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DabiDown
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Grandfather. Kahu to Dabi a 57 m/o MAS. Ex-zookeeper. Minecraft Bedrock, art and needle felting noob. Leaning towards misanthropy & sakoku. Celebrate amateur athletes.Treat the earth well. Borrow only what you need. Elbows Up. NPR 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇲🇽🇬🇱🇨🇿PBS Resist Antifa
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Hoping DIL is successful ordering the Lego Creel House at midnight.

#Family #Lego #StrangerThings #TheCreelHouse
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January 1, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Happy New Year to all who celebrate. I will not use fireworks emojis. Do not want to promote the use of such toxic and planet destroying products. Such emojis should be banned as well as fireworks. Have no practical use.

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Fireworks Pollution Impact Of Fireworks On Human Health | Ocean Blue
Firework shows have been around for years. How much pollution do they really cause? What type of damage can a two-minute firework show cause?
oceanblueproject.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Making Content Accessible to People with a Vision Impairment Part 2 – #hashtags and using #CamelCase – Disability Access Consultants
Some suggest placing an underscore between the hashtag words.

#HashTags #CamelCase #Underscore #Vision_Impaired

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Making Content Accessible to People with a Vision Impairment Part 2 – #hashtags and using #CamelCase
A hashtag is a way to reach more audiences on social media. People who don’t know you can quickly find and see your business using hashtags. We can increase a hashtag’s readability by u…
accesscentral.com.au
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Making Content Accessible to People with a Vision Impairment Part 1 – Alt Text for Images – Disability Access Consultants

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I use Seeing AI app for my ALT text descriptions.
#Vision_Impaired #ALT_text #Seeing_AI_app

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Making Content Accessible to People with a Vision Impairment Part 1 – Alt Text for Images
A picture is worth a thousand words, but not to people who can’t see it! Therefore, image descriptions are vital to people with visual impairment or low vision. Image descriptions, aka Altern…
accesscentral.com.au
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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If you need an entirely selfish reason to include alt text, you will up your chances of getting reposted if you do. I look at a LOT of art on here every day and take note of how much attention it's getting and ones with alt text tend to get reposted more in my admittedly non-scientific sampling 🤷‍♂️
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A new study from British Columbia may have captured the first documented case of tool use by a wild wolf. Footage shows a female wolf pulling a crab trap ashore using its buoy and rope before tearing it open for the bait. Amazing! Act for wolves now at TeamWolf.Org !
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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MAGA?
Make America God Awful?

If it fits…
December 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Chillin’ with my hoomn in the dunes on a sunny day. Tillamook Head and Clark’s Mountain in the background.

#Dabi #MAS #American_Miniature_Shepherd #PNW #Clarks_Mountain #Tillamook_Head #Dogs_Of_Bluesky #Bluesky_Dogs
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December 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The Puzzler
Our favorite jigsaw puzzle. We have pieced this together numerous times. Wife now the main puzzler.

#Puzzles #Jigsaw_Puzzle #Peter_Blume #Hadrians_Villa
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December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Serenity. Serenity Now.

Just past high tide on the North Coast. Sunny. Calm winds.
38°F 3.33C
Beautiful morning.

#Serenity #PNW #North_Coast #Clarks_Mountain #Tillamook_Head #Strand #Beach_Grass
December 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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What it takes for become a Columbia River Pilot

“CCC alum Kyle Burkhalter Charts Course to Become a Columbia River Pilot” | Clatsop Community College

#Columbia\River_Pilot #CCC #PNW #Astoria

www.clatsopcc.edu/ccc-alum-kyl...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Taking a break in the dunes with Dabi. Enjoying the peace. Contemplation. Shoulder of Clark’s Mountain in background.

#Dabi #Dunes #Dogs_Of_Bluesky
#Peace #Contemplation #PNW #North_Coast #Clarks_Mountain
The image shows a person wearing a brown and black jacket with a hat, sitting in a grassy field. A black dog with a white and tan face is next to the person, looking to the right with its tongue out. The sky is overcast with clouds, and there are hills visible in the background. The person is holding a rope or leash, which is visible across their chest.
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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A gaze of raccoons behind the house.
#Raccoons #Gaze #Trail_Cam #Wildlife #Nature #PNW #North_Coast
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Radio drama 'The Archers' turns 75 : NPR
I happened to catch the program’s 60th anniversary and have been listening since. Easy to get hooked.

#TheArchers #Radio_Drama #BBC_Radio

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Radio drama 'The Archers' turns 75
The world's longest-running radio drama turns 75 in January. 'The Archers' chronicles a fictional farming family in England, navigating climate change, mental health and romance.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FIREWORKS
Skies will be filled with particulate matter & heavy metals. Billions of plastic pieces will pollute waterways and soil. Happy New Years.

#Fireworks #Health #PlasticPollution #NewYearsEve

oceanblueproject.org/fireworks-po...

backcountryattitude.com/toxic_firewo...
Fireworks Pollution Impact Of Fireworks On Human Health | Ocean Blue
Firework shows have been around for years. How much pollution do they really cause? What type of damage can a two-minute firework show cause?
oceanblueproject.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A beautiful December afternoon on the Oregon coast. Tillamook Head to Cape Disappointment. Partly cloudy and 7.78°C/46°F. Dabi digs while I look for flotsam and jetsam.
#Dabi #Strand #Beach #Tillamook_Head #Cape_Disappointment #PNW #North_Coast #Flotsam #Jetsam
December 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Festivus Sunset On Oregon North Coast

Photos taken by wife.

#Family #Sunset #Festivus #PNW #North_Coast
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December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Christmas Morning On The Oregon Coast
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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As with most new automobiles ours comes with a free 3 month trial of SiriusXM. There is only one station we would listen to and that we can get on the Internet. Rarely listen to car’s radio. Nothing worthwhile.
#Entertainment
December 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Happy Festivus from the strand. 🌲🎄🌲
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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“War Is Over”

youtu.be/W68-XaFepOg
Film: WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - The Academy Award® winning Animated Short
YouTube video by johnlennon
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December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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‘Weird Noise’ decals placed on our new RAV4. They depict name of our son’s guitar pedal making business. We had them on our old RAV4. Apropos since RAVs do make a weird noise. Some one asked my wife if the decals came with the car. 🤔Interesting.

#Family #Weird_Noise #Guitar_Pedals #Decals #RAV4
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December 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Trying Monnett. New social network out of Luxembourg.

#Monnett #Luxembourg #Social_Media
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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“The most wonderful time of the year.” - Andy Williams

#Sees_Candy #Dark_Chocolate #Family #Gift
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December 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM