Mountain

Mountain

@mtnsteve.bsky.social

Husband. Father. A little bit better than mediocre at a lot of things. I work with data. I’m not a scientist but I love science. I’m a liberal.

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Democrats could concentrate on a few issues and stick to those issues. Always pivot to those issues. What $100 would buy from a grocery before the election of Trump and after he took office. The remaining Epstein files that haven’t been released and the damning files regarding Trump that have.

Trump saying no more forever wars juxtaposed with him continually assuring us that the Iran war is over in two weeks, the cost of the war we pay per day and cost of a gallon of gas. How much Ice is costing us along with their murdering and lack of accountability.

The impending crisis with Medicare, social security and healthcare. Don’t reference his buffoonery, his racism, his any number of gross aspects of personality. Build a coalition of people who are selfish. That is what works in America.

This may sound like a gross generalization but it is my experience. If someone comes up to me when I’m with my non-verbal son with autism and unabashedly compliments me and says keep being a good dad they are invariably Hispanic immigrants. It happened today at the car wash.

The attendant asked me to roll down my window before I rolled into the tunnel of suds just to tell me that. He also related he had a son with autism. He literally patted my back and shook my hand through the driver side window.

Meaning, non-white people and poors. Hint hint if you are middle class you are a poor.

Dr. Dave@drdave1999.bsky.social

Donald Trump is a reflection of what America has become: a nation comprised primarily of uneducated, arrogant, racist buffoons without a conscience or even basic social skills, scamming their way thru life with impunity while believing that laws apply only to other people— never to them.

I suspect most of the people who run business in America are psychopaths if they keep thinking that this President is good for anyone’s business long term. Most of them fancy themselves as a Musk or Bezos, but they lack the bunkers and stupid wealth.

You know I'm usually the first to tell my cohort to calm their tits, but I think in the current climate it makes sense for your tits to be anything but calm.

I am a real actual person living in the United States. I’ve debated on whether I should replace my profile picture with an actual picture of myself. I kind of miss the early days of a mostly anonymous internet. Decisions decisions.

I have decided that no delivery trucks shall pass in front of my house unless a tribute is paid. $500 for safe passage. I anticipate a budget surplus this year in excess of $327,500.

I had to go to a government agency this week. As is typical they have pictures of the President and Vice President. Really odd having to sit in a lobby while someone glares at you from a photo looking like they just lost in poker and their hemmorhoids are flared up.

Americans don’t give a tinkers damn that human misery, ecological destruction exist. If we can pay for streaming services, a smart phone, all the restaurant food we can eat and the ability to fill up a Tahoe, nothing will change. We have to suffer to change. Not for a noble reason, a selfish one.

My brothers and sisters in Christ how in Moses’ sandals do all my sistern and brethren keep believing that this administration isn’t taking us lower than the dung of the sheep.

Trump is not watching the polls. He no longer cares. He has a plan to bring to fruition every dumb ass policy decision he ever thought would work to show all the non-MAGAs he’s a genius. He’s also going to try to preempt the midterms. That’s it. That’s the plan.

1/ Trump is trying to Manifest himself the emporer. It’s why he is trying to guild, flatten and build the White House into Mar A Lago North. I’m going to vote. But god help us all if the midterms aren’t a repudiation.

The amazing thing is how they have an answer to everything. It’s like if someone shit their pants and you said hey you shit your pants and they said no you shit my pants.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Has the president's faith in Russia to cut a peace deal with Ukraine been shaken by the knowledge that they are apparently supplying intelligence to Iran? LEAVITT: I think the president would say peace is still an achievable objective

As a former developer now in the other side of the fence, this absolutely crushes it. I work with a specific software product ever day that needs serious time spent in usability and better ability to query and yet the next release is a giant AI shit sandwich.

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

In my experience, the vast majority of waste in a software shop is time spent building things nobody wants on top of overly complex architectures that solve problems we don't have. Focus on that. Put solving your customer's actual (not imagined) problems first. 1/3

I am in no way endorsing this clown show of a distraction but does it impact the war in Ukraine vis a vis Russia’s ability to secure Iranian made drones?

Fifty years ago Yes I mean adults and kids Yes I mean in school Makes a pretty interesting Haiku

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Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...

That one kid over his right should appears to be checking his venmo to see if the transaction cleared.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Should we do it a fourth time? Four victories! We got the right team over there."

I asked ChatGPT if it was a murder and it wouldn’t initially answer so I asked for an opinion and this is what I got. I’m not in X but what would Grok say. Hmm…

I’m really disappointed that Tomlin is retiring but will take solace in that surly old doofus Aaron Rogers playing like shit and handling it by lashing out at his teammates while he sat on the bench by himself thinking he was the team. What a clown.

American hubris will give China the mantle of world leader. Too many of us think crushing beers and having infallible belief in our superiority supersedes hard work and investment in research and education. It’s pitiful the loss of exceptionalism is self inflicted.

Watching this football game reminds me of the bread circus in old Rome. We out here watching gladiators while the government is doing some real shady shit.

They will excuse this Ice murder. It amazes me how all these “self-made, true American, patriots” love the taste of shoe polish on jack boots.

I think Trump loves CBS so much because he sees it as the Tiffany network. He still sees 60 minutes as carrying the same weight it did when it was what everyone watched after the Sunday NFL games concluded. He is locked in time as we all do as we get older.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

Who knew regime change was so complicated. Trump Probably In about six weeks. And then… A quick surge to get things under control. You will barely notice. Look at these plans for a beachside resort.