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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 03/09/2026

still the only voter id anyone should need (in Texas) just ask @kuff.bsky.social

Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 12/08/2026

they repunched that rather quickly after someone informed the English major that the other side of the globe was in fact not gathering to watch an eclipse

photo of people in front of a mostly eclipsed sun with the

start of a headline from The Guardian via Apple News; “Millions around the globe gathered to w…”

(presumably: …watch the eclipse)

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 04/08/2026

via the web, it typically recalls my authentication, it reset recently and it forces me to 2FA (my code is in Apple Password app - it's worked before, but i haven't used it recently)

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 02/08/2026

Ceci n'est pas une cigarette.

a) this is a photo of a cigarette
b) this is only the ashes of a cigarette
c) Magritte preferred a pipe
d) this is an incense stick, burned

xxx xxx p :ɹǝʍsuɐ xxx xxx

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 28/07/2026

83° F 81% humidity 77° dew point was actually a comfortable 🚲 commute despite TxDOT blocking one passage and obstructing a second

a crane parked over a bike path while lifting a cylinder of rebar for a freeway piling

an unmanned crane extending over the bike path

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 19/07/2026

Went to Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation today. They had an interesting variety of different kinds of rock on the beach of the desert lake. The water is a sodium–chloride–carbonate–sulfate type, supporting tufa formations (calcium carbonate deposits, like the pyramid the lake is named for).

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 02/07/2026

lovely day in the shade in the Houston World Cup Fan Zone for the 🇪🇸 🇦🇹 match

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 28/05/2026

first one is Paramount, what’s second?

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 25/05/2026

SpaceX's IPO is the corporate equivalent of Trump's negotiating with himself, excluding the courts and the cuckold Congress, to steal $1.8 Billion from Americans. Trump via taxes/government. Musk via the stock market/capitalism. buff.ly/NdIE5a4

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 23/05/2026

Hippos kill an estimated 500 people per year in Africa, making them one of the continent’s deadliest large animals — often ranked behind mosquitoes and humans, but ahead of lions, crocodiles, and elephants.

closeup of a ceramic hippopotamus, mouth agape

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 20/05/2026

“Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court said: No. The Constitution does not let a governor erase voters’ choices when their choices are inconvenient to him,” Wu said in a statement. “Abbott was wrong, weak and after all his bluster he couldn’t come and take a damn thing.” 3/3

Gene Wu, Houston-area state representative
https://directory.texastribune.org/gene-wu/

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 13/05/2026

i just think they’re not confident about the bull pen either, no Dusty-tight management here it’s Care Bears night

a yellow Care Bear,
a blue Care Bear,
a freshly limed batters box

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 30/04/2026

you’re drunk, Bing this would be square inches with the calculation you performed i was looking for 14” x 16” (i tried this three different ways, and it couldn’t grasp) in other Microsoft A.I. news, they raised the prices on Github Co-Pilot this week

prompt: what is 355 x 400mm in inches

response: 355 * 400 millimeters =142,000 millimeters 5590.5512 inches

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 05/04/2026

As expected, we’ve got a runoff. I got to the polls just after the nasty band of thunderstorms whisked through town: not a soul there.

Houston City Council, District C special election.

Joe Panzarella and Nick Hellyar summing over 50% of the vote in a 6-candidate race.

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 26/03/2026

Tuesday (Space Cowboys exhibition) when no one was there.

sec 152, NRG Tower barely visible on right

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 25/03/2026

Daikin on Tuesday before exhibition with Space Cowboys there was a nice breeze

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 23/03/2026

sometimes awesome photos show up in your memories April 15, 2023 Houston Art Car Parade hope to see you there this year! www.thehoustonartcarparade.com (i was in the hospital last year and missed it)

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 20/03/2026

Rainfall forecast maps but make it a 90s movie. Pulp Fiction (1994) h/t @spacecitywx.bsky.social

John Travolta shrugging superimposed onto a regional map including Texas. The map is entirely devoid of any rainfall.

Source: Space City Weather
https://spacecityweather.com/houston-what-were-you-like-in-the-90s/

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 05/03/2026

Tonight midtown houston be there! www.midmainhouston.com/firstthursday

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 04/03/2026

I’ll be interested to see the outcome of all the party-specific “propositions” (survey questions) including the undercounts.

Texas Republican Proposition 4 on the primary ballot:

Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization.

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 03/03/2026

another red, and the yellow persists at 5pm

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Bill Shirley @bshirley.shirl.com · 03/03/2026

I didn’t check the voting map before i went to a super busy polling place at lunch. (red pin 📍) Turned around. Polls open till 7pm. 🕖 Houston is voting! #TexasPrimaries