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Ian

@ian-mf.bsky.social
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Husband and father. USMC 2010-14. Nature lover. Long suffering NY Jets fan. Everything is politics. Analyzing operations to pay the bills.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This seems beyond reform
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Common Cause North Carolina @commoncausenc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🗳️ North Carolina: Get ready to vote! 🗓️ Early voting for this year's election runs Oct. 15-Oct. 31. 🗓️ Election Day is Nov. 3. 🔎 Questions about voting? ☎️ Call the nonpartisan voter hotline at 888-OUR-VOTE (888-687-8683). 🎉 Happy voting! 🎉
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rolling into October...
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms one month until midterms
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is the woman tennis player vs random men off the street
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 17/09/2026
“At the state level, Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have enjoyed the sort of power with impunity Trump only dreams of. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border initiative has drawn widespread condemnation from civil and human rights groups for its brutal, ostentatious cruelty.”
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The Future of the Republican Party After Trump Is in Texas
The white male supremacists of the Texas GOP embody what the national party has become.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 14/09/2026
The automobile got its first taste of blood 127 years ago — and it's never been able to kick the habit. buff.ly/2orTzJG
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The Car Stole Our Bliss — And It Started 127 Years Ago Today - Streetsblog New York City
The automobile got its first taste of blood 127 years ago tomorrow — and it's never been able to kick the habit.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.” Absolutely fucking demonic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
NYT headline: E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From the people that brought you Hunter's Laptop...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Clearly stated. Unambiguous. Most important, correct! This is how it’s done
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/
Photograph of ripening cloudberries on a bog surface.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everything just got better! At the playground with my kid and this is the weather
74 degrees and sunny forecast
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026
Chromatic Descending Mondays. Happy Labor Day, I am in 2 unions. Local 802 AFM (1984) and PSC CUNY (2011).... #laborday #nowplaying #musicsky
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never thought I would live to see the day when 18 service members lost their lives and it’s being dismissed as small potatoes.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Semper Fi, Bill! 🦅🌎⚓
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m so old I remember when conservatives were indeed quite vocal about saying children should not have babies.
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Kimberly Hardy for Congress @kimberlyhardync.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚰 BIG news today for all of us in the Cape Fear river basin: "The ruling cements Chemours' guilt for invading private property and poisoning the local drinking water across New Hanover, Bladen, Brunswick, Cumberland, and Pender counties." #ncpol #NC07
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Judge rules Chemours is legally responsible for trespassing in dumping "forever chemicals" into Cape Fear River
The ruling cements Chemours' guilt for invading private property and poisoning the local drinking water across New Hanover, Bladen, Brunswick, Cumberland, and Pender counties.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/01/1... Another good one leaves us. Wendell returns to the land that he loved so dearly.
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Beloved writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92
Wendell Berry has died at age 92 He was a beloved American poet, novelist, essayist, and farmer.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Nick Geidner @ngeidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly’s legacy will be felt in a million ways across East Tennessee, the nation and the world. We are honored to have documented part of that legacy in “The Library That Dolly Built.” We hope you watch the film, learn about the Imagination Library and consider supporting the program.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
they should invent an internet that doesn't reward you for being a horrifying narcissist
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes I marvel at how people can just go through life here in this big-ass, diverse country--with all of the art, cuisines, celebrations, music, sports, and everything else we have--yet be viscerally afraid every bit of it and everybody in it. What an abjectly miserable way to live.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you, Dolly! We'll miss you!
Thank you note from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library after a donation.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Guillotines
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pro boxer Hannah Rapp was murdered on a rural road in Texas not long ago too. This kind of thing happens more than you'd think. www.espn.com/boxing/story...
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Squealing car tires, an abrupt reverse, and Hannah Rapp's life ends in a flash
A bright boxing future is wiped out in an encounter with Texas man with a long record of police arrests
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Trump administration executive orders have rolled back the considerable gains made in recent decades and threaten a new Lavender Scare that will harm the CIA’s ability to carry out its national security mission.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-hi...
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A History of LGBT Officers & the Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA spent seven decades moving from purging LGBT officers to embracing them—until the second Trump administration began undoing that work.
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Benjamin Schachtman @schachtman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This week’s column: In New Hanover County, and across the country, residents are growing anxious, frustrated, and angry over the proliferation of Flock cameras. But there’s a broader debate about mass surveillance and data security here, as well.
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Sunday Edition: Electric Eyes
In New Hanover County, as in many places across the country, residents are growing anxious, frustrated, and angry over the proliferation of Flock cameras. But the automated license plate readers are j...
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No one funnier imo
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I posted this five years ago as Herat and Kandahar fell to the Taliban in Afghanistan. From Newsweek April 14, 1975.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"I would kill my enemies with kindness :)" Yeah, well, I would kill mine with electronic air-burst fuzed 155mm rounds.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a disgusting statement from anyone, let alone a member of the federal gov. This is bigotry, and there is no place for it in our United States of America.
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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
People in general would do a lot better to stop asking “does this person deserve my hate” and start asking “what does it do to my soul to live in this hate”
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What do you get when you mix climate change, logistics, and fossil fuels, and a war? A Bluesky thread on the convergence between summer drought in Europe, a dam in the Netherlands, Germany's reliance on a single river, and why the US still has to care about climate change. Settle in. (1/11)
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
<Kash walking into the courtroom all googly-eyed> Judge: CASE DISMISSED
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 24/07/2026
Nobody works harder to protect pedophiles and creeps than the Trump administration
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MAGA Rallies Around Andrew Tate
Despite the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them.
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Ian @ian-mf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@minakimes.bsky.social You're a crossword clue!
A crossword clue. 32 across: Mina Kimes's channel
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Drivers are always in a hurry... *unless* someone makes them angry. Then they have all the time in the world to stop, harass people, and even commit murder.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office said the driver, Charles Medina, 31, passed two bicyclists traveling along FM 159. After passing them, investigators said Medina stopped his vehicle, reversed, and struck one of the cyclists." This is absolutely horrific.
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Hannah “Hanarchy” Rapp, champion boxer, killed in Brazos County crash
Hannah “Hanarchy” Rapp was known for her drive inside and outside the ring — a rising boxer chasing a world-title opportunity while also working full time.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
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