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Rob Eberhardt
@robeberhardt.bsky.social
I'm a software developer enjoying life in Cape Cod with my wonderful wife and a demented orange cat. I like LEGO, video games, and stressing out about politics.
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Between this and the 'slavery was no biggie, was it?' vote by the board earlier this week (see link), the massive influence of Texas over curricula across the U.S. stands in urgent need of prying away.
The Texas State Board of Education has approved a proposal that will establish lists of required reading — including biblical stories and Bible verses — for its K-12 English and literature curriculum. https://cnn.it/4aqAf61
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This is bombshell stuff.
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
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I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com
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In #StarTrekTOS' "The Trouble With Tribbles", Korax calls Kirk a "Denebian slime devil". The species is never referenced again in any later #StarTrek episode (except for the re-used #TOS footage in #StarTrekDS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"). Now, what exactly does it look like? Let's find out! 🧵1/7
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trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now
Miss America has just barred intersex people and trans women from participating... only select intersex people who've had surgery to 'correct their genitals', are chromosomally XX etc can participate—what the fuck is this shit 😭😭 I mean, it doesn't get more contemptible & ludicrous.
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“I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this” the President said about the single thing he spends the most of his time on.
Trump, while shuffling through half a dozen posterboard illustrations of his ballroom on Air Force One: "I thought I'd do this now because it's easier. I'm so busy that I don't have time to do this. But I'm fighting wars and other things. But this is very important..."
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Replying to @mikedavis.bsky.social
a little fiction I wrote a while back with the premise "what if this is basically all there is" bsky.app/profile/mike...
a little bit of fiction: It’s the 41st millennium and things are fine. You can see the cities on the Moon from the surface of the Earth. (You can’t see the Martian colonies without a telescope or a satellite feed, obviously.) We’ve been to all of the planets and most of the asteroids.
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Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I think about this all the time - that feeling slowly being crushed
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
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New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
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This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...
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Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.