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alexarmstrong.bsky.social
Fighting for nature and climate as VP of External Affairs at @mightyearth.org | CT ➡️ DC ➡️ CT | SKDK, Oceana, TNC alum | Opinions here — politics, history, Arsenal, Hoyas, Star Wars, Patriots, etc. — are mine alone (and largely indefensible).
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Interestingly, the very first I heard about this Saka / F1 “controversy” was on @charleswatts.bsky.social’s podcast. He’s right that it’s a nothingburger - but I was glad that I hadn’t seen any of it. Benefits of being off Twitter I suppose

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Golf. I took a lesson last summer and the (very kind) instructor was just completely baffled by me.

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Two fun videos to share. We just finished having a fence built in our backyard so that our poodle, Hugo, can run around. Here's the first time we let him out off-leash. He was hesitant for a bit before bounding around happily. Really fun moment!

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Imagine if after ten years of everything bouncing off of this guy the one thing that finally does damage is a dumb ass acronym coined by a bunch of Wall Street cokeheads

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WATCH: An area bigger than Paris has already been cleared in Papua, Indonesia, much of it forest and overlapping with the ancestral lands of Indigenous communities. It's the world's largest deforestation project, and it's happening right now.

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There’s “lost the plot” and then there’s this

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Now I want reissues of the FACPOV books with Andor lore incorporated

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Wow wow wow. Incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

FT Arsenal 1 - 0 Barcelona ARSENAL WOMEN WIN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!! #COYG #ARSBAR #UWCL

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

BLACKSTENIUS!! 1-NIL TO THE ARSENAL!! #COYG #ARSBAR #UWCL

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

not great!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I increasingly find the understanding that “two things can be true” to be a hallmark of intelligent thinking. (Not always, not exclusively!) I’m making an effort to remind myself of this more.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I am going to become the Butlerian Jihad

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

really cool

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NB: you can put "-ai" (no quotes) at the end of a google search to remove the "AI overview" top answer

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Still thinking about Andor honestly. So good.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

it's probably because I am far from home and sitting in an airport on like 3 hours' sleep but my god that Andor ending just wrecked me

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Took a quick walking detour through Ribadesella today. Definitely would like to come back in better weather. Gorgeous spot.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors

submitted 24 days ago • 122 comments

incredibly, wildly funny the new Pope has a VAN record (that has since been removed)

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Well I waited 7 years for this…just finished watching Star Wars with my older daughter and she “loved it!” Parenting highlight honestly. On to Empire…

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Which hat to wear today?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Hmm let’s see first I was in Shower Cat, then Jeboa, then some of those members formed Ethiopian Blend without me; the drummer and I started an unnamed side project that fizzled after three rehearsals. Rite of passage!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you've got to be kind’”

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One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm. These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

submitted 31 days ago • 129 comments

sometimes you do have to hand it to them

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