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Irene Koehler
@irene-koehler.bsky.social
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Big fan of equal rights and voting. 👋 from California.
I know a lot about how to use LinkedIn.
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Good morning, San Francisco East Bay

#earthquake
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Annual earthquake drill right now. Let this be your reminder to get the MyShake app for short warnings of quakes. A few seconds advance notice is enough to get to a safer spot. #california #earthquake
October 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Reminder to my fellow BayArea friends, make sure you have the @myshakeapp.bsky.social to get #earthquake early warnings. It’s just a few seconds but it’s amazing how fast you move when the alarm goes off.
A CRITICAL 8m ago Earthquake - Drop, cover, hold on. Shaking expected. Mag 4.8 eq in Berkeley, CA, USA on 9-22-2025 at 2:56AM PDT
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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You know you’re a true Californian when you instinctively go from deep sleep to rolling out of bed to take cover the moment the earthquake alarm sounds.
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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With all the darkness and deception in the world, at least I know that Facebook has learned their lesson and is fairly compensating me for exposing my personal data. 🙄🙄
Screenshot from my email: Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrat or has sent you $36.73 USD.
September 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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My sentiments exactly when I got the email.
Screenshot of my email: Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrat or has sent you $36.73 USD.
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The solution that saved my sanity from the deluge of political texts was to filter out those from unknown numbers. They still come, but no notifs and they are neatly kept out of the way.

No more replying STOP or marking as junk. Ignore and move on with your day.

Seriously, life changing.
Messages • All Messages 189 › ? Known Senders ＞ Unknown Senders 189 > Unread Messages 189 > 1. Open the Settings app. 2. Scroll down and tap Messages. 3. Scroll to Message Filtering and turn on Filter Unknown Senders.
July 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The solution that saved my sanity from the deluge of political texts was to filter out those from unknown numbers. They still come, but I don’t get notifs and they’re tucked away separately.

No more replying STOP or marking as junk. Ignore and move on with your day.

Seriously, life changing.
Messages • All Messages 189 › ? Known Senders ＞ Unknown Senders 189 > Unread Messages 189 > 1. Open the Settings app. 2. Scroll down and tap Messages. 3. Scroll to Message Filtering and turn on Filter Unknown Senders.
July 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Song of the summer. GOTTOGO #nokings
June 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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No Kings statement with alt text
"The No Kings mobilizations on June 14 were already planned as a peaceful stand against authoritarian overreach and the gross abuse of power this Administration has shown. Now, this military escalation only confirms what we've known: this government wants to rule by force, not serve the people. From major cities to small towns, we'll rise together and say: we reject political violence. We reject fear as governance. We reject the myth that only some deserve freedom. "On Saturday, more than 1,800 rallies will take place across the country-peaceful, organized, and united. Join your community. Bring a sign. Make it clear: we don't do kings in this country."
June 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THEM BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTALLY INSANE, THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDERER, AND RAPE AGAIN — ALL PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS OVER THE LAST 4 MONTHS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA! 27 ReTruths 108 Likes May 26, 2025, 7:06 AM
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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What were the targeting parameters for this ad? In no universe am I their ideal hire.
May 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Nate Petersen •.• 19h • © Alright, here's the wall of text that I said I wouldn't drop. For some rough math. Ludington's store does in the neighborhood of $270k~ a year in revenue/sales. We have a, roughly, 55% cost-of-goods. This is an average. Some things are a much higher, some things are much lower, but this about splits the difference and will work well for this exercise. That works out to around $150k of that $270k being spent just to buy the things and does not include operating expenses and overhead. This is how much it costs us just to get the stuff and put it on the shelf. Probably about 2/3 of that has an origin in China, between newly published games, video game accessories, and the like. So, again using the nice round numbers, that's about $100k wholesale that we spend on stuff with origins in China. Now, China's tariffs are cumulative; we went from a 10% to a 20% jump already. As of yesterday, we're adding ANOTHER 34% on top of that. So a grand total of 54% total tarifs. But, we'll talk the EXTRA amount, so 44% NEW tarrifs. What WAS $100k then (or $90k + $10k existing tariffs), roughly, becomes $140k in expenditure ($90k + ~$50k in tariffs). Almost eclipsing our total total spend. Now, here's our options: - Eat the tariff. We can't do that; punting $40k down the drain is more than our entire mortgage on the store buildings. Would YOU flush a whole year's house payment down the toilet? No? Neither can we, and neither will any small business owner. - Increase the price by the tariff. A $10 thing costs us around $5.50 on a 55% COGs, which will now cost us $7.92. So we'd charge $12.42, adding the $2.42 on. This offsets the tariffs, but we're keeping less. - Increase prices commensurately. That $10 thing becomes $14. This keeps a rough equilibrium in what we keep, but it puts things further out of reach of the customer. Here's some of the reality: - Incomes are not keeping pace. In point of note, were seeing tens of thousands of people fired. Ludington and Marquette Michigan lost 14 forestry techs and seasonal hiring is frozen, for instance. - Costs are going up for EVERYONE. Not just us. All of our customers are spending more, and spending more on necessities. Consequently, we are competing for fewer dollars with higher costs across the board.
April 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I asked ChatGPT if trump used AI to calculate the tariffs
April 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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🤯 I waited 3 hours and 10 minutes for 23andme support and then this

I am unable to download or delete my data

wtaf
Message saying "Unable to connect. Connections failed. Please check your network and try again."
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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120 minutes later. #23andme
March 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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50 minutes so far on #23andme
March 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Progress 🙄

#23andme
March 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Impossible to log into my 23andme account so I reached out to support
March 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Apropos of nothing in particular, enjoy this photo of my sweet boy, Beefy, relaxing by brushing up on the US Constitution

#caturday
Most handsome black and white tuxedo cat reading the Constitution. It’s a sad state of affairs when a cat spends more time reading it than many in government.
March 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Just finished Careless People by ex-Facebook exec Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Meta sued to block the book.

Zuck, Sandberg shown to be narcissists, morally reckless. Lies to Congress. Trump campaign support. Z’s presidential plan. Quid pro quo w China. Myanmar atrocities.

Reinforced my decision to dump FB
March 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Hey, Dem leaders. I'm pretty sure this is not the way
March 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Put a shiny new DMV registration tag on today. Meanwhile, two cybertrucks parked next to me (one painted camo green). Quite the contrast in so many ways.
Stack of expired registration stickers on the car license plate.
February 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Words I never want to hear again from any elected Democrat
I never again want to hear another democrat talk about any of these things. We need aggressive new strategies and voices, not more of the same. Grow a spine and a thick skin or get the fuck out of the way. Norms, Bipartisanship, Seniority, Price of eggs.
February 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I had so many plans today but I ended up spending all day scrolling and commenting on Bluesky posts and putting together a list of actions to push back on trump and musk's lawless madness.
February 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM