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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hey google... "How many gun-related deaths were there in the US in 2023?" 46,728 "How many gun-related deaths were there in the UK in 2023? 29 CK wrote his own story and ending.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Back in the 80s, a fellow HS student in Sacto who was proto-alt-right was the angriest person I ever knew with regards to Rush Limbaugh (who started in Sac). Reason? He was far too lefty on some things. This fits well with the current profile of CK's murderer.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I want to like this platform, but Bluesky somehow does not fulfill the social networking void. I want Livejournal, where I can ramble on for hours and come back a month later to read responses. This is too much early FB, where if there's no response in 10 mins, your post is dead.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A fast-food addicted workmate made the statement that home cooking that's not in a restaurant isn't "cuisine". Cuisine, of course, simply means "kitchen". A restaurant seeks to make a single version of that profitable but still homely. Fast food seeks to streamline it to nothing but profit.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Once upon a time, my opinion of Musk could have been described as "complicated". Trump has driven countless contracted businesses into bankruptcy as well, and my parents' company was tanked by similar tactics by another similar bad actor.

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Stiffed by Tesla: The car company owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills

YouTube video by CNN

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Emmett Till might have lived to be 84 today.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

As a gamer since at least the late 70s, I've always been a fan of The Sims since it carried on from Sim City. Today, I considered playing some version again for the first time in more than a decade, and was met with this (truncated list; srsly, this goes on for many pages). Nah, I'm good.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I was doing PBS pledge breaks in the 80s, and I guess in a way I still am. Become a member of your local pbs/npr station.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Apart from more obvious world events of the past year, in 2025 what I have realised: do NOT use a company's repair facility. Even in warranty. They seem to have become disorganised chop shops. Not naming companies, but it's been an epic first half of the year for this.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A reminder that the Nazi party, in 1937, stated that their "positives Christentum", or "Positive Christianity", was not based upon Christ, but the idea that Hitler was the face of that "Christian Nationalist" religion. We've fought this before. We won.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The executive branch is meant to be the least authoritative branch of government. It executes the orders of the legislative and judicial branches, and that's where its authority ends. The president of the US should be the most humble person in the US, if not the world.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Clotted cream finally achieved. Not quite as crunchy as I might prefer, but tasty

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Spending my birthday weekend making cheese, trying my hand at clotted cream, watching old episodes of Eureka and giving the finger to the serial comma.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

When we get past this current slump, let’s truly build back better. Fast trains for the masses to see the whole nation.

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Opinion | Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.

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Eleanor Lang @bklynel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

On Mother's Day, when we celebrate motherhood, let's remember there is a war on women, that women are punished for failure to carry a viable pregnancy to term, and that what many of us would like is years of activism coming to fruition, not reverting a century or two. abcnews.go.com/US/carry-bab...

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'I had to carry my baby to bury my baby': Woman says she was denied abortion for fetus without skull

A pregnant Louisiana woman says she will have to travel out of state after she was denied an abortion for a fetus with a fatal abnormality.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Gentle reminder that if your ACLU membership has lapsed, or if you have never had one, now is the time. It is Nazi-punching time.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

> Alonso really needed to replace her wheelchair ...she would have to pay 20% tariffs on the chair, which was "certainly workable" though "not great" > President Trump imposed more tariffs... Alonso was facing a steeper tariff of 145%. Her wheelchair was $6,000, nearly $3,500 for tariffs alone

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Americans are already seeing Trump's tariffs kick in. They sent in receipts to prove it

There's new tariffs on almost everything that is imported. Some of that increased cost is being eaten by exporters in other countries, but a lot of the higher prices are being picked up by Americans, ...

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Not even Ken Paxton is above the law. It is time to return to a time of law and order, where a bloke who pardoned a man who murdered a cop in his name cannot be the leader.

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Texas Attorney General Announces Vote Fraud and ‘Harvesting’ Charges

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Neil degrees Tyson Explaining the "God of the Gaps".

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

When the National Fascist Party and later Republican Fascist Party had a griphold on Italy, people still kept making cheese that had been done for countless generations. Rituals keep you sane. My cheese today is a pepperjack. Ancho, guajillo, chipotle and a little arbol for heat.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Whey ricotta is a tricky beast. One night, it comes out effortlessly; the next, it's just milk soup. Advice welcome.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Sunday thoughts: why do so many cooking recipes warn against doing something because it might become "bitter"? Wtf is wrong with "bitter" as a flavour? Don't you ever seek bitter intentionally? Who hurt you?

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There is a core idea going around, which while correct, misses a key point: "Do not obey in advance". The idea being that in order to protect your own safety, you do not speak out against The Don and other fascists. What I'd say is that your principles are far more critical than your personal safety

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yarn shop my partner buys from made the tariffs clear: a $2000 order had $3000 in Trump taxes on it, before being passed by percentage on to knitters who make things with the yarn and then again pass on the percentage to their retailers who then pass on more percentage to customers.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The point is never anti-semetism. The point is anti-critical-thinking and, moreover, anti-empathy. Those doing the deportations today *will* face their own trials in the future, and get more due process than they offer now.

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A Palestinian activist expecting a final interview for U.S. citizenship was arrested by ICE in Vermont

He also co-founded the Palestinian Student Union with Mahmoud Khalil, another Palestinian permanent resident of the U.S. who recently was detained by ICE.

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission. [Marika Sparrow]

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Additive manufacturing has more uses than just to create finished parts. I had steel tubing that needed a precise drilling pattern, both in distance apart and symmetry in front and back. This was my solution.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A cornerstone that made the US government unique from everything that preceded it: the executive branch, including the President, was the least powerful branch of government. The President's job is to carry out the decisions of the Legislative and Judicial branches, not to make them.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Some hope, worldwide. tl;dw: the reality of the far right's actions is not rubbing even far right voters in other countries the right way. "What do you mean it's MY country whose sovereign rights you won't respect?"

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Trump Just Broke the Populist Right

YouTube video by Brendan Miller

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

this is disgusting.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is “big government” at work and being shuttered > This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat, and a strong N.P.G.S. is central to our preparedness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The cruelty, the callousness, the indecency. The Trump administration will implode. America will emerge from this dark era of hate, cruelty and indecency. America will rise again. But we ALL need to be in this fight for our future.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Don told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was his final, most essential command.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The only president who had a lower approval rating at this point in the office was... well, the Don.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is what a second Treason Trump presidency looks like. Any adherence to the Constitution is absent. The only important thing is adherence to the Don. youtu.be/xPq346l3oTo?...

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GLOVES OFF: Prosecutor LASHES OUT at Justice Department after ILLEGAL move

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

> Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. Tell me again, the Don and Mister Bowman, who exactly is threatening WW3?

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Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia

Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. A lot has changed since then.

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

> The whole thing today appeared to be a setup, a trap sprung on a wounded ally. Whatever it was, it will remain, through history, a stain on America’s reputation. To me, the most telling bit was The Don ending it with "This is going to make great television".

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The Bully-in-Chief Targets an Ally

Zelenskyy resists and refuses to kiss the ring

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emmettpickerel.bsky.social @emmettpickerel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

With The Don, USA is last in priority. The Don is not even first; Russia is. Pathetic.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What happened in the Oval Office on Friday — the obviously planned ambush of Zelensky by Trump and Vance — was something that had never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country! Our president sided with the aggressor, the dictator and the invader of Ukraine! PUTIN FIRST USA LAST

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Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before

Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

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