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Hollywoodland Multimedia Designer • Writer • Painter Manifesto: All that glitters, has a high refractive index. Now get thee down, and be thou funky.
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In other news, a fucking Google store has replaced the French bistro where I used to get crêpes & a spicy Bloody Mary in the morning before going to see a movie. Beyond the tragic loss of people’s lives, this BULLSHIT loss of culture, is the real cost of the stupid pandemic.

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#BreakfastAgenda Crumpets. I am having crumpets. With apricot jam. Bliss.

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Gorgeous

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This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

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Fewer than 700 people, most of them relatively young and fit men, have gone to space. In the coming decades, this number could grow exponentially—yet many peculiar effects of space travel are only now being identified and investigated.

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Pesky Cossacks. Collaborating with Nazis? Never a good idea. Always ends badly for the collaborators.

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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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Oo, flower stairs! #FlowersOfBluesky #MomentOfBeauty

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When I was a little kid growing up, we used to drive by the Jolly Rancher manufacturing plant on the way to school. The smell of whatever they were making that day, wafted over the highway. It’d be like, “Hmm, apple.” Or, “Cinnaminamony, must be making Fire flavor today.” 😄

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That moment when you realize they DGAF about your look, it’s your lack of character that’s the problem. So much harder to fix than just hiring a new stylist. In this, you will have to do real work on your soul, Zuck.

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Let’s talk for a moment about the *real* danger of someone like Trump, Musk, Bannon, Vance, et al, and the cruelty they put into the world. It’s that you can fall into the trap of becoming like him in ANY way, in order to defeat him.

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#MorningMood

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For reference, a Buddhist trichiliocosm, is a universe that itself contains 1,000 other universes. So you know, BIG. #Terminology

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Through the sound of the great drum of sublime golden light, may all the suffering of the lower existences, the suffering in Yama’s realm, and the suffering of poverty, cease in the three realms within this trichiliocosm (the largest universe described in Buddhist cosmology). #SutraOfGoldenLight

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"No matter DOGE’s goal, putting so much information in one place and under the control of a small group of people with little government experience has raised substantial security concerns," Matteo Wong writes in the Atlantic Intelligence newsletter:

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[first dog ever launched into space] wait this isn't the park

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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#DinnerAgenda: Rack of something

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