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Michael

I don’t know what I’m doing. My ADHD may be officially diagnosed and medicated (after age 60; go figure), but you’d never know it by looking at my feed. You’ll get a sense of who I am by what I post. There’s no logic, but there are patterns. Far-left politics, too many selfies (mostly showing how I’m aging ungracefully), some travel pics (I’m mostly shuttling between Pittsburgh and Arizona to see in-laws), and some gay stuff (all SFW). Nature stuff. Enjoy the ride.

More on today’s protests of Trump et al. in Pittsburgh. I’m only surprised Fetterman wasn’t here to parrot Trump talking points.

https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2025-07-15/hundreds-gather-to-protest-trump-fossil-fuel-dependence-during-energy-summit

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And from the WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from ProPublica today:

"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."

"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."

"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-15

The Course of Empire: Destruction. Cole Thomas, 1836.

A painting in the Neo-Classical style shows buildings on fire with smoke filling the air. On the right, a statue of a warrior presides over scenes of chaos. The effect is that of a world being destroyed.

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📷 Mums.

#FediversalPictures #Bloomscrolling

flower shop. close up of a bunch of flowers with many purple and white petals and yellow centers

Fuck ICE.
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114859037167262767

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Supreme Court Conservatives Tell Trump He Can Destroy the Education Department, as a Treat

#EducationPolicy #EducationDepartment #AbolishED #PoliticalTreat #SCOTUS

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/supreme-court-conservatives-tell-trump-he-can-destroy-the-education-department

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An Iconic NASA Probe Is at Threat of Being Shut Down Due to Trump Cuts

#OuterSolarSystemResearch #SpaceExplorationAtRisk #TrumpBudgetImpact #NASAProbeShutdown #NASABudgetCuts

https://gizmodo.com/an-iconic-nasa-probe-is-at-threat-of-being-shut-down-due-to-trump-cuts-2000629429

anyway, here’s some clouds.

different kinds of clouds over a highway on a hot summer afternoon.

Fuck Carnegie Mellon University and all of Trump’s willing enablers.

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Aldabra Tortoise
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

#Photography #missouri #saintlouis #stlouis #zoo #stlzoo #tortoise #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto

A head shot of a large Aldabra Tortoise with detail showing the many folds in the mud covered skin.

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Friends of a Feather Flock Together
Great Egret and Flamingos
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

#Photography #missouri #stlouis #saintlouis #zoo #stlzoo #bird #flamingo #egret

A Great Egret sits on a fall tree trunk above two flamingos resting on one leg in a lake at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Because the internet is about cats.
https://mastodon.world/@funhouseradio/114853766099160569

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The current breakaway leader in the Tour de Nap 🚴

A white and ginger cat lies flat in perfect alignment with a bicycle sign on the pavement either for a cycle lane or bike parking

I don’t have a pink or black one, but here’s me with my blue Eiffel Tower dildo. It was a gift, in case you’re wondering.

A man sits behind a coffee table. On the coffee table is a blue dildo in the form of the Eiffel Tower. On top of the dildo is a Hershey’s Kiss.

@Heliograph Vive la France! Vive l’amour!

Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate. And what better way to celebrate than a pair of Eiffel Tower dildos?

A pink and a black dildo, both in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, sit on their display boxes. The pink dildo on the left is slightly larger than the black dildo on the right. I do not own either of them.

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Juste après l’orage: un champ de blé fraîchement moissonné est éclairé par le soleil. Plus loin, un arbre étend son ombre sur le champ. Au fond, le ciel est assombri par de gros nuages noirs qui se dirigent à droite vers le lac.

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0.12633565144377068 + -0.5915681944111258i at zoom 1.0579721930e+05.

A render of the mandelbrot set using randomised colours. The centre point is 0.12633565144377068 + -0.5915681944111258i and we are zoomed to 1.0579721930e+05 magnitude.

New Hampshire Fish & Game Officer Richard Crouse. Screen capture from Animal Planet’s “North Woods Law”.

A man wearing a green baseball cap and green uniform speaks to the camera.

Looks like an American version of the Soviet Ekranoplan, but flies differently.
https://mastodon.world/@DestinationsJourney/114848215845594154

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