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20+yr Technology Leader, Public Speaker, Columnist, USCG Veteran with a salty vernacular, Brewer of beer, Coffee Evangelist - VPoEng ** Don't follow if you are easily offended, it's not intentional, I just don't give a fuck. *** Allergic to Chocolate

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · Dec 18

Ages ago on the porta-potty site I started #ThoughtfulThursday, hoping to encourage everyone to share nuggets of inspiration, wisdom & positivity, to make Thursday suck a little less. If you'd like me to bring this over here then drop a 💙& repost.

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sandor22.bsky.social @sandor22.bsky.social · 9h

Hey brother!! Good morning! Now we all know why grandma put thick ass vinyl and mothballs on the couch!!! 🫂🥰Hug your friends instead of fucking your couch !!! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 4h

Ain't no way I'm going to remember this...

@fallout.bethesdastudios.com

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 1d

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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · 6h

Martha Stewart did it. How'd that work out for her?
I also read it was 150 million, not 80.

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The Daily Sizzle 🧙‍♀️🪄✨️💙🦸‍♀️💄🐆🗣🚫🍊 ☮️❤️🤍💙☮️ Savage Daughters Unite 🗽50501🗽 @womenvspatriarchy.bsky.social · 5h

MICHIGAN

NO KINGS
OCTOBER 18

www.mobilize.us/nokings/

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Dori & Wren 🐾🎀🧷 @jfc-already.bsky.social · 13h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS RHINEBECK” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS RHINEBECK · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 6h

Congratulations on your milestone

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 11h

Denton ICE detention facility: “War-ravaged” Portland is again under the constant threats of violent amphibians creatures. Beware! They will force you to party and dance with them!

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 10h

Jeff Bezos Can’t Give Away His Money
open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

Jeff Bezos Can’t Give Away His Money

Maybe he should ask his ex-wife.

open.substack.com

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 10h

That has to sting.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h

NEW HYDROGEN BATTERY CAN OPERATE FOUR TIMES COLDER THAN BEFORE Scientists at Tokyo University of Science developed a hydrogen battery that works at 90 °C, four times colder than current systems. It uses magnesium hydride anodes, hydrogen gas cathodes, and a solid-state

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

Pardon me if I delay celebrating this vile cretin losing until those poor Sandy Hook families he victimized for cheap publicity see all of the cash. I don't trust him for a second.
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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alex Jones, who has been ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

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.

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

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 8h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

www.nytimes.com

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 7h

Why did Trump go up Walter Reed when he could just see Dr Oz?

And why didn’t he take the influenza and Covid vaccines despite RFK jr being against vaccines?

Because he wants to use science but wants the rest of us to listen to his crackpot staff

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 9h

When ICE says they’re enforcing the law "with compassion," this is the group photo.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

"They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want. So they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy."

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...