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Mattioe Petrov
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Просто парень с любовью и честностью, а также гурман.
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One of our visitors sharing in the fig bounty. Our pademelon friends get the figs the ants have been gardening bluemold in. Her new Joey, just popped its head out of her pouch. Such joy to see a little cute face for the first time. Pouches had been getting bigger in the girls.
March 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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#Dailyglimmer Despite the world order shifting today due to despots, there are still great small things to enjoy, such fresh homegrown figs topped with Tasmanian Brie😋
March 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️

Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w...

What's at stake? 🧵
Wyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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@ Team Bluesky- Enough complaining. Let’s DO something. We should be marching on Washington en mass. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social We need some leadership here to rally this outrage into action. Can you assign someone to lead us??????
a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and says `` anyone ? '' .
ALT: a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and says `` anyone ? '' .
media.tenor.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.”
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The U.S. needs to rejoin the World Health Organization immediately 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo
World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after reportedly eating a bat carcass.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan as a distress signal www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS WEEK

1. Consciousness
2. Respiration
3. I petted several cats
4. Consumed pizza
5. Strategic AND tactical napping
February 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
February 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I hope everybody who has social, institutional, political, educational, or financial power had a restful weekend and gets up Monday ready to fight fascism go go go
February 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
www.ft.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A friend knitted me a hat and I have never felt so warm. Knitters, thank you all.
February 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater.
February 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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A woman yelled to interrupt a GOP lawmaker at an Idaho town hall.

Then a group of men, w/ no badges and refusing to identify themselves, forcibly dragged her onto the floor and carried her out. (and a 2nd woman was ziptied.)

She was cited for battery by police.

www.ktvb.com/article/news...
Update: Police chief condemns security at Idaho town hall, refuses sheriff’s request
Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White condemned the actions of private security guards who pulled a woman from her chair and dragged her out of an Idaho legislative town hall.
www.idahostatesman.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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My funding rate would increase if I reviewed my own proposals.
Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.
apnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm
February 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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GIRL(26): What is your stance on Crystals
ME (94): I have never devolpeed a stance on Crystals. I am more interested in food & entertainment
February 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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My best investment advice
February 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I'm sure he's wearing blackout shades for normal reasons.
listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.
February 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Worst thing to happen to the USPS since Lance Armstrong.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
wapo.st
February 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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“Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse” by @emorwee.bsky.social for HEATED. Read more here:

heated.world/p/trump-ener...
Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse
Seven Democrats voted to confirm this man. Seven!
heated.world
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM