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Nicolaas Stulting

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Nicolaas Stulting is creating Moon Maiden Mission, which is a digital story set in an alternate universe. He is an artist, musician, photographer, 3D modeler, and writer who is learning about modern technologies and new skills these days.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · Nov 21

The true enemies of a free society are apathy, ignorance, and cynicism. These are powerful forces, but they can be countered somewhat effectively with optimism, curiosity, logic, empathy, and healthy dialogues. Human beings who treat each other with respect can easily discuss many things sensibly.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1m

Lately, I think a lot about the litany about fear from Dune by Frank Herbert. I think fear can be tolerated, and transcended with the willpower to do so, at least in some cases. In other cases, it is totally sensible to let fear contribute to decision making. It really depends on the circumstances.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 6m

All of the members of the Ramones have died, so it is important to understand that little will stop companies from using your creative works to sell medication, or toilet paper, or whatever, after you are gone. Right now, AI owned by billionaires steals the works of the living and gets away with it.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 12m

www.grahamforsenate.com

Graham Platner | Democrat for U.S. Senate

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, is a Marine and U.S. Army veteran and oyster farmer running to defeat Susan Collins and win back the seat for working Mainers.

www.grahamforsenate.com

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 14m

It is interesting to hear these case studies, just out of sheer curiosity.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 18m

This would only seem like a bad look to people who have a basic sense of right and wrong.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 19m

It is a crazy idea, but you know, when the President is mentally deteriorating, and he has a business that brings in billions of dollars while he is in office, and he is getting rid of healthcare for millions of Americans on purpose to fund billionaires, it probably should not surprise anyone.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 28m

It is definitely pretty messed up to just not hand out 94 million pounds of food to Americans who are hungry enough to go to food banks. Is the Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins responsible or is that more of a richest man in the world type decision? Maybe a bit of both?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 11h

I surveyed over 300,000 of my constituents, and most of the respondents said they don’t approve of the National Guard being deployed to Portland.

As I’ve said: we don’t need this, and we don’t want this.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 33m

It is worth the time to look at these figures and evaluate why such budgets for detention centers are necessary for immigration enforcement. Isn't the point of their mission from the President to reduce the number of immigrants here illegally? So why would we need lots of new detention centers?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 39m

That certainly stands to reason, unless their jobs depended on it because their boss needed to hide the files, or they were strangely in debt to someone who did really need to hide the files, or if they were deeply stupid.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 44m

After AI tools replace the workers, who will pay for it if so many people are out of work from the AI tools being implemented in the workforce. It does neat stuff sure, but if you are unemployed, toys on the phone become something you choose to not pay for to afford food. The business model is odd.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 59m

If you follow that train of logic, it opens up a whole world of wondering about so many books on so many subjects, but that is a world worth living in with one's eyes open.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1h

Assumptions about human motivation you learn in Econ 101 don’t apply to anyone except the people who write economics textbooks.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

But if you share that information with all of us, then we are all strangely involved somehow, which is complex.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

That could be a lyric for one of your songs. Truthfully, lots of things that occur to us and are real experiences that we truly deeply feel make for good lyrics, in my opinion. As to Bluesky it is quiet at night unless you follow people in other time zones which changes that significantly.

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agnes bookbinder @agnesbookbinder.bsky.social · 1h

All of these are choices.

Mackenzie Scott choosing to donate over $40 m to one charity is a choice. Jeff Bezos spending the over $20 m on his second marriage, also a choice.

The US allowing people to live & work in the US was a choice. Rounding those same people up now, also a choice.

#Priorities

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

Of course you do, just as everyone else does. I worry little about such things as I am trying to post a lot. It is part of my intentional purpose on Bluesky at times. I do not know anyone on here in real life, so there is certainly no offense taken if strangers are not interested in my opinions.

Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

I would certainly understand if people mute me, as I post a lot.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

Blocking really helps on Bluesky. I think it is probably a necessity for many reasons.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 1h

Talking with people, you hear so many stories of disappointment. Today a neighbor told me how many senior citizens in his family are going to come out of retirement and rejoin the workforce due to this disastrous Presidency affecting their finances. I did not tell him about the job market...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11h

Trump's approval rating is now -16%. If you're dissatisfied, you're not alone.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

www.economist.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

China signaled that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump, urging the U.S. to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats.

China vows to stand firm against Trump's 100% tariff threat

China is signaling that it won't back down in the face of the latest tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Nicolaas Stulting @nicolaasstulting.bsky.social · 2h

There is no more obvious indicator of the President's inability to lead the nation due to his own mental deterioration than his ineptitude with tariffs which costs every American money. The man is incompetent in many ways, but nobody enjoys literally paying the price for his mistakes.