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Civil Engineer, amateur musician (guitar), musically omnivorous, friend, husband, dad, Gen Jones, anti-fascist. Pay attention and do your homework. I block porn/crypto/finance, and if you have no actual posts. No uninvited DMs.
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One good thing - Regular generic white eggs are now more expensive than the brown cage free humanely raised antibiotic free variety at my local Aldi.

He nails it.

With 2.3M federal employees making an average of $35.54 per hour, it will cost roughly $81.7M per hour for the workforce to answer this “data call.” Department of Government “Efficiency”???

Musk - GFY. You would not even understand what I did last week. I’m an actual engineer, not just playing one in the media. And I do not report to you. So GFY.

My doom scrolling habits have been validated by a fortune cookie.

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Indisputable truth.

Women belong in the kitchen. Men belong in the kitchen. Everyone belongs in the kitchen. Kitchen has Food.

Trump’s anti-Ukraine tirade of lies can only be properly understood in the context of his continued resentment of Zelenskyy for refusing to accede to blackmail and accuse Biden of corruption. No other explanation makes any sense.

normalize re-visiting your favorite books from when you were young. C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter, “I don’t know any greater pleasure than returning to a world of the imagination which one has long forsaken and feeling, ‘after all this is my own.’”

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

When Project 2025 came to light during the election, Trump realized it was unpopular and tried to distance himself from it. Now he is implementing it rapidly knowing full well he has no mandate to do so.

We have added @trumpgolftrack.com to Bluesky. Please follow and pass on!

European Parliament member 👇🏽

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

WTF @nytimes.com ???

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Apparently Trump’s strategy for reducing NATO’s reliance on the US is to be so intransigent that they give us the boot.

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This is fucking incredible.

There clearly was a final thrust today among NY Democrats to get Eric Adams to resign. Hopefully when he doesn’t Governor Hochul will dispose of him. There is no way he can govern at this point.

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

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Wab Kinew, premier of Manitoba 🇨🇦. Message to Americans. He's speaking for all of us.