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Area Man
@uscgvet.bsky.social
USCG retired, K-5 Special Ed Para., Chef, Grandpa, & Stoic.
BA Psych & Criminal Justice (ΑΦΣ Alpha Phi Sigma)
Team Rubicon
Tax the Churches!
49’ers
Ipswich Town FC
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my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do
People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:
NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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“We have fought this before and we’re ready to fight this again…”

Damn right. SPARTA led the way 2014-2016, showing how the trans ban was bad for military readiness.
Now with thousands serving honorably, it would be even worse. This is putting bigotry above country.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...
Pentagon plans to remove transgender service members under new policy | CNN Politics
The Pentagon plans to kick out currently serving transgender service members who don’t meet specific requirements under its new policy, according to official guidance made public in a Wednesday court ...
www.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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All of the whole doge thing is about giving tRump and musky our tax dollars. They are yanking it out as fast as they can hoping we won't catch on.
February 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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There is no more characteristic consumer experience in the 2020s than spending an hour on hold with “customer service” listening to some awful Muzak and being told by a recorded voice every 5 minutes how important your call is to the company and suggesting you try using the website you already tried
I have a crackpot theory that the inaccessibility of customer service for all goods and services is contributing significantly to the general sense of alienation and impotence and lack of community.
just when i seem to have figured out a way around the labyrinthine cvs phone tree, they seem to have switched it to voicemail only. absolute evil
December 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Some good news for the holiday...

More than 6,000 salmon return to Klamath River above former Iron Gate Dam site!
More than 6,000 salmon return to Klamath River above former Iron Gate Dam site!
More than 6,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River and tributaries above the former Iron Gate Dam site since dam removal was completed this October, according to preliminary…
buff.ly
December 24, 2024 at 12:29 AM
November 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Someday a Lifetime movie will be made about Cheryl Hines and it’ll go “I knew him as a Kennedy, an environmentalist, a man who decapitated a whale, a man riddled with worms who cheated on every woman he’s ever been with while saying he’s the worm man, but beyond all that? …there was a dark secret”
November 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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People of Bluesky! Let's get to know each other better. What is your favorite movie?
November 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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I mean if you wanted to see a 60 year old man and a guy so dumb that you don’t know if he can read get into a fight just wait for Thanksgiving
November 16, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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thinking about the part in watership down where some rabbits worship a hunter because he feeds them sometimes and the rabbits become domesticated, apathetic and cynical and refuse to talk about those killed by the hunter and become violent when questioned about it
November 12, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Hi I'm new here. I'm looking for people who:

*want to crawl into and inhabit songs they love
*cry during movies, especially when the score hits
*believe that how and where they sit affects sporting events
*at one point in their lives owned a hard copy of the Almanac of American Politics
*are dogs
November 13, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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This app is actually so much better for my mental lol.
November 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I look at kids who aren’t dying of childhood illnesses and say why not?—RFK2
November 12, 2024 at 6:26 PM