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John Stair

@johnstair.bsky.social
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Never had an original thought Tech stuff; film photography; being a citizen (hard)

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to a foreign concentration camp and BEATEN, TORTURED, and STARVED. - made to kneel overnight with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion - denied bathroom access - deprived of sleep - two weeks later he had lost ~31lbs US tax dollars paid for this.
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Indivisible Santa Barbara @indivisiblesb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Santa Barbara is the 94th largest city in California. Yesterday, more people attended Santa Barbara's NO KINGS protest than Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C. See chart comparing these two events, along with a drone shot courtesy of Ann Shaw/Society of Fearless Grandmothers, Santa Barbara
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Indivisible Santa Barbara @indivisiblesb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
For NO KINGS, Indivisible Santa Barbara planned a human chain along a mile+ stretch of beach sidewalk. No way we'd complete the chain, right? Watch the video and see. #nokings #indivisible #indivisiblesantabarbara @maddow.msnbc.com
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Turns out, mass deportation is a major economic disruptor… When farmers can’t make their harvest and restaurants can’t put food on their tables, people start to notice. A *stunning* change in strategy here. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/06/2025
“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Red adverts stoke fear; why not do the same? Show troops on streets. People hungry. Families torn apart. Medical progress halted. Jobs lost. The difference – it’s all real, you don’t need it to be overdramatized like the GOP does… just show people what is happening, matter of fact.
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lola1985.bsky.social @lola1985.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🤬😡🤬 💙✊💙✌️💙🦋
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The significance of this IEA finding from 2024 is that continued global deployment of BEVs for land transport will decrease fossil fuel consumption in 2025 or 2026. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 #TheFutureIsElectric
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Cinestill 800T 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
Film photo of a decrepit building with a basketball hoop in a parking lot
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My favorite sign from the “Hands Off Protest”, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Photography
Black and white photo of a protest, with prominent sign “Trump is a dick traitor”Black and white photo of a protest, with prominent sign “Trump is a dick traitor”
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Insidious to prevent people from even *buying* health insurance on the exchange after kicking them off of Medicaid. Republicans want millions of Americans dead, plain and simple.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Burn It Down" 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ektar 100 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Art
Two skaters looking out over downtown San Francisco. One is wearing a hoodie that says "Burn It Down".
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Dog Poppies 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ektar 100 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Art
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Scenes from around Santa Barbara, CA 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Photography
B&W photo of a coastlineB&W photo of a couple looking at the oceanB&W photo of a boulder on the beachB&W photo of the beach
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We won’t survive four years of these conditions.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
JPMORGAN: “.. The trade war shock is still material. .. we now estimate an effective ex-ante tariff rate of 14.4%. This is akin to a $475bn tax hike on US households and businesses, worth 1.6% of GDP (still sitting close to the largest tax hike in the post WWII period).”
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
Egret in flight over shore break, film photo in black and white
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Common Ground Hands off Protest, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
Protestors discussing
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Stronger Together Hands off Protest, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The California Secretary of State should waive the first year of annual franchise taxes for new small businesses, or until their gross receipts exceed a small amt. $800+ to incorporate is a high burden on many small businesses, and just encourages many people to operate outside of a business entity.
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dan @danabra.mov · 15/04/2025
⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: JSX Over The Wire overreacted.io/jsx-over-the...
overreacted.io
JSX Over The Wire — overreacted
Turning your API inside-out.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here’s the fun part about all of this – because the feds are turning a blind eye and the people are distracted by the chaos, corporations are going to run amok with more unethical conduct and outright fraud than ever.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trying to sic government agencies on decent journalists for reporting on the reality he has wrought… nothing to see here…
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Someone stole my sandals from the beach while I was walking :/ #SantaBarbara
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Devil’s Golf Course Death Valley National Park #film #photography #Portra
A woman standing on salt flats in Death Valley
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/04/2025
We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.
A photo from Indivisible Santa Barbara on Instagram. Thousands of people stand together on the beach in a way that spells “HANDS OFF!”
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Overlooking Hendry’s Beach on a misty day in #SantaBarbara #Film #Photography
Overlooking misty, Hendry’s beach in Santa Barbara, film photo
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great turnout for #handsoff in #SantaBarbara! @indivisiblesb.bsky.social
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Several thousand in #SantaBarbara showed up for the #HandsOff March. By far the largest protest I’ve seen here.
Photo of a protest in Santa Barbara, California
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#AI
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker preparing for his upcoming 25 hour marathon of cable news appearances (Fake AI image – obviously, I hope)
A fake AI generated image of Cory Booker napping on a toilet
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A generational fumble, from which we as a country will never recover.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I just received notice that my health insurance premium is being raised almost 17% (once again). The system has to break at some point.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I don’t think most Americans have understood the full impact of the shift: There is no longer confidence that the law is binding. When one can’t find recourse in the courts, businesses and individuals will change their behaviors and ways that dramatically reshape the economy for the worse.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Can someone explain to me how this is beneficial to Americans when we have a shortage of transplant nephrologists?
New York Times headline about a kidney transplant specialist being deported
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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The United States will betray Ukraine. I am ashamed today to be an American citizen. I am ashamed of how Donald & JD treated President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. It desecrated the the Oval Office. Nothing like this has ever happened before - at least not in public view. Shameful moment for USA.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So I’m in Death Valley with my film camera. I have a 1980’s 35mm Nikon lens in my pocket. As I’m hiking up a steep trail, the lens falls out (cap gone immediately), rolls 50 feet down the trail. Or, really, it bounces down rock by rock. Totally fine, not a scratch on the front element. Wild.
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What's a React component you wished existed? #javascript #webdev
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a blue and purple atom with a black center
Alt: The react.js logo, spinning
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Just had my first experience with AI augmenting a physician's work. I requested a copy of the visit notes. In the summary section, there were: - Misunderstood statements - Inverted observations ("does" vs "does not") - Misspellings of common medical terms Anyone else have experience with these?
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John Stair @johnstair.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello world!
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