John Richmond
@johnprichmond.bsky.social
Dad, Social worker, co-owner: food co-op, credit union, fc united football club
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Throwback from 2014. You know, when the dangerous dark fellow was in charge.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Throwback from 2014. You know, when the dangerous dark fellow was in charge.
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What do you do when your board never asks for enough money to keep academic quality--& has no plan ever to ask for enough money? A new post at the Remaking blog on responding to the hypernormalization of bad university budgets, with U California as Exhibit A utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
Liner Note 43. Caring for Austerity
UC Berkeley on May 29, 2024 Every meeting tells a story as Rod Stewart once sang, more or less. What stories have UC’s Office of the...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What do you do when your board never asks for enough money to keep academic quality--& has no plan ever to ask for enough money? A new post at the Remaking blog on responding to the hypernormalization of bad university budgets, with U California as Exhibit A utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...
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The way I see it, our culture could handle the influx of nihilism if it also had not collapsed into a general relativism. If truth doesn’t exist, then evil men cannot be held accountable. I see our crisis originating not in politics, but in the death of truth.
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The way I see it, our culture could handle the influx of nihilism if it also had not collapsed into a general relativism. If truth doesn’t exist, then evil men cannot be held accountable. I see our crisis originating not in politics, but in the death of truth.
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Here's to good writing, which makes life more liveable. Many found in Stevenson’s work, particularly his essays, “hope to live and courage to die.” That's a life well lived. #authors
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Here's to good writing, which makes life more liveable. Many found in Stevenson’s work, particularly his essays, “hope to live and courage to die.” That's a life well lived. #authors
lithub.com/robert-louis...
lithub.com/robert-louis...
Damn good thing Liberals and Conservatives privatized air travel because it's been clear blue sky's ever since
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WestJet and Air Transat tell passengers to stop recording on their phones – even though it’s legal | CBC News
Jason Huang says a WestJet employee grabbed his phone and threatened to deny him boarding when he began recording his conversation during airport check-in. Legal expert say passengers are within their...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Damn good thing Liberals and Conservatives privatized air travel because it's been clear blue sky's ever since
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I'm generally against hoarding, but a well-stocked library is nice!
What do ya' have in yer library, poozers?
(Art sampled from "Speed Force" Vol. 2 #4 by Jarrett Williams, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Andrew Dalhouse, Simon Bowland, Chris Rosa, and Paul Kaminski. Edits: Dialogue.)
What do ya' have in yer library, poozers?
(Art sampled from "Speed Force" Vol. 2 #4 by Jarrett Williams, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Andrew Dalhouse, Simon Bowland, Chris Rosa, and Paul Kaminski. Edits: Dialogue.)
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I'm generally against hoarding, but a well-stocked library is nice!
What do ya' have in yer library, poozers?
(Art sampled from "Speed Force" Vol. 2 #4 by Jarrett Williams, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Andrew Dalhouse, Simon Bowland, Chris Rosa, and Paul Kaminski. Edits: Dialogue.)
What do ya' have in yer library, poozers?
(Art sampled from "Speed Force" Vol. 2 #4 by Jarrett Williams, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Andrew Dalhouse, Simon Bowland, Chris Rosa, and Paul Kaminski. Edits: Dialogue.)
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I have a simple rule for dating
If you can't name what song you had on your myspace page you are either too young or too old for me.
If you can't name what song you had on your myspace page you are either too young or too old for me.
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I have a simple rule for dating
If you can't name what song you had on your myspace page you are either too young or too old for me.
If you can't name what song you had on your myspace page you are either too young or too old for me.
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The European planemaker said fixes have been delivered to a “vast majority” of the nearly 6,000 A320 planes that were impacted by a technical glitch caused by “intense solar radiation.”
Airbus Stock Nosedives As Planemaker Shares Update On Major A320 Glitch
The European planemaker said fixes have been delivered to a “vast majority” of the nearly 6,000 A320 planes that were impacted by a technical glitch caused by “intense solar radiation.”
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December 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The European planemaker said fixes have been delivered to a “vast majority” of the nearly 6,000 A320 planes that were impacted by a technical glitch caused by “intense solar radiation.”
One of the first songs I learned in guitar class
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
One of the first songs I learned in guitar class
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Everyone should hug like this Koala in Brisbane hugs. Absolute beauty at Whites Hill Reserve, Brisbane. Amazing to have a healthy population in a relatively small suburban park.
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Everyone should hug like this Koala in Brisbane hugs. Absolute beauty at Whites Hill Reserve, Brisbane. Amazing to have a healthy population in a relatively small suburban park.
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Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics
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Data Walks Reveal Residents' Mixed Feelings on Privacy
How do Long Beach residents feel about data collection in their city? Gwen Shaffer's data walks reveal surprising insights.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics
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Idaho seems to be trying to compete with Texas for “most despicable”. They don’t want to lose their spot in the history books. #idaho www.foxnews.com/media/idaho-...
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Idaho seems to be trying to compete with Texas for “most despicable”. They don’t want to lose their spot in the history books. #idaho www.foxnews.com/media/idaho-...
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⚕️ Despite endeavours to broaden awareness and knowledge of #HIV and its impacts on human health since its discovery in 1981, misinformation on the disease is widespread in #France.
On World AIDS Day, Elitsa Gadeva takes a closer look in our #PressReview ⤵️
On World AIDS Day, Elitsa Gadeva takes a closer look in our #PressReview ⤵️
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
⚕️ Despite endeavours to broaden awareness and knowledge of #HIV and its impacts on human health since its discovery in 1981, misinformation on the disease is widespread in #France.
On World AIDS Day, Elitsa Gadeva takes a closer look in our #PressReview ⤵️
On World AIDS Day, Elitsa Gadeva takes a closer look in our #PressReview ⤵️
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Read @brittnymejia.bsky.social's first-person dispatch from the fields as she reports on the undocumented workers who plan to keep working despite the ongoing immigration raids. @latimes.com
Hard lives in California's fields: 'The American dream eats us alive'
Immigrant farmworkers toil, season after season, in jobs that most Americans wouldn't endure for a week. It's a rough life that takes a heavy toll.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Read @brittnymejia.bsky.social's first-person dispatch from the fields as she reports on the undocumented workers who plan to keep working despite the ongoing immigration raids. @latimes.com
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Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
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Canadian Snake oil grifter. When US medical coverage stopped, so did her health care.
Canadian Snake oil grifter. When US medical coverage stopped, so did her health care.
American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility | CBC News
A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say tha...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Canadian Snake oil grifter. When US medical coverage stopped, so did her health care.
Canadian Snake oil grifter. When US medical coverage stopped, so did her health care.
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ALBERTA BEWARE
I can’t believe this place is still open and grifting desperate people. I first misread private as “pirate” and that’s about right.
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I can’t believe this place is still open and grifting desperate people. I first misread private as “pirate” and that’s about right.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility | CBC News
A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say tha...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
ALBERTA BEWARE
I can’t believe this place is still open and grifting desperate people. I first misread private as “pirate” and that’s about right.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I can’t believe this place is still open and grifting desperate people. I first misread private as “pirate” and that’s about right.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I used to think that our current period in the geologic record would be marked by plastic, but now I wonder if it's PFAS.
The cancer-causing forever chemical polluting most UK rivers
TFA has also been found in rivers across the globe
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December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I used to think that our current period in the geologic record would be marked by plastic, but now I wonder if it's PFAS.
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Canadian author Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery was born #OTD in 1874.
Best known for a series of novels beginning with 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (1908). The book was an immediate success. Montgomery was famous in her lifetime & had an international following.
lmmontgomery.ca #fiction #booksky #literature
Best known for a series of novels beginning with 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (1908). The book was an immediate success. Montgomery was famous in her lifetime & had an international following.
lmmontgomery.ca #fiction #booksky #literature
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Canadian author Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery was born #OTD in 1874.
Best known for a series of novels beginning with 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (1908). The book was an immediate success. Montgomery was famous in her lifetime & had an international following.
lmmontgomery.ca #fiction #booksky #literature
Best known for a series of novels beginning with 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (1908). The book was an immediate success. Montgomery was famous in her lifetime & had an international following.
lmmontgomery.ca #fiction #booksky #literature
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A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.
It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (150.58387, 2.47882).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (150.58387, 2.47882).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.
It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (150.58387, 2.47882).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (150.58387, 2.47882).
49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.