Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️
@douglasurner.bsky.social
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept" - Angela Davis

Old-school nerd: Unix, wooden boats, steel bicycles. Fond of critters. Urgent about justice & human rights.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Tram No. 21, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Speaking as someone who lives in a place where the battles with City Council rage on all the time, City Council can really put a hamper on a progressive mayor's plans. Don't let them get away with it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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OREGONIANS!!! Due to new legislation passed this year, the Oregon Public Utility Commission is developing new guidelines for how to divide energy costs between residential & commercial customers. TELL THEM DATA CENTERS NEED TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!
apps.puc.state.or.us/docketpublic...
Oregon Public Utility Commission - Submit Public Comment - DocketPublicComment
apps.puc.state.or.us
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died. She faithfully and honorably served our country. l can't begin to imagine what her family, friends, and colleagues are experiencing right now. Keep them in your thoughts.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I don't work for the shelter. breaks my heart MELIA has been there such a long time. I am TRULY GRATEFUL for each of you sharing her. There is an amazing person who is the right fit for her. We just have to find them. Here's her bio. Please read it. Info is there
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Details: 51416338
My name is Melia.I am a female, black and white Terrier mix....
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November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Speaker Mike Johnson is "crushed by his workload."

Bitch, please! You've been on a self-conferred vacation the past few months.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I took an oath to serve and protect the Constitution and its people, and that oath never expires. The military should never be about politics - it should be about our country and serving. Period.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948.

She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM