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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What a bizarre piece. The kid is 20! He can’t even buy a beer yet! Why is he being asked how he feels about weirdoes writing fanfic about him??

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And it’s *good* that it was an instrument of US soft power.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I would encourage you to watch the Council discussion if you haven’t. The contract is up in a year, and I’ve made clear that I want alternatives. That said, Sunnyvale’s Flock ALPRs have helped solve and prevent major violent crimes, including a murder. I’d be happy to sit down and discuss further.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 23/08/2026

Beam designed to complement existing transit.

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Sunnyvale launches on-demand rideshare service

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Got 59% of the vote, but the price tag was high and there was an organized opposition. 2/3 is a really hard threshold to reach. Of course, banning (and unbanning) gay marriage only took 50%…

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nope, the space in City Hall is pretty much all spoken for by various departments. The plan had been to build a new library across the street but we couldn’t get 2/3 support.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No, this is not a thing I’m afraid. We are looking at long-term options for library services after the bond measure failed in 2024.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The morality of NIMBYism depends entirely on what is being NIMBY’d

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It’s my birthday today, which makes it a great day to announce that I’m running for reelection to Sunnyvale City Council! I’m not taking corporate $, so if you can chip in to help me make Sunnyvale safer, more affordable, and more sustainable, it’d mean the world! secure.actblue.com/donate/richa...

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Part of the right's war on education, especially the part that appeals to voters and not Douthatian perverts, is pretty explicitly about limiting kids' horizons and trapping them where they are.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

(I had hit 1475 last fall but tanked back under 1300, so uh, hopefully I stay this time.)

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Some personal news: I crossed 1400 Elo on chess.com for the first time this year.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

remember that one time a train derailed in Ohio and literally nobody died but it was a news story for like a full week and Pete Buttigieg had to personally answer for it?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/03/2026

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is good advice every day, assuming of course that your local city or suburb hasn’t been specifically and deliberately designed to make you essentially car dependent… #UrbanTruth

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yeah, he's a hater, and there's plenty to hate about AI, but I don't think it's too much to expect people to understand the basics of an industry before writing about it. And slagging AI coding tools when he doesn't know the difference between front/backend engineering doesn't bolster his cred.

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Michelle Bruton @michellebruton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Jack Hughes: “I looked on the ice and saw my teeth”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/02/2026

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hire Jacob Tierney to adapt The Infinite and the Divine.

The cover of The Infinite and the Divine, by Robert Rath, featuring Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Divine facing off against each other. Wrath and possibly lust is evident in the green luminescence of their ocular sensors.

Promotional image for Heated Rivalry, showing Hollander and Rozanov facing off against each other.

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This past week I had the tremendous honor to swear the oath of office as Sunnyvale Vice Mayor. I've taken the oath of office many times, but this year perhaps hit hardest of all. My speech on what that oath means below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaqw...

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City Council Meeting - Jan. 27, 2026

YouTube video by Sunnyvale City Clerk

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Moods. Wine Bar has become a wonderful part of Downtown Sunnyvale, providing a friendly, welcoming third space that we need more of. Unfortunately they're now in danger of closing. Please consider donating to help keep this vital space alive for years to come: www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

After 9/11, 43 Danish soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan. Trump's attempt to steal Greenland, his threats of war against Denmark, his temper tantrum over the Nobel Prize, it's all too disgusting for words. Congress must reign in this mad king—before it's too late. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU prepares to retaliate

He said he no longer thought "purely of Peace" as the row over the island threatened to reignite a trade war with Europe.

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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”

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Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland

Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Suing everyone who doesn’t like me for hurting my feelings is sure to get them to like me

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency

sciam article “Roads safer when drunk drivers immediately lose licence to kill”

CBC article “For seniors, losing drivers licence like having ‘arm cut off’”

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Folks, the official 2025 Mehlinger Voting Guide is finally here! If you live in California, vote YES on 50, and if you live in Santa Clara County, vote Neysa Fligor for county assessor and YES on Measure A! medium.com/@rmehlinger/...

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The 2025 Mehlinger Voting Guide

Hello and welcome to a quite unexpected odd year edition of the Official Mehlinger Voting Guide! As always, opinions expressed herein…

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Richard Mehlinger 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙↙↙↙ @richardm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Some fun texts from Rishi Kumar's campaign for Santa Clara County Assessor! He's lying to seniors, saying he'll exempt them from property tax--which the assessor can't do. So if you live in Santa Clara County, return your ballot by Nov 4 and vote YES on A, YES on 50, and Neysa Fliegor for Assessor!

Text thread from Rishi Kumar's campaign for Santa Clara County Assessor:

Campaign: Richard, Rishi Kumar cut taxes, stopped SJWC & PGE hikes, and as Assessor will put $ back in YOUR pocket. Vote Rishi today?

Me: Rishi Kumar isn't fit to be dogcatcher, much less assessor.

Campaign: It seems like you can sniff out dogcatcher talent because you are one? Rishi wrote a

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