Carter's Dad
@johnmckendry.bsky.social
Old hippie, bewildered socialist, math, old music, grows apples. A harmless drudge.
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One of the best things about being a slow learner is that there are so many opportunities to notice things that you never noticed before. There's a full moon and snow and the night sky is deep blue, not black. Is that widely known?
In that NJ11 primary to choose the Democrat to run to replace NJ's new Governor in the US House, there is a new partial result, probably be a week before a final count but the distance between Mejia (progressive) and Malinowski (not) is increasing, 868 votes now with 93% of all the votes counted.
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
In that NJ11 primary to choose the Democrat to run to replace NJ's new Governor in the US House, there is a new partial result, probably be a week before a final count but the distance between Mejia (progressive) and Malinowski (not) is increasing, 868 votes now with 93% of all the votes counted.
This is about the Washington Post right now, but I have saved the image because I anticipate it might be useful in the future.
The image has no ALT-text, so I'll just tell you it's the Bugs Bunny in Formal Dress meme with the words "i wish all / jeff bezos / a very / go fuck yourself" on the left.
The image has no ALT-text, so I'll just tell you it's the Bugs Bunny in Formal Dress meme with the words "i wish all / jeff bezos / a very / go fuck yourself" on the left.
February 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
This is about the Washington Post right now, but I have saved the image because I anticipate it might be useful in the future.
The image has no ALT-text, so I'll just tell you it's the Bugs Bunny in Formal Dress meme with the words "i wish all / jeff bezos / a very / go fuck yourself" on the left.
The image has no ALT-text, so I'll just tell you it's the Bugs Bunny in Formal Dress meme with the words "i wish all / jeff bezos / a very / go fuck yourself" on the left.
So there is a video going around with a caption saying something like "Minneapolis police attack protesters" and all the attackers are wearing labels on their uniforms saying "State Police" or one says "Conservation Officer" or stuff like that, and we have to be accurate here, guys, there's the 1/3
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
February 8, 2026 at 1:08 AM
So there is a video going around with a caption saying something like "Minneapolis police attack protesters" and all the attackers are wearing labels on their uniforms saying "State Police" or one says "Conservation Officer" or stuff like that, and we have to be accurate here, guys, there's the 1/3
Oh, here it is with ALT-text, which is very well done and worth reading even if your vision is fine.
Good ALT-text is helpful for people like me whose eyes work fine but who sometimes don't notice everything that's there in the picture.
Good ALT-text is helpful for people like me whose eyes work fine but who sometimes don't notice everything that's there in the picture.
This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Oh, here it is with ALT-text, which is very well done and worth reading even if your vision is fine.
Good ALT-text is helpful for people like me whose eyes work fine but who sometimes don't notice everything that's there in the picture.
Good ALT-text is helpful for people like me whose eyes work fine but who sometimes don't notice everything that's there in the picture.
Following up on my previous repost. Now I know a little more about quality in dildos, and presumably in other sex toys as well.
there's toxic chemicals in non-silicone sex toys and, iirc, they do let off gasses as they deteriorate over time
that's why silicone-based toys are SO much better.
that's why silicone-based toys are SO much better.
February 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Following up on my previous repost. Now I know a little more about quality in dildos, and presumably in other sex toys as well.
Today I learned that dildos have a sell-by date. You kind of have to reconstruct the story piece by piece by reading the thread, and I still don't know exactly how they go bad.
Yes, one of the main mutual aid organizers in Minneapolis is an adult toy store called smitten kitten
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Today I learned that dildos have a sell-by date. You kind of have to reconstruct the story piece by piece by reading the thread, and I still don't know exactly how they go bad.
I see her posts on Instagram, but it's not the same, bsky is a better medium for what she does, and the way bsky moderation did nothing to stop that ugliness is disgusting and disgraceful.
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I see her posts on Instagram, but it's not the same, bsky is a better medium for what she does, and the way bsky moderation did nothing to stop that ugliness is disgusting and disgraceful.
Following up on a previous repost.
February 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Following up on a previous repost.
Reposted by Carter's Dad
Enjoying how the demand is evolving from 'abolish ICE' to 'abolish and prosecute ICE'
that's the spirit folks, keep pushing 🙌
that's the spirit folks, keep pushing 🙌
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Enjoying how the demand is evolving from 'abolish ICE' to 'abolish and prosecute ICE'
that's the spirit folks, keep pushing 🙌
that's the spirit folks, keep pushing 🙌
I was gonna say this, but not so well.
Let me tell you folks something. Every man you know has tried to pee a sentence into the snow, so we know of the difficulties latent therein.
This Kenworthy guy has superhuman abilities. I can't believe what I'm looking at.
This Kenworthy guy has superhuman abilities. I can't believe what I'm looking at.
The skier, who’s competing for Team Great Britain, wrote “fuck ice” in urine—using the wand that God gave him—and posted it to Instagram.
www.jezebel.com/im-team-gus-...
www.jezebel.com/im-team-gus-...
February 7, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I was gonna say this, but not so well.
Anime is not one of my areas of expertise, I know enough to know how little I know, but I know enough to recognize the truth of this insight, and it sort of shifts my perception of what's going on in the anime I do watch.
Your basic anime girl is clearly a different species of hominid which has evolved to fill a nocturnal predator role.
Consider: large eyes to hunt effectively in low-light conditions
Mouth opens very wide for better biting
Usagi Tsukino is biologically optimised to fight evil by moonlight.
Consider: large eyes to hunt effectively in low-light conditions
Mouth opens very wide for better biting
Usagi Tsukino is biologically optimised to fight evil by moonlight.
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Anime is not one of my areas of expertise, I know enough to know how little I know, but I know enough to recognize the truth of this insight, and it sort of shifts my perception of what's going on in the anime I do watch.
Never thought about it, but this is true.
The Winter Olympics are a lot more about almost dying than the summer ones, tbh
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Never thought about it, but this is true.
Man, if we could get local law enforcement to recognize that ICE/CBP are not Real Cops Like Us, they are criminals from out of town making fools of the local PD, it could turn things around. Blessings on people who try to make that happen.
I continue in my attempts to impress on the Sheriff just how much her decisions are compromising the reputation of and any trust the public has in the Sheriff’s Office, as well as the entire county operation.
February 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Man, if we could get local law enforcement to recognize that ICE/CBP are not Real Cops Like Us, they are criminals from out of town making fools of the local PD, it could turn things around. Blessings on people who try to make that happen.
Reposted by Carter's Dad
Everybody knows what happens when you let one fucking Nazi drink at your bar.
This rules. Kick Bovino out of every fucking bar in the country.
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Everybody knows what happens when you let one fucking Nazi drink at your bar.
Much to my surprise, he actually did say this. www.instagram.com/p/DUbeoy5EvUz/
Gotta give the man some credit, this is clear and strong.
Gotta give the man some credit, this is clear and strong.
February 7, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Much to my surprise, he actually did say this. www.instagram.com/p/DUbeoy5EvUz/
Gotta give the man some credit, this is clear and strong.
Gotta give the man some credit, this is clear and strong.
Damn, six days ago but I'm still gonna repost this.
February 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Damn, six days ago but I'm still gonna repost this.
I mean of course it's not true, nothin they say has any connection to the universe of facts, but every once in a while I think it's useful to point to one where the disconnect is particularly clearly visible.
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I mean of course it's not true, nothin they say has any connection to the universe of facts, but every once in a while I think it's useful to point to one where the disconnect is particularly clearly visible.
Reposted by Carter's Dad
The President is not well.
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The President is not well.
Good. Gotta get people saying this out loud.
AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Good. Gotta get people saying this out loud.
I think these guys both watch too much Fox News or something. There is something profoundly backwards about their whole approach to negotiating with weasels. Letting the weasels choose the words they can use.
When even the bare minimum is seemingly too much.
"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
February 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
I think these guys both watch too much Fox News or something. There is something profoundly backwards about their whole approach to negotiating with weasels. Letting the weasels choose the words they can use.
Every once in a while I decide to delete a post, and I have finally convinced myself by experiment that no I'm not crazy, half the time I go to my bsky profile to click the little three dots in the lower right corner of the post, the little three dots are not there. Refresh and they're there. Why?
February 5, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Every once in a while I decide to delete a post, and I have finally convinced myself by experiment that no I'm not crazy, half the time I go to my bsky profile to click the little three dots in the lower right corner of the post, the little three dots are not there. Refresh and they're there. Why?
I really wonder what it's gonna take to get the back-bench Ds to rise up and slap some sense into Schumer and Jeffries and the rest of the Leadership Club.
If my caucus was any sort of indication, national Dems really need to wake the fuck up about what voters want them to do about ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 5:48 AM
I really wonder what it's gonna take to get the back-bench Ds to rise up and slap some sense into Schumer and Jeffries and the rest of the Leadership Club.
I'm generally very much in favor of facts and truth, but we also need a folk hero now and then and Mamdani seems better qualified than most to carry it off.
it's actually a really good political skill that Mamdani convinces people that this is true. I think American politicians, especially dems, really failed/forgot how to slap their names on shit and say that they did, they are why people are benefiting from X etc, even when that isn't strictly true.
what
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I'm generally very much in favor of facts and truth, but we also need a folk hero now and then and Mamdani seems better qualified than most to carry it off.
Reposted by Carter's Dad
I am so traumatically trained by social fucking media that I just had to shake off the notion that Bugs Bunny had died because he's in the trending sidebar
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I am so traumatically trained by social fucking media that I just had to shake off the notion that Bugs Bunny had died because he's in the trending sidebar
Interesting idea, I hadn't heard this suggestion before. If this is offered as part of a compromise deal on ICE I might allow it. With similar conditions on other forms of violence.
I know there's problems with it, but a bargaining chip. Here's our compromise. (I know abolition is a compromise.)
I know there's problems with it, but a bargaining chip. Here's our compromise. (I know abolition is a compromise.)
If you've been around for a while, you know that one of my incremental positions is that any law enforcement official that fires a gun is automatically done with that job. Doesn't matter why you fired it, you only get to do it once, then you have to go get a real job
February 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Interesting idea, I hadn't heard this suggestion before. If this is offered as part of a compromise deal on ICE I might allow it. With similar conditions on other forms of violence.
I know there's problems with it, but a bargaining chip. Here's our compromise. (I know abolition is a compromise.)
I know there's problems with it, but a bargaining chip. Here's our compromise. (I know abolition is a compromise.)