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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 6m

When the Trump Administration threatened ocean sensors that help manage fisheries, forecast weather, and understand climate change, I worked with colleagues across the aisle to save them. Our bipartisan bill unanimously passed—and the sensors are back in the water!

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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea

Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

I imagine if I ever asked about anything like economics or jobs when they were still with us the response would have been something like "at least it's not the coal mines anymore, thank God!"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The foundational work of Western philosophy is “these idiots voted to kill Socrates”! Alcibiades was a demagogue who weakened Athens with ruinous war, damaging alliances, and got into trouble involving Persia. Maybe some lessons there.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

I didn't know my grandparents as most died before or not long after I was born but my great aunts and uncles I grew up around were the same now that you mention it. Though I imagine living through the Great Depression and WWII would tend to make you extremely grateful for anything not that.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

Though to split the difference higher than inflation and wage growth prices directly or indirectly caused by fuel prices due to a war of choice mean the legit gripes will keep supercharging the not so legit ones so it will remain the time of economic monsters.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

It is more nuanced where he's making a totalizing argument with fuel being the biggest case against. But I think he's right when it comes to how often nonessentials like fast food get talked about with reference to ads from 20 years ago and how expecting that is socio-politically damaging.

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Megaweapon @megaweapon5.bsky.social · 7h

This person (who also cheers on Russia doing to Ukraine what Israel has done to Gaza) runs a supposed humor publication.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 7h

What if "I remember when a hamburger was a nickel" on meth? That feels like the state of much of the conversation today. It was always there but now it's stretched and amplified beyond anything we saw old timers wistfully but ultimately fairly benignly bring up.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

This is a joke post but I think it’s actually a pretty accurate description of what’s happening: the absolute inability of anyone to shut up about “affordability” and “prices” has raised the salience of the issue and caused people to anchor on the lowest available price for items in living memory.

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 8h

Current* conditions near Beaver Bay, MN:

View looking SE from Cove Point Lodge overlooking a small bay on the rugged shoreline of Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-08 06:48:04 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: covepointlodge.com // Current Temp in Beaver Bay: 44 F | 7 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: WNW at 10 mph | 16 kph // Humidity: 81%

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

it pains me to have to admit this to everyone, but when a lightbulb appears above my head, it’s not because i have a bright idea; i am just thinking about a lightbulb

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 16h

The Soo Elevator was built in 1916 to handle grain coming in from the Northern Plains on the Soo Line Railroad, back when Minneapolis was the milling capital of the world. After several ownership changes it's now a General Mills oat-receiving facility served by CPKC Rail.

Camden-Single Creek railyards in the winter of 1933, showing the massive size. Shingle Creek can be seen on the left winding through then open fields. Hennepin County Library.

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I was OBSESSED with the AVG as a kid. I had a bomber jacket airbrushed with AVG art on the back and after a motorcycle wreck with a broken rib and scapula, an EMT was going to cut it off me and I was like “My dude, I will come up off this gurney and fight your ass in the back of this ambulance.” 😅

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 16h

Sleggar was one of those moments where I was brutally reminded that this was a show from 1979 lmao

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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 18h

i have a bold new plan for conducting spiritual warfare against the groypers (2026)

No traction control. No stability systems. Just raw mechanical violence.

In gender-equal punk house, no one does the dishes

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18h

I’M JUST A TEENAGE DIRTBAG BABY

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Lake Huron! Live! @lake-huron.live · 17h

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

View looking north from the Riviera Motel looking at the Lake Huron side of the Mackinac Bridge. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-07 22:42:21 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@RivieraMotelMackinawCity // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 53 F | 11 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: NW at 7 mph | 11 kph // Humidity: 95%

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 17h

And I'll have to do a second coat on all those parts with the bright bronze on top. But once that's done the rest will be less fiddly. Orange cloth for the skirt things and small but simple details otherwise. Almost there!

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 17h

Took two sessions to get all the base bronze on them because it's spread put over lots of pieces and you have to be careful about getting it on finished cloth or on the shield center (as you only get the right look with the spraypainted Wraithbone thin coat as the base for the Fuegan Orange wash).

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22h

Also, lest I just leave this at a dunk, it's worth recalling what constitutes the "betrayal" here. They're angry that Mamdani has tried to reconcile with the Jewish community in New York, and, well... Maoist Communist Union indeed.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 23h

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Glass half full maybe they only got so much damage because of dumbass lack of leadership that left them where they could get hit and didn't take defending them seriously.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If we can't keep our tankers and E-3s safe from Iran it's not encouraging for any future Pacific conflicts against a much more capable adversary...

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday

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tradba'athocalypse @adaywithoutme.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

demitasse from rheinpfalz, likely manufactured sometime in the 50s

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I really am stuck on the convenience of it all but that's a good principle to keep in mind for the ability to deny advertisers data at least.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Too tall and bulky for my tastes but the Honda E is one I've admired from afar for a long time now.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People are in here telling me their particular phone does not work when they hold it to to their ear. I assure you it does. I'm so sorry to be a stickler on this point but yes it does

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Will do, I'll be in Tokyo and Osaka and then bouncing around a few places in the Touhoku region, which will be a new to me part of the country (I've only ever been to Matsushima in that region before)

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

End of next week! And yeah there are a lot more places that accept cards than even 7 or 8 years ago but I still run into cash only places pretty frequently especially smaller or older businesses and places in more out of the way parts of the country. That and for splitting costs with friends.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A little bit wider than ideal but more flat than the old one. And it should be more sturdy for all the stuffing into pockets and using on the go when I'm in Japan or other places where cash is still common. Nicely made, the lining is old shirt fabric too.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new change purse got here in time for my Japan trip thankfully. An essential bit of kit when dealing with using cash so much. I had a snap top one with a traditional Japanese print a friend gifted me from Kyoto and used for years but it started falling apart after lots of use Recycled denim now

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I assume it's out of concern for anxiety sufferers that the USA maintains a sensory deprivation state.

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get the nervousness. You don't want to overturn a near century of cooperation when the Trump regime is on its way out and especially if you think a more normal US is in the medium term offing. Tho if you think the US will keep wildly swinging every 4-8 yrs you should want that automomy yesterday.

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man, for all the talk of greater EU autonomy in tech and economics and policy at least some governments aren't even willing to start testing the waters with conference presentations. I leave whether greater EU autonomy is good or bad to the reader but obviously the window won't stay open forever.

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三文字 @3mojiy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

おはようございます #キリトリセカイ fragment

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They don't want housing, they want to endlessly critique housing™

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dear Bone Colleagues, Due to recent events we will be sorting all femurs and shin bones into SEPARATE left and right piles prior to shipment to the Boneshaping Department. Thank you. Senior Arch-Ossitech Gorra. "Such is the power of Nagash" Facebones | Skitter | LinkedIn

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026