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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m reading the second book now and it’s amazing for the integration of the world building with the mystery plot. The mystery isn’t grafted into the fantastic setting (pun intended)

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I think this will be remembered years from now as the point when calm reason exposed the fascism and racism that America had become. I understand it was a tough call to do this, but thank you for doing it.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I will subscribe. Patreon. Kickstarter. You fund him I will pay to watch and bring 20 friends. Do it.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Where is the kickstarter for Stephen Colbert’a new late Night YouTube show? Or Patreon? I’ll subscribe.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“History has its eyes on you” - Hamilton the Musical

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

A photo of Speaker Johnson surrounded by GOP members all smiling broadly with their thumbs up, just after passing a Bill which strips healthcare, food nutrition and school meals from some of the most vulnerable families in America.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/05/2025

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

OMFG. THIS IS HIGH ART. It’s brilliant and sad and funny and heartbreaking. Elmo posts on LinkedIn after losing his jobs because of Trump Admin cuts.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I do have a lot of trees which limits the solar power I can get. Anyone doing community mini grids?

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It’s also Elon’s MO when he took over Twitter refusing to pay any contract signed before he purchased it.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Consequences. Keep them coming. There are excellent alternatives out there. I love my Ford Mustang Mach-E and there are a lot of great online storefronts with competitive prices and service compared to Amazon

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is how you go electric, baby.

Side view of a Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle in metallic grey paint on a driveway on a bright spring morning

Front perspective of a Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle showing the front grill, hood and windshield. in metallic grey paint on a driveway on a bright spring morning

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

You’re such a fantastic writer I feel sad that it doesn’t pay the bills that you have to work jobs that don’t give your monetary and professional satisfaction

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s Thursday night after 9 pm. Time to watch The Pitt. !!!!

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

He’s funded it with the success of the Falcon 9 which has revolutionized the space transport industry. SpaceX built a better widget. It’s not Elon, it’s the myriad of talented engineers that made it happen. Have to have some objectivity or we are as lost as Elon.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Sorry. First stage with 33 engines worked fine. Did something no one else has ever done for the third time.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It was the stage with 33 engines that failed. That part worked fine. The one with 6 engines (3 for atmosphere and 3 for space) failed.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is difficult and a test heavy approach with less costly hardware which is different from NASA’s method that we are used to. But two catastrophic failures with a newly-designed second stage means they are missing something big. They need to stop and investigate deeply before another test.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

They were projecting their wishes rather than taking seriously what the Trump campaign and their supporters were saying. (Tariffs and project 2025)

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Feel like this is a front 3 just not yet comfortable playing with each other. Just not in sync at all. Hence the offsides and missed runs.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“As the polls close like a casket On truth devoured, silent play on the shadow of power A spectacle, monopolized The camera's eyes on choice disguised Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil? Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?” — Rage Against the Machine “Guerilla Radio”

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Google Maps -> Apple Maps still shows the Gulf of Mexico Facebook/Threads/IG -> Bluesky of course! …

Map of the Gulf of Mexico from Apple Maps

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Starting a list of where you can spend your money and not put it in the pockets of the oligarchs. Please add to it: Amazon -> independent web sites with often better prices (just wait 1-2 more days) Amazon -> Bookshop.org and support local bookstores as well. Tesla -> Rivian, Ford, GM, VW ….

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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

YMCA, the Musical, showing on all stages 2x a day at the Kennedy Center all year long. Except Christmas night when Trump DJs his favorite songs in a nationwide concert on X from the concert hall at the Kennedy Center.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just doing Apocalypse Tourism

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On the same day we visit the Anne Frank house my oldest informs me that two modules from his humanities class — racial and climate justice — have been nixed because of the Trump administration’s anti-DEI policies. These are warning signs. We ignore them at our peril.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I love that @arstechnica.com has started compiling a list of products, services and sites on the path of enshitification or fully arrived. Still saying Pinterest is on its way too. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders

Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Goes back to the dawn of the labor movement in the 19th century where worker organized for better pay and working conditions. Instead of each person negotiating with management, they did it as a group — a collective.

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Kool Karyn @koolkaryn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Collective bargaining is by definition a negotiation of rights between labor and management. So they are saying only management counts. This is the equivalent of “heads I win, tales you lose.”

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Miles Lewis-Skelly doing the zen meditation pose after he scored against Man City is the purest kind of trolling. I love Erling Haaland, but I’m sure he knows who MLS is now!

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Well. That Arsenal game went far better than I could have ever dreamed.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

“Yeah, sometimes the fire you founded Don't burn the way you'd expect Yeah, you thought that this was the end” — Olivia Rodrigo, “You Can’t Catch Me Now”

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Trump just launched a trade war against Canada over fentanyl. The US seized - wait for it - 43 pounds at the US-Canada border last year. 43 pounds.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Trump Administration says that fewer Americans dying from Fentanyl deaths will get the newly imposed tariffs removed. I call bullshit. It’s an excuse that is so vague they will keep them on as long as it’s politically feasible. We should sticker everything with how much those tariffs cost people

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is what "merit hire" means to them

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Contrast the calm professionalism of the NTSB who do not speak until the facts support their statements and the Trump Admin leadership who wildly and recklessly speculate

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m sure DEI hire Pete Hegseth came up with it.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I bought @chrislhayes.bsky.social new book “The Siren’s Call” on Bookshop.org so: 1: I won’t get distracted with other stuff on my iPad; and 2: money goes to local bookstores and not the pockets of the broligarchy. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This was designed by a spineless corporate engineer or a psychopath.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There are other orgs that help rescue food and get it to those in food insecurity. They are not on Bluesky yet, but Food Rescue USA is another great organization.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

That’s the one with the Ai masquerading around as a kid’s ice cream truck right? Haven’t read that in years.

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Peter von Elling @pvonelling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Such a great scene that put an old concept art piece on the screen for the first time.

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