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bugs, birds and stuff
democracy aspirant
trying not to play in D minor
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poodlefax.bsky.social
An agency of systematic abuse cannot be allowed to persist in democratic society.
“Every time I asked what would happen to my children, or if they could have something to eat, they hit us. They told me I did not matter. They told me my children did not matter,” Jaramillo-Solano told the resource center.
November 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(s...
Hu contrasts méiyǒu liǎn (沒有臉; 'without face') "audacious; wanton; shameless" as "the most severe condemnation that can be made of a person" and bùyào liǎn (不要臉; 'don't want face') "shameless; selfishly inconsiderate" as "a serious accusation meaning that ego does not care what society thinks of his character, that he is ready to obtain benefits for himself in defiance of moral standards".[10]: 51–52 
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
It’s cold and a hurricane and some of these houses floated *miles* off their foundations with people in them.

www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/10/07/f...
Sunday 11:35 a.m. — Entire homes floated miles in flood waters Sunday Category 2 hurricane-force wind gusts whipped through western Alaska Saturday night and Sunday morning. In the Kuskokwim Delta, the Bering Sea is being forced miles inland. In Kipnuk, Tamura Paul woke up to not only water in her home, but her entire house was not where it used to be. Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey spoke with her by phone Sunday morning. She said she was scared and hoping help would come soon. Her family also lives nearby, and their house is floating as well, they think upriver, several miles from where the home left its foundation.
October 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
translated sinclair capitulation note: we give up! blah blah! everyone hated it! they ignored our suggestions wah
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
we must never forget!
image of a bone-suited Zuckerberg being controlled by a possibly real Zuckerberg next to a dangerous looking fireplace during what looks like a temperate daytime soring or summer lake view. there appears to be no exhaust stack on the fireplace which is therefore exhausting ash and carbon dioxide abd carbon monoxide directly into the habitable space.
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
Considering how long people own homes, if you use the aggregated value you will miss trends.

Regional variations and price level dependent buying makes it more obvious still.

www.redfin.com/news/investo...

"In Phoenix, almost one-quarter (24.5%) of homes that sold in the second quarter...
A line graph or chart showing investor market share by home price, split into three bins of low mid and high, these levels are not specified. The time period covered is from 2000 to part of 2024. 24% of all homes in the lowest priced group are being bought by investors.
August 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
new gamut dropping
In practice, we confirm a partial expansion of colorspace toward that theoretical ideal. Attempting to activate M cones exclusively is shown to elicit a color beyond the natural human gamut, formally measured with color matching by human subjects. They describe the color as blue-green of unprecedented saturation. Further experiments show that subjects perceive Oz colors in image and video form. The prototype targets laser microdoses to thousands of spectrally classified cones under fixational eye motion. These results are proof-of-principle for programmable control over individual photoreceptors at population scale.
April 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
Dear baby Jesus, please stop tapdancing and grab the wheel.

www.cnbc.com/2025/04
The U.S. is going to announce "very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals," Trump said at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner. According to the president, the tariffs will cause drug companies to "leave China" and other manufacturing hubs and "come rushing back into our country." Trump has previously floated the idea of tariffs of 25% or higher on pharmaceuticals.
April 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
For absolutely no reason at all here are the US market "circuit breakers" that define market stops during severe market drops:
Level 1 halt (7% decline in S&P 500 index) Trading will halt for 15 minutes if drop occurs before 3:25 p.m. At or after 3:25 p.m.—trading will continue, unless there is a Level 3 halt. Level 2 halt (13% decline in S&P 500 index) Trading will halt for 15 minutes if drop occurs before 3:25 p.m. At or after 3:25 p.m.—trading will continue, unless there is a Level 3 halt. Level 3 halt (20% decline in S&P 500 index) At any time during the trading day—trading will halt for the remainder of the trading day.
April 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
wsj
Tariffs Upend Global Shipping, 'It's a Big Mess Right Now Costas Paris Senior Reporter A Hapag-Lloyd container ship in Hong Kong. About half of all cargo ships in operation are made in China. A Hapag-Lloyd container ship in Hong Kong. About half of all cargo ships in operation are made in China. (Paul Yeung/Bloomberg News) President Trump’s tariffs have upended global shipping. Storage space at U.S. ports is filling up because importers are holding their arriving cargo there rather than clearing it through customs. And big American retailers are calling shipping companies for advice on how to cut their tariff exposure, asking which countries and ports are best for loading cargo. "There are no answers as we are waiting for retaliatory tariffs from China and Europe to figure out any alternative networks," said Nils Haupt, a spokesman for German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. “It's a big mess right now.” The shipping industry is also bracing for an expected executive order from Trump that would impose a charge of around $1 million per port call for Chinese-made ships coming to the U.S. Many ship operators said they plan to skip smaller American ports to cut the cost, which would be passed on to cargo owners. About half of all cargo ships in operation are made in China.
April 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
lyrics from the elvis presley song "So High" including: Well, I ain't been to heaven But I'm told The streets, the streets are pearls You know the mighty, mighty, mighty gates are gold [Chorus] It is high (So high you can't get over it) So wide (So wide you can't get around it) So low (So low you can't get under it) You might as well (You must come in at the door)
March 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
The full page with the numeric data is here:
Page 19 from the FAA document "Air Traffic By The Numbers" covering 2022 and 2023. This is a bar graph and some numbers indicating the go-around rates for the core 30 airports in the US in 2022 and 2023. DCA is the highest.
March 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
In 2023 DCA had the highest go-around rate of the "Core 30" top airports in the US.

DCA's rate was 0.8% and the group's average was 0.39%.
Bar graph of go -arounds for the "Core 30" airports in the US in 2022 and 2023 from an FAA report "Air Traffic By the Numbers."
March 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
i was able to add a space and the send button enblued. but they might have disabled that
snapshot of the apple maps bug reporting menu showing the execrable gulf of pseudo america being reported despite their protofascist disablement of the report for JUST THIS LOCATION
February 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
google parody map of the gulf of dickweeds
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
oh hey wow this is what my google maps looks like
A google maps type map of the Gulf of MEXICO in which the name of the gulf has been changed to "gulf of dickweeds" in a HUMOROUS parody of the thin-skinned fascists' attempted renaming
February 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
i.pinimg.com/originals/03...
a non electronic menu board from a monty python spam episode
February 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
poodlefax.bsky.social
how did this dude get every D senatorial vote of approval?

usa today june 6, 2024
about marco rubio from usatoday.com june 6, 2024: text quoted as follows: He joined seven of the most MAGA-aligned senators in signing a pledge not to confirm any of President Joe Biden's political or judicial appointments, support any non-security related federal funding increases or allow expedited consideration of most Democratic bills – efforts aimed at disrupting the Senate's business in protest of the verdict.
February 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
poodlefax.bsky.social
Joni Mitchell is a genius and I'm glad to be on the same planet as her 🌞
Lyrics by Joni Mitchell part of "Woodstock" And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devil's bargain And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden
January 3, 2024 at 4:40 PM