ellestad.bsky.social
ellestad.bsky.social
ellestad.bsky.social
@ellestad.bsky.social
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Tea drinker, husband, pet companion, woodwind musician, enthusiast cook; works in technology. San Francisco, CA. He/Him.
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Dear very rich people in other cities. It appears you can prevent ICE mobilization in your vicinity.
If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.
I guess that whole Onion thing fell through?
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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"PITY THE NATION"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves ...
For the most part oolong tea isn't sold in compressed form. The only real exception is Zhangping Shui Xian from Southern Fujian. It is often sold in these cute little tile shaped pillows. This is a very nice example from Rivers and Lakes tea.

#RiversAndLakesTea #OolongTea #WulongCha #TeaSky
"The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center". Is the point perhaps not the ballroom, but expanding and improving the PEOC?
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Thanks! I usually pick the tea the night before. I really hate making decisions in the morning before I've had my tea.
What tea do you drink on your birthday? Do you pick a special tea or a special type of tea? Or just drink your usual teas? I picked this "Lotus Peak Shui Xian" from Tong Xin She Teahouse as a special tea to start the day and the next year of my life.

#RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #TeaSky
Opening the bag, it is very obvious that this is gardenia flower scented tea. Pleasant enough, but not something I would search out.

#EcoChaTeas #OolongTea #TaiwanTea #TeaSky
This was a bonus sample from the Eco-Cha tea club. Reading the label, "Gardenia Flower Oolong Tea", I wasn't sure if it was Oolong tea with gardenia scent characteristics or if it was Oolong tea scented with gardenia flowers.
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"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Who is the "we" here? Sounds like he is saying American boots on the ground in Gaza aiding IDF.
Dear NPR, perhaps instead of talking to Republican politicians, you could interview people who aren't going to be able to afford health care if the health care subsidies are allowed to expire. @npr.org
Taxation without representation.
"What could possibly go wrong with non-expert oversight of complicated physics projects?" He says as the planet slides down the event horizon into a black hole...
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
They squandered their early momentum attempting to appeal to the center-right.
Plus, they want to do away with all of what they deem "Non-Essential" jobs and services provided by the Federal Government. They want to shrink the government down until it can be drowned in its own bassinet.
The domino albums are still up, but loveless was Sire/Creation? But so was Tremelo, which is up?
Maybe the Nobel committee could acknowledge Alfred Nobel's past and create a new award, the Nobel Dynamite Award, for the person most likely to cause a new world war...
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"If you don't cave in to our demands, we will continue to act on our worst possible instincts." Isn't really the selling point Republicans think it is...
First they co-opt my exercise, then my healthy food, now my sobriety? What's next MAGA? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...