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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thank goodness there was food delivery long before Door Dash. And clothing distribution charity.

Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

One person's "woke" is another's poignant. I don't like excessive zeal or overly specific messaging in writing, but I don't have rabies against "woke." Moreover, context is everything. This short passage in isolation doesn't back your claim.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Headline is confusing. Is it saying we should outgrow habits? Out grow anyone? Grow anyone, however that could be interpreted?

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

WATCH OUT For crypto schemes pretending to want your friendship. I just had an awful entanglement with one posing as an oh, so nice person. I gave them nothing of value to them -- there's no way I ever would. But they tried gaslighting and clogging up my chat. BEWARE. #schemes #beware #scams

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

We tried red and got needless wars, massive deficits, Christo-fascist hate and Clarence Thomas. We tried blue and got a balanced budget, reduced poverty, LGBT+ marriage equality, vast increases for non-polluting technologies, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The "both sides failed" lie needs to stop!

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I first read that AI! as "All." That inspired a good one: Who are we?... BILLIONAIRES! What do want?... EVERYTHING!

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Our attention spans are fought over by our lusts and our compassion. Not proud of my gender when I say compassion didn't win until the 2nd viewing.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

There's always, "My numerologist said the total of letters in your request clashes with my core rhythm."

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Thanks! You've got me looking into this Bull Moose party. It uses a smart strategy clearly designed to avoid unintentionally pushing offices to the right the way the Green candidacies have effectively done with the U.S. presidency.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Greetings. In 2023, I ran in a special election to fill an open Metro Council seat in my city of Louisville, Ky. I advocated reversing our city's regressive taxation to cut Occupational Taxes on workers, and to save our ailing bus system. I didn't win, but I spoke to what no other candidate was.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

And in 1971, Rep. Gerald Ford tried to impeach William O. Douglas over a $100 payment he had received for an article Douglas wrote for a magazine. (And, believe it or not, for being married to a much younger woman; Ford actually included that in his litany against Douglas.)

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

We always hear new tech developments lauded as our liberators arriving. The bad sides are discovered only after we are totally dependent on them. Like Carpal Tunnel injuries. That wasn't supposed to be part of the deal to get personal computing.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I believe that is a correlative, rather than causal relationship. It probably reflects income level, as well as Manhattan's layout being less amenable to car ownership.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I've ridden MARC and it's wonderful news that demand and public support for it are up. Go, MARC!

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The US indeed does some things very well, but its cities? Urban development in the U.S. is the worst of our practices.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Way too subjective. And limited. Only touristy and monied sections are discussed in this story. Explore lots of parts of a city. You might learn things USA Today from its distance hasn't.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

All of this -- all of it -- was completely preventable if a few people on the left end of the Democratic Party field had not refused to vote for Gore in '00, Hillary in '16 and Harris in '24. Don't hold out for perfection. Make the better choice.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I did child care (compensated by a state program) for 3 autistic, speech impaired children. Today, two of them work and pay taxes. The 3rd has done volunteer work. Two have college degrees.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We had a right winger in our city who in the '90s said the proposed LGBT+ rights ordinance would make our city "another San Francisco." The ordinance soon passed. And our restaurant selection, nightlife and coffeehouse arts scene have greatly improved. No Super Bowl winning football team, though.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Yes, we had such terms as "column inches," and "H and J," but in anything we'd publish, we'd use clear and understandable words. In-house occupational jargon can be okay, but when addressing the public, we would avoid them. That preserves clarity, which helps maintain freedom, such as it still is.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It is an anomaly is one sense -- men flashing nazi salutes in loyalty to their leader have until now been quite good at launching rockets.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We don't turn to English teachers to build rockets and we should not rely on technocrats to determine proper language.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Mixed? It's partly disastrous, partly catastrophic.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just did. Thanks for the nudge!

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The Democrats need to publicly pressure RFK Jr. to resign. Even pass a resolution calling for him to. It doesn't come down to just whether it would cause him to resign. It would make clear to the public that he is not a legitimate public servant and is unfit to run HHS.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#OnThisDay, 21 June 1957, Ellen Fairclough becomes the first woman to be a Canadian federal cabinet minister. She advocates for equal pay for equal work. #CanadianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

Ellen Fairclough behind her desk. She is a white woman with grey hair.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I still love browsing my 1975 and '78 People's Almanacs -- fun and very poignant. But prescient? They asked 5 "psychics" in '75 to give predictions, with what year they'd happen. With hindsight on my side, and - even grading flexibly -- I gave them a 2.5 percent success rate. #booksky #history

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I edited a monthly left-pacifist newspaper from 1990 until 2011. Most life affirming, fulfilling -- and grueling experience. I edited other people's works, and I had to reconcile my journalism standards with their academic writing standards. Most contributors were fine to work with. A very few not.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just not having to be worried about running out of data is the best reason to delve into printed books. No worries about pop up ads or being watched, either. Enjoy!

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It might be oxygen deficit or something like that. And it seems to be in Rocky Mountain states. I can see that. The first time I went to Colorado I was at an 8,000+ foot elevation and just walking around I'd feel tingling and pain in my larger muscles.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Also, "suffocation" means dying. I looked it up on 3 dictionary sources and they all defined it that way, not merely injuring. So I am puzzled why insurance companies would list suffocation as a cause of "injuries." If suffocation happens, there's no need to treat any injury.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

So why are Hoosiers the only ones where "struck by object" is tops, or the most disproportionate one? Are they slam dunking on outdoor basketball courts and their opponent gets bopped on the head with the ball? I grew up in Indiana and it's no stereotype that roundball rules there.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Got it. In the days of AM radio, every inane thought that every under-informed person had made it to the airwaves via call-in shows.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I don't member that caller, but it sounds like something a person who calls radio talk shows at the time would say.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Forecasting the future is risky. Let's celebrate that fact Nov. 13 of next year! #what'shistory #science

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The magic of the marketplace! Works so much better than government.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Absolutely. I remember when Bill Clinton put US troops into Bosnia under the UN with mixed U.S. and other nations' commanders - a move about which there were fair criticisms. But a far right winger in our area tried to claim this was unconstitutional -- forgetting all about the D-Day Supreme HQ.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

250 years from now, we will have a parade to celebrate the anniversary of the No Kings Day popular uprising.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Reading The Unsettling of America in the mid 1980s focused, strengthened, and re-energized my views.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Your king has more humanity than the one who organized the parade. And more competence.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

@weirdlilguys.bsky.social kitty gives up the street life, at least for this passerby with an iPhone. #cats #weirdlilguys #CuteCats #cute

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Unsettling of America -- This 1977 book by the underrated environmentalist and social critic Wendell Berry shows how the environmental, economic and energy crises are part of a wider "crisis of character." Berry foresaw today's calamities with remarkable prescience. #booksky

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This over-emphasis on "use the right kind of language" has been around since the ear;y '70s: studio.youtube.com/video/7Bv7mG...

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Oh, you have -gate scandals over there, too! I hadn't realized that suffix was used across the pond.

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Brian Arbenz @brianarbenz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Marxists always urged soldiers fighting in wars between capitalist nations to "turn the guns around." Today, I can see AI accidentally making that plea come true

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