Dave Haldiman
@opposablethumbs.bsky.social
Must have liberal democracy and progressive policies. Nature is my church. Science, art, humor, Tao, kindness, acceptance. Ret'd ad producer and motion camera. Here to learn, laugh, meet, interact, care. And to fight the MAGA oligarchy and AI.
Pinned
In a land of granite
an acorn finds a fissure
Boulders tumble
(A reminder that big changes often grow from small seeds.)
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Poetry #Haiku #Mountains #Yosemite #Resist
an acorn finds a fissure
Boulders tumble
(A reminder that big changes often grow from small seeds.)
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Poetry #Haiku #Mountains #Yosemite #Resist
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Your brain does not store memories like videos. 🧠🧪
Memories are reconstructed each time you recall them through a process called reconsolidation. During this process, details can shift based on emotion, context, and new information, which is why memories can change over time.
Memories are reconstructed each time you recall them through a process called reconsolidation. During this process, details can shift based on emotion, context, and new information, which is why memories can change over time.
December 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Your brain does not store memories like videos. 🧠🧪
Memories are reconstructed each time you recall them through a process called reconsolidation. During this process, details can shift based on emotion, context, and new information, which is why memories can change over time.
Memories are reconstructed each time you recall them through a process called reconsolidation. During this process, details can shift based on emotion, context, and new information, which is why memories can change over time.
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
Henry Miller - #BOTD - from 1941.
Henry Miller - #BOTD - from 1941.
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
Henry Miller - #BOTD - from 1941.
Henry Miller - #BOTD - from 1941.
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🏝️ Octopus briareus, aka the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙
✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🏝️ Octopus briareus, aka the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙
✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
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December 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
See, trump really can restore the merriness in Christmas. Just not in any way he's intended.
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
See, trump really can restore the merriness in Christmas. Just not in any way he's intended.
Reposted by Dave Haldiman
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Not all wrapping paper belongs in the recycling bin. 🎁♻️
Shiny coatings, glitter, and metallic inks can contaminate paper recycling. When that happens, sorting facilities may reject the load, sending the entire batch to a landfill or incinerator instead.
Shiny coatings, glitter, and metallic inks can contaminate paper recycling. When that happens, sorting facilities may reject the load, sending the entire batch to a landfill or incinerator instead.
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Not all wrapping paper belongs in the recycling bin. 🎁♻️
Shiny coatings, glitter, and metallic inks can contaminate paper recycling. When that happens, sorting facilities may reject the load, sending the entire batch to a landfill or incinerator instead.
Shiny coatings, glitter, and metallic inks can contaminate paper recycling. When that happens, sorting facilities may reject the load, sending the entire batch to a landfill or incinerator instead.
"(M)ore than 1,000 Canadian and American military personnel, Defense Dept. civilian workers, and local participants near Colorado Springs, where NORAD is headquartered, volunteer to answer the more than 100,000 phone calls that come from children around the world on Christmas Eve."
#Christmas
#Christmas
December 23, 2025
On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"(M)ore than 1,000 Canadian and American military personnel, Defense Dept. civilian workers, and local participants near Colorado Springs, where NORAD is headquartered, volunteer to answer the more than 100,000 phone calls that come from children around the world on Christmas Eve."
#Christmas
#Christmas
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As the earth grows colder, the winds faster, the fire smaller, the rains harder—let the light shine and the warmth return again as the sun journeys back to us.
Happy Yule!
Happy Yule!
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
As the earth grows colder, the winds faster, the fire smaller, the rains harder—let the light shine and the warmth return again as the sun journeys back to us.
Happy Yule!
Happy Yule!
Here's some lovely, lively, sweet cheer.
Great version of this classic from a Charlie Brown Christmas…
Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Medley (Piano & Cello Cover) - The Piano Guys
YouTube video by The Piano Guys
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here's some lovely, lively, sweet cheer.
We can sit and feel secure now that Santa has our back when we're making a doodie.
Ho! ho! ho! 🎅
Why? 😂
Complete celebration set! 🚽
I don't want to live in this world anymore, ha ha ha 😂😂😂
#Christmas #decoration #WC
Why? 😂
Complete celebration set! 🚽
I don't want to live in this world anymore, ha ha ha 😂😂😂
#Christmas #decoration #WC
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We can sit and feel secure now that Santa has our back when we're making a doodie.
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🥕🍅🌽🥬🥕🥗🥒
Feliz Navidad
and Thank You ❤️
to all the
Farm Workers.
You make our lives better.
Hopefully someday we will live in a world that makes lives better for essential workers.
🍅🥬🌽🧅🥕🥦🍆
Muchas Gracias y
Feliz Navidad ❤️
Feliz Navidad
and Thank You ❤️
to all the
Farm Workers.
You make our lives better.
Hopefully someday we will live in a world that makes lives better for essential workers.
🍅🥬🌽🧅🥕🥦🍆
Muchas Gracias y
Feliz Navidad ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🥕🍅🌽🥬🥕🥗🥒
Feliz Navidad
and Thank You ❤️
to all the
Farm Workers.
You make our lives better.
Hopefully someday we will live in a world that makes lives better for essential workers.
🍅🥬🌽🧅🥕🥦🍆
Muchas Gracias y
Feliz Navidad ❤️
Feliz Navidad
and Thank You ❤️
to all the
Farm Workers.
You make our lives better.
Hopefully someday we will live in a world that makes lives better for essential workers.
🍅🥬🌽🧅🥕🥦🍆
Muchas Gracias y
Feliz Navidad ❤️
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Lord knows I'm not a fan of any of this corporate media consolidation — Netflix and Paramount both should be barred from buying WBD.
But in terms of sending a message, would be stellar if everyone watched Good Night and Good Luck on Netflix together next Sunday when 60 Minutes is on the air.
But in terms of sending a message, would be stellar if everyone watched Good Night and Good Luck on Netflix together next Sunday when 60 Minutes is on the air.
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Lord knows I'm not a fan of any of this corporate media consolidation — Netflix and Paramount both should be barred from buying WBD.
But in terms of sending a message, would be stellar if everyone watched Good Night and Good Luck on Netflix together next Sunday when 60 Minutes is on the air.
But in terms of sending a message, would be stellar if everyone watched Good Night and Good Luck on Netflix together next Sunday when 60 Minutes is on the air.
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Da.axiigang (Charles Edenshaw),
Haida, North American First Nation, Queen Charlotte lslands, British Columbia (1839-1920), Bear Mother, c. 1900, argillite, 6 x 7 x 8 cm, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Haida, North American First Nation, Queen Charlotte lslands, British Columbia (1839-1920), Bear Mother, c. 1900, argillite, 6 x 7 x 8 cm, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Da.axiigang (Charles Edenshaw),
Haida, North American First Nation, Queen Charlotte lslands, British Columbia (1839-1920), Bear Mother, c. 1900, argillite, 6 x 7 x 8 cm, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Haida, North American First Nation, Queen Charlotte lslands, British Columbia (1839-1920), Bear Mother, c. 1900, argillite, 6 x 7 x 8 cm, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
Andy Borowitz celebrates Ann Telnaes's eminently deserved second Pulitzer Prize.
The Best Political Cartoons of 2025
From a two-time Pulitzer winner.
www.borowitzreport.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Andy Borowitz celebrates Ann Telnaes's eminently deserved second Pulitzer Prize.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
A reminder that this is what russia does to other people's cities when it's denied ownership by the bravery and determination of Ukrainians. The results of insatiable imperial entitlement, that won't stop with any trump/kushner spoils-for-peace agreement.
#SlavaUkraini
#SlavaUkraini
💔Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region
Russia has turned life in this city into hell.
📷: Oleg Kornienko/Facebook
Russia has turned life in this city into hell.
📷: Oleg Kornienko/Facebook
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A reminder that this is what russia does to other people's cities when it's denied ownership by the bravery and determination of Ukrainians. The results of insatiable imperial entitlement, that won't stop with any trump/kushner spoils-for-peace agreement.
#SlavaUkraini
#SlavaUkraini
How about some good news? Margaret Sullivan reports that since NY State banned phones in schools, conversations plus other social interactions have increased, like card and board games and new friendships. And there's more . . .
#GoodNews
#GoodNews
Amid media failures and flaws, five things to celebrate
Plus: What advice would you give to student journalists? I share mine.
margaretsullivan.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
How about some good news? Margaret Sullivan reports that since NY State banned phones in schools, conversations plus other social interactions have increased, like card and board games and new friendships. And there's more . . .
#GoodNews
#GoodNews
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“Rings of fire” by Francisco Negroni.
A pair of circular clouds is illuminated by lava from the Villarrica volcano in Chile as night falls.
The scene was captured by photographer Francisco Negroni, who takes regular trips to the volcano to monitor its activity.
A pair of circular clouds is illuminated by lava from the Villarrica volcano in Chile as night falls.
The scene was captured by photographer Francisco Negroni, who takes regular trips to the volcano to monitor its activity.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Rings of fire” by Francisco Negroni.
A pair of circular clouds is illuminated by lava from the Villarrica volcano in Chile as night falls.
The scene was captured by photographer Francisco Negroni, who takes regular trips to the volcano to monitor its activity.
A pair of circular clouds is illuminated by lava from the Villarrica volcano in Chile as night falls.
The scene was captured by photographer Francisco Negroni, who takes regular trips to the volcano to monitor its activity.
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A lamplighter and his dog, Scotland, 1937 - by John Peat Munn
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A lamplighter and his dog, Scotland, 1937 - by John Peat Munn
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Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
Seen in NYC last week. AI is quite literally dehumanizing. Not to mention the insulting irony of the AI company name here: Artisan.
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Seen in NYC last week. AI is quite literally dehumanizing. Not to mention the insulting irony of the AI company name here: Artisan.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM