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Walter Smith 🦋💙

@waltersmith.bsky.social
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USian by Birth | Journalist by Schooling | Progressive by Choice Biracial Son of an Immigrant & Stalwart Champion of Justice & Equity for All! 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 #Handsoff #ChingaLaMigra #BlackLivesMatter #LoveIsLove #StandWithIndigenousPeoples

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here’s a handy writeup from the WSJ of the recently revealed spates of rogue AI behaviors.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stolen Valor by FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize receipient.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That day that Amazon's algorithms were really keen to let me know I was past due on pressure washing my patio.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Astrid is making great strides at learning to walk on a lead. After we wrap each training session, she gets to chill in her "place".
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hello World! Meet Astrid! This 3-month-old 20-lb bundle of love was found in a ditch a couple of weeks ago, but now has landed in her forever home. She may feel she won the lottery (we do own a couple of pet stores), but we know that we’re the ones that hit the jackpot!
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Please meet Astrid, our newest pack member. ❤️🐶
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Yet another tweet that aged poorly.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Yet another tweet that aged poorly.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
When the Harry Potter Universe intersects with Real Life ™
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
In the time a human could have gone from conception to birth, the world still awaits the arrival of the Trump Phone. After several missed availability dates in 2025, it seems that the currently touted "late March" timeframe is just as unlikely. Who thinks this thing will ship this month?
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Goodness, Sergey has certainly strayed from Google's founding mantra of "Do no evil".
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Why would any service provider set things up so its customers must pay before, during, and after?! #SoUSian
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I fully support regime change — in the US. Mr. Trump, pull up your drooping diaper and resign now.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Is it just me, or is this evening news every single day?
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
DefSec Pete was touting its new military AI availble to servicemembers. One of them decided to relaye a "hypothetical" missle strike on a boat and its subsequent surviors to get its assessment. "Unambiguously illegal" makes it pretty clear that these are extrajudicial killings.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is literally the visual representation of what the MAGA Right would like everyone to believe is happening in NYC because of the outcome of the mayoral race. #escapefromNYC #MamdaniWins
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Fettered no more, sweet angel. Run free from the burdensome weight of this mortal coil. You are so loved and will be missed for the rest of my days.🐶💔
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oh lawdy! Please let this be AI.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Being MAGA is such a PLMF — pretzel logic mind fuck.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This demented dotard loves to talk about himself in the third-person, but this is a case where he was also prognosticating his own future complicity.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Salmonberries are a common wild berry in the Pacific Northwest, thriving in coastal forests and along streams. They're an important food source for birds, bears & other wildlife, and have long been foraged by Indigenous peoples for food & medicinal uses. #PNW #forage #salmonberry #wildberry #flora
Rubus spectabilis
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Siena finds her light, June 2025. #iphone #photography #landscape #flora #flower #rhododendron #pink #pitbull #blacklab #doggo #sun #shadow #spring #summer #naturephotography #photooftheday #POTD #PNW
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Autumn Rain (PNW, October 2024) #PNW #iphone #outdoor #photography #tennis #leaves #rain #reflection #clouds #light
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
RIP, Loretta Swit. Thanks to your character’s brilliantly quick wit, you always kept those boys in the Swamp in line. Thanks for the laughs.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
On a beach not far from James Comey …
In an AI generated image of a sandy beach, shells are arranged to spell out PSALMS 109:8.

That Bible verse, as rendered in KJ21 is: “Let his days be few, and let another take his office.”
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The GOP media strategy in 3 easy steps.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
They’re def all in on the con. Here’s a slightly tweaked version of your image that puts hands on ears for the middle guy.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Liminal Light Stick, May 2025. #PNW #urban #landscape #iphone #photography #dusk #twilight #liminal #light #evening
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Siena finds cooling solace in the shade as the sun finally begins to warm the PNW — May 2025. #PNW #siena #dog #pitbull #blacklab #nature #iphone #photography #landscape #clouds #green #grass #field #forest
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hey Republicans! The world is watching. #TheMadnessOfDementiaDon
It's truly madness that the GOP wants to make real the notion of a Unitary Executive by propping up a dotard with dementia-induced executive dysfunction.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This demonstrate precisely why laws mandating people use restrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth are untenable. She was a CIS lesbian and was still mistreated. She was where she was supposed to be. These three people were all assigned female at birth too.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Jenny, don’t lose that number.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Wishes to all the Mothers out there, courtesy of Mr. T.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Tom Homan, T47's border czar, tried to clarify the WH's 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of US citizens to other countries. Oddly, the rhetoric hill he chose to die on was to insist that "deported" was the wrong word to use to since these children are US citizens. As you wish, Tom—𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Seems like an appropriate visual for this situation.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Seems like an appropriate visual for this situation.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I guess simple math is too hard for the head of DOGE. No wonder none of Elon's purported fraud and waste numbers are adding up correctly.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The exchange that T47 has with his staff makes clear that he didn’t participate at all in the creation of the Executive Order that he’s about to sign. This is way worst than any sort of autopen brouhaha.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Venn diagram of these two cohorts virtually overlaps completely.
Text Image says: Why is it that so many of the anti-DEI fanatics are exactly the same people that were loudly proclaiming that “All Lives Matter” only just a few years ago.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Sun sets on the waning days of this seaon's tulips. #PNW #landscape #iphone #photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #flora #floral #tulip #spring #goldenhour
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
GenAI imagines the darnedest things — herein is its idea of that fascistic sock-monkey of an advisor Stephen Miller. (NB: the AI I used literally overcame its content filtering by first generating this image THEN saying “I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that request.” Welcome to the Resistance!)
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Well done, you! Walking does the body & mind a world of good!
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bukele demostrates that his is just as adept as the Trump WH at being stupidly obstinate.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A man robbing a store at gunpoint is extrajudicial. A corporation hiding income offshore is extrajudicial. Masked men abducting people off the street and vanishing them to El Salvador is extrajudicial. And a White House that ignores court orders with a smirk and a shrug? That’s extrajudicial, too.
Stop Calling It a “Crisis.” Start Calling It What It Is.

A man robbing a store at gunpoint is extrajudicial.
A corporation hiding income offshore is extrajudicial.
Masked men abducting people off the street and vanishing them to El Salvador is extrajudicial.
And a White House that ignores court orders with a smirk and a shrug?

That’s extrajudicial, too.

We don’t need to debate whether this is a constitutional crisis.
We’re watching a government act outside the law — flagrantly, repeatedly, and without consequence.

You don’t need a law degree to recognize tyranny in a suit.
You just need a spine to say it out loud.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Did you read the abstract? Even the authors of your cited paper caution in the 1st para against interpreting genome-wide data on behavior, inc. intelligence, as ‘mostly genetic.’ They emphasize that behavioral traits are shaped by a mix of correlated traits, environment, and even sampling bias.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Don’t worry kids—a re-industrialized US will keep those toy aisles filled with solid alternatives to all the popular ones that used to be imported from China.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Panican-In-Chief
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Not all heros wear capes. "This is a moral moment.nIt is not left or right, it is right or wrong." #thisisamoralmoment
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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