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#gardening I planted some fall mums and after a couple of days I ...

2026-10-30T11:57:11Z

#gardening I planted some fall mums and after a couple of days I noticed one of the plants was entirely stripped of blooms. So I put out a havahart trap thinking a rabbit was eating the flowers. We don't get deer wandering up in the neighborhood so I figured rabbits, which are a plague here. Well last night the trap caught a small opossum. So now I'm confused. Do they eat chrysanthemum flowers just like rabbits? I can't find anything online mentioning possums eating mums or other flowers. I suppose it's possible a rabbit did do the damage and my trap with apple in it just coincidentally attracted the possum?

They really think someone else will do it for them, that their ...

2026-10-29T23:27:25Z

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They really think someone else will do it for them, that their one vote isn't important. We just had a local runoff where the awful republican incumbent won, by 300 votes. Just that many people could've taken 20 minutes out of their day and changed the course of this city.

Today was the last day of early voting in GA and despite my ...

2026-10-29T23:16:33Z

Today was the last day of early voting in GA and despite my reminders my daughter didn't vote. The apathy pisses me off. She and her daughters got their rights to OWN THEIR BODIES taken away by these mother fuckers and she's not voting?! ⁉️ ⁉️ ⁉️ GA looks safe at this point for Congress but how about Governor and how about all of her local and state level officials? They all matter right down to the city.

Spoopy #Halloween rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center ...

2026-10-28T23:08:08Z

Spoopy #Halloween rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center

r/recruitinghell #jobs #jobsearch ...

2026-10-28T11:49:47Z

r/recruitinghell #jobs #jobsearch

😆 Voters in Serbia and Brazil today ...

2026-10-26T01:18:57Z

😆 Voters in Serbia and Brazil today

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Congrats to Lula on ...

2026-10-26T00:31:59Z

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day.

Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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2026-10-25T14:22:45Z

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/controversial-musk-documentary-pulled-from-almost-every-one-of-472-theaters-after-one-week-by-newly-sold-bleecker-street-films

term for a person? Obsessive? But I was looking for an actual ...

2026-10-24T13:28:14Z

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term for a person? Obsessive? But I was looking for an actual word in or derived from an East Asian language? Slang-ish?

Is there an inoffensive term for a white person who likes ...

2026-10-24T13:02:28Z

Is there an **inoffensive** term for a white person who likes Asian things including art, media, and design motifs? I'm asking because one of my grandkids is fairly obsessed with such things, reads dumb romance series books by Chinese, Korean, and Japanese authors, watches anime, likes stereotypical Asian design motifs on clothing fabrics, and commercial junk like Hello Kitty. There must be a word that describes that, which doesn't mean *fetish*, as we are talking about a kid here.

I use Plex only because I got a lifetime pass many years back ...

2026-10-19T00:47:37Z

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I use Plex only because I got a lifetime pass many years back when they were cheap. If starting today I'd probably try jellyfin. Probably will do someday. So I'm not going to vote because I use one thing but would recommend another.

Reposting with alt text ...

2026-10-17T22:47:26Z

Reposting with alt text

John Scalzi @scalzi.com I see we're having a debate about ...

2026-10-17T22:36:35Z

John Scalzi @scalzi.com

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service

Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Got my No Kings sign ready for these stupid Alabamians #Alabama ...

2026-10-16T21:32:53Z

Got my No Kings sign ready for these stupid Alabamians
#Alabama #NoKings

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2026-10-15T21:30:04Z

A terrible loss for solid scientific health journalism. RIP Helen ...

2026-10-13T20:49:39Z

A terrible loss for solid scientific health journalism. RIP Helen Branswell. #PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/helen-branswell-stat-reporter-obituary/

From Mamdani tonight #ICE #fascism ...

2026-10-08T23:35:46Z

From Mamdani tonight
#ICE #fascism

> Since 1865, Congress has made it a crime to bring troops or ...

2026-10-05T14:42:41Z

> Since 1865, Congress has made it a crime to bring troops or armed personnel to a place where an election is held.

https://www.justsecurity.org/153281/boots-off-ballots-law-history/ #elections #military

U.S. people: if you didn't realize it yet, you have been ...

2026-09-29T00:18:47Z

U.S. people: if you didn't realize it yet, you have been living through regime change for almost 2 years. You're living through a revolution being waged by an autocratic regime that is replacing the old democratic regime. "Regime" not being about an administration, but a *system of government*. This is what regime change looks like. For most people life goes on pretty much as normal but *that'll only go on so long* because so many things are being broken, so many past government functions are being cut off or deteriorating, and so many new government functions are designed to oppress, victimize, punish, and cement the new regime in place. What I'm saying is things are eventually going to get bad for most people in any number of ways and I think very few people have given this any thought at all. Don't ask me what to do about it. But you better be thinking about it. This is real. This is happening to your country right now. #fascism

I'm so tired of technology. It lost the magic for me at least ...

2026-09-26T22:33:23Z

I'm so tired of technology. It lost the magic for me at least 10 years ago. It is more of an imposition, a difficulty, a struggle by the day. Can't figure out simple things, don't want the fucking endless surveillance, sick and tired of being the product when I didn't opt in. Tired of this world that pushes itself on me that I don't want.

This woman and her husband are both older than me by at least 10 ...

2026-09-26T20:33:39Z

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This woman and her husband are both older than me by at least 10 years, and her husband was showing me some of his ebook and audiobook apps on this phone (*read* on a phone? I would go blind) and she's all about her self-driving cars and I don't know, it occurs to me that I truly am a Luddite.

This morning I had a conversation with someone who, it turns out, ...

2026-09-26T20:29:40Z

This morning I had a conversation with someone who, it turns out, has 5 Teslas, one of them a cybertruck. 😬 I noted that I felt the self driving software was, to me, beyond my level of safety risk, and she lit up like a Christmas tree, going on about all the ways gas cars and old, non-self-driving cars are so much less safe than Teslas. Like she really lit up, and all I could do was kind of giggle a little bit because I was watching someone so deeply imprinted and it was really fascinating.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com I have blamed The agents That ...

2026-09-26T12:35:37Z

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com

I have blamed
The agents
That hacked
Your website

And which
You probably
Reasonably thought
I controlled

Forgive me
I am rich
And unaccustomed
To taking responsibility

#AI #LLM

This is a really common one. Multiple narrators don't know ...

2026-09-25T13:51:24Z

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This is a really common one. Multiple narrators don't know the word.

Dear #audiobook narrators: Look up words you're not familiar ...

2026-09-25T13:18:50Z

Dear #audiobook narrators: Look up words you're not familiar with. Today's example: chitin isn't pronounced with a ch sound like chittering. It's a k sound followed by a long i. Say kite. Now say kite-in. Cripes, you guys are tiring.

Next they'll be blackmailing the bestiality guy, i.e., the ...

2026-09-22T17:54:25Z

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Next they'll be blackmailing the bestiality guy, i.e., the (hypothetically) one Trump appointee that Kash had to suspend hiring rules for

I get invitations to zoom meetings that I'd like to attend ...

2026-09-18T00:40:51Z

I get invitations to zoom meetings that I'd like to attend but I'm concerned zoom might be using our voices and video to train AI or storing it for who knows what. Is that a ridiculous concern?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kpdooty/117269079930105882 Good ...

2026-09-14T11:26:04Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kpdooty/117269079930105882

Good question. A perverse kind of marketing hype; a little bit of huffing their own farts; the first act in a play to convince the government to get them out of their circular debt cycle through a multi-billion dollar protection scheme; combination of all of the above. Just some brief speculation with first cup of coffee.

Yep I'm using a large "frogg toggs" cooling towel, ...

2026-09-14T01:00:23Z

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Yep I'm using a large "frogg toggs" cooling towel, it's like a sponge. I lived in a hot box student apartment for a year at Iowa State. Showers, cool wet cloths, fans...

2/ Ok the sun has gone down and I made it through the day with no ...

2026-09-14T00:26:34Z

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2/ Ok the sun has gone down and I made it through the day with no AC. When I discovered the unit had quit late morning I closed all the shades and the residual cool from before the unit quit did a pretty good job of keeping the downstairs livable. It's reached its peak now at 82F downstairs and 92F upstairs. It's finally gone below 92 outside so I opened the upstairs windows and put a fan in one of them. It'll be late tonight before I can open the downstairs windows. Took a cool shower. HVAC company can't come until Tuesday. Tomorrow will be much worse because the residual cool is now all gone. 🥵

Things come in threes, they say. This week I had that unpleasant ...

2026-09-13T17:54:55Z

Things come in threes, they say. This week I had that unpleasant arm pain sending me to the hospital, and today the AC went out at my house. We're still having heat index around 100F these days here. What is #3 going to be? Hopefully something small like I need to replace a light bulb. 🤞

The edit didn't help in my opinion because now the last two ...

2026-09-10T13:36:40Z

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The edit didn't help in my opinion because now the last two items are the same thing for me but I suppose someone might have some other rationale than ethics to choose the 2nd to last choice. Anyway I'm sticking with what I picked before the edit.

I learned that the hard way also

2026-09-10T13:34:25Z

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I learned that the hard way also

Sadly, those attacks turned the U.S. into a different country. ...

2026-09-09T18:53:14Z

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Sadly, those attacks turned the U.S. into a different country. And I'm sure someone else will pop in with "the U.S. was always that country!" to which I say, settle down. Anyway, for the scifi nerds out there, the series Babylon 5 presciently captured a world power's slide into a militaristic, paranoid society many years before the terrorist attacks. Another thing that comes to mind for me is the sick crawling feeling I had the first time I hear Bush utter the word "homeland." It was like the future had opened up before me to see, and it was very, very dark.

Yes christian extremism IS a war on women and they don't care ...

2026-09-09T12:35:12Z

Yes christian extremism IS a war on women and they don't care if you vessels die. https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis

Somebody remembered Space Food Sticks! In the 70s I was crazy ...

2026-09-07T17:52:19Z

Somebody remembered Space Food Sticks! In the 70s I was crazy about those things. I'm sure they were very bad for you. The flavor was a bit odd and they had a weird plasticky texture, and I loved them. We were poor so we didn't get them often which was probably just as well. But I would still eat one today if I could, just to see if the memory holds up. #food https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/school-lunchboxes-in-the-1970s/

“Honor had a good run,” said Brig. Gen. Nicholas Gist, West ...

2026-09-07T13:10:58Z

“Honor had a good run,” said Brig. Gen. Nicholas Gist, West Point’s dean. “But after a comprehensive review, we found it creates unnecessary ambiguity in the chain of command.” #military https://www.duffelblog.com/west-point-removes-honor-from-duty-honor-country-ethos/

"We must remove our gold from the US as soon as ...

2026-09-06T14:11:36Z

"We must remove our gold from the US as soon as possible," de Ruiter warned. "It is simply no longer safe there." https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/expert-issues-financial-warning-under-trump-as-netherlands-moves-gold-846562-20260902

And if the politician who's the LEGO brick that hurts the ...

2026-09-06T14:03:35Z

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And if the politician who's the LEGO brick that hurts the least in your shoe is one who is gleefully part of the insider threat extremist authoritarian movement that is literally tearing down the U.S. in every aspect of national security, stealing our money, and murdering our neighbors, then a hearty **FUCK YOU** to you and if nobody ever told you yet, you are one of the worst human beings on Earth and you should be ostracized and publicly despised.

Did I grit my teeth to vote for Hillary Clinton even though I ...

2026-09-06T13:58:55Z

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Did I grit my teeth to vote for Hillary Clinton even though I didn't personally like her as a politician? Yes I did. I'd be damned if I'd vote for a racist, misogynist, accused child rapist, and Russian sympathizer. And I do damn all those who did. Had more people who didn't prefer this or that about Clinton gritted their teeth in 2016 the U.S. would still be a reliable and stable global power today. I'm not Nostradamus but I think that's a backward prediction one can count on when we look around at the wreckage of the United States today. Vote for the LEGO brick that's going to hurt the least in your shoe.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117221457031287101 ...

2026-09-06T13:52:07Z

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117221457031287101

That's a good description. People who just won't vote because they demand candidates that are political clones of themselves are, I would describe as, immature. The rest of us need them to grow up and vote for the least harmful to the public good, not the most perfectly fit to one's singular opinion on every issue--that candidate doesn't exist.

Haha, wonderful 😀 The U.S. was the only "no" vote LOL. ...

2026-09-04T18:44:46Z

Haha, wonderful 😀 The U.S. was the only "no" vote LOL.

> The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

Make sure to follow @MineralCup and #MinCup26 to join in starting ...

2026-08-31T13:08:07Z

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Make sure to follow @MineralCup and #MinCup26 to join in starting 1 September. And remember the honor system, only one vote per person per day. IIRC, they do check for discrepancies but just be a good person about it, enjoy the game, and learn about fascinating minerals each day.

With one day until #MinCup26 starts, there's a practice vote ...

2026-08-31T12:00:11Z

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With one day until #MinCup26 starts, there's a practice vote today to help make sure the site is all working correctly https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-practice

The #MinCup26 bracket is live! ...

2026-08-29T18:42:53Z

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The #MinCup26 bracket is live! [www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket](http://www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket )

Photos of earth star fungus found in backyard mulch this morning. ...

2026-08-27T18:11:45Z

Photos of earth star fungus found in backyard mulch this morning. First time seen here.

It's that wonderful time of the year again! #MinCup starts on ...

2026-08-26T22:56:12Z

It's that wonderful time of the year again! #MinCup starts on September 1st https://www.mineralcup.org/ [@MineralCup](https://mastodon.social/@MineralCup )

This one wasn't too bad, the quilt posted above it was much ...

2026-08-26T20:18:54Z

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This one wasn't too bad, the quilt posted above it was much more expensive. But yeah, these little quilts do run close to $200 all totaled up. The longarm service costs as much as the fabric.

Just picked up quilt for Grandspawn #1 who's all about Pride ...

2026-08-26T20:07:21Z

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Just picked up quilt for Grandspawn #1 who's all about Pride & allyship and loves the rainbow. Needs the binding put on but it looks great. It has a pieced back too but I'll get that pic once I'm done binding. #quilting My 2nd quilt ever.

Good morning ...

2026-08-23T13:38:33Z

Good morning

God. I get so tired of this. It's not "take a different ...

2026-08-23T02:20:12Z

God. I get so tired of this.

It's not "take a different tact"
It's "take a different tack"

It comes from boats, not etiquette! It means changing course! Why in the world would "tact" even make sense in any context one would be using this phrase? It wouldn't!

(Closes laptop, goes to bed in disgust)

Nobody cares about their feelings. Their paychecks are coming ...

2026-08-21T16:34:27Z

Nobody cares about their feelings. Their paychecks are coming from **us**. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a-rL1dvp5B8

#DemonCore anniversary: its first kill 🧵 ...

2026-08-21T15:57:23Z

#DemonCore anniversary: its first kill
🧵 https://bsky.app/profile/atomicanalyst.bsky.social/post/3mtm4addcuk2z

> Tonight in 1945 at Los Alamos, 24-year-old graduate student and Manhattan Project physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., was conducting a risky criticality experiment by himself in a shack when he accidentally dropped a 4.4-kg (9.7-pound) tungsten carbide brick on a 6.2-kg (13.7-pound) plutonium core.

The Republicans are “at this point the equivalent of made men ...

2026-08-16T23:31:39Z

The Republicans are “at this point the equivalent of made men in the mafia,” Spiegelman says, “they’ve committed a murder, they’re complicit in something and they have to keep moving as a complicit unit, so it’s very hard to get someone to blow the whistle and say ‘This is crazy.’” The US needs a “counter-revolution”, Spiegelman says. “But I don’t know where to look for it because the Democrats are so timid.” #fascism https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/15/art-spiegelman-the-us-needs-a-counter-revolution

showoff

2026-08-12T18:16:17Z

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showoff

Finished! My first #quilt - for Grandspawn #2 Christmas. ...

2026-08-11T19:06:39Z

Finished! My first #quilt - for Grandspawn #2 Christmas. She's extremely into Asian stuff - books, manga, anime etc.

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2026-08-07T22:00:29Z

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Related: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-flock-alpr-surveillance-hallucination-gold-copper

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2026-08-07T21:40:47Z

LOL

Thing I remember that hasn't been around in decades: ...

2026-08-01T01:57:17Z

Thing I remember that hasn't been around in decades: flashbulbs. The old single use ones and then the flashcubes. The crackly melty remains after the flash.

I wonder how many current or former Federal civil servants and ...

2026-07-29T21:12:49Z

I wonder how many current or former Federal civil servants and Service members are, like me, looking around stunned and grieving over what our countrymen have done to us, and asking what was my career even for. What. Apparently nothing. Because of the electoral system we have, and billionaires owning the information, and politicians being outright purchased, and an insidious corruption that is effectively a caste system protecting those purchased politicians and their billionaire owners, because of these things, we who followed the rules and thought other people also cared about national security were instead publicly shit on by our neighbors, coworkers, and family members, not once, but twice. #fascism

I think my offspring can relate. But is it really just ...

2026-07-28T13:28:26Z

I think my offspring can relate. But is it really just millenials? I would like to live in a cabin in the woods at this point. In Canada.

Mamdani just posted this on Bsky condemning #Netanyahu and asking ...

2026-07-22T00:38:43Z

Mamdani just posted this on Bsky condemning #Netanyahu and asking the Federal govt to carry out #ICC warrant for his arrest for #WarCrimes

My #weather forecast has been basically crazy for months, maybe a ...

2026-07-13T14:31:34Z

My #weather forecast has been basically crazy for months, maybe a year. It changes dramatically, suddenly, throughout the day, and going up to a week ahead, forget it. I really can't plan well when it comes to watering the flowers & garden. If I think we're getting rain and don't water, the forecast is wrong. If I think it'll be dry and I water, later a thunderstorm will drop an inch.

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2026-07-13T11:48:57Z

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That's a sad one

2026-07-13T11:41:43Z

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That's a sad one

#RIP Sam Neill ...

2026-07-13T11:40:44Z

#RIP Sam Neill

The interesting question is, if all of these things were ...

2026-07-12T14:08:26Z

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The interesting question is, if all of these things were available to all, would the all-volunteer military still attract more people than it can accept? The main reason military accession goals haven't been hit for some years is because most applicants don't meet the minimum requirements. If everyone had all the benefits given to the military, would no one apply? And then like some other countries, would the U.S. institute a period of national service for all young people? U.S. citizens would go completely nuts over that.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joewo/116905031991861332 This is ...

2026-07-12T13:44:53Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joewo/116905031991861332

This is true although not complete. We (Service members) make a trade. We agree to forego many of our rights we had as civilians and submit to a different legal code, and we agree to perform dangerous tasks of varying risk including death when legally ordered to do so.

I've yammered on for years that all of these things would contribute to national security if provided to all citizens and we obviously have the financial capacity to do all of this and more. We have the capacity to enact any policy decisions we want. People indoctrinated on lies prevent all of this from happening.
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Violent Israeli settlers detained U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna. IDF ...

2026-07-11T19:08:14Z

Violent Israeli settlers detained U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna. IDF showed up...to support the settlers.

The U.S. must change its relationship to the government of Israel. Netanyahu presides over a government of criminals and a base of violent thugs just like Trump does in the U.S. Khanna speculates about running for president with this as a platform issue. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/11/ro-khanna-congressman-detained-israel-settlers-west-bank

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2026-07-11T00:55:25Z

Unbought and unbossed. That's badass.

2026-07-11T00:49:06Z

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Unbought and unbossed. That's badass.

I just read that they rolled it back. But general fuckery will ...

2026-07-10T23:50:14Z

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I just read that they rolled it back. But general fuckery will continue, without a doubt.

‪Benn Jordan‬ ‪@bennjordan.bsky.social‬ Flock threatens ...

2026-07-10T20:17:31Z

‪Benn Jordan‬ ‪@bennjordan.bsky.social‬

Flock threatens to sue a private group in Southern California that meets regularly to hold discussions and Q&As about diplomacy, law, and philosophy.

It demands that they do not "analyze" or "speculate" on the security vulnerabilities we've confirmed when talking about government surveillance.

There's huge business to be had for car companies selling ...

2026-07-09T19:51:09Z

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There's huge business to be had for car companies selling cars with zero telematics & other surveillance b.s. in them, but since that's not very likely, there's huge business to be had for killing all that crap in people's cars. I won't buy a new car because of it. I'd happily replace my 15-year old car if I could get a new one that's not a surveillance system. I'd do it immediately.

Then when you add in how so many people don't even drive to ...

2026-07-07T21:35:49Z

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Then when you add in how so many people don't even drive to pick up their food and pay someone else to deliver it, I mean, why don't y'all just take your wallets and flush 'em down the toilet?

I think it's been over a year since I ate any fast food. It ...

2026-07-07T21:34:04Z

I think it's been over a year since I ate any fast food. It amazes me that a lot of people spend money at least weekly if not almost daily on prepared food. How can anyone save money doing that? Restaurant food, even if fast food, is super expensive. For instance, I really like Five Guys. Last time I stopped there for a burger while on a trip, their small, single burger was $10. That was maybe 2 years ago. That's completely insane.

So, we're supposed to keep that internal?

2026-07-06T00:07:41Z

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So, we're supposed to keep that *internal*?

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social‬ The struggle of being the ...

2026-07-06T00:06:51Z

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social‬

The struggle of being the chronically online person in all your relationships: when somebody sends you some breaking news, you are (internally) like, “Yes, I know. Indeed, I’ve reacted, I’ve processed, and I’ve already read about 5000 words on this, as this was 20 minutes ago.”

Fun fact: a former partner of mine was the Navy's program ...

2026-07-05T00:30:19Z

Fun fact: a former partner of mine was the Navy's program manager of HAARP for a couple of years

Ask me about weather control! Earthquake control! Mind control! 😂

Oh I wonder if I still have that HAARP program mug somewhere

‪@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social‬ Every fifth person in the Army ...

2026-07-04T12:27:35Z

‪@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social‬

Every fifth person in the Army is Larry

Thanks. We're all suffering through this disaster the best we ...

2026-07-03T23:03:54Z

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Thanks. We're all suffering through this disaster the best we can.

Well I come at this as a veteran who also spent a career in ...

2026-07-03T17:35:56Z

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Well I come at this as a veteran who also spent a career in federal civil service. I see it differently. I did leave my position at a high level in the IC during Trump's first year in office...I saw him as the most significant insider threat the U.S. has ever seen, and it had a huge impact on my life and every day watching what goes on kills me. But even as a civil servant I participated in protests and I still do today. I get that lots of civilians will see it exactly the way he intended them to, there's no way to explain my view to them, they'd have to live it. But there will be more military holding my view and more non-mil/vets holding the other view. Nothing to be done about that🤷 He got what he wanted but he's not doing any favors to the military by doing this in uniform, it plays into the narratives of people who would love to paint Service members as political actors. That's not good.

resigning his commission would have had an incredible impact on ...

2026-07-03T16:02:46Z

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resigning his commission would have had an incredible impact on him and would have been a huge personal sacrifice, I'm not sure civs know this

Sorry but what Major Watson did was a stunt. There were a lot ...

2026-07-03T14:42:02Z

Sorry but what Major Watson did **was** a stunt. There were a lot of things he could've done to make it *not* a stunt, but he did none of that. He's what I would refer to as *that* major -- there's a type. I don't want to hear about him as a hero. He's a dumbass.

I think this term came into vogue as a euphemism that seeks to ...

2026-07-03T13:29:47Z

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I think this term came into vogue as a euphemism that seeks to disguise the rapidly increasing extreme wealth gap and dire financial straits of a larger and larger portion of the population, which has resulted in a shrinking middle class and a huge population of people who, despite working more, have less and less purchasing power. This term makes me despise those I call "corporate Dems" who came up with it, because the term itself is a bad faith attempt to fool people about their situation. Who is the working class? Might be me, might be someone else, who knows? The politicians don't have to explain it. They use the language of heroism to describe teachers, restaurant workers, tradespeople, you-name-it. But if you're a white collar worker who sits behind a desk and could barely survive a month without a paycheck because these corporate pols refuse to tax their billionaire overlords, it's you too, and you know it.

If you're #gardening for long storage survival food, I'd ...

2026-07-03T13:19:07Z

If you're #gardening for long storage survival food, I'd recommend growing various winter squash. I just cut up a honeynut squash that's been sitting in a bowl on the kitchen counter for about 7 months. It's perfect inside. 😲

What do you think politicians mean when they say "working ...

2026-07-03T12:22:18Z

What do you think politicians mean when they say "working class"? This is a term that gained purchase in about the past 10 or 15 years IIRC. How do you feel about the term?

What are your top 5 favorite #movies ? Not talking about ...

2026-07-02T20:30:21Z

What are your top 5 favorite #movies ? Not talking about cinematic masterpieces, necessarily. Basically they're movies you've seen multiple times & would still watch again if you channel surfed onto them. Mine:<li>Blade Runner</li><li>The Thing</li><li>Big Trouble in Little China</li><li>Independence Day </li><li>Galaxy Quest</li>

This year I have to sign up for Medicare and I have received 1000 ...

2026-06-30T23:47:36Z

This year I have to sign up for Medicare and I have received 1000 pieces of junk mail about #Medicare this year from people who want to make money off of me, I assume. How do they get my info? What the fuck is happening?

A man just DROVE TO MY HOUSE to hand me his brochure!??!!! Just how lucrative is this shit!? I am fucking INCANDESCENT right now. He DROVE. TO. MY. HOUSE.

That some of them weren't on board is another alarming signal ...

2026-06-30T14:46:34Z

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That some of them weren't on board is another alarming signal of terrible things yet to come.

I don't know anything about sports. Apparently Erling Haaland ...

2026-06-29T20:38:06Z

I don't know anything about sports. Apparently Erling Haaland is "regarded as one of the best [soccer] players in the world, and the greatest Norwegian player of all time" but is also a funny person on the internets I guess

We must teach people (i.e., JOURNALISTS) to stop saying #AI w/o ...

2026-06-28T11:18:29Z

We must teach people (i.e., JOURNALISTS) to stop saying #AI w/o distinguishing between #LLMs -- the source of endless harms like massive IP theft, academic cheating, psychosis, lies, environmental damage -- and purpose-built #ML systems, which advance science, medicine, and engineering.

> Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social‬
> A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Below is a screenshot from: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

I'm not seeing much commentary on how the insane sentences ...

2026-06-24T13:41:35Z

I'm not seeing much commentary on how the insane sentences for the Texas Prairieland "antifa terrorists" are a symptom of having been tried in Texas, which is how the law works but also subjects protesters to extremist juries and judges in red states & districts. We saw this partisanship happen with Kyle Rittenhouse, as well, when he had a judge who obviously sympathized with him and treated him with special deference throughout the trial as if he was a hero. If these protesters were tried in a blue area and had Dem-appointed judges, certainly the shooter would have been convicted of the shooting but some of the charges might not have stuck to some of the charged protesters, and the sentencing would likely have been wildly different for some or all of them. Is justice blind? Not even slightly. Judges, especially right wing ones, are political activists who are driving agendas as much as any anti-fascist protester.

I just watched video of a woman taking a picture of the ...

2026-06-23T22:45:40Z

I just watched video of a woman taking a picture of the reflecting pool, then she touched the water for a second. A guy in plainclothes took pics of her and then called over the cops & nat'l guard to arrest her. For touching the water. She did literally nothing to the property.

That's how fascism is going in the U.S. there are plainclothes creeps guarding the stupid reflecting pool. Fuck Trump and his baby ass ego. That final Big Mac cannot come soon enough.

"subsequent tests and contact tracing determined that the ...

2026-06-22T20:38:48Z

"subsequent tests and contact tracing determined that the patient had contracted Mar-a-Lago face via a brief exposure to respiratory droplets from Kimberly Guilfoyle” https://theonion.com/epidemiologists-confirm-first-airborne-transmission-of-mar-a-lago-face-2/

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2026-06-20T19:20:09Z

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2026-06-20T16:40:43Z

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😂

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2026-06-19T17:19:45Z

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@Doug_Bostrom/116777772024517492<li>Find a public good to replicate commercially</li><li>Create a startup centered on that public good</li><li>Get taxpayer money shunted to you away from that public good </li><li>Sell the product as a service to govt, biz, consumers</li><li>Become a billionaire</li>

Extremists' new angle to steal rights from women #abortion ...

2026-06-17T12:04:10Z

Extremists' new angle to steal rights from women
#abortion #waronwomen
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-06-15/republican-attorneys-general-epa-classify-mifepristone-water-contaminant

A nice memory :)

2026-06-14T02:13:26Z

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A nice memory :)