Braden McGrath

Braden McGrath

@big-geek.net

IT/network guy near Cleveland, OH (personal acct). Mostly tech or car; occasional food, music, sports (🏒⚾️), or dog/cat stuff. Lapsed Pastafarian. *Rational* 🔫 fan; ✊🏿&🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally (he/him).

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Apparently USA (tv network) DGAF about censoring anymore, I've now heard multiple "fucks" in their current airing of "Speed". It's like 8:45pm, too

For the record I'm not complaining, I think it's silly to censor language, and I know it isn't broadcast TV so IDK if they actually have to adhere to any FCC rules. If this is a mistake I'm sure someone's gonna get chewed out though

Why in the hell does @regeneron.com use a song about sex ("Dancin' in the Moonlight") to advertise a "wet AMD" drug? The first line of the song is literally "we get it on most every night." The setting in the commercial (kid's dance recital/play) makes the song selection extra disturbing.

and i'm the last thing from a prude, but a sex song playing while grandparents (?) watch their grandchild in an elementary-aged dance recital... it's just weird.

Unfortunately they'll probably just spray paint the grass or some horrible shit like that We know they DGAF about the planet

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45/7 is a gigantic piece of shit and doesn't care about most of the US

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Guys like me built the country. I watch all these ingrates, they're always complaining, complaining. They didn't build anything, they couldn't build anything. Look at what's happened in Minnesota. Somalia."

Ready to fling poo at whoever came up with the latest Biktarvy commercials along with whoever does ad slot scheduling for DirecTV Stream. (I have heard the same 90s crappy pop song waaaay too many times over the past 2 hours)

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Please think about blocking, or at least unfollowing, @cwebbonline.com until he addresses and remedies this.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

The religious right are fucking nuts

ProPublica@propublica.org

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

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Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)

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"What cat were you provided with in the Armed Forces of Ukraine?" Ukrainian Defenders share photos with their cats on the front line 📷: hermano.dh_ /fanatic_oleg / sylenko_ju / dr_karpiuk /nemetz_82 /leonia_veremeyenko / markus_panda / shwainokaras /viktortrofymenko / stalnytskanata /edelweiss_ua/

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Replying to @dell.bsky.social

Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.

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Rep. Luna, who once accused Twitter of "censorship" because no one on her staff explained what Jira is to her, is now asking the DOJ to prosecute a journalist for sharing a link to a university bio page on X (X immediately complied and locked the journalist's account until he deleted the link).

I'm not a huge fan of organized religion, often because of the hypocrisy. Rick is actually practicing what his book preaches, and I respect that, even if I still think the religion itself is ridiculous. This is what good Christians are "supposed" to be doing

Rick Steves@ricksteves.bsky.social

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

this shit is just beyond parody, man

@neorsd.org Tried to take E55th from 90 past your tunneling work there and it was closed with a detour. I didn't have time to read the digital signage; how long is this going to be closed? If it's not related to your work I apologize for asking... can't find info about it anywhere else.

At what point is a citizen allowed to defend themselves against this illegal stop and seizure? Car can run over plenty of ICE wankers.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I don't have a lot of followers so I doubt this will go far, but: we have an adopted shelter cat (they think 4-5 y.o.) that only wants to play. Constantly, regardless of how much she was just played with previously. The only time she wants love is when you're on the toilet. 🤷‍♂️ How to improve‽

Like, this cat easily gets an *hour or more* of play daily spread out over multiple shorter sessions. she has another cat (adopted with a male "buddy") but they seem to dislike each other (despite shelter calling them "bonded"). I just want her to get on the couch and be petted sometimes...

Pardon the filthy tub (we need a new tub mat), but this is the only time she wants to be petted, and it's mostly just to try to get you to play more... She loves to have paper on the floor to hide in & pounce on.

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Can't decide whether I'm more annoyed at the fact that our democracy is being severely eroded, or that the people doing the eroding are such complete and utter tools.

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y’all keep making fun of trump’s shitting video but it takes a strong man to admit that he’s reached the stage of life where he has no control of his bowels

With apologies to The Proclaimers: "I would run eight-point-one-miles, and-a I would write words on the map / Just to be the man / who ran a bunch of miles / to fail to get the job"

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz

inspiring 💗💖

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Saddened by the Guards loss today. Maybe if our starter hadn't been pulled after 2.6 innings with only a single hit, for "lefty-righty" matchup silliness, we'd have done better? Maybe if we hadn't played the same relievers who had been seen plenty in the previous 2 games? I dunno 🤷‍♂️

Why the heck are so many iOS apps 300-500MB in size these days? WTF is bloating the crap out of them? Gmail: 633MB Facebook: 374MB Slack: 429.5MB TikTok (which I never use so not sure why I installed it): 581.4MB

People are bitching about storage space constantly (more on Threads than here); when two apps alone can consume 1GB, well, how surprising is it that people are running out of space? 🤔

"If you see this, post a concert pic you took" Less Than Jake, Blossom Music Center main stage (on Warped Tour), 2018-07-18

Sam Ferguson@samferguson.bsky.social

"If you see this, post a concert pic you took (if you feel like it)" Mr. Bungle, Murat Egyptian Room, 2024-05-16