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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 2h

I'll be there (in San Jose), and I hope your are too (at whatever location works for you). Historically, truly large protests can have a real effect against tyranny.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 3h

This is not what democracy looks like. Also it's evil.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 6h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 5h

What on earth is wrong with these people? For the record, no one I know in Silicon Valley has demonstrated a "broader accommodation of Trump." We think he's a vile, incompetent, mendacious, racist autocrat who neither understands nor respects science.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tec...

techcrunch.com

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, that is still the right version to get. I have not yet started on a fourth edition, though I intend to.

Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 1d

I know just how Trump feels about missing out on the Nobel peace prize. I was denied the Heisman trophy this year, and something must be done about it.

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. Well done, MIT. All of our universities should have been reacting in this manner to all of the Trump administration's illegal overreach (looking at you, Columbia).

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 2d

This is also not what democracy looks like. We are well on our way to autocracy at this point.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 2d

This is not what democracy looks like.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two source...

www.cnn.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 3d

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 4d

This is not good. When you're running Windows on a mini-PC controlling your astrophotography rig, you want it to be light and nimble. In fact, some companies that sell these mini-PCs (e.g., MeLE) ship with a modified OOBE that doesn't ask for a Microsoft login.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/w...

No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft

: Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds

www.theregister.com

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 4d

And the Washington Post that we had during the first Trump administration would be methodically cataloging his lies.

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 4d

Phrases like "violating the law" and "lying" are useful here.

Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 6d

This is not what democracy looks like.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 6d

Three years earlier, @tmbg.bsky.social came along and created this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMR...

They Might Be Giants - The Mesopotamians (official TMBG video)

YouTube video by ParticleMen

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 7d

This is not what democracy looks like.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say

The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 8d

Why don't the real police arrest them, as they would any other things who engaged in this sort of behavior?

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 8d

Serious question: can't you just report "icy conditions"using Maps or Wayze?

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not a fan of everything Newsom does, but this is a good move.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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Joshua Bloch @joshbloch.bsky.social · 10d

An update: my master dark frame was horrible broken, "infecting" my stacks and making them susceptible to this artifact. Also it introduced a nasty vertical line that I had to hide by aggressive darkening. I'll make a new dark library, and reprocess a few favorite images. Never a dull moment...

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