Porter
@porter79.bsky.social
Porter is what my wife calls me- its what I do for my son. Former Biology tech. In Field= Wolves, Badgers, Turtles, Mice, Voles; At Lab =mice, rats, NPH... Phd's ;-), mostly MRI. In NJ= Underemployed. Middle-aged early riser. Depressed. Atheist.
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Nobody's done such a terrible job concealing joy over someone's death since George Costanza.
SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO
Oh she HATED his guts
Oh she HATED his guts
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Nobody's done such a terrible job concealing joy over someone's death since George Costanza.
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1. WE'RE FUCKED
2. POOL PARTY @ MY PLACE
2. POOL PARTY @ MY PLACE
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
1. WE'RE FUCKED
2. POOL PARTY @ MY PLACE
2. POOL PARTY @ MY PLACE
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Having a chat with a coworke about generative AI (while waiting for another group to get their work done so we can do something today), and the accidental banger of "About the only thing current 'AI' generates for me is disappointment" has been instantly burned into my vocabulary.
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Having a chat with a coworke about generative AI (while waiting for another group to get their work done so we can do something today), and the accidental banger of "About the only thing current 'AI' generates for me is disappointment" has been instantly burned into my vocabulary.
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If there isn’t any bipartisan effort to impeach Pam Bondi after her criminal clownery today, we should stop pretending Congress has any authority to enforce rule of law.
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
If there isn’t any bipartisan effort to impeach Pam Bondi after her criminal clownery today, we should stop pretending Congress has any authority to enforce rule of law.
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It was a two-podcast week for me! In addition to being on Paula Poundstone's podcast, I also was on the Techdirt podcast talking about the Supreme Court and the Internet.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/t...
Techdirt Podcast Episode 443: The Supreme Court’s Internet Cases
Support us on Patreon » In the last few years, the Supreme Court has been paying a lot more attention to the internet than it ever has before, and the cases keep on coming. This is alrea…
www.techdirt.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It was a two-podcast week for me! In addition to being on Paula Poundstone's podcast, I also was on the Techdirt podcast talking about the Supreme Court and the Internet.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/t...
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/t...
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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Aaah hahahahahahahahah!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Aaah hahahahahahahahah!!!!!
I'm beginning to worry that if the Democrats take back the Senate and the House that there isn't a single one of those motherfuckers able to put the fight up necessary to stop everything Trump's trying to do.
I don't really want to die of some mega flu
Current crop of Democrats suck
I don't really want to die of some mega flu
Current crop of Democrats suck
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I'm beginning to worry that if the Democrats take back the Senate and the House that there isn't a single one of those motherfuckers able to put the fight up necessary to stop everything Trump's trying to do.
I don't really want to die of some mega flu
Current crop of Democrats suck
I don't really want to die of some mega flu
Current crop of Democrats suck
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My birth certificate has a completely different name that I legally changed when I turned 18. My passport is expired, and I'm waiting on the whim of Trump's government to issue me a new one. I have no other ID establishing my citizenship.
Markwayne Mullin defends "show me your papers": "If you're here legally, there's nothing to hide. Most people already are walking around with a government-issued ID, meaning your Real ID or your driver's license. If you go board a train here, you gotta show your ID."
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
My birth certificate has a completely different name that I legally changed when I turned 18. My passport is expired, and I'm waiting on the whim of Trump's government to issue me a new one. I have no other ID establishing my citizenship.
TODAY NO CONTEXT BLUE SKY IS ...
February 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
TODAY NO CONTEXT BLUE SKY IS ...
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Well, I, for one, was looking forward to being able to get a "one and done, blocks all strains" flu shot
now I'm gonna have to pray Captain Ivermectin allows the old traditional flu shots to be issued every fall
now I'm gonna have to pray Captain Ivermectin allows the old traditional flu shots to be issued every fall
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Well, I, for one, was looking forward to being able to get a "one and done, blocks all strains" flu shot
now I'm gonna have to pray Captain Ivermectin allows the old traditional flu shots to be issued every fall
now I'm gonna have to pray Captain Ivermectin allows the old traditional flu shots to be issued every fall
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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saying "men are terrible" is fine, it's saying "men are terrible" while being a non-man that is the real offense
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
saying "men are terrible" is fine, it's saying "men are terrible" while being a non-man that is the real offense
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I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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I may have made a wombat and a kingfisher Ursula and Vernon in The Unfamiliars but your actual homage was Griselda Stickyfoote the gardening goblin
February 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I may have made a wombat and a kingfisher Ursula and Vernon in The Unfamiliars but your actual homage was Griselda Stickyfoote the gardening goblin
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Go read the Unfamiliars!
I may have made a wombat and a kingfisher Ursula and Vernon in The Unfamiliars but your actual homage was Griselda Stickyfoote the gardening goblin
February 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Go read the Unfamiliars!
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And we don’t have to guess what they mean, because we can read Project 2025 ourselves and see that “pornography” is shorthand for LGBTQ people existing publicly. That’s what they’re working to ban, censor, and restrict online under the guise of “protecting” kids from porn
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
And we don’t have to guess what they mean, because we can read Project 2025 ourselves and see that “pornography” is shorthand for LGBTQ people existing publicly. That’s what they’re working to ban, censor, and restrict online under the guise of “protecting” kids from porn
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Again: I don't expect to live long enough to see it return. I don't expect to live long enough to see anything be much better, I just assume the rest of my life will be accelerating misery.
I hope I'm wrong
I hope I'm wrong
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
February 10, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Again: I don't expect to live long enough to see it return. I don't expect to live long enough to see anything be much better, I just assume the rest of my life will be accelerating misery.
I hope I'm wrong
I hope I'm wrong
Got my kid to watch some of it on the Roku box.
And it timed out just before the end of the game.
Fuck you internet.
100,000 channels and nothing to watch
Just giving away to 100,000 streaming steaming shit with nothing to watch.
Its a password apocalypse
And it timed out just before the end of the game.
Fuck you internet.
100,000 channels and nothing to watch
Just giving away to 100,000 streaming steaming shit with nothing to watch.
Its a password apocalypse
Trying to stream the hockey game to this afternoon. I should be able to " log on with my internet provider.
Don't want to watch it on the computer but I can at least stream it to my TV via the Roku box
Not bad for technologically illiterate...
Except it's not fucking working 😱
Don't want to watch it on the computer but I can at least stream it to my TV via the Roku box
Not bad for technologically illiterate...
Except it's not fucking working 😱
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Got my kid to watch some of it on the Roku box.
And it timed out just before the end of the game.
Fuck you internet.
100,000 channels and nothing to watch
Just giving away to 100,000 streaming steaming shit with nothing to watch.
Its a password apocalypse
And it timed out just before the end of the game.
Fuck you internet.
100,000 channels and nothing to watch
Just giving away to 100,000 streaming steaming shit with nothing to watch.
Its a password apocalypse
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i would make every living person eat a chili cheese half smoke and then every living person would have to go lie down for an hour
While Buffalo wings are now a ubiquitous app all over the country, not every regional food goes national. What cuisine from YOUR region do you most want to share with the country/world?
February 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
i would make every living person eat a chili cheese half smoke and then every living person would have to go lie down for an hour
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
I want to watch women's hockey today US against Canada. My only options are online or on peacock.
Broadcast is showing figure skating...
I beep finally get beep into a single thing on these beep beep Olympics so I can share with my son and I have to watch it on a peacock beep beep TV execs
Broadcast is showing figure skating...
I beep finally get beep into a single thing on these beep beep Olympics so I can share with my son and I have to watch it on a peacock beep beep TV execs
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I want to watch women's hockey today US against Canada. My only options are online or on peacock.
Broadcast is showing figure skating...
I beep finally get beep into a single thing on these beep beep Olympics so I can share with my son and I have to watch it on a peacock beep beep TV execs
Broadcast is showing figure skating...
I beep finally get beep into a single thing on these beep beep Olympics so I can share with my son and I have to watch it on a peacock beep beep TV execs
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And I can’t help thinking that’s because:
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
And I can’t help thinking that’s because:
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
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the fact that the names of powerful men got redacted and that some of the girls they abused didn't get their names redacted "by mistake" tells you EVERYTHING
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
the fact that the names of powerful men got redacted and that some of the girls they abused didn't get their names redacted "by mistake" tells you EVERYTHING
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Just...if the midterms trend anywhere in the same neighborhood as special elections have been it's NOT going to come down to a "few close races."
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Just...if the midterms trend anywhere in the same neighborhood as special elections have been it's NOT going to come down to a "few close races."