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Barbra Hooley Downstown

@witd.bsky.social

Disappointed optimist. Maker of middling artifice. Impeccable house-cat.

198 Followers  |  339 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 05.12.2024  |  2.1295

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Thales of Miletus | Thales Markets Documentation The story of Thales, the first known person to exercise an options contract.

Olive oil started the options market. Some banker. docs.thalesmarket.io/thales-of-mi...

28.01.2026 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There are a few of us who are old enough to remember everyone in the Obama White House and in liberal media defending Obama's failures by insisting that he didn't have the power to do any of the big things he promised.

Trump's second term rampage of executive power shows what a total lie that was.

08.01.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

The church doors never used to be locked. Now they all have Ring Cams because of looters like Homunculus.

15.11.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
4 cartoon members of Kidd video

4 cartoon members of Kidd video

11.11.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve taken to asking whilst the thing be charging, β€œHow smart are you, phone?"

07.11.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

26.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 15224    πŸ” 2534    πŸ’¬ 359    πŸ“Œ 321

decimated the dewey king

26.10.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a surprising? trend

26.10.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1.75m is a rounding error, a point of pride on an earnings call

22.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Q: "Have you ever purchased anything in a Cannabis Shop?"
Mamdani: "I have purchased marijuana."
Cuomo: No.
Sliwa: "I was shot 5 times, I have Crohn's disease, I did use medical marijuana."

17.10.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 10

Quite the opposite, infuriatingly.

06.10.2025 06:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ferme la bouche, or something better?

19.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walking the goose in Eastmoreland. #pdx

17.08.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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12.08.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 571    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Smells Like Teen Spirit
YouTube video by The Bad Plus - Topic Smells Like Teen Spirit

Their cover of flim by aphex twin is often used in NPR interstitials. youtu.be/XFxaG2lFrOE?...

03.08.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ

30.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gravestone saying bartman.

Gravestone saying bartman.

Mine had his own dance

27.07.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Found it.

26.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1641    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 18

I, as a noise musician, ask that you chew with your mouth closed

24.07.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œGaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian president Gustavo Petro at The Hague Group Summit

19.07.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

I think it’s great that the main invention of the tech industry this decade is a climate killing automated nonsense machine that makes people cognitively stupider by using it and all of the corporate world is relying on it to eliminate jobs (while they kill off any remaining social safety net)

09.07.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 772    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 12
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Portland

02.07.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Map showing Dildo, Broad cove, South Dildo, and Spread eagle Canada

Map showing Dildo, Broad cove, South Dildo, and Spread eagle Canada

Oh Canada

02.07.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time traveler: Mr Gates no stop if you invent Windows you will only make 999 million dollars in the future due to wealth taxes

1985 Bill Gates: wow well nevermind I guess

30.06.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 672    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4
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Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years | The National A Swedish actor, who stole a copy in 1980, plans to release The Day The Clown Cried, saying 'it must be seen'

Sometimes it's nice to know that someone is less self aware than I am. Most of the time no. www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

29.06.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching a bunch of social media drones ask AI whether a strike on another country devoid of reason or legality was the right thing to do is kind of the whole ballgame.

Just a collapsing empire on disastrous cruise-control, going a thousand miles an hour toward a cliff and burning up the atmosphere

22.06.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
A blurry photo of a cute? orange Persian cat mugging at the camera on his sit bone, rear legs splayed, tail like that of a kite.

A blurry photo of a cute? orange Persian cat mugging at the camera on his sit bone, rear legs splayed, tail like that of a kite.

This is Fleurny, currently and oftentimes, a carpet blender

19.06.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ

03.06.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tldr. I lost my ass

24.05.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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