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Richard Stone

@richardstone.bsky.social
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Semi-retired, photographer and old school print journalist slouching toward the abyss. Words have meaning; use them correctly. 🖖🏼I try to use them properly @wilcoblues.com and also sometimes shoot people @rtsconnect.org/photography I’ll

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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
At least her speech writer reads intelligent science fiction.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The fine folks at @austinfreepress allowed me to commit another journalism.
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Competing visions: Expanding cultural arts and parks vs. building a new convention center
A huge pile of tax dollars is at stake.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is the whole ball game, gang.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Switched to @bookshop.org as well. In addition to the experience, a portion of my purchase goes to my local indie bookstore, @curiomrvosa.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I step away from this app for a few minutes and we’ve gone from talking about expensive tater tots to throwing sandwiches.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. 

It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🤘🏻
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Weird, right?
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wrote a thing.
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Salvage vanguard: Austin officials belatedly seek to rescue art from doomed convention center
Artists have given Austin’s last-minute plans to save public convention center art mixed reviews.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Who included him on the group chat?
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I wrote a thing.
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So, I wrote another thing. This one is a little out of my normal lane and was more challenging than I’d first thought, but it got my old city hall reporter juices going. Plus, I got to met a lot of...
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
@garethlpowell.bsky.social’s new one. Futures Edge.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! I'm reading an Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael mystery, THE PILGRIM OF HATE.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Busy following all of the “alt” government services accounts.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
OMG! (Just finished re-reading System Collapse.)
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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We’ve been living on borrowed time since Citizens United.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I don’t know how this works over here but I thought I’d share some of my work.
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Some friends needed fresh head shots so I organized an impromptu pop up yesterday. Here are my favs. I love shooting in the gallery at McCrory-Timmerman because it’s got plenty of room and I can dial....
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When I took a polysci class in college, the prof told us that the purpose of a political party is to capture the government so it could make policy. Trump was supposed to make American great again. Are we there yet? Because I’m mostly embarrassed. 1/
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I mean … what the actual fuck? www.ap.org/the-definiti...
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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is what happens when you don’t know how shit works. Or care how it works.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The future we wanted vs the future it looks like we’re gonna get.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I deleted Twitter. Has anyone over here compiled a good #startrek starter pack? @thescorch.bsky.social @seanferrick.bsky.social @holodeckfour.bsky.social #LLAP 🖖🏻
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Nathan Johnson @nathanfortexas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Numbers don’t lie — and neither does a budget estimate. School choice? No. According to an estimate from the Texas Legislative Budget Board, 95% of students who would take ESAs/vouchers are already in private schools or being homeschooled. #TXLege #TxED
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Snickers in Apple IIe
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is how liberty ends …
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Looks like whisky’s gonna get more expensive, folks! #whiskytradewar
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
One follows the other.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Duh.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #640,774! Elder Certified? Yikes!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #640,774, Richard Stone ‪@richardstone.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 19, 2023"
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
So, I wrote a thing.
wilcoblues.com
Don’t be one of those people who gripe only after all the work is done
This essay began this life on the digital page in response to a recent social media post. But the genesis was in March and April, during the run up to the most recent city elections. That election tur...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Journalism is a *learned skillset*. The industry isn't just dying it's completely eliminating knowledge and abilities that took people decades to perfect. No matter what you think of "the media" without those skills you couldn't just wake up tomorrow and write an article worth reading.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
This plate of jamon Imberico cost me $2,378 at a sidewalk cafe in Barcelona and that’s why Americans think the economy is terrible. Thanks, Joe.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
This is as good an explanation as any.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
This makes me giddy!
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
I'm mostly retired so I don't have a real job anymore, just a series of one-off contracts and side gigs. I have to check my calendar to know what day it is. Apparently, some retired folks become un-moored from linear time. Me. I'm a retired folk.
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
His makes a great deal of sense. Adrian may have thoughts …
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Richard Stone @richardstone.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Thanks, @thescorch.bsky.social!
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