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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich

@solomonphotographs.bsky.social

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Photographer specializing in nature | fan of podcasts You're Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, If Books Could Kill, 5-4, and more | disabled autistic 32-year-old man | he/him | starting a business selling my photography [email protected]

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · Nov 24

Want to buy one of my photos on matte greeting cards? 8.5x11 matte, luster, or fine art sheets that you can frame in 11x14 frames that have mat openings for 8x10 works? Email me with your request!

#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #animal #bird #sanibel #florida #swfl #beach

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Taylor Swift is a Nazi! I don't know! But it seemed doubtful to me. That doesn't mean I'm "desperate to defend her." That means I have healthy skepticism.

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible that I got blocked just for thinking maybe it's not correct that Taylor Swift is selling Nazi jewelry. I didn't know the lightning bolt was the symbol of the SS or that the 8-pointed star was a symbol of the Order of the German Eagle. People are so quick to judge!

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

Also, Whitney Cummings was not a good person before this. I'm not surprised she performed at that festival.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 3d

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

Coincidences do exist. Not everything that has 2 eights in it is Nazi imagery unless there's something about lightning bolts and 8-pointed stars specifically that is Nazi.

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

How do you know? It could just be a necklace and not a Nazi necklace.

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 2d

So you think Taylor Swift is a Nazi?

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 5d

Wild episode I woke up listening to after my podcast player app played the latest Executive Disorder and other episodes of It Could Happen Here!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 5d

It's fake, AI-generated. At the end, she sits down in a chair that had turned backwards. Please delete.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 5d

Is it ethical for a journalist with a Bluesky blue check to post AI generated videos of events that never happened?

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 5d

I can't see the post you're quote-posting. It says "Blocked" even if I view it logged out.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5d

if she actually feels the genocide is bad and that Biden's policies were terrible and inhumane, as she says in the book, you think she'd have some sympathy for protestors who were were targeted brutally under Biden, and even more horrifically under Trump.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

Soros conspiracy theories are antisemitic, but they aren't just about Jews. They're about politicians like this using the figure of the perfidious Jewish puppet master to explain away all progressive social change, to avoid reckoning with how unpopular their policies really are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 5d

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired

We're all going to live forever

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 5d

I'm confused by "written up." Your friend with the rare illness got written about?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 6d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 7d

WHYY did they do that?

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 7d

I'll give you my photos if you give up your support for genocide and your development of all the AI that is making the world a worse place, Google!

🇵🇸🇺🇦 Solomon Freilich @solomonphotographs.bsky.social · 7d

I've been doing some political work, and while I only played a tiny little role in this amazing project to fight back against the fascists by making a historically LGBT+ suburb of Cleveland a "sanctuary city" for trans people, I am proud of all of us who worked on this at DSA Cleveland!

Historic Lakewood Gender Freedom Policy Passes Unanimously

Despite rollbacks of LGBTQ rights & protections from the US Federal and Ohio State governments, the city of Lakewood has established itself as a model sanctuary for the state to follow.

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