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boelder

@boelder@shakedown.social

Native Texan,
expatriated Californian,
AntiFa AF,
Central Texas (until we can leave),
 alum,
IT by day, IT by night,
Jedi,
⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️
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I've got Phish tour shirts older than some of you people

Following scientists, historians, journalists, 🍎folks, phans, & real people.

Press your spaceface close to mine, love.

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SourceRolls, to random

OMG I have unlocked a dangerous secret

boelder,
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@SourceRolls

I'd buy these in the lot, fuck I might pay extra for the crunchy ones.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law

😆😭😡🤣
(went for emojis as lost for words!)

https://newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law

boelder,
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@pvonhellermannn

He'll live long enough to see coastal FL go under water. These people are actively preventing the world from staying under 2.5C ... they're evil.

boelder, to random
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This is pretty wild to me, as a citizen who lives in Texas, whose Governor prefers to use the enormous amount of money Texas has in the bank (from taxing its citizenry) on putting up barbed wire into the Rio Grande river and hasn't given teachers in this state a raise since 2019.

President Zelenskyy has more leadership in his pinky nail than Governor Abbott has in his entire upper body.

Would Abbott build underground schools for Texans during war?

No.
Fucking.
Way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1csrxqk/hundreds_of_children_began_lessons_this_week_in/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"While belief in has waned a bit nationally, 90% of Floridians still believe it’s real, according to a recent survey by Atlantic University.

Most Floridians — nearly 70% — want both the state and federal governments to do more to address climate change, the study found."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/14/90-of-floridians-think-climate-change-is-real-much-higher-than-across-the-u-s/

boelder,
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@CelloMomOnCars

"So why are they voting for Trump?"

Because they are in a cult. They need deprogramming.

boelder, to random
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I'm happy to report that this sweet girl has had a pretty good week. Great appetite, drinking lots of water ... hoping we have a lot more time, but we'll take as much we can get, as long as she isn't in pain, and has some quality of life.

boelder, to random
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As an IT manager, I get a lot of calls about products companies want me to buy. I've noticed a trend now that these security products all have 'AI' in their name. A dude drop by my school, unannounced yesterday, to tell me about his company's product. Kept making sure to emphasize the 'AI' in the product's name. I listened to his pitch, and once he was done, I told him that anything with AI in the name makes my eyes glaze over and he could send me an email about it. He did bring donuts, though.

boelder,
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@mrcompletely

It's a good point... I'll keep that in mind (when my eyes aren't glazed).

boelder, to random
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With the hyper-directional speaker system in The Sphere, I wonder if Phish is gonna fuck with fans ...

"Hey, hey .. you there... yeah, you in section 105, row 22, seat 9. I don't want to alarm you, but everyone knows you're on acid. Yeah, everyone. Stop looking around, I'm inside your head. This is your life now, I'm here with you now ... forever..."

Have fun tonight and this weekend everyone! Don't listen to that voice in your head!

boelder, to random
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Don't take investing advice from people like this...

I think they call tweets like this 'aged milk'...

boelder, to random
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We saw Madonna last night, and it was good. Say what you will about her, I think she's got a pretty good heart. A part of her show pays tribute to friends/artists lost to AIDS. The number of incredibly talented people who died in the mid-80s to the mid-90s from this disease boggles the mind. Art and culture took a huge hit.

Millennials and GenZ really have zero understanding of how it was to live in a time where sex could absolutely kill you, and now where we are denied so much incredible art.

arstechnica, to random
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Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musks-x-botched-an-attempt-to-replace-twitter-com-links-with-x-com/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

boelder,
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@arstechnica

I guess this is what happens when you fire all the competent people, and have an incompetent person in charge of directing the remaining incompetent people.

makkhorn, to news
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Sounds so reasonable on paper

Until you get to the part where you literally can’t own your own body..

boelder,
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@makkhorn

57% of Republicans are fine with a dictatorship

56% are fine with a dictatorship

52% want a dictator

These people have lost the plot.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Back in 2017 my girlfriend and I took my daughter and two of my girlfriends god-children with us to Oregon to see the 2017 eclipse.

We spent the night in the field of farm that was renting out spots to view the eclipse.

Here's a video of the eclipse seen through a lens specifically made for eclipse's. You can hear how completely in awe I was of how beautiful it was.

A white halo surrounds a black hole in a black sky.

boelder,
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@Mrfunkedude

We flew up to Portland and drove an hour or so south to Silverton.

It was absolutely stunning. Barely a minute and 40 seconds or so, but it felt like longer. I am hoping for a break in the clouds/rain on Monday when we'll get over four minutes of totality. We'll drive about 20 miles west from our house, otherwise we'd only get about 3 minutes.

I cannot imagine totality being that long!

BigAngBlack, to california
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sheriff’s deputies kill 17-year-old boy with mental health issues

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/california-sheriff-deputies-kill-teenage-boy

> Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a month

boelder,
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@BigAngBlack

"...[b]ut when the boy threatened to harm himself, deputies kicked down the door..."

Oh no you don't, little boy - WE do the harming here! --The cops

Never call the cops for mental health issues. They only know how to kill, they're not healthcare professionals. They never improve the situation. They're killers with itchy trigger fingers and an insatiable blood lust.

ACAB

boelder, to random
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2nd Amendment ammosexuals here in the United States, who have this fantasy belief system that revolves around having an AR-15 to protect themselves against The Gubbment should take a lesson as to what is happening right now in Gaza. When a far superior force wants to inflict their will upon you, death will come from above, from planes that cost 60M dollars delivering their laser-sighted 1000 pounds of explosives to your doorway, leveling your entire apartment building (or shack, or whatever).

boelder,
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@mrcompletely

I fear this is a lot closer to the truth of the matter... They say they fear the gubbment, but they really fear their neighbors.

boelder, to threads
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I invite everyone to block and report this dangerous individual, and his democracy-busting companies.

‌block

shoq, to random
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I refer to them privately as the “opportunistically offended.”

Source: @msbellows
https://mastodon.social/@msbellows@c.im/112112221966343516

boelder,
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@msbellows @shoq @paninid @lakelady

I am 100% sure you cannot define neoliberalism.

boelder, to random
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I, for one, welcome our young Swiftie feminist overlords. Couldn't be worse than what's going on right now, right?

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Can we please bring back intermissions at movies that go three hours or more?

My bladder would be highly appreciative.

boelder,
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@Mrfunkedude

The first movie I saw in a theater with an intermission was The Right Stuff. Was seeing it with my Dad, and really had no idea such a thing existed.

Fun fact about The Right Stuff: the first voice you hear in the movie, the narrator, is The Band's Levon Helm. He plays Chuck Yeager's friend Jack Ridley, who gives him a requested stick of Beemans before he made his historic flight breaking the sound barrier (and one more pivotal part of the film).

boelder, to random
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Non-violence is great, but have you tried punching Nazis?

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm gonna be honest y'all, it's felt dark lately, and for good reason, LGBTQ+ rights in the balance, an election coming up, women struggling to get basic Healthcare, mass shootings, SCOTUS, the environment. The list goes on and on, and the media twists everything to sound even worse, or just straight up ignores actual news. But here's the thing, I know a lot of you, and the fact that you exist in the world gives me hope. You care about the future and you want good things, and so do I, and as long as that spark is there, we have hope. So, let's focus on some good today! Share a good headline, some positive news either on a larger scale or just something personal, a nice picture you took, a funny meme or video, whatever made you feel good or at least, gave you a smile. Let's share some joy!

boelder,
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@RickiTarr

Our swallows have returned from down south. Really early this year.

We were going to knock down their existing nest this weekend and force them to build fresh, as this nest is 5 seasons old and is small, but I was watching our doorbell camera today, and ... well, it's too late. We noticed a dead chick on the ground under the nest from last year this past weekend, so I guess they've been here a few days, and are already prepping the nest for the season.

boelder, to random
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I'm just a white heterosexual cis dude (I'm the last they'll come after), but you people better wake up and get registered to vote if you care about the girls and women in your life, your gay friends, your trans friends. Every day it's something. Today, with the personhood of embryos. These fuckers will give rights to embryos but take away the rights you have right now (equal access to marriage, healthcare, and more). This is not the time to sit idle. Get registered, get your friends registered.

boelder,
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It's not a time to hem and haw about Biden, either. Or, about Democrats, in general. There is only one side that is trying to make life incredibly difficult for a SUBSTANTIAL portion of our society: Republicans. Get in your car, take the subway or a bus, ride your bike, walk or fucking crawl to your voting location in November and VOTE for people who AREN'T actively trying to make people YOU care about (yourself included) have more difficult lives.

Go vote. Do it. We are all counting on you.

futurebird, to random
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Cop gets hit by an acorn, two cops fire all their shots at handcuffed suspect in a car. (who was just searched?)

No shots hit him. So layers of incompetence cancel each other out a little here.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/florida-cop-mistakes-falling-acorn-for-gunshots-shoots-up-his-patrol-car.html

boelder,
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@futurebird

And they can be set off by acorns.

They will empty their guns over an acorn.

Acorns.

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