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Rod Mesa

@roddio.bsky.social

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Sex: Yes. Religion: Skeptic. Politics: Dissident. Philosophy: Egalitarian. Votes: Always. #BLM - No Justice, No Peace. "Free to be you and me." Seek equality in freedom, not equality in oppression Punch all Nazis

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Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · Dec 17

Not all (fill in the blank), but the ones that (do, don't, are, aren't, whatever,) sure screw it up for the rest of us.
Don't @ me.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 4h

I'll bet.
Sounds similar to my experience as a minority activist and volunteer in the recovery community.
I burned out after a while.
Now I just fix bikes to donate to unhoused people. It might not be much, but it's one thing I can do that can really make a difference in a single person's life.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 4h

Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant
Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be/WAhlfWt25sA

Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant

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Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

The Calico Store
calico-store.co.kr/product/list...

calico-store.co.kr

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

Feel free to order a shirt for me in XL, any color. A matching hat would be nice.
Good friends, beautiful bikes and single origin flat whites
Probably Riding
youtu.be/7g_JJJZs_YY

Good friends, beautiful bikes and single origin flat whites

YouTube video by Probably Riding

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

Really? Good for him.
As I've often asserted, the nation has drifted so far to the right that the traditional progressive Republicans are all Democrats now.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

Religious minorities, too.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

This, right here.

American Fascism has always oppressed racial, ethnic, and gender minorities, and should have been stopped long before now.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 5h

The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities
Not Just Bikes
youtu.be/BXDP9WQe0io

The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yeah, right.
As if the DNC supports their more progressive candidates.
Bernie Sanders anyone?
I'd argue that single issue voting got us to where we are, but where we are is where we are regardless, and no establishment Democrat is going to save us.
It's up to us to save ourselves.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

Neither am I.
A lot of allyship is stymied by exactly your sort of snitch-tagging.
You clearly misread why I'd never vote for Newsom due to his policies against the unhoused alone.
Putting you on mute.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

He won't get mine.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

That's when he lost me, and his subsequent actions have done nothing to change this.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

Newsom's policies cleared unhoused encampments, seizing and disposing of their only personal property. Not only is this a clear violation of the property rights laid out in the 14th Amendment, but such cruelty alone is disqualifying AFAIC.
He's wrong on many things, and this issue is but one.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 6h

Name ONE pro-Trans Republican. I'll wait.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 7h

Truth:

THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS SO YOU WONT BLAME BILLIONAIRES

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Okay, how about a bicycle pic?

Old Schwinn 10-speed

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 8h

Time for a cat picture.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

Fascists gonna fasc, or, as we used to say, "Whitey gonna White" 'cause this shit is all about Whiteness.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 9h

A system that is panicked, driven by bravado, and incapable of recognizing its own physical reality is a system that will choose a dramatic suicide over a difficult recovery.

Every fucking time.

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 9h

Narrator: "That was a lie."

Current monopolies held by China -
- Gallium: >95%
- Geranium: ~80%
- Natural Graphite: ~70% (Mining) / ~90% (Refining)
- Antimony ~80%
- Tungsten ~80%
- Bismuth ~80%
- Magnesium ~85%
- REE Refining ~85%

Vance Says US Holds More Cards in Escalating China Trade Spat

Vice President JD Vance called on Beijing to “choose the path of reason” in the latest spiraling trade fight between the US and China, claiming that President Donald Trump has more leverage.

www.bloomberg.com

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

...And is more of a threat to the unhoused.
Still, better than any Republican.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 9h

this is not a walkable, affordable, livable, or climate adaptive future

but rather one that focuses most density on the most toxic and unlivable streets.

and no. EVs don't solve this. it's a geometry problem. not an engine problem.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Nov 20

i'm sorry but this is not a future that prioritizes affordable housing and climate - it's a future that prioritizes cars

look at all those paved surfaces. want to cross the street to get to a restaurant? hold on we've got an 8-lane stroad for you to cross.

connectcascadia.com/wp-content/u...

'grand boulevard' from the cascadia innovation report - showing midrise buildings adjacent a massive road w/ 6 car lanes, plus 2-lanes of transit in the middle of the road.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

Bingo.

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 9h

"Establishment Left" is an oxymoron which elide's the fact that there is no actual Left in what is essentially a center-right nation like the U.S., where it's conservative turtles all the way down.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

The establishment left’s attachment to rigid rules leaves the party out of touch and failing to meet the moment

www.theguardian.com

Rod Mesa @roddio.bsky.social · 21h

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