Bill Shirley
@bshirley.shirl.com
Houstonian, cyclist, voter, board gamer, YIMBY urbanist, iOS dev, hypnagogic podcast listener. ♌︎ 🤘 bsky #23,719
Teams has horrible video meetings backdrop management. #Microsoft
"Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT." the matter being the grift at hand
"Yeats's 'The Second Coming' …when contemplating August in Houston…" Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; Eric went bleak on @spacecitywx.bsky.social today
Elon Musk ca. 1978… “Sydney Lumet created a woke ahistorical abomination of a literary classic.” (that Elon hasn’t read) www.imdb.com/title/tt0078...
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Trump's Foley will be with us for a long time. The cost of voting irresponsibly. (👈 👀 I'm looking at 77 million of you.)
Iran strikes tankers under US escort in Hormuz strait as Trump gathers cabinet to discuss war — Guardian US
Energy prices have soared again since fighting between US and Iran resumed two weeks ago as conflict spreads across Middle East
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Whether it's James Talarico driving a pickup truck he doesn't own in a commercial or Ken Paxton freeing a convicted pedo he's buds with early from jail without making him register as an offender, we can all agree that both Texas Senate candidates have integrity issues" --Mainstream Texas Media
Now that TxDOT is not blocking my way, i have a 6 minute, 1.4 mile path to my closest grocery store today i also got a honk and a thumbs up from a delivery driver, and two oversized pickups full on came to a stop and yielded to me (in unnecessary situations) strava.app.link/Bz2oS5zce5b
Grocery Lunch | Strava
View Bill Shirley's E-Bike Ride on July 31, 2026 | Strava
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Please Vote this November to oust DJT’s GOP supporters in the House and Senate so that the Legislative Branch can check the Administration, that we might keep our Republic 🇺🇸
this low life should be censured for talking like that from the dais
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
6pm ride home 94° F 58% humidity 77° dew point riding into the sun, not too hot, and TxDOT was gone and paths cleared
Bill Shirley@bshirley.shirl.com · last wk.83° F 81% humidity 77° dew point was actually a comfortable 🚲 commute despite TxDOT blocking one passage and obstructing a second
83° F 81% humidity 77° dew point was actually a comfortable 🚲 commute despite TxDOT blocking one passage and obstructing a second
We need a great business man like Harold Hill to be our president.
Liz Oyer says she's received deaths threats since testifying against Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General — and that Missouri's Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have helped fuel the violent threats against her.
Opinion | Former DOJ lawyer spotlights death threats after Blanche testimony
Liz Oyer says Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt are helping fueling threats against her as Republicans try to confirm Blanche as AG.
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Russia’s air defense around Moscow the equivalent of an over-active immune response due to an infection of Ukrainian drones.
Russian jet explodes 'in suspected friendly fire after warplane shot down'
A RUSSIAN fighter jet has crashed and gone up in flames after a suspected friendly fire shootdown near Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s prized £37million warplane was engulfed in a huge fireball afte…
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hey, i was watching that! “scheduled maintenance” my bet is on immediate patch of an A.I. exposed vulnerability
9to5Mac@9to5mac.com · last wk.PSA: Apple TV, Apple Music, and more are currently down for some users
“0.0 people died because of DOGE” paraphrase from Musk does he know how death works? i.e. generally in whole numbers
Headline: Trump orders signage warning visitors of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian who do i send my money to to erect adjacent signage? “Beware the woke. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -DJT”
🎶 There's a weapon That we must use In our defense Silence When you look at them Look right through them That's when they'll disappear That's when we'll be feared 🎶 - 'Our Lips Are Sealed`, The Go-Go's, 1981
“There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”
some %age of this death count is due to the direct action of Elon Musk, DOGE, and Trump.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoThe Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed over 1,000 people, reaching this grim milestone nearly three times faster than the 2014-2016 epidemic.
Trump is not playing 3D chess, he's playing Candy Land. (Candy Land is not a game, it's an activity that teaches children how to follow instructions, lose politely, and play well with others.) Trump needs more play time.
Trump's dumb idea to tariff Canada over smoke could set a useful precedent
Yes, Trump is dumb. Yes, this idea is dumb. But something *like* it could help end climate change. Just hear me out for a minute.
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