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Patrick Lee
@trickalee.bsky.social
Ladder climber, coattail rider, ownership taker

Superpower: I can ride Small World at Disneyland a dozen times and come out closer to nirvana than when I began. It is the true Madhyamāpratipada

Unless otherwise noted all pictures were taken by me.
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Oh no my mentions are toast

Just going to use the fact I have your attention to drop the donation link for our campus food pantry, they really need the help right now:
Donate | College of Health | University of Alaska Anchorage
Donation information for the UAA Seawolf Food Pantry
www.uaa.alaska.edu
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Here’s a block list:

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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She nails it. 🔥

I’ll just add one thing: Emmett Till’s mother’s choice was for a reason.
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
September 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Please: DO NOT NORMALIZE OR EXPLAIN AWAY ARMED MILITARY ENGAGED IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN AMERICAN CITY. If it doesn’t seem that off base or unusual to you, perhaps it’s because you are not the target of this.
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets today in NYC.

After marching, we surrounded 26 Federal Plaza—the building where ICE is kidnapping people and tearing families apart.

We sat in solidarity with those taken, and left flowers for those lost.

For what comes next go to GoodTroubleNYC.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Himantopus mexicanus, in the San Francisco Bay lands

#bird #photography
July 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’m loving this audiobook right now 🥰
July 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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There are just a few hours left in this sale! Get the audiobook for my Nebula-winning novel for just seven bucks.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on mu...
www.audible.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Such a fabulous book
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Live video of ICE terrorists rolling in military vehicles to a farm in Camarillo, CA to abduct people www.youtube.com/live/cZ0YStV...
LIVE: Feds conduct immigration raid at Camarillo farm
YouTube video by ABC7
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A Google building by Moffett Field
#photography
July 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Diddy's trial: Prosecutors missed the enterprise deal on racketeering, settled for the downsell. Always aim high, but have that tiered pricing fallback. Partial revenue, not zero revenue.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-trial-verdict-24f56e50
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Found Not Guilty of Racketeering and Sex Trafficking
The music mogul was convicted of less serious offenses, a blow for prosecutors who had targeted him in a sprawling case that alleged he ran a criminal enterprise for over two decades.
www.wsj.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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15 hour flight + 12 hour detention + 15 hour flight = one of the harder experiences of my life

I had it easy, one woman had been in that detention room 4 days when I arrived, she’s still there
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")
June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard?

One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended.

Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. 

Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines 

Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Imagine a British accent on NPR saying “On Friday, regime security forces fired riot suppression ordinance at nonviolent demonstrators protesting the detention of a prominent labor leader in a populous western region.”
LAPD now sweeping the area of Alameda in front of MDC where protesters confronted DHS. Many less lethals being deployed.
June 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Help keep quality journalism limping along.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM