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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 15h

Ballroom will cover multiple sub basements redesigned by the companies for...

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 16h

On RAGBRAI this year, I met 2 people from Australia who didn't know each other and had just met.
07.20.2025

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

*Correction: Mount Massive Wilderness. Whoops, I should think about where I was hiking before I post.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

*Correction: Mount Massive Wilderness. Whoops, I should think about where I was hiking before I post.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

There are people mocking trump questioning if he'll go to heaven. But I get it. It's human nature to question one's legacy and one's future. When I die, I want my eyes to be closed and my heart to be open, and I can honestly say that I am not in that place.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

Waldo, Kansas. 06.22.2025

A larger-than-lifesize wood cutout of Waldo stand in front of a metal frame of horseshoes and wagon wheels on a faded red picnic rables under a faded red picnic shelter in the town of Waldo, Kansas.

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

My muggle sister lives in the area of Point 8. What geocache(s) does this map tie to?

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

I mean.. *gestures at our present circumstances* what have I got to lose?

Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what would happen if I sent that PO box $2.50

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

Halfmoon Creek ripples and shines on a sunny June day, carrying the meltwater down from 13ers and 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. 06.15.2025

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

Halfmoon Creek ripples and shines on a sunny June day, carrying the meltwater down from 13ers and 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. 06.15.2025

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's scary movie season, but might I suggest you watch Under The Tuscan Sun?

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 | #MSH45 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 3d

#MSH45 | Oct. 19, 1980
The explosions are over at Mount St. Helens. Now, the rebuilding has begun.

ABC News's Tom Schell talks with Portland State University experts on the eruptive events of the last few days and the growth of the new lava dome in the crater.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 3d

Try finding them on a military base in a combat zone. You're not paranoid if you think the tethered dirigible full of cameras in the sky is following you.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

This is funny, but also like... I don't think a lot of people grasp that California has a state diplomat corps comparable to the US Department of State. They really, really do cultivate and maintain deep and abiding international relationships independent of the larger federal government.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

Uhh at this point does Los Angeles have more allies than the United States?

A permanent sign outside LA City Hall that says sister cities and it shows them going in every direction and how many miles away the city is

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 5d

Maryam Lamei (Iran, b. 1985)
You & Me seem to have be one, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
www.maryamlamei.com/product/you-...
#BirdsInArt #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists

surreal portrait of two fantastical rosey birds embracing, heads snuggled together and heavily feathered bodies melded together; birds are colored on a pink gradient with pale pink heads and feathers becoming gradually darker pink (bottom of frame filled with scarlet feathers); small but of grey background visible at top of frame

“Maryam has been also inspired by the Iranian origins of ‘Flower and Bird (Golomorgh)’ paintings in her works.
In these Projects, she has created some beautiful works by a combination of historical methods of Golomorgh and her creation. She has gone beyond the traditional methods and makes her own style.”

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 6d

This wouldn't be a problem if the feds would allow interstate commerce...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 9d

Still struggling to work out the antipathy towards “antifa.”

Who could be anti-anti-fascist?

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ChuckInOregon @chuckinoregon.bsky.social · 10d

The wearing of masks to hide identity while terrorizing people who aren’t white is today’s version of the white robes and face covering.

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Escape From Flatland @escapefromflatland.bsky.social · 13d

So that's why my photos with my orange pack in the foreground always look good. Thank you.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17d

Trump wants to play Russian style power games with soldiers in an imaginary war- but its not a game. He’s playing with real soldiers against real civilians in America’s cities.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17d

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from sending members of California's — or any other state's — federalized National Guard to the streets of Portland, Oregon.

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