Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@decius.bsky.social
Republics are systems that require people to compromise with each-other. Radicalism is the path to authoritarianism.
My weekend was brightened by this tree, standing in a vacant lot in downtown Atlanta - a life carved within a temporary space, under constant threat, but lived beautifully. A source of joy. One day, some developer with build on this lot, and the tree will be gone. I am thankful for this moment.
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My weekend was brightened by this tree, standing in a vacant lot in downtown Atlanta - a life carved within a temporary space, under constant threat, but lived beautifully. A source of joy. One day, some developer with build on this lot, and the tree will be gone. I am thankful for this moment.
Is this bad?
Because it seems bad.
Anyway, I’m sure it will only go this far and won’t go any further.
Because it seems bad.
Anyway, I’m sure it will only go this far and won’t go any further.
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Is this bad?
Because it seems bad.
Anyway, I’m sure it will only go this far and won’t go any further.
Because it seems bad.
Anyway, I’m sure it will only go this far and won’t go any further.
There is a market crash coming.
October 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
There is a market crash coming.
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
For my friends, everything! For my enemies - the law!
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
For my friends, everything! For my enemies - the law!
I honestly don’t get it. I looked this speech up yesterday in an attempt to understand. This is the key paragraph. Each line is a realistic, if unintended, consequence of a specific view that Bork held. Politicians often make hey out of the unintended consequences of policies they oppose.
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I honestly don’t get it. I looked this speech up yesterday in an attempt to understand. This is the key paragraph. Each line is a realistic, if unintended, consequence of a specific view that Bork held. Politicians often make hey out of the unintended consequences of policies they oppose.
Come see our talk on Friday at @defcon.bsky.social!
This talk explores the dark potential of modern tech platforms, the things companies and their products are structurally able to do, whether or not they intend to.
This talk explores the dark potential of modern tech platforms, the things companies and their products are structurally able to do, whether or not they intend to.
July 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Come see our talk on Friday at @defcon.bsky.social!
This talk explores the dark potential of modern tech platforms, the things companies and their products are structurally able to do, whether or not they intend to.
This talk explores the dark potential of modern tech platforms, the things companies and their products are structurally able to do, whether or not they intend to.
When torture was uncovered at Abu Ghraib, at least the Administration acknowledged that this was wrong, and that there should be accountability. That is the key thing that has changed.
July 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
When torture was uncovered at Abu Ghraib, at least the Administration acknowledged that this was wrong, and that there should be accountability. That is the key thing that has changed.
This essay get right at the heart of the matter.
June 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This essay get right at the heart of the matter.
Economist: “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain”
www.economist.com/science-and-...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
May 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Economist: “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain”
www.economist.com/science-and-...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
I’ve seen a lot of video of these two humans (in the top photo) and I’ve never seen them this joyous, even when they win.
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’ve seen a lot of video of these two humans (in the top photo) and I’ve never seen them this joyous, even when they win.
Hey everyone, look! Trump has identified a specific domestic industry that you can boycott if you don’t like him!
May 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hey everyone, look! Trump has identified a specific domestic industry that you can boycott if you don’t like him!
👋 Hope I run into you!
April 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
👋 Hope I run into you!
“It was the collective refusal of men to be discouraged by this relentless sequence that is important.”
April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“It was the collective refusal of men to be discouraged by this relentless sequence that is important.”
Two months in and we’re already at the “no Americans in Baghdad” phase of reality denial.
March 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Two months in and we’re already at the “no Americans in Baghdad” phase of reality denial.
Fantastic advocacy by CREW resulted in this ruling which repeatedly calls out Elon Musk on his bullshit. Pump this right into my veins!!
I now have a couple of CREW t-shirts on the way.
I now have a couple of CREW t-shirts on the way.
March 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fantastic advocacy by CREW resulted in this ruling which repeatedly calls out Elon Musk on his bullshit. Pump this right into my veins!!
I now have a couple of CREW t-shirts on the way.
I now have a couple of CREW t-shirts on the way.
Here’s the sign I made. I’m also an ActBlue funder.
Elon Musk should get off Twitter, sit for a Senate confirmation hearing and get legislation passed to cover his impoundments, and if he can’t get those things, then he doesn’t get his cuts. Period.
Elon Musk should get off Twitter, sit for a Senate confirmation hearing and get legislation passed to cover his impoundments, and if he can’t get those things, then he doesn’t get his cuts. Period.
March 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Here’s the sign I made. I’m also an ActBlue funder.
Elon Musk should get off Twitter, sit for a Senate confirmation hearing and get legislation passed to cover his impoundments, and if he can’t get those things, then he doesn’t get his cuts. Period.
Elon Musk should get off Twitter, sit for a Senate confirmation hearing and get legislation passed to cover his impoundments, and if he can’t get those things, then he doesn’t get his cuts. Period.
The lady doth protest too much:
March 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The lady doth protest too much:
Pressure can be effective. Elon Musk reauthorized some food aid after this exchange with Jon Favreau.
Elon is an asshole, and dead children are an obvious, foreseeable consequence of “feeding USAID to the woodchipper.”
Keep highlighting real world consequences!
www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
Elon is an asshole, and dead children are an obvious, foreseeable consequence of “feeding USAID to the woodchipper.”
Keep highlighting real world consequences!
www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Pressure can be effective. Elon Musk reauthorized some food aid after this exchange with Jon Favreau.
Elon is an asshole, and dead children are an obvious, foreseeable consequence of “feeding USAID to the woodchipper.”
Keep highlighting real world consequences!
www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
Elon is an asshole, and dead children are an obvious, foreseeable consequence of “feeding USAID to the woodchipper.”
Keep highlighting real world consequences!
www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
After cutting funding for scientific research and aid for starving children, they are going to transfer our tax dollars directly to crypto grifters:
March 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
After cutting funding for scientific research and aid for starving children, they are going to transfer our tax dollars directly to crypto grifters: