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Ray Radlein
@radlein.bsky.social
Old. "Atlanta." He/Him.

Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats

I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
Gonna go get ready to go to the vet soon, and do Attempt Number Three at getting Yuki there for her perfectly routine shots.
January 19, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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It's so insane that they're keeping one of the worst gm's in the league and a mediocre OC but firing the guy who almost polished this turd all the way to the conference final.
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Everyone I know here in Buffalo feels stunned. My group chats are full of "no one likes Legumes why do we have to keep eating them" jokes
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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This isn’t as egregious as Schoen, but I wasn’t watching the game this weekend thinking McDermott screwed up

I was thinking *a lot* about the problems with the Bills roster.
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Re: Sean McDermott getting fired, I ask once again: why are all these GMs keeping their jobs when they bear more responsibility for team failure?
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately.

The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.
90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Can report from Kentucky that people care, distilleries are anxious, and real pain is being felt across the industry and beyond.
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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I think the big distillers care *a lot* about the whiskey boycott, because Canada punched way above its weight when it came to consuming our spirits.
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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They should forget trying to target red states and find a way to target the US elite instead.
January 19, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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This would affect the broad middle class, plus US elites, culture tastemakers, media figures, businessmen. CNN would be upset. Trying to precisely target red states is too clever, no one cared that Canada boycotted Kentucky whiskey. Has to be a throat punch
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over
January 19, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it.

These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
January 19, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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being a conservative grifter like this is crazy because how do you completely flip on one of your most central supposed beliefs like this. like this is absurd. does this not embarrassing them at all
January 19, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
AP Source: Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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First little job this morning is to fit a small retaining clip that was missing when I went to fit the new Rick Oleson Bright screen in December to my Rolleicord V.

#filmphotography #believeinfilm
January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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The operator of WorldCat has won a default judgment against pirate site Anna's Archive directing it to delete WorldCat data and stop storing, scraping, or using it; assumption is it won't comply arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
arstechnica.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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It took me nearly two hours, but I just finished building the LEGO Ideas Disney Pixar Luxo Jr. set.

It got confusing in the third stage, but I am happy to have an icon standing on my desk.

#Lego #Disney #Pixar
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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When I went to the civil rights museum in Memphis, that was what stood out to me. They were so tactical in their choices.

Ok, next we'll do lunch counters. We'll be sure to pick stores that have locations in the North that can be shamed.

That worked, now we'll go after ....
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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This Ben Jealous column is a gentle introduction/reminder to how leadership that brings solidarity and community can in fact be so effective against oppression, those benefiting from oppression will assassinate those trying to end it...

chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
MLK's last mission — uniting the poor across racial lines — remains unfinished
He understood that bringing racially divided groups together could build enough power to secure health care, fair wages, food security and basic stability for all.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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As a side note, California has kept MLK Day free for state parks!
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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You sure we shouldn’t just spend the whole day on infighting again?
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Lewis himself writes about this in March, and it comes across that 1) he understands why they made him soften his rhetoric, and 2) he's still a little annoyed they made him change the speech.
January 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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True and what is sometimes overlooked is that the movement was not a single person's leadership or belief about the correct course of actions. There are definitely lessons there about working together toward a common goal with incredibly disparate beliefs.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM