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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Holy shit.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nuvaxovid (formerly Novavax) without insurance was $298 today at CVS (ouch, but worth it).

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s tough to get a good view of this hillside across from where i live, but it’s always worth trying. Every year it has the best reds.

A glimpse of a hillside covered in trees with fall red foliage. The foreground is trees with leaves that are starting to yellow, creating a sort of lime-green color.

A zoomed close-up of the last photo, with the red-leaved hillside taking up most of the shot. It’s a little blurry due to the zoom.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really, really love living in a place where I can hear the train whistle as it goes through a couple times a day.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m pretty tired of people who live in the US with their “Why aren’t millions of Americans out in the streets protesting,” takes. Why don’t you start, poster, by asking yourself why YOU aren’t out in the streets and maybe you’ll be closer to an answer.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pineapple tomatoes almost make me believe in a benevolent God. (@davidleegardens.bsky.social)

Two big tomatoes held in hand. They are orange with red streaks

One of the tomatoes sliced in three parts. The inside is orange with red webbing.

Brucshetta: the orange tomato with red webbing on a slice of bread, with cheese and garlic, broiled

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We aren’t “hallucinating intolerable inflation.” We are, in the real, actual world - at the grocery store, when paying our bills - experiencing intolerable and unsustainable price pressure on necessities like food, energy, and health insurance/health care.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s unfortunate my brain works this way, but it’s like a pebble in my shoe that the Strait of Hormuz is not literally straight. I propose the Elbow of Hormuz.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He’s dozing through the ceremony at the pentagon. Just shown live on MSNow. An absolutely abhorrent human.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This cracked me up. I did not think this was discernible in the way I talk. Link in second post below.

A screenshot of my dialect map results.

“You talk most like someone from Vermont - about 57% of your answers match a typical resident.”

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I got a call from a specialist’s office today to book an appointment for my 86 yo dad in response to a referral from his primary that was made in May 2024. Sept 2026 was their first opening since then for a new patient 😑

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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh he died. At 92. How to be a poet

How To Be a Poet
Wendell Berry
(to remind myself
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you have-inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment.
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Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 22/08/2026

WTF is wrong with the lawyers and judges who willingly participate in this evil shit? When Trump is finally gone, there need to be serious consequences for all the people who are perpetrating this horror in the name of the US. It’s disgusting beyond belief.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was in a pretty bad car accident a little over a week ago. Other driver’s fault (16 yo kid; bad judgment call, pulled into an intersection in front of me when i was going 40mph). Both cars totaled. I was headed home, a mile away. 1/x

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Morgan Gold / Gold Shaw Farm @goldshawfarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some thoughts on the governor’s primary here in Vermont…Crü Janoo @janooforvt.bsky.social

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finally got around to looking this up. According to this release from the NMDOJ, The penalties( $942 million) are in addition to the changes they have to make to the platform.

nmdoj.gov

Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million and Overhaul Protections for Children on Facebook and Instagram in Landmark New Mexico Ruling - New Mexico Department of Justice

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Long list of things Meta is required to do in this worthy decision. Question: are those things in addition to the $950+ million in penalties they pay to NM? Or does the penalty money pay for those specific things?

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Kenny is the warmest, most delightful, funniest person you could ever hope to know. He was the anchor bartender at the original Alchemist Pub in Waterbury, and a big part of what made that place so magnetic for so many people. ❤️ gofund.me/285f25067

gofund.me

Donate to Help Kenny Gardner Face PSP — Support for Kenny & Jenny, organized by Sylvia Plumb

Kenny's Story Around Waterbury, people have called Kenny Gard… Sylvia Plumb needs your support for Help Kenny Gardner Face PSP — Support for Kenny & Jenny

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

V2 has fledged 🦅🤍 9:44am An adult came in with a fish a while later and looked high and low for the eaglet before flying off 10 minutes later. The nest and nest tree are still empty now. Big day.

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VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 of the trees with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease in hopes that the survivors can eventually help build a genetically diverse and disease-resistant population. So far, the results are promising.

vtdigger.org

Killing trees to save the forest: The deadly experiment to rescue the American elm - VTDigger

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A thing I don’t get about housekeeping is dusting. How in the world does anyone keep up with the dusting? It feels like it would be a half-time job.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

V-2 was exercised his wings a lot and was airborne from branch to branch several times early this morning, and then got two fish deliveries within a couple of minutes of each other - one from each parent, I think. We also got a special close up view for a while. #VINS

A very close up view of a dark brown eagle in a branchy nest, leaning over a fish s/he is tearing apart and eating.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If anyone would like to see a short video of a dog using their tail as a rotar blade, this is your lucky day.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

V-2 is completely off-camera and has been for about 5 minutes. It’s the first time i’ve seen that. He flapping his wings a lot and then in the branches above the nest to the right for a while, and you could still see his shadow on the tree trunk, but then he completely disappeared! 🦅

A view of the empty VINS bald eagle nest in evening light. The pond and the hillside in the background are golden.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Trump/Miller Doctrine is to do something awful so many times over and over that it eventually stops being covered as news. Bombing boats in the Caribbean, bombing other countries, threatening allies, ICE murders, etc. The first few times? Big news. Now? Barely even mentioned.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These assholes are gonna do this bs with trump too, they absolutely can’t help themsleves

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The thing that makes me happiest about it is that at 71, he could have easily had six or twelve more years doing truly horrible things in the Senate and now he can’t.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some assholes nearby are doing fireworks again, and so my terrified dog is now in the basement again, (unmedicated - bc it’s Sunday the 5th!). The very worst thing about neighborhood fireworks is they’re so unpredictable! Will there be more random blasts in 15 minutes? Probably. I hate them so much.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 04/07/2026

I'm sorry to the dogs and the cats and the birds for what the dipshits around me are about to blow up today. If I could stop it all I would.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Democrats have made it quite clear we have to replace most of them if we are going to actually fight Republicans and billionaires and the rest of this fascist menace, so let's go. The more "radical" the better. The more socialist the better.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Recently rebranded Eastrise Credit Union (Vermont) is annoying us right now with their fussiness about the payee name on checks, and my husband just called them “morning boner” credit union and i can’t stop laughing

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This enthusiastic and expressive wood thrush sings like this for half an hour every morning. It’s the best. (Volume up!)

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If states can’t fully cover these huge new costs by raising taxes or cutting other services, they’ll need to further restrict access to SNAP or potentially end the program entirely – with dire consequences for struggling families & the broader economy.

aldailynews.com

Alabama officials warn SNAP changes could force stark choice: pay more, cut error rate or end program

Brandon Hardin, who manages Alabama’s SNAP program for the Department of Human Resources, said the state is still waiting on federal guidance on how the cost-sharing provisions will be implemented.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

4” in my rain gauge from Thursday through 7am this morning (Duxbury). And it’s rained hard several times since then. Those bands of heavy rain that keep coming through are something!

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The VINS eaglet this morning, about 8 weeks old.

A dark brown, baby but full size bald eagle sitting on its nest in the morning light. There is a pond below uin the background and the far side of the pond is forested.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am disturbed by the state of things.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

770,000 is just from 12 States who have reported this data. The real number is in the millions.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/06/2026

Billionaire donor with highly polluting business gets special favors from Trump admin. This basic story is repeating itself hundreds of times over, in every corner of policy. It will be all but impossible to undo or reverse them all -- it's difficult to even *track* them.

propublica.org

Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.

Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Farmers/gardeners: what are these on my potato plants? I also have CO potato beetles and i don’t think these are a phase of those, but…? They are small and flat and when you pick them off they’re kind of hard shelled and spikey. Don’t like.

A potato plant leaf with two small, flat, round bugs on it. The bugs are mostly black and look sort of turtle-like.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A second male mallard is here today, he is also banded. 🧐

Two male mallards swimming on a pond, one closely following the other. The whole scene is shades of green - plants in the foreground and background on both sides of the pond.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Vermonters: I would like to take my dad to see a field of lupines somewhere within 45 minutes or so of Montpelier. Any suggestions?

A patch of blue lupine flowers in a field

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The WaPo didn't say so, but the four turncoat Dems who want pregnant women and children not to have access to healthy food appear to be the usual suspects: Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Vincente Gonzalez (Texas), and Don Davis (N.C.). They really suck.

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