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Brian Dear

@brianstorms.bsky.social

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@[email protected] Author, THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW (Pantheon, 2017) http://amzn.to/2ol9Lu6 In Santa Fe NM New Writing Project in 2025 Music: https://confusionboats.bandcamp.com Fmr startup founder/CEO LBXD: https://letterboxd.com/brianstorms_

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Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 4h

No movies? Hmm.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 6h

Think that’s bad, how about finding out one’s on a bunch of blocklists for users accused of being maga/conservatives… infuriating and stupid and wtf

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 22h

That does it.

My next band name is Total Lowlifes.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 22h

I would so buy new prescription frames for my glasses if the frames emitted a kind of light only picked up by cameras, so that Zuckerboy et al would only see a blinding white light if they looked at me but nobody without those infernal surveillance spectacles would see anything unusual. 😎

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 23h

I have expected this for YEARS.

Ford, like so many automakers, was never serious about EVs or the global climate emergency.

Even TESLA doesn’t give a shit anymore.

The whole world, drunk on the AI gold rush, is ceding EVs to China.

🤷‍♂️

electrek.co/2025/10/23/f...

Ford is halting F-150 Lightning production to focus on more profitable gas and hybrid trucks

Ford (F) has halted production of its electric pickup truck at the Rouge EV Center in Michigan following a fire...

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

🤷‍♂️

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

[ One might argue that “his own country” . . . is Russia ]

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

An act of terrorism.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Ten million protesters should be marching on Washington over this illegal destruction of the public’s property.

You know it won’t end here. He’ll tear Lincoln out of his seat and turn that site into the Trump Memorial.

And same w/ Mt Rushmore.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Any day now I’m expecting the rollout of a new streaming service offerong only AI-generated garbage.

It’ll be called Slopify.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, I view Cybertruck as a design failure that never delivered on promised range or performance by a company that has given up on climate crisis mitigation and has stupidly pivoted to the AI gold rush.

But as for “ugly”? ANY vehicle with one or more exhaust pipes is **INFINITELY uglier**.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Well, imagine if every time you drove on roads, simply *seeing* the make and model of *your* car triggered many other motorists and pedestrians to give you the finger, roll down their window and yell profanities at you, honk at you, hurl expletives, perhaps vandalize the vehicle, damage it.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, a one-star review. Immediate must-read :-)

[Update: Ok, read it. As for "No Other Choice" I had no other choice when I saw THAT film: walk out. God I hated that thing.]

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Why isn't there a live video feed of Trump's destruction of a portion of the White House? I'd have thought at least a dozen different youtubers/FB'ers/Tiktokkers would be on it, all with different camera angles.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Yes and? This is a problem why, exactly?

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

It always boils down to selfishness, lack of empathy, hypocrisy, fraud, lies. One set of rules for the oligarch and (maybe) for his tribe, another set of rules for non-members of his tribe.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

Why re-post every loony thing one of these extreme-right trolls/crazies/cranks says? That part I never get.

Just keep doing the superb reporting you do. It is incredibly appreciated, it’s valued more than you know, it goes a long way to making a better-informed public. 🙏

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll be The Kirk Ballroom

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 1d

GM ”says.”

GM is a world-class leader in saying things. They excel at it. They are geniuses at it. You would be hard-pressed to find another company that can “say” more things than GM.

And the media falls for it every. single. time.

2028 will come around and GM will “say” something else then.

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah that’s a big no right there a-yup

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

true dat

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

Isle of Dogs is awesome and I appreciate its mention as it’s a reminder to watch it again… been too long

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

Still way expensive imho

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

So, Executive Order that it's a capital offense if you block any dot-gov account on Bluesky, in 3... 2... 1... ?

Brian Dear @brianstorms.bsky.social · 2d

AKA stupid unthinking people are aligning with such pro-politicization actions