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P. Orin Zack

@gznork26.bsky.social

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Spent a career in IT stacking bits and stringing words. High point: NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network during Voyager 1's encounter at Saturn. Wrote 3 novels & 200+ short stories. klurgsheld.wordpress.com Help fix the OS of our self-governance. #gOS_2.0

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · Dec 3

Fair warning to visitors…

F-I.W. (Freedom: I Won’t) from SF short “And Then There Were None” by Eric Frank Russell

There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch - Heinlein

My ‘Simon Jester’ signature - from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Heinlein

Small slate with chalk writing:
F-I.W.
Tanstaafl
(And a sly face)

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 22h

We are, after all, what they consider “useless eaters”.

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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 1d

There's no actual NEED for these lay-offs, remember.

This isn't happening out of financial need.
This is about the enjoyment of abuse and punishment, nothing more.
About people who think power is not as much fun if they can't use it to hurt people.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 23h

#GetOutTheVought‼️ Trump and Vought are decimating the federal workforce. This isn't just a shutdown stunt, this is in line with Project 2025's goal of cutting our government by 1 million workers.

STAND WITH SCIENCE!
✊Rally to TAKE BACK SCIENCE 10/17 @ 3pm ET
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 23h

ALT TEXT: Poster Graphic of Russell Vought in red and white against a dark blue blurry background. A yellow X is marked over him. Title text reads: Get Out the Vought!

Poster Graphic of Russell Vought in red and white against a dark blue blurry background. A yellow X is marked over him. Title text reads: Get Out the Vought!

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 1d

Imagine a work crew showed up and started breaking up the pavement in front of your house with one of these, and didn’t put it back together. That’s basically what Vought and 🍆🥔 are doing right now.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Kitty.🇨🇦 @kathleenelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

General Strike
Shut the entire country down.
Do not go to work until this admin is gone.

Imagine the power that would have.

Imagine

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 1d

To put it another way…

Our government is not a business. Its purpose is to serve the needs of the people, not to serve its leaders and enrich their cronies or investors.

Ruling by force without consent is abuse of the people.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

Seems like the IRS is trying to dirty delete the email saying all employees would receive backpay once the shutdown was over.

You want a fight? You've found it.

We're not backing down, and we know the attempts to deny furloughed feds backpay is illegal.

federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

IRS backtracks on back pay guarantee for furloughed employees

An IRS employee told Federal News Network that earlier guidance emailed to employees on Wednesday was automatically deleted from their inboxes by Thursday.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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✨Sidian Sonne✨ @sidiansonne.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like what FINALLY might get a countrywide strike to happen. No pay? No labor!

I mean, if the government can shut down, so can everyone else!

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Alice @aliceapostate.bsky.social · 2d

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 3d

The junta is:

Committing waste
Committing fraud
Committing abuse

Makes easy to identify

P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 4d

Your words carried freight. Not images for eyes, but for something deeper and more powerful. Call it magic, but it felt received by that part of me where creativity is birthed. Power spreads in quiet places where hope reflects the stars that guide us. It will spread.

So mote it be.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 4d

Alrighty, Antifa regulars.

I'm not a tactician. I'm not anyone, really.

But I am a generalist: I know enough about just about everything from the banal to the arcane to connect a lot of dots.

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 4d

Do I sense a breath of Republican pushback?

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 4d

Once upon a time, corporations saw 'just-in-time' production as a cost-saving strategy that eliminated the need to stock supplies locally. The idea spread, and now they can't exist without it. But tight supply chains are also fragile, like any hollowed-out system.

They've played Jenga and lost.

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 4d

What 🍊💩 says and does is always always meaningless, done only to get what he wants at that moment.

He doesn’t play 4D chess, it’s tic-tac-toe where he makes one move and declares himself the winner.

P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 5d

Implications are not their strong suit in anything they do.

P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 5d

Is it simply that essential means profitable? After all, the junta sees everything through MBA-tinted glasses, and government is a target to plunder.

P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA does not believe in public agencies. The IRS is a profit center to be mined.

P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 5d

So mote it be.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d

What we are experiencing feels less like the Civil War and more like military Reconstruction carried out by the Radical Republicans, only this time the locals resisting the occupying forces are doing so to protect multi-racial democracy rather than white supremacy.

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P. Orin Zack @gznork26.bsky.social · 7d

The Constitution has been hacked and exploits installed. The re-write must start with OpSec: access (government office) must be an enforceable contract with role-specific terms, conditions and penalties for violation. #gOS_2.0

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RetiredBPDmurdercop @chiefmlt.bsky.social · 7d

If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

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