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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 7h

to watch them you'd think some lawyers are collecting "Fell For It Again" awards to build colorful and elaborate Bower bird style nests

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 7h

The likelihood I'm going to get a GitHub repo working in my environment is inversely proportional to the number of contributor avis that include floppy wizard hats

its me, not them

Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 8h

i haven't but would really like to hear D reps start talking about legal obligation to retain ICE employment and contract records. And the consequence for destroying or hiding them

Need to lay the ground work now to prosecute the whole lot of them

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 8h

he's deeply connected to pedophiles in power

used his position as speaker to promote Covenant Eyes

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 8h

i think this is an example of folks not getting it

the author says "instead of feeling ashamed of this fatal flaw, greet this revelation with a strange sense of calm self-acceptance at finally knowing who you are."

without awareness that Fred's character is left behind and alone at the end

Send This Portlandia Sketch to That One Friend Who Always Cancels at the Last Minute

They know who they are.

slate.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 8h

military jets low flying over your house

marines in fatigues doing a mass "fun run" downtown

harbor full of warships

Thanks! I Hate It!

Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 9h

and you can artificially manufacture Too Big To Fail for yourself

is the USG going to let banks fail because ai is snake oil? probably not

Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 9h

Soldiers and Sailors Arch in bk when trump lost in 2020

there will be a another celebration related to trump there again

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 9h

cisa was a major backstop of nonsense techno conspiracies

remember mypillow guy tried to dazzle the chuds with PCAPs CISA was an important division that could push back on gobbledygook.

gobbledygook thats only getting worse with ai slot exciting all the chuds

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 10h

philadelphia magic gardens did come up with a plan that the developer and even city agreed to. going so far as to granting zoning exceptions

but NIMBY Franklin Bridge Yards killed it. because one additonal story would make parking too hard

fucking niby with their cars

Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens

Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens is a mosaicked art environment, gallery, and community arts center of Isaiah Zagar’s art and public murals.

www.phillymagicgardens.org

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 11h

iconic mosaic facade wont be preserved because "it might
making parking harder" 🤬🤬🤬

#waroncars

(gift article)
share.inquirer.com/NgYZrM

Why one of Philly's most iconic public art pieces is getting demolished

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 11h

Unsolicited Frick pic

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 1d

they did. but when the public kind of realized they could make either a novelty geegaw or a part of a bigger thing, but not bespoke versions of complete commercial products they kind of lost interest

very similar!

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 1d

couldn't get to JawnCon today because of Warminster Line issues

was a bummer but really made my heart go out to folks who rely on SEPTA for life or work

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 1d

let the old symbols of virtue die

embrace the new way

The Colfax café where everyone eats with dignity, whether they can pay or not

In exchange for a meal at SAME Café, you can volunteer, pay what you can, or donate fruits and vegetables.

denverite.com

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 1d

philadelphia film society is so great

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2d

It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 1d

is adam curtis a conspiracy theorist?

i am a fan

but cant help but feel like i am a fan because he explains things in a way that seems to make it all make sense

isnt that the appeal of qanon too?

am i falling for the same thing?