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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We saw an owl along the Rivanna River this week!

Owl along the Rivanna River, Charlottesville

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Albemarle Heating & Air has come through for us twice in the past.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is more Old Testament god than New Testament Jesus. “Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.” - 1 Samuel 15:3

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It was a beautiful snowy morning to go for a walk with Beanie!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Saw a great blue heron on the Rivanna River this morning!

Great blue heron on the Rivanna River in Charlottesville

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

What the fuck!?!? That’s my worst nightmare!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It was nice to see so many houses of worship represented there today at “CvillePride.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This was my view as I was walking to the Pride Festival.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 17/08/2025

I’m not against cars. I own one. But we need to make it much, much easier, pleasant, and safer to walk, bike, or take transit than it is to drive somewhere by myself in an empty car. And there’s no way to do that without making some drivers angry. Thankfully, more and more drivers understand.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The city of Bloomington has also added covered spaces in a parking lot that doubles as a farmers market as well. And a couple more photos of the blocked road and outdoor dining spaces.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Some things that Bloomington, Indiana is doing right! 1) Lots of “No turn on red” signs in pedestrian areas 2) Closing streets off to cars and allowing restaurants to use that outdoor space 3) converting unused train tracks into rail trails in the middle of the city 4) Lots of little pocket parks

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The goldfinches are loving the echinacea!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

That is the absolute worst! Hopefully, your dog didn’t come back inside after being sprayed? My wife and daughter stayed at a hotel the first night after our dog’s interaction with a skunk.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Yes, and the city is building new sidewalks across and down the street from this property!

New sidewalks being built by the City of Charlottesville on St Clair.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

That’s a huge house! 4 times the square footage of our 1,500 sf house!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I never get tired of seeing them. A few minutes later this heron switched trees.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A great blue heron we saw perched on top of a dead ash tree along the Rivanna River in Charlottesville

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Feels like 110 - Try stay cool out there!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Went berry picking with my daughter yesterday and we saw a rabbit!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I just donated! Sorry that you’re having to deal with this but you are doing the right thing!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Beautiful patterns in the sand and water of the Rivanna River at Riverview Park @cvillecityhall.bsky.social

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The U.S.A. is becoming the laughing stock of the free world - We Ban Books, Close Libraries, Delete History, Deport Immigrants, Cancel Medical and Food Assistance, Close Down Medical Research, Close Down Research, Sue The Free Press; and Now We Nominate a NONPHYSICIAN To Be the Surgeon General!

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10/05/2025

There are so many things to be mad at right now, but for some reason I'm especially enraged by the fact that there are places in the USA now where a cop wearing a face mask to illegally protect his identity can arrest YOU for wearing a face mask to protect your health

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Doctor B @theedoctorb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just sayin', as someone who grew up Catholic: if you can call the new pope by his chosen name instead of the name he was assigned at birth, you can do the same for the trans folks in your life. It's a sign of respect in both cases.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Maybe Jeff Bezos will still learn something from his ex-wife!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Bill Gates is one billionaire I can admire for giving away his health to help humanity. He may not be perfect but he is trying to affect positive change!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thank you! I remember when public officials came to our troop meetings to help with different merit badges!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

As a lifetime Democrat, I can’t imagine myself voting for someone like Warner who voted for so many of Trump’s nominees. I mean, what’s the point?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/05/2025

President Donald Trump, asked during an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” whether he believes that he needs to uphold the Constitution during his presidency, responded, “I don’t know.”

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Trump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution

The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Very Easy To Agree! You?😊💙

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We saw this Steller’s Jay in Rocky Mountain National Park.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2025

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just hanging out with Beanie

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Sabre Games on the Downtown Mall is hosting a Dungeons and Dragons camp this summer for 10-17 year olds, which is probably the age range I last played D&D. www.sabregamesandcards.com/summercamp2025

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D&D Camp - Summer 2025 | Sabre Games

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

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U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Some positive news in these dark times!

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