Tommy Weir
@tommyw.bsky.social
Photographer, filmmaker and educator
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Rick Steves. Legend.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Rick Steves. Legend.
My favourite post on Bluesky this year.
I up the ante.
December 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My favourite post on Bluesky this year.
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It’s not about changing the way you eat - but that would be good too 👍
This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts on taxing billionaires. That difference says it all. Factory farming only survives if we don’t look. It’s time to hold these companies accountable. Every donation is matched, so $1 becomes $2 through Dec 31, 2025. Donate: MoralAmbition.org/food
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It’s not about changing the way you eat - but that would be good too 👍
What the interwebs used to be for #2 - youtu.be/F2tue_UHDWE?...
Angela vs Bath & Body Works rant - Candle Lady
YouTube video by This Timeline Productions
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December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What the interwebs used to be for #2 - youtu.be/F2tue_UHDWE?...
What the Interwebs used to be for #1 youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU?...
JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
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December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What the Interwebs used to be for #1 youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU?...
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More epic-scale snow drawing created by artist Sonja Hinrichsen #womensart #ArtAdvent
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
More epic-scale snow drawing created by artist Sonja Hinrichsen #womensart #ArtAdvent
The long form journalism at @wired.com has been excellent of late. Important reporting with many key takeaways - www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The long form journalism at @wired.com has been excellent of late. Important reporting with many key takeaways - www.wired.com/story/scient...
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The problem, as always, is the guns.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The problem, as always, is the guns.
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Down Cemetery Road fell off a cliff.
December 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Down Cemetery Road fell off a cliff.
www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
www.npr.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
There’s little doubt that much of what ails the world has organised religion fuelling it in part. That said some of their leading voices do see it clearly, worth a read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one | Rami Nashashibi
There is growing understanding that our country is witnessing evil in our public life. Here is a path to confronting it
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There’s little doubt that much of what ails the world has organised religion fuelling it in part. That said some of their leading voices do see it clearly, worth a read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thanksgiving with Leslie Jones
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Thanksgiving with Leslie Jones
“So how often have you made @nigelslater.bsky.social’s chocolate cake?”
“Uh…”
“Uh…”
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“So how often have you made @nigelslater.bsky.social’s chocolate cake?”
“Uh…”
“Uh…”
So Pluribus is all about AI right?
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So Pluribus is all about AI right?
Two bright sparks, Luke Igel and Riley Walz, took the Epstein emails and worked them into a Gmail experience as he would have seen it.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Two bright sparks, Luke Igel and Riley Walz, took the Epstein emails and worked them into a Gmail experience as he would have seen it.
jmail.world
jmail.world
You land in Dublin Airport. Take the bus to the car park. Opera on Lyric blares. Bus driver whistles along. Home.
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You land in Dublin Airport. Take the bus to the car park. Opera on Lyric blares. Bus driver whistles along. Home.
When I say I am not buying another camera I mean after this one...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When I say I am not buying another camera I mean after this one...
wideluxx.com#reveal-video
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“In a tradition that stretches back to the first Memorial Day after the war, every service member honored in the cemetery has a Dutch adopter who brings flowers and visits his or her memorial. Some even correspond with the deceased’s family in the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
Opinion | ‘Thanks, U.S.A.’
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“In a tradition that stretches back to the first Memorial Day after the war, every service member honored in the cemetery has a Dutch adopter who brings flowers and visits his or her memorial. Some even correspond with the deceased’s family in the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
FIFA for sure knows a grifter when they see one. Disgusting.
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
FIFA for sure knows a grifter when they see one. Disgusting.
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The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
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@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
Spain: Fleeing Trump's America | ARTE.tv Documentary
YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
youtu.be/GSzRkWrUiHQ?...
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
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"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...