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johniwaniszek.bsky.social
@johniwaniszek.bsky.social
Retired statistical programmer in clinical studies. I consume mass quantities of teevee drama, read in the areas of race, US civil war history, 20th century history, culture, change, personality. My musical tastes tend toward psychedelic honky-tonk.
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What's the difference between these two photos:

One was the 1950s

The other was two days ago.

In Little Rock Arkansas. if I recall there was this 1957 incident....

nvm
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Los Carpinchos tiene riz.
Friendly, mellow Capybara (largest rodent; native to South America) get along with many other species.

#Capybara #animals
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A police state has unlimited resources to impose control
And of course we have the money sitting around to pay people to spend insane amount of hours digging through this kind of thing. FFS!!!
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
He's saying white people can't achieve a high percentile score because the better educated immigrants bust the curve.
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Snow/tumbling face first science.

from Daniel LaBelle - fb.com/daniellabellecomedy/
December 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I think the discount Geobbels doesn't realize how that sounds
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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This is a pretty stunning admission, he doesn't appear to know how group insurance works. Toyota/GM don't buy insurance, employers of that size are self-funded. They pay United or Aetna for admin services, but they pay for the actual health care themselves (with some catastrophic/stop-loss coverage)
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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to quote myself on this
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich - Toilet Box , 1913
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is some serious shit that will get people killed
WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house.

This is what a police state looks like.
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Texas, let’s win this thing.
#JasmineForUS #TexasTough
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Albert Gleizes (1881-1953) - Brooklyn Bridge , 1915 . Oil on canvas
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I have very specific needs. Tonight the only thing that would get me in my car and on the road right now would be a plate of pierogi.

Sauerkraut in two and maybe one potato and cheese, with sour cream and fried onions. Three pierogies on a plate. That is all I ask.

Pierogies for the people!
December 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Paul Klee - Fire at Full #Moon (1933)
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"hardened cocaine ideologues"

<snerk>
an example of starting to believe your own bullshit. does anyone think being a drug smuggler is a "fight"? It's a business. they're so deep into this "narco-terrorist" language they're thinking these are some kind of hardened cocaine ideologues. theyre all eager to join Mar a Lago.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You want is darker?

"Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord"
Your perception has been distorted by the unreality of the internet. You think all of this is just performance, a mirage that doesn’t matter, and underneath it all things are basically normal. It’s the opposite: normality is the mirage and actual events are almost incomprehensibly abnormal.
It's actually not one of the lowest points in US history social media just has convinced you it is
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Newly inspired by the amazing November, Maine evening sky! New plein air watercolor.

#watercolor #pleinair #maine
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Gen AI ys the 6-7 of technologyes
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Sven Kroner (German, born 1973)
"Falsches Licht", 2021.
Acrylic on Canvas, 136 × 160 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
happy christmas, you old corpse

happy crissmas yer arse

we'll all be dead, sooner-er-later

no more crissmasses after that

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8l...
'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral
YouTube video by RTÉ News
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I got this knuckle sandwich and I will give it to you for free

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DwN...
Gangstagrass | Nickel and Dime Blues
YouTube video by LR Baggs
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM