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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

I have been thinking about this a LOT lately, and have many things to say about it. Maybe I'll write a complete essay. But for now, this video is well, well worth your time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 1d

oh oh oh! one has a hat on and the other doesn’t!

🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 1d

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 2d

I caused a partial mental meltdown in one of my younger coworkers once when I told him how my hand me down 386 had over 200 jumpers in it across the motherboard and various controller cards and devices.
The only jumper he’d ever known was to clear cmos.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 2d

Link?

That Link?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 4d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, leaders of the Democratic party, don't support this guy. Continue to build on your vision for a better 1995.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 3d

Gods yes.
My entire life has been clothing misery, my immediate response to anyone saying I’m lucky for being so tall is a terse “I fucking hate it, it sucks, nothing fits.”

🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly most data centers should be bombarded from orbit at this point, the majority of them are nothing more than wasted energy and pollution factories.

I hate that I used to love and work in tech.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 4d

ah yes, sportsball with its most important sporter position, enforced rule communicatorator.

🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome back Cassetteboy.

Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer

YouTube video by cassetteboy

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 5d

why the fuck can’t I get a YEARS SUPPLY of my blood pressure medication that’s been the same for a fucking decade!? just give it to me, I’m going to use it.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 6d

Same. I am sure I am still behind after walking away from 400$ at the register almost a decade ago, but I sure as hell am not going to mention the mistagged item that’s still over priced!

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 6d

She wants NEW SHEETS!? LIKELY TO MURDER MARTIN WITH!

*rabble rabble rabble*

🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 7d

Outlaw landlords, the disgusting parasitic practice is abhorrent.

Housing never should have be considered a financial “investment” or “tool”.

There are no good landlords, it is exploitation nothing more.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 8d

The last decade has been a hell of a century for sure.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 9d

No jokes on the internet. Only serious.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 11d

Perfect.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 11d

Ah yes the amazingly insightful words of the idiots who think drive fast, turn left, piss in your jumpsuit = “I’m an athlete!”

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demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · 12d

tapping the sign

demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · Sep 13

hot take: if bluesky really wants to embrace composable moderation, their “mod team” should have a primary focus of actioning illegal content & nothing else.

bsky mods should focus on CSAM reporting/removal & *actionable* threats.

they also desperately need to learn what an actionable threat IS.

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 12d

Dude congrats on the discovery,
that is freaking awesome!

Is that Dr. Burnley?, she is fantastic, I worked for her like another LIFETIME ago lol, awesome educator, actually made me wish I was one of her grad students.

Good luck on the confirmation, classification and credit.

+1 Nevada Zebra Candy

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🇺🇦 @scifiwifi42.bsky.social · 12d

Look at this magnificent son of a bitch!

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