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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃

@mikell.bsky.social

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Boston-based robotics nerd whose strong opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the gay pirates, Star Wars, and sarcasm. It’s pronounced “Michael”. I am cringe and I am free.

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve had a bunch of flights recently move departure time up! All delta, so maybe that means it’s corporate?

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 2h

It is! Esp a redeye that means they’re now paying for hotels for everyone!

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 5h

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 2h

Delta. Hard commitment to achieving on-time arrivals apparently.

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 4h

Update: they actually pushed back 5 min early and we all missed the connection. Motherfucker.

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 5h

Do we think my redeye flight is gonna hold departure and wait for the 18 people on this delayed flight trying to make the connection, or

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 5h

Do we think my redeye flight is gonna hold departure and wait for the 18 people on this delayed flight trying to make the connection, or

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 5h

::giggles in FNQ::

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

These are called cane toads and they're a serious problem

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia with her hair up, wearing a white poofy coat.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h

gone too soon fr

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 14h

Have they heard the good news about Google Reader

That was the correct way to consume the internet I tell you what

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alex block @alexblock.bsky.social · 15h

“I live my life without a transit schedule, and I like it.”

That’s a great, succinct statement about the benefits of frequent service.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19h

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

futurism.com/space/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

futurism.com

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 15h

He is truly awesome

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 15h

Well I mean if your baby is IN your placenta I think Tylenol giving it autism is truly the least of your worries

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 15h

reality

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 15h

Managed an awesome short notice meetup with @niedermeyer.online over breakfast! Very exciting to finally meet a long time moot who taught me exactly how much mobility innovation I can take.

Selfie photo showing me and Ed Niedermeyer in front of a cafe

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 17h

Oh not at all. It’s just the combo of the progressive vibes I associate with Portland and a regressive sort of shtick, coupled with the weather here seeming too cold on average for comfort in a bikini..?????

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 17h

For all the faults of the ACA and how much I wish it had been real single-payer healthcare, it was absolutely a correct and astute political move toward “Americans should have a reasonable expectation of being able to afford medical care”.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 18h

valid

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve been in war-torn Portland for about 15 hours now and I’m frankly offended that no one has tried to recruit me to antifa yet

Selfie of me looking confused/sad while holding a large mug of steaming tea in front of a cozy brick fireplace at a cafe

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 18h

iconic