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Dave
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Photography at @flowstateneworleans and this is for other things. Former Latin American historian. Opinionated. Hates Nazis and not just the Illinois ones.
#nolasky
I know he didn't mean this the way it reads to me, but it feels almost like Kiffin already knows he's destined to be fired from this school.
"After a lot of prayer and time spent with family, I made the difficult decision to accept the head coaching position at LSU."
-Lane Kiffin
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
1/2. I have the kind of brain that whispers things at me like "You could solve your cargo capacity problem by selling your 2018 car that you love and replacing it with a 15 year old supercharged Jaguar 2+2 convertible. After all, they're both RWD convertibles and this one has a V8!"
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I went to an "ojos" training tonight hosted by New Orleans DSA and Union Migrante and thought I'd pass on new things I learned:

1. Low/old info ICE sighting posts are wreaking havoc on immigrant communities. Basically, incomplete or old info is actively harmful (even if ppl have good intentions)
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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With 4 days of data to go, November, 2025, will likely end up as the third warmest November on record and third warmest November in the last 120,000+ years.

November will also mark the second consecutive month breaking 1.5°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.

Stay tuned!
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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what if instead of having Angel Trees and Sub for Santa we had affordable housing and paid people a living wage? 🎄
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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fuck you

the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased

i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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anyone know how to bust someone out of jail for one last job before retirement
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.

How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage

Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This big man won’t allow responses from dirty little people like me nor actually respond to what I actually said, but he’s happy to send his sycophants in my direction.
Yes, if it's something that James Carville and I have in common, it's that we both watched Fox over the past few years and totally absorbed its message.
(Another person who clearly didn't read the article.)
These people uncritically accepted the Fox News, right wing narrative around what constituted "woke" and now they're out here lecturing us on something they either intentionally misunderstood or never understood in the first place.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Random masked strangers have no right to demand your ID. Let them prove they have a right to ask for it before you show them jack.
Don’t show anyone claiming to be ICE any identification unless they show you theirs. And even then, tell them to go fuck themselves. Do not answer them and do not acknowledge them when they speak to you. Unless you see a warrant or an ID, that’s nobody.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
These people uncritically accepted the Fox News, right wing narrative around what constituted "woke" and now they're out here lecturing us on something they either intentionally misunderstood or never understood in the first place.
A lot of people are going to love that Carville said this. (They will not love him saying that the performative moral preening has to go.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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This thread produces a lot of branches with a lot going on in them
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.

When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Scout Traveler is an offroad EV w/ a solid axle, axle mounted electric motors, 150 miles range and a gas generator. You could drive it as an EV 95% or more of the time, only filling up to go on long road trips.

New cars aren't a thing I'm likely to ever buy again, but I hope it succeeds big.
2027 Scout Traveler First Look: A Proper 4x4 Off-Roader?!
The first of Volkswagen's resurrected Scout models get body-on-frame construction, a live rear axle, and tons of capability.
www.motortrend.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Does he have the self awareness not to run again in 4 years or do we get a tied senate at some point where he switches parties trying to keep his seat? It's clear that his former base rightly despises him.
#schadenfreude #fetterman
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.

All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The first thing @bsky.app tells you to do when you start a new account is follow 10 accounts. Before I'd even completed that, @safety.bsky.app had labeled my account as spam. I've appealed. Can @support.bsky.team help me? I hadn't even posted anything yet when I was labeled spam.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For years, I've just bulk forwarded all email from my 25 year old policywank.com I haven't posted there in 3 years or done anything with it. May eventually change that. Probably won't. 😀 But I did go to the trouble of updating the mx records and confg today to connect it to my proton account.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Well, start an account to just make text posts, focus the old one on photography, start following friends, and immediately get labeled as a "spam account" by @safety.bsky.app's moderation. lol. Maybe I won't be able to get off Meta platforms after all.
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@andmilestogo.bsky.social You should write something here. I'll try to protect you from your future self, but no guarantees. :)
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM