Chris Sanders
@highlycaffeinated.bsky.social
IT Support manager, traveler, dog lover, leftist.
World of Warcraft, Warhammer 40k, history, art, etc.
I drink a lot of coffee and have to attend a lot of meetings. Printers are the bane of my existence.
World of Warcraft, Warhammer 40k, history, art, etc.
I drink a lot of coffee and have to attend a lot of meetings. Printers are the bane of my existence.
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10. What is the most unexpected way you’ve ever learned a valuable life lesson?
The Saga of the Rat
The morning after we moved into our house, my wife was outside painting a lamp and the dogs were running around enjoying their new yard. I was still asleep in bed, as per usual.
I awoke to urgent shouts from my wife to come outside.
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The morning after we moved into our house, my wife was outside painting a lamp and the dogs were running around enjoying their new yard. I was still asleep in bed, as per usual.
I awoke to urgent shouts from my wife to come outside.
🧵
Space based data centers…
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Space based data centers…
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The small reactionary section of atheists is elevated and blown out of proportion because they are aligned with the bourgeoisie. The vast majority of “nones” are vastly more progressive / left leaning in their politics than any other group. “Nones” are now 30% of the population.
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The small reactionary section of atheists is elevated and blown out of proportion because they are aligned with the bourgeoisie. The vast majority of “nones” are vastly more progressive / left leaning in their politics than any other group. “Nones” are now 30% of the population.
My line is “I’m an atheist, but not like one of THOSE atheists.” I also don’t make it my whole personality and don’t bring it up unprompted and out of context. I try not to be a dickhead about it when it does come up, but I’m not going to shy away from properly labeling myself either.
Probably the most depressing aspect of the last 24 hours is how many atheists told me they default to calling themselves agnostic because they don’t want to be viewed this way. Do not concede this territory to the reactionary bourgeoisie and the narratives they push!
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My line is “I’m an atheist, but not like one of THOSE atheists.” I also don’t make it my whole personality and don’t bring it up unprompted and out of context. I try not to be a dickhead about it when it does come up, but I’m not going to shy away from properly labeling myself either.
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Wonder how long it's gonna be before the rich people figure out that "destroying regulation" and "destroying regulatory stability" are two extremely different things.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wonder how long it's gonna be before the rich people figure out that "destroying regulation" and "destroying regulatory stability" are two extremely different things.
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I appreciate all of you who are making serious argument against it but can we just for a minute all admit that the unitary executive theory is pure unadulterated horse manure masquerading as constitutional interpretation because there's a cabal of people who want a Republican dictator.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I appreciate all of you who are making serious argument against it but can we just for a minute all admit that the unitary executive theory is pure unadulterated horse manure masquerading as constitutional interpretation because there's a cabal of people who want a Republican dictator.
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today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
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THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR THE TRAINS
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
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December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR THE TRAINS
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Dozens of vulture carcasses—at least some and probably all infected with HPAI—were reportedly left strewn about the grounds of an elementary school for days while bureaucrats wrangled over who would clean up the site, illustrating what appears to be a huge crisis of state and local capacity in Ohio.
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Dozens of vulture carcasses—at least some and probably all infected with HPAI—were reportedly left strewn about the grounds of an elementary school for days while bureaucrats wrangled over who would clean up the site, illustrating what appears to be a huge crisis of state and local capacity in Ohio.
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Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
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The event from the nativity they're acting out isn't Christmas itself, it's the Massacre of the Innocents
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA, and US government agencies are sanctioning this as an operating principle on a daily basis:
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The event from the nativity they're acting out isn't Christmas itself, it's the Massacre of the Innocents
Government price controls, and also the head of said government doesn’t know how to start a lawnmower
Trump on John Deere: "We're gonna say, 'you're gonna reduce the prices.' They're gonna have to reduce their prices. Because farming equipment has gotten too expensive ... in many cases, you need about a 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower."
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Government price controls, and also the head of said government doesn’t know how to start a lawnmower
Same feeling I get when stuck behind some ginormous truck or SUV that has to come to a damn near complete stop before navigating a speed bump or railroad crossing.
Your $90k+ F250 King Ranch can’t survive a strip mall parking lot?
Your $90k+ F250 King Ranch can’t survive a strip mall parking lot?
oh dear the seven thousand pound all wheel drive size of a train car Escalade suv in front of me is having a hard time going thirteen mph on the lightly snow dusted streets i hope everything is ok
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Same feeling I get when stuck behind some ginormous truck or SUV that has to come to a damn near complete stop before navigating a speed bump or railroad crossing.
Your $90k+ F250 King Ranch can’t survive a strip mall parking lot?
Your $90k+ F250 King Ranch can’t survive a strip mall parking lot?
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Paved roads in red, 1918. Irish Channel, Carrollton, and Backatown mainly unpaved (note many of the streets shown by the lake and back of town were still notional (e.g. upper part of City Park was never carved up)
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Paved roads in red, 1918. Irish Channel, Carrollton, and Backatown mainly unpaved (note many of the streets shown by the lake and back of town were still notional (e.g. upper part of City Park was never carved up)
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Trump Administration figures by allegiance to the Warhammer Chaos gods:
-Trump: Slaanesh
-Miller: Chaos Unidivided, but he's Belakor, not Archaon
-Hegseth: Thinks he's Khorne but it's actually Slaanesh
-RFK: Nurgle, obviously, he's spreading Grandfather's blessings
-Musk: Tzeentch, in the worst way
-Trump: Slaanesh
-Miller: Chaos Unidivided, but he's Belakor, not Archaon
-Hegseth: Thinks he's Khorne but it's actually Slaanesh
-RFK: Nurgle, obviously, he's spreading Grandfather's blessings
-Musk: Tzeentch, in the worst way
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump Administration figures by allegiance to the Warhammer Chaos gods:
-Trump: Slaanesh
-Miller: Chaos Unidivided, but he's Belakor, not Archaon
-Hegseth: Thinks he's Khorne but it's actually Slaanesh
-RFK: Nurgle, obviously, he's spreading Grandfather's blessings
-Musk: Tzeentch, in the worst way
-Trump: Slaanesh
-Miller: Chaos Unidivided, but he's Belakor, not Archaon
-Hegseth: Thinks he's Khorne but it's actually Slaanesh
-RFK: Nurgle, obviously, he's spreading Grandfather's blessings
-Musk: Tzeentch, in the worst way
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Art BY DEFINITION is inefficient and should always be. It's just a human mind working with other human minds willing something into existence. The shortcuts will burn you, I promise. Art isn't the product, art is the process and the learning and the finding it as you make it. Friction is the POINT.
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Art BY DEFINITION is inefficient and should always be. It's just a human mind working with other human minds willing something into existence. The shortcuts will burn you, I promise. Art isn't the product, art is the process and the learning and the finding it as you make it. Friction is the POINT.
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They built the camps, now they are setting up the legal farce they will use to fill them. Without birthright citizenship absolutely no one is safe. This is an attack on the very core of what it means to be American.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
They built the camps, now they are setting up the legal farce they will use to fill them. Without birthright citizenship absolutely no one is safe. This is an attack on the very core of what it means to be American.
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"sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat"
What did you think they were able to do at that point? Launch their Iron Man gear?
What did you think they were able to do at that point? Launch their Iron Man gear?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat"
What did you think they were able to do at that point? Launch their Iron Man gear?
What did you think they were able to do at that point? Launch their Iron Man gear?
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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
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A. does this woman think Jews care about Sundays???
B. yeah Jewish law has this fun little loophole called “ignore everything to do what’s needed to stay alive and/or save lives”
C. That loophole very clearly does not mean “ignore everything to randomly air strike people and kill them”
B. yeah Jewish law has this fun little loophole called “ignore everything to do what’s needed to stay alive and/or save lives”
C. That loophole very clearly does not mean “ignore everything to randomly air strike people and kill them”
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A. does this woman think Jews care about Sundays???
B. yeah Jewish law has this fun little loophole called “ignore everything to do what’s needed to stay alive and/or save lives”
C. That loophole very clearly does not mean “ignore everything to randomly air strike people and kill them”
B. yeah Jewish law has this fun little loophole called “ignore everything to do what’s needed to stay alive and/or save lives”
C. That loophole very clearly does not mean “ignore everything to randomly air strike people and kill them”
It’s under-appreciated how much this is basically how every place is run. The local gentry of every city exercises this kind of power through various boards and committees and development districts and outright corruption and influence peddling.
I am genuinely losing my mind. The joke is, prima facie, objectively true.
The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
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The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie
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December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s under-appreciated how much this is basically how every place is run. The local gentry of every city exercises this kind of power through various boards and committees and development districts and outright corruption and influence peddling.
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insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Well UH
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This is the argument of an empire talking to client kingdoms, not an ally talking to partners. He wants to impose the election of Reform and the removal of non-white politicians from office.
Just in: A new US national security strategy is calling for 'cultivating resistance' in Europe, warning that the continent is subverting democracy, blocking peace in Ukraine and facing 'civilisational erasure' from high migration and falling birth rates. on.ft.com/3Y7XP0G
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is the argument of an empire talking to client kingdoms, not an ally talking to partners. He wants to impose the election of Reform and the removal of non-white politicians from office.
This shit drives me crazy. And not just with politics/government. There are so so many people who just have zero clue how anything actually works or how complicated things actually are. Magical thinking in the sense of thinking there is some omnipotent wizard keeping everything moving.
This is so common though! So many people just believe that Someone Will Sort It All Out and that there's ultimately a Boss Of Everything who sort of keeps things in line. They genuinely don't know that politics is real and not just a game they play.
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This shit drives me crazy. And not just with politics/government. There are so so many people who just have zero clue how anything actually works or how complicated things actually are. Magical thinking in the sense of thinking there is some omnipotent wizard keeping everything moving.