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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 6h

Oh dear, it gives him authority to do what he's already been doing for months?

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 4d

Nebulas in Orion - Flame, Horsehead, Running Man, and the Great Orion Nebula. Imaged at Great Basin NP, Nevada

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly. How many boats full of civilians have they already blown up?

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 8d

The sign on the Nevada/Utah border on US 50 near the Border Inn Casino

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 10d

Fall colors on Wheeler Peak. Great Basin NP, Nevada

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 10d

Four planes lining up to land on 16L in SLC

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 13d

Delicate Arch under moonlight. Arches NP, Utah

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 14d

While I am 100% opposed to the regime’s thorough weaponization of DOJ, I have a hard time feeling bad for the guy who probably tipped the election to Trump in 2016 with his editorializing on Her Emails.

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 15d

It's well past time for principled senators to call for the impeachment of the six "Justices" who have made a mockery of their duty.

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 15d

Wat? The semiconductor company?

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 16d

thing I don't get is why the judge didn't force the lege to pick one of the maps the Commission drew - wasn't that the point of prop 4 to begin with?

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 16d

MacOS has a new transparent theme.
MacOS prompts you to allow applications to do every little thing.
MacOS is Windows Vista.

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 20d

After updating to iOS 26, I am getting notifications for spam SMS messages again. Even though Screen Unknown Senders is on.

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 20d

A great horned owl, in better light than usual!

An owl looking regal in a tree branch, unusually lit by direct sunlight

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 22d

people saying it's fake - this isn't a Fox News report. this is in the charging documents. if police made _this_ up, the kid's going free.

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 22d

The “negotiated out” part seems kind of cryptic. Makes me wonder if he had a specific beef with Kirk beyond his ideology.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 22d

The Terrible Map is accurate. I checked! For curiosity's sake, I made a map that excludes the 200 most common words among all states' Wikipedia articles, as well as city and state names.

AL: education
AK: oil
AZ: marriage
AK: pronunciation
CA: spanish
CO: rocky
DE: slaves
FL: seminole
GA: civil
HI: islands
ID: pacific
IL: hispanic
IN: schools
IA: museum
KS: located
KY: bluegrass
LA: french
ME: french
MD: percent
MI: peninsula
MN: water
MS: delta
MO: percent
MT: district
NE: plains
NV: rate
NH: election
NJ: division
NM: spanish
NY: valley
NC: free
ND: oil
OH: football
OK: indian
OR: pacific
PA: income
RI: narragansett
SC: coastal
SD: near
TN: cumberland
TX: mexican
UT: church
VT: pie
WA: pacific
WV: coal
WI: cheese
WY: yellowstone

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 22d

If you omit words shorter than four letters, the most common word in each state's Wikipedia article is that state's name. Or part of that state's name, in multi-word states.

Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 22d

The second-most common word in each state's article:
MN, NH, NJ: and
RH: in
every other state: of

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 23d

I actually checked. This is accurate.

Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 24d

The most commonly used word in each state’s Wikipedia page

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25d

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Acceptable Losses

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

www.the-reframe.com

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 25d

A tunnel of light and color at Maple Hollow. Draper, UT #fallcolors #mountainbiking

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Jeremy Stanley @jstanley0.bsky.social · 26d

Timeline cleanse. Here are some smol California quail

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