Joel Hamill

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The last time we visited Yosemite National Park, in October 2021, there was a fire and it was smokey throughout the park.

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Who needs to wait for Caturday?

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Extremely disappointed that Booking.com - whose commercial tag line is booking dot yeah - hasn’t forced or asked ICANN to make .yeah a TLD.

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Sunrise above Yellowstone River.

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Yellowstone National Park traffic jam.

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Nymph Lake in Yellowstone National Park.

There were a lot of Canadian Geese here throughout our stay.

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Selfie taken at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park.

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Advice from Tuesday 7/26

DON’T BLAME THE DISTRACTIONS. IMPROVE YOUR FOCUS.

Indeed.

→ 10:20 AM, Aug 7

Gruber seems to be saying; “don’t follow laws you don’t like”.

Apple’s reliance on China has put the company in a spot where it must insist its suppliers print a falsehood on components to comply with communist propaganda.

→ 9:27 AM, Aug 6

Well, that’s terrifying to think about.

We’re basically deep into witch trials, blood libel territory. Lately I’ve been getting a rash of mail declaring the battle for Ukraine a “Jewish war.” If you don’t think that’s a widespread view on the right, you’re deluding yourself 6/

→ 8:30 AM, Aug 6

Nope.

Relax, it's a herbivore
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Nope, still freaking out https://t.co/Sfu4jSgFQ6
— Kevin van Haaren (@kvanh) August 6, 2022

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The bison in Yellowstone do not care about people or cars or anything except what they are doing. And there are a lot of them.

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Today I had the pleasure of visiting a baseball stadium that I haven’t been to in over 20 years.

Watched the Dodgers play the Rockies in perfect baseball weather.

→ 10:52 PM, Jul 29

Aquaman is not a good movie. Oh, boy it is not well written at all.

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Democrats have a real problem communicating their successes in governing.

Yes.

But, also the ‘News’ is shitty at covering a story for longer than 5 minutes unless there is drama involved.

→ 5:51 PM, Jul 22

Updated with Forbes link and notice Political Wire links to a 404 page.

Linking to this Forbes story from 5 years ago, Taegan Goodard at Political Wire shares a Legacy tag about the Trump family.

Eric Trump Funneled Cancer funds to His Businesses - this leads to a 404 page now.

I will never understand how a family as sleazy as the Trump’s got their hands on the Republican party. The Trump’s are basically everything the Republican party says they hate personified. It is beyond parody.

→ 1:36 PM, Jul 22

In the Fall of 2020 in Avila Beach, Ca a humpback accidentally swallowed some kayakers.

story via

→ 9:02 AM, Jul 22

This Culture War Isn't New

Matt Birchler, what are you talking about?

How much would you want to bet that the 29% turns this isn’t a culture war once again,…

It is already a culture war.

It has never stopped being a culture war.

Gay Marriage, Abortion, Voting Rights: they are all part of the same culture war that American Conservatives have been waging since the 1970’s to get America back to the 1950’s.

This isn’t new.

The hand wringing and exclamations that this is a culture war aren’t new.

It’s the same stupid shit old people have been trying to get back to for as long as I have been alive - 43 years.

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Nick Heer, near the end of his post responding to Om Malik’s post, Instagram is dead

Seriously — what does Instagram look like a decade from now?

Does anyone know what their app will look like a decade from now?

Does anyone know what anything will look like a decade from now?

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It is incomprehensible to us that a former president of the United States would cast our loved ones aside for personal financial gain.

How? How are you shocked by that?

→ 11:38 AM, Jul 19

How Google Can Help States Track Abortions

I will shout this every time I see a story about how Google and specifically Google tracks location history:

Your ISP AND cell phone provider also track your location history often with less user control than Google gives you.

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Culturally Disconnected

“A party that’s culturally disconnected from (or perhaps even scornful of) traditional religious faith is going to alienate itself from tens of millions of voters it could otherwise reach.”

Change ‘traditional religious faith’ to any other policy issue and Republicans are on the wrong side of the spectrum.

Guns: majority of Americans want more gun restrictions.
Climate Change: majority of Americans want more action to curb the effects of humans on the climate.
Renewable Energy: majority of Americans want more not less.

Republicans want to take America back to a time period that the majority of Americans do not want to go back to.

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The Police Failed, Says a Texas Congressional Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting

You don’t say.

Fuck the police. 400 trained, grown-ass men and women let 21 people die.

Fuck the NRA for allowing the bastardization of the 2nd amendment.

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Great photo by Jules Davies.

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Herschel Walker Expands His Theory of Climate Change

If I had made a donation to hear this guy speak at any of these events, I would be trying to get that money back. He is not fit for office. Of any kind. Anywhere.

Government of the stupid by the stupid.

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