This ridge line happens to also be where the old Pennsylvania Railroad main line was built (and still exists as a part of Norfolk Southern.
With the railroad right there, those hills were once covered in coal mines.
Alternative View, Pacific Northwest
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Nightly 9 o’clock photo formerly for the birds, but relocated here. he/him Generally Pacific Northwest centric in many of my posts, but anti-authoritarian in focus now.
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And lo! On the horizon at sunset the prophet perceived a strange and terrifying apparition that struck fear into the heart and caused all Republicans quaking where they stood!
Tonight's 9 o'clock photo was taken in the parking lot of Altoona, PA Best Buy, 14 Aug 2025. Sits on a hill above the town.
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I suppose in this day and age, the Republican approved thing to do would be to create a Twitter survey:
Along the lines of: “If you are a government employee, how do you feel about hostility in your workplace?
It’s bad
It’s terrible
It’s abusive
It’s painful”
ALERT: For the first time in the history of the survey, the Office of Personnel Management is CANCELLING the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). They don’t want you to know how they’re treating federal workers. I really want to create a shadow FEVS…
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I guess the term “bottom feeder” might mean something different in Russian culture?
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Latest comic on the uptick in NEPHs
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And anyone voting against the interests of the people should be approached this same way.
This is why I fight as hard as I do for Iowans. And why I’m spamming your timelines with Medicaid facts.
Children like Luca.
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But have you seen how Russian women show their fish in their dating profile pics?
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How many here are old enough to remember “Batwing”, the mysterious wireless power supply thingy the USSR implanted into the Moscow embassy in the 1980s to power all the espionage devices? Or the 1950s era “Great Seal Bug”?
Damn straight Putin left devices behind him.
Not only is this fucking embarrassing, I can’t imagine how much counterintelligence work is going to be required after this trip.
Having a hostile head of state in the presidential limo is insane
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As with any elegantly designed machine, if too many pieces of the ecosystem that supports human life stop working, the entirety stops working.
Now back to Conservation…
Questions have come in recently about the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The law still exists and must be followed, but protections are being weakened formally and through internal pressure.
See examples in this 🧵
Endangered Species Act | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The Endangered Species Act establishes protections for fish, wildlife, and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered; provides for adding species to and removing them from the list of threate...
