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Keep learning, keep exploring. Outdoor wanderer, tech nerd, warden of old Toyota 4x4s and a dog. Making one connection at a time.

Oregon, USA
Joined December 2007
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Already 12 dead. Over 60 injured. This is an act of terror. This is insane. Photos: Valentyn Reznichenko / Hromadske
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โ€œYouโ€™re the commander of this zone?โ€ Grek asked. โ€œMe?โ€ the soldier said. โ€œIโ€™m just a dancer.โ€ His name was Vitaliy, and before the war heโ€™d belonged to a Ukrainian folk-dance ensemble. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/โ€ฆ
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This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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Glad all those excess tax dollars over the past few years have been wisely put to use, just when we could use decent road info. Thanks, ODOT.
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All women banned from university in Afghanistan, Taliban says - further restricting the rights of girls and women to education bbc.in/3hCo7a3
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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 1,113,307 Covid deaths plus an armed insurrection thanks to Trumpโ€™s malevolence: They cheered, and want America to move on.
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Salem now. Temp dropped a few degrees, holding at 41F. Cell moving NE. @Zaffino @NWSPortland
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Linus has made the world a little better. This thing feels so good in the hand and the ratchet action is light and confident. Cheers @LinusTech lttstore.com/products/screwdโ€ฆ
Why couldn't he have done this, but with Facebook instead? #RIPTwitter
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Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
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My name is Nabeela Syed. Iโ€™m a 23-year old Muslim, Indian-American woman. We just flipped a Republican-held suburban district. And in January, Iโ€™ll be the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly.
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The GoP in Texas has been in power since 1995, 27 years. All of their ads are saying "vote for us so we can fix everything that is broken in Texas". Again, they have been in power for 27 years had have fixed ZERO.
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go vote, shitbirds
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Ukrainians are dying every day to preserve their right to vote. You have no excuse not to vote tomorrow.
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I always forget Elon is short for Watermelon
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pro tip: don't take advice on who to vote for from billionaires
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Or maybe a billionaire-fueled propaganda channel that regularly generates high volumes of death threats to elected officials while pumping propaganda for an extreme right-wing that openly embraces fascism is whatโ€™s creating โ€œthe environment where it happenedโ€
McCaul: When you let dangerous criminals out on the streets with bail and not put them in prison, you're asking for this incident to happen. I think it created the environment where it happened
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Must be nice.
Shell will buy back $4 billion worth of shares and increase its dividend by 15% after posting another gigantic quarterly profit thanks to strong oil and gas prices cnn.it/3DbCI2H
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