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Steve B.

@steveb70.bsky.social
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Retired in beautiful green Oregon

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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 12h
83 billion in sales not profit!
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Go Beavs
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💥🎃🤣
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Party at Ground Zero — Fishbone
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bend is pretty nice too.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
Andrea Bell’s agency has handed developers more than $1.4 billion for rent-restricted apartments over the last five years. She failed to disclose that her husband works for a company that consults on these projects, despite a law requiring her to do so.
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Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And I was planning to have enough saved for a new house in 3 billion years. Oh well. Time to party like it’s 2,999,999,999
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apple is changing macOS permissions because AI agents make broad access more dangerous. This is a mundane security problem with familiar solutions; least privilege, explicit authorization and strong access controls. Don’t give an agent broad access then rely only on “alignment” to make it behave.
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Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk...
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t know any business owners that are rich on 20K.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Trump’s defense the reflecting pool has never more accurately reflected the state the country is in
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
None of these dudes look like they could bench press a Pokémon card
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not in union stores .
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When did Washington steal Mt. Hood?
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not like we couldn’t see this coming a while ago. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here she is at an event with GOP gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n... Guys This is the big move He gets this, we’re screwed
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Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail voting
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
Rather than rely on tried and true methods, General Dynamics proposed a new production line to build artillery shells for Ukraine. The Army signed up to buy three without knowing if the machinery would even work.
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peaches, Wendell Berry. And because I am not as well adjusted as he: God dammit, cosmos, take the destroyers and leave us the artists.
A Meeting

In a Dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry- Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields behind Belgian draft horses and wrote lyrical poems, novels and essays without electric light. He explored his elegiac visions of the life and death of agrarian America, wrote more than 50 volumes of poetry www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
There’s no bigger threat to your public lands and parks than Donald Trump
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SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A woman with a cane stands at a ticket window staffed by a man. A nearby kiosk has an out of order sign. The ticket clerk says, "OK, one more time. Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time...Just what part of 'easier and more convenient ' don't you get?"
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Mista Kotta 💙 🇺🇦 @mistakotta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So let me get this straight? Consumers don't pay for tariffs, but suspending them for 90 days will lower costs? Hmmmm....
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Willamette Week where are you???
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Did Dino just fart ?
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/08/2026
Sweet baby Jesus. "Chat GPT can tell me what I read yesterday and interpret it for me, except sometimes it just makes shit up, but that's still great! Imagine how much time and effort I save by not having to comprehend words or meaning!"
article screengrab:     It promised to give me "a recap of what's happened so far and clarify anything confusing. ... I'll stick strictly to what you've read. No hints about what's coming."

🔖 That's now become part of my reading routine: Tell AI where you stopped and ask for a spoiler-free recap so far, which often surfaces details I'd missed or forgotten.

🤔 Reality check: AI is working from its training data, not the actual text. The vibes can be right while the details are wrong.
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’m sure you will be hot when you are 88 years old…..
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
????? Two billion is what percentage of 30 billion??? 6.66%
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Must have left the horse’s ass in D.C.
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s 13.99 lb. On sale…..
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grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social @grannyvalkyrie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While FEMA drags its feet, crews from California, Australia, and New Zealand are fighting fires in Oregon www.klcc.org/disasters-ac...
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Teams from California, Australia, and New Zealand assist fire crews in Oregon
Crews arrived from other states and countries to help with firefighting in Oregon this week.
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Style and cool all the while not taking himself too seriously. An uncommon trait in the land of egos.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Let’s not forget that this illegal Reflecting Pool indictment was also overseen by Todd Blanche. He could have stopped this at any time, but he was a corrupt and willing accomplice to this fraud upon the court. How can any decent person possibly vote for this man as AG?
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Steve B. @steveb70.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rear Window missing almost fifteen minutes was the final straw. Didn’t used to be that way..
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/07/2026
I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.
India supplies approximately 50% of all U.S. generic drugs, and these face the highest tariff
rates:
• Antibiotics: Penicillin, amoxicillin
• Cardiovascular medications: Generic versions of cholesterol drugs, blood thinners
• Diabetes medications: Metformin, insulin analogs
• Pain relievers: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen
2. China-Dependent Active Ingredients
China supplies active ingredients for:
• >95% of ibuprofen and acetaminophen
• ~45% of penicillin
• Many other commonly used medications' base components
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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#MAGACultMorons always blame someone else. F*ck rand paul
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In 1968, the Trix Rabbit was VERY concerned about voter registration!
An infographic from 1968 featuring the Trix Rabbit in a variety of situations that would necessitate a check on voter registration status, including moving to a new address, turning 21 before election day, have a name change, or not voting recently
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie: "Fox News has not seen that evidence yet, and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president’s statements and claims at this time." Yeah, Fox is definitely playing it VERY cautiously here due to the $787 million Dominion payout.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026
Last-Ever Global Warming Report Released For Posterity
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