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Sheila Scarborough

@theseafarer.bsky.social

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Speaker, educator, writer. Love tourism, travel, and social media. Tourism Currents and Perceptive Travel Blog co-founder. US Navy veteran. Caffeinated.

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · Nov 7

"I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution." Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan sculpture at AUS Austin Icons at the Airport

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI: my cheat sheet to November elections has dozens of local elections that are critical for local power on all sorts of issues.

one thing to spotlight: conservative majorities on school boards are on the line, again, with key hotspots in CO, TX, and PA.

see here:
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

boltsmag.org

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15h

ANTIFA:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 4d

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 28d

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Dan Lewis @nowiknow.com · 18h

There are currently more than 20,000 people watching a live stream of the Banana Ball 2026 City Selection Show. Their marketing is so much better than MLB's tepidness, it's amazing.

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World War I As It Happened (1918) @warhappened.bsky.social · 19h

After nearly a week surrounded by the enemy in the Argonne forest, the "lost battalion" of the American 77th Division has reestablished contact with the rest of the American forces in the area. Out of over 500 men, less than 200 still stand; the rest killed, wounded or missing.

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 1d

. . . Or what the plan is when elders can no longer drive, and rural transportation options are limited.

🎃ℝ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝕐 𝕄𝕆𝕌ℕ𝕋𝔸𝕀ℕ 𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎𝕊🎃 @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 1d

So many people claim that they want to retire to some rural location because land is cheaper and there is less crime, etc.

I wonder if they think about how often older people need to go to doctors or to a hospital.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 1d

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant, Oklahoma, in the southeast part of the state:

perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

#TravelSky #travel #RoadTrip #JeffersonHighway

How to Spend a Day in Durant OK

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant OK.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

*makes sign of the cross*

Matt Wagner @mattwag.bsky.social · 2d

I had a roommate who was obsessed then moved to just drinking Kahlúa straight.

Let me tell you, a dorm room cannot handle the smell of someone throwing up straight Kahlúa all night.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a mob boss in a bad movie, but for real the President talking about federal employees.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 3d

The annual Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is spectacular, y'all.

#TravelTuesday #TravelSky #travel #NewMexicoTRUE

Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 3d

Here’s the one terrible photo I snapped while at a standstill on an overpass. Sorry it doesn’t do it justice. At ALL.

Albuquerque blue sky dotted with balloons. Not a great photo alas

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 3d

There are lots of opinions about the best Chicago deep dish pizza, but I vote for Lou Malnati's. Get ready for a very filling meal and homey atmosphere:

perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

#TravelTuesday #TravelSky #travel #EatLocal

Lou Malnati's: Going Local for Chicago-style Deep Dish Pizza

There are lots of opinions about the best Chicago deep dish pizza, but I vote for Lou Malnati's. Get ready for a very filling meal and homey atmosphere.

perceptivetravel.com

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 3d

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 3d

Why has no one learned that when Meta declares a tech pivot, it is solely for their own benefit and proceeds to fail everyone else spectacularly?

If I see you out in public with these, you'll have to take them off to even sit at the table with me. I don't care if they're prescription. They're rude.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Today in luxury surveillance.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 3d

👇👇 What she said. Trump is NOT popular right now, what his administration is doing is not popular, and he's an idiot surrounded by suckup assclowns 🤡. Do not be intimidated.

Show up when it matters, y'all, and that is now.

Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 3d

If I hear 'keep your head down' from one more leader, especially a senior military I will scream in a primal maternal way.
Leadership and ethics matter most when they cost. No temptation, no honor.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 3d

Don't let your perfectionism make a project seem bigger or harder than it is.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 5d

We're in dark times. Make sure you have secure ways to communicate. Today I connected on Signal with an old high school friend, who also happens to be a lawyer. You never know, and it pays to be prepared.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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www.theatlantic.com

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 6d

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 6d

IYKYK

a black and white photo of a man with the words just got paid it 's friday night

Alt: a black and white GIF of the Johnny Kemp music video with the words just got paid it 's friday night

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 6d

We really need to pay attention to this Sora AI video development, y'all. 😬

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 6d

Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 7d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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