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@thaxter.bsky.social

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NaN = Not A Number Weird America & UFOs. Crossing timelines without a visa. OC cat photos always get a like.

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Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting. A twitter accounts falsely claimed to be native American, blocked me, the block vanished, I QT'd, read their history, blocked, the account and all interactions—including the block—are now invisible.

Talk about Twitter files.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 5h

Ugh. Skydiving with flares. Please stop.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 6h

Send them to me. For your health.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 6h

My rear window situation has been boring recently so this is a treat.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 6h

I am used to a lot of urban stuff but the woman in the brownstone row parking lot dancing to reggaeton from a speaker is a puzzle.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 21h

Real thing i heard in downeast #Maine: it turns out you can get OUI (Maine for DUI) on a lawnmower.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 21h

There is just so much to love.

Like the car with a missing door where they have to clear off random pots and pans with a hockey stick just to drive it.

But especially the rampant crime and their general niceness and loyalty to each other no matter how awful their behavior is.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 22h

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Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 22h

What kind of "rock" or "rap" is terrified of blue hair? This isn't 1975.

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El Topo 🍁 @eltopo71.com · 1d

I swear at this point he says it at every press conference just to see if there's even one journalist who's gonna call him out. And when no one does, well, that means everyone in the press corps is complying.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely 💯 etc

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

What do you notice?

Noem roof Oregonian lights cameras 666 likes ❤️

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Since "fascism" is off the table can we just call it "sparkling authoritarianism"?

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

I asked an LLM to produce a simple shell script and while it did a good job, it wasn't clear that getting it to do what I *actually* wanted was easier than just writing the script myself.

It seems to be a great tool for unqualified morons to pretend to work.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Old joke about using regex is "now you have two problems". Adding AI just sounds like 3 problems.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

We are the goon squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously so many cars going by honk, maybe 25%, and I love that. America is not over.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

I get your point but sometimes (not often) doing nothing counts.

The GOP is now on a major online campaign of saying "they REFUSE" because they are feeling the pressure.

Trump's boast to only harm "Democrat programs" is hollow. Too vast to avoid collateral damage. 47 crew isn't that smart 🤷‍♂️

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

The honking near my house suggests the old folks from the home are out with peace signs again.

It's the only regular type of urban noise that I will never complain about. #portlandmaine

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

I met an East German "cabaret" director (its a whole thing) in the early 90s and no doubt mockery, coded jokes, and any single way you can get away with disrespect are absolutely key to bringing down authoritarian regimes.

At some point *everyone knows*. We are at this point now.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. You can tell by the way they treat black Americans.

Tweet from Eboni Russell:

I live in Chicago… I live a block over from Cicero. ICE visited my home yesterday. ICE didn’t knock. ICE tried to forcefully open my window. ICE opened my screen and asked me to sign papers. I AM an American Citizen. Born on U.S. soil. ICE forcefully tried to enter my home! WAKE UP AMERICA!

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

One of the prettiest birds!

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Better check it's not a pileated woodpecker or your house might fall down.

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Too late...

Agent NaN @thaxter.bsky.social · 2d

I blew a tire near Moosehead Lake, Maine (rock or bullet, dunno) and I had to wait 2 days for an 80 year old woman to drive an hour away to pick up a replacement.

Also my tow truck driver was a self described nihilist.

Rural people are pretty cool.