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Barry Semple

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drumming, motorcycling, outdoorsing, breathing… “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
an old Chinese proverb: “Sit by the river long enough and watch the bodies of your enemy float by.” look at it from Iran’s strategic perspective. 1. 🇮🇷 government is quite content with winning (…cuz they won). 2. we are the bad guys, internationally (…sad but true). 3. we are led by stupid people…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
somehow, i read “immature bird with a seven foot wingspan” as an almost oxymoron. 😉 we get bald, osprey, and turkey vultures aplenty out here on the Coast but i’ve yet to encounter a golden. i do keep a vigilant eye out for one when motorcycling in the Oregon high desert, though… 🏜️🤞🏻🦅🙌🏻
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
drip by drip, but the #EpsteinFiles have all but vanished. all it took was grifting the Treasury, detaining (and killing) lawful Americans, all but ceding our status as a top tier economy, destroying the environment, gutting our military, making food and medicine suspect… oh, and starting a war… 🤷🏻
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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Officials from Britain to Los Angeles are issuing advisories for residents to prepare and stock up on essentials in preparation for this historic El Niño. insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...
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Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name - Inside Climate News
As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
and, in my case on the PNW Coast adjacent to the Cascadia Subduction fault, below 100’ sea level. 📈 🌊 i could never be *that* close to sometime 24/7 lawnmower-loud (110db+ spikes 😳) white noise. anyways, my view and access are just fine…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best birthday present imaginable. #DollyDay 💖
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
as i live & breathe- Skyrim has entered the chat… 🤘🏻
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
these are the pics i find most inspiring. was gonna take the day off to rest after performing on the road this past week, but now i’m gonna pick up the hickory cudgels and do my cymbal monkey thang. 🥁🎶🤠 thanks for the nudge, Morgan…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
here’s the shitty part- you could point this out to Johnson and he’ll just move the goalposts or equivocate. that is, facts have nothing to do with his statements. pure appeals to emotion- the MAGA or generally uninformed- are what he is after… i’d bet $100. any takers?
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there’s a historical narrative of the 2020s if that could pic of the signs could be taken…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there is a certain layer of rural cheekiness with the plainly visible, hand drawn sign… 💀😂
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“if you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” -(ascribed) Chinese proverb the power of patience…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
trying to decide on whether the reply is a: 1.) myopic gotcha or 2.) hurdy-hur …or both.
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The Road To El Dorado: Both Is Good
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
we need to understand that a particular ilk of humans have no problem with sacrificing their own in order to appease twisted psychopathies; that of unquenchable thirst for ever greater power. what, you think FOTUS cared that the (staged) assassination attempt would result in U.S. collateral deaths?
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#MapQuest it is, then…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
an earth-encompassing company- with the Godlike power of GPS mapping & direction- is realtime literally changing the names to shit we *all* pretty much agreed upon. stop on that for a second. reality is being contorted to assuage a most singularly awful human being… cuz he just said so…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
one teensy criticism: Premier Ford should have bedecked the sign in the tackiest faux gold leaf… 💀
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the thirst is real…
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
seen two in my life of walking countless riverbanks and streams. made my f***ing birding month… 🐦
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
i’ve wondered that same thing regards watching video of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. like a snuff film of the most grossly epic proportions. 10s of thousands perished in the literal blink of an eye. (radiation fallout unalived many more to reach 150-250k total dead.) we watch with no real perspective…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the most depressing part- “Without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels…”. we’ve seen enough within our populace and media to know this goes nowhere. gun-control reform, climate change, big-tech regulation, Constitutional reformation, etc. literal island owning peoples will not allow this…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
this is his now tiring and nationally catastrophic “double down” action. never admit defeat, never compromise, reject any and all opinions/data beyond your own. sure, cuz that has worked so well…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
that hurt my brain just reading it. that is weird….
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Somebody tell that terminal dipshit that he'd be renaming the smallest lake and put an end to it.
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Robert De Niro Says 'You Right'
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
in conversation, my young adult daughter spoke of the same thing. and, i was a 💯 “good on ya, kiddo”. not in the “i hope she never dates”, but rather she has her own unique, voice, tempo, and trajectory to *her* life. *she* decides what’s best and right for *her*. i’m just there should she stumble…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
💯… bsky.app/profile/barr...
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
if Jeffries- who *Kushner called* to secretly meet- did not end the convo with, “Lawyer up… bitch. we are hiring an army of forensic accountants and coming after all ya’ll… bitch”, then he needs to be replaced… #FollowTheMoney
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
was at Les Invalides and Napoleon’s Tomb today. man, oh man- the French really were the original badass anti-fascists. inspiring stories of courage against a grossly inhumane and violent occupying force…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
watched Carney’s measured and yet extremely firm 22min speech. pure Canadian resolve was evident through every line. in summation, an “elbows up” FAFO declaration. they are sick & tired of this Administration’s bullshit…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
sweet jeebus- because “flood the zone” has been so diabolically effective, i did not know that 16(!) states have already complied???! like, they just rolled over and gave this authoritarian iteration of federal government their databases and those states actually DID it???!
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💵s 2️⃣ 🍩s: why stop there? label an organization or political entity as subversive or a danger to NatSec. refuse to deliver mail from said organization. yeah, that’s where this is going…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
such magnificent creatures. we have nearby herds along the Oregon Coast. love seeing them on the beach and on my trail runs through the nearby forest…
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George Takei's Oh My Reaction
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
been in Europe these past two weeks. Spain, Italy, France. my Apologia Tour, of sorts, mending fences in the personal, diplomatic way. the people of Europe have been most friendly and gracious despite the “political U.S. baggage” i am lugging around. here is an early Marseilles morning, btw…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
more about it, say, six months down the road in Maggie Haberman’s new book, “I Knew About This *Eight* Months Ago”. 🤬 Or actual reporting that could really be useful to arrest this madness, like, I dunno… NOW…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the timing. perfection…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i seem to remember the frikkin NCAA President *testifying* that: out of 600,000 student athletes, 10- yes, 10!- were trans. but, sure- global stability takes a backseat…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
…with a platoon of LEO leadership behind. not exactly comforting to anyone keeping abreast of this nation’s collapse into authoritarianism…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
say what we will, but “flood the zone” is pure evil genius. for every nationally media-focused scandal that plasters screens wall<->wall, dozens of micro-scandals continue to be promulgated without any scrutiny. imo, if and when Democrats take Congress- hire a literal army of forensic accountants…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“…he said he expects the federal government to honor its commitments to consult and cooperate with the Nation in addressing its concerns over border wall construction in the months ahead.” there’s a naivety in the judges view if he expects this Administration to compromise or cooperate with anyone…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i’m kinda beyond a disgust with this McConnell thing. not one leak, not one reporter, not one pol (with a shred of integrity) on a most consequential question. can *anyone* explain to me (like i’m fucking 12) how NO ONE knows the Senator’s whereabouts or condition? while he is still getting paid?
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
totally understood your jibe and 💯 agree. i just felt a little twinge to add to y(our) shared viewpoint how we already mirror China… in all the wrong ways. 😞 regards…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i’d settle for castration for those that physically engage and/or are “administratively” involved. note- China also grabs and unlawfully detain citizens, and even executes protesters. but we don’t… oh, wait…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
South Korea. Brazil. Hungary. now Albania. seemingly “less developed” democratic nations have a more robust rules of law to meet authoritarian threats that are based upon corruption and violence…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i literally just “woooow”ed aloud…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
say what we will, but the “flood the zone with shit” strategy is entering genius territory. like, how many illegal acts, war crimes, impeachable acts, unConstitutional acts, corruptions, and on and on and on have seen only to be sidelined by a near hourly new malfeasance? fuck all. #ThisIsBonkers…
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Barry Semple @barry-semple.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
like quantum computing? feasible but financially and physically prohibitive?
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