Swiss Army Nerd
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The sad thing is that there are a few government agencies that have been here for a while and AREN'T playing partisan games (Consumer Product Safety Commission, NOAA, National Weather Service), but they're going to get swept up in this...
Want some #humor or #history content in your timeline? I have a few bots you might like...

@collectedquotes.bsky.social - A random quote/witticism every 6 hours

@onthisdaybot.bsky.social - A notable event, birth, and death from today in history every 4 hours
You can pin this list in your client or call it up in a web browser...
A bunch of US government agencies have suddenly joined Bluesky.

If you want to keep track of what they're saying WITHOUT following them, here's a list of US government accounts that have been verified by Bluesky. I will update the list as other accounts are verified.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."
Um...can you get me on that B&C Men's Shop mailing list? 8)
Nope - Shibtoshi is a cryptobro. He allegedly made $5 billion by buying Shiba Inu cryptocurrency, and now runs multiple crypto operations.
[logs into Truth Social]
DON'T BELIEVE THE FAKE FEET! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
If you own farmland in the #Lexington, #Kentucky area and want a free pig, contact Fayette County Animal Care and Control...a 500-pound lost pig (NOT a feral pig) was found in Lexington and has gone unclaimed, so it's up for adoption.

bit.ly/48zSZQy
Pig found running loose on Lexington road needs foster home
Animal control officers in Lexington are searching for someone to foster a pig that was found running loose on Leestown Road.
www.lex18.com
I'm not much of a theologian (truth be told, I'm just a well-read believer at best), but I'm reasonably certain that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God does not need "saving"...
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
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For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Not right now, but I'll keep you in mind for the future. Thanks for asking.
Comments from my son:

"You grew up with all the best concerts."

"Everything's better with a horn section."

"Your music is way more singable."
Remember how Republicans went absolutely ballistic when an unelected First Lady was made chair of a healthcare task force?
Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."
I'd LOVE to see the instructions being given to Qatari pilots before they arrive...
The skies over central Kentucky are a little busy this afternoon....#adsb
"Great"? Probably not.

"Really good"? Absolutely - particuarly when it comes to learning from folks who are professionals and gifted amateurs in their fields.
Wait - CNN has "premium content"?
...followed immediately by a flood of clickbait:

"Seven days off the grid - DAY #3 will SHOCK you!"

"I went a week without social media - and it scarred me"

"Seven days without likes that I'll never get back"
I don't know how you stand that kind of micromanagement, with the boss constantly looking over your shoulder...I thought working from home was supposed to fix that.
Note to self: Ignore Andrew O. McLeese and apply many grains of salt to anything on his 'Liberal Briefs' site.

Ironically, McLeese's bio on that site boasts of his understanding of "emerging technologies; particularly the societal and regulatory challenges posed by generative AI."
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch