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@dhlunique.bsky.social
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Lifelong Michiganian (born/raised Detroit; slowly moving west); social justice supporter; ally to marginalised; he/him/his.
Many years an engineer: electrical, mechanical, software.
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OMG. Just received an email from Medicare - "Stay Healthy With Dr. Oz" - the quackest of the quacks. [un?]fortunately, this particular post is accurate, and anyone who isn't aware of this scammer's history might start following the "advice" provided.
Image of supercilious grinning "Dr. Oz" stating that "healthy aging is all about balance: balancing your body and balancing your diet." The "Balance your body" piece on falls recommends a few minutes per day of exercises - weight shift and single-leg balance. A "Balance your diet" links to myplate.gov and suggests "Creamy squash soup with shredded apples" for a starter. Weight Shifts and Single-leg balance descriptions. "Balance your diet" link to myplate.gov. "as always, talk with your doctor if you have any questions..."
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Cooking up a MAGA "Venn diagram"
Six interlaced circles (in the form of a Venn[ish] diagram), labelled: 1400s Medicine, 1500s Religion, 1700s Government, 1850s Civil Rights, 1890s Economics, 1910s Labor Law. At the union of all the circles in the center is a region labelled MAGA.
August 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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David Roberts (DrVolts) was insightful and prescient. Posted 14 Nov 2023.
Twitter? thread by "David Roberts [blue check] @drvolts:" dated 14 Nov 2023 [Main post] If you're on the right, shitting on Dems is how you demonstrate the shared hatreds that make you part of the tribe. If you're on the center-left, shitting on Dems is how you demonstrate the above-it-all independence that earns the admiration of peers. If you'r on the left shitting on dems is how you demonstrate the moral & ideological purity that are the price of membership. If you're in the media, shitting on Dems is how you fight off accusations of bias & establish your "objectivity." [timestamped: 10:45 PM - Nov 14 2023 - 1M Views] David Roberts [continues thread Nov 14 2023] - There is no faction is US politics -- barely even elected Dems! -- for whom praising Dems is socially advantageous. There's no approbation waiting, no repetitional boost, for anyone. It is, from almost every vantage point, uncool. (Just try it on Twitter to see for yourself.) David Roberts [continues thread Nov 14 2023] Thus we get today's information environment, which responds to a transition from four years of violent irrational madness & mass death to three years of relative scandal-free sanity & economic recovery with ... unrelenting, top-to-bottom negativity. David Roberts [continues thread Nov 14 2023] No faction -- far as I can tell, not a single individual -- wants to reckon with their role & responsibility in this state of affairs, so I guess we're just going to talk ourselves into outright fascism and it's gonna be no one's fault.
July 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"Spot the 'Domestic Terrorist'..."
Cartoon by John Cole/Cagle Cartoons, captioned SPOT the 'DOMESTIC TERRORIST...' Two panels. Left panel has a Tesla Cybertruck on fire with a person standing next to it with a flaming torch. Right panel has a capitol building labelled Federal Government on fire with Elon Musk standing next to it with a flaming torch.
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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One of narcissists' behaviour patterns.
Outline of dove on black background with text: "Jealous people don't necessarily want what you've got. They just don't want you to have it." Image from narcissisticandemotionalabuse.co.uk
April 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) page I've been following for years is suddenly "off-limits".

testbed.swpc.noaa.gov/products/sol...

Grrrrrr.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Testbed displays "Access Denied" and "You are not authorized to access this page."
April 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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I don't know who originated this scheme (looks like MLive.com), but I certainly recognise the paint chips.
Title: 'Michigan Winter' Paint Color Collection. Paint chips of: light grey ("Just Another Cloudy Day") dark grey ("Pothole Cold Patch") slight grey ("Parking Lot Snow Pile") greyish beige ("Dirty Car") lighter dark grey ("It's Snowing Again") another lighter dark grey ("Vitamin D Deficiency") each chip tagged with an ML number and tagged as "Exterior" What appears to be an MLive logo in bottom right corner.
February 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Nothing is inevitable if we don't give up.
Wise words from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny. "Make sure you are talking to people and doing something. The logic of 'move fast and break things,' like the logic of all coups, is to gain quick dramatic successes that deter and demoralize and create the impression of inevitability. Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone & do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire & join them."
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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From another's comment: Malefactors of great wealth always find fascism a convenient ideology when it is popular enough.
Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them. Cryptocurrency is the perfect embodiment of this structural misrecognition: its advocates say it represents wealth outside of the state and society, but its notional value is wholly determined by its price in fiat money, created and sustained by the state. (It also functions a lot like “race” and “IQ:” as a repository of social value that provides a haven from degradation, but I’ll address that another time.) Here’s the thing: They can only see corruption around them because they are wholly corrupt.
February 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Never forget who established and who shut down the Pandemic Emergency Response Team; and who is now threatening the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy.
President Obama put together a Pandemic Emergency Response Team. This team had operatives in China. Their job was to watch for any emerging viral threats. There were even some of these operatives in Wuhan, which is where the COVID-19 virus started. Why didn't they warn us that this virus was coming? Because Trump closed the team down. He shut it down simply because it was something Obama had seet in place. So, becuause of Trump's petty and pathetic spitefulness, we had no warning. Biden started a new group, the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. Like before, we now have operatives in China, watching. Trump has already promised to close this one down too.
January 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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In a world of people like Patrick Soon-Shiong, let's support those like the An Gwiryeong. Photo from apnews.com/article/an-g...
In this image made from a video, An Gwiryeong, front right, confronts one of the soldiers as parliamentarians scrambled to get inside the National Assembly building to reverse martial law, in Seoul Dec 4, 2024. (YONHAP NEWS TV via AP)
December 8, 2024 at 7:47 PM