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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 26m

One of the reasons I want to hold onto my 2012 car as long as possible.

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 4h

I sometimes think of how the robber barons of the past, awful as they were, (for egotistical, self interested reasons) left us a legacy of park, museums, and other institutions that many enjoy today.

Today’s tech bros build bunkers, while striving to bankrupt and undermine all our institutions.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5h

Here are some you can find in the US

www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

www.fs.usda.gov

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5h

It’s always a special treat when I find these kinds of plants while in the woods.

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 7h

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

www.science.org

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5h

The election of Trump gave permission for the worst of these people to come out of the shadows and be openly racist.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5h

I know that Kill came from the Dutch word for creek or river. So isn’t the Kill River part redundant?

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5h

Johnson would like you to know that he believes that assaulting one girlfriend, and getting a restraining order by a second girlfriend for threatening her, are not serious issues.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 17h

He holds a gun like someone who learned to hold a gun by watching movies.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 22h

I also remember when the cops wanted to arrest him. But Ed Martin (as acting US Attorney) refused to sign the arrest warrant.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 1d

I swear, that’s part of his obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize. He probably thinks he can use it to bargain his way to Heaven. Instead of seeking real repentance, he’s looking for justification for all the suffering he is causing.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 1d

They probably don’t. Coffee is likely a loss leader for them. people come in for coffee, then end up buying something else that is more profitable for them.

Also, I doubt McDonald’s is buying the best beans.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old enough to remember when they had to change engines in New Haven (Boston to New York) because only a portion of the line was electrified. I’m imagining that during a zombie outbreak.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 2d

Which always makes me think of this @xkcd.com

THAT FOOD MADE ME NAUSEOUS.
NO, THE FOOD WAS NAUSEOUS.
IT MADE YOU NAUSEATED.
COME ON, YOU'RE JUST BEGGING THE QUESTION.
I ANNOY PEOPLE ON ALL SIDES BY USING
"BEG THE QUESTION" TO MEAN "FIGHT A LOSING BATTLE AGAINST CHANGING USAGE.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just a phrase that should be abandoned altogether. The “correct” usage of it is a poor translation of Latin, from a phrase that was a poor translation of Greek.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 2d

There was some recent effort to make an American remake of Train to Busan (Last Train to New York). But I just cant imagine that movie being remade on our Amtrak trains.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 2d

I’d like to ask Vance what services he’s performing where he’s getting paid 10s of thousands of dollars in cash, given to him in a paper bag, since he thinks this is a normal, regular occurrence.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 3d

It seems to me it reappeared in the Northeast US after the forests returned, followed by animals the animals that made home in the forests. I never worried about Lyme when I was a kid. But I also never saw deer when I was a kid. And now they are everywhere, along with other creatures.

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 3d

That one about Lyme has been kicking around for decades, and occasionally rears its head. But never use to hear it from people in the govt.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 3d

Is double defeat still a thing in epee?

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 3d

It's wild, and nauseating, that this is becoming a talking point on the right

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 4d

Emerita was part of her title, not her name. Melissa Hortman was a former house speaker.

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 4d

I honestly trying to remember the Chief of Staff‘s name right now

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5d

Devolving

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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5d

I sometimes think, who could possibly be fooled by posts like the one in the screenshot?

Then I remember, there’s a large number of people that want to be fooled.

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 5d

Once again, as I listen to to these clowns shouting that the Nobel Peace Prize should have gone to Trump, I am reminded of this passage from Tacitus:

bsky.app/profile/seos...

seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · Feb 5

Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. (1/2)

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