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Duane
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Love baseball, the outdoors, live music, photography. Go Bears! 🐻 United we stand, divided we fall. 🇺🇦 Alt text nerd
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Hey, I recognize that marquee!✨ I dunno about those troublemakers in the photo, though...😂
A photo displaying the Art Deco style marquee for the Fox Theater in Oakland CA for a performance by Robert Plant and his band, Saving Grace; with Rosie Flores as the opening act. A photo displaying the Art Deco style marquee for the Fox Theater in Oakland CA for a performance by Robert Plant and his band, Saving Grace; with Rosie Flores as the opening act.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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😂😆
Cartoon by Coverly @ speedbump.com depicting a room full of dogs sitting in a circle while participating in a game of Charades. One dog is standing upright and motioning in a way suggestive of a tree standing in front of it as a clue to the word, "Bark". But the other dogs are confused. One of the other dogs says the following in a caption, "One word! Sounds like... tree. Tree trunk! Sounds like the stuff that covers the trunk! Argh, I don't know!"
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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100%
Sad to say, too many 90-foot errors caught up with the Jays.
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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And the predictable result, ably illustrated by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
A comment from Brian Goldstone on October 24, 2025 which reads: “With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn’t happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare — it’s all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.”
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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He pledged his allegiance to the Heritage Foundation over the US Constitution from an early age.
And Shrub nominated him as Chief Justice from the jump.
October 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The latest CA DPH C-19 infection chart reflects the highest
rate of positive tests in three years. The rate of infection is climbing in a near vertical rate.
Get tested, and if ++, call your MD for antibiotics.
Feel better!
The latest CA DPH C-19 infection chart reflects the highest rate of positive tests in three years. The rate of infection is climbing in a near vertical rate.
September 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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If you see this post. Post or quote repost a photo you took a year ago this month! #OneYearAgoAugust
Any subject, just has to be August 2024.🤩

(August 10, 2024 in the Santa Cruz Mountains)
A photograph of a very colorful sunset over the Santa Cruz Mountains taken on August 10, 2024. The image has a bright blue skies in the background, with high, wispy clouds that are various shades of pink and chartreuse, with the moon setting and large trees in silhouette in the foreground.
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Screenshots w/ detailed Alt Text contain the crux of the FDA warning regarding lead in imported cookware
What’s the Problem? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning retailers and consumers not to sell or use certain imported cookware that may leach significant levels of lead (Pb) into food. Some types of imported cookware products made from aluminum, brass, and aluminum alloys known as Hindalium/Hindolium or Indalium/Indolium have been tested by FDA and state partners, and found to leach lead into foodExternal Link Disclaimer when used for cooking, thereby making food unsafe. Young children, women of child-bearing age, and those who are breastfeeding may be at higher risk for potential adverse events after eating food cooked using these products. Recommendation Consumers should check their homes for the products listed below and throw away any cookware that may be able to leach lead into food when used for cooking or food storage. Do not donate or refurbish this cookware. Consumers who have concerns about lead exposure or elevated levels of lead should contact their health care provider. Retailers and distributors are responsible for ensuring cookware sold and/or distributed for use in contact with food are safe for their intended use and comply with all FDA regulations. Various testing methods for leachable lead are available, or retailers/distributors may use FDA’s lead leach testing protocol for cookware. Tested Products The product(s) listed below are cookware tested by FDA. FDA’s analysis demonstrates that such products may leach lead into food. Potentially affected products are not limited to this list. Additional products will be added to this alert as needed. Brand and Product Name (Product Label) Retailer Manufacturer Product Photo(s) Recall Status Kadai/Karahi Tiger White (PURE ALLUMINIUM UTENSILS TM TIGER WHITE Actions FDA is actively working to remove cookware from the market that may leach lead into food when used for cooking. FDA’s surveillance is ongoing. Additional products will be added to this alert as needed. Useful Links: •Lead in Food and Foodwares •Letter To Retailers and Distributors of Cookware •Closer to Zero: Reducing Childhood Exposure to Contaminants from Foods •About Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
August 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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The Counting Crows performing at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater is always a treat! Tonight was no exception.🎸🥳
Photograph of the Counting Crows performing at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater on Wednesday August 13, 2025 Photograph of the Counting Crows performing at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater on Wednesday August 13, 2025 Photograph of the Counting Crows performing at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater on Wednesday August 13, 2025 Photograph of the Counting Crows performing at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theater on Wednesday August 13, 2025
August 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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What lovely golden hours images, Sandra! 🤩 👏
For what it's worth, I can't recall a good sunset cloud cover in the longest time, probably back to January. Been nothing but low clouds and/or fog or mostly clear skies.
A friend in the South Bay got a little cloud cover last night, though.
August 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hey, let The Boss take a break, would ya?🤣 Dude is still rockin’ at 75 years strong!🎸
August 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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For all who could use an injection of kindness, hope and support... 💐🙏🤗
A graphic of a mother fox reading a book to a baby fox, stating, "Be kind. Unless you can be fantastic. Then be fantastically kind." By @jangsndfox A graphic of an assembly of ochre colored leaves arranged in a heart-shape with the following words superimposed upon them, "My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness." By Maya Angelou
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Who, me? 😅😆🤣
A graphic which reads: "You Never Realize How Long A Minute Is Until You Exercise."
August 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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@ritholtz.bsky.social
Something tells me this is not good. Coincidentally, the curve jumps upward beginning in 2001 and a raft of federal income tax cuts by the GOP...🤔

Enjoy your time in the woods!🎣

A growing share of US household assets is owned by people age 55+
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A chart published by Apollo Group which displays a sharp rise the share of US household assets owned by people age 55+, which rises from about 50% in 2001 to about 70% today (25 years later). Which is a marked increase in the concentration of wealth amongst the older generation(s) in America.
August 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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@kairyssdal.bsky.social Looks like TACO missed again… per CNBC, his big tariff deadline has been pushed to August 1st.
July 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Oof, a tough way to start the week.🤕 So glad you have (and share) the sagacious Percy to help us all meditate on peace and taters.🙏🏼
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A Sunday funny…🤣
A cartoon depicting a framed optometrist vision chart hanging on the wall of an art gallery with a male security guard standing next to the chart. The guard is motioning ‘halt’ with his right arm extended and fingers pointing vertically, to stop an art gallery patron from walking any closer. In the caption, the guard states, “Whoa, sir. Not so close.”
June 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Nothing at all against major league cricket, but IYKYK… seeing this in the month of June is just hella wrong. 😔
@lastdivebar.bsky.social
@oakland68sofficial.bsky.social
#OaklandAthletics
#Sell
#FJF
A photograph from the Oakland Coliseum BART station displaying the pedestrian overpass from BART to the Coliseum with new signage which reads, “Major League Cricket”… as opposed to Oakland Athletics.
June 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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He has the psyche of a petulant 3 year-old. That’s never going to change.
The only exception is when he turns on the charm to conceal his lies and schemes to steal from others.
June 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” ~Banksy
A Banksy painting depicting a small girl with long hair sitting on the ground, her head resting on her hand in a thinking pose, staring at a bluebird perched on a twig in front of her, with the following text stenciled above her head: “If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”
June 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Indeed it is. And the purported costs assume the Treasury can finance U.S. debt at artificially low interest rates. When the term of Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, ends in 2026, have to wonder how the bond market / borrowers will react.
June 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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“…ridiculous to bring up historical racism” — when you are the one who raised it???

That is pretzel logic, friend.

Socioeconomics, which is what I was referencing, applies to ALL citizens and ethnicities.
June 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Happy Monday!😆
A cartoon depicting two mosquitos in flight seeking to feed on humans, with one mosquito who has a swollen stinger who warns the other mosquito, "Avoid the forehead. It's all Botox."
June 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Bwahahaha...!
A Bizarro cartoon strip that displays two archeologists who appear to be in an Egyptian temple standing next to a vertical sarcophagus with letters on the side which read, "PEZ" and the head tilted back. One of the archeologists is holding an wrapped object that came from the neck area of the sarcophagus, and he says to the other archeologist, "It appears to be a big piece of mummified candy."
June 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM