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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷

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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They get tax breaks and, when it all implodes, we'll all be paying the tab to bail the economy out. 🤬
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every single day there’s something from the Trump regime that would end anyone else’s Presidency. I’m sick of this fucking bullshit.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“What to do” may be a moot point if nobody buys into the truth: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” (George Orwell).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I LOLed and almost spewed my wine watching this. He's utterly delusional. 🤣 When will be done with this shitshow?
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WTF is this dickhead on about? I'm glad I grew up in a time where the polio, measles, and other vaccines were routine and I didn't die of a preventable disease. I just cannot anymore with this epic level of malevolent stupidity.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Come for the wisdom, stay for the cat pic. :D I grew up in the 60s/70s and loved all the old school hard core sci-fi greats, but everyone has their taste in books so if a kid is reading anything, it is a thing to rejoice. I also love Scalzi, even if he isn't in my preferred genre of sci-fi. Read. ♥️
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's a really good time to consider buying an e-bike or an e-car and supporting mass transit initiatives as fuel is highly unlikely to get cheaper anytime soon, if ever.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Come the fuck on America....at what point do you finally think enough is enough?
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Considering the current wave of geriatric Boomers, this is an enormous problem in car-dependent areas. Sadly, they also vote against public infra like transit and bike lanes. Self-driving cars aren't the solution.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just go fucking vote. 💪 Love Ted Lieu.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just don't even know what to say to this, though it's clear that this regime wants all the non-healthy poors to shuffle off this mortal coil as soon as possible.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fuck these people...when will the rape of everything we hold dear end? WHEN?!
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/08/2026
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
WTF is happening!? This has zero chance of being a good thing, especially with the current regime.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Maybe the mainstream press should be reporting on this rather than TFG's young aid and the cringy letters. 🙄😒
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh shit....I hadn't heard or read anything about this. 😬
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They're grooming us for the AI debt collapse and taking the piss on us all.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"The threat of Trump returning to office to complete his autocratic agenda is severe. But that he is able to do it – that the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again – is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in ... "
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Everyone at Fox News who’s reporting from this relocated desk placed in front of an eerie, joyless expanse of empty grass knows something is gravely wrong in this country, which makes their forced merriment truly ghoulish I feel like I’m watching the wretched souls of these folks leave their bodies
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It is so much worse than you realize. It approaches an unconditional surrender. This is well beyond the defeat we experienced in Vietnam. Read below for a full breakdown and analysis of every horrifying term in the Trump-Iran Surrender.
sethabramson.substack.com
BREAKING NEWS: The Truly Shocking—and Historically Humiliating—Details of Trump’s Surrender to Iran Have Just Been Revealed
It’s so much worse than we could have imagined. It’s a significantly worse defeat than Vietnam, and may stand as the worst military defeat in U.S. history. And the president can’t stop lying about it.
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Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
jesus fucking christ
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A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 03/06/2026
🎵With my lover coasting by my side / We’d be holding hands and feeling high / When I ride, I'm free!🎵 On #WorldBicycleDay let's remember the pure joy cycling brings with the new song by @danabrahamsmusic.bsky.social "Amsterdam". Listen to the cycling song of the summer! youtu.be/nTma5W3P-ps?...
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/05/2026
Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.
Text clip from the Harvard Gazette article: 

He continued, “Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it. Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI; that’s at least two months away. … It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
100% agree as fuel taxes don't begin to cover car infrastructure, primarily used by suburbanites and corps moving goods. The suburbs are heavily subsidized by urban areas where bike/ped/transit infrastructure is languishing because...cars. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In this 1997 commencement speech, I offered a warning that America's growing economic divide would undermine the common good. If you're curious how that speech holds up 29 years later (or what I look like without a beard), watch this.
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The "Secession of the Successful" — Robert Reich, 1997
In this 1997 commencement speech, I offered a warning that America's growing economic divide would undermine the common
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
WTF? Everything is awful in every fucking direction you look. 😡
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Chuck distills my thoughts perfectly...and we all know how the US will respond in the either/or option. 🫤
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I mean, I'm not an expert in evangelising free market economics as an alternative to not being a cunt, but I think maybe perhaps possibly if your business can't handle paying its employees the bare minimum required to survive, trade market economics dictates your business shouldn't survive.x #MayDay
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
😳 WTF!? "...Palantir refers to its Soho Square London office as Grey Havens, the final departure point for Elves leaving Middle-earth."
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Nothing is sacred from this absolute dumpster fire of suck. 🤬
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'm surprised that the Finnish sorts of #bikesky didn't post about the opening of the bike/ped/tram bridge this weekend. I showed up for the bike parade and it was amazing. Helsinki is really catching up. :) youtu.be/lrRC83dY7sk
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Kruunuvuorensilta Bridge Opening Ceremony | 4K Hyperlapse & Timelapse
YouTube video by Janne Hirvonen (Majakanvahti)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
WTF. This man has the nuclear codes.....won't someone PLEASE do something, anything, to remove him from office?
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Anyone who wants to join us and @maggietokudahall.bsky.social to take action against H.R. 7661 and protect the freedom to read, we can help you call your reps right now at action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661. What else would you say to encourage those who want to take action?
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CALL YOUR REPS: Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill!
Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/02/2026
I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you believe you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
♥️♥️
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Same. Vaccinate your fucking children on schedule. Get the jabs. All the fucking jabs. I'm getting an MMR booster before I travel to London next month because I'm a 'geriatric' GenX sort who only got one jab and the crazy is strong in the UK and the US.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Accurate. We cannot relieve ourselves of this administration soon enough and I look forward to salsa dancing and all the joy of embracing people who live to love rather than hate.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Accurate. We cannot be relieved of this administration soon enough and get on with learning how to salsa dance
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Sad news. Pour one out for Dave Farber. I'm so old, I remember the before time when things were far more civilized and more fun and he was a part of that.
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Elaine "HFB" Ashton 🚲🦮🍷 @smokingpancake.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
As an American living in Finland, every fucking day I wake up to all the WTF news and wonder at what point the US will do the needful to send these criminal carpetbaggers to prison. Like, c'mon America, LFG.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Any reporters on the President Old beat looking into the White House saying the president—who turns 80 this year and has been mixing up the names of countries—isn’t aware who publicly communicates on his behalf, or nah?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2026
"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm" www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think the big problem is that we’ve been taught that you’re supposed to somehow balance staying informed with being mentally stable right now, and I am here to tell you that’s wrong, you’re all supposed to be losing your goddamn minds right now, so good news everyone you’re doing great
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Doug just wrote this, about the power of small actions that remind everyone around you that they're still being seen and heard and that you're all part of this, and I really think now is a great time to read it: snackstack.net/2026/01/30/t...
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The Cookie Theory of Collective Action
Build community, bring snacks, and other tips from an occupied city
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