Tom Harrington

Tom Harrington

@atomicbird.bsky.social

Emeritus iOS Developer. I’m not very active here but you can find me at https://mastodon.social/@atomicbird

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Tom Harrington
@atomicbird.bsky.social

I spent a bit over an hour at today’s anti-ICE protest in Colorado Springs with several hundred or more allies. Would have liked to stay longer but with 18F (-8C) temps, snow, and breeze I had to get back inside. Much respect to Minnesotans who would think nothing of such weather.

Tom Harrington
@atomicbird.bsky.social

Tim Cook going to a private showing of the Melania movie at the White House is more than ass kissing or doing what’s “good for business”. It’s cozying up to actual US nazis. This man needs to go. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

hollywoodreporter.comWhite House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)Sources say nobody outside of Melania Trump, director Brett Ratner and a very small group of their associates has yet seen the movie, including the president and his advisors, who are seeing it Saturd...

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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

The most important post on Bluesky today

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆
@chiitan.love

Rowling and Emma Watson's argument is painful to watch😢 Good-hearted transgender people never intend to hurt anyone else. They just want to love who they want to love and live according to their soul's direction. Chiitan stands by the hearts of good-hearted transgender people. I love everyone

Tom Harrington
@atomicbird.bsky.social

One of the victims of the San Diego plane crash was Daniel Williams, former heavy metal drummer and more recently an iOS developer. He worked at GoPro for a number of years and was about to start at Apple. apnews.com/article/plan...

apnews.comMusic talent agent among dead after jet crashes into San Diego neighborhoodThe music agency Sound Talent Group said that three of its employees died on the private plane that crashed into the Murphy Canyon neighborhood.

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Christina Jewett
@by-cjewett.bsky.social

With the next FDA vaccine meeting cancelled, concerns are rising about whether flu vaccine will be ready on time for next year. w/ @sherylnyt.bsky.social The stakes are high: 86 kids and 19,000 adults died so far this flu season. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

nytimes.comF.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
Tom Harrington
@atomicbird.bsky.social

Anti-DEI activist started when he was "embarrassed and shocked" that Air Force Academy football coaches said that Black lives matter, and that saying they do is "political". He says DEI is "communist", and also somehow thinks he's not racist. gazette.com/military/nat...

gazette.comNational advocates against DEI in the military got started in Colorado SpringsA national nonprofit, known as STARRS, got its start in Colorado Springs and a former leader of the group is set to become the next undersecretary of the Air Force.

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Alejandro Alvarez
@aletakesphotos.bsky.social

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.