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a man with a beard is talking to another man in a superhero costume
Alt: a man with a beard is talking to another man in a superhero costume
This is a personal feed for @rvbdrm.com so he can experience Bluesky, with reduced exposure to "Donald Trump." If you want to make your own, message him directly.
Feed on BlueskyI like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.
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The Corporations Quietly Buying Up Altadena
I combed through public records to uncover who’s been scooping up burned lots in and around the L.A. community—and it’s not your neighbor.
taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest
Garcia has sued the maker of an AI chatbot she says pushed her 14-year-old son to kill himself. “A ( AI) moratorium gives companies free rein to create and launch products that sexually groom children and encourage suicide, as in the case of my dear boy.” apnews.com/article/cong...
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The @unbreaking.org team just launched its blog, and this post from Sydette is really something special. “Nothing ever comes back exactly the same. But if we know what has changed, what is being destroyed—but also what can be saved—then we can hope that something even better can be rebuilt.”
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Ann Arbor City Planning Commission 7/1/25
YouTube video by CTN Ann Arbor
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad. But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout. Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
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Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states
The Supreme Court has thrown out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths.
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I'm going to re-up this. Lisa Murkowski just gave a two-minute, unintentional master-class in why the GOP of the MAGA era will be studied forever in chronicles of cowardice. These are the two minutes she should be remembered for. (She could have stopped this bill.)
🚨The FCC just announced it will defy federal law. It is delaying implementation of the bipartisan Martha Wright-Reed Act, a bill authored by Senator @duckworth.senate.gov that ensures prison communications are priced fairly and no longer exploit incarcerated people and their families. 🧵