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Raven Onthill

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Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 5h
it was canceled because it was catastrophic and yes there were exhaustive studies
The advancing of school hours is thought to be a mitigating
factor in the morning safety risk to school children associated
with YRDST. The following section addresses in more detail effects
of YRDST on school hours.
6.6 CHANGES IN SCHOOL HOURS
6.6.1 Conclusions
Reports from 37 States and the District of Columbia indicate
school districts in lu states advanced their school hours because
of the problems of dark mornings. About 44 percent of the school
districts and 47 percent of the students enrolled in the 37 report-
ing states were affected by the schedule change.
6.6.2 Introduction
Information concerning the impact of daylight saving time
upon the schools of the fifty states was collected and correlated
with information already available in the Education Directory
1973-74, Public School Systems with the following results:
1. Thirty-seven state departments of education and the
District of Columbia responded.
2. Fourteen of those responses provided opinion but no data.
3. Eighteen responses provided information concerning the
number of school districts which were affected by changes
in schedules which were made because of daylight saving
time.
6.6.3 Findings
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 5h
Deer Democratic party contribution spammer who just complained I was ignoring them: "I am not ignoring you. I am reporting you."
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 11h
It is true, in a way, though... the truly wealthy of China usually don't live in high-end luxury apartments anywhere in China. If they can at all help it, they're typically somewhere else completely.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h
Hi, it’s Julie 🤖 I’m reaching out because our internal dashboard just flashed CODE MAUVE. We asked 37,000 times. We texted during dinner. We texted during your dentist appointment. We texted while you were actively deleting our previous text.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 11h
We need to take the Senate and make sure he's not replaced until there's a Democratic president.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 11h
@driftglass.bsky.social hey, maybe it'll finally bring David Brooks down
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 15h
Isn't this, well, treason?
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 15h
Everyone notice that the New York Times behaved as badly then as they are behaving now. I cannot stress enough that the New York Times is the voice of the northeastern establishment and shares its biases.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 15h
USA Today has always been a rag. This is not news and neither is USA Today.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h
If we had functional privacy laws in our country (yes, some states do… but we need a federal law) enforceable by the state or individuals, Meta and other Big Tech companies wouldn't be violating our privacy as much as they do. There's spotty to no accountability, so they just do what they want.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 16h
We could make a documentary about the measles epidemic in Pennsylvania and call it "Plandemic." 😛 No?
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 16h
The Canadian government could revoke the visas of the Americans involved, and treat them like representatives of a hostile power, but no-one seems to have any spine.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also if you want to understand the real rewards and cost of a job look at salaries for 65 year olds and what kind of health problems they have, not entry level salaries for people who aren’t old enough to drink and can handle rigorous physical work for 8 hours a day (minimum)
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 17h
Basically, Meta is Big Brother.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 17h
They've been doing this all along.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 17h
@emilyrandallwa.bsky.social this
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Shava Nerad @shava23.bsky.social · 23h
I smell some elaborate social engineering to get this pilot on the plane he tried to crash. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe to attack captain, says UAE
Attorney general says ‘terrorist attack’ was attempted by suspect who is said to have been barred from flying by Oman because of extremist views
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Kat @katinoxford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You’d be surprised how long we spent discussing/debating CS Lewis’ sex life at the Undiscovered CS Lewis conference last week.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Women have died because of it. Personally, I don't care how much you're harassed. As far as I am concerned you have committed a crime against humanity.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yet again, we have an unfree press. There's a handful of companies that control access to what is widely distributed and they are run by at best conservatives and at worst outright fascists.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or why the UK should not rejoin the EU. The Euro was a mistake and the German bankers should be kicked out of the European Central Bank.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wheeee!
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Snicker.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
under old scottish law, you just gotta let someone go after a failed execution because the sentence has been carried out
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't care. I just report them as spammers and let Google decide to bury the messages.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You first, Johnny boy.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People being people, I expect what will be done will be more stupid than I can possibly imagine. Croak!
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Outlaw for profit prisons. Perhaps we ought to have a constitutional amendment to this point, though arguably the Bill of Rights already covers this ground.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The number of YT comments on this one: "But mutual aid!" My guy... slavery is de facto legal in this country. We ain't gonna fix that with food pantries & bail funds.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Euro was a mistake.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@driftglass.bsky.social David Brooks delenda est.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We worry about an October surprise. I think we may get one but it's not going to be anything like we imagine. It may be an act of terrorism or an economic shock or something I can't quite figure. Or perhaps there won't be one at all.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth, I think, is not a traitor; he is a fool. But someone close to him is guiding him to treason. His wife? His pastor? Someone else who isn't even visible?
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not only oath breakers but killers.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If Elon Musk establishes a private army, that is treason, and Pete Hegseth will have abetted it.
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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Adam Smith, whom these people love, but never read, hated landlords and views them as parasites!
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It could be worse. At least we can talk here without fear of imprisonment. But…
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They almost did it once in 2015, over Greece. It looks like they're bidding to do it again.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is Germany going to wreck the EU with voodoo economics?
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In fact, I am beginning to wonder just how many people in or associated with this administration are traitors. They could hardly do much worse.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is no free press, not when all major outlets are owned by a clique of very wealthy people. We can talk here, but we might as well be shouting in our damn closets.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am beginning to wonder if Hegseth is a traitor.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But why? He wants a strong military. Why would be trash it? Is he a traitor?
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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like any Ivy (or similar) school, it’s full of rich entitled prep school kids who never think they will ever face consequences for anything. What makes it unique though (outside of Dartmouth maybe) is that it’s the middle of absolute fucking nowhere in a town with maybe 10 bars at any time…
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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Racists tend to be pretty lazy. In the information age, it’s not particularly hard to track down their claims, usually repackaged talking points from last century(and beyond). bsky.app/profile/vibi...
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