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In weakness, we create distinctions, then deem that our puny boundaries are things which we perceive, and not which we have made. -- Wordsworth

"I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure" -- Roscoe Pertwee
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artprinteditions.bsky.social
Rain, by Vincent van Gogh
Rain, by Vincent van Gogh
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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billamend.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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voxrox.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay
#FestiveDailyRobin
#EastCoastKin
( #QuietMoments )
Peaceful captures of birds.

A Robin spotted in Seattle on 12/14/25 in it's moment of Zen. 😉

#Birds #Wildlife
#Robins #Seattle
#Birdwatching
#WestCoastKin
#Photography
#ArtOfPhotography
A color photo of a single Robin perched on a branch surrounded by berries. It's facing right & appears content, as it's not eating, flying or preening. It's deep in thought trying to create "concepts of a plan" to create world peace. It's in a quiet moment it's calm, after meditating without a yoga mat. 📷 Theresa Arbow-O'Connor, in her yard in Seattle, on 12/14/25.
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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tigerfan519.bsky.social
What an amazing analogy of life under Trump!
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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georgethebaker.bsky.social
www.livescience.com/space/glitte...

Wow #jameswebb #astronomy
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social
Dude did a minute long riff on his wife's underwear, but when your job as a member of the mainstream media is sane washing the incoherent ramblings of a guy who keeps the lights on in your building, the public must be told he's just doing normal President stuff🙃
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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thestarshipentity.bsky.social
Solstice on a Spinning Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Can you tell that today is a solstice by the tilt of the Earth? Yes. At a solstice, the Earth's terminator -- the dividing line between night and day -- is tilted the most.
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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jasoncolavito.bsky.social
Irving Finkel appeared on Lex Fridman's podcast and offered a "controversial" claim that a plaquette from Göbekli Tepe is evidence of writing that archaeologists are refusing to acknowledge. It turns out he's startlingly ignorant of the academic literature. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/irving-...
Irving Finkel Claims Göbekli Tepe Plaquette Is Early Evidence of a Writing System
​Last week, Irving Finkel, the British Museum Assyriologist who made headlines in 2014 when he discovered a cuneiform text describing the Mesopotamian version of Noah’s Ark as round, appeared on...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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matthewpfabwx.bsky.social
#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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gregolear.bsky.social
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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terrymooreart.bsky.social
the Strangers In Paradise gang as kids. the guitar player is Griffin, the rock star in the story. Underwear boy is yours truly who was minding his own business when Katchoo ran past and did that for no reason whatsoever. The bad climber is Freddie and I think you can recognize the rest.
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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gkc62.bsky.social
Another photo from Whinlatter Forest, near Braithwaite, Cumbria.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ClassicMono
#Landscaoe
#Treescape
#EastCoastKin #ECK
#Cumbria #Whinlatter
#Olympus #E-M1ii
#photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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terrymooreart.bsky.social
When only the dress will beam up.
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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terrymooreart.bsky.social
Sorry for the blast but I have to ram your feed with a train of posts to have even a ghost of a chance of you seeing just one of them. F**king algorithm & ads & suggested posts are the enemy between us and I have to cross that battlefield every day just to say hi. (Insert more angry cuss words here)
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.

#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
NY times headline reading The War on 'Wokeness' Comes to the U.S. Mint New coins for America's 250th anniversary were unveiled. They don't include planned designs featuring abolition, women's suffrage and the civil rights movement.
December 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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scalzi.com
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):

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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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assisiproject.com
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. It is the only resort by which incompetent men can thrive. The bully, the brute, the dictator." #IsaacAsimov
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM