Nick Peterson
@thetecheng.bsky.social
Camus' greatest rock pusher. Currently doing design work on high tech labs & manufacturing facilities. Interested in anything and everything.
He/Him/They
He/Him/They
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Im sorry but “real press” historically has gotten really brave folks standing up to oppression arrested. The trade offs arent always obvious but dismissing the reasons for folks wariness shows a lack of knowledge
January 29, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.
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I mean, I think it is the ravings of a looney, old, narcissist, they are going to try and fuck with the Mid-Terms, and yes it will be brutal and nasty, but it won't fucking work, and it will only make things worse for them.
Remember: we are lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Remember: we are lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Do not pass this off as the ravings of a looney, old, narcissist. These false reports are going to be used to try and corrupt the 2026 elections by increasing White House Power over the vote. It could spark off the greatest crisis in the USA since the Civil War.
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
I mean, I think it is the ravings of a looney, old, narcissist, they are going to try and fuck with the Mid-Terms, and yes it will be brutal and nasty, but it won't fucking work, and it will only make things worse for them.
Remember: we are lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Remember: we are lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Mohammed after traveling all the way there and still being given the cold shoulder...
that mountain can go fuck itself
January 30, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Mohammed after traveling all the way there and still being given the cold shoulder...
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Timeline cleanse featuring penguins frolicking in the snow at the Pittsburgh Zoo!
January 30, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Timeline cleanse featuring penguins frolicking in the snow at the Pittsburgh Zoo!
Nomitive determinism strikes again
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Nomitive determinism strikes again
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the fact that the White House is able to grasp that they should come to the table on this is a huge deal. it signifies that they don’t think their caucus can steamroll something through with no Dems anymore, which implies a substantial internal collapse of support given past behavior
Latest intel: The 5 govt funding bills will pass, & the 6th, the DHS bill, will get a continuing resolution to buy time to negotiate whatever these conditions in ICE are. The fight right now btwn Schumer & the White House is how long that CR will be. The WH wants 3 months; Schumer wants 1-2 weeks.
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
the fact that the White House is able to grasp that they should come to the table on this is a huge deal. it signifies that they don’t think their caucus can steamroll something through with no Dems anymore, which implies a substantial internal collapse of support given past behavior
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The administration is insisting that its masked goons are so emotionally stunted that words can launch them into a murderous rage.
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
January 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The administration is insisting that its masked goons are so emotionally stunted that words can launch them into a murderous rage.
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
"Our professionals are just ordinary people so ordinary people better act professionally around them, or else."
I think Obama & Biden where better than Trump and W
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I think Obama & Biden where better than Trump and W
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not an accident that habeas corpus is one of the absolute foundational rights--and not an accident that ICE is working overtime to undermine it as much as possible
Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.
January 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
not an accident that habeas corpus is one of the absolute foundational rights--and not an accident that ICE is working overtime to undermine it as much as possible
Wondering why a professor is pressuring me to submit a final project paper I turned last semester for publishing (I dont necessarily think this paper is my best work, nor on a subject Im super interested in), to find out he may have some slightly overambitious grant requirements he's trying to meet.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Wondering why a professor is pressuring me to submit a final project paper I turned last semester for publishing (I dont necessarily think this paper is my best work, nor on a subject Im super interested in), to find out he may have some slightly overambitious grant requirements he's trying to meet.
Lawler's staffer working the phone for constituent services....
January 27, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Lawler's staffer working the phone for constituent services....
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Alex Pretti wasn't murdered for bringing a gun to a protest - he was murdered for concealed carrying on his way to get doughnuts.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Alex Pretti wasn't murdered for bringing a gun to a protest - he was murdered for concealed carrying on his way to get doughnuts.
You get the government you vote for
Our problem is our voters. Our government reflects our voters.
January 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
You get the government you vote for
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
Reading The Misbehavior of Markets by Mandelbrot, and he shares so much of the same (for lack of a better word) pompous writing style as Taleb, its no wonder the two collaborated in his later years.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Reading The Misbehavior of Markets by Mandelbrot, and he shares so much of the same (for lack of a better word) pompous writing style as Taleb, its no wonder the two collaborated in his later years.
This appears real (they spelled Renee with the containers for Renee Good for the red-green colorblind among us) and the coordination you'd need to pull this off is blowing my mind.
January 27, 2026 at 3:47 AM
This appears real (they spelled Renee with the containers for Renee Good for the red-green colorblind among us) and the coordination you'd need to pull this off is blowing my mind.
This, sound reasonable, but demand just enough that it gets stalled out in Congress forever. Slow walk it to death while sounding like you're working really hard to come to a solution.
The actual goal here is to have a list of demands that *sound* reasonable because they *are* reasonable but which MAGA loyalists will not accept so that you instead negotiate for the real goal: split DHS funding off of the budget to be voted on separately, pass the main budget and then kill DHS.
January 27, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This, sound reasonable, but demand just enough that it gets stalled out in Congress forever. Slow walk it to death while sounding like you're working really hard to come to a solution.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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ICE, BORDER PATROL!
NOW Hear This!
YOU are going to LEAVE this town
“One way or Another!”
NOW Hear This!
YOU are going to LEAVE this town
“One way or Another!”
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM
ICE, BORDER PATROL!
NOW Hear This!
YOU are going to LEAVE this town
“One way or Another!”
NOW Hear This!
YOU are going to LEAVE this town
“One way or Another!”
I honestly take heart in the fact that the morons who still support the admin are apparently so far removed from civil society that they are mystified by the sort of requirements you'd see to get onto a PTA group chat.
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I honestly take heart in the fact that the morons who still support the admin are apparently so far removed from civil society that they are mystified by the sort of requirements you'd see to get onto a PTA group chat.
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Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.
More proof that Joe Biden was the best President of my lifetime.
The only president to keep the Patriots out of the Super Bowl this century? Joe Biden
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
More proof that Joe Biden was the best President of my lifetime.