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📚Orygoon🚲

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I used to believe that “people are mostly good.” Not so much any more.

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · Dec 27

The Daily Scout.

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 19h

Like almost everyone born in Oklahoma, I was told we had a Cherokee ancestor. Early versions of my DNA tests showed no indigenous heritage. But now, they show a small amount, consistent with about seven generations back.

I find it inconclusive, but possible, perhaps likely. Nothing to ridicule.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 20h

I finally, reluctantly canceled. I like to think it was mine that dropped it below 100,000.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 1d

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 2d

Someone ought to make a zillion of those blow-up suits for Portlanders that look like flames 🔥.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 2d

In today’s Gospel (Catholic, Lutheran, and Episcopalian) Jesus met a foreigner and instead of hating on him or getting him locked up or thrown out, he healed him.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder to the knitters (and crocheters): I will be collecting the hats and scarves we have made for our unhoused citizens. Any of you who want to take them over to the Union Gospel Mission with me on Monday are welcome. And how are you doing with the baby blankets for the women’s shelter?

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 4d

So, uh, why do you think we can’t enact such policies?

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 5d

“Tomorrow never comes.”

Chief Vitalstatistix

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 5d

The existence of billionaires is shameful.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 5d

Deliberately, at firehose velocity.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 7d

He’s not the worst of the worst, but he has certainly been consistently terrible since the Paleozoic.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 8d

My kid did a piano concert here last night in the old hometown and it was SO GOOD.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 8d

He is such a gem and your family should be so proud.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 9d

😂

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 9d

My Medigap (Part G) policy is going up some 30% next year and Part B is going up 11.6%. A worrying trend.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 12d

It’s a firehose of lies and you can’t make headway in a torrent.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 13d

Makes me think of the guy in Catch-22 who liked being in the hospital because time absolutely crawled by and it made him feel like life was longer.

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent book called “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality” by Nobel-prizewinning Venki Ramakrishnan; says something about tech bros like this: “when they were young they wanted to be rich, now they’re rich and want to be young.”

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 14d

Also Sikhs, another nonwhite group.

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 14d

If we really do have an ugly war someday I fear that a hostile power will sink an aircraft carrier as an example of misplaced faith in a dated technology. Thousands would die.

So glad my son is no longer in the Navy.

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 14d

When my son was in the Navy, he said the nuclear techs on carriers got away with not meeting physical fitness requirements because they were so essential.

A modern military needs brains as much or probably more as brawn. Hegseth clearly wants women out of the military. Won’t end well.

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 18d

How the hell are we going to survive all this?

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 19d

Vaccines are so good!

📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 20d

a woman in a red dress with a necklace says " have you no decency "

ALT: a woman in a red dress with a necklace says " have you no decency "

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📚Orygoon🚲 @orygoon.bsky.social · 21d

I remember when the Trump administration loudly admired the Milei “chainsaw” tactics in Argentina while DOGE was ransacking our civil service. It was supposed to be a brilliant economic strategy.

Who will bail us out if our economy collapses?