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Christopher Plessinger

@plessinger.com

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Grandson of an original anti-fascist. Dad; hockey, futball, genealogy, and amateur cosmology. 20 years in I.T. Citrix: CCIA, CCE-V, CCP-AppDS VMware: VCP-DCV 2024, VCP-DM 2023 CompTIA: Linux+, Security+, Network+, A+ Zerto: ZCP I like to tinker.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · Nov 8

If you start following me and you have an incomplete or not completed profile along with either 1k followers/ 1k posts / 1k following, I'm blocking you.

I've been on Twitter and I can smell bots/trolls.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 6h

Machado dedi-what to Trump?

I know that Trump is no Maduro (yet) but what the fuck?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, dedicates to Trump

Marina Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, was blocked by Venezuela's courts from running for president and challenging President Nicolas Maduro.

www.reuters.com

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13h

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 9h

Goddamn it.

And I just went to Trader Joe's recently for the first time and thought, 'I should come here more'

Now - nope, not anymore.

The NLRB exists because (very good) reasons.

Fuck anyone who advocates taking it away from us.

Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional

Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

www.bloomberg.com

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 9h

No face has ever made me think of The Omen more.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 12h

kidnapping

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 9h

Fuck Paramount and CBS.
We haven't forgotten.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 10h

I've looked up a lot of how-to YouTube videos but, um, I've avoided this one.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

All right, y'all, help me out. This is a bidet, right? (It's in my airbnb.) So, the idea is, you poop in the toilet and then...crab walk a few feet to your left, with your pants down? And stick your butt down in this thing? There's no seat, as such, so you're just...hovering your butt down into it?

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 13h

Fuck Salesforce.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 14h

As MLB winds down, fortunately, NHL is just cranking it up.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

...Mackenzie Davis?
...Melinda Gates?

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 1d

Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!

US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026

docs.google.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

It certainly will be if the economy comes to (the predicted) screeching halt.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP: WE THINK OIL WILL BE UNDER $2 PER GALLON SOON

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“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

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

These guys all have cameras.
There's no excuse for them NOT to have cameras.
The protesters sure have cameras.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 1d

We absolutely better do this if we don't end up in a permanent fascist state.

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

Un-fucking-believable.

There goes the ballgame.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 2d

I hope the Nobel committee has better sense than to award that man a prize next year.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 3d

That is not a bug.
That's a feature (of this administration.)

Christopher Plessinger @plessinger.com · 3d

The Pope.
The one from Chicago.
HE needs to say this.

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