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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 32m

You better be ready to stand up like this

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 4h

We definitely have coyotes in the area! But, it's also more like the coyotes have people in their area.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 4h

I live in the middle of Los Angeles. If we're getting feral hogs here, either we're doing really good at re-wilding the urban environment, or many, many things have gone badly wrong.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 5h

The Jetsons, but Rosie works at Spacely Sprockets, is part of the Galaxy Historical Society, and gets to dance, while George, Jane, Judy and Elroy clean up around the house.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 5h

"letter to the World"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

oh no

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 5h

Hold on, are you saying that it would *not* solve all our problems if we just changed our Constitution to explicitly discriminate against, and disempower, a set of people that have historically been discriminated against and disempowered?!

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 5h

I've managed to give AWS a couple of hundred $ a few times, thanks to something stupid I wrote, and I didn't even need AI!

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 6h

I actually recall concluding he was not full of it, actually, and something about breeding larger feral hogs for rich people to hunt?

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 7h

Crap, I’m in the blue area. Guess I better get ready for 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard!

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 8h

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 8h

Have you read the Wired piece on this? It's well worth the price of a subscription and pretty straightforwardly explains... well, a lot of the modern right, actually. Basically, he took the crypto-Catholic views of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt and ran with them www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 22h

Where my Gritty x Frog crossover

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

Holy wow, this is… principled? I haven’t expected principled for a while.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke too soon, nasty hit. Hope he’s ok!

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

Jaxon Dart, wow

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

The meme of a cute girl saying “why not both?” But it’s a totally meaningless typescript type that provides no value or information, type WhyNotBoth<T> = T;

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

This is wild

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 1d

Wall Street Journal: well-known arbiter of cool

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2d

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2d

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

www.yahoo.com

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 3d

Great point by the Episcopal father here: this is specifically condemning the things that Jesus Christ literally ordered us to do.

opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · 9d

the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d

DHS includes a bunch of false and defamatory statements in their tweet about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they prepare to send him to Uganda.

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 4d

This is great advice: it is actually possible to just say "no" if your boss asks you to do something illegal. Better than doing it, even!

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 8d

If you're asked to do someting potentially illegal at work: know that if you do so, you're the one could well have to face consequences.

A few more stories about when engineers went along with illegal asks, and are now in hot water: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-...

Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 4d

Years ago I learned this lesson when a colleague had someone break into their house and steal both their computer and the backup drive sitting next to it. I've had on-site and cloud backups since.

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Wade Armstrong @kaizendad.bsky.social · 4d

No, pre-coffee self, `git rm --cached package.json` is not the same as `git rm --cached package-lock.json`. Once you figure that out, you'll know why you've struggled with builds all day.