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Martin Vermeer FCD

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🇳🇱🇫🇮🇩🇰 🇪🇺 Retired geodesist. 'Elämäntapafinlandssvensk'. Born 315 ppmv. Star sign: Ursa. Helsinki/Bromarv, Finland #geodesy #geoid #SeaLevel #GPS […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fediscience.org/@martinvermeer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 52m
@MariaCalendula Muuten Mastodonin käännösohjelma DeepL on... amazing. Kuten -- Yes, and even though it seems almost crazy now, back in the early 2010s, when I was writing *Tulen tyttäriä* (*Daughters of Fire*), non-issue-driven LGBTQ+ literature wasn’t all that common. There were coming-out […]
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@MariaCalendula Onko edes olemassa ei-hetero Harlekiiniromaaneja?
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Maria Carole @mariacalendula.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Niin, ja vaikka nyt tuntuu melkei hullulta, niin vielä 2010-luvun alussa Tulen tyttäriä kirjoittaessani ei-ongelmalähtöinen sateenkaarikirjallisuus ei ollut mitenkään kovin tavallista. Oli kaapistatulotarinoita, oli hankalia kokemuksia (joille on paikkansa ja vertaistukimerkityksensä), mutta […]
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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h
@emptywheel.bsky.social You need money for that
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Someone should do lit drops describing how Elon’s porn robot has taken the school photos of kids and turned it into child sexual assault material.
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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"That's right: If a business uses Meta for any commercial purpose, Meta's new terms say it can do almost anything it wants with content from that business's website, like feeding it to Muse." Meta to Literally Every Business User: Nice Website You Got There […]
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Trezy @trezy.codes · 16/10/2026
For the past year, I've been working hard on HappyView. I've built so many features, and there are now hundreds of apps built on top of it. It's been a long, winding ride, and I've loved every minute of it. #atproto
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/10/2026
Step by step, watching people making it easier and easier for more cool things to be built on atproto, the way the open web should work, rather than having everything locked up in silos.
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct. 16: How do you feel about people reading your works without buying a personal copy? I am completely fine with it. 1. While the income from book sales is nice, I basically consider them marketing vehicles for my Patreon campaign where the bulk of my income comes from. 2 […]
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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@cdarwin Note, a super PAC, i.e., not an actual contribution to a candidate, just an 'independent' propaganda operation. It's crazy that this kind of information comes out after voting has already started, and even then, the information is incomplete. We need radical transparency, where […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
From the Department of Sleazy Tricks: "Democrats for Mike Rogers", a group that has spent millions of dollars to defeat Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, has received funds from Republican-aligned organizations, campaign finance records show […]
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Reminder that before he was put in charge of the gulag he was in stiff competition with Tommy Tuberville for dumbest Senator.
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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
This happened. Five months ago. www.upworthy.com/buffalo-fans-come-…
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Buffalo fans come together to sing Canadian national anthem after singer's mic cuts out
"Thats the America I remember."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/10/2026
"In our research at Cleanview, we keep coming across developers that are using jet engines to power their data centers" Fun to read a sentence like that and it's just normal in 2026 lnkd.in/p/eju6Mn_j
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Founder and CEO at Cleanview

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In our research at Cleanview, we keep coming across developers that are using jet engines to power their data centers. My visual brain wanted a way to understand and communicate this, so I spent more hours than I'd like to admit on one of our latest features. 

In our upcoming product release, we're going to have illustrated 3D models of every piece of power generation equipment at the behind-the-meter data centers we track. Each page will have equipment specs, including everything from power ratings to pollution rates, and where it will be installed. 

At the end of the day, most of our customers come to us for data in spreadsheets and APIs. For this product release, we could have just delivered the data in cells and rows. 

We didn't need to build 3D renderings of dozens of turbines and generators. But that wouldn't have been as fun! 

Excited to release this feature next week.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I only just found out about this and it's just incredible
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Nikita Romanov @nr.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Citing concerns about misinformation and hate, @ScottishGreens have (Finally!) made the decision to leave X for good. They cited Mastodon as one of the 8 platforms they can still be found on but I hope this can result in more engagement on the fediverse […]
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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
'Wouldn't it be better for you to make a unilateral declaration that you will not attack russian refineries, even if russia continues to attack your energy infrastructure, in order to win back the support of the Trump administration?' asks the dim-witted FT […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Ukrainian strikes on Russian Yandex data centers were followed by a staggering 95% drop in transactions of A7A5 – a stablecoin used to evade sanctions. That's according to Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukraine's sanctions policy commissioner. Short thread 🧵
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Michael Gentile @michaelgentile.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Always good to remember this.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I also want to disembowel evil bsky.app/profile/gluo...
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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
"Het Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten (NJCM) heeft met grote zorg kennisgenomen van het voorstel voor de Wet bescherming nationale veiligheid door de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten (Wbnv)" - internetconsultatie.nl/wbnv/reactie…
Als het doel is om onze vrije en open samenleving te beschermen, dan is het onwenselijk dat de
daarvoor ingezette instrumenten van dien aard zijn dat ze de vrije en open samenleving zelf bedreigen
door ruime surveillance van de bevolking mogelijk te maken vanuit een risicobeheersingsoogpunt.
In deze brief leggen we het wetsvoorstel langs de lat van het recht op privacy, en plaatsen we
kanttekeningen bij de volgende punten, die ons het meest zorgen baren: 1) de vrijbrief voor
automatisering, 2) de bevoegdheden ten aanzien van bulkdatasets, 3) het binnendringen en
positioneren in apparaten zonder toestemming, 4) het regime voor ‘evidente opponenten’, 5) de
uitwisseling van gegevens met andere partijen, en 6) de afzwakking van het stelsel van toetsing en
toezicht. Op enkele van deze punten heeft het NJCM reeds bij eerdere wijzigingen van de Wet
inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten vergelijkbare bedenkingen geuit.3 Aan het einde van deze brief
roepen we op tot een reeks concrete wijzigingen aan het wetsvoorstel zoals het nu voorligt; die
wijzigingen zouden volgens ons de grootste risico’s op onrechtmatige privacyinbreuken beperken
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Today is FORTRAN’s 70th birthday; its reference manual “appeared in a glossy cover, handsomely printed, with the date October 15, 1956.” softwarepreservation.computerhistor… (The actual software wasn’t released till the following year) No longer […]
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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
“Sure, give one billionaire control over militarily critical satellite communications, and another the platforms where political opinions are formed... and then wonder why democracy isn't working. It'll be those migrants.” @afelia bsky.app/profile/afelia.bsky.social… […]
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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Kleine aanvulling @EricChrSmit : ik weet niet wanneer de politie in Amsterdam de opdracht kreeg en ook (nog) niet of hij daarvoor al tijden juridisch in behandeling was. Ik heb het rechtshulpverzoek niet gezien (maar houd me aanbevolen).
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🔔 AGAIN: It was never just about illegal immigration
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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Gisteren vroeg de KNAW – terecht – aandacht voor de academische vrijheid en de vrijheid van meningsuiting door wetenschappers. Pleidooi om een stap verder te gaan, naar een recht op wetenschap. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/10/voor-het-…
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Carina Blomcrantz @blomcrantz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ja, Carl-Oskar Bohlin är en säkerhetsrisk för Sverige i sin roll som minister för vårt civila försvar. www.etc.se/ledare/saa-h...
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Så här ser det ut när ministern får Trump-psykos
Hitta någon som tittar på dig som Carl-Oskar Bohlin tittar på Vita huset när Europa får smisk.
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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@evanurquhart.bsky.social It's so frustrating how many American voters don't manage to connect the rule of law with their pocketbooks, when the link is obvious, like that ballroom tax on your grocery bill. Trans people are the glittering distraction. In another era it would be Jews, in another […]
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I am transgender, and I would greatly prefer it if Democrats would be more robust in their support for the notion that my equal rights aren't secondary because the polls say cis people aren't sure about me.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Ukrainian Navy claims to have struck six russian Su-34M fighter-bombers with a Neptune missile strike on the Borisoglebsk military airfield in the Voronezh region.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Just had a 5:30pm surprise CBC interview about leap seconds: www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/science/leap… I didn't really have much of an opinion on leap seconds until I talked through it with the journalist. But wow, leap seconds are such a bad idea! What a […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
CLARKSVILLE: “Attacking children to win an election is disgusting. Full stop.” State house candidate Allie Phillips @allie4tn calls out the TN GOP for yet another attack mailer that uses images of her children: www.facebook.com/share/p/19wu...
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
The justice department has threatened California over alleged noncitizen voters. In a letter addressed to the California secretary of state, Shirley Weber, on Tuesday, the acting deputy attorney general, Trent McCotter, said the justice department gave Los Angeles county officials a […]
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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney’s books withdrawn from UK over her support of Palestine Action | ITV News www.itv.com/news/2026-10-14/sally-r…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Spectacular. Yesterday, NYT implied Habba's new hubby married her to keep a concrete contract under Delcy Rodriguez. Today Axios suggests that hubby is trying to take Ric Grenell (who USED to be his tie to VZ) out by claiming Grenell snatched a Kennedy Center donation.
Even as he was meeting Ms. Habba, Mr. Mildon was navigating the shifting political landscape in Venezuela after Ms. Rodríguez had been put in power by the Americans. His spokesman said Mr. Mildon had always supported Ms. Rodríguez, who served as Mr. Maduro’s vice president until his arrest.

But several people who met Mr. Mildon in Washington last year, before Mr. Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces, said Mr. Mildon had praised Mr. Saab, her ruling party rival, presenting him as Venezuela’s pre-eminent power broker and the key to a peaceful resolution of the conflict with the United States.

As it turns out, Mr. Mildon had backed the wrong side.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sidelined Mr. Grenell and persuaded Mr. Trump to adopt a more aggressive stance toward Mr. Maduro. Mr. Rubio settled on Ms. Rodríguez as Mr. Maduro’s successor, and set in motion plans for a military operation that would topple the Venezuelan president and install her in power.

Mr. Maduro dismissed the growing threats from the White House as a bluff, right until U.S. military aircraft attacked Caracas in the early hours of Jan. 3.President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office:

Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center a year ago, according to four senior administration officials and three insiders briefed on the controversy.
Grenell denied the accusations as "absurd" and a "lie."
Habba and her husband, Turhan Mildon, declined to comment through a spokesperson.
Why it matters: The extraordinary row between the two top-tier presidential advisers and former allies provides a rare and acrimonious behind-the-scenes glimpse into the intersection of power, influence and money in Trump's Washington.

The total value of the contribution in question: nearly $6 million, White House sources said Habba told them.
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Barbara Monaco @barbramon1.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@heatherlynn8571 Cassidy cast the vote that put Kennedy Jr in charge of America's health. Now he's begging the Secretary of HHS to vaccinate more people. Pretty bold move since he is out of office on January 3. I hope that Cassidy, who valued trump more than he valued scientic evidence and […]
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Best comment: I love how democratic countries are completely dependent on how 5 billionaires feel that day. Truly the peak of democracy m.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2AP4xnE0Qql_…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Links: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u... www.axios.com/2026/10/14/t...
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Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in "MAGA blood feud"
"If there is missing money, this is a big, big problem," a senior administration official said.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026
Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.
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One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower
The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 14/10/2026
It's not just Russian media reporting it now. Axis of Evil becoming more visible by the day.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What chills me more is that the Atlantic article's author not only scanned Kundieza's work, but also scanned 25 years' worth of Caine Prize awardees to check whether they were human. A prize for African writers. It feels like the literary equivalent of doing a non-consensual genital check.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re: Pangram--- white writers on Substack basically revolted when Substack announced adding a Pangram detection tool on the platform. Writers started noting that Pangram was getting things wrong, and flagging their own human work as AI. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Pangram Flagged My Own Writing as AI
Here's Why That's a Problem
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
And now, Kundieza has put out a statement: x.com/S_S_Kundizez...
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Simba Kundizeza (@S_S_Kundizeza) on X
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember
NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ICYMI — Fox (is not) News blaming @jamestalarico for their own lies 🤔 @foxnewspolitics
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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@Unixbigot The beauty of short short stories is the hugeness of the space they leave for your own imagination...
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
When the great old ones returned they made just one demand. “W̵̤̺͋̏̍͒Ḣ̸̲̩̍Ǫ̷̱̗̻̀̎ ̶̜̜̩͉́̈́I̴̼̝͔͆̋̄̕Ş̴̨̮̠͝ ̴͓͖͚͌̔͝R̴̳̔̇͊Ȅ̸̗̜́͝ͅS̶̮͚͋͜͠P̸͍͈̒͋̋O̵̡̹͗͋̈́͠N̵̠̂̀̈́͒S̵̆̐̆͗͜Ĭ̷̧̜̦̊B̸̭̣̼̺̐̐̏L̶͚͚͖͕̎̇̋E̷̬̜̬̽̏̐ ̴̜͕̎͛̕F̸̬͙̞̫͛̾̓͘Ò̸̺͘͜Ŕ̵̗̜͌͊̈́͜ ̵̜̟̜̿̃ͅT̷̬̫̬̎̉͑̎H̵̛̹̝͕̍̚I̵̠̠̿̿̈́S̵̱̓̓̀ […]
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Alex Voronov @alexvoronov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ytterligare 100 kvadratkilometer inritade som befriade hos DeepState. I och med det har Ukraina definitivt befriat mer territorium under 2026 än det förlorat kontroll över, hur man än mäter.
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Coleen Walter @coleenwalter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Mother-daughter bonding this morning: my young adult daughter and I looked over the sample ballot and reviewed any proposed amendments to the state constitution. Then we went to the registrars office together to vote. We’ve done this the past two elections and I love going together. I also love […]
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