Friend M. Wells
@friendwells.bsky.social
Producer of singular things in both the built and digital world; film, museums, attractions, etc. Often seen in the company of spielers, cardsharps and roustabouts.
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Elon Musk, Jan 2026: "Congratulations, President Trump! This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere."
January 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Elon Musk, Jan 2026: "Congratulations, President Trump! This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere."
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Elon Musk, Feb 2025: "America should mind its own business rather than push for regime change all over the place"
January 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Elon Musk, Feb 2025: "America should mind its own business rather than push for regime change all over the place"
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A war for oil. Groundbreaking.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
A war for oil. Groundbreaking.
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CBS Evening News = CBS Right Wing Propaganda
The late Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, & other CBS News giants & legends are spinning in their graves
Everything & everyone Trump touches goes bankrupt, goes to jail, looses their family job REPUTATION, goes extinct, and/or gets injured or killed
The late Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, & other CBS News giants & legends are spinning in their graves
Everything & everyone Trump touches goes bankrupt, goes to jail, looses their family job REPUTATION, goes extinct, and/or gets injured or killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
CBS Evening News = CBS Right Wing Propaganda
The late Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, & other CBS News giants & legends are spinning in their graves
Everything & everyone Trump touches goes bankrupt, goes to jail, looses their family job REPUTATION, goes extinct, and/or gets injured or killed
The late Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, & other CBS News giants & legends are spinning in their graves
Everything & everyone Trump touches goes bankrupt, goes to jail, looses their family job REPUTATION, goes extinct, and/or gets injured or killed
Somebody please primary this worthless excuse for a senator.
Press call with Chuck Schumer says he has been talking with his caucus "I've been talking to so many members of my caucus today. Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally troubled."
January 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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What’s it gonna take, man?
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What’s it gonna take, man?
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This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.
KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.
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Vienna's first Dutch-inspired cycling street was recently completed on Argentinierstraße, totally transforming the 1.3 km corridor. 140 car parking spaces were removed to significantly improve the walking and cycling experience—while adding greenery and seating to also turn it into a place to stay.🧵
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Vienna's first Dutch-inspired cycling street was recently completed on Argentinierstraße, totally transforming the 1.3 km corridor. 140 car parking spaces were removed to significantly improve the walking and cycling experience—while adding greenery and seating to also turn it into a place to stay.🧵
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Natural history archives and collections, if they close under these illegal Trump impoundments, will very likely be sold off to collectors and/or stuffed into landfills and lost forever. We can't restart that. Some of the source populations for our specimens are extinct.
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Natural history archives and collections, if they close under these illegal Trump impoundments, will very likely be sold off to collectors and/or stuffed into landfills and lost forever. We can't restart that. Some of the source populations for our specimens are extinct.
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So this is why LA officials were denouncing the "car-free" promises even more over the past week — to make way for the LA28 car sponsor
June 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So this is why LA officials were denouncing the "car-free" promises even more over the past week — to make way for the LA28 car sponsor
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Louis DeJoy may be gone, but the Post Office is still under attack by corporate interests and privatizers.
Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
We must protect our public Postal Service.
Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
We must protect our public Postal Service.
Let's not forget the fact that Trump nominated a FedEx board member to be postmaster general.
After FedEx donated $1 million to his inaugural fund.
After FedEx donated $1 million to his inaugural fund.
June 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Louis DeJoy may be gone, but the Post Office is still under attack by corporate interests and privatizers.
Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
We must protect our public Postal Service.
Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.
We must protect our public Postal Service.
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DRI-affiliated grad students presented their #research at the annual poster presentation. Their #scientific interests span a range of topics. Congratulations to our winners: Bianca Martinez, Abigail Sandquist, and Alyssa Radakovich. bit.ly/GradPosters #ScienceThatMattersNow #DiscoverDRI
Graduate Student Winners of the Annual Poster Presentation Session
On Friday, April 25th, 21 graduate students presented their research at DRI’s Reno campus for the annual poster presentation session. Organized by Kathleen Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Research Professor...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
DRI-affiliated grad students presented their #research at the annual poster presentation. Their #scientific interests span a range of topics. Congratulations to our winners: Bianca Martinez, Abigail Sandquist, and Alyssa Radakovich. bit.ly/GradPosters #ScienceThatMattersNow #DiscoverDRI
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Paris bike lanes: pretty great!
May 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Paris bike lanes: pretty great!
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The director Ryan Coogler narrates a musical sequence from the film “Sinners,” in which the past and future of Black music is conjured.
Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Narrates Musical Scene
The writer and director Ryan Coogler narrates a sequence from his film.
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May 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The director Ryan Coogler narrates a musical sequence from the film “Sinners,” in which the past and future of Black music is conjured.
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Thanks to @nathanbfurey.bsky.social and his lab for showing me a few of their study sites around New Hampshire, where old mill dams are coming down and river herring runs are flowing back into systems that have been deprived for centuries — the ultimate restoration of natural history.
April 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Thanks to @nathanbfurey.bsky.social and his lab for showing me a few of their study sites around New Hampshire, where old mill dams are coming down and river herring runs are flowing back into systems that have been deprived for centuries — the ultimate restoration of natural history.
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Some people like old movies so they can wrap themselves in a blanket of nostalgia for the past as it never was.
I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.
I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.
April 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some people like old movies so they can wrap themselves in a blanket of nostalgia for the past as it never was.
I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.
I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.
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Cycling encourages social interactions between different road users.
Dutch children on their way to school are greeted by the happiest traffic guard, Johan Zandvliet!
HT Marco Te Brömmelstroet
Dutch children on their way to school are greeted by the happiest traffic guard, Johan Zandvliet!
HT Marco Te Brömmelstroet
April 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Cycling encourages social interactions between different road users.
Dutch children on their way to school are greeted by the happiest traffic guard, Johan Zandvliet!
HT Marco Te Brömmelstroet
Dutch children on their way to school are greeted by the happiest traffic guard, Johan Zandvliet!
HT Marco Te Brömmelstroet
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"we built an AI that makes Ghibli style memes"
Miyazaki should be allowed to drive over you with a train
Miyazaki should be allowed to drive over you with a train
March 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"we built an AI that makes Ghibli style memes"
Miyazaki should be allowed to drive over you with a train
Miyazaki should be allowed to drive over you with a train
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Dance sequence in MICHAEL STROGOFF (1926) has something you will not see in most Hollywood films of the period: a woman's navel. Ooo, those decadent French!
March 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Dance sequence in MICHAEL STROGOFF (1926) has something you will not see in most Hollywood films of the period: a woman's navel. Ooo, those decadent French!
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I’m not sure people who weren’t born and raised Catholic understand the spine that the Jesuit order holds itself to.
Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor.
It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today.
It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today.
March 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I’m not sure people who weren’t born and raised Catholic understand the spine that the Jesuit order holds itself to.
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“Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building so he could play video games, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak freely.”
In West Wing Playbook today, we recount the extraordinary two-day testimony of CFPB operations chief Adam Martinez, who provided the most detailed look yet at DOGE’s takeover and attempted dismantling of a federal agency.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building so he could play video games, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak freely.”
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.