(((🏳️‍🌈 Ron Blum ✡️)))

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"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.” —Lawrence of Arabia

“Words—find out their meaning.” —Marilyn Monroe

I play the ukulele, watch lots of movies, and host a film podcast that's currently hibernating.
PronounsHe/him/his
TattooLoki
CostumesPrincess Leia, Loki, Wonder Woman, and Captain Kirk

For folks wondering what the kids got arrested for...
* San Francisco has steep hills with iconic views
* Skateboarders love to skate fast down these steep hills. This is called a "hill bomb."
* Every year there's a big event on Dolores Hill, where skateboarders gather from all over to skate down the hill.
* Cops hate this. So they do things like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1WXfGLtXg

Shoulder checking a person on a skateboard that has no path to avoid you, is just evil.

Angry Fallout Over Skaterboarder-Cop Collision At San Francisco Dolores Park

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We're supposedly trying to bring business and tourism back to SF. The Dolores Hill Bomb is one of the most iconic things in skateboarding. Other cities can't replicate it. It's quintessentially SF!

Valparaiso is smarter about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuSjk7jv_M

Skateboard kids should be complaining about the commercialization of their precious Hill Bomb as corporate sponsors pay to put logos up and down the safely blocked off streets.

But we went straight to cops over-reaction. It's what we know.🤷🏿‍♂️

Insane Urban DH Mountain Bike POV - Red Bull Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2015

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Me at every work-related conference I've ever been to

Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable.

Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

Earth at night seen from space.

A difference between Republicans and Democrats: Rachael Rollins, a US attorney in Massachusetts, was found to have violated ethics. She resigned. Clarence Thomas has been found to have accepted vacations, wine, tuition payments, etc. and has not resigned. George Santos was indicted on 13 counts, yet is still taking up space in our House.

Party of responsibility, my ass.

Federal judge calls out judicial panel's handling of 2011 ethics complaints against Clarence Thomas-
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/politics/judicial-conference-clarence-thomas-mark-wolf/index.html

Travellers on an intercity train in #Austria were startled on Sunday when a Hitler speech played on board. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65599302
Austrian train plays Hitler speech over loudspeaker

Staff and passengers were "upset" by the incident, for which two people have been charged.

BBC News
Florida surgeon general cut data from a COVID-19 vaccine study

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has drawn previous scrutiny over his resistance to COVID-19 mandates for vaccines and masks.

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According to the current list of #bannedbooks as collected by #PEN, the Frisco Independent School District in #Texas has apparently banned #TheLordOfTheRings and #TheHobbit by #JRRTolkien.

It’s a mind boggling assembly of works and authors on this list. Aside from brilliant fiction like Tolkien and @neilhimself, the list includes names like #StephenHawking or #MartinLutherKingJr.

Truly, the list is an astonishing monument to willful ignorance, perfidy and malice.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

Banned Book List: 1,648 Books in 2021-2022 - PEN America

PEN America's fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This searchable banned book list includes each documented book ban in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.

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Ron DeSantis wants to cancel Mickey Mouse. Next DeSantis will cancel Cookie Monster, Big Bird and especially the same sex couple of Bert and Ernie. #GOPFascism