse.

www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

www.cbsnews.com

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 2d

Truly of all the wild shit I did growing up in TX dyeing my hair blue was the only thing that got me kicked out of school—it just offended the fucking shit out of them

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

the nobel peace prize has been awarded to adolf hitler, for killing himself!

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure, I had mixed feelings about the film

My pic is from Boogie Nights, a movie I do love, more than I care about PTA

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

“Fetishizing” hits the nail on the head and I’m grateful for Black perspective on the film, it’s a weird one

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

as a white dude I was entertained but I thought the entire first act was a cringey mistake

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 3d

Zadie Smith wrote a horrifying short story set in the near future about this a decade ago.

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 5d

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 5d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 5d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 6d

Is their goal the collapse of the government as we know it? (Yes.)

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

Typically, federal government shutdowns don't have much macroeconomic impact because all the workers receive backpay after they return. If they never get paid at all, that changes things quite a bit. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 7d

“We have this fixed correlation between gender and pitch today, but, in the eighteenth century, Handel wrote Julius Caesar for a cas-trato, and women in the audience would faint for castrati just like they did for Michael Jackson."

I need to read a doctoral thesis on this immediately

love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 7d

The pearl clutching crackdown on e-bikes would be more convincing if the same leagues of concerned parents fought for slower speeds, traffic calming, and protected bike lanes

Not to mention speed limiters on cars that can be driven 100+ mph on freeways

Wes Marshall @wesmars.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not saying that e-bikes aren't a growing safety concern, but 2023 saw over 3,000 teenagers die plus another 200,000+ teenagers injured due to car crashes... and this problem has been around since before Rick Reilly was even born

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 12d

🎙️ Join us Sat. 10/4, from 4-5:30pm at The Dance Palace for a free conversation with KWMR's Jordan Bowen and author Samathana Kimmey about her debut novel!

📻 For a preview of their discussion, tune in Thurs. at 5pm for Community Buzz on KWMR!

More info: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-1...

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 11d

Yep Same folks who refuse to build expand and fund public transit! No one can have a house or a train

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 11d

In my SF neighborhood the only political issue that has everyone worked up is making absolutely sure no one can build another house ever again! Except mansions where there already was a mansion that’s ok

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12d

"In 1933 it was no longer a question of overthrowing a state by an act of violence; meanwhile the new State had been built up and all that there remained to do was to destroy the last remnants of the old State—and that took but a few hours.”

Shirer, William L. Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p. 204

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

before and after hegseth's directive

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 12d

the playbook is to destroy the safety net and blame the left for the results, over and over

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program

A new policy change will significantly cut funding used to place people experiencing homelessness in permanent housing.

www.politico.com

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 13d

It makes me 150% more depressed and irritable for a full day in exchange for 10-15 minutes of “this is nice”

In my 20s it was all a rollercoaster of rainbow binges and mildly amusing hangovers, which were themselves a kind of reverse but still amusing high

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love on the bit @jrdnbwn.bsky.social · 14d

big PTA fan and it left me entertained but cold. The first act is unconvincing and cringe, doesn’t work as fantasy or realism. It gets more fluid and kinetic after the mom is out; I thought Penn was perfect and the chase/desert scenes terrific. It’s not a masterpiece, or at all his best

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15d

They're going to try to overturn Obergefell and end marriage equality. Eyes wide open, folks.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent

As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, Justice Thomas said there's nothing sacred about precedent.

www.usatoday.com

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