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Bluesky doesn't seem to have much momentum for me. I haven't been on for a long time. I am still on other platforms linked from my website.
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Robert's guide to a more sustainable future.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Bluesky doesn't seem to have much momentum for me. I haven't been on for a long time. I am still on other platforms linked from my website.
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From the My Bellingham Now KGMI Radio website.
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Queer Joy: Celebrating Pride in Whatcom County - My Bellingham Now
Finding community in an ever-changing landscape can be difficult despite this visibility, which has brought some changes to Whatcom County in the last few years.
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July 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
From the My Bellingham Now KGMI Radio website.
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July 12-13 2025 is Pride Weekend in Bellingham.
July 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
July 12-13 2025 is Pride Weekend in Bellingham.
We've had some rain in Bellingham with cherry trees in bloom.
April 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We've had some rain in Bellingham with cherry trees in bloom.
A good reason for walkable cities with interesting things to see.
I enjoy biking or walking through the neighborhoods of Bellingham with so many gardens, trees and so forth.
Urban areas can be the best for walking or biking.
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I enjoy biking or walking through the neighborhoods of Bellingham with so many gardens, trees and so forth.
Urban areas can be the best for walking or biking.
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I Loathed All Forms of Exercise – Until I Moved to a Big City and Walked Miles
I’d tried running, pilates, and barre, and hated the lot. Then I moved to London and had to start walking more. Shockingly, I enjoyed it.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A good reason for walkable cities with interesting things to see.
I enjoy biking or walking through the neighborhoods of Bellingham with so many gardens, trees and so forth.
Urban areas can be the best for walking or biking.
getpocket.com/explore/item...
I enjoy biking or walking through the neighborhoods of Bellingham with so many gardens, trees and so forth.
Urban areas can be the best for walking or biking.
getpocket.com/explore/item...
From my blog.
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The reaction against immigration is a reaction to overpopulation, but the reaction could even be worse than the problem itself.
The reaction against immigration, in much of the world including USA, is like a symptom of a disease. The disease is over population, but th...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
From my blog.
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A silver lining in all this world economic chaos is that the Republican Party brand is losing popularity.
It looks like Trump has painted himself in to a corner.
It looks like Trump has painted himself in to a corner.
April 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A silver lining in all this world economic chaos is that the Republican Party brand is losing popularity.
It looks like Trump has painted himself in to a corner.
It looks like Trump has painted himself in to a corner.
From my blog.
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The volitility of one person rule.
The Republican Congress has given the president too much power so he can be nearly a dictator via executive order. World stock markets go u...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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Taxes, tariffs, revenue enhancements. All names for similar things.
Taxes, to pay for the government services that people use, are an unpopular concept. Often politicians will call them by a different name; f...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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When workers shot themselves in the foot, politically. Remembering when Reagan fired the PATCO Union that had endorsed him in 1980.
Auto workers union still supports the tariffs thinking it will shift work back to USA. If car sales drop and workers get laid off, they may ...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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Some comparisons between today and the 1960s.
Money is not that good of a measure for quality of life. No amount of money, millions, billions, or even trillions of dollars could have pur...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
From my blog.
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Little Squalicum Pier out into Bellingham Bay is now open to the public during daytime and early evening hours. It built to connect the local cement plant to barges. Cement plant closed in early 1980s. Pier is now used part of the parks department.
April 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Little Squalicum Pier out into Bellingham Bay is now open to the public during daytime and early evening hours. It built to connect the local cement plant to barges. Cement plant closed in early 1980s. Pier is now used part of the parks department.
Hands off protest against Trump had an estimated 3,000 people show up at City Hall in Bellingham.
April 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Hands off protest against Trump had an estimated 3,000 people show up at City Hall in Bellingham.
I recently put pictures from my recent bus / bicycle trip to Skagit County up on Flickr.
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April 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I recently put pictures from my recent bus / bicycle trip to Skagit County up on Flickr.
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From my blog.
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Schumer dodged the bullet of blame on government shutdown and then let the Republicans fall on their own tariff sword.
Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D) dodged a bullet of blame when he voted to along with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and avert a go...
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April 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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Why so many people have more stuff, than in past decades, but feel like they are in more poverty?
I'm old enough to remember the 1960s though I was a child. In many ways, it was a more spartan time than today. Compare the transistor radio...
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April 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
From my blog.
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Due to the law of unintended consequences, Trump and the Republican Party, I think we are headed into a period of austerity and much less material prosperity for most people. A silver lining is the discrediting of the Republican Party.
April 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Due to the law of unintended consequences, Trump and the Republican Party, I think we are headed into a period of austerity and much less material prosperity for most people. A silver lining is the discrediting of the Republican Party.
From my blog.
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Trump's bait and switch. Now it's get used to sacrifice. Since we are ask to do it anyway, it's better to sacrifice consumption for the environment, however.
Concern over inflation is one thing that powered Trump's campaign. Now it looks like "bait and switch" as tariffs are likely to add to infla...
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April 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
From my blog.
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Much of Amtrak Cascades Train service is being restored soon after a partial shutdown when corrosion was found in some railcars.
Extra cars from back east are available to fill in for some of the capacity, including through Bellingham. There are also buses.
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Extra cars from back east are available to fill in for some of the capacity, including through Bellingham. There are also buses.
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Amtrak Begins to Restore Cascades Train Service with Relocated Trains - The Urbanist
# Amtrak has sourced temporary rail cars to restore curtailed Cascades train service, following last week’s removal of 26 Horizon rail cars needing repair for corrosion issues. An additional run to Va...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Much of Amtrak Cascades Train service is being restored soon after a partial shutdown when corrosion was found in some railcars.
Extra cars from back east are available to fill in for some of the capacity, including through Bellingham. There are also buses.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/31/a...
Extra cars from back east are available to fill in for some of the capacity, including through Bellingham. There are also buses.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/31/a...
From my blog.
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Can 8 billion plus people on this planet live the American Dream as currently defined by many?
8 billion plus people, on this planet, can't all live the so called "American Dream" as it's currently defined in much of popular opinion. T...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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Relocalizing manufacturing may not create that many jobs as manufacturing automates more and more as time goes on.
Much of Trump's thin margin in the popular vote was due to promises to reduce inflation and increase prosperity. Now his rhetoric has shifte...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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The ways I would hope we could have avoided to reduce consumption.
Family Planning, like Planned Parenthood does, is a better way to deal with an overwhelming number of mouths to feed than starvation. Today'...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
From my blog.
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From my blog.
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Is US becoming one party state allowing one autocrat to rule by executive order?
This president is basically doing everything with executive orders. Congress is supposed to have a say, but the Republican majority, in Cong...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
From my blog.
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