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Joshfrai
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Just sitting here with a big bowl of popcorn.
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While the sunset is happening behind you.

#BlueSkyMonday #photography #seascape
Photo of the eastern sky just before sunset, shot over a low sea grass-covered dune, a thin strip of sand beach and a wedge of calm ocean with a small wave breaking in the shore. The sky has rough bands of blue, pale pink, white and blue-gray that remind me of the trans pride flag.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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And miles to go.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #LandscapePhotography #mountains
Panoramic image of of a mountain range, with a fir-covered ridge in the foreground on the left and rows of smaller silhouetted green and blue mountains receding off into the distance, all under a sky completely shrouded in a sheet of a clouds in various shades of gray.
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Guy’s got a point.
Excerpt from essay: And not only are his metaphors god, his writing style is truly like no other. He constantly breaks all kinds of style rules, his sentences are endless, and he regularly repeats sentences several times within a chapter, sometimes up to 10 times.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Chutzpah.
Excerpt from article: "Bringing civility back, I think, enhances the travel experience for everybody," Mr. Duffy said in a Fox News Business appearance, adding, "Let's maybe go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport." The announcement came on the heels of Mr. Duffy's decision last week to scrap a proposal that would have required airlines to compensate passengers for significant travel disruptions within carriers' control. The move was the Transportation Department's latest attempt to roll back passenger protections and regulations geared toward making airlines accountable for improving customer service.
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I finally realized why this image caught my eye and it's because I'm old enough to have buried memories of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbion...
thick black line drawing of a seven-headed hydra-like cobra symbol on a red-orange field
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Coming and going.

#Scape #LandscapePhotography #sunset
Photo of the sun setting behind a small pier and fishing boat that are mostly silhouetted, with a row of houses behind them across a barely visible narrow channel. The sky along the horizon is covered in clouds - an orange glow in the middle and dark gray on the sides. Above that, most of the image is filled with a slate blue sky filled with wispy white clouds and criss-crossed by contrails.
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Rhododendron.

#FridayFlower #FloweringFriday #FlowersOnFriday #floralFriday

#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #macrophotography
Extreme closeup of a light purple rhododendron blossomed, with a deep red pattern of geometric shapes dominating the large upper petal; a small candy apple red aphid is trying to look inconspicuous along the right edge of the pattern. An array of random light purple filaments emerge from the center of the blossom, near the bottom of the image, topped by silvery-bronze anther.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Oh, no reason.
Gizmodo article RSS feed summary: Could We Actually Launch a Supervillain Into the Sun?
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Still image from video of Chris Murphy talking directly to camera, with caption: The President of the United States Still image from video of Chris Murphy talking directly to camera, with caption: just called for members of Congress to be executed. Still image from video of Chris Murphy talking directly to camera, with caption: maybe it's time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Don’t stop.
Newspaper article and headline: How one Durham daycare responded when it saw the Border Patrol parked outside Newspaper article and headline: Wake school board member compares U.S. immigration raids to 'domestic terrorism' Newspaper oped and headline: A small army is ready to smartly resist the Border Patrol in Raleigh
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This is the way.
Image of a Star Wars stormtrooper action figure with an oversized gun mounted on their shoulder
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Stand up, fight back.
Newspaper front page dominated by 3 articles: Triangle residents try to help neighbors amid arrests Hundreds protest Border Patrol in downtown Raleigh Detainees from Triangle immigration sweep in county jail
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Still dead.
New York Times article RSS summary: Franco Died 50 Years Ago, but He's Still Winning New Fans in Spain Young Spaniards are increasingly drawn to the dictator Francisco Franco. So the government is designing apps, games and T-shirts to promote democracy.
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

#HumansOfBlueSky #photography #seascape
Photo with a small triangle of fog-shrouded beach in the bottom left corner, with dark brown water breaking on the damp sand. There are two small figures, one sitting in a low beach chair with his back to the camera, one standing looking out to sea, monitoring 3 fishing poles standing in the sand. Most of the photo is filled with a wall of soft gray misty sky, lightening almost imperceptibly toward the top right corner.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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November 19, 2025, United States of America
Newspaper article headline: Federal agents make several arrests in Wake, Durham counties And large photo of masked ICE agents Newspaper article headline: Here's what to do if Border Patrol comes to your home or workplace in Raleigh With large photo of masked ICE agent herding people into a van and a long article. Newspaper page dominated by 3 articles with these headlines: Border Patrol is in Raleigh. Know your rights if you get stopped Border Patrol is coming to Raleigh. Will it cause Wake students to stay home? Is it legal to film Border Patrol agents in Raleigh? Here's NC law Newspaper article with the headline: Triangle grocery stores offering free delivery to protect immigrant communities
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Ya think?
New York Times RSS article summary: Anxiety Over Trump's Crackdown Alters Life for Many Immigrants, Poll Finds Months into the Trump deportation campaign, one-third of noncitizens, including about 60 percent of undocumented immigrants, say they are avoiding...
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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"You don't have to embarrass our guest."
Photo of Donald Trump berating Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, with smarmy JD Vance sitting and watching.
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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One minute later, with a little more blue.

#BlueSkyMonday #photography #LandscapePhotography #seascape
Vertical photo of a sunrise over darkened dunes covered with scattered sea grass, cutting across the image at a shallow angle from left to right about a third of the way up, in front of a narrow knife blade of dark steely grey ocean. At the horizon is a line of bright orange sky, which fades to yellow, which, a little below the middle of the image, gradually transitions to a slate blue, then dark blue closer to the top, with a crescent moon hanging near the top right corner.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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How does a person stay sane in a world where facts have no meaning and a good chunk of the population truly believes down is up?
2 panels from Bizarro Superman comics. In one, Superman is being judged by a jury of his Bizarro "peers": "Us find the defendant, Superman, guilty! Us order court to change you into a Bizarro like us." Superman, in kryptonite handcuffs, thinks "There is no escape! I'm doomed to spend the rest of my life on this mad world!" In the other. Bizarro Superman holds up a kryptonite boulder and shines its ray on Superman, saying "Kryptonite ray kills you, but not harm Bizarro! Nothing can hurt Bizarro! I am a real Superman!" Superman, in pain and trying to hold himself up, thinks "He's right ... no power on Earth can stop that super-creature!"
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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From Marc Maron to David Lee Roth to The Minutemen to Pavement to Elvis to Kurt Cobain to this incendiary brilliant conclusion. Short read, worth every second.

theparanoidstyle.substack.com/p/got-struck...
From The Paranoid Style essay: I reject the idea that Todd Snider needed to die at the age of 59, after being denied health care he was desperately seeking. I reject the idea that the glib tech-barons and toothless would-be regulators who have celebrated as tens of millions in artists' revenues were illegally stripped away bear no responsibility in this narrative. I know what it means to not get that $250 royalty check, seventeen weeks after it was supposed to arrive. Sometimes it's just enough to get the appointment you need. Sometimes it's too late. Always a man of action, Todd stopped breathin' for us now.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The rising.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #LandscapePhotography #seascape
Minimalist photo of a sunrise over darkened dunes covered with scattered sea grass, cutting across the bottom of the image at a shallow angle from lower left almost down to the right corner, in front of a dark steely grey ocean. At the horizon is a line of bright orange sky, which fades to yellow, which near the middle of the image gradually turns a slate blue, with faint white wispy clouds throughout.
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Reflectively #Bright

#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #UrbanGaze
Photo of a wall of reflective yellow, orange, pink and purple metal panels; distorted trees and a building are visible along the bottom, with clouds visible along the right side.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Sunflower.

#FridayFlower #FloweringFriday #FlowersOnFriday #floralFriday

#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #macrophotography
Extreme closeup of a sunflower blossom, with a large dome-shaped array of tiny dark disk florets topped by past-their-prime yellow stamen and anther centered near the bottom of the image, surrounded by softly textured and shadowed yellow petals
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Huh, go figure; it *is* possible to actual influence public opinion rather than just follow it. Someone alert the Dem consultant class.

digbysblog.net/2025/11/13/t...
Excerpt from blog post: As Trump and Republicans were celebrating their great win last summer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, was testing the ground to see how his state might do the same to offset what Texas had done. According to POLITICO, Newsom's proposal was first conceived as a bluff to try to dissuade Texas legislators from going through with their plan. But once it was a fait accompli, Newsom's administration immediately started looking at how California voters would receive the plan — and it wasn't good. The first internal polling four months ago showed that only 38% supported it. Like the Texas Democrats, Newsom decided to go ahead and call a special election, and then set out to sell the idea. On Nov. 4, after four months of elevating the issue, Prop 50 passed with nearly 65% of California voters in favor. The risk paid off — California's new map will effectively cancel out the five seats Texas added, and instead of being engineered in a backroom, it was done with the explicit approval of Californians.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM