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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 23h

Kim Jong Un will return in: America: Dumbsday

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 23h

There's an ax on the flight deck.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ruining the Galaxy

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Okay not for nothing, but "America" is a German mapmaker's homage to an Italian dude (and his given name, at that) who sailed in service of the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns. It's like named something The Gulf of Bob.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(For non-Portlanders, there are seaplane bases both up- and downriver from downtown. There is zero reason a plane would need to take off in that location. The worst possible location.)

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

*if the FAA is issuing such a permit in this context, then Congress should throw the book at Sean Duffy. If necessary, Congress can write new pages. Thankfully not written in blood. This time.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don't do this. It looks cool and is probably fun, but the risks are way too high, especially to random bystanders. Which is why, barring a special permit the pilot almost certainly does not have*, this is ten kinds of illegal. I hope the FAA throws the book at the pilot and buries them under it.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Make a band/musician meaty: Nation of Lengua

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was eager to put in entries for a prestigious journalism award for some of our Bolts team's wonderful work this year; they deserve all the love. The fee to apply for each 1 story is $500. The journalism sector should really rethink what it asks of small newsrooms to have any seat at the table.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That said, I don't recall anything with the size and track of Rachel. Yay climate change and Super El Niño.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I lived in AZ, every few years the remnants of some hurricane or tropical storm would roll through in monsoon season. Unlike this one, however, it was typically a system that kinda limped up the Gulf of California so didn't capture wide American interest as it bypassed urban California.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Often Trump can get away with this because Jill & Joe Taxpayer also don't have a good sense of the scale of the US economy. Big number big, yeah? But not here. Because Jill & Joe buy things. And this is not enough diesel for a significant and sustained reduction in prices, pump or downstream.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In addition to the, ahem, treasonous aspect, this is another case of Trump not comprehending the scale of the government and nation he leads. In the raw these are big numbers, but in practice--even if they are delivered in total--they are... a week +/- of US diesel consumption.

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Had a California equivalent to a “snow day” because of El Niño Balboa Boulevard was under water throughout most of the peninsula Long underwater Kelvin waves and the oncoming storm surge caused havoc and preventing me from getting to one of my clients homes today 🌊

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's not good that the US is an incarceration nation. But given that we are, and that we apparently can place no practical limitations on investments to imprison ever more people and for longer sentences, it is *weird* that we even bother to have a death penalty, regardless of morality.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The dismal quality of our villains continues to be insulting and downright embarrassing.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do Democrats need this? No. Does Ken Martin, specifically, deserve this? Absolutely.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Felt more like a broadside against Ken Martin, specifically. And that is totally deserved. Any Democratic electoral success is 100% in spite of him.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not that I'm in the business of wanting good things for Gavin Newsom, but it's informative to see the levels of grift and gross that were too much for even him.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(As a University of Arizona alum I am both thrilled and horrified for ASU in this.)

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Like what specific person on Vance's team did ASU piss off to make this list? And also can that person make sure they're always mentioned in the same breath as the rest of these universities, pretty please.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is, of course, ludicrous. That's not how any of this works. That said, ASU's gotta be low-key thrilled to be included in a list of such illustrious institutions.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I similarly know people who wanted to have 3+ kids but--due to financial delay--got a late enough start that they stopped at 1 or 2.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While I don't know that it's significant *at population scale*, I personally know several people who put having kids off for financial reasons until their mid-late thirties and then--finally ready--had unexpected life issues wipe out the rest of their child-bearing age.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Blood for the Blood God!

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Other than the hummingbird nectar I don't have a feeder out there (I don't want the mess), but some of the birds will occasionally check the plants for bugs and spiders and grab a little snack. Which I appreciate.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In positive news, it took a couple of months, but the patio bird bath I set up is really paying off. Every day we have regular visits from finches, bluebirds, and song sparrows. They don't usually stay long; just a quick drink or occasionally a splash, but it's so lovely having them drop by.

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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People who beg bands to play a city for years to then complain about the venue are likely why bands skip said cities

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The best venues are sewn into the quilts of their communities.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of our favorite restaurants, parks, shops, and neighborhoods we discovered because we made a day out of Going to a Show.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bit of an aside: but as a fan I love there being a diverse set of venues scattered across the metro. While the music is, of course, the core experience, Going to a Show is also a great excuse to explore your city!

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So I guess for me the questions are (1) how much content gets out the door before Gunn leaves, and (2) whether he and/or the Ellisons have incentives to make a spectacle out of his departure.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ideally they'd let him just do his thing, but the DCU is way too big a line item, with way too much culture caché, that the new bosses are likely to remain hands-off. Seems likely to me that Gunn walks. Not immediately, but closer to sooner than later.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Curious to see what happens with James Gunn's DCU. On the one hand, he's been adept at balancing corporate, commercial, and artistic equities during his career. But, on the other, he seems like a guy with some core principles on which he is unwilling to compromise and which are out of alignment.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah you'd probably want to set up some boutique, wholly-owned bank in a jurisdiction with lax financial laws to hold the bulk of your assets, and only trickle what you need into mainstream institutions.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 06/10/2026

Big update at the link (www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...), but here's the tl;dr:

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🎵'cause I wanna be anarchy

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

archaeologist 3: as long as we can use both interchangeably in the field I'm down

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think we are owed a bigger apology.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the billionaires would like to avoid this tax, they need only reduce their wealth below one billion dollars. Obviously any donations and divestitures to reduce wealth would be subject to audit to ensure the former billionaire retains no control of, or access to, their former assets.

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Greer @thegreer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway my idea for a billionaire tax is that, six months after first becoming a billionaire--and assuming they remain a billionaire--we tax individuals 20% of height per annum. It'll be a progressive tax, so we'll start from the top.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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