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Sheila Scarborough

@theseafarer.bsky.social

970 followers 1.1K following 480 posts

Speaker, educator, writer. Love tourism, travel, and social media. Tourism Currents and Perceptive Travel Blog co-founder. US Navy veteran. Caffeinated.

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · Nov 7

"I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution." Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan sculpture at AUS Austin Icons at the Airport

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 4h

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant, Oklahoma, in the southeast part of the state:

perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

#TravelSky #travel #RoadTrip #JeffersonHighway

How to Spend a Day in Durant OK

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant OK.

perceptivetravel.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 4h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

*makes sign of the cross*

Matt Wagner @mattwag.bsky.social · 1d

I had a roommate who was obsessed then moved to just drinking Kahlúa straight.

Let me tell you, a dorm room cannot handle the smell of someone throwing up straight Kahlúa all night.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a mob boss in a bad movie, but for real the President talking about federal employees.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 1d

The annual Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is spectacular, y'all.

#TravelTuesday #TravelSky #travel #NewMexicoTRUE

Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 1d

Here’s the one terrible photo I snapped while at a standstill on an overpass. Sorry it doesn’t do it justice. At ALL.

Albuquerque blue sky dotted with balloons. Not a great photo alas

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 1d

There are lots of opinions about the best Chicago deep dish pizza, but I vote for Lou Malnati's. Get ready for a very filling meal and homey atmosphere:

perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

#TravelTuesday #TravelSky #travel #EatLocal

Lou Malnati's: Going Local for Chicago-style Deep Dish Pizza

There are lots of opinions about the best Chicago deep dish pizza, but I vote for Lou Malnati's. Get ready for a very filling meal and homey atmosphere.

perceptivetravel.com

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 2d

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 2d

Why has no one learned that when Meta declares a tech pivot, it is solely for their own benefit and proceeds to fail everyone else spectacularly?

If I see you out in public with these, you'll have to take them off to even sit at the table with me. I don't care if they're prescription. They're rude.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Today in luxury surveillance.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 2d

👇👇 What she said. Trump is NOT popular right now, what his administration is doing is not popular, and he's an idiot surrounded by suckup assclowns 🤡. Do not be intimidated.

Show up when it matters, y'all, and that is now.

Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 2d

If I hear 'keep your head down' from one more leader, especially a senior military I will scream in a primal maternal way.
Leadership and ethics matter most when they cost. No temptation, no honor.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 2d

Don't let your perfectionism make a project seem bigger or harder than it is.

Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 4d

We're in dark times. Make sure you have secure ways to communicate. Today I connected on Signal with an old high school friend, who also happens to be a lawyer. You never know, and it pays to be prepared.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “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.”

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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www.theatlantic.com

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 4d

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 5d

IYKYK

a black and white photo of a man with the words just got paid it 's friday night

Alt: a black and white GIF of the Johnny Kemp music video with the words just got paid it 's friday night

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 5d

We really need to pay attention to this Sora AI video development, y'all. 😬

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d

Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 5d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 6d

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant OK in the southeast part of the state. On @perceptivetravel.bsky.social

perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

#TravelSky #travel #RoadTrip #JeffersonHighway

How to Spend a Day in Durant OK

A downtown boutique hotel, fun local public art in an alley, a hearty down-home breakfast, and the Choctaw Cultural Center, all in Durant OK.

perceptivetravel.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 7d

"I didn't see it" - what a liar and a fake.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 7d

Good eats in #Chicago: @loumalnatispizza.bsky.social pizza exploration with my @perceptivetravel.bsky.social colleague @theseafarer.bsky.social #food #travel 🍕 perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/09...

Lou Malnati's: Going Local for Chicago-style Deep Dish Pizza

There are lots of opinions about the best Chicago deep dish pizza, but I vote for Lou Malnati's. Get ready for a very filling meal and homey atmosphere.

perceptivetravel.com

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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump admin doesn't want parks to close because it brings home to a variety of people what a government shutdown means. Many folks even now don't know that it's about to happen at midnight tonight.

#TravelTuesday #travel #tourism #TravelSky

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8d

National park staff at sites including Yosemite and Grand Canyon were given mere hours to figure out how to keep parks running.

National Parks Told to Remain Open During Shutdown Despite Risks

Sites were damaged when they remained open to the public during the last government shut down in 2018.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 8d

Harold Lloyd in Get Out and Get Under (1920)

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