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Brian T. Rice

@briantrice.bsky.social

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Mad computer scientist; electric motorcycle hacker; software architect; data viz whatever? Former nuclear tech, always NB. They/them. https://signal.me/#eu/5U6AQo_peWVxKPh5raxwBKUp8UxZm4iwfIb-21fgVSVQFRgfXn1DF42nvXiWSNfu

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Brian T. Rice @briantrice.bsky.social · Apr 25

Proof of life on my electric motorcycle streamlining kit. We just had to rework the wheels which were giving us trouble due to maintenance issues.

A black motorcycle with gold trim viewed from the left side. A large smooth nose covers the cockpit and front wheel. Large teardrop luggage pieces cover the top and sides of the tail.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 5h

Daily bunny no.3106 doesn't like the dark

A bunny descends into a dark basement with a flashlight, hoping to fix a fusebox or breaker box. It is a rainy evening, and presumably the power has gone out. A bat hanging from a pipe greets the bunny.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16d

Alright I went with the foreground I took with this shot. A car driving in front of me, 60 second exposure. The final version is a little darker and foreboding than the first one, but I think that fits the vibe of the shot more.

Incredible psyched to be able to get this 33 miles from SF.

Plains and a fence with the light of a car driving by below the milky way

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21d

Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

The Milky Way vertically with some orange and yellow tints at the bottom. These are four 60 second exposures edited in Lightroom and Stitched together on my phone comma so there's definitely a better version on my laptop if I ever release it

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1h

Duct flute carved from a single piece of argillite, depicting a bird and human figures. British Columbia, Canada, Haida peoples, 19th century www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPo...

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 1d

gaseous cloud collapses, gathers into itself - heats up - remaining material thinly spread outward - only rock nearish, gas/ice farther still. Solar system is forming... Panels 10/30...
#Nostos #Unflattening 2

10 panels from a comics page in progress - in two rows of 5 each. Top row, panel one a gaseous cloud. 2-4 - supernova, its shockwaves colliding with that cloud. 5th panel see the cloud collapsing beginning to turn. Second tier - first panel - spinning gases, center warming. Panel 2 - great cloud of gas spinning and partly obscuring proto star within, panels 3-5, other side of protostar seen in prior panel - it's later in the solar system's evolution, we see no gas near the star, then a thin layer of rock and farther out gas - a differentiated disk swirling around the star...

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Red Scott @redscott.com · 1d

why do people post such esoteric nonsense on social media when they could be posting extremely relatable content like this

Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 2d

Current status: oh god why am I in the BRCM2837 interrupt controller docs all I wanted was a higher degree of graphical fidelity in Doom

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3h

Inside ICE’s crackdown in San Francisco: An illustrated timeline missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-i...

Inside ICE's crackdown in San Francisco: An illustrated timeline

It's been months of ICE crackdowns against asylum-seekers in San Francisco. Here's what's happened so far.

missionlocal.org

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 3d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3h

They shall grow unadorned, as we that are left wear cosplay:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4h

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 3h

I fundamentally think that if you want to purchase anything you should have to talk to at least one person

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

“The city’s ‘Safe Stores are Staffed Stores’ ordinance is the first of its kind in the country. It requires large stores to increase the number of employees relative to self-checkout stands and also puts a limit on the number of items and types of goods that can be rung up at self-checkout.”

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

www.latimes.com

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 4h

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Andrew Schwartz

www.wweek.com

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that the Constitution was written on the foundational premise that it would be implemented by a political class that was, to a fault, violently protective of their own individual standing and power. The idea that congressmen would surrender their power to the president was unthinkable.

debnicktom.bsky.social @debnicktom.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that the beloved American Constitution is absolute shite or this wouldn't be possible. Ditto the revered 'Founding Fathers' who wrote such a flawed and dangerous document, just hopeless twats.

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · Aug 26

'Cringe' is "embarrassment".

Embarrassment is "Feeling self-conscious due to some event or circumstance"

Y'all. If you feel cringe, get you some self confidence! You are too awesome to be embarrassed!

If you call someone cringe, quit being a douche and go hype someone you love!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 4h

From Rules for Radicals

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."|

From Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

JD Vance is the worst. Luckily, he’s also dumb as a rock and has the charisma of that rock.

I, too, would like to interview JD Vance, primarily to tell him I’m done with him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 22h

Take a moment to enjoy this post!

A clipped image from a stupid Instagram video that says "POV: you're determined to change the public image of exorcists".

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 14h

Aerial footage documenting the extent of destruction caused by Israeli bombardment and demolitions in the Al-Katiba neighborhood northern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, after the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 10h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 8h

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10h

Yes— projects.propublica.org/protest-poli...

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