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David C B

@tzed250.bsky.social

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He/Him father husband cyclist woodworker hi-fi vegetarian I can't be a bad person I wear Carhartt and use smoked paprika!

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 3h

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 4h

Woah cool!!
I never did buy one, looks like mint copies are worth some money now.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 4h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Jordy created a simple website where visitors are invited fo contribute $35 to "provide an infiatable costumes forTrue American.

Pardon the inflation pun

"This whole thing has blown up a lot."

www.operationinflation.com

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 5h

Hahahaha

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 11h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 6h

PRINTED IN REAL KISS BLOOD

A Marvel Comic super special featuring KISS in all their glory.

Forty pages of full-color comics.
Plus never-before-published photos and features.
Printed in real KISS blood.

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 6h

I was never really into them but they had some catchy songs and boy those stage shows…

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

😂

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

So long Ace Frehley, thanks for most of the music

tidal.com/browse/track...

Ace Frehley - New York Groove

Listen to New York Groove on TIDAL

tidal.com

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

Not on the inside anyway 😜

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

Some hifi nerds use three little tubes like these to make a vibration damping turntable plinth!

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

@josebeentv.bsky.social on the comms!
#tourofholland
Fall racing

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

Replaced 4 tubes on the garden cart today, here’s to another 15 years!
I didn’t have any baby powder so I had to use athletes foot powder to lubricate the tubes lol
I should shoe goo the tires, they are pretty funky

A green steel garden cart on its side, I’m holding an electric tire pump, on the ground is some gloves, a screwdriver, a Swiss Army knife, a flat tube in 4.10x3.50 -4 size, etc.

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 7h

Hell yeah!

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 11h

The market for cast iron and carbon steel replacement rice cooker and instapot liners is gonna be LIT

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 11h

I apologize in advance to my new cycling followers for all the other stuff I post as well.

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 12h

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 12h

Coatings will always fail but at least if they’re biologically neutral they might not kill you (as fast (microplastics LOL))

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 13h

there are non-teflon (non-PTFE) anti-stick coatings FYI

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David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 13h

😂🫡

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 13h

yay!

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 13h

HAHAHAHAHA I don’t know why I thought you were in Holland or something LOL
I’m crazy

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 16h

And in the olden times the recommendation was to spend just 1/4 of your take-home pay on housing… this is mathed on 1/3!

David C B @tzed250.bsky.social · 16h

Apparently we would rather protect the property rights of 50 homeowners than have high-speed rail between Boston and DC

* I made that number up but that was the gist of the argument in the 1980s when we were planning the Acela… crazy

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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