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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 16h

If you are able to vote in your state today, please do so. Lock that vote in. Then help others in your community to vote as well. 🇺🇲 🌊

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In my backyard vegetable garden 🫑🌶️... ...hybrid serrano-cayennes and hybrid ghost-habaneros may be emerging. Stay tuned.

Photo of a serrano pepper (right) and cayenne pepper (left) with a possible hybrid (middle).

Photo of a ghost pepper (right) and habanero pepper (left) with a possible hybrid (middle).

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Inspiring. Keep working hard, lads.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The early games window shows a different game covering Texas.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watching Bears/Jets on Fox---since I can't get GB/TB---and I get that it's a large regional audience---but pro-Paxton Texas Senate garbage? Why? No one asked for this, especially in the Chicago & NY markets. Are magas just blanketing all of the early Fox games with this fascist trash.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026

It accepts letters, packages, and one very specific kind of complaint.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always good advice. Also, the hardware connecting the guitar body and the strap. Those screws come loose a lot.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026

The norms we miss aren’t gone, they’re waiting for us at the ballot box.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's the 1980s You're in a car or next to your radio & "Spirits in the Material World" comes on You're trying to follow the beat, w/your whole attention--trying to tap the steering wheel, the side of the car, or just your knee to it And it never happens This is why youtu.be/f52AI5eWfUM?...

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Stewart Copeland: Writing the "Spirits in the Material World" Drum Part

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 2026 "Brady Bunch" reboot doesn't look promising.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Showing up for Heartbreaker lore; sticking around for perfect Mike Campbell solos.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also NOT in Atlanta for the Hawks game on Feb. 3, 2024. Asst. Coach Willis Beard.

Photograph of actor Brendan Hunt as Coach Willis Beard on "Ted Lasso."

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty scary map. The regime and their R servants in Congress and the Senate don't seem to care about this. Vote as many of them out as possible.

U.S. Drought monitor map of September 22, 2026, showing more than half of the continental U.S. experiencing some level of drought conditions.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The evolution of this weekend's nor'easter.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEWS: More than TWO THOUSAND events have been registered so far with No Kings: Vote Early, making it the largest early vote mobilization in history. It's not too late to get your town on the map - submit today: www.nokings.org

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abolishing ICE/CPB is now the normie position.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ATTN: #Scientists and members of the #sci-comm community. This guy IS the freaking answer key. --Focus on #jobs and relatable metaphors --Say the kind of things he says --Then talk about the math

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey Dems, With Xi's red-carpet treatment 🟥 -- the feds owning part of Intel & 29 other corps, -- the ICE/CPB secret police, -- free-press muzzles, -- a compliant R-led Congress, -- resource shortages, -- & other gangster-state moves The R's have lost the "communism argument" completely

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man, you're lucky. It's all near-Arctic Circle stuff on my end.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice. Though based on the ancestral heritage implicit in our last names, there had better be a plenty of sunscreen. Cheers, bro. Have a good weekend.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching the Xi summit for any indication of tr*mp throwing Taiwan under the bus.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah, Watergate seems so quaint by comparison.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watergate vibes encapsulated in a future American history textbook photo.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gotta remember this one for when I stumble upon a weird lamp in the sand someday.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Polo. Simply incredible.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For those of you with relatives thinking of downloading the WH app---beyond the obvious propaganda trap---know that it's a Pandora's Box of tracking & malware. It's a technical review, but most of us can understand the gist. You can also send it to a tech-savvy pal to help you translate/verify it.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hang in there. You're doing good work---libraries are THE coolest places! Stay in the fight (even if it's just outward-facing attitude that shows right now).

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Take stock of this before it's too late --> Hurricane Polo is the "beast" 👇 These are exact type of hurricanes that scientists warned about for decades --> a coming hoard of super-intense, "climate fueled cyclones" feasting upon "boiling cauldron" of El Niño enhanced oceans.' Ryan Maue [x]

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Future conversation with my financial analyst: "Sure, you get your full Social Security benefit at 67, but based on our revised timeline, you should probably start pulling them at 62... ...giving you 6.5 months of benefits before the timeline stops entirely." #permadeath #AI_apocalypse #robots

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the prez simply cherishes assault. Remember, he's been convicted of it--and the Supreme Court gave him a pass.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Masque of the Finger of the Red Death...or something.

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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty amazing seeing El Nino taking a firm hold on global atmospheric circulation the past few months: cyclonicwx.com/analysis/

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, if a member of your community said something like this, put up signs, or took out an ad in the paper to say this... ...would the police take notice? Why does this guy get a pass?

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'd like to add one in the spirit of GenX, if I could... Maybe the baby boomers will finally retire

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. Have the WHPC walk out. Deny him his bully pulpit. Watch him spiral. While you eat popcorn. 🍿

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a good one Stay in the fight 🇺🇲

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if we are witnessing a pop music realignment with this Ed Sheeran thing. I'm definitely not the guy to ask about this, but are dominoes falling?

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a very good, succinct video.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At this point, all of us should be ready to drag ourselves over broken glass to dump these idiots. All of you are likely registered to vote by now. Help register 5 others.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026

Every Republican troll is basically running vintage Nixon software.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Terrence Malick's For the Love of Benji

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still, no Atlantic #hurricanes yet. Reasons include a super #ElNino in the eastern Pacific and westward moving Saharan #dust. ...despite what the anti-science White House says. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

scientificamerican.com

The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Heather Cox Richardson highlighted Michael Lutig's #warning_letter this evening All Americans, young & old, need to read the letter, & despite some technical language, know that Jan. 3, 2027, is THE important date ...and make a plan if Lutig's warning comes to pass newrepublic.com/article/2151...

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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.

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