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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 1d

Thanks! I would *love* to read what you've found about Irish pickers.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 1d

Thank you!

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Thank you!

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 2d

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

Beneath the Bines: The Multicultural Roots of the Pacific Northwest Hop Harvest

”My dad gave me advice 60 years ago: The day that you think you’re any better than the lowest man on the job is the day you start going backwards.” Bill Coleman represents the fifth of seven generatio...

vinepair.com

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The Don of Beer @thedonofbeer.bsky.social · 2d

Here is my latest for @forbes.com , a fun look at the 2025 Oktoberfest statistics.

www.forbes.com/sites/dontse...

The Beer Flowed During The 2025 Oktoberfest, And So Did The Chicken

An estimated 6.5 million people attended the world’s most famous beer festival and an estimated 6.5 million liters (1.7 million gallons) of beer was served

www.forbes.com

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 7d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

Right now there's a non-zero chance of a Cubs-Mariners World Series.

Yes, I know the absurdity of that sentence. I'm enjoying the feeling, let me dream.

a man is standing next to a robot that says never tell me the odds

ALT: a man is standing next to a robot that says never tell me the odds

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

Clipped headline from an 1872 Chicago Tribune news article, reading "Murder Unpopular."

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

“That rising tide can lift all the boats, so I see this personally as not a so called ‘DEI thing,’” Oliver said. “You know, this is a service to the industry at large. We are the good news in the room, and I think that people are starting to realize that.”

www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b...

BIPOC brewers bring a new perspective to Yakima Valley hop selection

Last week, nearly a dozen MJF awardees made their way to the Yakima Valley for Yakima Chief Hops' annual hop harvest and selection - bringing a new set of faces

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 8d

Your history lesson for today. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 8d

“That rising tide can lift all the boats, so I see this personally as not a so called ‘DEI thing,’” Oliver said. “You know, this is a service to the industry at large. We are the good news in the room, and I think that people are starting to realize that.”

www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b...

BIPOC brewers bring a new perspective to Yakima Valley hop selection

Last week, nearly a dozen MJF awardees made their way to the Yakima Valley for Yakima Chief Hops' annual hop harvest and selection - bringing a new set of faces

www.yakimaherald.com

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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 9d

Added reminder that Ring is giving users' videos to police and cashing in on AI and facial recognition. Get rid of it or risk narcing on your neighbors without you even knowing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

www.eff.org

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 12d

Had a great time at Loza Farms' annual Mexican Night, in Wapato, WA. Met amazing beer folks from Mexico, Argentina, and all over the U.S. There was an actual truckload of beer.

Also got to see my first Yakima golden hour. Breathtaking, but couldn't take pics because I was driving.

Image of a vintage Chevrolet truck inside a hop picking facility. Picking and sorting machinery is in the background. Truck is green, with rust and discoloration showing (intentionally) but also a clear coat protective seal. The rear bed of the truck has been lined, then filled with ice and beer (cans and mini kegs).

Rear view of the same truck, showing the array of craft beer cans and mini kegs. Drinkers are mingling around it.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 12d

There are so many stories and acts of progress, resilience, and American virtues in that museum. They just don't notice because it's Black people doing them.

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 14d

I would, but it clashes with the pinch of sage in my boots.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mv8...

The Simpsons - Put a pinch of Sage in your boots

YouTube video by AreaEightyNine

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 14d

Well damn. I know there are bigger problems in the world but still ☹️

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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 14d

Is Chronicling America working any other people lately? I can't get a single newspaper image to load.

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