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chickentacos.bsky.social
@chickentacos.bsky.social
American programmer living in Japan.
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Here you go, and for free, even

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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It's all about beta, baby!
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
Bracco et al. show that pre-movement beta oscillations emerge in a cerebello-cortical network as the environment becomes predictable and outcomes stabilize. The evolution of these oscillations predict...
www.cell.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Encyclopedia of Little-Known Greek philosophers:

5. Monocles — Inventor of monism
4. Bicycles — Advocate for bisexuality
3. Popsicles — Founder of populism
2. Obstacles — Unpersuadable to other points of view
1. Testicles — Legendarily irritable
My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…
 
5. Monocles
4. Bicycles
3. Popsicles
2. Obstacles
1. Testicles
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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🔭 Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains

Image Credit & Copyright: Tomáš Slovinský

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
March 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Der Spiegel's new cover

Two villains, one goal. How Trump and Putin attacking Europe.

They are not wrong.
December 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Need your daily dose of stupid? Try this:

▶ Colorado officials are bracing or an all-out “battle” against Trump as they seek to get ahead of his pledge to pardon (someone convicted of state crimes, not federal).

www.rawstory.com/trum...
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Good morning Tokyo. Do you need to cleanse your timeline, by any chance? Sagami Bay is here for you.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬, by Marian Kamensky
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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War crimes on request to feed the bloodthirsty MAGA mob.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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It’s unfair to ask Hegseth to remember every war crime he commits while drunk
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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I particularly like that person’s point about how AI is often suggested as a way to avoid the most enjoyable part of design/engineering work: the coming up with and iterating on ideas.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I want Admiral Bradley to know that I admire him greatly and will support him completely, and if he could just lie on the pavement for a minute longer, I need to put this bus in reverse and then into drive just one more time.
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM