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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 20h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 2d

why the fuck are you using a photo from 1992? what the hell are you doing

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 20h

I keep trying to get Jay to do this. I already follow half a dozen "here's some GOOD news" channels but I'd love to see honestly more dudes talking to dudes about being the change etc

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 1d

You've already tried Dawn?

(I was taught by my mother at age 7, I never use anything else unless it's an emergency + my shirt)

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 1d

MOM: you don't want this china? this flatware? this crystal? this art?

ME: No.

MOM: No legacy? Nothing from your family? (Joking a little - I have the stuff I want.)

ME: I mean...all your craft supplies. And I need you to find me every single stash of plastic grocery bags. THAT's the gold.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

I think about it ALL THE TIME. I am frequently tired enough to accidentally jettison myself into space.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

hahahaha - took me a second!

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 2d

They continually do this. After J6th they had a cartel journalist write about domestic extremists. They rarely hire local freelancers. The editors are purposely making the paper like this.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

related, the NYT has portland-based reporters, but chose to assign this piece to one based in SF

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

This was lazy reporting, and the Times would have done better for its audience exploring why so many Portlanders voted in DSA council. Article includes nothing from these voters. Describing Republicans in Portland as an “endangered species” is a choice.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

NO

A still from the film Apollo 13, where astronaut Jack Swigert duct-taped a piece of torn-out paper with the word NO written in heavy-scratched pen ink over a switch on a barely lit console. Later, when asked, he explained he was so tired he was afraid he would flip that switch at the wrong time and jettison them all into space and immediate death.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

I check the logs, I run the "get the fresh files" script again, I check the logs, I re-check the csv file there is DEFINITELY september data in it what the...
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WHYY did I move all but one of the "get files" scripts into a folder called "no"?

And WHEN did I do that? HOW did it work last month??

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

it is very mildly automated in that these csv files pull into a sqlite database I can query and join because ya girl doesn't understand pivoting or whatever.

SO much distraction the past 6 days on this thing, and now mom's in here emptying this closet right now bc she sunups instead of sundowns.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

So I have this monthly process thing nightmare report spreadsheet hellscape I create every month, because all this manually-downloaded data was supposed to be ported to a data warehouse 3 months ago and it's not etc etc.

Anyway, my output wasn't right. I've been troubleshooting for 2 days.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the dumpster is the way, especially if you have a driveway.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

Knowing how much we paid in junk hauling when we left LA, I was despairing about the cleanout here, but the estate sale guy really wanted to do one on this street full of ancient people, so I don't know if we'll make much but we won't pay any - I'm relieved!

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

And actually: we spent 2.5 years moving around the country with a cargo van...then + a small uhaul trailer. And I need to do a modest haul-out of the garage and closets ASAP after 1 year in that house.

Do a cleanout, friends. Pick a mild weather time in '25 or '26 and Do The Thing.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know if a "hey, let's all go to a lawyer together and do our wills!" rec would work, but holy crap do that AND the Power of Attorney stuff. Honestly the boilerplate forms are usually good enough if there's not a vast estate or lots of kids. Then you can just have a mobile notary come.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

41 years. I found an estate sale guy who's gonna auction off all the shit we don't take, have the house deep cleaned, and then his large adult son is going to put it on the market so WHEW but I can't get mom to throw away any shirts and she doesn't have the cognitive whatever to pack in boxes.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

I really am trying to be deeply empathetic here, I know this fucking hurts her and it's upsetting and stressful because she intended to just drop dead here and I could do the estate sale afterward, but UNFORTUNATELY HER MIND WENT FIRST please talk to your parents about their minds.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

If you are old enough that your parents were sternly advised by TV commercials to talk to you about drugs and/or sex, you are now old enough to talk to your parents about THROWING OUT ALL THE SHIT IN THEIR HOUSE.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 2d

It's not anthemic but I'd boil eggs and make sweet potato fries or similar to burn the new smell off and see if there's hotspots etc. (Also to see how fast the eggs boil.)

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 5d

I desperately miss my cat but I’ve got my husband hogging slightly more than his share of the queen guest bed, a portable AC refrigerating the room, and a belly full of ripe tomato sando, so things are pretty good.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pretty sure that's a 20pt score on the Portland Scavenger Hunt card.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 5d

You just reminded me there were multiple JWs standing holding signs in the Portland Airport, and then in Houston there was a whole kiosk by the Exit to Rental Car Shuttle door that had a huge "the airport doesn't want this here" sign in front of it, but I don't know if they were jdubs too.

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Lyn Never @lynnever.bsky.social · 5d

I think it was implied that you could scoop the "mud" out of your latte to eat with a delicious pastry (clearly there's a reason this was attached to a $400/month gym)

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