Carter Wickstrom
@carterwickstrom.bsky.social
globalist. rooted cosmopolitan. situationist, groucho tendency.
PDS? Google was no help.
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
PDS? Google was no help.
Good thing we still have all those Pacific territories and Hawaii to be coaling stations! We'll be bringing back the pre-Dreadnaught any minute now!
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
reut.rs
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Good thing we still have all those Pacific territories and Hawaii to be coaling stations! We'll be bringing back the pre-Dreadnaught any minute now!
I'm personally not a huge Dutch Crunch fan but that sounds awesome.
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I'm personally not a huge Dutch Crunch fan but that sounds awesome.
Reposted by Carter Wickstrom
Pro-trans humanist but anti-transgender is a really funny ideology. We will transcend the boundaries of flesh, be whatever we want to be EXCEPT IN THAT ONE WAY, NONE OF THAT, freeing ourselves from the shackles of our physical husks BUT DON’T TOUCH THE GENITALS.
February 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Pro-trans humanist but anti-transgender is a really funny ideology. We will transcend the boundaries of flesh, be whatever we want to be EXCEPT IN THAT ONE WAY, NONE OF THAT, freeing ourselves from the shackles of our physical husks BUT DON’T TOUCH THE GENITALS.
Netflix has a great series of shorts on Mexican street food, and yeah, those rivalries can be weird.
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Netflix has a great series of shorts on Mexican street food, and yeah, those rivalries can be weird.
it's like a pambazo, only green
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
it's like a pambazo, only green
Ah! Gotcha! I think so but I'm not sure, I'd need to find my mom's cousin's genealogy.
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Ah! Gotcha! I think so but I'm not sure, I'd need to find my mom's cousin's genealogy.
he married a First Nation convert
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki
Abenaki - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
he married a First Nation convert
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki
have you tried asking for maple syrup to put on your cookie stack
February 10, 2026 at 5:10 AM
have you tried asking for maple syrup to put on your cookie stack
like wtf is this
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 AM
like wtf is this
no one needs to see their own avatar in three places on the same screen unless they're looking at a thread 🫠
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 AM
no one needs to see their own avatar in three places on the same screen unless they're looking at a thread 🫠
someone stop the bsky UX team, my pfp is in too many places now
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 AM
someone stop the bsky UX team, my pfp is in too many places now
I went looking, and they do operate at least one OV-10 out of the San Diego area - see page 4:
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February 10, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I went looking, and they do operate at least one OV-10 out of the San Diego area - see page 4:
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the long-press iOS keyboard is magical
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 AM
the long-press iOS keyboard is magical
there's one branch of my family traceable to a noble failson in New France with a 1640 land grant and an Abenaki convert wife
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
there's one branch of my family traceable to a noble failson in New France with a 1640 land grant and an Abenaki convert wife
that back and forth is fascinating; some of my Irish Catholic ancestors were on the wrong side of history in the 17th century, and now their surname is more common in Normandy than Ireland.
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
that back and forth is fascinating; some of my Irish Catholic ancestors were on the wrong side of history in the 17th century, and now their surname is more common in Normandy than Ireland.
in the US, they're only flown by NASA and CalFire these days. if it's a Bronco, it's not being flown by law enforcement or DHS.
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
in the US, they're only flown by NASA and CalFire these days. if it's a Bronco, it's not being flown by law enforcement or DHS.
Reposted by Carter Wickstrom
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
reason.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
OV-10 Bronco? CALFIRE flies them.
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
OV-10 Bronco? CALFIRE flies them.
you're missing a zero on the number of wrapper startups.
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
you're missing a zero on the number of wrapper startups.
[sighs] you know, after [waves hands] all this other stuff.
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
[sighs] you know, after [waves hands] all this other stuff.
Immediately after sending in my ColoGuard test, Exact Sciences sent me a breathless, fear-mongering marketing email for a test that promises the same thing, detect 50 types of cancer with one test.
So misleading and (imo) unethical. We need to reform medical advertising in the US a big way.
So misleading and (imo) unethical. We need to reform medical advertising in the US a big way.
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Immediately after sending in my ColoGuard test, Exact Sciences sent me a breathless, fear-mongering marketing email for a test that promises the same thing, detect 50 types of cancer with one test.
So misleading and (imo) unethical. We need to reform medical advertising in the US a big way.
So misleading and (imo) unethical. We need to reform medical advertising in the US a big way.
...and it was pretty fucking awesome in its first incarnation
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM
...and it was pretty fucking awesome in its first incarnation