Christopher De Vries

Troy Jackson’s speech in Bethel yesterday. youtu.be/9z4navxE-NM?...

I highly recommend @parismarx.com new book, “Hyperscale.” Pick up a copy and learn more about the history and impacts of giant data centers. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Since updating to MacOS Tahoe I have had intermittent freezes in my SSH connections to certain older systems. I think I finally found the solution via www.osso.nl/blog/2026/ma... setting net.inet.tcp.ecn_initiate_out=0 seems to have worked for me.

So nice when a feel-good Maine story becomes part of the national discussion.

I remember learning about this in high school. The legislative branch writes the laws, the judicial branch interprets the laws, and the executive branch figures out which laws they feel like enforcing and which to ignore.

This afternoon's orbital data suggests - subject to confirmation - that Russia's Kosmos-2612 has carried out a rendezvous with the US ICEYE X36 radar sat, within a few km. To my knowledge this is the first LEO rendezvous of two active sats where the owner of one of the sats did not give approval.

Impeach this traitor. Impeach, indict, convict.

Collins literally demonstrating how out of touch she is on the night our Maine town unanimously voted for a datacenter moratorium.

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

Fryeburg unanimously passed a datacenter moratorium. Looks like it’s a very bipartisan issue.

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social I thought it was amusing on Intelligent Machines that you found the Cornell mathematician egotistical. It's kind of like realizing the sky is blue.

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

10/14 FACT CHECK: Did Senator Collins introduce a bill to codify Roe v Wade, like she said in Thursday's debate? Yes, but it was savaged by abortion care advocates who wanted to see a law relevant to abortion access in 2022, not relevant to 1973. #maine #MEpolitics

Susan Collins experiencing the downside of having your campaign run from DC. #MEpolitics

Are we sure Susan Collins remembers which Portland is in her constituency?

Even if we take your word that it is now friendly and inclusive, your engagement directly supports Musk’s mission to dismantle U.S. social services and discrimination protection, his donations to corrupt politicians, and his protection of child predators.

#MEpolitics: I live in Bangor—walking distance from downtown—and Bobby Charles is not only talking out of his arse, he’s employing the MAGA tactic of trying to dehumanise and demonise unhoused people, many of whom are unhoused because of the failed, inhumane policies of people like Bobby Charles.

When the people of Maine go to the polls, keep in mind that Susan Collins paid for Johan’s murder by ICE, a little girl no longer has a father because of Susan’s vote. End the killing, vote for @troyjackson207.bsky.social

I’ve seen a couple of political ads from Susan Collins which can be summarized as: I am solving the problem of rural Maine birthing center closures by making it easier to give birth in the emergency room.

Strong Geomagnetic Storm Underway. Check the Space Weather dashboard for more information.

When am I going to get this latest edition of the Newspeak dictionary?

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

We’ve got Sun, Earth, and atmosphere and that means we’ve got atmospheric phenomena!

10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics

We know Susan Collins would vote for Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Alito. And Mainers can prevent that by voting for Troy Jackson. #mepolitics www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

#MEpolitics: Collins wouldn’t even be renouncing these unconstitutional rescissions right now if not for her desperate need to distract from her own corruption scandal, reassert herself as an “independent” chair of the Senate Appropriations Comm, obfuscate her vote to confirm Vought as OMB Director.

Check trading… #MESen #mepolitics #VoteBlue

#MEpolitics: A must watch from William Turton, one of the journalists behind @propublica.org’s blockbuster Susan Collins corruption investigation, explaining what they discovered, and debunking Collins’ misleading claims or outright lies in response to their extensively researched reporting.

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

I personally like to focus on actual qualifications. Focusing on superficial details is a slippery slope to bias, and I know I can’t eliminate mine entirely, but I really try to minimize them.

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵

Bessent essentially makes Representative Foster’s point with his incompetent assertion that Oppenheimer was not a physicist. Foster also happens to be a physicist. youtu.be/PIwWsHy9RfE?...

Often seems like the most brutal attack on Susan Collins is a bland recitation of the facts. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins said when deciding to support this man that "He told me he believed in the efficacy of the polio vaccine and said he would help restore Americans’ confidence in vaccines and our health agencies." Either she’s an idiot or she lied. Both should disqualify her for another term.

RFK Jr. is ramping up his anti-vax campaign, meaning we need to ramp up showing out to the midterms and voting for a Congress that will remove RFK Jr. Help us embolden a science-defending Congress: zurl.co/0vv7S www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/r...

Candidates need to be much more straightforward than this: “You know republicans keep getting convicted of child sexual abuse. Now my opponent is making up an excuse to look in your kid’s pants. I won’t let them.”

The Truly Do Nothin Congress: The House has been in session for so few days in 2026 (65; the lowest number since 1994) that the American Fascist Party members would not fulfill the Medicaid work requirements they are forcing on the rest of us starting on 1 January 2027.

There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.

Anyone have any recommendations on where to move my server?

This seems way more interesting show than the children’s show I was remembering. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Zo...

no time for disabled veterans, children's hospital advocates, or slain police officers, but plenty of time to kiss Trump's ass

Maybe Google and Apple will preemptively change it in their maps so they can kiss ass even more!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.