It's your birthday, Duane.

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Morning walk pasture view.

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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

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They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Some nice pareidolia in this one.

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Thank you @matthaig.bsky.social for a little plan.

Even rocks are feeling existential angst just now

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

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This entire weekend

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Vincent van Gogh, "Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate)," 1890 krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...

Love this. By Sina Simbürger @sinxline.bsky.social This is part of a series/video on other platforms. I hope they will begin to publish on Bsky.

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#apod 2025-12-12 Northern Fox Fires Image Credit: Dennis Lehtonen Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251212.html#apod

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Here I thought it was just me!

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It was only a matter of time…

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. A Room With a View

Lovely sun shiny morning. Dogs thrilled to have some practice. Ewes enjoyed nibbling some of the remaining green grasses.

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In case you were in any doubt about how brilliantly ridiculous this cat is from the thread below, I thought I would post this exclusive video clip as absolute confirmation.

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All of this Everything by Andrea Gibson ❤️

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