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Holly Ojalvo
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matcha & chai addict | true crime junkie | slow runner | gen xer | ✡️

“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
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The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
bit.ly
April 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
random:

gmail inbox count is a fraud

you delete dozens or even hundreds of emails in your primary folder and the inbox count doesn't change
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Praise Kier!
March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I think about this headline all of the time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The White House limited newswires in a takeover of the press pool. The AP, Reuters and Bloomberg News released a statement objecting to the decision
White House Limits Newswires in Press Pool Takeover
The White House handpicked the first group of outlets for a new system of media access in which it chooses who is able to cover President Donald Trump in certain settings, limiting the role of the thr...
www.bloomberg.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
had a shockingly good flying experience today: room for everyone's carry-ons, many or most rows weren't full so there was room to spread out, the wifi worked, and we landed more than 30 minutes early

credit where credit is due @alaskaairlines.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
@nytimes.com hasn't yet updated their Ethical Journalism Standards or their Guidelines on Integrity to include anything about AI. No mention of "artificial intelligence" in either
www.nytimes.com/editorial-st...
www.nytimes.com/editorial-st...
February 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
February 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
fellow #truecrime podcast junkies: what are you listening to now? I'm liking CBC's Sea of Lies and am looking for other listens while waiting for the next eps to drop
February 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
how have we not solved the cookies problem yet. why do we still need to accept or reject cookies on every. single. website.
February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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i spent the weekend in Punxsutawney too, to see Phil make his #GroundhogDay prediction with my daughter, in homage to the Bill Murray-Andie MacDowell movie. it was goofy and corny and freezing cold and a total blast.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Feb 2
It was a big party in Punxsutawney this weekend. "This is my favorite holiday," one local says of the fuss-free day, adding, "You don't have to even see your in-laws." This year, Phil saw his shadow.
What it's like to party in the native habitat of Groundhog Day star Punxsutawney Phil
It was a big party in Punxsutawney this weekend. "This is my favorite holiday," one local says of the fuss-free day, adding, "You don't have to even see your in-laws." This year, Phil saw his shadow.
www.npr.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
how come all of a sudden the links i share on my phone (a google pixel, not an iphone, #sorrynotsorry) all start with search.app ? anyone know? i didn't change any settings
January 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
really hoping for The Washington Post to survive. i've been a Post reader since childhood and have subscribed for years. it would be a major, major loss if it failed.
Cannot believe the growing scale of the exodus from the Washington Post. The institution that broke Watergate is now hemorrhaging to death.
January 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When Jimmy Carter became president, I was a little girl growing up in Maryland, near DC. I sent a letter to Amy Carter, who was a couple years older. She sent me a sweet handwritten postcard back saying she was glad I was her friend. Thinking of her now. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...
Amy Carter, Thrust Into the Public Eye at a Young Age, Has Since Receded
Jimmy Carter’s daughter had an extraordinary and well-documented childhood in the White House. Since then she has for the most part lived a very private life.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:00 AM
shocked by how terrible these recs are! wow @bsky.app you do not know me AT ALL yet
December 27, 2024 at 7:35 AM
100 pages into one of the most celebrated and recommended books of the last few years and so far it is ... meh, SO meh, bordering on boring

not giving up. really hope it starts to grab me
December 27, 2024 at 7:28 AM
in @fortune.com: the corporate world is reportedly spending millions on the Trump inauguration

Meta - $1mm
Amazon - $1mm
Perplexity - $1mm
Uber - $1mm
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi- $1mm
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman - $1mm
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin - $1mm
Robinhood - $2mm
+ more
bit.ly/40aF9j3
Tech giants, Wall Street, and corporate elite are pouring millions into to Donald Trump’s inauguration
The president-elect’s inaugural fund donors range from CEOs like Sam Altman and Ken Griffin, to Meta, Amazon, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
bit.ly
December 18, 2024 at 8:25 PM
another day, another set of time-wasting frustrations with microsoft products
December 16, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Curtis Yarvin was in my class in high school. We were on the debate team together. Even back then he was ... interesting
“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”

-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday
December 16, 2024 at 1:03 AM
watched It's a Wonderful Life, possibly for the first time ever (can't recall ever seeing it before - *maybe* I saw it once as a kid?)

expected to find it underwhelming and creaky, as often happens with old beloved movies, but was pleasantly surprised. it's earnest and hokey in a good way
December 16, 2024 at 12:53 AM
all the Maryland family chats are blowing up about the Mangiones
December 9, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I was today years old when I learned that the aunt of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin is Bonnie Bedelia, who plays Holly McClane in Die Hard (which is absolutely a Christmas movie!)
December 6, 2024 at 1:07 AM