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Bruce Mirken
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Writer and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo, Hawaii […]

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Damn. Access to one of my favorite #bigisland swimming spots is cut off, probably for some time. #hawaii
A footbridge leading across a bay, partially collapsed and sunk into the water.
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Today was another "I can't believe I really live here" day in #hilo #hawaii
A tropical ocean cove with shallow water, grass and a path along the left. In back, rocky shore with trees streches across the frame.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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From my friends at Students for Science: Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in #science #advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!
WANT TO LEARN HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN SCIENCE ADVOCACY + MAKE A DIFFERENCE? STUDENTS FOR SCIENCE Thurs. 10/30/25 @5pm PDT/8PM EST OPEN TO HIGH SCHOOL, UNDERGRADUATE, + GRADUATE STUDENTS-ALL AREAS OF STUDY! ° Zoom Link: https://hit.ly/studentsforscizoom
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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My favorite t-shirt at #nokings in #hilo #hawaii.
Man wearing a t-shirt reading "Know Your Parasites." Below that are 3 pictures: The first 2 are insects, labeled "deer tick" and "dog tick." The 3rd shows Donald Trump and is labeled "Luna Tick."
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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A tiny bit of the crowd at #nokings in #hilo #hawaii -- we stretched down the street for nearly a mile.
A line of protesters stretching down the sidewalk as far as you can see. A young woman in front olds a sign reading, "Protest Now or Bow Down Later!"
October 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Just getting started at #nokings in #hilo #hawaii
Older man holding a sign reading "Stop RFK Jr. Join Us! defendpublichealth.org"
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The #boston #nokings turnot looks pretty impressive.
TV image from MSNBC of the massive No Kings rally crowd in Boston.
October 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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#silentsunday #hawaii
A rocky shoreline of dark gray volcanic boulders outlines a small cove of bright, turquoise-blue water, with some small, scrubby trees in the background. The sky is bright blue and sunny, with few wispy white clouds.
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Someone's sitting down to brunch on my outdoor table. #geckos #hawaii
Small juvenile gecko on a wooden outdoor table, facing left, partly shadowed by a plant, 2 of whose leaves we see hanging down from above.
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This little guy is a coqui frog. Adorable but, alas, an invasive species here in #hawaii that disrupts local ecosystems. They’re also amazingly LOUD.
Tiny light brown frog perched in the corner of a white-painted wooden fence, facing up.
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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The Keaukaha shoreline on the #bigisland is just endlessly beautiful.

#hawaii
Rocky tropical shoreline lagoon, partly shaded by multiple trees. The water is glistening, with a few small ripples.
October 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I just learned that #texturetuesday is a thing.
#hawaii
Black volcanic rock formation of recently cooled lava, shiny but uneven, with multiple cracks.
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My kitchen just had a very small visitor.
#geckos #reptiles
Very small baby gecko on a granite kitchen counter, facing toward a smooth-top stove to the right.
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Mauna Kea, viewed from the Kaulana Manu nature trail. #bigisland #hawaii
A brownish gray mountain with a few wispy clouds around it looms over a landscape of woods and brush
October 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'll take my local reptiles!!! 😁
Smamm green gecko on a wooden table, his face turned toward the camera.
September 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This was one of those evenings when I can't believe I really live here.
#hilo #hawaii #bigisland
Twilight view across a bay, the water gleaming in the dwindling sunlight, with a town in the background and green hills behind it. In the foreground, a graceful large tree arrches over a low stone wall, framing the view.
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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##silentsunday
A small cove along the seashore at midday, with low, light- brown cliffs in the background and a rocky shore close to us an a few trees to the left.
September 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I'm not sure why, but my outdoor table seems to be the official baby #gecko hangout spot.
Small green gecko on a wooden patio table. On the left is part of a leaf of an orchid plant, much larger than the gecko.
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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No comment needed:
#science #democracy
Cartoon: In an office hallway, 2 men are talking. One says, "I'm transferred from the warning on science to the warning on democracy. Is that a promotion?"
September 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Remember when #rfkjr said this about #gunviolence? Yet he never mentioned it in #maha and keeps cutting gun violence prevention. 🤔
Twiiter/X Post from Robert F. Kennedy Jr reading: "Parkland students are right; the NRA is a terror group" 6:46PM - 2/17/18
September 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This neatly sums up #rfkjr's tenure at #hhs:
Cartoon showing Robert F Kennedy Jr throwing someone off the roof of the HHS headquarters. The sign on the building has been altered to read, "Department of Health and Human Sacrifices."
September 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The Infectious Diseases Society of America doesn't like the latest #fda announcement about #covid #vaccines
Graphic reading, "By narrowing its approval, FDA has made a decision that completely contradicts the evidence base, severely undermines trust in science- driven policy and dangerously limits vaccine access, removing millions of Americans’ choice to be protected and increasing the risk of severe outcomes from COVID.” | ® IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FACP -®IDSA
August 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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If you're a fan of the cult classic "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," reports have reached me that a sequel is in the works!
#vaccines #rfkjr #hhs
Parody movie poster using an image from "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," with the faces of RFK Jr and his 2 top lieutenants superimposed over the original Killer Klowns. Text reads, "In the U.S., no one can get vaccines. Killer Klowns from HHS."
August 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Yes, #JDVance really said that World War II ended with a negotiation. 🤦‍♂️
Screencap of an X post by Clash Report quoting JD Vance: "If you go back to WW?2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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#silentsunday
A rocky shoreline of dark boulders of volcanic rock with a handful of treeson the left. On the right is deep aquamarine ocean water.
August 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM