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Riverdaleboy

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Fled Toronto to rough it Covid-free in Kawartha while rescuing an old frontier house single-handed. 316.18 ppm CO2 at birth.

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · Mar 18

WWPW
(What would Putin want?)

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · Mar 16

Illustration by Dominic McKenzie, for The Guardian

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 17m

Where does bsky let me use/control/cancel account labellers? I can't find it.

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 22m

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 2h

They're both loons

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 2h

I could do this all day.

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 2h

I have 600M year old dark grey mudstone across the street...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 3h

Kremlin apologist.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 3h

WaPo: China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers wapo.st/437RTYw (🎁 link)

China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

wapo.st

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 13h

Why does anyone bother with this stuff

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 17h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 15h

Checks will polly have his sig on them

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 16h

This guy is great. He makes me believe I might actually pull this off.

youtu.be/Hl0HYcx2wdc?...

How to Repair Shellac Finish & Tint the Color: Shellac Amalgamation, a Fixing Furniture Restoration

YouTube video by Fixing Furniture

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 16h

I need to learn how to restore an old, alligatored shellac finish.

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 16h

You get some of this in really remote places

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

In plain English:

Troops remain federalized for now, but cannot be deployed in Illinois.

Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

The trials of litigating against Trump

As Trump troop deployments are blocked in Chicago, Trump appellate appointees push back on the order blocking deployments in Portland. And, another Trump target indicted.

www.lawdork.com

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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 17h

With supreme power

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 18h

Even my FOMO has FOMO

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 20h

This Halloween I'm going as Sexy Pepe

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 20h

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 23h

I was never a big consumer of them, having always limited processed, fried, and salty foods, but I have noticed the price exceeding 2 cents per gram in "economy" sized packages.

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 23h

Four dimensional cognitive dissonance right there.

Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody please post an ai image of triple handcuffs