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Meg-han

@therealmegjon.bsky.social
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Maryland transplant living in Oakland, CA (via MA & NYC). Big fan of night herons, trains, O's & Ballers baseball, pinball, walkable cities, and street design. Getting my Masters in Library & Information Science, probably as a result of a midlife crisis.

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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Nooooo lol my kangaroo and platypus choices are not aging well. I had both of them making it through a few more rounds 😭
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Also a chickadee ate sunflower seeds out of my hand
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Winter bird Count 2024
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Currently doing the Christmas Bird Count at Lake Merritt and quickly realizing I'm way out of my element here lol. But I'm learning so much from these way more experienced bird watchers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024
i’ll say that RFK is the guy that genuinely frightens me because i think he would happily let as many people suffer and die as it took for him to feel vindicated about his beliefs. a totally amoral person who doesn’t seem to believe that other minds exist.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Haha yeah we were wondering if he had spotted the cat in our window and thought she looked tasty 😅 He seems to be just napping in the tree currently. He's been there for over 2 hrs now!
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 09/12/2024
As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
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Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations
The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
There is apparently a great horned owl hanging out in the tree outside my apt right now.
Great horned owl sitting on tree branch surrounded by green and yellow leaves
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander. And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
After securing a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2022, Republican justices promptly overturned a ruling that had struck down GOP gerrymanders, paving the way for their party’s lawmakers to draw a new map designed to hand them several congressional districts. By then, Democrats already had no recourse outside of state courts: This U.S. Supreme Court has shut the door on complaints of partisan gerrymandering proceeding in federal courts.

The maneuver paid off last week. The GOP flipped three U.S. House seats, a windfall in light of that chamber’s tiny overall margin.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The funny thing about the people who write articles about echo chambers is that they were never, ever willing to debate anyone on Twitter. They just wanted to tell everyone how to think
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Return
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thankful for mass transit and good friends.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Veera watching over the Thanksgiving meal.
A cat looking through a staircase
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's bleak
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wore my BART sweater today, and I think this is why the transit gods blessed me. Took 2 BART rides and 2 MUNI rides, and never waited more than 2 min at any point, even without looking at the transit times on the way into SF! Truly a holiday miracle.
A cropped, blurry photo of a woman wearing a jean jacket with Divine and Ballers pins over a bart holiday sweater.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This! Also, that scroll helps them make a few dollars off of the recipe you're getting for free that we used to have to use cookbooks to get. Like, go spend money on supporting cookbook authors or stop complaining!
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Look, if cranberries can be weird and bitter and still liked by roughly half the people at Thanksgiving dinner, then so can you!
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Do not under any circumstances buy into the myth of a mandate or the idea that "everything has changed."
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
They're called Downhill Jam and play mostly in SoCal. They're a lot of fun and here's them singing Dead Kennedy's with Tony Hawk. www.instagram.com/reel/C63ARDT...
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Last year I went to see a cover band that was entirely Tony Hawk Skater video game songs so I can confirm a few 20- something zoomers did at least
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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is ridiculous. Dead salmon hats are classic if you wear them the right way
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Me but with Southern Comfort.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Dinosaurs at an ancient tidal lagoon
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
To be clear, the correct response to these poll numbers for Dems isn't "turn right on immigration," it's "make a vigorous effort to sell the public on why this is a destructive idea"
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Whenever this happens to me, I start texting my friends with, "look at me being a baller getting a private ride in a $500k vehicle" and then they all let out a collective groan lol
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The clouds over Lake Merritt yesterday were perfect.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 24/11/2024
A party of Jonah Ryans.
Screenshot from the HBO TV show, “Veep,” that says “Ryan takes aim at Muslim math.”
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Rainy day night heron
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I've had enough exposure to right wing ideas to last me a lifetime. I wish I was in an echo-chamber, maybe then I wouldn't have had a cousin tell me I was a leech on society when I had to go on food stamps for a while during the 2009 recession bc my 4 jobs weren't paying me enough to survive.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I grew up in a 99% white town that votes 80% GOP. when my dad ran for a local office as a Dem, my hometown's mayor (who is also my cousin's FIL) sent around a letter saying my dad was a communist. Like, those people are in an echo-chamber.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The echo-chamber discourse is fascinating to me, bc it always goes one way. My cousins literally were homeschooled so they wouldn't have to learn about evolution, sex ed, or be around anyone who might be gay. Talk about an echo-chamber.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Going on 22 years of celebrating Buy Nothing Day! (But seriously, we all should be consuming less junk for a myriad of reasons, the climate being one of them)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/11/2024
Same person
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not going to let myself go full doomer, but also, this is very bad!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/11/2024
It should be emphasized just how obscene the Gaetz nom is. He's unqualified, unfit, & was recently investigated for sex trafficking. He faces accusations of paying for sex & sexual misconduct w/ a minor. That there's even a chance he gets confirmed as the top law enforcement official is shameful.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Storms a brewin'
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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it Every Heron you love, Every Heron you know, Every Heron you ever heard of, Every Heron who ever was, lived out their lives... #PaleBlueDot 🌍
Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it Every Heron you love, Every Heron you know, Every Heron you ever heard of, Every Heron who ever was, lived out their lives...

every hunter & forager, every hero & coward, every creator of nests, every young couple in love, every mother & father, hopeful chick, inventor & explorer, every teacher of morals in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

@EveryHeron after Carl Sagan
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/11/2024
30 days left to figure out how to fund the government past the end of the year btw
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A video from Senators Sanders & Van Hollen as they and other Dems introduce a resolution calling for the end of providing certain arms to Israel today — which will likely fail.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I don't remember a lot of the details of this show but I do vaguely remember it being so unhinged and loving it at the time.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Omg need to go to this next time I'm in DC!!
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just realized that's not an MLB official acct, that I tagged, lol oh well.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Was just looking through my baseball photos from this past summer and stumbled upon a bunch of A's game photos, and now I'm sad/angry again that the @mlb.bsky.social let John Fisher steal this team from Oakland.
Photo of Oakland Coliseum 2 hrs before the final game that the Oakland A's played at the stadium. Night photo of the Oakland Coliseum field, the last night game the Athletics played at the Coliseum. A man holding a sign that says, "Don't take away her stomper," referring to his young daughter (or of frame), second sign is unreadable due to my phone's exposure. Oakland Coliseun field is in the background. I think this photo is from the Reverse Boycott game in 2023. A man in an Oakland A's jacket and baseball cap holding a sign that says, "John Fisher Rob Manfred Hate Baseball" with a picture of John Fisher wearing a clown nose and Manfred with a clown wig and nose.
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Meg-han @therealmegjon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Some more photos from last season of the Ballers. The guy in the last photo was hyping up the crowd, he was great. Can't wait for baseball season to start again!
A kid standa on the denze to look out over the Ballers' baseball game towards the end of the game. It's night time with some glare from the stadium lights. BARTmobile race on the Ballers' field as players stand around. Oakland/Berkeley hills and two warehouses in the background, one with a giant B.Ballers' baseball field at sunset with clouds in the sky and 4 colorful warehouses in the background. Older gentleman with a baseball cap yelling at the crowd to cheer with a woman standing up in an Oakland jersey and someone's hand in the foreground. Some baseball players are in the background.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/11/2024
"We shouldn’t be surprised by people like Jared Polis complying in advance. But we should also be very clear: anyone who suggests that RFK Jr. running HHS is anything but a monumental, catastrophic disaster is a liar, a fool, or quite possibly both."
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RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat
Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise.
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Bird's Eye View - An Orioles Podcast @birdseyeviewbal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just gonna accept this as reality
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