Scott Millen
@thescottmillen.bsky.social
You shall not pass.
Pinned
Can't enjoy haiku
Until I do the counting
Trust but verify
Until I do the counting
Trust but verify
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Here's a still of today's sunrise behind a moisture layer of which I don't know what it's called and blow a cloud layer which created these unique conditions and allowed me to see sun spots with my naked eye. #Nofilter, as they say.
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Here's a still of today's sunrise behind a moisture layer of which I don't know what it's called and blow a cloud layer which created these unique conditions and allowed me to see sun spots with my naked eye. #Nofilter, as they say.
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"Go Down Posting" - The White House
I don’t think the administration’s strategy of getting the most popular entertainers today to loudly denounce their evil agenda as a way to boost views on their crimes against humanity is actually going to work out the way they think
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Go Down Posting" - The White House
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I don't like to focus on immigrants defined solely by their labor, but since it's Black Friday/Cyber Monday/WhateverThisWeekIs millions of people in America don't get their little packages without the Minnesota Somali community.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I don't like to focus on immigrants defined solely by their labor, but since it's Black Friday/Cyber Monday/WhateverThisWeekIs millions of people in America don't get their little packages without the Minnesota Somali community.
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This morning, after 4 years of chasing them down, I got 2 in flight female bufflehead videos. I thought I got THE VIDEOS. I didn't. Of the 1800 or so frames between the two videos only these couple were useful, BUT the advantage of having so few usable frames is we can make a gif!
Still a W. 🪶
Still a W. 🪶
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This morning, after 4 years of chasing them down, I got 2 in flight female bufflehead videos. I thought I got THE VIDEOS. I didn't. Of the 1800 or so frames between the two videos only these couple were useful, BUT the advantage of having so few usable frames is we can make a gif!
Still a W. 🪶
Still a W. 🪶
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ICE/CBP is gonna regret building so many cells.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
ICE/CBP is gonna regret building so many cells.
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I'm a total bufflehead groupie.
Thank you for teaching me a new bird today. At first this morning I thought you were referring to yourself as a bufflehead, like the bird is called a buffle and you are a groupie lol
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm a total bufflehead groupie.
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Headline writer, where you been?
Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Billions of dollars in tax credits under the Affordable Care Act are poised to expire at the end of the year. Lawmakers in both parties say they're nowhere close to a deal to renew them.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Headline writer, where you been?
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Is this one of those "cooler rotated 90°" pictures? 🪶
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Is this one of those "cooler rotated 90°" pictures? 🪶
You know, we don't hear much about heroin chic models anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
You know, we don't hear much about heroin chic models anymore.
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Pseudo reflection. Confused pelican gives up on whether the gull is two gulls or it's just a reflection. Ha!
#Birdoftheday #reflection #pelican #gull #eastcoastkin
#Birdoftheday #reflection #pelican #gull #eastcoastkin
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Pseudo reflection. Confused pelican gives up on whether the gull is two gulls or it's just a reflection. Ha!
#Birdoftheday #reflection #pelican #gull #eastcoastkin
#Birdoftheday #reflection #pelican #gull #eastcoastkin
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Nobody should expect you to read everything, especially not everything that is thematically or technically difficult.
Of course I will gladly talk with you about those books. As shared experiences, they have value, and...
They have characters other readers want you to meet.
You're invited 💌📚
Of course I will gladly talk with you about those books. As shared experiences, they have value, and...
They have characters other readers want you to meet.
You're invited 💌📚
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Nobody should expect you to read everything, especially not everything that is thematically or technically difficult.
Of course I will gladly talk with you about those books. As shared experiences, they have value, and...
They have characters other readers want you to meet.
You're invited 💌📚
Of course I will gladly talk with you about those books. As shared experiences, they have value, and...
They have characters other readers want you to meet.
You're invited 💌📚
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Cattle rustling is one of those things like high seas piracy or athletes getting intimidated by gamblers: it's a real problem, it's a serious problem for the people dealing with it, but it sounds slightly silly and funny to the rest of us because of the fiction tropes.
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Cattle rustling is one of those things like high seas piracy or athletes getting intimidated by gamblers: it's a real problem, it's a serious problem for the people dealing with it, but it sounds slightly silly and funny to the rest of us because of the fiction tropes.
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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In honour of Jane Austen's upcoming birthday, I made one of her favourite dishes: cheese toast.
My version: egg, dijon mustard, cheddar, Stilton, homemade bread
My version: egg, dijon mustard, cheddar, Stilton, homemade bread
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In honour of Jane Austen's upcoming birthday, I made one of her favourite dishes: cheese toast.
My version: egg, dijon mustard, cheddar, Stilton, homemade bread
My version: egg, dijon mustard, cheddar, Stilton, homemade bread
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I don’t really think I’ve enumerated the logic behind my “gotta persuade and teach” ideology, which I *know* sounds naive and pollyannish, no need to remind me. But this post is a significant part of my reasoning: the speed of info is changing, and we simply need stronger bricks to build new arches!
The period from roughly the telegraph to the smartphone, during which it was possible to disseminate information near universally but cumbersome enough that you needed to be a large institutional actor to do so, turns out to have been a fairly brief and weird historical bubble.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I don’t really think I’ve enumerated the logic behind my “gotta persuade and teach” ideology, which I *know* sounds naive and pollyannish, no need to remind me. But this post is a significant part of my reasoning: the speed of info is changing, and we simply need stronger bricks to build new arches!
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Dear @pnh.nielsenhayden.com and @malf.bsky.social, I am writing feverishly on the novel but am encountering some technical difficulties, I hope to have them resolved soon
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dear @pnh.nielsenhayden.com and @malf.bsky.social, I am writing feverishly on the novel but am encountering some technical difficulties, I hope to have them resolved soon
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I just got done writing a country Christmas tune “If You Can Put Up the Tree, Why Won't You Put Up with Me?”
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I just got done writing a country Christmas tune “If You Can Put Up the Tree, Why Won't You Put Up with Me?”
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Dance like no one is watching, because no one is, ya fucken loser.
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Dance like no one is watching, because no one is, ya fucken loser.
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me: omg goth bath bombs
santa: that’s charcoal
santa: that’s charcoal
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
me: omg goth bath bombs
santa: that’s charcoal
santa: that’s charcoal
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This season of America really sucks.
August 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This season of America really sucks.
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Nevir shal Ich give thee up
Nevir shal Ich let thee doun
Nevir shal Ich runne arounde
and go from thee
Nevir shal Ich make thee to crye
Nevir shal Ich 'farewell' sigh
Nevir speke falsehood
And cause thee sorrowe
Nevir shal Ich let thee doun
Nevir shal Ich runne arounde
and go from thee
Nevir shal Ich make thee to crye
Nevir shal Ich 'farewell' sigh
Nevir speke falsehood
And cause thee sorrowe
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Nevir shal Ich give thee up
Nevir shal Ich let thee doun
Nevir shal Ich runne arounde
and go from thee
Nevir shal Ich make thee to crye
Nevir shal Ich 'farewell' sigh
Nevir speke falsehood
And cause thee sorrowe
Nevir shal Ich let thee doun
Nevir shal Ich runne arounde
and go from thee
Nevir shal Ich make thee to crye
Nevir shal Ich 'farewell' sigh
Nevir speke falsehood
And cause thee sorrowe
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Sometimes people ask me, they say: "Pam, from where do you get all of this undeniable sex appeal?" And you know what I tells them?
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sometimes people ask me, they say: "Pam, from where do you get all of this undeniable sex appeal?" And you know what I tells them?
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Starbucks workers and a spongebob meme on a picket line with Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani really feels like we've hit a new tier.
Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov for joining us on the picket line today in Brooklyn. Your support means the world to us, and makes it clear: This fight isn't just about coffee. It's about dignity, fair wages, better hours and an end to union busting. #NoContractNoCoffee
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Starbucks workers and a spongebob meme on a picket line with Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani really feels like we've hit a new tier.
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Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
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Packing when you're older means an impressive variety of black pants.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Packing when you're older means an impressive variety of black pants.