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Tech, SF, APIs, coffee and beer and the chocolate biscuits. Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies. I write SF, buy my books :) Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · Aug 19

One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

According to my extensive historical and biblical research, the Antichrist will definitely put pineapple on pizza and stock my local grocery store’s beer aisle with a surplus of overly bitter IPAs. The Antichrist will also force me to circle the block more than twice to find a parking place.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 2h

Just watched the 1979 The Plank.

Erik Sykes was a fucking genius. It’s perfect. Literally no notes. Just amazing.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 2h

Quite. They also can’t eat that much corn nor potatoes as they found during Covid.

See also milk.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 10h

We are all Golgafrinchams after all.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.

Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.”
Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know about the restoration (mostly because the public have stupidly short memories) - but the everything breaks including their government I think happens and I have no idea what then.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

I’m going to say no you can’t. All the examples of this being done needed pretty large, proportionately, mobs and pretty soon they have to take over the mobs because mobs can turn on you too. See SA v SS.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve had this discussion with denizens of rural inland areas asking what the cities will do without their produce while they seem to miss the question of what will they do without massive markets for their products.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

It is interesting (as in the old curse) to see an attempt to all this without a) the bread and circuses and b) dramatically expanding the size of the state in your favor

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll expound later but I think it’s more there’s no law but Miller and Trump doesn’t care or is too far gone to really notice.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll expound later but I think it’s more there’s no law but Miller and Trump doesn’t care or is too far gone to really notice.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 11h

The ICE/BPD crap is annoying because while almost all the arrests will be overturned it will cost money and resources to do so & even though they’ll probably end up paying the detachment between event and result will be so large people will wonder why the next admin is paying cos they already forgot

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 12h

You *like*’cricket too.

The case for the prosecution rests your honor.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 12h

I am amazed Americans complain about both Football and Cricket as not being exciting and then go mad over last night.

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 23h

Ah fireworks. I shall look at the score then.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until they hear about the late 70s.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @cnn.com this you guys?

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DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

Beer. In a bottle.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

He does seem confused that he hasn't 'won' yet.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tom Emmer on Trump rescinding energy funds that were appropriated for Minnesota: "Literally this could end today if Chuck Schumer and the Democrats would reopen the government. What's happened is the White House has to make some very serious and difficult decisions."

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

Gelding. Gelding is too good for them.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

The times usually change on a Thursday for the next week and Fandango and others have an API for that.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

She’s young. Attractive and good at communicating.

She is a nightmare for them.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

I was discussing this with a friend over dinner. They are caught between wanting the outcome and wanting cool spots as talking heads on TV with nice pay and conditions.

The two are utterly mutually exclusive.

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

There will need to be a reckoning if we get through this as a nation about a) how it happened and b) those who let it happen despite having the authority to stop it

DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 1d

The weird thing is that that is not my experience of growing up Catholic - very different.