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reginageorgebush.bsky.social
final day of IPEV for the following large counties:
Alachua (Gainesville)
Broward
Duval (Jacksonville)
Hillsborough (Tampa)
Leon (Tallahassee)
Manatee (Bradenton)
Miami-Dade
Orange (Orlando)
Osceola (Kissimmee)
Palm Beach
Pinellas (St. Petersburg)
Sarasota
Seminole (Orlando suburbs)
reginageorgebush.bsky.social Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 3d
so far, it's too early to say how the final day of EV in most of Florida (but, critically, not the final day in a few mostly blue counties that will bank a lot more Dem votes) will be in terms of partisan breakdown, but turnout will be the highest of the entire EV period.
reginageorgebush.bsky.social Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 4d
Florida Republicans had a decent day today—by the standards of this year. they slightly outran total registration. the weekend should be bluer, and probably heavier too.
November 1, 2026 at 11:48 AM
joparkerbear.bsky.social
Outside a polling place I passed earlier. Angry-as-fuck signs all over town on a level I’ve never seen. Gainesville did not come to play.
Sign with two figures: on left, a masked figure in black that says “police ice”; on the right, a hooded klansman in white. “NOW AVAILABLE IN TACTICAL BLACK” (GNV Florida)
November 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM
megainfinity.band
A signed copy of Harmonic Convergence was raffled off by the Annual Fest Grace Raffle. @thefestfl.bsky.social and Anthem Tattoo raise money for GRACE which is committed to end homelessness in Gainesville. This year: $23,895 was raised from the raffle. 💕 we love you Gainesville!!
Your punk sucks: won this gem in the raffle and holding a signed copy of Harmonic Convergence
November 2, 2026 at 3:54 AM
wookieeoftheyear.bsky.social
@edsbs.bsky.social weight room decor arrived
gainesville city limits sign
October 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
gabifrost.bsky.social
I got a free drink the other night in Gainesville so that was pretty cool ☺️
October 31, 2026 at 11:29 PM
seabeegator46.bsky.social
Gainesville FL on the trick or treat trail!
October 31, 2026 at 10:59 PM
lynne41.bsky.social
I’m in Gainesville, neighbor.
November 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
dcpierson.bsky.social
We experienced the opposite when we were touring MYSTERY TEAM. There’d be a screening for, like, two college students and at the end while signing their posters one of them ask, in a concerned tone, “Why are you in Gainesville?”
jessethorn.bsky.social Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 4d
When you’re a touring artist, it is always tough when people say “why don’t you come to xxxxx?” because the answer is almost always “because we are not successful enough and would lose money.”

Why do we always go to Portland? Lots of people come to the show and so we can afford hotel rooms.
October 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
julietacamp.bsky.social
Law School. Gainesville, Florida.
November 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
elderman.bsky.social
Paul Holbrook
Ladies in what was then the height of fashion, late 1800s to early 1900s. Original glass negative photo by Nathan White of Gainesville, Georgia
October 31, 2026 at 5:48 PM
polls.pizza
your civic engagement is inspiring. our pizza ordering is relentless. 12 pizzas from Bowie Pizza to Reitz Student Union Gainesville! 🍕
November 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
patrickafl1.bsky.social
That's here in Gainesville. I love that place!
November 3, 2026 at 11:50 PM
robunlucky.bsky.social
Night of the Living DoyleZig! The night of @theunlucky13s.bsky.social Misfits cover set at the Ox.

#HappyHalloween #TheMisfits #Gainesville #Punk
November 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
joparkerbear.bsky.social
I’ve only noticed a few Gainesville Florida residents on bsky, but I figure this is worth sharing regardless.

Awhile back, I became aware that GNV has an obscenely high number of surveillance cameras— second highest count in FL despite its size.

I contacted Deflock the USA. Here’s what I learned:
My original email: Hello there, I am very interested in getting a map, something a bit more specific regarding known Flock camera locations and perhaps more user-friendly, to the point, etc. Gainesville, Florida, has more cameras than Jacksonville - Florida's most populous city. Jacksonville is 4-5Xs more populous (at best). So why do I want this? Because Gainesville is a solidly blue city. I want to take this to the city council and do what I can to get the word out and make people more aware. One more thing: those cameras are not just license plate readers. Otherwise they would not be putting them in public parks or large university campuses that don't allow vehicles for the most part. If you're able to help me, i would be incredibly grateful. JO, … Attached is deflock-gainesville-fl-alpr.csv, 308 records across Gainesville and Alachua County, with road, coordinates, manufacturer, operator where recorded, surveillance type, first documented date and a link to the underlying map record for each. The Jacksonville comparison holds. Gainesville shows 161 active against Jacksonville's 108. For a council presentation it is worth being precise about the rest of the state, because someone will check: Tallahassee is higher at 182, and then it drops away sharply, with Tampa at 51, Miami at 48 and Orlando at 39. So the accurate claim is that Gainesville carries more plate readers than Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa and Orlando, despite being a fraction of their size. That is a stronger sentence than a single comparison and it survives scrutiny. Three things in the data that change the argument, two of them in a useful direction. Most of them are not Flock. Gainesville runs a mixed fleet: Axis Communications 67, Flock Safety 45, Verkada 19, Motorola Solutions 7, Axon 7, Vigilant Solutions 6, LiveView Technologies 2. Calling them Flock cameras understates the problem and gives a council an easy deflection, since a contract question about one vendor leaves the rest untouched. The accurate framing is that Gainesville has assembled a plate reader network from at least seven vendors. The campus placement has an explanation, and it is probably the strongest single fact here. The University of Florida is recorded as the operator on 58 of them. The university runs its own plate reader network, separate from the city. That answers the question of why they appear where vehicles are not the main traffic, and it raises the one worth asking at council: whether city and university systems share data, and who can query across both. 84 cameras in Gainesville are recorded as removed, against 161 active. That is an unusually high turnover and it is the kind of thing worth asking about directly, since it may indicate relocations, failed pilots or a contract that ended. On the point about them not being plate readers. Every one of the 161 active Gainesville records is tagged as an ALPR, and 151 of them carry a traffic zone tag. The data does not support the idea that these are a different kind of camera. That said, the tags reflect what volunteers recorded, so a camera that is something else may simply have been logged by someone who assumed. If a specific camera in a park looks wrong for a plate reader, send the location and it is worth checking properly. Flock does sell products other than plate readers, so the suspicion is not unreasonable, it is just not what this particular dataset shows. Standard caveat for the council: these counts are community-mapped, a floor rather than a census, and the first documented date is when a volunteer recorded the camera, not when it was installed. Two things that will help at council. Meeting records mentioning Flock, ALPR or license plate readers are archived at https://deflocktheusa.com/docket/, and 341 communities that have canceled, rejected, paused or let lapse a contract are listed with dates and sources at https://deflocktheusa.com/cancellations/. Florida entries carry particular weight with a Florida council, and the state has an unusual number of them following the removal order from state rights of way. DeFlock The USA is reader funded and carries no advertising. Support keeps the archive and the public tools running: https://www.paypal.me/deflocktheusa https://venmo.com/u/deflocktheusa
November 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
everylot-usps.bsky.social
GAINESVILLE CARRIER ANNEX: 2530 PENTEE DR, GAINESVILLE GA 30507-9998
Street View image of post office
November 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
dnlmsstch.bsky.social
Alachua county Florida is usually a blue county in a red sea because of Gainesville where UF is located is the biggest town.

(I grew up there)
November 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
samfisher90.bsky.social
Rain limits turnout at Gainesville vigil honoring deaths linked to immigration enforcement - WCJB | TV20
Rain limits turnout at Gainesville vigil honoring deaths linked to immigration enforcement - WCJB | TV20
Rain limits turnout at Gainesville vigil honoring deaths linked to immigration enforcement  WCJB | TV20
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November 1, 2026 at 11:57 PM
portaltohades.bsky.social
Hey so uhhh. I need to probably make an impromptu trip to Gainesville today to see my neuro opthomologist for an urgent care visit. It's gonna cost me roughly $250 in Uber/lyft fees. I'll post in the reply to explain the situation. This is going to use up my entire transport funds.
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November 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
47pumpkins.bsky.social
Perfect message.
Perfect messaging.
Respect from Gainesville🐊Florida.
November 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
thewhidxan.bsky.social
Gainesville ga #Corvids
October 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
improvflorida.com
Improv in Gainesville tonight 🎭

Community Improv (weekly)
📍 Gainesville Improv Guild, Gainesville
🗓 Tue, Nov 3, 7 PM–9 PM

https://www.improvflorida.com/improv/community-improv-weekly/
Community Improv (weekly), Tue, Nov 3 7 PM–9 PM at Gainesville Improv Guild, Gainesville.
November 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
improvflorida.com
Improv in Gainesville tonight 🎭

Community Improv (weekly)
📍 Gainesville Improv Guild, Gainesville
🗓 Tue, Nov 3, 7 PM–9 PM

https://www.improvflorida.com/improv/community-improv-weekly/
Community Improv (weekly), Tue, Nov 3 7 PM–9 PM at Gainesville Improv Guild, Gainesville.
November 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
sircoach.blacksky.app
Serves them bitches right for living in Gainesville. Go Canes.
pbsimpulse9.bsky.social pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 3d
UGA basically sat on Florida for 4 quarters.
October 31, 2026 at 11:10 PM
davidjolly.bsky.social
Right now is the time for everyone who loves our state to do what’s within reach: talk to your neighbors, encourage others to get to the polls, and go out & vote. Floridians at our Believe in Better Tour stop in Gainesville are ready to do just that. Thanks for being a part of this historic moment.
October 29, 2026 at 1:06 AM