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David K2FI

@filkerdave.bsky.social

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Ham radio. Science fiction. Life. Politics. Un peu le français. Auch ein bisschen Deutsch. Un poquito español. MAGAts, trolls, and Musk fanboys will be blocked. Fuck off back to your swamp. Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Unapologetically Jewish. He/him

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 13h

In round figures? Somewhere between 0 and very few.

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 18h

Peanut butter doesn't last for longer than a month or two chez nous. (Vegetable oil sits around a lot longer though.)

If it were up to me I'd buy Skippy Super Chunk by the case at Costco, but my wife won't eat anything but natural and organic.

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 18h

Peanuts do not need to be refrigerated. Salt does not need to be refrigerated.

So why does natural peanut butter, which contains nothing but peanuts and sometimes salt, have a "refrigerate after opening" warning on it?

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 18h

May her memory be for a blessing

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 18h

Thread

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18h

I think a lot of people (hell, me included!) are having trouble getting their heads around the fact that 1 in 7 men admitted(!) to willingness to commit CSA.

Of course, we had so much trouble reckoning with the prevalence of fathers sexually abusing their kids that we did the Satanic Panic.

Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 19h

If you follow this to its logical conclusion then only women can be caregivers, so we must ban them from working.

Needless to say, I reject that. There are abusive men - and women - but we should not assume all people are bad because some are.

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 19h

They make lightweight shells for running! I used to have one when I ran back in the Jurassic Age

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 20h

I don't get it. Children are too young to date my KIDS. (Even people my kids' age are too young at this point in life. Yuck )

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 20h

It's Samhain time! My wife has these adorable little sterling silver cauldron pendants available, handmade here at the base of the Tetons.

I don't know if they're available on EnchantedSilverworks.com yet because they're fresh off the bench Friday but you can reach out via the site.

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Either The Flying Lizards, "Money (That's What I Want)" or The Dickies, "Gigantor"

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 1d

People aren't semitic. Languages are.

(Antisemitism, though, is a term that was specifically coined as a "more scientific" sounding replacement for replace Judenhass.)

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 1d

People aren't semites

Languages are semitic.

(Not defending Bibi here, since he's a terrible person.)

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Doesn't anybody screen these calls?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

ברוך מתיר אסורים
Blessed are You, who releases the captive.

There should have been an All for All deal two years ago, but here we are--after so much harm, so much annihilation.

Every life saved is a thing of consequence.

May this be the beginning of a new future for all the peoples in the Land.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, they have an opinion. They just don't want to put it in writing because they know it's bullshit.

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 2d

I must own one!

David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 2d

I've gotten into it on FB with people who think it's terrible that he said that the Jews should use the High Holidays to...

Reflect and repent.

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 3d

It really depends on who's singing it

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 3d

I've seen plenty.

Typically when they come into threads about Jewish practice and start assuming that Judaism works exactly like Christianity.

Bonus points when they start dropping phrases like "Sky Daddy"

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Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲 @thatianeliott.bsky.social · 3d

I will never understand people who act like "I haven't seen" means "this doesn't exist."

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 3d

The real question is emacs or vi?

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Disabled Viago Truther @rhianthialritak.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky is fun bc a Jewish person can post something like this and then a whole bunch of those exact kind of atheists all summon themselves to prove her point

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 3d

So let's step back a little here where you said that the only scientifically valid position was agnosticism, which means that you don't know.

Now consider the possibility that I'm not disagreeing with you and am instead making a remark that's intended to be a humorous play on the word agnostic.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 3d

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps you're missing the meaning of "agnostic" here.

But I'm not sure.