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San Diego 🎶 Sometimes I just want to read Donald Duck and be in silence. But then birds natter outside my window while rain patters on the roof. 🎶 - Maustetytöt (🇫🇮 for “Spice Girls”) “Mä loistan kuin hämärä” (“I Shine Like the Twilight”)

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 1d

The math maths here in San Diego (or I guess the rest of the world would say the maths math).

A protest sign reading “KID ROCK PLUS TRUMP EQUALS NICKELBACK”

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 1d

All that hard work he put into earning them. He gave his sweat glands for queen and country! Such a shame. /s

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 2d

Not necessarily. I wouldn’t be able to quantify, but I’d guess a significant portion of CDC work:
-would not fall under the relevant regulations, or
-would not be high-risk enough to require substantive review, or
-is conducted in partnership with (or through awards to) entities with IRBs.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like you’re contributing lyrics to a new Ween song

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Around Pendleton is all I’ve heard so far. Vance did a mini version of this for the last No Kings day. He visited Pendleton, but there were just brief rolling closures around Oceanside for his motorcade.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Just for visual context, because there’s some wild comments here…

A map of Southern California, with red markings outlining Camp Pendleton’s place between San Diego County & Orange County, the corridor for Interstate 5 and train tracks, and what it would look like for ships to fire into Camp Pendleton as the Vice President proposes.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, I’m not concerned. But whether or not they actually fire anything, I imagine they’ll still use the excuse to jam up the traffic, in the weird hope that pissed off drivers would associate the traffic with the protests.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Just as an example, I’m going from Oceanside to the main LA protest with friends, to meet up with other friends.

Fortunately I already planned to take the train.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going from Oceanside to the main LA protest (and am not the only one).

Fortunately I was already planning to take the train, which has the bonus of being a middle finger to the regime.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but adding a couple of extra hours

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Desolate only in the sense that Camp Pendleton interrupts the urban corridor. But the 5 at that point is both high traffic volume AND a chokepoint with no alternate routes.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

Her warning is about the part of the 5 that’s a choke point between San Diego County and Orange County.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 3d

That’s exactly the thought behind the post you stupidly mocked as stupid.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like these people really really liked “Veep” and saw it as a guide to life without realizing that the characters were deeply shitty people.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 4d

That was Bolsonaro in The Hunt for Red October?!?!

a man is sitting at a desk with the words you 've lost another submarine

Alt: gif of the scene in The Hunt for Red October when the Soviet Ambassador meets with the US National Security Advisor to request help for a lost submarine, and the US NSA replies “You’ve lost another submarine?”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 4d

The Regime still manages to surprise: who knew that Russell Vought had D’Angelo in his sights?

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

You make him sound like the original modern American. Especially your last line! He would fit right in.

The idea that the Western Hemisphere was the US sphere of influence started pretty early on, so Columbus was probably a natural icon.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

Yup, hence a non-journalist to dismantle an expensive news gathering operation in favor of a leaner, more profitable opinion shop. Dispense with firewalls and editorial independence, and push Ellison’s POV.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

And nobody should give in to the urge to half-ass it by calling their trash a “guilty pleasure.”

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

It feels like people are just fighting about who‘s cool enough to attend Left-Leaning Magnet School, not whether having Left-Leaning Magnet School is a bad thing.

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

It was so thorough that it became tiresome. Felt like inside baseball to settle scores with or to bait a reaction from Weiss, HBO/Warner, and/or Ellison.

She’s not a journalist or a manager, so probably just there to turn staid, expensive news gathering into a profitable opinion shop. OTA Fox News.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

Not necessarily a sign that the Saudis are any less insane. The Saudis did have a few decades’ head start in prosperity, along with a larger population to begin with, so it’s not surprising that migrant workers are a smaller (but still significant) portion of the population.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

Nice tan line, nerd. Were you on nerd spring break?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky lists and labels seem to say more about the creators (bless their hearts for teaching me about my inner “piss-drinking Nazi”) than the people on them, but I am genuinely miffed about this one...

Screenshot showing a Bluesky list titled “Louvre of Bluesky Followers”

Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 7d

The ultimate confusion will come when (if) Keith Richards dies.