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@scottex.bsky.social

Software engineer, electronics tinkerer, aerospace enthusiast , Presbyterian.

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The real sizes of continents. Most maps stretch places near the poles, making Greenland, Europe and the U.S. look way bigger than they really are. In reality. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland and around 80% bigger than Russia.

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The Brits get it. I wish the other half of America could admit what they elected.

26.09.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 907    ๐Ÿ” 314    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less fascism and genocide, but here we are.

21.09.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 998    ๐Ÿ” 154    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

20.09.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23685    ๐Ÿ” 5949    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1484    ๐Ÿ“Œ 585
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Share - Spread it
Put light on it

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Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.

11.09.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29596    ๐Ÿ” 10086    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3562    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1261
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Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

10.09.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16495    ๐Ÿ” 4516    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 393    ๐Ÿ“Œ 272
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๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

10.09.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10433    ๐Ÿ” 3395    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 431    ๐Ÿ“Œ 156

RFK Jr. shouldโ€™ve never been confirmed, & heโ€™s proven that every day since. Children are literally dying from measles because of his lies & reckless anti-vax agenda. He is a threat to our health & our democracy. Public office has no place for deadly, deranged delusion. Itโ€™s time for him to resign.

08.09.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14962    ๐Ÿ” 3653    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 584    ๐Ÿ“Œ 156

I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!

30.08.2025 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5000    ๐Ÿ” 741    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 464    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73
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This is so importantโ€ฆ

Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and sheโ€™s finding they donโ€™t match the vehicles.

In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tacticsโ€”just like we suspected.

REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
๐Ÿงต

22.08.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23589    ๐Ÿ” 11551    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 805
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๐Ÿซต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿพ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿพ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿพ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿพ

08.08.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18574    ๐Ÿ” 5308    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 583    ๐Ÿ“Œ 251
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Maybe it isn't ideal to have a crazy lawyer with no medical background who obviously doesn't look after his own health in charge of looking after ours.

06.08.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8945    ๐Ÿ” 2196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 444    ๐Ÿ“Œ 123
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Same guy.

06.08.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4752    ๐Ÿ” 1984    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 178    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95
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Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...๐Ÿฅบ

05.08.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35784    ๐Ÿ” 10096    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 615    ๐Ÿ“Œ 313
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From time to time I think about how wild it is that we have two fundamentally different ways of writing a lower-case g:
the open-tail g and the loop-tail g.

I see the loop-tail g every single day and yet I wouldn't be able to write this weird-looking variant without thinking very hard.

05.08.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 193    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!

06.08.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9830    ๐Ÿ” 2852    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 606    ๐Ÿ“Œ 206
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The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.

Thatโ€™s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.

If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, weโ€™d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

25.07.2025 13:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13022    ๐Ÿ” 4953    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 474    ๐Ÿ“Œ 265
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The ultra wealthy get away with too much SHIT! Itโ€™s time to course correct.

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Natureโ€™s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

19.07.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13444    ๐Ÿ” 1811    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 346    ๐Ÿ“Œ 141

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