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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · Oct 12

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

October 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@alexselbyb.bsky.social

Ouch

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Telegraph obit for Lord Lipsey is excellent and contains this corker
www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Moving to The Economist (from 1994 as political editor), Lipsey felt he had "died and gone to heaven". His "Bagehot" column won an Orwell Prize in 1999, having been runner-up three times. One such column, "Reinventing Michael Portillo", was plagiarised by a 15-year-old schoolboy to win The Guardian's Young Journalist of the Year award. When challenged, the boy said: "I didn't think The Economist was widely read".

July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Sohrab Ahmari

@sohrabahmari.bsky.social

The entire Right gets on my nerves more often than not

In a way that's hard to pinpoint down to one cause and isn't reducible to Trump (who's doing some reasonable things and some terrible things).

Other factors:

1. The rise of racism, esp. the IQ/eugenic variety. Always there, now *overt*.

1/x

May 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen

@aussiastronomer.bsky.social

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

March 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM

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Bryan Boatman

@bryanboatman.bsky.social

Direct hit on the Sunset Fire in Hollywood. 🎯

Nice work, @lafd.bsky.social #LAFD c/o @nbcla.bsky.social 👨🏼‍🚒

January 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM

scottsyms.bsky.social

@scottsyms.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9B...

GPS jamming (& spoofing) explained

YouTube video by Flightradar24

www.youtube.com

December 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM

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Charlie Angus

@charlieangus104.bsky.social

It's not Christmas until you turn on the Skydiggers.
Their version of Good King Wenceslas is so beautiful.
Merry Christmas folks. Look out for each other.
These are hard and mean times.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9WC...