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BernardoVerda 🤔
@bernardoverda.bsky.social
Retired. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy...

More interested in "policy" than "politics"
-- but nonetheless prefers "woke" over "zombie".

"Live & learn, or die an idiot."
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You can't cancel things that were never happening in the first place.
For reference, try looking up Kid Rock's 2026 tour dates ...
Spoiler it doesn't exist.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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...Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."

George Orwell, 1984
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week...
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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So now we have to own a phone with a data plan to take a flight? Need to boycott this absurd policy.
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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'ditching paper boarding passes would lead to “faster, smarter, and greener” travel.'

Yeah I want to see the "green" analysis on that.

And it's more common than not for commercial apps to run in the background and send endless tracking requests even after you close the app.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Oddly enough, one major point of standards, is to keep "journalists" like Bari Weiss in check, and prevent them from being placed in positions of influence in credible journalistic enterprises.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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These are questions only psychopaths ask. Like why should there be laws, rules, codes of ethics, things like “morality”? Why shouldn’t people just say & do whatever they want to & consequences? What is that?
There is a missing piece from these people. Some might call it a soul.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Better standards would have prevented her hire.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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‘Twas ever fucking thus… my first organizing gig was going to HOAs and lobbying for an affordable senior housing developments. I was told the development would attract “gang activity”. This was 25 years ago…
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Older customer I spoke with: “People need to have more babies.”

Me: “Young people need affordable housing. Where are they going to raise their kids.”

Her: “They should build affordable housing but I don’t want condos or apartments in MY neighborhood!”

🤷🏽‍♀️
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I lasted a week on Nextdoor before I was convinced it was populated by the vilest HOA board types you’ll ever meet.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Mine has been a mix. For instance, there’s a woman who goes around collecting aluminum can out of bins. My wife and several other families starting collecting them for her. But one lady called the cops on her, and it wasn’t even her trash bin. Most everyone ganged up on said Karen.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Spotify also serves up ICE ads…. #BoycottSpotify
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Or in our local case:

www.sltrib.com/news/2024/11...

“We’re not cold-hearted, unvirtuous people,” said Joel Harris, who lives blocks away from the Kaysville “code blue” site. “We’re concerned about the safety of our children. We’re concerned about property values.”
‘Not why we elected you’: Davis County secured 3 emergency homeless shelters after a church backed out. Residents are furious.
Davis County now has a plan to shelter homeless people on especially cold nights, which leaders were required to devise under a new state law. The problem? Residents reject it, showing up in droves to...
www.sltrib.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM