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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 25/08/2026

Observation: as we become even more overran by ads somehow, I notice most are essentially unhealthy and irresponsible coping mechanisms. I think that tells me all I need to know about our society.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 02/08/2026

New camera body today. I went out to Mount Trashmore/Cedar River with the birding lens, but I guess it's not bad for insects. I saw House Sparrows, which are everywhere, and I heard a Gray Catbird but couldn't find it.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 11/07/2026

I read this and still can't get over the fact that people want this guy representing them. A lot of people wanted this and voted for it. Twice. Some are my neighbors. Yikes. This is America now.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 11/07/2026

I went shopping for an electric car recently and decided to keep my current gas car for a few more years. It's like they're deliberately creating scarcity in the US. I couldn't find one on the lot that I wanted, they wanted down payment on cars that weren't in yet, and they're much more expensive.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 07/07/2026

Thank you, Belgium. After all that transpired, this is the outcome the world needed.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 04/07/2026

Haha look at those weak, depraved, pathetic cowards pretending to be patriots despite their only interests being maintaining their own privilege rather than the prosperity of the country as a whole. It's selfishness masked as patriotism, and there's a whole party of these people, unfortunately.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 01/06/2026

More fun from my aspiring jungle of a back yard. A very smol, adorable, juvenile Eastern Cottontail was munching on clover. A gorgeous female cardinal found the first ripe serviceberries that young tree produced.

A juvenile Eastern Cottontail bunny eats some clover

A female cardinal stands on a concrete landscaping edger eating a serviceberry.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 25/05/2026

Forgot to comment and didn't want to delete/repost. The Monarch was on some flowers in my wildflower garden, and the other three were taken at Ellis Park: Red-winged Blackbird taking flight, Canadian Geese mid-flight, and a turtle shouting, "get off my lake!"

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 25/05/2026

For as depraved and terrible as it is, The Boys really is a brilliant, dark commentary on modern conservatism in the USA.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 23/05/2026

Trying so hard to make us embrace this iteration of capitalism.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 14/05/2026

This is only going to disadvantage senators who aren't independently wealthy. For the corrupt scumbags, their salary is hardly a bucket of sand off of their beach. I'm guessing this hurts dems more than conservatives since the latter values financial success more than integrity.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 05/05/2026

Any excuse to harvest and sell your private data. Good riddance.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 05/05/2026

Oh that makes more sense. I was trying to rationalize it myself, as a commoner, and I just figured they were all alcoholics for whom the need to present an ID at a restaurant would be a given every time.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 18/04/2026

Idiocracy thought the Department of Education would last a couple hundred more years. Agreed.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 18/04/2026

They are seeking other scientists with ties to classified nuclear or aerospace files to "see if they know anything."

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 15/04/2026

Oh please, his hands are glowing, and he's wearing an old robe. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Occam hadn't met the modern Republican party before publishing his thoughts.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 13/04/2026

Me but with frogs. "That climate is too cold for a chorus frog, let alone for its clicks to be so rapid."

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 17/03/2026

Raised catholic and in a conservative household. I realized that in all reasonable likelihood, there was no god as described by modern religion, and it was a scam/control mechanism. That's what led me from religion. Being unbound from religion made it easier to start empathizing more with others.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 05/03/2026

Hmmm...atheist, one sleeve, with some ideas brewing to start the next one. This checks out.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 16/02/2026

I don't know who will even see this, but a couple months after deleting my Facebook account, the websites that scrape, collect, and sell your data without your consent seem to have reverted back to my prior phone number and home address. I don't even remember giving FB my address.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 24/01/2026

Are the police doing anything about the murders occurring in their streets, or are just making public statements?

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/09/2025

I'm glad I never got COVID while ivermectin was all the rave, but I was ready with my row of Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies. I was going to eat one a day and celebrate how great they made me feel and how they cured me, so they could see how dumb they looked. Not that they'd get it...

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/09/2025

I hope everyone celebrating RFK's regression on the COVID vaccine enjoys a couple years of long COVID. When they complain, remind them that it's "not that bad."

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/09/2025

So will everyone who tells the pharmacy, "yes," when they ask if you have one of the conditions that puts you at higher risk. They won't ask which one.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/09/2025

If we get rid of the second, there will be fewer people losing all of their amendments like Charlie Kirk. I like how she thinks, in that way.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 18/09/2025

They need to open up jobs so that they can infiltrate higher ed with conservative groomers rather than people who would foster critical thinking.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 13/09/2025

"I thought we hated, belittled, and harassed the same people. Why were we not best friends?"

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 12/09/2025

Miller-Meeks beat The Onion to the punch. Well done.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 12/09/2025

But the archived versions, not the current.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 02/09/2025

23. I genuinely didn't know and assumed <25 but had to look it up 😂

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 01/09/2025

How old is Caitlin Clark?

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 29/03/2025

It should be an empty report. I'm guessing the protests are less "pro Palestine" and more "anti genocide/ethnic cleansing." The federal administration is intentionally mislabeling the student activity while supporting and facilitating an ethnic cleansing.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 07/03/2025

Oh good, just a few more job cuts should fund this incredibly important endeavor. 😑

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 06/03/2025

They'll surely keep in place/well-staffed the systems designed to take our money. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 06/03/2025

Deliberate market manipulation to allow the "right" people to profit on everyone else's anxiety, insecurity, and misery.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 04/03/2025

Patriotism as an "educational" requirement is nationalism and a tool of fascism. What a bunch of sick groomers.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 26/02/2025

I swear, every fifth post on Facebook is someone fundraising for something. I probably need to follow other things or leave the platform altogether, but it begs the question: why are we (lower, middle class) expected to fund these things while the government talks about tax cuts for billionaires?

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 25/02/2025

I hope they see this as an opportunity, then!

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 25/02/2025

Watching Idiocracy. They thought it would take until 2330 for the federal government to be purchased. They also still had a Secretary of Education in 2505. They underestimated capitalism greatly.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 24/02/2025

The ole "we're invading parts of YOUR country sympathetic to us for a peacekeeping mission." How can we forget? We haven't and know he's full of crap.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 24/02/2025

Feels like the only thing standing between us and having to choose between Hobby Lobby and Amazon is Michaels.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 24/02/2025

I am generally not for using AI to create media that could be harmful to someone, but given the parties involved here, I'd let this one slide.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 20/02/2025

Agreed, but in the short term, it's a number he can put on his spreadsheet. They're only worried about making money right now, while the bag is in their hands. They'll worry about tomorrow's problem tomorrow; or let someone else do it and blame them.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 20/02/2025

Saving money by shifting costs to people bringing home $15k/yr in Social Security benefits. So great; so much winning. Hopefully fElon can afford another rocket now.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 20/02/2025

Why is it I imagine the audits for mee will still occur at the same rate, but the audits for thee will be even less existent? Thank goodness they'll still be there to find my $87 error from four years ago.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/02/2025

I should add, Cedar Rapids is not all that big of a city. Seventy-five of these cameras, always monitoring, is a lot.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 19/02/2025

Cedar Rapids, IA has put up 75 solar-powered license plate readers to help alert police of "people they're looking for." I suspect that if I were to attend certain peaceful protests, I would end up on a list. One casual observation: they're within reach of baseball bats. www.kcrg.com/2025/01/10/c...

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Cedar Rapids police expanding use of Automated License Plate Readers

The cameras read license plates of cars as they pass by, alerting police if someone they are looking for drives by.

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Iowa Gneiss @iowagneiss.com · 14/02/2025

What a fucking moron. Biden isn't the one starting a trade war with our long-standing allies and neighbors. I'm not holding the eggs against him, but everything else is squarely on his weak, narrow shoulders.

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