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Richard Hellinga
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Books, running, and coffee. Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Protect trans kids. He/Him
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I am so fucked as a pawn in Hal’s geopolitical games.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Freezing
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, feeling
Maybe he'll see a little better, set of days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out
Faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah
Oh, dark grin
He can't help, when he's happy he looks insane, hm yeah
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Here’s my feed just now:
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The Metaverse avatar of man-baby Mark Zuckerberg; soulless image of Mark Zuckerberg's white face with painted on brown-gold hair, wearing a navy blue henley with a green, placid mountain lake in the background.
September 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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It's Friday and I am enjoying Nine Inch Nail's TRON: ARES soundtrack.
The word "original motion picture soundtrack TRON: ARES Music by Nine Inch Nails" in glowing blood red on a none-more-black background.
September 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What's the point of the US Constitution if the Supreme Court doesn't think it applies to Trump?
Amendment 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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1) The Ask.
2) My reply.
I do not give money to transphobes.
Long ass text from Gavin Newton asking me for money, all under a picture of him and his slimy hair pointing at Trump, the worst President in our nation’s history. The end of long ass text of Newsom asking me for money, with my reply: “Fuck you. I don’t give money to transphobes”
August 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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As we say in Chicago, "What trees do you plant?" The groping former governor of New York needs to keep his hands away from our city.
Tweet from Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced sexual-harassing governor of New York, that says "Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess From long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen I believe in government that works. I have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let's do it again."
August 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I never had to worry about wildfire smoke in the Midwest when I was a child.
Screenshot of the Current Air Quality map of the Midwest, centered on Michigan, updated at 5:00pm today, Aug 3. Most of Wisconsin, Michigan, the Canadian province of Ontario, and northern Illinois are coded in Orange and Red, meaning unhealthy air quality for most people.
August 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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All the tariffs and out of work people in Tech and other industries finally injecting some reality into the stock market.
Dow Jones industrial average line chart in red with small peaks and valleys over the last month-long period, and a steep drop (of 600+ points) today.
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is awesome!
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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On this Independent Bookstore Day, I picked up Becky Chambers’ “A Psalm for the Wild Built” and the first volume of Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries”, and a fun keychain from @schulerbooks.bsky.social
Two books next to each other. The one on the left is titled, “A Psalm for the Wild Built” by Becky Chambers. The one on the right shows a faceless humanoid robot and is titled, “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells. On top of the books is a small keychain that is a stack of books.
April 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Harvard told Trump to fuck off. When you tell a bully to fuck off other people will also get the courage tell the bully to fuck off. When you get enough people telling the bully to fuck off, the bully has no choice but fuck off with his miserable self.
A screenshot of POTUS Donald Trump's latest Truth Social rant: "Everyone knows that Harvard has "lost its way." They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to "teach" municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil. Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and "birdbrains" who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called "future leaders." Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World's Great Universities or Colleges. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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#Handsoff in Evanston, IL.
April 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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That would be a fun drop if it was a rollercoaster.
Red graph showing one week of the Dow Jones with very steep drops over the last two days. Underneath the chart is a CNBC headline in all caps "DOW DROPS 2,000 POINTS AS TRUMP TARIFF MARKET ROUT DEEPENS" with the face of a gloomy-looking white man, and a Simply Wall Street headline "Iovance Biotherapeutics (NasdaqGM:IOVA) Drops 10% Over The Week In Market Correction" next to a photo of a masked and goggled face next to microscope.
April 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Fuck no.
Image with James Carville’s bald slimy face at the top above a bunch of text from a text message begging/ demanding money so that Democrats can Never Stop Fighting Trump and Vance and all the MAGA dunces, despite the rotten egghead himself having told Democrats to do nothing until the Fall of this year.
March 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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We had great turnout on a very very cold day in Lansing, Michigan. Glad I dressed in layers.
Image of the dark cream colored Michigan Capitol building under a hazy blue sky with hundreds of protesters gathered in front, on the sidewalk and snow.
February 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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My mood most days now.
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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#50states50protests rally at the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan.
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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You are.
A row of four tan bookshelves, each with five shelves, overflowing with books.
February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Why the hell is this in my inbox? The House Minority Leader is asking for money while Elon Musk and his minions have control of the Treasury department? WTF
GET YOUR ASS TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW AND THROW ELON AND HIS MINIONS OUT!
Picture of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with the following, poorly-timed, ill-conceived text from a fundraising email: "I was officially sworn in as House Democratic Leader. Now, I’m asking you to help me lead Democrats in a historic fundraising day – 3,000 donations before midnight – to show we stand ready to hold MAGA Republicans accountable and win back the House majority for Democrats. I can’t tell you how much it would mean to see your donation >> Richard, as Democratic Leader, I want to take a moment to share our priorities this Congress. House Democrats will work with anyone to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America once and for all. As Democrats, our promise to the American people is that we will fight hard to make sure that no one takes away Social Security or Medicare from the American people that they earned – not now, not ever. No means never. Our position is that it is not acceptable to cut Social Security, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut veterans’ benefits or cut nutritional assistance from children and families to pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations. I’m leading House Democrats forward as we fight for opportunity in every single zip code and an economy that works for everyone. We’re not wasting a single second getting to work. That's why I'm asking for a historic surge of support – 3,000 Democratic donations..."
February 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Fuuuuck
January 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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No, I will not be turning on Apple Intelligence.
Screenshot of the Apple Intelligence & Siri panel, marked as BETA, in MacOS settings with a button that reads "Turn on Apple Intelligence".
January 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Got a running start on 2025.
Close up of the brown-eyed author smiling, and wearing a hat and jacket with a wet sidewalk lined with white snow on both sides. A few barren trees and some evergreens are to the left and behind the author.
January 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM