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Rudy Garns

@rudygarns.bsky.social
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Retired professor in philosophy and director of Integrative Studies at NKU who now travels, bakes pies, photographs, and builds affordable housing for birds. Woke, but grumpy.

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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 5h
Herring Gull having breakfast near Cape May NWR. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I finally built a proper workbench for the shop. It's a modified version of the Roubo bench inspired by 18th-century French cabinetmaker André Jacob Roubo. #workbench #shop #woodworking
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Goldfinch #birds
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That wig looks like it was bought off a pegboard at a shop next to the Greyhound station.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I was looking for a good war movie about weather prediction. I was rewarded with Pressure (2026) with Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser. Intense and human with good performances. Most of the fighting was between meteorologists, but the Nazis do show up later, when the weather turns.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
lmao Gianni looked like he was about to tackle Trump to get him out of the shot
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I just assumed that salads from Taco Bell always came with explosive diarrhea.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A young buck was hanging out at Camp Rudy this morning. We knit and sell those cozy antler covers right here at Camp Rudy. Be sure to stop by the gift shop.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hours before his death Lindsey Graham is visited by the ghost of Mitch McConnell.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
People mourning the death of Lindsey Graham. “Count me out. Enough is enough”
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nice and honest contrast to the ignorant reactionary bullshit coming from Trump and cronies. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/m...
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How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Battling Mommy - Digby's Hullabaloo
Jill Filipovic writes in Slate about some of the underlying dynamics that led to the Graham Platner mess. I think she's right on: It was hard not to notice, though, that many of the progressive politi...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Truly the worst thing about the American Century of Humiliation is that we're not just getting roasted by rising economic powers like China, but by countries like Belgium, whose median age is like 400 years old, whose major export is blood diamonds and who still won't take down King Leopold statues.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/07/2026
Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others | Arwa Mahdawi
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Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others | Arwa Mahdawi
The congressman spent four months mysteriously away from work, but he doesn’t seem to think his constituents should get mandated sick days
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Enjoying the for-now quiet morning with my cup of coffee, sitting on the observation deck of the Rusty Elk Lodge, here at Camp Rudy. I was joined by this doe, both of us still recovering from a night of bombs bursting in air and rocket's red glare. I should have left the ramparts up.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't worry if you weren't invited. I'm betting the Swift-Kelsi wedding-reception-bash will be streaming on Disney/Hulu in a couple of months.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
250 years from now we will be celebrating the semiquincentennial of Taylor Swift's wedding.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Two fawns resting in the Camp Rudy ivy bed this morning. I hadn't seen them in weeks and feared they might not have made it. But they looked healthy (and disturbed that someone was photographing them).
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some people have a bucket list. I have a fuck it list and everything is on it.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
From Costa Rica last year. I had it ID'd as an Amazonian Plain-Xenops but I'm now told it is a Northern Plain-Xenops. That sounds right. My apologies. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Prothonotary Warbler at Magee Marsh in May. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher with caught gnat. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sandhill crane, Indiana in May. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reflecting Pool algae passes Trump's cognitive test with flying colors.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This reads like a Hemingway short story.
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CoolHandNuke @mrfawkes50.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Barn swallow. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Grey Headed Kingfisher, taken in Tanzania in 2016. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Couldn't drain the swamp, so....
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Goslings at Howard Metropark in May. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump's grand plan to demonstrate that he can walk on water is taking shape.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A few captures from the Effin Bird Sanctuary at Camp Rudy this morning. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Slime?
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Great Crested Flycatcher. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
On the streets of Quito, before we head out to the Galapagos in 2011. #Ecuador
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Virginia rail at Cowles Bog. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yes, but is it greener than the color of money?
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Pelican. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ticker tape is still being manufactured, for parades and landfills.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If only we could take the Trump name off the list of presidents.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sandhill cranes in Indiana. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wow. A trillionaire! Imagine how much tax he will have to pay.
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Black-throated green warbler. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
American Redstart. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Gray Catbird, Indiana in May. #birds
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Rudy Garns @rudygarns.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Eastern Towhee. #birds
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