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Different Brushstrokes @youwriteuniversity.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Privilege is being able to look away.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Did you try a regional office? That's how I got through to Warner.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Here in Virginia, Governor Youngkin will probably try to name streets after our J6 rioters in an effort to finish 7th in the 2028 Iowa Caucus instead of 8th. 🤦

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's almost as if they included a free subscription to Hooked On Phonics with all of the January 6th pardons.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Listen to the laughter. These people are so happy they don't have to hide anymore. Shine a light on them all.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The internet remains undefeated.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Finally got through to the DC office and politely unloaded on a very friendly staffer. I only did so to make sure I was clear. This country is facing an existential crisis and my senator needs to wake TF up. Most of them with a D next to their name do.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

But not as unacceptable as voting to confirm Kristi Noem. 🤦

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Update: I have repeatedly called Senator Kaine's DC office as well as his regional offices in Abingdon, Fredericksburg, Manassas, Richmond, Roanoke and Virginia Beach and I can't get a human to answer the phone at any of his seven offices. As a constituent, that is unacceptable.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"Hope is a discipline, hope is a practice, hope is a way of life." -Bishop Mariann Budde-- just now on NPR

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm lucky to have this right down the street!

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I've been trying to get outside as much as I can to save my sanity of late. Winter hiking is so beautiful. I love the long shadows against the white snow.

Long shadows from late afternoon winter sun across a snowy path next to Bull Run in Manassas Battlefield National Park.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If someone ever develops an AI model that can remove the vapid music that accompanies 90% of all guided meditations I would pay whatever they asked and aggressively ignore the environmental impact. I need less synthesizer sound baths with cascading flutes in my life. 😭

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This is hilarious. But not as hilarious as the earnest replies. Never change, internet. Never change.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This is an excellent list of things anyone can do. All of the small actions add up which is why it is so important to not give up. That's exactly what they want us to do. (Thanks to @boiledjar.bsky.social for bringing it into my feed.)

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 25/01/2025

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like. static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Some poor staffer in Kaine's office is going to be getting an earful from me on Monday. I obviously won't yell or curse at them because they are just doing a job and an important one. But they will be getting an earful. This is indefensible by my senator.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

...but each small thing that brings peace really does add up, even if it doesn't feel like it for very long today. So seek out some beauty today!

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Seek out something beautiful today. Look at a painting. Read a book. Listen to some music. Go for a hike. Play with a child. Pet a dog. Lots of people are struggling right now because ::gestures broadly:: and there's a good chance that no one thing is going to fully hit reset for you...

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Chrysanthemums, 1881

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Love me some Seth Godin. 100 words on expertise vs credentials. There is not a human being on Earth who can make me think more in fewer words than Seth does. seths.blog/2025/01/expe...

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Expertise and credentials

In the ideal world, credentials would be awarded to all experts, and withdrawn from all charlatans. But they don’t always line up as neatly as that. An expert is someone who can keep a promis…

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's a balmy 20° outside. Didn't even zip my coat when I walked the dog. 🥳

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Can we set this up as a recurring thing? 🤣

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I love any performer who can completely command a room not with ego, but with intense musical storytelling. He smashes that box for me. And I have a fond memory of that night because my late father + I were guests of my good friend @cottonmather.bsky.social who was reviewing it. A night I cherish!

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

... of some dipshit whose only connection to me is that they grew up in the hometown of a tuba colleague. I've started blocking quite liberally on social media because it's obviously not some hardship to not be able to see or interact with my posts. It's the only way I'm remaining sane online.

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I have begun blocking anyone I encounter on Facebook who has only one mutual friend and who clearly has no empathy for anyone different than themselves. (And that obviously manifests itself in a whole bunch of different ways.) It ultimately accomplishes nothing but I don't need to see the posts...

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Joshua Redman is so good! I saw a show of him with The Bad Plus about 10 years ago and it was really special. I am going to listen to him tomorrow. Thank you!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

every trump nominee is like "he was formerly the CEO of standard products ltd. and the president of americans for a good america. here he is with his wife chastity and their daughter calipers at a race science conference in hungary."

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Steps, 1878

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/01/2025

The amount of Beautiful Mind math being done to explain away an obvious Nazi salute is really amazing. It's all backwards, too. You don't have to "know what's in someone's heart" to interpret a Nazi salute, the Nazi salute is there *to communicate to you* what is in the person's heart

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 24/01/2025

Democrats: How can we go viral? (a pastor goes mega-viral for calling Trump a bigot to his face) Democrats: What if Tim Kaine made a BLT on Instagram Live

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Andy Pasternak @tubadrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One of my favorite ads as a kid growing up in Detroit. And yes, the tech reveals how very, very old I am! : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtiA...

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Highland Appliance Piano Reel-to-Reel commercial

YouTube video by alogusz

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thinking about hitting up Fiverr to find someone to practice for me. Not feeling it today. 🤣

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It warms my heart to see so many people showing up here on Bluesky. ❤️

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/01/2025

If you are ready to feel powerful, I have the meetings for you. It is hard work, and slow. But you get to be with your neighbors and your community, and there are snacks. (If you bring them.)

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Andrew Hitz @andrewhitz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Surprising to absolutely no one, IWBC is leading the way by showing up here on Bluesky. May other organizations in our corner of the world all follow suit. Give them a follow. Their work is important!

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