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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 3h

The real rate limit is your credit card.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 5h

Apparently the framers didn’t mean that whole no emoluments things.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 7h

As people are disappeared by Trump we need to make sure they aren’t invisible and continue to demand justice.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 7h

A while ago I visited Argentina. Took a tour with a local and went to Plaza de Mayo. Learned about the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. It is a sobering stories about people being disappeared and loved ones demanding justice over time during a dictatorship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers...

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Wikipedia

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 9h

Wow. This is how you do it. Hopefully other leaders follow Mamdani’s lead.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 12h

You can use the domain as an account handle. Probably better plan long term. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky

Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 21h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 21h

Let’s go M’s!!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 4d

uwu

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 4d

I’ve been so tempted to get a heptagon tattoo as a k8s nod but haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13d

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

AnxiousIntrovert, MS @anxiousintrovert19.bsky.social · 13d

How do we return to any semblance of normal after all this is said and done?

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 6d

“I’m sorry about the YAML” youtu.be/8PpgqEqkQWA?...

Nightmares On Cloud Street 29/10/20 - Joe Beda

YouTube video by Software Circus

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 6d

But but you might miss the *thing* that feels super important in the moment but, upon reflection, was really not the end of the world.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 6d

Have you considered YAML? 🤣🤣

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 6d

Hanging out at a bar with my favorite people (Willie, the dog, and @rbeda.bsky.social, the spouse) watching the M’s. First run in the post season since 2001!

Willie hanging out at Harry’s bar looking for some pizza.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 7d

I haven’t played in 30+ years. But had a blast programming and modifying the thing.

What fun systems too both run and play!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 7d

I co-ran a dikuMUD in high school. Good times.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

Glad I can “help” there too. 😂

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

Thank you for making it happen!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

I'm so excited to see what happens with Northsky. I just made a donation because I want stuff like this to exist in the world.

Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · Aug 8

We also accept one-time donations: northskysocial.com/products/sup...

One Time Donation

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

We aren't leaving as we feel a responsibility to our community on multiple levels.

And also, we are insulated from the worst impacts for a variety of reasons and we should use those advantages to help others.

Beyond that, I don't want to. This is my home and I want to fight for it.

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 8d

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...

If others want to share, I'm curious:

Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?

Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...

Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 8d

If i were 22, I'd maybe just bail on america. I'm 38 is the problem and I love my life here. My house, my gardens, my dogs. This is where I built my adult existence ...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

I'm so excited to see what happens with Northsky. I just made a donation because I want stuff like this to exist in the world.

Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · Aug 8

We also accept one-time donations: northskysocial.com/products/sup...

One Time Donation

northskysocial.com

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

So Trump can just send out checks to people but Biden couldn't cancel student debt?

I would think that sending checks would require congress to be on board. Or is this just more lawlessness?

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 8d

For me it was 800x480 but other reports say high resolutions. All I know is that locking it to 5GHz solved my problems.

The screen in question: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMZYBPDF

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