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Autumn J. 🦋

@ouzel

Grew up in ND; IT career in San Francisco; retired; 5 yrs in ATX. 33 yrs on @TheWell. Boglehead. @ouzel on bsky.

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Brendan Keefe - Atlanta News First
TSA is largely funded by a tax on every ticket. It adds $5.60 to every one-way ticket & $11.20 to roundtrips. Everyone in line right now is already paying the TSA fee, even for free reward travel. The government has previously diverted that money to the Treasury. Pay the agents.
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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·
Eleanor Roosevelt indignantly quit her membership in Daughters of the American Revolution after they refused to let the great Marian Anderson, an African American, perform in Constitution Hall DC, today 1939:
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Autumn J. 🦋@ouzel·
@DisabledDoctor After trying several different types and brands, I settled on Powecoms years ago and am still using them.
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Disabled Doctor
Disabled Doctor@DisabledDoctor·
To the people wearing KN95s and somehow not getting sick, what mask are you wearing? We wear N95s but want an option that seals well to our faces with ear straps to be able to wear in lower risk situations that require going in and out of a space and taking a mask on and off a lot (such as going through a house to an outdoor space). N95s are great but get caught in my hair and are just harder to fumble with for quick in and out trips. So which KN95s actually seem to form a seal on people’s faces? For reference, Aura’s fit me well
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WeRateDogs
WeRateDogs@dog_rates·
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·
Please tell us your opinion of the Bad Bunny Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show.
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Autumn J. 🦋@ouzel·
@randal_olson I look at Wirecutter too, but more often than not the comments below the article are more useful than Wirecutter's recommendations.
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Randy Olson
Randy Olson@randal_olson·
I was shopping for a new microphone this morning and had a moment: I didn't even look at Amazon reviews. I went straight to Wirecutter's recommendation. That's wild when I think about it. The entire 2010s was built on this promise of democratized information. Crowdsourced reviews. Wisdom of the crowds. Data-driven everything. We were supposed to route around traditional gatekeepers and let the people decide. Turns out all of it is gamed now. Amazon reviews are mostly bot farms and incentivized 5-stars. The FTC just sent warning letters to 10 companies in December about fake reviews. Bot traffic crossed 51% of all web traffic in 2024 and hasn't looked back. It's only getting worse with AI-generated content and AI agents everywhere. So I'm back to expert curation. Wirecutter. Consumer Reports. Specialist forums where real humans who actually know stuff talk to each other. The exact model we thought we were disrupting. The irony: the democratized system became easier to manipulate than the old gatekeepers ever were.
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Autumn J. 🦋@ouzel·
@JenniferJJacobs Please use the correct name: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "The Kennedy Center."
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Jennifer Jacobs
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs·
TRUMP on his renovations at Trump Kennedy Center: "I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. We're using some of the marble, and some of the marble comes down, but when it's open, it will be brand new and really beautiful." He said his changes may cost about $200 million.
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AssCat
AssCat@theasscat·
Jfc I am agreeing with her
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸@FmrRepMTG

I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years. I’m 100% for strong safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America. Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug overdose deaths and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made with chemical precursors from China and trafficked across the U.S. Mexico border. Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs. If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels? And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America? Ironically cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S. The next obvious observation is that by removing Maduro this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies that will ensure stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran. And of course why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it? (I’m not endorsing Russia or China) Regime change, funding foreign wars, and American’s tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes, foreigners both home and abroad, and foreign governments while Americans are consistently facing increasing cost of living, housing, healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud of their tax dollars is what has most Americans enraged. Especially the younger generations. Boomers and half of Gen X will cheer on neocon wars and talking points, but the other half of Gen X and majority on down see through it and hate it. Americans disgust with our own government’s never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going. This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were we wrong. As the baby boomers slip away both in votes and power, the electoral future will be decided for candidates that focus on American economic populism and promising prosperity for Americans only. As of right now, neither party is offering the solution.

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AssCat@theasscat·
So this means another country can do the same to us. Come get him.
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Amy McGrath@AmyMcGrathKY·
Does anyone really think this administration is going to release the full unredacted Epstein files?
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AssCat@theasscat·
Bird missed his brother and maybe, if there is a better place than this Hellscape, they are together.He ate Churus as he was going.
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Autumn J. 🦋@ouzel·
@covie_93 She's happy about the demolition because it means she won't have to pretend to decorate for Christmas. Remember those blood red trees her staff put up one year?
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Covie
Covie@covie_93·
So melania just going to sit there and watch that man destroy her office???
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AssCat
AssCat@theasscat·
We are raising our orange glasses to Linus. Please tell us the state or country you met him from.
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Autumn J. 🦋@ouzel·
@theasscat I'm so sorry. I've followed you since Hurricane Harvey and I miss you already. 😿
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AssCat
AssCat@theasscat·
Mom called me an asshole on my way out. I hope I made you smile. Forever and ever The AssCat
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AssCat@theasscat·
8 years ago today I was still holding on to my couch.
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