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Seek first to understand. Impatient optimist. Dad. Zetetic. Author. Speaker. Made Fiddler & SlickRun. My code runs in your browser. @ MSFT 18y+ on web and security. My words are my own. he/him https://ericlawrence.com/ https://textslashplain.com/

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · Nov 11

On Politics
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On Politics

I do not come from an especially political family. One parent has not voted in decades, and the other votes regularly, but is not an enthusiast and values harmony over potentially-divisive politica…

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs.

Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention

Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease previously declared eliminated in the United States, is reemerging with over 1400 cases reported in 2025. This …

www.sciencedirect.com

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 12h

Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 12h

He’s right. Antifa reached the height of its power more than 80 years ago, launching a military assault on continental Europe.

Antifa launching an unprovoked attack on continental Europe.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Juke Slytalker @blackskyeddie.blacksky.app · 18h

It's wild how quickly we bounced from "is it wrong to call conservatives fascist?" to "we're officially labeling liberals as a terrorist organization."

It's extra wild because we don't have any official policy for dealing with fascists, but we have crystal clear, official policy to kill terrorists.

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 14h

$ERIC has lost out on tens of millions of dollars by getting excited when stock prices go up.

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18h

getDay() returns the day of the week.
getDate() is 1-indexed.
getMonth() is 0-indexed.

FFS.

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18h

I continually forget how insane JavaScript is.

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 22h

Love this one!

ljoeckel.bsky.social @ljoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21h

this but seriously

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21h

Here He Comes Again

The White House has been working 9 to 5 to keep us from finding out about the Donald's trips to Epstein's islands in the stream. But would the Epstein files be a silver dagger or will Trump's base always love him?

by Maureen Dowd

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 1d

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass.

wapo.st/3WfcjeB

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

By simplifying gerrymandering we see how problematic it really is.

wapo.st

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

"You're a poopyhead"

"I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

Silence.

Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1d

While the whole Epstein files thing seems to be getting a lot of attention, everyone who's gonna believe (or care) that Trump is all over them *already* knows that he is.

EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1d

The campaign is using @cloudflare.social for cloaking to prevent desktop users from seeing/reporting it.

EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1d

Phishing Washington DMV

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I have just never understood this type of person at all

"I am going to make common cause with people who view me as subhuman for lower tax rates"

what part of "view me as subhuman" do you not get and what do you think will happen when those people no longer have to make common cause with anyone

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 2d

Chrome was born as an experimental platform atop an update engine.

Interestingly, that also describes the US Constitution.

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 2d

Those old beer commercials of “real American heroes” needs to do this guy.

Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 2d

KATU interviewed the guy in the frog costume at Portland ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDR...

Outside the Portland ICE facility amid ongoing protests and the legal battle over the deployment

YouTube video by KATU News

www.youtube.com

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old enough and naive enough to still think of a browser as a user agent; something that acts for, represents and proxies me, the user, and should be on *my* side not everyone else’s. I’ve spent a lot of time shouting at browser teams to give users off switches for things like auto play video.

Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 4d

Everyone who works on a browser (particularly folks who don't work on the web platform) should ask themselves every day "am I making the web a more sustainable place for users and publishers?"

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 2d

wowza