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Mr. Cyber Otters

@cyberotters.bsky.social

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Golfer. Perpetually semi-retired rugby player. Christian anarchist(?) Very retired Army NCO. Cyber operations professional. Guitar player. Views are mine, likes/RPs/quotes != endorsements

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · Feb 18

There's an axiom that we become an amalgam of the 5 people we spend the most time with. Their likes become our likes, their wants become our wants, and their blind spots become our blind spots. So who are the 5 people your AI engine is hanging out with the most? #/?

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 17h

You're in luck, ladies, he's actually Protestant.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 20h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 18h

This Dart kid has some moxie.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 20h

Russell Wilson on the sideline with his helmet on like he's ready to jump in at a moment's notice will never not be infinitely weird.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 20h

a cartoon of homer simpson walking into a crowd

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson walking into a crowd

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 20h

I guarantee those things have movements in them Invicta wouldn't touch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 20h

Martinez. Louisville.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 20h

I’m starting to think this doctor they put at HHS has never delivered a bab-

[touches earpiece]

Oh NO

Oh no no no no NO

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Baby in her placenta"

RFK Jr. Complains About TikTok Video of Woman Taking Tylenol With a 'Baby in Her Placenta'

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a SEAL Team 6 person who participated in the raid on UBL and crashing out so hard you're going to wear a bandana and fake being an Antifa member on entertainment news TV.

Like, go on Dancing with the Stars like a proper D-lister, y'dork.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

How much does Fox News pay if you go on one of their shows and claim to be a "Former ANTIFA Member"?

Because I'm ready to spill tea on the Real-Housewives-level shenanigans that go down in the 72-story ANTIFA corporate headquarters. Especially by the lab assistants on the Molotov Cocktail floor.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

If I ever imagine myself needing a true dive watch, orange is the only color for me.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

That's a big honkin' watch. Also, blue dials on dive watches always seem funny to me for the same reason as when the Navy had blue cammies. I want my dive watch to look like anything except the ocean.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

Mike's gonna post his DA photo again. It's gonna be great.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but he'd had to convene the House to even vote on it, which means he'll have to seat Rep. Grijalva, which means dealing with voting on the Epstein files, possibly before voting on any budget-related bills, and won't that be a fun circus.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

What's the left & right limit to changes that can be made to the spending bill they're debating before it has to go back to the House for reconciliation? Will the House have to reconvene to get the "off-ramp" approved.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

And if Democrats cave, a lot of people will soon be choosing between groceries and medication & health insurance.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

If you're able, and especially if you live near military installations, donate to your local food bank. Assuming no changes, we're 6 days away from a huge influx of people who will have no money on their grocery day.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

A military spouse caller on C-SPAN today directly begged Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a bill to ensure U.S. troops keep getting paid as the government shutdown drags on, condemning his “audacity” for saying he doesn’t support doing it. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Military Spouse Caller On C-SPAN Begs Mike Johnson To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown

“As a Republican, I’m very disappointed ... in you, because you do have the power to call the House back,” a Virginia woman fumed at the speaker.

www.huffpost.com

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

"Does Calvinism deal adequately with a man who appears before the judgement seat of Christ with $50,000,000 and its human corollaries to his credit and pleads a free pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice?" --Walter Rauschenbusch, and apparently Pope Leo XIV

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

Overseas is a different story, but price & quality of product, to say nothing of the shopping experience, is way better off-post at every domestic installation I've experienced, and that's before even discussing convenience of a place like Costco/Sam's Club.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

The only people who still use the commissary are retirees and junior enlisted families who live on-post (which isn't a lot.) Crappy on-post housing drives a maximum number of people off-post, where DECA is forced to compete with Walmart. "They killed DECA" doesn't last a week before apathy kicks in.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

I dislike the degree to which upward mobility has stagnated in the US but I remind myself that huge swaths of the world are still some form of subsistence farming when you're not growing cash crops for a profit you'll never see or enjoy until you die or flee, and if you flee you'll be chased.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll get a visa, which starts with getting a passport from my deeply corrupt federal government that is run by an oligarchy hellbent on bringing back feudalism to power their criminal drug production empire."

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

"There's less of them than there are of us!" is the sort of statement that will have some grammar pedant reply with "fewer."
Generally, "fewer" is quantitative, "less" or "lesser" is qualitative.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

I have some trouble with someone who's like, "I'm breaking ranks because of my personal beef, and I don't want the world to be a better place" while I'm over here beefing because I want the world to be a better place.

She's not going to vote to restart USAID, so for that reason, I'm sketch.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 1d

I love that there's still lots of room to believe she's doing this because Trump told her he wouldn't endorse her Senate run, which is the right call because she might have the name recognition to get the party nod but her brand of crazy only flies in an ultra-rich/conservate corner of Atlanta.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them. n.pr/48ihZvq

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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