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@powerllama.com

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Trying my best. Casual spy. vfx artist. los angeles. duck.haus/@powerllama he/him. avatar from bsky.app/profile/pantspants.bsky.so…

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austin @powerllama.com · 2h

congrats @mattdpearce.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 5h

In a rare Newsom W, today he signs AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, which would establish some of the best tax incentives/rebates for newsrooms in the country. It would send $40M/year back into California newsrooms to keep journalists employed. Check out the presser happening live right now:

Governor Newsom Signs Legislation & Speaks with Media

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

austin @powerllama.com · 2h

it's SO GOOD

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 7h

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.

austin @powerllama.com · 5h

valley fever suuuuuuucks. some friends of mine got it at a festival in bakersfield last year, were laid up for weeks

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austin @powerllama.com · 7h

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026

A very good read. Pirating the Pirates - Notes from the underground of film preservation, by Devan Scott mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pi...

austin @powerllama.com · 22h

people have lost their god damned minds

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google served me the same result on the same search.

austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

almost time for open beta, just need to update the old hero models

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austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

squeaky wheel gets the grease

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austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

the revenant was really hard to make have you heard

austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

iñaritu is the mots up his ass man alive tho

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Ben McCarthy @benricem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)

austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

is the "vibe shift" in the room with us now?

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austin @powerllama.com · 29/09/2026

we had a few days in San Sebastian a few years ago… pintxos are incredible

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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.

However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.

You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and

public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.

austin @powerllama.com · 28/09/2026

kind of obsessed with Control: Resonant at the moment

austin @powerllama.com · 28/09/2026

game with amazing vibes and mostly "OK" gameplay. it's also really slow to give you meaningful upgrades to make the combat more fun. resonant gives you fun shit pretty much immediately

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austin @powerllama.com · 28/09/2026

was that guy voiced by a character actor i couldn't figure out the name of?

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austin @powerllama.com · 27/09/2026

Firehouse still has a VHS copy on the shelf behind the bar

austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

we roasted a pig for a bachelor party and it was a tremendous disaster for many reasons

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austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

my man is falling asleep standing up

austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

how did this tradition get started???

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austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

the one on Venice from the beach to downtown was incredible

austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

and then you get hit by a car and have to somehow finish your life's work?

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austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

is this highlight reel worthy? probably not. but gotta shoot my shot

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austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

dear @papapishu.bsky.social i have no idea how to select menu items in the skill tree in control resonant this has to be a joke

austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

she's just like you fr

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austin @powerllama.com · 26/09/2026

does someone want to come to my house and set up Moonlight for me because i can't get this shit over 50fps even fully wired in

austin @powerllama.com · 25/09/2026

fair enough, I've gotten over my own moral qualms about it

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026

Huge day for enhanced geothermal: $FRVO has delivered power to the grid from Cape Station, a first for EGS. Congrats to @timlatimer.bsky.social and the rest of the team. h/t @isaiahbishop.bsky.social

fervoenergy.com

Fervo Energy Achieves First Power at Cape Station, a Landmark Moment for the Future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems - Fervo Energy

HOUSTON, September 24, 2026 – Fervo Energy (Nasdaq: FRVO), a global pioneer of next-generation geothermal energy, today announced that Cape Station, its

austin @powerllama.com · 25/09/2026

the real problem now is that it is almost prohibitively expensive to do it. hard drive prices are insane

austin @powerllama.com · 25/09/2026

yeah like i'm not a woowoo person but believe the great magnet is a real force

austin @powerllama.com · 25/09/2026

over a game of UNO like come on man

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Marissa Roy For LA City Attorney @marissaroyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week, New York won $131 million for DoorDash drivers who were underpaid or paid late — and put nearly all of that money back in deliveristas’ pockets. Los Angeles’ City Attorney could be doing the same for our workers.

DoorDash Agrees to $131.5 Million Settlement for Shortchanging Workers

The online delivery company agreed to give pay relief to workers and to accept monitoring of its methods after it underpaid — or didn’t pay — 264,000 workers.

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Julia Wick @sherlyholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“People are working 7 days a week in some cases, and several are now abusing substances or on the verge of emotional collapse.” lamaterial.com/p/mary-osako...

Inside the Whistleblower Complaints Against UCLA’s Top Communications Official

New court filings detail allegations of bullying, organizational chaos and university resources being used to bolster UCLA Vice Chancellor Mary Osako’s personal brand.

austin @powerllama.com · 24/09/2026

Benadryl is the way to go (too late to help you now sorry!)

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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HI SCORES. 2026 REISSUE. 20 NOVEMBER, LP / CD. Celebrating 30 years of ‘Hi Scores’. boardsofcanada.com

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 23/09/2026

Sorry, this is just false. Permits have been pulled to begin construction on these buildings. Only a handful have been built. Almost all will be finished years after the election.

newsroomamerica.com

Mayor Bass Announces Record 10,000+ Affordable Housing Units Built Under Her Administration

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says her administration has built more than 10,000 affordable housing units, over four times the annual pace of the prior five years.

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

thanks, i just made it

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

huh that's weird

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

lmao

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The Basin @thebasinla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not your imagination, LA Metro's escalators are some of the slowest on earth. We measured it against 139 other cities.

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

sure hope these people actually vote

raman wins the youth vote by quite a bit in this poll

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Karen Bass's campaign has issued a statement calling the gold-standard Berkeley IGS Poll "another outlier poll" which "got the June primary wrong"

LA Times Issues Another Outlier Poll,
All the Other Data Shows a Close Race Even an outside group supporting Raman
has the race at a statistical tie LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times has again published an outlier poll, just as they had done in the primary when they got it wrong and undercounted Karen Bass' support while estimating that progressive candidate Rae Huang would get triple the
support she ultimately did. Online-only surveys consistently struggle to recruit voters that represent a true sample of Los Angeles's electorate, systematically undercounting working-class families, seniors, and non-English speaking communities who regularly turn out on
Election Day.
Here's what every other poll in the general election has shown:
Tulchin Research / Neighborhoods for a Better L.A. PolL (August 2026)
• Results: Bass 41%, Raman 35%, Undecided 24%
Estamos con Nithya / Carpenters Union Poll (September 2026).
• Results: Bass 38%, Raman 37%, Undecided 26%
Hart Research Associates Poll / Raman Campaign Internal (September 2026)
• Results: Raman 44%, Bass 39%, Undecided 17%
David Binder Research / Bass Campaign Internal (August 2026).
• Results: Bass 35%, Raman 33%, Undecided 24%
BSP Research / Latino Community_Foundation Poll (September 2026).
• Results: Bass 51% favorable, 30% unfavorable

"One outlier poll which got the June primary wrong isn't reflective of the energy we see when talking to voters every day and what every other poll indicates - this is going to be
a close race," said campaign spokesperson Alex Stack. "Our campaign is continuing to do our job: contrasting Mayor Bass' record of delivering results on housing, public safety, and neighborhood investment with Nithya Raman's out-of-step views on allowing encampments near schools
and failing to show up for her constituents."

Whom likely voters would support
for Los Angeles mayor Among likely voters who have voted or will vote for
mayor in the June 2 election.
Karen Bass
26%
Nithya Raman
25%
Spencer Pratt
22%
Rae Chen Huang
9%
Adam Miller
5% Undecided/did not
vote for mayor
10% Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted online May 19-24 in English and Spanish among 1,913 registered voters in Los Angeles, 1,351 of whom were
considered likely to vote in the city's June primary election. Results from the overall registered voter sample have an estimated sampling error of +/- 2.5 percentage points while results from the likely voter sample have an estimated sampling error of +/- 3 points. Funding for the poll was
provided in part by the Los Angeles Times.

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

i absolutely know this and do this and agree with this. and yet I still keep posting them to my stories

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

actually if you keep watching this you'll go insane

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

follow @powerllama.com for more bullshit

austin @powerllama.com · 23/09/2026

going from Nine Inch Noize to nerdy train shit is some whiplash