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But I'm just a soul
Whose intentions are good
Oh, Lord
Please, let me speak the words good

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

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Sorry to keep this going, but its the best distraction yet from the goings on in the Senate tonow.

I don't know Texas well enough to know if I picked the longest route, but it looks like you got 58 miles on Florida.

I've driven through Texline on my way from FL to CO, and you def have it harder.

Google maps driving directions map over view for going from South Padre Island, TX to the Texline, TX. Probably the longest traverse (nearly) completely within the state.

Total drive time estimated at 13 hr 23 min, and a total of 904 miles.

November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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Or shit, take the Florida Scenic Trail 1500+ mile hike. I've never seen an "FST" sticker. Probably because 90% of the traffic is the volunteers maintaining it. Their sticker, the orange flash with FTA in black, which you'll notice if you look.

Maybe Floridian shouldn't make map based size comps...

A map of the Florida Scenic Trail, separated into its four regions on the map by the Florida Trail Association.

November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM

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689 miles from Miami to the Alabama border, and 846 miles if you really want to the full traverse.

Google maps driving directions map over view for going from Miami, FL to the Alabama Welcome Center I-10 West. Probably the longest traverse (nearly) completely within the state.

Total drive time estimated at 9 hr 51 min, and a total of 689 miles.

Google maps driving directions map over view for going from Key West, FL to the Alabama Welcome Center I-10 West. The longest traverse (nearly) completely within the state.

Total drive time estimated at 12 hr 47 min, and a total of 846 miles.

November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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It is times like these that call for the greatest weapon the architects of the interwebs stashed in the deepest, darkest realms of the menu lands. Now is your time. Call upon its power and weld it justly.

A yellow handled 3lb hammer with the word "BANHAMMER" on the haft. On a flat, white background.

November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM

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A lot of the reasons I like Bluesky are the same reasons I think I liked LiveJournal. #AltText #FoaFFTW #Trees #LettingTheDogsOut #TheNeighbors&SleepRegression

Mood: Awake 🥱
Current music: Witch Dance by Florence + the Machine

A night scene. Low light provided by a streetlight in the top of the framing and to the right of center. Light is obscured by the cross members of a pool enclosure. Green foliage, backlit, follows the upward slope of the pool enclosure. Strong geometric elements in the interplay between the pool enclosures 90 degree angles and the slope of its roof with a wooden fence between the view and the trees/foliage and also back lite by the street light. Curvy pool in the lower half of the frame, while seeming to occupy much less of the frame in a casual viewing.

Photo best viewed with phone at 100% illumination (for most phones).

Photo also lends itself to well to high contrast viewing for those with alternative views.

November 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM

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Anywho! Here's a gif of my dog nervously wondering why I'm holding my phone over them.

October 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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All this is a partial list of the proposed reforms. The report will not please everyone: It doesn't discuss Biden's age or enfeeblement, or the internal failure to take it seriously enough, and perhaps due to the Roosevelt Institute's economic focus, the report says nothing about immigration or cultural liberalism. That will irritate those who want Democrats to moderate on immigration and cultural issues to avoid inflaming right- wing reaction and those who want Democrats to engage on both forcefully to activate low-info voters' broad small-L liberal sympathies.

All this will also stir up the debate between "abundance" liberals, who want to reform government to facilitate production of essential social goods, and those who are skeptical of them, fearing that this could sideline egalitarian and redistributive goals in favor of growth. Those factions will inevitably come into conflict in certain situations. But as Jerusalem Demsas notes at The Argument, the ideal liberal governing agenda could theoretically draw on both as mutually reinforcing. The report seems intended in that spirit: In a sense, it throws sops to both sides of that divide. Some abundance types might like its call for a hard- headed assessment of sclerotic agency processes. Meanwhile, abundance skeptics might like the report's central mission of reimagining a truly progressive administrative state with New Deal-scale ambitions. And the report's call for a bolder approach to communicating government successes will appeal to those who see our problem as partly informational--those who discern a massive imbalance between authoritarians who communicate via flood-the-zone propaganda and liberals who approach our biggest arguments as if they're Brookings Institution seminars.

The report tries to show, in other words, that future Democratic administrations can't be afraid to use power to the fullest. That this is not at odds with-indeed, it requires-a serious review of liberal administrative, oversight, and procedural failures. That when liberal governance does work, voters need to know about it. That there are thoughtful ways to fully deploy liberal governing power in keeping with the rule of law. And above all, that failure on all this, as the official quoted above put it, will inevitably lead to the "fascists stepping in" to fill the resulting void.

October 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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But fur real...

In a critical diagnosis, the report also faults the Biden administration for being too naive about the bad-faith hostility of large swaths of the courts -and the true intentions of the conservative judicial revolution that remade them--to progressive governance. But the report refrains from a blame-the-courts-for-our-failures posture. Instead, it urges concrete future action. It says future Democratic administrations and Congresses should overhaul the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) notice-and-comment rulemaking process to make it less vulnerable to bad-faith judicial interventions. And it floats the creation of a new court to oversee APA matters and suggests expansion of the Supreme Court. In short, the need for a judicial reform agenda can't be disentangled from the mission of demonstrating that future Democratic governance can be effective.

The report also concludes the Biden administration was hampered by its attachment to sclerotic federal regulatory processes. This encouraged overreliance on cost-benefit analyses and a culture of"bureaucratic make work." This slowed regulations that could have demonstrated government concretely working for people, such as a Food and Drug Administration rule requiring hearing aids be made available over the counter that took over two years to even begin bearing fruit in stores. The report details proposals for far-reaching overhaul of the federal regulatory structure.

October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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I've given in and had AI make this instead of spending half the day wasting time on a throw away joke.

Create a poster style image with the heading "Better dead than red!" Above a red Tylenol box. And "Sweat it out birthing people" underneath. With a women that looks more like a pregnant Rosie the Riviter in the bottom left.

Is basically the prompt used to generate the photo, and is a fairly accurate description.

October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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I did the bare minimum of due diligence to verify that the reposted MOCA sheet is probably legit, and there are definitely variants of the animals.

This one though! I was thinking it was localized for South America, but then I realized that's probably a Pangolin and not an Ant Eater. Asia then?

Another Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) test sheet. This one features an ungulate I can identify, an axolotl, and a pangolin (or an ant eater).

October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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I was married but l'm not married any more. Women don't like the vehicle.

A man leaning against the drivers side of a red Geo Metro.

The Geo Metro has had all but the front window removed, and all of the roof and support pillars cut off where the bottom of the windows had been. It looks like a convertible, or, rather, a converted as there is no roof to put up or back on. There was an attempt to make the transition more natural with bondo, but that process only went so far. Raw unpainted bondo along the edges where there used to be support pillars and glass.

October 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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Now the image that the time traveling soothsayer dropped after giving me that advice (sorry, no spoilers) makes so much more sense!

When books repel indeed! I could never understand how that could come to be true, but here we are.

I provided Gemini AI a photo of myself and a supposed trail cam picture of Chihuahua that had been spotted living with a wolfpack (those photos are AI generated, FYI), and I prompted it to create this photo using the following prompt:

"Make a picture similar to the one with the wolfpack, except it's a trailcam photo of a pack of random breed rescue dogs. Also add me from the other picture, dressed and looking like a hermit that has lived in the woods as a hermit for years."

The photo is a black and white trail cam shot with a bearded person, which vaguely looks like myself wearing heavily used, sturdy clothing of the type that would hold up to hermit life, and a group of rough looking dogs to either side of the person.

Generally what was asked of the AI image generator, except that with the person and all the dogs looking directly into the camera as opposed to having been caught unaware by the trail cam. #DoBetterAI #DoYouNotKnowHowToComposeACandidTrailCamShot‽‽

October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Since I wasn't certain if it was the statute I expected, allow me to Google it for all of us.

The verbage from 18 U.S.C. §3288 - Via screenshot and AltText.

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Cornell Law School

LII - Legal Information Institute

18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations

U.S. Code:

Whenever an indictment or information charging a felony is dismissed for any reason after the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations has expired, a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar

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appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment or information, or, in the event of an appeal, within 60 days of the date the dismissal of the indictment or information becomes final, or, if no regular grand jury is in session in the appropriate jurisdiction when the indictment or information is dismissed, within six calendar months of the date when the next regular grand jury is convened, which new indictment shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. This section does not permit the filing of a new indictment or information where the reason for the dismissal was the failure to file the indictment or information within the period prescribed by the applicable statute of limitations, or some other reason that would bar a new prosecution.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 828; Pub. L. 88–139, § 2, Oct. 16, 1963, 77 Stat. 248; Pub. L. 88–520, § 1, Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 699; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7081(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4407.)

October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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But concessions! An offer!!

To waive all rights and they promise they'll let the HOA out of the contract for convenience if we drop our demand to hold a meeting before their contract auto renews on Nov 1.

The HOAs attorney sent this, but it seems like he's working for the management company.

Hi [],

Please see below from S****y regarding the time frame for termination reduced to 30 days. The board will hear the search committee findings during the November 5 meeting. As S****y has agreed to a reduced 30-day time frame for termination this should remedy potential issues with the board considering the findings on November 5 rather than prior to November 1.

Please advise if you will agree, considering S****y's concession, that the mediation can be canceled and all matters originally addressed in your August 7, 2025, pre-suit mediation correspondence can be considered resolved and concluded.

Regards,

****** ******, Esq.

From: The HOAs attorney Subject: [...]

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

[The management company] has agreed to a 30 day termination clause for [...] if the mediation and any future mediations regarding the demands originally submitted are cancelled and the matters involving [...] and [...] are concluded.
Sent from my iPhone

October 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM

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Found it. Now for the source...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB, BLOCK CLUB
CHICAGO, CHICAGO NEWSPAPER GUILD
LOCAL 34071, NABET-CWA LOCAL 54041,
ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION, RAVEN
GEARY, CHARLES THRUSH, STEPHEN
HELD, DAVID BLACK, WILLIAM
PAULSON, AUTUMN REIDY-HAMER, and
LEIGH KUNKEL,
Plaintiffs,
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No. 25-cv-12173
KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS); TODD LYONS,
Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE); MARCOS CHARLES,
Acting Executive Associate Director,
Enforcement and Removal Operations, ICE;
RUSSELL HOTT, Chicago Field Office
Director, ICE; RODNEY S. SCOTT,
Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP); GREGORY BOVINO, Chief
Border Patrol Agent, CBP; DANIEL
DRISCOLL, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF);
WILLIAM K. MARSHALL III, Director of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP); PAMELA
BONDI, Attorney General of the United States;
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE; UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL
OFFICER DEFENDANTS; UNIDENTIFIED
FEDERAL AGENCY DEFENDANTS; and
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
States,

Defendants.

d. Using riot control weapons (including those described above) at identified
targets, if doing so could foreseeably result in injury to the press, protesters, or religious
practitioners who are not posing a threat of imminent physical harm to a law enforcement
officer or another person, unless such force is necessary to stop an immediate and serious
threat of physical harm to a person;

October 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM

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After nearly a year and a half of trying to get our HOA board to do something about the management company charging homeowners fees not allowed by our governing docs, the management fee schedule in their contract, or Florida statute, the president just decided to hand off their roll to me.

A screenshot of a text thread:

** Yesterday [Wednesday October 1st] at 10:54 **

Sent by me:
"You need to get your people at sentry in line. We have a new manager so nothing we have established before matters any more? Look you're 5 months past your election maybe it's just time for you to step aside for the good of the community."
"That is if you can't manage the managers or maintain the common property."

From the Board President:
"[Redacted], as always I’m happy to discuss by phone.
I agree, I’m more than happy to let another resident take over. The board is down to [Redacted] and myself at the moment."

Sent by me:
"So there isn't going to be a meeting tonight?"

** 14:00 [Oct 2nd] **

Sent by me:
"Hi [Redacted], circling back to your offer from yesterday, I am absolutely willing to take over immediately so that you can step down. Thank you for all your hard work over the years. Have Sentry reach out to me once you've informed them so that they can bring me up to speed."

October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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Oh yeah! That dragon/lizard spit sure is good!

I'd been following a similar line of inquiry years ago, but I totally missed these interactions. #FloridaScientist

September 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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After a psych caught that my MDD+GAD was likely ADHD+PTSD, I ended up landing at 1mg Klonopin up to 3x/day as needed, but for a while I my insurance only did 90 day scripts. This bottle was a 90 day script at 2x/day.