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@cb3rings.bsky.social

Civil servant. Sailor. Middle Aged White Guy. Environmentalist. Pro-Voting. Sexist insofar as women seem better at a lot of stuff, tho that's unscientific. Sad to be living with structural racism, which enrages me. Anti LGBTQ+ garbage enrages me.

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Nidal Hassan, the Ft Hood shooter, is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. (I did not know). He was shot during his mass murder crime. The death penalty is immoral. Regardless, what kind of soldiers would shoot a man in a wheelchair? A bloody spectacle firing squad stains our nation.

fox13seattle.comTrump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal HasanAccording to posts on Monday from Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump has approved a U.S. Army firing squad to execute Nidal Hasan, the ...

The enshitification of my Pixel 9 is complete. Have been force fed AI Gemini, replacing Google Assistant. I don't want what it is selling. Not even a little. But no choice. Driving me into the gossamer draped arms of the Apple hegenomy #Google #Android sux Shouts into the void of Bluesky.

[Cut to: John Candy manifesting a full body spectre to play this guy in the SNL cold open]

Philip Bump@pbump.com

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

I searched this for "climat*" and "warm*" and "greenhouse." Nada, I don't think I missed it. So a long ass article about coastal homes falling into the sea because of sea level rise and other oceanographic factors but no acknowledgement that anyone knows why the sea is rising. wapo.st/4tK8Kfn

wapo.stThe costly quest to save N.C. beach homes: ‘What are we trying to protect?’“When I look at Buxton, I see it as more of what’s to come,” one researcher said of the rapid erosion reshaping parts of the North Carolina coastline.

#NoKings in DC was great today! From Arlington Cemetery across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln, the reflecting pool, the WWII memorial, then ... To a kite festival already in progress at the Washington. And the people flying kites were cool. Lots of families

#NoKings in DC was great today! From Arlington Cemetery across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln, the reflecting pool, the WWII memorial, then ... To a kite festival already in progress at the Washington. And the people flying kites were cool. Lots of families

Meanwhile, curling stalks the airwaves, waiting to pounce and take over primetime again. Curling must be stopped!

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

SKI MOUNTAINEERING IS HERE! The first new Winter Olympic sport since 1998! —first you gotta ski up a mountain —then you gotta run up a staircase —then you gotta ski down a mountain (not pictured, looks like other sports tbh) It looks miserable! I love it!

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This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned. She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE. And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.

storage.courtlistener.comOrder on Motion for TRO – #95 in The Advocates for Human Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00749) – CourtListener.comORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (ECF No. 17 ) is GRANTED IN PART. See Order for specifics. Signed by Judge Nancy E. Brasel on 2/12/2026. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A) (RMM) ...

"An LLM is a dense set of numerical rules optimized to shift words to their most plausible neighbors," per the article. That explanation resonates.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

WITAF?

Max Boot@maxboot.bsky.social

One day after meeting Susie Wiles, Tulsi Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

Fifty-somethings who've realized a revered grandfather may have had some garbage politics: We can hope Bill Kristol reflects dead grandpa's backstop. I also like the way he writes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kr...

en.wikipedia.orgBill Kristol - Wikipedia
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

"I’m all for different deckhands, but they won’t right this ship. Trump built it. He set it on its course...Pretti and Good aren’t dead because of bad advice. They’re dead because of bad men acting out the script that a bad president wrote for them." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

I mean ... maybe there were Nazgul body cams.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

May the cold fingers of MySpace curl around TikTok's throat. Our teenager has nothing to do with that trap

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

"As of October 5, 2024, Myspace was placed in a read-only mode of sorts, and no new articles have been published since early 2022.[89] Most images on the site are broken, and existing songs also could not be played" -- Wikipedia

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social

TikTok in the US is suddenly ripe for collapse.

"As of October 5, 2024, Myspace was placed in a read-only mode of sorts, and no new articles have been published since early 2022. Most images on the site are broken, and existing songs also could not be played." --Wikipedia

Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

It was after the Nativity that Jesus went full refugee After the wise men had left, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." Matt 2:14

Direct evidence of the ecliptic plane can disorient me ... Makes me want to align myself to it on a perpendicular

Architecture@architecture.bsky.social

This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022

David Brooks 🤡 clowning. No better answer than: "But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile." Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

Republicans bent on destroying the Affordable Care Act have cancelled the flight my kid was taking to visit this weekend. I am among the lucky; our separation is temporary. The families the Republicans are destroying through ICE raids are true victims.

No Kings rallies are so patriotic that there's an official annual day off for one every year in America on July 4th. Sometimes known as the sexiest holiday. So why not have bonus ones during the year, like on Oct 18? It can't be because America too sexy, because we are not.

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📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

It is the acts of the undocumented agents that make me feel less safe. Secret police make me feel less safe.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

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