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The Sightseer

@thesightseer.com
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Adventure traveler ⛵️ with an occasional joy for photography 📷 & constant craving to see the world🌏. ✈ #Travel #Wanderlust Currently In: NorCal SMF

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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 11/06/2026
So who else is having REALLY slow internet today? I would think its just me, but a couple clients have already off-handedly complained about their internet too.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 08/05/2026
Nothing is curing my data hoarding habits faster than big tech behaving badly and AI running amuck. Cannot delete shit fast enough.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 27/03/2026
Even if an ALL B1G Final 4 is still a long-shot, I am really counting on the Spoilermakers to beat Arizona Saturday.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 24/03/2026
Oh, goodie. Based on a phishing email I got to the email I only use for Quickbooks that tries to look like its from Intuit, I am gonna say that Intuit/Quickbooks got hacked recently.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 23/03/2026
B1G Teams understood the assignment.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 06/03/2026
Google AI cant tell the difference between "condo" and "condom", so that's not reassuring at all.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 04/02/2026
Never in a thousand years did I think I would exclaim "Yes!" over a response from Russia, but here we are.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 27/01/2026
Please let us know if you see more of this happening! You can submit pictures of removed signs (blank spaces) with information to saveoursigns.org We want to keep track of what is gone!
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 20/01/2026
Its getting impossible to enjoy football anymore.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 14/01/2026
Sigh, dealing with soooo much incompetence. Health insurers, retirement savings administrators, government agencies... dealing with mistakes by each today. the dumbification of our society is well on its way.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 02/01/2026
So I imagine the end game plan on the postmark rule is to instruct or manipulate the postal service to delay tens of thousands of mailed ballots in the coming elections since they cant as easily alter those.
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Michigan Clock 〽️ @michiganclock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Ohio State has not beaten Michigan in football for 2191 days. #GoBlue #Michigan #BeatOhio
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 27/11/2025
I'm loving the Dusty May era. WOW! #GoBlue #Bball
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 25/11/2025
Being in marketing and advertising, I have a front row seat to AI in advertising and its creeping me out. I pretty much assume every graphic and every tv ad is made with AI now, even (or especially) simple ones. I can't even post man-made ones without a platform trying to force AI versions on us.
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Michigan Clock 〽️ @michiganclock.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Ohio State has not beaten Michigan in football for 2185 days. #GoBlue #Michigan #BeatOhio
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 20/11/2025
This is the most horrifying development, but I can't say I didnt see it coming. I will NEVER exit my vehicle for a traffic stop. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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Michigan Clock 〽️ @michiganclock.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Ohio State has not beaten Michigan in football for 2180 days. #GoBlue #Michigan #BeatOhio
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 17/11/2025
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Now that so-so tickets are $600-800 and up for NCAA March Madness, something I used to love doing every year is now out-of-budget. They are running a "sale" ($30 off) for the first time I have ever noticed, so I cant be the only one.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 10/11/2025
NO.Empty.Promises
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/11/2025
NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon. This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/10/2025
If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
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Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun | ACLU
Deploying AI in inappropriate ways can and does get people hurt
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 24/10/2025
Found this useful tool @blocksky.app for mass blocking.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 24/10/2025
Just got the latest flyer from our local butcher. Beef in bulk (half a cow) is up almost double from just 3 1/2 years ago.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The surge of federal immigration agents to the Bay Area and threats to send the National Guard to SF are flagrant abuses of power intended to instill fear, target political opponents, and chill dissent. We all have constitutional rights when interacting with federal agents. Know your rights:👇🏾
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ACLU NorCal Condemns the Escalating Federal Force in Bay Area Cities, Advises Residents to Know Their Rights | ACLU of Northern CA
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.” @opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 19/10/2025
Block these accounts for your safety and sanity.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 15/10/2025
So the State of California website is unavailable (well, the www part at least) and I gotta wonder-- is it because they put up their OWN note about the failure of the President & Congress (like the fed websites blaming the Dems for the shutdown)
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 09/10/2025
Just saw the 2026 tax brackets and not gonna lie, they are seriously fucking with my outlook on life.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine by @jakescottMD A call to develop separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines to replace the combined MMR shot is not backed by evidence. Here are the facts. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 09/10/2025
Big Data #fail. I just got mail at my California home addressed to a Michigander who an entity I am associated with bought property FROM. i.e. the data link aint linking right (its not the first time I've seen this type of big data error, but the most inexplicably erroneous)
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 08/10/2025
I don't know when they added this disgusting messaging and abuse of power, but as someone who keeps up health topics for a client site, I can tell you these pages were NOT on the CDC back in February.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 03/09/2025
Grateful to be a Californian. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
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California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 03/09/2025
I can't even. Not today
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2025
Happening tonight! There’s still time to sign up and join us for our August Action Call.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 22/08/2025
I have been trying my best to alter my language based on locality. This is really no different from speaking a foreign language or dialect when you're in a country or region that generally speaks another language than your default. In California, any of these words are OK, in Michigan, nearly NONE.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/08/2025
The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 15/08/2025
Always amused when a spammer takes the tact of "you wouldn't be a good fit anyway" or "you're doing it wrong" (after being ignored with the 100 other business spams I get daily). Are their really actual business owners that respond well to these tactics? Whatev
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Weakest UMich consumer sentiment since May.
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 15/08/2025
Wow, why can't all TOS and Community Guidelines be as assessible and understandable as BlueSky's?
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 13/08/2025
Just read a Business Insider article about "Quiet Cracking" where employees suffer in silence. As if this is new LOL Just another decade in corporate America...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 31/07/2025
🚨Trump’s Treasury Secretary just said it: they are trying to privatize Social Security🚨
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Treasury Secretary Says Trump Accounts Could Pave Way to Privatizing Social Security
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Study finds no safety issues with most recent mRNA COVID vaccines The mRNA COVID vaccine used this past season showed no elevated risk of any of the 29 serious adverse events assessed www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: World Bank / Flickr cc
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The Sightseer @thesightseer.com · 30/07/2025
Tell me something I don't know. Fake economic numbers, fake experts, fake science findings, fake court appointees, fake news... everyone needs a crash course in Critical Thinking.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"In other words, almost a third of the prices going into the CPI at the moment are guesses based on other data collections in the CPI." - Apollo/Slok www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...
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The Quality of CPI Data Continues to Deteriorate - Apollo Academy
To calculate CPI inflation, BLS teams collect approximately 90,000 price quotes every month covering 200 different item categories, and there...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/07/2025
Separation of church and state....????
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a box of popcorn and says this is going to be a disaster .
Alt: Stephen Colbert in a suit and tie is holding a box of popcorn and says, "this is going to be a disaster".
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Really fascinating reporting suggesting even more undisclosed third-country removals, often involving small charter jets with a few people on board.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/07/2025
The federal government’s plan to catalogue the data of everyone in America is an assault on our right to privacy and free speech.
A blue graphic with light green and white text that reads: “Data Silos, Dossiers, And Surveillance: How President Trump’s Plan to Centralize our Data Puts Our Civil Liberties at Risk.” In the background is an image of businesspeople walking on the sidewalk, wearing business formal clothing, with an overlay of light blue computer code. The ACLU logo is featured in light green in the bottom left corner. A light green arrow and the word “swipe” are featured in the bottom right corner.
A blue graphic with light green and white text that reads: “In March, under the guise of “combating fraud and waste,” President Trump ordered federal agencies to consolidate the information they have about each of us and make it available across the federal government. This move could allow the government — and the shadowy tech companies they’re partnering with — to spy on us like never before.” Below this text is a graphic with a green image of public surveillance cameras, and blue images of people walking in the background. The ACLU logo is featured in light green in the bottom left corner. A light green arrow and the word “swipe” are featured in the bottom right corner.



A blue graphic with light green and white text that reads: “By creating a centralized repository of our data, the government is essentially compiling detailed dossiers on anyone in the U.S. who interacts with it. These records will include our: employment records, social security numbers, political donations, firearm records, fingerprints.” To the right of this text is a green graphic of a fingerprint, and a blue graphic of a blank social security card. The ACLU logo is featured in light green in the bottom left corner. A light green arrow and the word “swipe” are featured in the bottom right corner.



A blue graphic with light green and white text that reads: “Data consolidation opens the floodgates for potential misuse, clearing the way for government employees to access data far beyond what’s needed for their jobs and share our data between agencies with little constraint or oversight. It will also increase the risk of cybersecurity incidents and result in inaccuracies that delay or deny benefits, wrongly flag people for investigation, and waste taxpayer resources.” Below this text is a green graphic of a finger tapping a screen, hitting a lock key on the device. The ACLU logo is featured in light green in the bottom left corner. A light green arrow and the word “swipe” are featured in the bottom right corner.
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