Tapani Otala

Tapani Otala

@otala.me

VP Engineering @ Tidepool. Formerly Samsung, Amazon (Lab126), Adobe, TiVo, Canon, ... Building a better world, one byte at a time. My opinions are only mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjotala/ https://github.com/tjotala

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So SCOTUS trashing the Temporary Protected Status means we’ll be deporting those South African refugees real soon, too, right? Right?

Hegseth: Double secret war, sir? Trump: There is a little-known codicil in the Constitution which gives me unlimited power to preserve order in time of national emergency. Find me a way to revoke Iran’s oil fields. Put Miller on it. He's a sneaky little shit, just like you, right?

I read that Jack Dorsey wants Block to get rid of middle management and have all 6,000 employees report directly to him. I’m genuinely curious: what exactly do they need Jack Dorsey for?

I might be in the minority, but hear me out. Maybe committing crimes under the promise of future pardons should, ya know, continue to be illegal AND furthermore grounds for nullifying any such pardons? Anyone? Bueller?

I truly feel bad for all the diplomats having to deal with Trump. It’s an under-appreciated form of art being able to tell someone to go to hell, and have that person look forward to the trip.

After all these years of right-wing accusing liberals of handing out participation trophies, they sure don’t seem to mind Trump and Patel being very eager to get their hands on medals they neither earned nor deserve.

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Probably just a coincidence, right?🤷‍♀️

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.

Paraphrasing the famous line from "A Few Good Men": If the ICE agents did nothing wrong or illegal in shooting Renee Good and Alex Pretti, then why did Bovino and Noem feel it was necessary to immediately send them out of Minnesota's jurisdiction? Aren't they proud of a job well done?

We’re long past the point in Hollywood plots where Small Town, USA citizens would have taken up a secret collection to hire a team of heroes to take down the local Evil Robber Baron and His Goons.

Is it really too much to hope that 3I/ATLAS is in fact an alien invasion fleet just about to turn and burn for Washington DC?

Oh FFS

Tero Kuittinen@teroterotero.bsky.social

The arch of the conservative movement in America. First they started calling ACA “Obamacare” as a slur. Now they are lying about Obama getting $40M in royalties for the name - and the President is amplifying this absurd claim. The President of the United States of America.

BREAKING: Republicans to release details on their new healthcare plan to replace ObamaCare in two weeks. It’ll be called TrumpDontCare.

Simple question for ICE agents: if you think you are doing lawful things AND you think you are doing things that the majority of Americans want - why do you feel the need to wear face masks to hide your identity, and fail to identify yourself? Inquiring minds want to know.

Uh oh, the whales have gone quiet and there’s a mysterious space rock headed towards Earth. Anyone know where we might score a Klingon bird-of-prey for a quick time warp?

Is it wrong to hope that 3I/ATLAS really is an alien probe come to steal our brightest minds out of the White House? Or maybe shine a really bright spotlight on it, like in the movie Independence Day?

Well worth a listen!

Scott Hanselman 🌮@scott.hanselman.com

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

How about we expand the definition of gender-affirming care to include hair plugs, boob jobs, nose jobs, and ED meds. Free access to it would become the newest amendment to the U.S. Constitution in record time.

Putin: hey now, I paid for exclusivity! Netanyahu: suck it loser! Trump: what exactly did you expect from someone with decades of proven disloyalty to anyone and anything? Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Since Trump’s middle name is John, his tenure would no doubt be similar to other popes named John. For example, John VIII, John X, John XII, John XIV, … heck he’s even got the “assassination attempt” covered, similar to John Paul II

As much it amuses me that Elon spent $25M on a failed election influence effort, it also saddens me that he could repeat that mistake every single day and it would still take 37+ years to lose all his money. $25M could have done so much more good.

With all these articles talking about people being “in Trump’s orbit”, I’m beginning to think he has to pretty dense object to capture and keep satellites.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Oh dear. I think we may have broken something. What a shame. This is what I just saw when checking out Xitter after a break. After few minutes of this flapper, it ended with a terse `local_rate_limited` error message from x.com/x/migrate.

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