Damian Roskill

Damian Roskill

@droskill.bsky.social

Husband, father, member of Raw Produce. My opinions and jokes are my own.

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Want a simple signal of how the Artemis 2 mission has impacted the public interest in space? Look at this chart of active users for the game Kerbal Space program below. Largest player count in over a decade.

Damn.

Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Brent crude up 20% in the overnight market - Trump literally killed the only thing that was working for him - stable/slightly lower gas prices. Now at around $109/bar, the Fed can’t possibly think about cutting. What a f*cking moron.

Is Minnesota the greatest example of community organizing in US history outside our founding? Someone who knows history way better than me can feel free to correct me.

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You don't need to spread their lies or debunk them, which just spreads the lies. You just need to remind everyone: They're murdering innocent Americans trying to practice their constitutional rights.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

They're murdering innocent Americans trying to practice their constitutional rights. Why? Because this regime has decided it's in the business of killing innocent Americans and then smearing their corpses. That's the whole story.

The Florida SG argues that the government cannot force children to be vaccinated, but also that gender-affirming care for minors should be banned? I'd say they're just stupid but that hides how they codify their believes into laws, regardless of contradictions. www.edweek.org/leadership/f....

edweek.orgFlorida Moves to End School Vaccine Mandates. Will Other States Follow?Florida state leaders announced plans to get rid of all vaccine mandates, including for schools, making it the first state to do so.

Didn’t have “Billy Long has a spine” on my bingo card.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Exclusive: The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it wouldn’t tell immigration authorities whether people had claimed the earned income tax credit, citing privacy protections. Later that day, Billy Long was on his way out.

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this actually isn't nuanced, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. this isn't difficult or complex. you're just capitulating to religious fanatics.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

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this is going to put owning a complete dinosaur skeleton totally out of reach for the average American family

Asher HELLbein@asherelbein.bsky.social

Earlier this summer, I broke the news that Sothebys — after smashing records for a private fossil sale in 2024 — was bringing a Ceratosaurus that had previously been in a museum to market. It just sold for $30 million, the third highest price ever. The age of sky-high dinosaur prices is here.

Now waiting for the @nytimes.com article about the cognitive decline of the President. Along with the article about the Utah study on transgender care for minors, commission by conservatives, that found that the care was supported by science. I'll wait.

I find it interesting that Bill Clinton was almost taken down by a BJ, and a lie about that BJ, and Trump could possibly be taken out by the Epstein files. None of the other stuff that Trump did was considered bad by the MAGA faithful, but, like Clinton, this seems to cross a line for them.

This 100x - people do not seem to recognize that this is the culmination of a very long term project.

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

They are going to go after mifepristone. Anybody that told you otherwise wasn't paying attention.

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com

NEW: The American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs has sent a letter to HHS and the FDA asking for a reinstatement of pre-2016 restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, which would limit its use to just seven weeks of pregnancy and require in-person distribution and follow up.

This might be the most insane thing the Trump admin has talked about.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Can anyone explain to me the logic of the Republicans passing a bill that would seem to end their political careers? The only reason I can come up with is that the GOP has assumed that Trump will become a dictator and they want to be on his side when that happens. Makes zero sense.

Been thinking about this a lot - not from a privacy standpoint but just from a feasibility POV. Amazon, for example, has zero incentive to allow agents (other than their own) to automatically drive, say, a purchase.

Keith Fitzgerald@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

This kid is incredible. More heart than the entire US Senate.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

Creative idea for dealing with MAGA: create copies of media reports on Trump but search and replace with Biden. Then, after they get outraged about the behavior, let them know that it was actually Trump.

JFC.

Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

JFC.

Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social

Ukraine: Massive Russian attack happening on Kyiv. Upwards of 70 drones and missiles. This is debris of a Russian missile shot down by air defense, possibly a 1.5 ton Iskander ballistic missile with a ~700kg warhead, falling from the sky over Kyiv.

Been waiting for this. We can't "know" the economy is tanking if the numbers are altered to "show" it isn't. But of course investors (particuarly international ones) that regarded the US as the gold standard in economic data will now view us like China. Troubling, particularly, for bonds. #econsky

Invictus@tbpinvictus.bsky.social

This is very troubling. www.tlranalytics.com/red-flags/lo...

JFC.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Important to pay attention to this EO.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Every business and politician that touches Trump eventually gets torched. The only explanation for their fealty is that they assume that Trump will be an absolute king going forward and they want to be on the right side of him.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.