Nick Peterson

Nick Peterson

@thetecheng.bsky.social

Camus' greatest rock pusher. Currently doing design work on high tech labs & manufacturing facilities. Interested in anything and everything. He/Him

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The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

I think a lot of people dont really appreciate how much better medicine and healthcare have gotten in the past couple of decades. While not everything I think the Human Genome project represents a legit inflection point on our understanding of the human body

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

A lot of that was us figuring out that that shit was waaayyy more complex then we previously thought, but the continued investigation and understanding of that complexity has dramatically improved medicine

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Marines are happy to eat all the colors of crayon, no discrimination

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

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Turns out that when you constantly tell people in an organization about the transformational effects of becoming a Marine that becomes their primary identity.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

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Replying to @bradiscranky.bsky.social

imagine a politician from ohio who’s estranged from their mother sharing why with the public

As a rule of thumb, try to find a house that is roughly 1/4 inch larger on the inside then it is on the outside.

Doll@dollspace.gay

Modern homes are too eager to explain themselves immediately. It dislikes that. A proper house should reveal itself in stages. First you notice the woodwork. Then the oddities. Then the curious alcove. Then six months later someone says, “Oh, that? That door goes to the map room.”

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Early voting opens today, Texans!

Gina Hinojosa@ginafortexas.bsky.social

This is our best chance to secure the American Dream by saving Texas schools and putting money in your pocket. Polls are OPEN for early voting until Oct. 30th. Let’s vote, Texas!

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Johnson’s real power wasn’t intimidation(though many found him imposing). It was his intense involvement in the legislative process and wealth of knowledge about Congress and the individual legislators he had to persuade.

Astreia@redoubters.bsky.social

(I've always found it a little funny when people post this picture as a sign of dominance or something because like the senator didn't wind up voting how johnson wanted him to)

I strongly encourage Oregonians not to vote for Troy Jackson

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com

It appears that a GOP Super PAC - running anti-Troy Jackson hits in the Maine Senate race - booked time in Portland…Oregon? #MESen

@persistentpoasting.bsky.social @revan.eurosky.social Thought you guys might get a laugh out of this headline. Near as I can tell the only thing that has happened so far is that Intel and maybe TSMC are looking to build their own fabs on the Texas campus with Tesla/SpaceX being an anchor customer.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Elon Musk said he thinks his companies would probably “figure out how to make chips better than anyone” given their expertise in creating customized equipment

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Replying to @rtodkelly.bsky.social

Claim: ice murdered a child in cold blood and then ate his liver. Fact: the child naughty and livers are delicious. Like, this is basically a confirmation, not a refutation.

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holy fucking shit this is the ny version of talarico winning, this was stefanik's seat. this is the backwoods of the backwoods of the state

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social

New York - 21st House Polling - (Trump +21 District): 🔵 Gendebien: 46% 🔴 Constantino: 42% Siena / Oct 6, 2026 (Current model result is GOP 56% - DEM 44%) unitedstatespolling.com/p/democrats-...

The human brain is an incredible feat of evolution, and the way we experience the world and think is unique to that evolution, but critically its not the only way to achieve the traits most people assign to consciousness. Unicellular slime mold meets many scientific definitions of consciousness

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There's the even more fundamental problem that "what is consciousness" is something philosophy has been trying to nail down for 2500 years now with no solid agreement. The above paper provides several traits people have suggested as being external evidence of consciousness, but its far from settled.

Ossoff to Mike Collins

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "You just heard Mike Collins say the tariffs are working. Go buy groceries. Nobody in the state seriously believes these tariffs are working. It's been a disaster."

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At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

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Okay so Male Fantasies is a 1977 book written by Klaus Theweleit, a sociologist who grew up in post-war Germany grappling with the male culture of his parents and grandparents, essentially, and how it led to the Freikorps and eventually the Nazis.

omniz815.bsky.social@omniz815.bsky.social

say more?

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From a very good thread on Theweleit's Male Fantasies and the Malfoid craze. When have you last seen an anime where people date, hook up, where somebody would say 'I used to date X but it didn't work out and now I date Y'? Adult sexuality just doesn't exist even in realistic adult anime.

Mezentine@mezentine.bsky.social

I think there is a particular flavor of sexism that shows up in a lot of anime. To whit, does a female character -Have only one relationship to a single male figure? -Or have no relationships to men at all? -Or have an abstract relationship to all men? (this is the idol thing)

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Replying to @erictaysom.bsky.social

A multi-polar system is a system in which you've got multiple organizing centers of power *in competition with each other.* When you see this happening at a national level, it doesn't get a nice neutral term like 'multipolar', it's called a Warlord Era and everyone agrees it sucks*.

Some tools out there definitely. But in a lot of cases of B2B SaaS the product is the Service not the Software. People want these systems to offload the liability and certification concerns and costs as well as having a secure and standardized to send and recieve data between enterprises.

Doll@dollspace.gay

SAAS is dead and it just hasnt stopped twitching yet

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Replying to @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social

"idk man it seems like kind of a stretch to say that the far right thinks gay and trans people are a Jewish psyop to emasculate white men and accelerate the Great Replacement because of porn tropes" don't you ever doubt me again

VoteHub@votehub.com

RACE RATING CHANGE: Texas Senate Tilt D → Lean D James Talarico currently has an 65% chance of winning. Our model puts his projected margin at 2.4 points, smaller than an average polling error.

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Replying to @surcomplicated.bsky.social

A useful graph. Presidencies tend to be swingier than Congress, but...: 1968-1992 is GOP dominance, except for a Carter interregnum due to Watergate 1932-1968 is Dem dominance, except for when the hero who conquered Europe ran as a Republican 1897-1932 is the GOP, except when Teddy split the vote