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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe the Germans would let us host it in the original court.
Nuremberg court where the trials were held.
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To Live and Die in LA Confidential LA #NeoNoir are the best
Sound track
To live and Die in LA
Wang ChungLA Confidential movie poster
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vote early
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vote early
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy birthday from Dave, another Labrador retriever
Black lab with a birthday hat
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NOT VOTING IS NOT A PROTEST

IT IS A

SURRENDER

KEITH ELLISON
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

The midterms are not a month away.

The midterms are over in a month.

The election is NOW.

Make your plan.

Vote early.

Get all your friends, family, and neighbors to VOTE!
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"And much of Los Angeles wakes up with a mild depression, at first unsure why, and then gradually, awareness begins to dawn on the population."
Scene of City of LA
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bose is my solution. Charley and Rick are old friends.
Bose speaker tuned to MLB audio, and TV tuned to Dodgers game, muted
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Actually 26% humidity projected, "feels like" 96. Dew point 56 which is high for midday downtown LA. At 5pm 30% humidity and 92degrees. This chart is from the USC weather station up on the hill by Dodgers Stadium.
Weather chart for LA for Saturday
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dodger fans rooting for a 13 inning game tonight, using up all the pitchers. #Phillies #Braves And for an unexpected cooling trend for Dodgers Stadium on Saturday.
Crowd at Dodger Stadium.
Clouds visible
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Vote early
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vote early
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see AI 
You block AI

Retro block print drawing in black and red of 3 men with tools smashing old computer terminals with AI on the screen
Posted by LeoPrints of Belfast
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It rests on the shoulders of influential players. And while Elias and Albernaz are necessary in evolving the Orioles’ culture, they can’t do it without the players leading the way." Wow. This is why the Dodgers win. Leadership from the top that goes all the way to the minors.
Bassitt thinks he has the answer.

It rests on the shoulders of influential players. And while Elias and Albernaz are necessary in evolving the Orioles’ culture, they can’t do it without the players leading the way.

“I think players in this room have got to grab the reins and responsibility of what it takes to be a big leaguer who really wants to win,” Bassitt said. “When they do that, the minor leagues better follow, because if they don’t follow, it’s really easy to replace a minor leaguer. And honestly, to be quite frank, it’s really easy to replace a big leaguer, too, that doesn’t want to do stuff to help the team win.”
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, I forgot to add the photo! #birdoftheday #seabirds
Photo of gull on grass
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pulling Out the Pillar: Corporate Accountability Week of Action Oct. 3–11, 2026 Corporations are a pillar of the administration's anti-worker billionaire agenda. We're calling on corporations, CEOs, and local businesses to defend free and democratic elections. maydaystrong.org/corporate-we...
Crowds supporting worker rights
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone else noticed :
(comment on NYT article above)
Shaking
My Head · 
Sept. 23
Surprised that this article didn't reference Gil Duran's excellent new book The Nerd Reich - despite the fatous quotes about being "not a woke guy" and passing discussion of critiques of tech utopianism, the project is treated as merely silly.  Even without digging deep into the fascist, supremacist, eugenicist ideologies that animate current tech utopianism, there are plenty of questions that this piece could have delved into. 

What do Uruguay's politicians think of this project?  Who approved it?  What do locals think?  Who is getting paid?  Who is being offered work, and of what kind?  What *will* taxes look like for this city?  Citizenship?  How will water and electricity be supplied?  Which buildings in these architectural drawings are the barracks for cleaners, cooks, drivers, maintenance crew?  How/does this project relate at all to Thiel's choice to establish an escape hatch in South America?   

Please continue to report on these developments - tech oligarch money has been wreaking havoc on US democracy for years, and any other nation upon which they cast their eyes deserves the full force of our investigative power to understand what might be coming for them, too.


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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you see AI 
You block AI

Retro block print drawing in black and red of 3 men with tools smashing old computer terminals with AI on the screen
Posted by LeoPrints of Belfast
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you see AI 
You block AI

Retro block print drawing in black and red of 3 men with tools smashing old computer terminals with AI on the screen
Posted by LeoPrints of Belfast
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you see AI 
You block AI

Retro block print drawing in black and red of 3 men with tools smashing old computer terminals with AI on the screen
Posted by LeoPrints of Belfast
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
First time noticing this. #HowardJohnsons #Bell
Scene from 2001. Howard Johnson's
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who hears the dogs barking at Cincy? Also, someone is whistling and in their empty stand you can certainly hear the reverberation. #Dodgers v #Reds I could never take my dog to Dodger Stadium. He'd be too excited by all the people, other dogs and bits of food all over.
Black lab with orange ball
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here you go
bunch of mostly undressed chorus men from the musical All American
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Four months after spreading the false rumor on his show, (Pat) McAfee apologized and deleted a tweet featuring the clip of him talking about it; the video itself, however, is STILL UP on his YouTube channel.  But the damage had been done: Cornett was barraged by thousands of harassing texts..."

"Though McAfee did not state her name directly on air, his discussion of the trending topic to his millions of viewers heavily drove internet traffic toward identifying her. This TRIGGERED a barrage of DOXXING, abusive messages, death threats, and forced her into emergency housing for her safety."

https://www.wired.com/story/burnerverse-maddie-kowalski/
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe start with guys like Pat McAfee, Steve Sarkisian and Peyton Manning
"Four months after spreading the false rumor on his show, (Pat) McAfee apologized and deleted a tweet featuring the clip of him talking about it; the video itself, however, is STILL UP on his YouTube channel.  But the damage had been done: Cornett was barraged by thousands of harassing texts..."

"Though McAfee did not state her name directly on air, his discussion of the trending topic to his millions of viewers heavily drove internet traffic toward identifying her. This TRIGGERED a barrage of DOXXING, abusive messages, death threats, and forced her into emergency housing for her safety."

https://www.wired.com/story/burnerverse-maddie-kowalski/
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Natalie Harp with a huge bag
Natalie Harp with a huge bag
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's ALWAYS projection with Trump. "Trump's team accused Rupar of having a “creepy” fixation on the president’s executive assistant." Also Aaron wrote about #Harp carrying Trump's "huge diaper bag".
Natalie Harp with other trump family in Ireland
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@drjackbrown.bsky.social please look at Vance's entrance Arrogant
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the 585 page 9/11 Commission Report, collapse of WTC 7 is never mentioned. Principal conclusion of UAF study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 contrary to the one reached by NIST. Firefighters heard explosions along with advanced collapse warnings, hours before WTC 7 collapsed.
WTC 7 collapseWTC 7 collapseWhen scientifically measured, the video of the WTC 7 collapse shows uniform acceleration and actual freefall, which indicates zero resistance for the first 2.5 seconds of its descent. When challenged by other physicists and mathematicians, NIST was forced to admit in the final report that the building did indeed collapse in absolute freefall for 2.25 seconds of its descent. The building does not tip over, but suddenly releases and falls symmetrically straight down – and falls into its own footprint. (Images courtesy of NIST)
We all know what we are looking at in the videos, at least in qualitative terms, yet NIST initially denied WTC 7 underwent a freefall collapse.
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the 585 page 9/11 Commission Report, collapse of WTC 7 is never mentioned. Principal conclusion of UAF study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 contrary to the one reached by NIST. Firefighters heard explosions along with advanced collapse warnings, hours before WTC 7 collapsed.
Image 25 – When scientifically measured, the video of the WTC 7 collapse shows uniform acceleration and actual freefall, which indicates zero resistance for the first 2.5 seconds of its descent. When challenged by other physicists and mathematicians, NIST was forced to admit in the final report that the building did indeed collapse in absolute freefall for 2.25 seconds of its descent. The building does not tip over, but suddenly releases and falls symmetrically straight down – and falls into its own footprint. (Images courtesy of NIST)
We all know what we are looking at in the videos, at least in qualitative terms, yet NIST initially denied WTC 7 underwent a freefall collapse.

When challenged about the free-fall collapse by David Chandler, during an August 2008 technical briefing conference for members of the science and engineering community prior to the release of its final report, Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of the WTC 7 investigation, responded by stating:

“A free-fall time would be an object that has no structural components below it.”

But in the case of WTC 7, he claimed that their collapse analysis showed (according to their computer modeling) that the downward acceleration was 40% slower than free-fall.Wtc 7 freefall collapse Wtc 7 freefall collapse
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Love this thread. Grew up crossing the Mississippi and Platte on the Union Pacific, then later rafting on the Colorado, fishing at the start of the Santa Ana, watching the LA river go from trickle to deadly roar, and traveling on Main and Rhine where ancestors originated. Love the Russian River.
Trebur Germany on the Rhein
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👍 Sun goes down @ in 7 LA!
Pink clouds with Palm tree
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dodger fan here: it's not you. Orel and Davis are REALLY hard to listen to. Multiple reasons. That's why this:
Screenshot showing Reds Dodgers on KLAC AM 570 audio
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trump's fantasies of fascist control and war movies of his childhood: “The US Navy will lead the design, along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said, referring to new battleships called the Trump class. Historically speaking, battleships have been obsolete since at least 1921.
Trump proposal for an arch Proposed space force uniform. Man in black uniform"Is Trump taking US warships back to the WWII era?" With picture of aircraft carrierProjected design and capabilities of the USS Defiant (BBG-1), the first ship in the line of Trump-class battleships for the U.S. Navy. (U.S. Navy)
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
White Labrador with tabby cat
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes...from a nearby neighborhood just now
Pink sunset type clouds with palm trees in foreground
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Image of White House Plumbers on HBO Max
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My friend, there is help.
Screenshot showing list of audio choices for Nationals vs Dodgers on MLB app
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As I said before, they've played more than anyone over last 3 years.
178 games 2024  dodgers

Ohtani 731 76
Betts 516 75
Freeman 638 55
Rojas 337 11
Smith 544 65
Hernandez T 652 71
Pages 443 20
Hernandez 393 57
Muncy 293 67
Edmond 153 67

179 games 2025

Ohtani 727 84
Betts 663 81
Freeman 627 80
Rojas 317 20
Smith 436 66
Hernandez T 546 76
Pages 624 55
Hernandez 256 69
Muncy 388 68
Edmond 377 67

165 2024 Brewers 
171  2025


https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/PA_leagues.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/2025.shtml
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
⛔Scented cleaners can create nanoparticles that reach deep into lungs within minutes Steps to reduce exposure: Choose low-fragrance or fragrance-free products Avoid applying several scented products in same cleaning session Run exhaust fans or open windows to ventilate share.google/7MyoRO2A1OsC...
Cleaning the countertop inside a tiny house lab revealed that scented products produced high amounts of airborne nanoparticles within a few minutes. Credit: Brian Magnuson
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👀The report says the memorial arch is likely to disrupt the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned location at the Arlington Memorial Bridge, near what the service calls National Historic Landmarks, but describes those impacts as manageable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Artist renderings and diagrams for Donald Trump’s new triumphal arch released by the US Commission on Fine Arts that is planned to be built in Washington between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, photographed in April. Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just repeating Doyer Dennis 😉 and it was Sale, not team! Pretty impressive these days to go complete game against Dodgers. I think we are in a worse situation than last August. My theory is it's the effect of all the games played over last 3 years. Stephen, Rick? I'll take your answer off line..
Statistics of dodger plate appearances 2004 and 2005
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yep. 1 Milwaukee 2 Phillies 3 Chicago 4 Dodgers 5 Braves My theory is it's the cumulation of games we've played over last 3 years
List of games and played appearances of dodgers
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many posts like this with this much vitriol are now because
Draft Kings
Daily fantasy sports 
Numberfire
Sportsbook
Fan Duel
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yes, I see what you mean. And that reminds me of this guy.
Stephen Cheung in a blue suit
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yeah, but I don't ever believe Michael Wolff.
Fred Armisen as Michael Wolff, SNL
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My theory: Over last 2 years, as a team, #Dodgers had more games, 357, than any other in last 3 years. Brewers: 336 Ohtani, Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez have had a ton of plate appearances. This likely has an effect on performance. It doesn't explain how bad Tucker is or how Conforto was.
178 games 2024  dodgers

Ohtani 731 76
Betts 516 75
Freeman 638 55
Rojas 337 11
Smith 544 65
Hernandez T 652 71
Pages 443 20
Hernandez 393 57
Muncy 293 67
Edmond 153 67

179 games 2025

Ohtani 727 84
Betts 663 81
Freeman 627 80
Rojas 317 20
Smith 436 66
Hernandez T 546 76
Pages 624 55
Hernandez 256 69
Muncy 388 68
Edmond 377 67

165 2024 Brewers 
171  2025


https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/PA_leagues.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/2025.shtml
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dodgers players Ohtani, Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez have had a ton of plate appearances. Over last 2 years, as a team, #Dodgers had more games, 357 than any other in last 3 years. Brewers: 336 This likely has an effect on performance. It doesn't explain how bad Tucker is or how Conforto was.
178 games 2024  dodgers

Ohtani 731 76
Betts 516 75
Freeman 638 55
Rojas 337 11
Smith 544 65
Hernandez T 652 71
Pages 443 20
Hernandez 393 57
Muncy 293 67
Edmond 153 67

179 games 2025

Ohtani 727 84
Betts 663 81
Freeman 627 80
Rojas 317 20
Smith 436 66
Hernandez T 546 76
Pages 624 55
Hernandez 256 69
Muncy 388 68
Edmond 377 67

165 2024 Brewers 
171  2025
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amazon started as a book seller. But if you are still buying ANYTHING from #Amazon you are not only destroying books, but people. #BoycottAmazon
Amazon in a circle with a line going through
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