AvocadoTumbleweed
@avocadotumbleweed.bsky.social
Lover of books, tech, crafts, and occasionally sports
Just finished #TheLowdown, what a great ending. Recommending this show to everyone. Jeanne Tripplehorn is amazing, and the episode with Peter Dinklage managed to make me laugh and cry.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Just finished #TheLowdown, what a great ending. Recommending this show to everyone. Jeanne Tripplehorn is amazing, and the episode with Peter Dinklage managed to make me laugh and cry.
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Federal immigration agents have detained an alarming number of U.S. citizens, demonstrating their widespread failure to respect basic protections against wrongful seizures.
“Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.
“Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal immigration agents have detained an alarming number of U.S. citizens, demonstrating their widespread failure to respect basic protections against wrongful seizures.
“Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.
“Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.
Loving The Lowdown on FX. For fans of Coen Brothers movies, mysteries, or Ethan Hawke. Great characters and laugh out loud scenes, with some sudden violence interspersed. #TheLowdown
www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-lo...
www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-lo...
FX's The Lowdown
Citizen journalist Lee Raybon is a self-proclaimed Tulsa “truthstorian” whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble.
www.fxnetworks.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Loving The Lowdown on FX. For fans of Coen Brothers movies, mysteries, or Ethan Hawke. Great characters and laugh out loud scenes, with some sudden violence interspersed. #TheLowdown
www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-lo...
www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-lo...
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there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them
October 18th. Use your voice. www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
October 18th. Use your voice. www.nokings.org
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read this study in April that the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20%. I booked my vaccine that day, just had my second dose today.
shingles vaccine is *rough* & I've cleared the weekend for it. but even if it's just 3% lower dementia risk I'll take it.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
shingles vaccine is *rough* & I've cleared the weekend for it. but even if it's just 3% lower dementia risk I'll take it.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk
A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.
med.stanford.edu
September 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
read this study in April that the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20%. I booked my vaccine that day, just had my second dose today.
shingles vaccine is *rough* & I've cleared the weekend for it. but even if it's just 3% lower dementia risk I'll take it.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
shingles vaccine is *rough* & I've cleared the weekend for it. but even if it's just 3% lower dementia risk I'll take it.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
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September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
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You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say.
Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You have the right to be yourself at your public school, no matter what lawmakers say.
Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
Learn more at aclu.org/lgbtqstudentskyr
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I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
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Technically I was off this week. But I had to write - and speak - on the most contentious days in TV comedy yet. Three of Paramount's TV shows aggressively criticized the company over Stephen Colbert's cancellation. It was the week comedy hit back. READ: https://loom.ly/hCJ2hOI
July 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Technically I was off this week. But I had to write - and speak - on the most contentious days in TV comedy yet. Three of Paramount's TV shows aggressively criticized the company over Stephen Colbert's cancellation. It was the week comedy hit back. READ: https://loom.ly/hCJ2hOI
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Why was "The Late Show" canceled? Jon Stewart has a few ideas
July 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Why was "The Late Show" canceled? Jon Stewart has a few ideas
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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I just don't understand
White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory
White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory
The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump’s purview, the page redirects to a White House website espousing the unproven theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. The theory, which has been opposed by many virologists, was espoused in a report by House Republicans […]
tcrn.ch
April 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I just don't understand
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As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Very well-reported story about DOGE activities at the NLRB. Anyone with a modicum of cyber security training will recognize how big a breach this is.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
#npr #tech #dev
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
#npr #tech #dev
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Very well-reported story about DOGE activities at the NLRB. Anyone with a modicum of cyber security training will recognize how big a breach this is.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
#npr #tech #dev
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
#npr #tech #dev
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček is a fairy tale quest on acid. The setting is wonderful, weird, and frightening depending on the chapter. Loved the illustrations too. Completely unique and highly recommended. 📚🪐
torpublishinggroup.com/the-west-pas...
torpublishinggroup.com/the-west-pas...
The West Passage
torpublishinggroup.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček is a fairy tale quest on acid. The setting is wonderful, weird, and frightening depending on the chapter. Loved the illustrations too. Completely unique and highly recommended. 📚🪐
torpublishinggroup.com/the-west-pas...
torpublishinggroup.com/the-west-pas...
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He's still going! m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
m.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
He's still going! m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
See national impact of federal health research cuts on your county and state scienceimpacts.org
SCiMaP
scienceimpacts.org
March 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
See national impact of federal health research cuts on your county and state scienceimpacts.org
Orwellian nightmare.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Orwellian nightmare.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Common Side Effects is the best show that I hear too little about. Animated show on Max by Mike Judge and the folks behind Scavenger’s Reign (another banger.) It’s hilarious, surprising, moving and profoundly relevant. Full recommendation.
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Common Side Effects is the best show that I hear too little about. Animated show on Max by Mike Judge and the folks behind Scavenger’s Reign (another banger.) It’s hilarious, surprising, moving and profoundly relevant. Full recommendation.
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Trump is threatening Federal Funding for Libraries; learn more and take action at saveimls.org.
March 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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