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Milquetoast Gen-X father, PDX transplant to New Zealand, Science, politics, disc golf, board games, motorcycle touring, trash fiction consumer.
Broncos, Blazers, Ducks, Avs, All Blacks
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"A kahikatea forest remnant site in north Waikato has seen a near complete disappearance of tradescantia after the leaf beetle, stem beetle, and smut fungus all established there between 2019 and 2021. This site is now seeing recovery of native ferns and tree seedlings."
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Apparently Journalism is no longer about holding power to account. Just let them spin whatever lies and narrative they want just say “fair enough”. JFC
Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Chair of America First Women. Co-founder of Women for Trump.
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel

by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day
111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration
YouTube video by Odd Tinkering
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This on the other hand is one of 4 public libraries (+1 Uni library) built by the US Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie in Washington DC alone!

2,509 were built between 1883 & 1929.

During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350m equivalent to $6.9 billion in 2025 money
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🤩 That's us! Look at that handsome bird! Let's see... Tarāpuka? Tarāpunga? Koekoeā? Toroa? Who else is shouty?
I decided to get behind #Birdoftheyear2025 so I've written a guide and done some drawings for 9 underappreciated birds. Here's one for hākoakoa #skua since I was inspired by @hakoakoa-boty.bsky.social
The guide comes out tomorrow. Can you guess which other birds are on my list?
September 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Vote for the bird as BOLD and ORIGINAL as you are. Vote Hākoakoa #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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We're a week into voting with one more to go, whānau ngā manu. Don't do something you might later regret. Vote SKUA for #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Top predators matter. Skuas matter. The whole food web depends on them doing their job just as much as it depends on primary producers. Vote for a bird who lives wild & free. Vote skua #birdoftheyear2025 @forestandbird.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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What counts is who you give it to. Vote SKUA #birdoftheyear2025 #skua #skuasforever @forestandbird.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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If you think Tylenol is bad for children, wait until you find out about guns.
September 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Saw Superman last night. Entertaining and lost of well deserved criticism but one thing Gunn knows how to do well is drop the needle on some songs that fit perfectly. This won’t make sense til you see the film but this is a brilliant fit: open.spotify.com/track/7yHRma...
Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) - As featured in Superman
Teddybears, Iggy Pop · Soft Machine · Song · 2006
open.spotify.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's.

“I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
www.motherjones.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Under Reagan's tax cuts, the average tax cut for the top 1% was 68x larger than the average cut for middle-class households.

Under Bush's tax cuts, it was 16x larger.

And under Trump, 36x larger. 

The GOP has always governed for the privileged few.
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
July 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM