garnet

garnet

@garnetwaters.bsky.social

5th Gen Texan and yellow dog Democrat. Recently retired high school math teacher planning my escape from Texas. "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured" - Mark Twain

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Texas used to be a blue state, and California used to be red. Being so privileged that you brag about throwing away your vote is how red turns to blue and vice versa. I've been voting blue in Texas for 40 fucking years. There is no excuse for shirking civic responsibility.

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com

The discourse around Tom Morello, a California voter, leaving President blank in 2024 is wild. There’s a massive freakout yesterday accusing him of supporting Trump, while at the exact same time he’s hosting an explicitly anti-Trump music fest with Jack Smith & the Bullwark lady in the crowd. Lol.

This is bullshit. They are not using old mines. It's one data center in an old defense bunker, and they are not heating homes with it. It's bullshit. tech.yahoo.com/computing/ar...

tech.yahoo.comInside Sweden's underground Pionen data centreA former Cold War bunker beneath Stockholm now houses servers in a remarkable futuristic setting
alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social

The captivating image reveals rows of high-tech, glowing servers situated inside a rugged underground mine cavern, with blue cooling pipes bringing cold air in and glowing orange pipes routing captured thermal energy up to a residential neighborhood above www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/fut...

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Sheep, goats, donkeys, oh my! 🐑🐐 Come meet me and some furry friends this Sunday from 4–6 PM in Austin for food, music, and a petting zoo! Can't make Austin? Come say howdy afterward in Coupland for the HD 52 line dancing party from 6–9 PM!

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We are statistically tied, and this race is moving. The billionaires and corporate bigshots have plenty of money to throw around. We have Texans ready to fight for our water, our privacy, and affordable, safe food. Only organized people can beat organized money. Now is the time to prove it.

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hegseth out here talking about "no fatties" in the military when the commander-in-chief looks like this:

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I keep seeing people say you should not vote for this Democrat or that one because PROTEST VOTE. This is what we get when the privileged few decide their votes are playthings.

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Go Texan is in danger. It promotes growing, processing, and manufacturing in Texas. It’s a great brand that helps local Texas businesses grow. My opponent, Data Nate, wants to get rid of the Go Texan program, which ain’t surprising, considering he was a food importer who sold out to Wall Street.

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This is heartbreaking. Once again…there’s not a single good thing that came out of not electing Kamala Harris as POTUS. IDGAF if it makes you mad because the truth is ALL of this could have been avoided. The world is a dumpster fire & anyone that didn’t vote, voted 3rd party, or for GOP did this.

ProPublica@propublica.org

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

I wonder how much she got paid for this vote?

Vox@vox.com

Sen. Susan Collins cast the pivotal vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. He then helped overturn Roe v. Wade four years later. Now she’s battling for her Senate seat in the midterms, and abortion rights groups are betting that voters haven’t forgotten how she contributed to the fall of Roe.

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Lawd have mercy... the world is a fucking dumpster fire & folks are putting energy towards Ed Sheeran. This is why we can't have nice things. None of that shit matters to your bottom dollar, food in your belly, or roof over your head. Then folks will be crying they didn't know about the chaos.

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Chip Roy said to Newsmax: Talarico is out of step with Texas. Translation: we have a good thing going here with our corruption and we don't want it derailed by Talarico. Wake up Texans. 30 years of corruption. And now data centers everywhere. It's time to kick the Republicans to the curb.

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Replying to @madisonkittay.bsky.social

Yep. Similarly, my personal focus is on the cutting of USAID, with almost a *million* already dead, largely children, with 14 million more expected deaths by 2030. Connected directly to US actions. But, alas, it is not the popular protest. But, I refuse to be lectured about children in danger.🍸

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Texas food should come from Texas. If we can grow it here, we should grow it here. If we can process it here, we should process it here. Let's expand GO TEXAN, support local businesses, and make our food local again.

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The Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, everyone. Railroad Commissioner is a misnomer - it's a statewide office that oversees the oil and gas industry, pipelines, coal & surface mining industries, & gas utilities. The responses on X are equally racist. @utlonghorns.bsky.social

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Look who's trying to gaslight people into thinking that it was "centrists" who pushed Fetterman on Pennsylvania. (for those w/memory problems: Fetterman was 100% a product of Bernie/leftists)

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Only organized people can beat organized money. I joined the "Release All the Files" press conference at the Trump-Epstein Files Exhibit in Dallas to talk about what happens when powerful interests believe they can operate without accountability.