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Dave Robbins
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I am an Enthusiast from Madison, Wisconsin. I love to experience the world and it's people. #Art #Books #Coffee #Cycling #Design #Food #Golf #Music #Nature #Technology

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It doesn’t take much. Just love each other and our planet every day as you love yourself. A little more respect for all living creatures, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soil that gives us the food we eat.
Megyn Kelly is a pig, just like the men she is defending.
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.

These people are evil.
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
True...
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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This is a bit of an OMG - In 2017 Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as President with Jeffrey Epstein. His best friend.

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November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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I honestly don’t know what to say anymore. It is overwhelmingly clear at this point that the Republican Party has sold its soul to protect a child rapist, led by wealthy ghouls who will never have enough.

There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s #energy watchdog, making the transition away from #fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"

Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Autumn in the Greater Khingan Mountains is like China's version of Maine. Golden birch forests, azure skies, and a breathtaking tranquility. The difference is, it possesses an added touch of Eastern serenity and wildness. -Excerpt from Weibo
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Fossil fuels are a sunset industry. Investing public money in Oil & Gas infrastructure — e.g., pipelines — is economic madness. Don’t let greenwashing by the fossil fuel cartel convince you otherwise. #FossilFuelPhaseout
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f....
IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned - Carbon Brief
The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Vote fixer Elon Musk's car business is getting crushed globally. I guess the smart people who buy EVs aren't fond of fascists. Tesla's market share in China was just 3.2% in Oct., ⬇️ from 8.7% a year ago. Germany EV sales ⬆️ 40%, but Tesla had a 50% decline.
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/11/t...
Tesla Sales Crater As Top Executives Flee - CleanTechnica
Sales are down, but that may not be the big news for Tesla this week. Two more senior executives have exited the company.
cleantechnica.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have a feeling the House will be in recess for the "Holidays" as soon as they pass a spending bill to reopen the government.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“.. it just doesn’t make financial sense for us to offer discounts because our costs of goods are so high because of the tariffs ..”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Goodnight
#Birds
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, and the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address

"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country..."

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Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address — LiveLoveCycle
January 27, 1838 In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.--We find ourselv...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reposting this:

I do not know the exact origins of this message; It is, however, right on the mark.

Dear Democratic Party (and all of us),

We need more from you.

This administration is not simply “a different ideology.”

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We Must Rise to the Occasion and Save Our Country — LiveLoveCycle
I do not know the exact origins of this message; It is, however, right on the mark. Dear Democratic Party (and all of us), We need more from you. This administration is not simply “a different ide...
livelovecycle.squarespace.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“.. Mamdani demonstrated an extraordinary, if not magical, ability to change the character and composition of the electorate ..”

“.. The turnout rate of voters age 18 to 29 rose to 41.3 percent this year from 11.1 percent in .. 2021 ..”

@tomedsall.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Durbin said. “I share their opinions of this administration but cannot accept a strategy [that] wages political battles at the expense of my neighbors’ paychecks or food for [their] children.”

chicago.suntimes.com/us-senate/20...
Durbin again faces backlash for joining GOP in measure to end government shutdown
Three candidates vying for Durbin's seat had strong words, including Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who directly criticized the senator's vote. "We need fighters in D.C.," she said, "not folders."
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Today on #ArmisticeDay, we're remembering the Kew staff who served during both World Wars and balanced their lives in science and horticulture with duty and sacrifice 🧵👇

#KewLA
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This 👇🏻, Trump has been doing it this entire term. Pardons for people who commit crimes on his behalf, as well as for those who pay him. The bribes have been right out in the open for all to see. I hope a future court invalidates these and a future Congress addresses them constitutionally.
Ex DOJ pardon attorney @lawyeroyer.com to @maddow.msnbc.com : “Trump just issued a blank check for his supporters to break the law in his name. It’s chilling.”

(Disgraced, corrupt ex Tennessee speaker Casada & @RepHarshbarger’s health care fraudster husband were among the pardoned)
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This 👇🏻...
Pretty clear what’s going on here!

Pay your tribute and your legal problems go away!

Hey 77 million Americans that voted for a felon, this is the corruption that you apparently wanted!

And thank you Congress and the media for totally normalizing presidential extortion!
🤬🤬
#ProudBlue
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM