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@observer-effect.bsky.social
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I worked on my skis for decades, then tech work and writing. I use energetic mediums for art, new tools, and the pure joy of learning. Humor, love, juggling and constant burning curiosity keeps me going. Retired from being a part time idiot savant.

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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our perception of time is poor. Here: Until 1974 women couldn't open bank account without a male co-signer. 1974! -- A big time warp wake up call: let's call a "lifetime" 70 years. Ok: The Civil War ended just over two lifetimes ago. Look at the #'s. Wild.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
thismodernworld.com/archives/10468 These are listed as archives but Tom Tomorrow is keeping it current.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some fun parallels to today youtube.com/shorts/IG7XT...
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Mr Hilter and the North Minehead by-election | The Naked Ant | Monty Python's Flying Circus #monty
YouTube video by The Non-Binary Shiner
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
xkcd
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Very simple: Right wingers commit more than 4x the political violence that the left does. Period. But oh do the schoolyard bullies whine and cry when anybody pushes back. This is on Congresses .gov site. www.congress.gov/119/meeting/...
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've never seen patterns from below before, so it was a fun idea. I'd like to see some better jugglers from that angle.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A modernized synopsis of the story of Jesus. Simple: Jesus was 'woke', and killed by the government's right wing.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Can some of us just surrender to you Canada? I'll bet your POWs get better healthcare and less abuse than lots of our regular citizens.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Oops. This is why the Maggots want Canada. (I hope they cut the oil and f'ing destroy us)
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/sing... What could go wrong?
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Singapore unveils world-first biological data centre with 16 million living human neurons powering 20 computers in a landmark moment for AI
Singapore has unveiled a world-first biological data centre prototype that brings living human neurons into a server-rack environment, marking an unusual new step in the race to build more efficient a...
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When I was a teenager, reading this to my mother made her more angry than anything else I remember. Yeah, the insect line is harsh, and really I'm glad specialists DO exist, I don't want a hobbiest eye surgeon or pilot! But it also is not for all of us. Once I solve a puzzle, I want to move on.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I often don't pay attention to product instructions, except perhaps with fancy new lab gear. In this case though, thank goodness I *did* read the instructions, and just in time.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21/08/2026
Hilarious! 🤣😂 Darth Vader addresses San Diego city council and compliments the Empire's Flock system & its ability to track and surveil "rebel scum," children, and his ex-girlfriend. 😈
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria.😍
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Law enforcement with courage to show their faces, while dealing with machine gun wielding gangsters in crowded dark cities during prohibition. It was much more dangerous every day than what most ICE members will ever encounter. But they were not cowards, they didn't hide like these pathetic "men".
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
collections.ushmm.org/search/catal... Show this to any conservative you know. Many fetishize this idea, though they will not admit it. It came out long before digital graphics. The people they worship want this. The film may make them feel sick. Good.
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Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
youtu.be/OlWmcli5o2Y?... This has aged frighteningly well.
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Pink Floyd - Bob Geldof in The Wall - In The Flesh - Run Like Hell - Waiting For The Worms
YouTube video by Agency IK
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Afghan girls spinning and playing in a wartorn school. This is a picture which has haunted & inspired me for a couple of decades. From National Geographic, it captures so much in one photo. One of the positive thoughts it inspires in me: how adaptable and strong our kids are. They are resilient! <3
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
By the way, the state of Vermont was an independent nation for almost 10 years longer than the Confederacy (1777-1791) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont...
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Vermont Republic - Wikipedia
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
M.Johnson and members said a prayer, and then voted to take $1 trillion out of Medicaid. What was their prayer?
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
💫
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New England being lowest doesn't surprise me, but there are some odd things: Mississippi is among the lowest?! New Mexico is SO extreme compared to its neighbors. And Alaska being that high is trippy.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.alternet.org/trump-mobster/ --- The article mentions the "casual butchery" of people. Such slaughter is now nearly pornographic for Maggots.
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How Trump's love of murder has made the US government worse than the Mafia
President Donald Trump's has made "casual butchery of the innocent" a common occurrence in his administration, according to a new analysis from The i Paper, which further argued that his conduct is, i...
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Being proactive, and dividing the nation before it reactively and violently breaks up? Sounds safer. History is a harsh mistress, America *will* break up at some point, but it doesn't have to be a horror show. This map is obviously a bit silly in many ways, but interesting thought material.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We are a classy nation now eh? Apparently this was inspired by a display at a Hilton hotel the head Maggot saw. Aesthetically the Peoples House is now getting to the "meeting room in a dying Reno casio". Crooks get ripped off by crooks, I'll bet it is cheap fake guilding - but they/we paid millions
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What could go wrong? 😇 Its been clear for decades that we'd get here, but it is still wild to see. We could get incredible good out of this bio-tech. (Of course, a lot of movies also start this way!) phys.org/news/2026-07...
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World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these...
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*- We never finished the Civil War -* And now we pay. And I don't mean we should have killed more people, I mean we should have helped guide the rebuilding of what they saw as a new sovereign nation. Sure there are spots of sanity in all of the Maggot heavy areas, but its mostly madness.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Such lists do not exist, info is compartmentalized in Intel agencies worldwide. Standard and common sense. The main Maggot *will* leak stuff. You know it. And you should talk about the fact that anybody who still supports him is a traitor.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Looking at this I had a realization. There are two smaller companies on this list where if either died it would hurt every one of the others. And if both died it would devastate most of them. Which two?
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The "freewill" defense of evil is a way of dodging the big questions.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I like coherent photons much more than drunken ones.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A screen grab from a Faux live-stream: I've had many a mood about our country, as I imagine most of us have. Proud, angry, glad and mad. And I've been sad about the state of things here before. But now? Its a deflating, end of story, kind of sadness now. We are a carnival of violence and stupidity.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Pump and dump". It has worked a dozen times in past weeks, trillions of $ have changed hands. The returns are starting to shrink though. So I would imagine just some kind of final insane move pretty soon.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Watergate was childsplay. Hunter would have been wonderful to watch mock and belittle this cartel.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
youtu.be/riqkA3HKHB8?... My favorite juggling style right now (I'm not in his league), it is very much a solo format. Non-jugglers are only interested in "how many balls can he/you juggle"? And folks keeping 14 balls up in the air? It is very cool, but it is a different style. This is mostly 3-4
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Falcore-Juggling
YouTube video by badwux
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It does. Look at all the chaos, and it is one thing that could fit them all. I think they have incredible dirt on him and family, and hold huge loans of his, and have lots of plain old henchmen all over the world.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yep
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🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 06/06/2026
On June 6, 1944, young men ran through artillery & machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy to defeat fascism and free a continent.. To honor the heroes of D-Day isn’t just to remember what they did.. It’s to remain vigilant against the same hatred, authoritarianism and fascism..
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
That old skit . . . "are we the baddies?!"
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Oh please, in my lifetime -- just one little Carrington Event sized burst! It would be a lot more exciting today than it was in 1859.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We are a s*ithole nation. There are millions of great people in America, but we let the bullies take over the playground. History is very clear on how these imbalances always. Always. *Always* leads to disaster.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Gross.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Yep.
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m... How can anybody *still* be a Maggot?!
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The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?
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Blueshifted @observer-effect.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Toon's that are funny because we know they are true.
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