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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 21/01/2026

This Spanish tortilla restaurant has such a cool logo. I absolutely love it: amatxi-tortillas.es

Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 01/09/2025

The Meaning of Labor Day Photographed: This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This #LaborDay remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today.

An old photo of men covered in dirt all crammed together in a multi-level cage-looking contraption. Two women look on.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 06/08/2025

Summer hasn't arrived along coastal California this year. From the Bay Area to parts of Southern California millions have experienced the coolest June 1-August 1 period on record since at least 1979. #california #summer #weather #sanfrancisco #bayarea #centralcoast #socal

Title: Millions of Californians just lived through the coldest first two months of summer in their lifetime.
Image: map of California with lots of blues indicating cool temperatures.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 09/07/2025

A death investigation is underway after a body was.found outside a Goodwill in Pasadena, CA. The body was wrapped in a blue tarp and blanket and left at the store's drop-off area.

Photo of the outside of a Goodwill Store & Donation Center. Text is overlaid that says, “BODY FOUND IN DONATION BIN OUTSIDE GOODWILL STORE IN PASADENA”

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 05/06/2025

“Copper” ultimately comes from Late Latin “cuprum,” which itself was a contraction of “aes Cyprium,” literally meaning Cyprian (from Cyprus) brass. #words #etymology

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 28/04/2025

I’m in Japan and on my flight to Tokyo, someone stole my AirPods. I’m in Osaka now and I checked FindMy and what do ya know, the thief is too. I tracked them to this Comfort Inn. How can I find them?

A comfort inn in Osaka with a sauna on the first floor.

Screenshot of FindMy on iOS showing how close I got to the thief

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 25/03/2025

I can’t even imagine the feeling

A screenshot of a tweet (X). Hilary Clinton’s response to the Atlantic article titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans” by Jeffrey Goldberg. Former Sec. State’s response was, “👀 You have got to be kidding me.”

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 22/02/2025

I think I’m on to something here. I’ve invented a pisto manchego sandwich. It’s pisto (veggies cooked in tomato sauce [ #Spanish ratatouille, also similar to shakshouka]), a fried #egg, and rice fried with cheese to add extra crunch. #food

A picture of a grilled sandwich with melted cheese, pisto manchego, a fried egg, and a fried rice and cheese patty. It’s on a white plate which is on a red placemat.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 01/02/2025

“Critics of the state’s leadership point to crime rates, high taxes, and high property costs as reasons for residents fleeing to other less regulated states, like TX and FL” Yet California built the world’s 5th-largest economy, outproducing the UK and rivaling Germany’s GDP with half the population

Graph showing California population over time: about 37.2 million in 2010, 37.6 million in 2012, almost 38 million in 2014, continuing until it peaked at nearly 40 million in 2020, quickly dropped by a few hundred thousand and has since started to grow again and is nearly where it was pre-COVID

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 29/01/2025

If you see this post, post or quote post a boat from your photography or artwork. #photography #boat #nature #sailing #Greece

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 17/01/2025

Has anyone ever deleted more files than me? I think not

Screenshot from a computer running macOS “Ventura”. The “Emptying the Trash…” dialog is open and says that 2,501,463 items have been deleted. It’s not quite done with the task according to the progress bar.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 16/01/2025

So I discovered this floor lamp, instantly fell in love with it, and excitedly looked up where I could get one. It costs—and I’m not making this up—over $6,000. So now I’m sad.

The Flos Superloon floor lamp in an industrial chic apartment that likely smells of rich mahogany and that contains many leather-bound books.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 10/01/2025

They just accidentally sent an evacuation alert to all of Los Angeles County (10 million people) instead of the several thousand people in the new hazard area. That’s a huge mistake.

Emergency Alert
LACoOEM: Disregard the last EVACUATION WARNING. It was for Kenneth Fire Only.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 09/01/2025

Breaking: there’s a new 10+ acre fire burning in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon

The Sunset Fire burns in the Hollywood Hills as visible from south of the hills in Hollywood

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 08/01/2025

You can see the Palisades Fire from 10 miles away near Playa Vista burning through the dead of night as it approaches Santa Monica.

A view of the Westside of Los Angeles facing north from Loyola Marymount University. In the foreground, you can see buildings illuminated in the night, while in the background, a large fire burns through the smoke.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 03/01/2025

Southern #California is officially back in drought after a record-dry start to the winter. SoCal, depending on where you live, hasn't experienced a significant storm in 8-9+ months. In addition, 2 very wet winters in a row—especially for the LA area—have built up lots of fuel for wild fires…

U.S. Drought Monitor map of California. Most of the Central Valley and the western half of Souther California is “abnormally dry”, and as you head eat there are bands of “moderate drought” followed by “severe drought” and “extreme drought,” which follows along the CA-AZ border where the Colorado river runs.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 28/11/2024

Happy #Thanksgiving! DYK the turkey is so named because people in the 1500s confused it with the guinea-fowl which was called a turkey-cock because they it came from Turkey? The birds were 1st domesticated by the Aztecs who called them huehxolotl, which in Mexico today is guajolote #words #etymology

A pair of turkeys: one male and one female.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 24/11/2024

Here’s a crazy fact for you: #Spain and #Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

Real gross domestic product of Germany and Spain from around 2005 to present. They both rise and fall at different rates, but suddenly after 2020 Spain increases rapidly and ends up where Germany is. Source: Eurostat

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 23/11/2024

I don’t see what could go wrong #meme

An image of a man dressed in an Ancient Greek warrior costume with the text: “! Trade offer !
You receive: a big wooden horse.
I receive: Nothing haha, don’t worry about it.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 22/11/2024

I can’t find the exact one, but I saw a Jackson Pollock in a museum and it blew me away. Having only seen his work as JPEGs online, I thought he must be the most overrated artist of all time. Then when I actually saw one, it made all the other abstract modern artists in the MUSEUM look like amateurs

A black, white, red and yellow abstract painting by Jackson Pollock

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 21/11/2024

Here’s a beautiful view of the Great Western Divide from Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park. One of my absolute favorite places. #photography #photosky

Sloping valleys covered in evergreen forest, snaking their way toward the gray-capped mountains at the horizon. The sky is mostly clear and blue with a few white, puffy clouds.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 18/11/2024

I’m trying #winemaking for the first time this year. I only got 4 lbs (1.8 kg) of organic grapes (I think they’re Colombard?), but it should be enough to make a bottle or two of homemade white #wine. I’m going the natural route, so wild yeast and no sulfites for me #vintner #oenology #viticulture

A 2-quart jar filled with crushed grapes and covered with a red cotton kitchen towel

1.8 kg of freshly picked grapes in a stainless steel bowl

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 17/11/2024

Instagram is all videos now and I miss the days when my #photography had a fighting chance of being seen. So here’s a Yosemite lake from a few years ago.

Mirror lake at Yosemite National Park.There is the lake with a boulder reflected in the water. Beyond that are trees, rocky cliffs, and the blue sky.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 16/11/2024

Fun fact: the price of groceries in the United States hasn’t gone down since 1959

Graph titled Price Inflation for Food since 1913, Consumer Price Index, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The graph shows large amounts of inflation and deflation from 1913 to 1959, followed by a period of inflation that lasts until today.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 15/11/2024

#Bluesky is already at 17,000,000 users! This place is growing like crazy

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 31/10/2024

Mount Fuji, #Japan just had its first October without snow since records began in 1894 #climate

Mount Fuji, Japan without any snow in October

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 30/10/2024

This one from Arnold is the rare GOP endorsement that isn’t targeting moderate never-trumpers, educated suburbanites or traditional conservatives, it’s directly targeting those low-info/apathetic voters who distrust politics/politicians & get most of their info from podcasts (like Joe Rogan)

Arnold Schwarzenegger tweet: I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I live it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t . Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I'm sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don't recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we've talked about the national debt. For decades, we've talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren't you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans' lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won't respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won't solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won't do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 21/10/2024

Advertise your account with just one image.

Dinosaur with many socks saying, “Grahrrrrrr”

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 07/10/2024

Did a Lightning Cable write this?

A year later, Apple has failed at USB-C (just like everyone else)
No-one [sic], it seems, wrestles with the USB-C beast and wins.

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #843,998!

Bluesky is celebrating 10,000,000 users! @alexanderbell.info was #843,998 and was part of the first 10%

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Alexander Bell @alexanderbell.info · 15/08/2024

Elon Musk made a post yesterday saying that his X algorithm is Open Source (it no longer is). Since then it has received 2 Community Notes which have over 1000 votes each, 90% of them being votes to approve them as true, yet the notes are being hidden from the gen public. So much for free speech.

Elon Musk on Twitter (X): “That was hilarious 😂

Unlike the other platforms, our algorithm is open source!

And if you interact and argue with ‘right wing’ accounts, which Cuban does a lot, the algorithm will assume that’s what you *want* to do and give you more of it lmao.”

1st bug report: “The Twitter algorithm was indeed open-sourced but has not been updated since Jul 13, 2023.
Since July 13th, there have been numerous updates that were not committed to the public repository. Some updates Elon commented on. Therefore, at the very least, it is outdated.”

2nd bug report: “The Twitter algorithm was made open source last year. The X algorithm has never been published. And the Twitter algorithm hasn’t been updated in a year”

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