Paul Bort

Paul Bort

@paulbort.bsky.social

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Whether it's Elon Musk cutting off the Starlink access that protects Ukrainians from Russian missiles or Ukraine cutting off Russian bot servers that give Elon his X likes and retweets, both sides have escalated a deadly feud.

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The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

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That’s it. If your core value and top concern isn’t the right to be safe for ALL people, please just get out of the way.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

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The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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The Republican Party has all the values and tactics of a white supremacist prison gang and maybe it's time to stop normalizing them as if they were a modern functioning political party

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Replying to @juliusgoat.bsky.social

"You won't debate me because you can't beat my IDEAS"—no, loser, I won't debate you because your ideas have been considered and rejected and no longer warrant debate, and the very act of engaging in debate frames you as better than you are and your failed ideas as worthy of anything but contempt.

Tay is good, Tay is wise.

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com

IT Ops: "Why is this Windows setting gray'd out?" Me: "It's insecure we can't... Actually, I jumped ahead of myself. Why does the user know this option exists? What is the problem they are trying to solve by changing it?" IT Ops: "Actually we don't know." This is why they pay me.

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Just a periodic, friendly reminder that we could actually avoid all this by not caring who’s attracted to, who’s having sex with who, who’s marrying who, let alone believing any of it should matter in public policy. We could just all mind our own business and all have rights. ✨

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Just ran across yet another "[a food you buy] has weird ingredients in it that you can't pronounce." As the kids say, skill issue. If you'd paid attention in your various science classes you'd be able to pronounce them, and also know that few (likely none) of them are weird.

People who think they need to engineer dogs for the military have never argued with a Malinois over a steak.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

If he really doesn't want to, I know a sure-fire way for him to get out of it. Any day now...

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Funniest line I've heard today: I was an alcoholic and my friends tried to get me non-alcoholic beer because it tastes the same. Brother, I wasn't getting blackout drunk for the TASTE. You might as well send a heroin addict to acupuncture to feel the needles. I'm. Dead. 🤣🤣🤣

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Replying to @misswhanau.bsky.social

Enough with telling women in politics to be resilient or “how to be safer”. Hold the men threatening them accountable. Political leaders - call it out, even when it’s your own supporters. Police - take threats seriously. Platforms - remove abuse you billionaire fucks. Protect women. Not abusers.

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"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"