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Matthew Martin

@mistersql.bsky.social

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DevOps Contractor for a large DC area GovTech organization. @mistersql on twitter. @[email protected] on mastodon I live in Herndon, VA https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · Nov 30

I haven't decided what to do with this account. I got an account already for techie stuff on mastodon(1)

Bsky seems to be smart people who aren't *necessarily* techies, so maybe I'll just do my fav topics in a jumble

- philosophy
- astronomy, sci-fi
- economics
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(1) mastodon.social/@mistersql

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 4h

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5h

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 1d

We have heard you loud & clear. Your job has no opportunities for promotion. To address that, you can now sign up to promote Athletic Greens during the Daily Scrum Standup meeting. You will be paid 15% of first months revenue for anyone that uses your sign up code.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people don’t care if something is actually true or not as long as it feels good to say. Or worse still, come to believe something is true, simply because it feels good to say. I really wish people would resist this instinct. Commitment to truth is vital and without it we have nothing.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 2d

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 2d

Passes pylint. Does not use classes unnecessarily. Formatted with black.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 2d

It is unethical to kill an animal except if it is breaking criminal law. Mice and insects in the house are guilty of trespass. Even then capital punishment should only be reserved for unrepentant, hardened criminals. Shield bugs have the right to a court-appointed representation.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

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OCaml @sincerely.cam · 3d

good charts

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 3d

CISA warns of ‘significant’ threat to federal networks after nation-state hackers stole F5 source code, undisclosed bug info

via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

CISA warns of ‘significant’ threat to federal networks after nation-state hackers stole F5 source code, undisclosed bug info

The emergency directive orders all agencies to apply the latest updates for all at-risk F5 virtual and physical devices and downloaded software by October 22.

therecord.media

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 3d

Tim work makes the dream work.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 3d

Russell Vought says we need to illegally shut down the CFPB because it’s terrorizing small mom-and-pop lenders. The CFPB only regulates lenders with assets worth more than $10 billion. The amount of blatant spinning and lying in this administration is disgusting

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 4d

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Mike Fiedler @miketheman.com · 5d

Does your org run a self-managed version of @gitlab.com and publish your own #Python packages to @pypi.org ?

If you want to try out an alpha of Trusted Publishing for GitLab Self-Managed instances, let me know via DM - I'm collecting interest now, and should have something to show soon.

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Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 4d

Lethal dose calculator says you did your math.

Matthew Martin @mistersql.bsky.social · 5d

LLMs are really good at writing PEPs.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 6d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Louis Maddox @permutans.bsky.social · 7d

Working on a Python package I last touched substantively 6+ months ago like damn… no pyproject [tool.uv] section? no Justfile? No uv bump? No Trusted Publishing? No pre-commit check fixer with stash hooks? No oxidised linter bundle? No ty? No taplo config? Just an editor and a dream

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

we need to abolish this shit

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 7d

That country is utterly lost. God this is so bleak. Combined with yesterday’s deeply upsetting story about Kingsley Bimpong dying from a stroke in police custody, the video of which is so horrific I cannot imagine how his family felt watching it, the US plumbs new depths every day. Don’t go there.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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