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Elves, Singing Beside Their Longbows🇺🇸 🌠 🦌
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Fan of fantasy, sci-fi, critters, and spec-fic critters. I follow you if you're interesting, or friendly, or you helped me beat up a Nazi in one of BlueSky's dark alleys.
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If anyone else dropped out, wouldn't be the first time Ballotpedia lags a little.
Alcala, Costello, Evans, Favreau, LaFlamme, Mills, Platner, Rodriguez, Wood listed as Democratic candidates on Ballotpedia.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Copied paragraph was in the SmartNews version; the freebie from Nation is the front half of the piece only.

It seemed important.

www.thenation.com/article/envi...
It’s no stretch, at this late date, to conclude that nothing short of revolution, in some form, will be required to salvage progressive visions of a better world. It should be obvious—and always should have been obvious—that climate activists, a mere climate movement, can’t do this alone. What’s required, and always has been, is not simply a broader, better organized, more powerful “climate left”; what’s required is a far more powerful left—a resurgent, revolutionary left—a movement of movements, a popular front in which the total defeat of fascism and of fossil capital are understood as inseparable.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Define "real job." Wikipedia:
Since 2011, Schlossberg has written for numerous publications and news outlets, including Time, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Politico, and CNN. He has also written op-eds for The New York Times, USA Today, and HuffPost.[18] In 2015, Schlossberg started working at Rakuten, a Japanese internet and e-commerce company, in Tokyo.[19][12] He also worked at the Japanese distillery Suntory.[12] He met Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, while visiting Sendai accompanying his mother on her duties as US ambassador to Japan.[20] Schlossberg returned to the United States in 2016 to work as a staff assistant in the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.[21] He had a cameo role in the eighth-season finale of the television show Blue Bloods in 2018.[22][23] Schlossberg began working for Vogue as a political correspondent in 2024 after graduating from Harvard Law School and passing the bar exam.[24][25]
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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The good news is that we can do this too:
At the same time, the Seven Mountains Mandate doesn’t depend on centralized leadership or formal institutions. It spreads organically through social networks, social media – notably podcasts and livestreams – and revivalist meetings and workshops.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Painting of inebriated-seeming young man sneering and pointing to his palm in a demanding way.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Speaking of stunning numbers, Georgia, which already requires voter ID and purges voter rolls on the regular, but which also has electronic/paper ballots to check against each other, just had these statewide results:
Public Service Commission District 2, Democrat won w/ 62.7% of vote. Public Service Commission District 3, Democrat won w/ 62.9% of vote.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Pass it on...
Headline "Pantries flooded with new people"... ... while the President hosts a Great-Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. There is a large amount of gilt, and no feeling of guilt in evidence.
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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*chuckle*
Ecosia search results: Unfortunately we didn't find any news for "Joel Osteen Donation."
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I hope he's paying "invasion" extra, out of his own pocket.
'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’ Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. ‘They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!’ ‘Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice ‘what that means?’ ‘Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. ‘I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.’ ‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone. ‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.’
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Darn it, I have a hundred things I ought to be doing and instead I'm playing Find The Oil. So far and I'm quitting now:

Since 2023, the US has replenished the Strategic Oil Reserve by 50m barrels.

Wind turbines average 2 barrels/year in lubrication, and
WWEA report on installed wind capacity from 2022 and projecting continued growth to 1 mil megawatts by 2023.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Well, DAMN, honey!

Via r/LeopardsAteMyFace
Can't copy-paste from this device. 3x Trump voter excoriating Trump.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Me, when the AI tries to intrude on my characters' dialogue:
Eiwyn declaring "I will smite you if you touch him" to Word AI Nazgul.
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Next up: the Treebeard Paper and Stationery Company.
Elrond Cryptocurrency
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Row of ninjas holding twigs, explaining "We are a hedge. Please move along" and "Really, we're a hedge," to a boy and a stuffed tiger on a bicycle. From The Tick, Ben Edlund, original comic book series in black and white.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” Attributed to commenter Davis X. Machina, in a post at Balloon Juice.
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Something to remember as US car manufacturers scale back their EV production.

www.coxautoinc.com/insights-hub...
"New cars sold, by type, world" chart from Our World In Data. Types are electric, in blue, and non-electric, in orange. The blue is taking up a steadily larger share of each bar, regardless of total. Graph runs from 2010 to 2024.
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
A tall man and a small.
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Well, THAT horse left the barn.
East Wing of White House with large hole, excavator, and "Coming Soon: Spirit Halloween" banner.
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
reindeerarebetter.bsky.social
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness:

Twofer special. I picked up this print at DragonCon, from an artist with Ghibli-inspired prints, so Howl and Sophie.

But easily Elrond giving Celebrian the grand tour of Imladris.
Slim black-haired male figure in a golden meadow, looking back. He is leading a female figure with silver hair and a youthful face. Her free hand has an armload of flowers. There is a river or lake in the distance.
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Found another one for the blockery. Screen name checks out.
Obnoxious-idiot.bsky says "LOL, Trump is a master troller and you idiots fall for it every time!"
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Maybe Vance shouldn't throw around the words "unindicted co-conspirator" too casually.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
'"I've been reliably informed that Democrats are opposed to any kind of political violence, so I look forward to them condemning Zohran Mamdani for campaigning with an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist plot that killed 6 New Yorkers," Vance wrote.' Yes, same Vance that's been honking on about violent Democrats all week. Surprise, surprise.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
reindeerarebetter.bsky.social
Props to HuffPo:
“We’re going to be meeting in Hungary. Viktor Orbán is going to be hosting,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, referring to his friend, that country’s authoritarian president.
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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"Talk to your PC and let AI control it."
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending." Final clause highlighted.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor." Voltaire
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM