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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his)

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the image converted to .jpg and with alt text generated added from the free and easy ot use OCR online tool available at www.imagetotext.info.

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Alt text added. Copied from free & easy to use website here: www.imagetotext.info

Image is a screenshot of a social media post, possibly Threads by Meta.

alisonrosen 3h
Stop making me choose between the radical left and the radical right

qasimrashid ❤ now
Radical Right: Ban immigrants. Lock brown people in camps. Ban repro health. Ban vaccines. Ban Muslims. Ban books. Bomb Venezuela, Iran, Lebanon,
Palestine. Enact fascism.
Radical Left: Tax billionaires, pass universal healthcare, end never ending wars, address climate crisis.
Centrist: STOP MAKING ME CHOOSE!

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I put on a little PPE to prevent breathing wildfire smoke, PM 2.5 @ 69+, and of course, SARS-2, because I don't want to breathe any of those 3 things, or get Long COVID.

Image displays air quality index of 154, primary pollutant PM 2.5, recorded near Portland, OR from the website airnow.gov. Bottom left icon is red and AQI forecast reads, "Today Unhealthy." Bottom right icon is oarange, and AQI forecsat reads, "Tomorrow Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups."

Pictured are 2 air quality monitors in a grocery store cart: a Temtop PM 2.5 particulate meter, and a Vitalight CO² meter held by a pale white skinned left hand. Temtop displays reads PM 2.5 is 68.3, AQI or air quality index is 157, temperature of 79.5 Fahrenheit, 44% humidity. Vitalight displays 770 ppm CO².

Picture is a selfie inside a Kia Rio hatchpack. Subject is a pale white skinned man wearing a Honeywell North 7500 eladtomeric half mask respirator with 2 organic vapor/P100 cartridge filtets left & right, and a P100 cartridge filter custom fitted to bottom center exhale port. Subject is wearing sealed wildfire smoke goggles, a navy blue baseball cap, and light blue polo shirt. Subject is smiling!

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is the same image with alt text, using a free & easy to use online website tool found at: www.imagetotext.info

Image is an excerpt from an article published by Common Dreams website, and reads as follows. A former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public statement, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, and many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation. He is not alone. Thirteen former Palantir
employees-engineers, managers, and a member of the company's own privacy. team-signed a letter shared with NPR warning that guardrails meant to prevent discrimination, disinformation, and abuse of power have been violated and are being rapidly dismantled.

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Here's the same image with descriptive alt text. I used www.imagetotext.info to get outline, and then lots of copy/paste, cut/paste.

Image is a graph plot labeled as:
"Healthy life expectancy at birth has declined in all four UK nations" as the header in bold at top. Graph shows life expectancy in England dropped from ~63.8 in 2020 to 60.6 in 2024. Graph shows life expectancy in Scotland dropped from ~60.85 in 2020 to ~58.7 in 2024. Graph shows life expectancy in Wales dropped from ~60.9 in 2020 to 58.5 in 2024. Graph shows life expectancy in Northern Ireland dropped from ~60.8 in 2020 to 60.4 in 2024. 64, 62, 60, 58 are designated age numbers in decreasing vertical axis with horizontal lines marking the graph from each number. England is graphed in gray line, Northern Ireland is graphed in green line, Scotland is graphed in blue line, Wales is graphed in red line. 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 are the years marked horizontally on bottom of graph. Bottom text of image labels source of graph, reading: Guardian graphic. Source: ONS. Note: year shown is last of three years in rolling three-year average

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Heere's the image with alt text. Here's a free, easy to use online OCR tool that I used to generate & copy/paste for the alt text. www.imagetotext.info

Last month, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's editor wrote that a recent job applicant withdrew from consideration for a reporting fellowship after discovering the position included filing notes to an AI writing tool instead of actually writing stories, touching off a heated debate in media circles.
One AP executive crystallized many media managers' views on the debate:"Because local newsrooms are so strapped, they are turning for assistance on the news making process in every direction. Advance Publications got there first, others will follow," AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart wrote in internal company Slack messages first shared with Semafor, referring to the Plain Dealer's parent company. "Resistance is futile."
Rinehart, who oversees the wire service's AI initiatives, suggested that in the future, reporters could go to events, get quotes, plug them into a large language model, and have the model generate a story, saving them time on writing stories they don't feel passionately about. She also noted that some editors told her that they would "prefer to have reporters report and have articles at least pre-written by AI."
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"There are many - and I mean MANY - editors who would prefer an AI- written article to a human-written one. Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare — RARE — is the occasion when it's wrapped into one person," she wrote.

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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This is the front cover art for the book Ender's Game written by Orson Scott Card. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, Tor Books, or the cover artist, John Harris .

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Nearly 420,000 Americans died from COVID-19 during Trump's first term, and nearly twice as many Americans, ~800,000, died from COVID-19 during Biden's term, despite Biden's false claim that the pandemic was "over." People in the US continue to die from COVID-19, and millions suffer from Long COVID.

Graph is of "Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19, United States," and date begins Jan. 1, 2020. Pop-up window on graph reads: "Jan. 21, 2021, in deaths, Confirmed deaths: 418,516." Caption below graph reads, "Data source: The Economist (2024 World Health Organization (2025)."

Graph is of "Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19, United States," and date begins Jan. 1, 2020. Pop-up window on graph reads: "Jan. 20, 2025, in deaths, Confirmed deaths: 1.21 million." Caption below graph reads, "Data source: The Economist (2024 World Health Organization (2025)."

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Image with Alt Text added for inclusion.

Title at top reads: "What am I supposed to ask in the job interview then?" Image below title is an email reply, subject: Re: Job Interview, and sender is redacted.
Email reads, "Hi Gavin,

We appreciate you taking the time to interview with us, but unfortunately we will be pursuing other candidates."

For future reference, asking questions about salary, responsibilities, and work culture are not things we like to discuss during the interview process.

Thank you for your time and we wish you the best of luck."

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Brian E. Bledsoe (he,him,his) @brianebledsoe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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Pictured is a living starship, "Moya," from the sci-fi TV show "Farscape" initiating a "starburst," which rapidly transports the space vessel between two points in spacetime.

Image of Moya looks like a golden color teardrop with 3 curved structures extending & joining from the rear.

Blue energy like lightning rings are seen at the rear of the starship, and the starship is surrounded by a wormhole visual effect that looks similar ti a whirlpool in water.

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