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(He/Him) Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirate’s life for me!
If BlueSky needs to verify my age they can do it from the drivers license in my iPhone wallet. Anything else is a big no. #AgeVerification @bsky.app @support.bsky.team
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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U.S. citizen and veteran. ICE shattered his windows, peppered sprayed him, yanked him from his car, arrested him, held him incommunicado for three days. Because he was working at a farm where undocumented people also work.

www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/msnbcs...
MSNBC's Chris Hayes interviews U.S. vet who was detained for three days after ICE raid on farm
www.mediamatters.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks.

Those plans fell apart last week when Retes – a US citizen – was detained by federal immigration agents. cnn.it/3GUP3hB
July 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.
June 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
More puzzling than the irresistible force meeting the immovable object.
May 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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So this video is a bit different. Not quite as fun as usual but I really think it bears talking about. Thank you all!

youtu.be/lji2D-hY-iQ
A Couple of BIG Problems About Abu Dhabi Disneyland...
YouTube video by Offhand Disney
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’m dead 😵
April 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don’t mind that I still have an iPhone that uses Lightning. Keeps all the USB-C people in the family from stealing my cables!
March 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Bring back #decades - we’re in the 20s! youtu.be/qo_EHY5jEX4?...
What Happened to Decades?
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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As Repubican Fascists try to roll back clean energy across the US, remember this:

They are not fiscal conservatives.
Some good news: California’s power plants burned 40% less fossil fuel for electricity last year compared to 2023, with battery storage doubled.

“Every major renewable—geothermal, hydro, wind, solar in particular, even offshore wind—is lower cost than fossil fuels”

grist.org/energy/calif...
California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
grist.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth."

- Benoit Blanc in #GlassOnion
January 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
After having recently watched #KnivesOut and #GlassOnion, I’m now obsessed. I’m even binging reaction videos. 🗡️🧅
January 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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"I quickly see the limitations of whatever I say or whatever judgment I make about anything. There’s a wonderful remark of Henry James: “Nothing is my last word on anything.” There’s always more to be said, more to be felt." — Susan Sontag
January 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Apple doesn’t serve well-targeted ads based on text you type, describing exactly what you’re looking for, in the search box in the App Store, but a million gullible idiots believe they’re serving uncannily accurate ads based on snippets of random conversations secretly recorded from across the room.
Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting
I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
January 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hear me out. #MuppetVision 3D, on a #Disney cruise ship.
December 15, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Is it my imagination or are Windows and Office getting increasingly worse at simple copy/paste operations?
December 12, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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WDW was able to build this in a Jelly Store! With a box of scraps!
December 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Everyone thinks they’ll be the one person sitting on the throne of skulls, not one of the 10,000 skulls making up the throne.

(You’ll almost certainly be the skull. I don’t want to be the skull. Neither do you.)
The French Revolution, as a process, killed most of the people who thought it was a good idea to start it.

So did the Russian Revolution.

Both of them ended up in long-lasting tyranny.

Try treating them as lessons, not fairy-stories.
December 5, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but chat/IM/texting is not like a phone call. You don’t need to send “Hello” and wait for the other person to reply “Hello”.
December 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
This is great YouTube. #Carny Mitch Candiano nearly 2 hour interview discussing all kinds of great #carnival #fair and #sideshow topics. youtu.be/XBVyexwTnXI?...
A Carny | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #496
YouTube video by Theo Von
youtu.be
December 1, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I’ve never tried a curved monitor. Are they of any benefit outside gaming? #technology #monitors
November 30, 2024 at 10:55 PM
It’s funny how I can only hear my own accent when I say the word “accent”. #Language #Accents
November 29, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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all hail the thanksgiving tube
November 28, 2024 at 8:25 PM