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Upon Reflection
@wanderflute.bsky.social
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Unabashedly quirky. Soft heart; hard boundaries. I call Minneapolis home. USMC veteran from a lifetime ago. Lover of instruments, travel, language, floofs, and weirdos
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Headshots of the senators who voted to end the shutdown. Sen. Tim Kaine (Virginia) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire) Sen. Angus King (Maine) Sen. Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire) Sen. Dick Durbin (Illinois) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada) Sen. Jacky Rosen (Nevada) Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Well we can’t let the airlines lose $ over the holiday travel period 🙄
Screenshot of a bluesky post by Wajahat Ali Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social • Thanks to@mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america…. • Catherine Cortez Masto - received from American Airlines PAC in 2022. • Dick Durbin - received from American Airlines PAC in multiple cycles (e.g., 2014, 2020). • Maggie Hassan - received from American Airlines PAC in 2022. • Tim Kaine - received from American Airlines PAC (2024) and Airlines for America PAC (2024). • Angus King (I) - received from American Airlines PAC in 2024. • Jacky Rosen - received from American Airlines PAC in 2020. • Jeanne Shaheen - received from American Airlines PAC in 2020.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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A fall day in the Midwest
A warty pumpkin Red apples in a tree Young maple tree turned red with picked pumpkins in rows behind. A picture from inside a corn maze. Noting a windmill for reference.
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Got any snacks?

#minneapolis
#UrbanWildlife
#photography
#SquirrelFriend
#wildlife
A curious squirrel clings to the screen of a hinged door. Sun illuminates the alongside the screen
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Trump in 2024: Project 2025? Never met her. She’s not my type.
Two posts. Trump: I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT Kamala Harris: This was always the plan. Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes. 2:18 PM Oct 2, 2025
October 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Screenshot of two posts Elizabeth Warren (on Bluesky) @warren.senate.gov (responding to Trump) Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers? Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for "negotiating" reasons only, not buying. We've made so much money on Tariffs, that we are going to take a small portion of that money, and help our Farmers. I WILL NEVER LET OUR FARMERS DOWN! Sleepy Joe Biden didn't enforce our Agreement with China, where they were going to purchase Billions of Dollars of our Farm Product, but Soybeans, in particular. It's all going to work out very well. I LOVE OUR PATRIOTS, AND EVERY FARMER IS EXACTLY THAT! I'll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. MAKE SOYBEANS, AND OTHER ROW CROPS, GREAT AGAIN! October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
October 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Jane Goodall inspired generations of women around the world. Kind. Curious. Compassionate. The world was a better place with her in it. “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” - Jane Goodall

#JaneGoodall
#Wikipedia
Wikipedia anecdote about Jane Goodall Text: Gary Larson cartoon incident One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[107) Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing. (108] Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection. (1091 She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania, 108) he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo. 107) Gary Larson cartoon described in previous anecdote. Two chimps sit on a tree branch. One grooms the other, finds a long human hair, and says, "Well, well - another blond hair. ... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" Picture of a young Jane Goodall with binoculars in the jungle
October 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I always close the nagging donation boxes on Wikipedia, but when these jokers attack it it’s a good reminder to donate.

#wikipedia

donate.wikimedia.org
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October 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Generals gathered in their masses/ President calls them fatasses No more woke Rules of Engagement/ Give blind loyalty! Enragement!
October 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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With ALT text.

Please start using ALT text. It takes so little time and allows more people to participate
"We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don't stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly. And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization," Murphy said. "There's something magic that happens when millions of people are mobilized all around the country," he continued. "It just throws sand in the gears of an effort to try to convert a democracy to something very different."
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Screenshot of Twitter post OP: Jonathan Edward Durham & @thisoneOverhere Text: It was the omg what now of times, it was the are you fing kidding me of times
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Squirrel Friend and The Turkey Fam
#minneapolis
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
September 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It is being pointed out that this video is a few months old. Sickening, but not current
Still shot from video showing a date of July 5-6 on the banner in the background
September 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Turk-lets (Jakes and Jennys) are getting big!
September 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions. We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn't have to rely on food stamps. Or... or... or... The details of the order Trump signed Friday are still vague, but officials may need to change Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities in 40 countries and all 50 states. This includes everything from letterhead for six military branches and dozens more agencies down to embossed napkins in chow halls, embroidered jackets for Senate-confirmed officials and the keychains and tchotchkes in the Pentagon store.
September 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Especially when it’s a woman confronting him. Talks right over her.
A picture of RFK Jr next to a picture of a puppet troll OP Sundae_Gurl @SundaeDivine Text reads RFK Jr. always looks like he's about to warn you the bridge ahead is cursed unless you answer three riddles about vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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OP Anica Cihla @AnicaCihla if i was a professional dominatrix i'd advertise myself as "pro pain and pro pain accessories" and my company would be called kink of the hill thank you goodbye forever
July 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Tweet from Lauren Rinaldi 4 Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn't in the Epstein files, I'll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I'll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards What will I do with my Bill Clinton Bible
July 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Cartoon depiction of Bill Clinton looking out his window at a bat-signal of a woman’s silhouette
June 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Here’s a link to the executive order. And a pic of some wording changed - from the article

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Until the recent changes, VA hospitals' bylaws said that medical staff could not discriminate against patients "on the basis of race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, politics, marital status or disability in any employment matter" ' Now, several of those items - including "national origin," "politics" and "marital status" - have been removed from that list.
June 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Screenshot. OP: Anosognosiogenesis @pookleblinky writes Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Cartoon depiction of a leopard sitting on a stool. He has a very full belly. On the table in front of him is a glass of water. He is dropping a fizzy-tablets into the water as a remedy for his belly. Seems he ate too many faces.
June 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Cartoon depiction of a leopard sitting on a stool. He has a very full belly. On the table in front of him is a glass of water. He is dropping a fizzy-tablets into the water as a remedy for his belly. Seems he ate too many faces.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Thanks for not doing that horrid thing you shouldn’t have been doing in the first place, I guess…
Screenshot. OP: Anosognosiogenesis @pookleblinky writes Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used. 7:56 PM • Sep 24, 2020
May 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Looks like the digital had a tiny blurb 🙄
A screen shot of The New York Times digital front page for Sunday, April 6, 2025 showing a tiny mention of the massive Hands-Off rallies that occurred Saturday April 5, 2025. Estimated over 5 million participants at over 1200 venues in the United States as well as supporters rallying in London, Lisbon, Berlin, Frankfurt, Reykjavik and more.
April 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM