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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · Nov 13

@darthbluesky.bsky.social, @mollyknight.bsky.social posted about activities beyond resisting. Something to help us recharge.

My job is fighting climate change, so I know you can’t stress 24/7 and stay sane.

How about a🧵with everyone’s hobby’s?

I rock climb in my 60s and create craft cocktails.

A cliff face near Mount Hood. The camera is looking up into a blue sky with a green tree. There is a climber just visible finishing a 5.10d/5.11a route.

A dark purple cocktail with light purple foam in a martini glass. The glass is sitting on a bluish green ceramic coaster on a light wood table.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 26m

However game 1 ends, that was an amazing start from Miller.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2h

They were told they will be fighting Antifa. Nothing prepared them for Cookie Monster doing pelvic thrust. It was an unfair fight.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 2h

How about the Jays, plus Humpy?

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 4h

If you put people under tremendous stress, with no end in sight, they will always get exhausted and desperate. Then the grifters swoop in.

Those utter shitbags, the Wakefields, RFKs, etc. them I’ll judge. The parents? I try not to./end

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 4h

It’s easy to judge parents for wanting to ‘fix’ their children, but we really should take a look at our society. The support and infrastructure still doesn’t really exist. Basic rights have only existed since 1990, and they are being decimated by the eugenicists society put in charge./2

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 4h

They are desperate. Sure there are emotional losers who can’t accept and love their children for who they are, but a lot are like my friends, who have slept in shifts to prevent self injury for the last 35 years. They are terrified for what will happen to their son after they die./1

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 7h

Vance picked interesting examples:

- Trump publicly begged the DOJ to prosecute Hillary in his 1st term: tinyurl.com/bdhvrcfh

- Trump directed the DOJ to investigate Biden in 4 months ago: tinyurl.com/2s3w8fpv

- Trump accused Obama of being “guilty” of “treason” 3 months ago: tinyurl.com/2f6p265z

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 10h

“We’re going to break the law and hump the furniture.”

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 12h

Jim has interesting ideas about what is “entirely appropriate”.

Gym Jordan’s head on an image from the Beavis and Butthead wrestling episode. The caption reads “Ah! help! He’s got a boner!”

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 14h

A few days ago, I wrote up a piece on Republicans routinely forgetting when Biden took office and how the problem seems to be getting worse: tinyurl.com/3bdxp3te

I suddenly wish I’d held off a few more days. (The “Biden FBI” didn’t exist on Jan. 6. Trump was president at the time.)

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 23h

Aktion T4 is how the Nazi’s developed the gas chambers they would later use on the Jews.

“First they came…” is wrong. Fascists always come for the disabled first. Trump falsely blamed the disabled for a plane crash week 1…

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly, well out of the park seems to be the only place PCA can’t get to. Just epic jumps and routes.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 23h

Real Christian persecution…

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. Later Saturday, nearly 1...

www.wbez.org

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
trib.al/KhKsfSb

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone else noticed that the MLB Google AI Cloud ads are all trivial calculations involving stupid things?

“AI Cloud, for stupid shit no one needs to know, but which you could calculate with your fingers and toes…”

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Seems to me a good spicy sausage often leads to a midnight run but, in this case, I have a beef with those particular sausages that dates all the back to their last year at County Stadium.😉

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

But the sausages don’t need to run twice….

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the legs should be permanently added.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

I’m even more skeptical. LLM/TNN is a great classifier, but only when the sample properly matches the training set. In radiology, accuracy of models drops when analyzing samples from hospitals outside the original training sets.

w/o more details, no reason to give the number any credence at all.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond that, Dems have honored an Independent DOJ. Both key players in Epstein’s sweetheart deals have joined the Trump admin.

Further, for several decades the parties have shown vastly different tolerance for elected officials when sexual misconduct is exposed.

Look at Trump’s cabinet…

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

They could also all be put under tremendous pressure just by passing serious SCOTUS ethics/corruption legislation. That’s a much easier lift than expansion and might even vacate some seats.

They are all connected to the corrupt right wing welfare train.

Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

So… Dems are willing to take the hit, even if that means folks like Bill Clinton are embarrassed/indicted, the GOP isn’t.

Of course their motives are at least partially political, but that doesn’t make the distinction any less significant.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe not the best move when you are the party of a wanna be military dictator, but people are allowed to be both evil and stupid.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Mighty Apollo @mightyapollo.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, there is some very new research that assesses “heart age” from an ECG using trained AI models. Like in radiology, a lot hinges on the training set, so I could see them getting this weird outlier and sticking that in a report instead of his cholesterol, obesity, or mental decline.

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