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Above: My Great Uncle Dan Defending Freedom from Fascists. Local government retiree Weed whacker/Native plant defender Environmentalist since 1974 Gaia Lover Shakuhachi student

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For anyone wondering how to interpret the permitting reform bill that is being supported by Rs and Ds in the Congress, here's the rub: Like the IRA did, this bill will help expand fossil fuel infrastructure in the USA (thereby facilitating burning MORE dirty energy). Read below for details 👇
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Queen guitarist Brian May has transformed 157 acres of farmland into a thriving nature reserve now home to 100,000 trees and diverse wildlife.
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Queen guitarist Brian May’s nature reserve transformed 157 acres of empty farmland into home for 100,000 trees and wild animals
Queen guitarist Brian May’s nature reserve transformed 157 acres of empty farmland into home for 100,000 trees and wild animals
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who knew that raindrops had shadows? I didn't, until yesterday.
Two yellow aspen leaves on flagstone with water droplets on the leaves casting shadows.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 21/09/2026
A vacant lot in Aurora is slated to become the largest data center in Colorado. At full buildout, the energy consumed would equal about 11 times the power used by Denver International Airport. From @capitalandmain.bsky.social
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Colorado’s largest data center could rise next to homes — without a public hearing | Colorado Newsline
An Aurora project could become the largest data center in Colorado. It would consume 11 times the power used by Denver International Airport.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters. But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits. Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/eig...
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Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The House Committee on Natural Resources, including Colorado's Jeff Crank (R), has sent letters to 19 enviro groups "demanding written answers and in-person testimony regarding their business practices..." How dare these groups ask for attorneys fees? naturalresources.house.gov/news/documen...
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Committee Investigates Radical Environmental Groups Profiting From Taxpayer Dollars
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Next up for Google Maps and Apple Maps... Renaming the 'United States of America' to 'Trumpistan'.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
OBBBA is now leading Colorado BLM to offer up 4,096 acres for oil and gas atop the Roan Plateau, amid a Greater Sage-Grouse lek, in an area of high biodiversity, affecting an Outstanding Water of the state and prime elk production areas as well as a migration corridor. Comments by 9/11 - link below
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Top two Republicans in Wyoming decry DOJ interference with this week's election in Laramie. Those college towns, ya know? Lots of illegal voting going on there. The Republican Laramie County clerk denied DOJ access to conduct interviews with voters. www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_n...
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Gov. Gordon concerned by ‘aggressive’ DOJ election observers during Wyoming’s primary
As the state canvassing board met Wednesday in Cheyenne to certify the results of Wyoming’s primary elections, Gov. Mark Gordon raised concerns about what he described as “aggressive” and “irregular”
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We Coloradoans tried to remove the insurrectionist from the 2024 ballot, only to be overruled by SCOTUS. Now, we are unmasking tRump's campaign of vindication against us for not towing the line on his unconstitutional demands. Impeach Convict Remove!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows (Gift Article)
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I started skiing St. Mary's in the late '70's. There's no escape from global warming. Our only way forward is decarbonizing and restoring the damage we've done. As a public policy guy, it pains and exasperates me that we are still issuing fracking permits... www.aspentimes.com/news/colorad...
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Will Colorado’s St. Mary’s Glacier become ‘un-skiable’ for the first time ever this summer? Some skiers think so
On July 31, Kevin Hawley slipped over bumpy, muddy suncups on his snowboard, carving a few short turns down the thin strip of St. Mary’s Glacier before stopping where the snowfield ended in a pile...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Collapse of legacy media is gas on fire of our climate condition. Once, a National Book Award winning expert like @johnvaillant.bsky.social (strong rec for Fire Weather) writing on new apocalyptic fire clouds in Time wld have been a clarion; now hard to get thru chatter. time.com/article/2026...
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What Happens When the World is on Fire
"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Iran Peace deal is the new Infrastructure Week.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/30/p... #Pluralistic 1/
The Golden Gate Bridge, wreathed in rising fog. To the right of the scene sits a giant crying baby in a top-hat, his chubby fist resting on an antique cash-register that has been fitted with a CCTV. The CCTV emits a cone of red light that is zapping a female figure - an engraving in the style of a revolutionary French woman storming the Bastille. The woman holds aloft the severed head of Ben Franklin as depicted on a US $100 bill. His eyes glow red.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 24/07/2026
Fifty for 150: A popular vote on a referendum granted women the right to vote in Colorado on Nov. 7, 1893. Colorado was the first state to grant suffrage by popular vote. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
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Fifty for 150: Women in Colorado lobbied male voters to approve 1893 referendum on suffrage | Colorado Newsline
A popular vote on a referendum granted women the right to vote in Colorado in 1893. It was the first state to grant suffrage by popular vote.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
WTF!
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why don't other states do this? Or do they?
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AnnieD @anniedemoranville.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
She knew the assignment: "Colorado Springs firefighters said while working on the Rock Creek Fire, fire crews needed an escort to reach the fire in the terrain of Cheyenne Mountain State Park. She even helped with some “fuel mitigation” along the way." www.kktv.com/2026/07/09/g...
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Goat escort guides Colorado Springs firefighters through terrain to ‘Rock Creek Fire’
Colorado Springs firefighters shared a video of crews walking with an escort, but not just any escort. Firefighters were escorted by a “very determined goat!”
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 22/06/2026
Fifty for 150: Not long ago American society relegated people with disabilities to broad forms of segregation. But disability rights have come a long way in recent decades. A major turning point was the summer of 1978, when a bold group of Colorado activists took to the streets of Denver.
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Fifty for 150: Gang of 19 in 1978 makes Colorado a center of disability rights activism | Colorado Newsline
A major turning point for disability rights in the U.S. was the summer of 1978, when a bold group of activists took to the Denver streets.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
20 seconds of tranquility, Wednesday, from the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness in Colorado at 11,800 feet. Unfortunately, the area is also in Exceptional Drought. Our campsite 400 feet below was extremely dusty and dry - in June!
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Native News Online @nativenewsonline.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
LAND BACK: All Nine South Dakota Tribes Support Black Hills Land Return Historic show of unity advances proposal to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation…...
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LAND BACK: All Nine South Dakota Tribes Support Black Hills Land Return
Historic show of unity advances proposal to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation In a historic demonstration of unity, all nine federally recognized Tribal nations in South Dakota have passed resolutions supporting the development of legislation to return federal lands in the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation. The effort marks a significant milestone in a years-long campaign led by Indigenous organizations, elders, grassroots leaders, and Tribal governments to protect sacred sites, preserve clean drinking water, and strengthen Tribal stewardship of the region.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year. Renewables? Barely a fraction. We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience. Share if you’ve had enough. 🌍✊
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Try to deny systemic racism after SCOTUS rulings on Alabama, Louisiana, & Virginia Symone Sanders Townsend co-host on MSNOW’s “The Weeknight” is dropping nothing but facts “Know your History”
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This pic is from my 1908 Webster's New International Dictionary (it's 5" thick and over 2,600 pages long). Out of the 7 automobiles shown, TWO ARE ELECTRIC, IN 1908! How different would our world be if electric cars continued from 1908! There's a story to be told why this didn't happen!!!
A 1908 dictionary shows 7 types of cars, of which 2 are electric, an 'electric runabout' and an 'electric truck'.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Slush Fund Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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‪EdieC@momsresistance.bsky.social‬ @momspersistence.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Like a run away freight train, his corruption is way out of control!
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
How is this corruption not even one of the 5 Trending topics on Bluesky? Instead people are into 'Gameoverse'? I know I'm old, but we are all getting ripped off by tRump...doesn't that register?
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Fun with Water Bubbles Artemis II astronauts having fun as they showcase the unique behavior of a ball of water in a microgravity environment. In space, a ball of water moves and shapes light in surprisingly complex ways. images.nasa.gov/details/art0... 🧪🔭 #Artemis
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is so important. I knew the racists were going after the Reconstruction Amendments, but...this violation of the 14th, Section 2 is so clear. Why doesn't everyone know about this? Gerrymander away! Your votes won't count!
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #Conservation
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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Yesss!!! www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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Wait, Could This Be a Climate Conference That Actually Works?
As the Iran war highlights fossil-fuel risks, a coalition of the willing pursues a global phaseout.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love my State! www.denverpost.com/2026/04/27/m...
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Land acquisition expands popular Jeffco park adjacent to Red Rocks
The acquisition expands Matthews/Winters Park, which already has nearly 14 miles of trails in the Morrison valley between 7,000-foot peaks to the west and the Dakota Ridge hogback to the east.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Somebody's got to say it. Thanks, Eric. Cattle farming to the current extent in the western US has to be downsized. Think of all the water our rivers could have if it weren't for all the alfalfa and all the cows. www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/16/w...
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Water Rights Have Become Water Wrongs
Across most of the arid West, snowpack is low, rainfall is scarce, and residents are staring down the barrel of another year of major drought. Water levels are dropping, native fishes have become enda...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Methinks Reverend Whiskey Pete's guest pastor misspoke when he prayed "in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Surely he meant "In the name of our Lord Doctor Jesus Trump." publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service
For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Comments are needed to BLM by April 7 - yes, next Tuesday! - to resist BLM's proposal to allow oil and gas drilling within 336,000 acres adjacent to Chaco Canyon! This sacred site must maintain its protected status! #ProtectChaco #Indigenous
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've had two interactions now with 'customer service agents' which are pretty clearly bots. They identify themselves by a human name but can't really respond to questions and just repeat canned information. I screamed at one today, "Treat me like a person." It didn't. There oughtta be a law...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've had two interactions now with 'customer service agents' which are pretty clearly bots. They identify themselves by a human name but can't really respond to questions and just repeat canned information. I screamed at one today, "Treat me like a person." It didn't. There oughtta be a law...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Driving back today from the Western Slope of Colorado to the Front Range. The snowpack in the Colorado mountains is gone! Gone! The state that originates four major rivers - the Colorado, the Arkansas, the Platte, and the Rio Grande - is going dry. How about you? #water #ColoradoRiver
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What is it called when a Commander-in-Chief dances, while his country and the military of which he is in charge is at war? The Commander-in-Chief is not at the Resolute Desk. He's on the golf course. And wearing his campaign hat to honor the fallen, returned dead. I think it's treason.
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“I’m sure that someone somewhere is working on that." Says the architect of an unfinished desalination project in Corpus Christi, as the city and its chemical plants face a freshwater emergency which could lead to no jet fuel in Texas and evacuation of the city. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...
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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Are the 'missing 53 pages' about to become Nixon's 18 1/2 minute gap? It sure looks that way... www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If Democrats retake the House and Senate, they will come face-to-face with the very real possibility of having to remove Trump’s entire cabinet. There is no historical precedent for this-this is the real Trump effect: total and absolute corruption of power…
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hat tip to Paul Krugman, who has this as his musical coda for today...guaranteed to lift our spirits! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
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When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)
YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen
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bradklafehn.bsky.social @bradklafehn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
SELF has been doing, and is doing, amazing work solarizing people's lives.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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