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Andy Ahlstrom

@aahlstrom.bsky.social

Occasional sketcher and photographer. Small Midwest timber and pasture tender. Solar power advocate.

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Solar surpassed gas last month and should continue through the summer.

15.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If nothing else, "missed social security check" is guaranteed to be the one quote that will be heard across the board.

23.03.2025 12:11 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds fishy to me but if it is profitable I could imagine other businesses competing and offering different and better deals.

19.02.2025 20:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#photography #landscape

09.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bsky.art #draw #pen

09.01.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#iowa #winter

09.01.2025 14:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#art #sketch

07.01.2025 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Another source: "On the land, which would need to be cleared for the solar array, is a mixture of mature, planted red pines, some seedlings and other growth returning after a 2022 tornado ripped through Gaylord.
"It's not like it's pristine forest land," Whitcomb said. "It's been impacted."

04.01.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exactly...no influence peddling or pay to play. Even the higher than normal management fees can be explained.

22.12.2024 00:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

People who admire Trump probably know it's shady but unprovable. It looks like a "reward" for favorable Saudi treatment during Kushner's time in the White House. It's private equity. You get it and I get it, but not many can get away with it. Kushner got away with it with a decent alibi.

22.12.2024 00:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I was said spin doctor that is exactly how I would frame it.

21.12.2024 23:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The point is with Kushner's prior role in U.S. foreign policy and his relationships with Saudi officials during that time, the timing of this deal would challenge the most hard working spin doctor of all time to make it not look shady.

21.12.2024 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Risky because of appearances, about which neither Jared or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could possibly have any concern.

21.12.2024 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Look up sarcasm.

21.12.2024 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A very generous $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. At great risk too, to help out a struggling venture like that. People could get the wrong idea about potential conflicts of interest, given Kushner's prior role in U.S. foreign policy.

21.12.2024 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Then Hunter Biden should be removed from the Supreme Court if what you are saying is true.

21.12.2024 15:33 — 👍 40    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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@bsky.art #art #sketch

17.12.2024 18:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We MUST keep vaccines.
have you written your Senator to let them know?

14.12.2024 20:03 — 👍 37036    🔁 5994    💬 358    📌 176

I disagree. It is not celebratory. Your disdain for even the suggestion of exalting these people tells me reporting does not equal support. Controversy fuels discussion as it always has.

14.12.2024 16:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How do you nor know the history of Time magazines person of the year? Hitler, Stalin and The Ayatollah Khomeni were all person of the year. Only a small yet predictable number of people make this mistake every year.

14.12.2024 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Time's "person of the year" has never been about "propping up." It has always been what newsworthy person has has the most impact good or bad. Anyone over 50 already knows this, yet this still come up every year.

14.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@bsky.art #sketch #draw #coffee

13.12.2024 02:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Late Fall and early winter wouldn't change. It's already standard time.

11.12.2024 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very well written. I'm starting to understand the current real estate market and its seemingly delayed crash as a long con pump and dump. In this modern context maybe its not that different than crypto and gambling sites.

10.12.2024 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jealous of how good this is.

10.12.2024 18:09 — 👍 1206    🔁 138    💬 75    📌 11
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Morning sketch. @bsky.art #sketch #draw #coffee

10.12.2024 18:18 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think this pastor is going a little off script. Must be from his own revised edition of the bible. Signed copies available for purchase.

04.12.2024 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post Thanksgiving bread.

30.11.2024 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0