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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Saw The Odyssey last night at Universal CityWalk and extending my journey to the ancient world by driving past the Citadel Outlets

An outlet mall off the 5 freeway styled as an ancient Syrian palace

Assyrian engravings on the side of the Citadel Outlets, once a tire store

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

thought about exactly this while touring San Juan Island yesterday in a (petrol) “scoot coupe”. A blast. E-bikes also out in force making easy work of the hills. Only issue is fear of getting smashed up by the other de facto island vehicle — a massive Tacoma or Ram!

Mini red two-seat, three-wheel scooter on an island with a lighthouse

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Scenes from the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner (San Diego > LA)

Black Hawk helicopters in Camp Pendleton

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Coreopsis maritima coming to life! This was just the dry stem component for months and the green shot out in just the last couple weeks

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Parish goldeneye in Andreas Canyon outside Palm Springs

Parish goldeneye bush outside in a canyon on a bright January day

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Time is calling @ Minuteman Press in Hollywood

A glass door with a print of a man in green trousers, no jacket, and a white dress shirt with red tie, with hands on hip. His head is a clock.

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

bringing a new level to the expression “traffic was a nightmare“

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

People mocking penguin island tariffs but Kim Stanley Robinson spoke at UCLA last month about Antarctic penguins fighting back against bully seals. Trump isn’t just destroying the penguins’ economy, he’s also attacking their #resistance @evanlgeorge.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2025/03/13/w...

Robinson offers a better model from the animal kingdom: the humble penguin. Citing a visit to Antarctica, he said that Adélie penguins often find themselves under attack from skuas, which are cousins of seagulls but bigger and nastier. And when the skuas come flying over a rookery of penguins to dive bomb for eggs or vulnerable baby penguins, the one thing they have to their advantage is their numbers.

All the penguins, they raise their heads to the sky, and they start squawking, they’re yelling ‘Get out of here, we don’t want you here, we don’t like you. Come down here and we’ll beat you with our stubby little wings. Come down here and we’ll peck you with our tiny little beaks that can’t do much damage. Do not mess with us, because there are so many of us that we will peck you to death.’ And the skuas come down and they skate away. When they see the group leaping up at them as something that looks almost like an ecstatic display although it’s not, it’s more ‘Don’t mess with us.’ That response is solidarity in action. So we need to be penguins here. Everybody needs to be saying ‘No.’ And the universities are the mechanism by which the federal government funds medical research, it’s not NIH itself that does most of it. It gives out research grants all across the country and the world that do the research necessary… What has to be responded to by all of us is ‘You cannot kill the future.’

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

All aboard #Amtrak Pacific Surfliner from Oceanside to Union Station LA today. First time I’ve noticed the ocean wave seat fabric 💺🚂🌊🌅

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

When I picketed at Melrose Trading Post entrance last weekend I printed flyers #teslatakedown on my home printer (4x/page) and cut into quarter sheets. Easy to fit in my pocket and hand out to people on the street. Don’t assume people know what’s happening! www.teslatakedown.com

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Democrats of the Desert are organizing #teslatakedown protest every Sunday, 12-1pm, at the Tesla dealership in Cathedral City, CA @teslatakedown.com

Democrats of the Desert Facebook page post: Musk / Doge protests - EVERY SUNDAY, noon-1pm, Tesla dealership sidewalk, Hwy 111 and Pérez Rd, Cathedral City. Make a sign and come!

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

One thing I appreciate about #teslatakedown is the lo-fi graphic design, which reflect the genuinely grassroots nature of the nationwide (and global) protests www.teslatakedown.com

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Pre-work mini #teslatakedown at SM Blvd & 405 in West LA today. Guy in Ford Escape pulls up: “hey Elon’s cutting costs!” I go: “It’s value destruction. His Twitter game destroyed 70% of the company’s value.” He goes, “I agree on Twitter. I’ll give you that,” then sped off #discourse 🤷‍♂️🚗

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If you can’t make a protest you can DIY. I took my NO MUSK COUP sign to Melrose Trading Post at Fairfax High in LA today. Tons of honking and conversations with young people on #Melrose Ave. I handed out #TeslaTakedown quarter sheets (Mac Preview app > Print 4x/page) www.teslatakedown.com

Author with a NO MUSK COUP sign outside Melrose Trading Post at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

One #teslatakedown protester had a foot injury, so she brought a folding chair and waved at ease with an anti-DOGE sign 🪧 People are overcoming barriers to get in the streets

Protest sign in North Hollywood — DOGE: Devious Oligarch Grifting Everyone

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Happy to report 25+ protestors at the Tesla dealer in North Hollywood today cheered on by a steady stream of honking cars. One guy had a double-sided NO KINGS sign and said he’d been compelled to come out for the first time today after seeing the Zelensky presser. Say ‘no’ now. #TeslaTakedown

Author with a NO MUSK COUP sign in North Hollywood

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Got out to North Hollywood this afternoon to protest Elon Musk. Cheered by honking supporters, sidewalk art from the big group here earlier today, and the guy in Rivian who asked “what’s a coup.” Keep it up out there. #TeslaTakedown actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Author with a “NO MUSK COUP” sign outside Tesla dealer in North Hollywood on Feb 23

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A reflection from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s visit to LA — how few CA representatives and officials joined in Union Station, all behind a black privacy curtain set up to separate the speakers from protestors and regular commuters walking by. This administration is deeply unpopular.

Rep Kevin Kiley of CA stands next to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at Union Station

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Happy to report the NO MUSK COUP sign made another outing today at the Tesla showroom in Pasadena. It’s not a honking kind of town but I had several polite toots and thumbs up from drivers, and nice conversations with supportive citizens on the street. Keep making noise. #TeslaTakedown

Author with a NO MUSK COUP sign outside a Tesla showroom in Pasadena

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I protested Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s appearance at Union Station in LA this morning. The administration’s agenda is not “cost cutting,” it’s value destruction for the president’s enemies and transfer of public spending to favored friends. #teslatakedown

Protestor with “No Musk Coup” sign outside Union Station

Protestor with “NO KINGS, YES TRAINS” sign

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Brian, look forward to the report. I got my sign out at the forthcoming Tesla diner in Hollywood this morning, on SM Blvd. across the street from Jeffrey Deitch gallery (this building isn’t on the protest list afaik)

No Musk Coup sign outside a Tesla building in Hollywood

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Impromptu solo protest outside the Tesla building on Santa Monica Blvd & Orange in Hollywood this morning. Happy Valentine’s Day 💌 #tesla

“No Musk Coup” placard outside Tesla building in Hollywood

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

From a California guy in Chicago, Merry Christmas 🎄

The author pretending to dive into Lake Michigan

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

200 million year-old rock from the Alabama Hills at LADWP headquarters, to symbolize water taken from Owens Valley. I am a big sucker for an institutional rock. PS, Alabama Hills a filming location for Gladiator I — scene where Maximus rides from Germania to Italy with his wounded shoulder. 🐎 ⚔️

Rock from Alabama Hills at LADWP headquarters in downtown Los Angeles

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Remembering the 2020 CA primary when Brentwood went for Mike Bloomberg. What a time. www.latimes.com/projects/202...

Map of 2020 CA primary election results showing Michael Bloomberg winning the “tony” Brentwood and north Santa Monica neighborhoods

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

This of course comes after someone drove their Ferrari into the Vanderpump restaurant a couple years ago la.eater.com/2020/1/6/210...

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Daniel Melling @danielmelling.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Drivers have jumped curbs and smashed their cars through walls of two restaurants in my neighborhood in last two weeks Jones — ktla.com/news/local-n... Raffalo’s Pizza (none other than Alan Ruck behind the wheel of a Rivian) — ktla.com/news/local-n...

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