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Kevin Newman

@owldown.bsky.social

I like phonics.

83 Followers  |  122 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 17.11.2024  |  1.7131

Latest posts by owldown.bsky.social on Bluesky

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

04.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7741    πŸ” 1200    πŸ’¬ 332    πŸ“Œ 60

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

02.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 40888    πŸ” 9162    πŸ’¬ 808    πŸ“Œ 319
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Incredible β€” Elon: β€œGirls FTW!”

Then Ghislaine & Epstein tell him no more parties 😬

31.01.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2333    πŸ” 777    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 120

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

30.01.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9506    πŸ” 2172    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 55

Especially produce! Like, how many days worth of produce do people think is sitting on the shelves? There might be a pallet of extra Shake n Bake in the back warehouse, but they aren't stockpiling a weeks worth of lettuce.

23.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It belongs in a museum.

07.02.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jason Kottke on his shifting focus to covering the U.S. coup: it's hard to keep posting fun creative projects while your country is being gutted, but I'll keep going until I can't anymore https://kottke.org/25/02/a-pro...

05.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke β€” it’s lifesaving.

now that's how you write a headline

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

06.02.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5247    πŸ” 1498    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 45

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

06.02.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5247    πŸ” 2685    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 192
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Conservative writer who accused drag queens of "grooming" kids arrested for child molestation - LGBTQ Nation The self-professed Christian philosopher was arrested for molesting a child under the age of 12.

Every single time.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/cons...

06.02.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3470    πŸ” 849    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 83
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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a β€œeugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, β€œYou could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

06.02.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 23800    πŸ” 6588    πŸ’¬ 1503    πŸ“Œ 1256

I’ve been very impressed with Severance but wow tonight’s episode was a big deal. Like Twin.Peaks.S03.08.1080p.mkv big deal.

07.02.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump To Victims’ Families: β€˜I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’ WASHINGTONβ€”Pledging to restore racial purity to the nation’s aviation programs, President Donald Trump assured the families of American Eagle Flight 5342 victims on Friday that he was doing everything...

The Onion has been -really- good lately.

04.02.2025 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chat GPT request: Name the US states that contain the letter q

Answer: The only US states that contains the letter β€œQ” is New Mexico

Chat GPT request: Name the US states that contain the letter q Answer: The only US states that contains the letter β€œQ” is New Mexico

Sure it had to drain an entire freshwater lake to get this answer, but you have to admit it’s worth it

19.01.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5
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Two years after Covenant, students march at the TN capitol in renewed push for gun reform The shooting at Antioch High School has reignited calls for gun reform at the statehouse, drawing on the urgency previously seen in the wake of the Covenant School shooting. But activists aren’t hopef...

After a shooting in Nashville last week, students are marching on the Tennessee Capitol, but the governor has called the special session to focus on school vouchers and immigration enforcement. via @wpln.bsky.social

27.01.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 826    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 12
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

25.01.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 34986    πŸ” 6962    πŸ’¬ 1216    πŸ“Œ 793

Home assistant is great at a lot of things but also not yet a replacement for many of the things folks do with Alexa. I don’t want a robot to talk to me but I do sometimes trigger stuff in home assistant through Siri. β€œSiri, I’m afraid of the dark” turns off all the lights when I’m in bed.

26.01.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky! Hope this keeps building. I’m not great at social media and thought this app was pronounced β€œblue-ski” for longer than I’d like to admit. But here’s a little colored pencil demo that I made for a class.
#artinstruction #coloredpencil #art #artteacher #dohashtagsworkhere

25.01.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Replacing with something else or just giving up on voice?

25.01.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’―

25.01.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3410    πŸ” 640    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 37

I don’t know if we have the technology yet, but I can imagine an artificial intelligence model that can listen to a song and then spit out an audio file of a parody version of that song. It will be called WeirdAIL.

23.01.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This my friends is called engagement farming, and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. The best ways to clock it:

1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis

Look out!

21.01.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 847    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 10
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The β€œfree speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

21.01.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 33615    πŸ” 7529    πŸ’¬ 1671    πŸ“Œ 507

if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel

22.01.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7802    πŸ” 675    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 100
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

22.01.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 117561    πŸ” 15423    πŸ’¬ 2603    πŸ“Œ 1152

oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies

19.01.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 43815    πŸ” 4358    πŸ’¬ 748    πŸ“Œ 347
Page 3A of the Cincinnati Post, 9/17/1987. two headlines of note: "Biden: 'I did something stupid," "Campaign launched to draft Donald Trump for president"

Page 3A of the Cincinnati Post, 9/17/1987. two headlines of note: "Biden: 'I did something stupid," "Campaign launched to draft Donald Trump for president"

21.01.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2564    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 15

But perhaps he will stand on the steps of the Capitol, exuberantly tell the story of the pardon, and fall backwards into a police officer, injuring both in the process. There will be a TikTok video of him reacting to watching the video of his fall; his reaction is to fall backwards onto another cop.

21.01.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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