EricLaw 🎻

textslashplain.comOn PoliticsI do not come from an especially political family. One parent has not voted in decades, and the other votes regularly, but is not an enthusiast and values harmony over potentially-divisive politica…

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Paul Gowder

@gowder.io

Shocked, shocked I say

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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Texas Public Radio

@texaspublicradio.bsky.social

Billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg are using their tremendous wealth, influence and A.I to undermine democracy. They are able to control essential public communication, information and government operations. Read More👉 ebx.sh/d1ebtJ

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Amanda Marcotte

@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

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Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

nytimes.comKen Paxton’s State-Funded Jet-Setting Draws Campaign Scrutiny (Gift Article)Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.

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Ken Paxton’s State-Funded Jet-Setting Draws Campaign Scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

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Once more for those in the back

EricLaw 🎻@ericlawrence.com

The conservative in the Texas Senate race is James Talarico, an eighth-generation Texan, a Christian pastor who defends the Constitution and fights government overreaches that limit citizens’ freedoms.

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babylonbee.comPharaoh Relents After Moses Unleashes Plague Of Political Fundraising TextsPI-RAMESSES — Mighty Pharaoh (may he live forever) has reportedly released the Hebrews from their bondage after the land was afflicted by a plague of political fundraising texts.

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12 megs to convert AVIF to PNG? Srsly?

I'm not sure whether I'm more proud of how good FiddlerCore was in 2012, or depressed that not much was added in the following 14 years.

Me: Shits slow. Fix it? Copilot: Okay.

It's ridiculous, but the next administration needs to give Comey a few million dollars.

I'm not sure whether I'm more proud of how good FiddlerCore was in 2012, or depressed that not much was added in the following 14 years.

Copilot: I'm smarter than you.

17h

Me: "Hey, Copilot: Take my UI and put a proxy engine underneath it." Copilot: "Okay."

16h

Me: "Hey, that crufty FiddlerCore library from 2012 doesn't support modern certificates. Replace the MakeCert.exe with one that generates SHA256 certificates." Copilot: "Okay, done. All the tests I wrote passed too. Hey, didn't this take you like a week back when you did it in 2014, meat bag?"

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Writing Fiddler was fun the first time, but "Yo, Copilot, write me a HTTP proxy debugger" is fun in its own way.

womp womp

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

Abdul punches back and doesn't take shit. He isn't a weak centrist nothing. People want fighters.

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Clearinet.app

@clearinet.app

22h

Version 0.0.2.6 is out with many fixes and new features. github.com/ericlaw1979/...

Elon's hundreds of millions of dollars are buying wall to wall lies during weekend NFL games.

nytimes.comTrump’s Election Attacks Enter New Pre-emptive Phase (Gift Article)A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.

“shape the election results” is quite the euphemism from the quisling NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u...

Visual Studio's AI can rewrite your whole app for you, but if you dare put anything before your form class in its file, it pukes on its shoes and tells you to fix it.

The world’s least mysterious mystery has been solved.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

It’s Sunday so the GOP is trying their new attack ad: “liberals are the racists”

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Pete Buttigieg

Gas prices are “temporarily” high, says the president. That’s because Republicans are temporarily in power. Vote.

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Eric Lipton NYT

@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

If only someone could do something.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock@warnock.senate.gov

Pete Hegseth is absolutely unhinged. He needs to be fired TODAY.

“Donald Trump does not understand” is almost always a safe assumption.

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social

Donald Trump does not understand that ranked choice voting is much more likely to save Senator Dan Sullivan than to hurt him.

Counting to 11 is an important skill in football.

As funny as the whole Alaska Dan Sullivan name collision thing is, it’s anti-democratic and bad for America. It’s amazing that this hasn’t been abused in every race.

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Kori Schake 🎃

@kschake.bsky.social

Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

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@brilliantmaps.bsky.social

Caroline Harris Davila: “Hey, I hate the people you hate. Re-elect me so we can keep being hateful!”

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Brilliant Maps

Every US State’s Favorite State Besides Their Own (With Arrows) Credit: Matt Shirley It's surprising how few states reciprocally like each other. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/fav-us-st...

Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy a Senate seat for the wildly, flagrantly, and crucially, *boringly* corrupt Ken Paxton.

@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

How do I file a bug against Gemini? The Copy Code button shouldn't be functional/visible until the code block is actually finished generation. Otherwise, the user could end up copying incomplete code on accident.

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Team Talarico

Talarico: They may have the money, but we have the majority. They’re trying to make this election about anything other than their corruption. You should believe our movement can beat their money because they sure do.

Ultimately, oligarchy doesn’t end well for the oligarchs either.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Her: “We need a projector for the party this weekend.” Me: <researches for a few hours across Wirecutter, rtings.com etc> “Okay, I got one. It’ll be here Friday.” Her: “Like forty bucks or so? Me: “Uh. Um. No?”

You don’t make your $40K projector the first hit in Google search results because you think the user is gonna buy one. You do it so they think they’re getting a good deal on your $1000 projector. #anchoring

Windows Fit-and-Finish: You know what what make the ComCtrls Color dialog much better? An eyedropper. Like we live in the 2000s.

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steven monacelli

@stevanzetti.bsky.social

NEW: Citing my reporting, TX State Rep. Jessica Gonzalez sent a letter to colleagues in the state legislature regarding the fraudulent letters purporting to represent a transgender advocacy group sent to voters, calling for legislators to pass a new law to prevent such activity.

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

Replying to @anildash.com

I’m very happy to say Ramaswamy is a piece of garbage. But it’s because all of MAGA is a pro-rape movement run by people who are garbage. Those people own their choices, and their leaders. Where South Asian voices, and votes, organize & resonate, you get Zohran and Nithya and Kamala.

I know my eyes are bad, but...

If Google didn't update the version of their brotli library from when they fixed the security issue (Feb) until yesterday, does that mean Chromium was/is exposed?

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bbc.comBush family members back Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate raceThe Bushes could potentially influence some disaffected Republicans when it comes to next month's vote.

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.