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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 22h

## I do think there was a point to Bondi’s performance

Pamela Bondi went before Senate Oversight on Tuesday determined not to testify to Democrats, and to help Republicans deflect and defend the Trump regime’s fascism. That’s obvious; it happens fairly […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) posting "has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?" over a video of Pamela Bondi not saying anything with "An error occurred" superimposed over the image below her face.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.4

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.4 – 3 October 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.4.

There are major additions in Seattle with the opening of two south Seattle routes […]

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Screen-resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.4.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

## confederates never learn a goddamn thing

If anyone’s wondering whether US farmers exporting to China just need a little “temporary help” to get over Trump’s trade war, read this thread from farmer Sarah Taber on Mastodon. She’s a farmer from North Carolina […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d

## Chicagoans, post pics and video!

Fascist Trump’s allies are out today repeating the “cities are war zones” lie, so anybody in Chicago needs to get out there and starting posting pictures of their “war zone” just like Portland.

“Chicago’s a nightmare, it is […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@hellomiakoda People who are there need to be dumping real photos from Portland on social media. Seriously, blanket social media with it. Refute the lies with overwhelming evidence. Get everyone you know to do it.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@MugsysRapSheet Yeah, I’ve noticed that in particular too. Everything is yesterday, if he remembers it at all.

solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 11d

## it is all lies

Before things get a lot worse, which it looks like they’re about to do given Trump’s “full force” order and his “anti-fascism is terrorism” executive memo, I need to reiterate:

It’s lies. This shit about Portland? It’s all lies.

The lies […]

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A still image grabbed from the linked webcam of a lightly-populated salmon-coloured stone public square in downtown Portland, Oregon, with a variety of banners up and tables out in early autumn.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 14d

## I wrote another letter today, this one to Sinclair Broadcasting. You should too.

A couple of days ago, I wrote about writing Disney a letter – a physical, paper letter, with an ENVELOPE and a STAMP – and went into why those are so. damned. scary. to […]

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Business-format letter to Sinclair and KOMO telling them this isn't how this goes, with a ruler covering my signature and an envelope covering my address. I'd paste the letter's text in, but there's not enough room in this alt-text box. Hopefully OCR can read it for you.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 16d

## Write Disney a LETTER.

WRITE DISNEY-ABC A LETTER TODAY.

Not email, don’t @ them on social media – or do that, that’s fine, but it’s not a substitute. It’s not as good. Do that too, but mostly…

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and […]

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A business-format letter to Disney-ABC about their censorship of Jimmy Kimmel, likening it to Putin's destruction of independent Russian media, with my return address and signature hidden.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 19d

## Maps Release: MEGAMAP 2.0.3

Greater Northshore MEGAMAP 2.0.3 – 19 September 2025 – is now available on github.

As there are no changes in the core Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map – the north-end-only map – no new version has been generated. Latest […]

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A screen-resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.3, with its tiny number of changes.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 20d

[Report: FBI to designate trans people 'violent extremists']

## Report: FBI to designate trans people ‘violent extremists’

I would like to wish all the people who fought with me and sneered at me about how Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris were no better than […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 20d

## greg gutfield’s fascist rant

I do not believe it’s a minor thing that Greg “let’s reclaim the word Nazi” Gutfield is repurposing Hitler’s “Jewish hypnotism” libel against trans people to transfer guilt from a cis white boy from a conservative family:

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 20d

## the regime going all in on censorship, while advisors push for mass arrests

The grim times we’ve been expecting are here.

Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX) calls trans people a virus and a cancer that must be censored, isolated, and imprisoned en masse […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 25d

## charlie kirk got his wish, why are they complaining?

Charlie Kirk was a vicious racist, misogynist, and anti-queer activist working to recruit anyone he could into his beliefs, someone who wanted LGBT people killed, who considered empathy a “new age” […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

## “root causes”

I hate linking to _The Hill_ , but here we go:

RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September

No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.2

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0.2 – 4 August 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.2.

Mostly small updates again this time, but there’s one big one – the Redmond […]

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Screen-resolution preview of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map

solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

## we didn’t plan to go to worldcon

we didn’t plan to go to worldcon

like, at all

even though it was fucken _here_ , right downtown

because until a few months ago it was going to be utterly impossible, economically (we’ve only really dug out of a two-year […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

## no better satire could be written

Holy hell. The Tesla Truck is such a complete fucking sales disaster that he’s getting a corrupt deal with the military to buy them as targets.

I repeat:

THE TESLA TRUCK IS SUCH A COMPLETE FAILURE THAT THEY’RE SELLING […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 4

## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0.1

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0 – 4 August 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.1.

Mostly small updates this time, but one in particular is very important, and another […]

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Screen resolution preview of MEGAMAP 2.0.1 - 4 August 2025

solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

## Hey Northshore voters!

Hey NORTHSHORE VOTERS!

If you’re in the Northshore School District voting area, please be aware there are two school district elections, and each of those elections includes an anti-trans candidate you need to vote against!

One’s […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Jul 28

## a baseline apple and a speciality cider

Seattle Cider dropped a cosmic-crisp single variety cider, so I had a sample this weekend at their booth at the Lake Forest Park Farmer’s Market.

My expectations were pretty low, honestly, because the cosmic crisp is […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Jul 17

## sometimes, I think of ponies

Have you ever noticed that every projection about “AGI” and “superintelligence” has an “and then a miracle occurs” step?

I have.

I shouldn’t say _every_ projection – there are many out there, and I haven’t seen them all. But […]

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Jul 14

## Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 2.0

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 2.0 – 15 July 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 2.0.0.

The big update this release is making City of Seattle street labels legible when […]

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The Greater Northshore MEGAMAP, covering bike infrastructure from Lynnwood, Washington in the north to Renton, Washington in the south.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11

@uastronomer Hopefully it was a bug actually identified and fixed and not something that’s on-again off-again a problem.

I suppose I could just _ask_ , of course. xD But I was testing to see whether it was still there before bothering the dev asking about it.

solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11

## alt text issues

The last couple of posts I’ve made with images didn’t have their alt text make it to the Federation. It made it to Dreamwidth, but didn’t federate.

Let’s try this one:

#biking

A highly complicated cluster of street names on bike infrastructure and/or high-bike-use streets in east Seattle around Madrona. Is this alt-text visible to the Fediverse?

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