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Bruce Halperin
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"Hey, aren't you the bike guy?" • Information gladly given, but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation • Dog dad to Nutmeg • #1 in the hood, G
Pinned
This is Nutmeg. Nutmeg has never eaten anything in her entire life. [cue sad Sarah McLachlan music] #DogsOfBluesky
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ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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On that note, here's a petition to Mayor Lurie and the current SFBOS to fund social housing:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/fu...
Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was th...
actionnetwork.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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“bail us out or we’ll bank run the entire economy”
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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model numbers:

RP-1304
HL-RP-S1304
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Comedy is legal again
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
When the McFlurry machine is broken
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.

I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Tomorrow!
Check midnightmysterysf.com tomorrow at noon to find out the meetup spot. Go Team Midnight!
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#FIFA has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "spent hours at my house" with a sexual abuse victim and "Of course he knew about the girls" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
No, u cannot haz chicken
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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trump desperately filing a last-minute bid to prevent americans from buying food
Breaking: A federal appeals court just denied a last-minute bid by the Trump admin to temporarily halt some SNAP funding during the shutdown.
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby.

The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We love trains, don’t we folks
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Well this was interesting: a website that can show you how much you can save when using multiple transit agencies. You'd be surprised to find out how much you will save, depending on your commute! clipper2.hikingbytransit.com
Clipper 2.0 Savings Calculator
clipper2.hikingbytransit.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM