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MidwestExCentrist

@midwestcentrist.bsky.social

Culture and politics, some science, some music, some humor. And whatever. Photos are generally mine and unmodified. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈ally #science

created November 18, 2024

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Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social)

Let’s go

4/9/2025, 12:14:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait a minute. Detlef the baller from uw and nba in the 80s?

3/9/2025, 1:10:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I sat in the right field arcade seats when Barry Bonds was breaking records, felt the same.

3/9/2025, 12:53:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s pretty sweet

2/9/2025, 12:59:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. Clear and cool August

2/9/2025, 12:44:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just realized this is the same song as ‘season of the witch’ #musicsky Very nice tho youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0

2/9/2025, 12:43:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Twilight tricolor #photography

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1/9/2025, 4:47:52 PM | 30 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Orange #shiny #blueskyartshow #photography

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30/8/2025, 1:29:08 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Before the storm #blueskyartshow #shiny #photography

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30/8/2025, 1:26:34 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#shiny #blueskyartshow #photography

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30/8/2025, 1:20:08 PM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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#shiny #blueskyartshow #photography

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30/8/2025, 12:42:32 PM | 32 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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What have you done with our late night comedians

30/8/2025, 3:01:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bird #photography

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29/8/2025, 10:04:50 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agree completely. Could call it maladministration. Intentionally breaking what they are supposed to administer.

29/8/2025, 9:54:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everything about this administration is an embarrassment.

29/8/2025, 8:12:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sunset on a wave day #photography

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29/8/2025, 6:36:42 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A huge number of people are stabilized and functional because of psych meds. Taking them away is not going to reduce shootings.

29/8/2025, 12:54:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good book to read, house mix in the earbuds

28/8/2025, 9:55:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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doing Beach #photography

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28/8/2025, 9:53:26 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I still want to see the secret service texts from Jan 6. Juicy I betcha.

28/8/2025, 9:44:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love that she and murkowski take turns making performative no votes but never actually stopping anything.

28/8/2025, 9:40:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or in senatese, ‘failed to react’. Show me an impeachment resolution, Susie!

28/8/2025, 9:35:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) reposted

Wavefunction Collapse xkcd.com/3134/

4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.
28/8/2025, 9:27:46 PM | 3502 538 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social) reply parent

It has been pointed out, FDA are professional vaccine skeptics and many candidate vaccines are not approved due to safety or efficacy issues. People opposing approved vaccines are just anti-vaccine rather than ‘skeptics’, they are causing unnecessary illness and death. #vaccines

28/8/2025, 9:26:25 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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So well said. I hope someone is listening.

28/8/2025, 9:13:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted

Call of Duty: Waiting Around Edition.

National Guard by Smithsonian Metro stop.
28/8/2025, 9:34:54 AM | 2347 535 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bingo

28/8/2025, 7:01:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"mitochondrial challenges". What a dangerous idiot- he needs to resign.

28/8/2025, 3:02:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Repubs are killing biotech. Big gift to China, they file way more patents than US now. -- In 2012, 19% of the money that venture capitalists raised was invested in biotech. But that dropped to just 6% in 2024, before falling further to 4% in 1Q of 2025. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/t...

28/8/2025, 2:46:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And enshittenment

28/8/2025, 3:34:43 AM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun vs clouds #photography

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26/8/2025, 2:48:56 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beach #photography

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26/8/2025, 2:43:14 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sunset #photography

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26/8/2025, 2:37:34 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
25/8/2025, 10:00:14 PM | 16397 2719 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rough #photography

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25/8/2025, 7:43:16 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lineup #photography

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25/8/2025, 7:40:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sun vs cloud #photography

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25/8/2025, 7:38:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wetlands photography

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25/8/2025, 7:33:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social) reply parent

OK I get where you're coming from- good luck. Not sure why you are against preventative vaccines that would also save lives and reduce the viral load around us.

25/8/2025, 6:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very sorry to hear about your experience. But the criteria for a successful vaccine is to reduce illness and death (with good safety), not to prevent completely. Covid vax greatly reduces severe illness and death. People should know RFKJr is killing the vax side effect compensation fund!

25/8/2025, 6:13:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social) reply parent

Most people would call vaccines the first line, and all that's needed for many diseases. If you're already sick it's too late for a vax. PPE can and did save lives- absent emergency it's a personal choice based on perceived risk e.g. being immunodeficient. If no vaccines, the risk is high.

25/8/2025, 6:03:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@madhupai.bsky.social) reposted

Even as the US administration is destroying mRNA vaccine research, Canada quietly approved updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for fall rollout - new shots will target the LP.8.1 variant - both approved for adults and children six months of age and older

25/8/2025, 12:19:49 PM | 235 67 | View on Bluesky | view

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That was my point in reply above. Nature is perfectly capable of occasionally generating a virus that humans can’t stop. E.g. non symptomatic carriers exist. Fast mRNA vax is today’s best defense against a new virus with high transmission and high lethality. Saved 100s of millions.

25/8/2025, 12:13:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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‘Eliminated’ is not actually possible today for Covid or flu even with the best (mRNA) vaccines. But vaccinated people are much less likely to get sick or die (for both). We are now un-eliminating measles, with worse to come.

25/8/2025, 4:07:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Andean cat stylee

25/8/2025, 3:52:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sunset #photography

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25/8/2025, 2:14:33 AM | 40 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Big dogs #photography

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24/8/2025, 9:14:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lando Calrissian is inside? #photography #starwars

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24/8/2025, 9:13:11 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Partly cloudy photography

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23/8/2025, 7:59:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/8/2025, 8:14:54 PM | 3365 1148 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta zoom in

21/8/2025, 11:42:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shining through #photography

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21/8/2025, 9:21:47 PM | 89 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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feeling the Glow #photography

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21/8/2025, 9:15:53 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those are in fact the files you are looking for

21/8/2025, 8:57:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social)

People that were outperformed by their satirists: Joe Cocker < John Belushi Bill O’Reilly < Colbert Melania < Fake Melania Trump < Newsom Who have I missed

21/8/2025, 8:55:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am noticing less ALL CAPS lately! Gavin is winning!

21/8/2025, 2:36:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So obviously trump will now give Ukraine the weapons and money they need to go on offense, right? Tell him he’ll be showing up Biden when they kick out the Russians.

21/8/2025, 2:34:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But Texas is all good ?!

20/8/2025, 5:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bogota old town #photography

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19/8/2025, 2:50:16 AM | 58 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"You can't control the amount of energy that everybody is getting" What a clown. He wants to go back to 1950’s ‘inactivated’ vaccines that don’t work against most diseases.

12/8/2025, 3:09:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As much as I wish this to be true, these transfers are Epstein totals, mostly not trump related. But I want to see all of them.

11/8/2025, 8:22:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s crazy that a person this stupid is the President

11/8/2025, 8:10:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Last light

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10/8/2025, 9:33:32 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Private convo

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10/8/2025, 9:31:30 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography #streetphotography Bogota sky

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10/8/2025, 9:29:29 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Not leading the pack

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10/8/2025, 9:27:42 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Colombia sky

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10/8/2025, 9:24:49 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Bogota from Montserrat

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10/8/2025, 9:23:13 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography Bogota

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10/8/2025, 9:21:55 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#photography #streetphotography Bogota

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10/8/2025, 9:18:39 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Couldn’t find the original on Bluesky to credit, but every day I think of this one: Trump’s face looks like first wipe

10/8/2025, 4:19:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the positive side, if half of Rs want him out we might win some elections

9/8/2025, 7:36:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The vaccine reduced cancer by 1400 percent! Oops that’s trump math. Anyway the stupid is strong in this guy- people with broken brains and dead hearts are running our country. How can R’s be ok with sick and dead kids?

7/8/2025, 5:03:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s as if there was a DOGE bro working there

7/8/2025, 3:04:06 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The stupid is strong in this one

6/8/2025, 9:09:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Slow version nice too

5/8/2025, 11:34:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/TnUDjMtiGCA?...

5/8/2025, 11:32:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How about high-speed rail on earth?

5/8/2025, 4:42:15 PM | 7911 1583 | View on Bluesky | view

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They will respond to rooftop sunbathing first

5/8/2025, 5:25:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Diphtheria killed 30,000 American kids per year just 100 years ago. It’s in the on deck circle. I had childhood friends crippled by polio, suffering their whole lives. How did McConnell let RFK Jr happen?

5/8/2025, 5:20:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social)

Democrats don’t give a shit about Sydney Sweeney’s commercials, it’s just a big jerk off to fill Fox culture outrage quota. Maybe a double jerk off for some of them.

5/8/2025, 5:11:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very cool! Will be good skills for after the next collapse of civilization.

5/8/2025, 1:52:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Gleick (@petergleick.bsky.social) reposted

The bottom line on EPA's effort to overturn the #endangerment finding? It's purely a political argument cloaked in false, misleading, dishonest scientific language, because actual #climate science unambiguously supports the conclusion greenhouse gases are dangerous to the climate and society.

4/8/2025, 3:58:09 AM | 91 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MidwestExCentrist (@midwestcentrist.bsky.social) reply parent

Lab leak theory was mainly a convenient way to blame Chinese government way before data in hand, thanks for detailed update. Anyway, big difference between lab leak of a natural virus vs leak of NIH GOF-engineered virus which I heard stated as a fact by Vought and unchallenged by interviewer.

2/8/2025, 7:39:57 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mostly convenience but a bit more chance of breaking. My dad had acetate records from the 40’s and 50’s that broke very easily.

2/8/2025, 6:54:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice bavovna

2/8/2025, 2:16:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aaaaahhhh thank you

2/8/2025, 1:49:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s why the election fuckery is going to be extreme and blatant from now on e.g. Texas. R’s have no prayer of convincing a majority of voters they should remain in charge and it’s sinking in.

2/8/2025, 1:49:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dougs gotta up their game

2/8/2025, 1:42:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vinyl should only be stored vertically, this made my head hurt

2/8/2025, 1:38:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This panel stuck in my head since I was a kid

2/8/2025, 1:29:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very cool story, thank you. I also recall how game developers drove technology development through the same era.

2/8/2025, 1:14:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo Believe the women! Trump should go to jail. #epstein

1/8/2025, 1:43:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Benn (@thatproviso.bsky.social) reposted

www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

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Don’t forget Emil Bove saying ignore the judges

31/7/2025, 11:51:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gonna need a bigger museum

31/7/2025, 1:35:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw somewhere that Sleep Cycle can generate an almost instant map of earthquake strength from its user data. Congrats on the award!

30/7/2025, 6:50:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Juan Cole (@jricole.bsky.social) reposted

Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age

30/7/2025, 4:11:10 AM | 3 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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You on a roll Gurl

29/7/2025, 12:01:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view