JohnOCFII
@johnocfii.bsky.social
Technology Consultant, Pilot, Flight Instructor, Maker. Hoping to be a good-natured curmudgeon when I grow up.
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There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
The current Supreme Court is corrupt.
US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.
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Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Study Finds Processed Meats Carcinogenic But They Were On Sale https://theonion.com/study-finds-processed-meats-carcinogenic-but-they-were-on-sale/
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.
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This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...
Wild. These were seen from my backyard in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities with a handheld iPhone. They weren’t quite so brilliant to the naked eye, but you could definitely see them and faintly make out the colors.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Wild. These were seen from my backyard in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities with a handheld iPhone. They weren’t quite so brilliant to the naked eye, but you could definitely see them and faintly make out the colors.
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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I remember watching Xyla's video earlier this year about possibly never flying again. I am so thrilled that she has been able to have her medical reinstated, and that she is continuing to advocate for so many pilots who are undergoing similar challenges. Change is never made quietly
I'm Back.
YouTube video by Xyla Foxlin
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I remember watching Xyla's video earlier this year about possibly never flying again. I am so thrilled that she has been able to have her medical reinstated, and that she is continuing to advocate for so many pilots who are undergoing similar challenges. Change is never made quietly
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A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
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"He likes to exaggerate"
...
That's all they have to say.
That's how you explain Trump claiming that he dropped medication prices by 400% or 1500%.
But that's not how a cult works.
In a cult, dear leader is never wrong.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
...
That's all they have to say.
That's how you explain Trump claiming that he dropped medication prices by 400% or 1500%.
But that's not how a cult works.
In a cult, dear leader is never wrong.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
‘MAGA math’: Dr Oz jumps through hoops – and changes the laws of math – to explain Trump claims about lowering drug prices
Former daytime TV personality baffles NBC anchor with attempt to rationalize president’s hyperbole on cutting the cost of pharmaceuticals
www.yahoo.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"He likes to exaggerate"
...
That's all they have to say.
That's how you explain Trump claiming that he dropped medication prices by 400% or 1500%.
But that's not how a cult works.
In a cult, dear leader is never wrong.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
...
That's all they have to say.
That's how you explain Trump claiming that he dropped medication prices by 400% or 1500%.
But that's not how a cult works.
In a cult, dear leader is never wrong.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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And to vote against Harris. We are a bored, decadent nation, and we wanted a show, not a minority woman with actual plans for governing. The voters got bored with the show that replaced White House Apprentice, so they brought it back.
Do you think inflation was more of an excuse voters used to cover their actual reasons to vote for Trump?
September 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And to vote against Harris. We are a bored, decadent nation, and we wanted a show, not a minority woman with actual plans for governing. The voters got bored with the show that replaced White House Apprentice, so they brought it back.
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For all you cat lovers out there, this is a fun and easy to print cat racing game.
Hold your cat at the top and release to race, or balance them, like I did at the end of the video, and tap the base to start the race. 🐈😊
stls and 3mf: makerworld.com/en/models/17...
Hold your cat at the top and release to race, or balance them, like I did at the end of the video, and tap the base to start the race. 🐈😊
stls and 3mf: makerworld.com/en/models/17...
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
For all you cat lovers out there, this is a fun and easy to print cat racing game.
Hold your cat at the top and release to race, or balance them, like I did at the end of the video, and tap the base to start the race. 🐈😊
stls and 3mf: makerworld.com/en/models/17...
Hold your cat at the top and release to race, or balance them, like I did at the end of the video, and tap the base to start the race. 🐈😊
stls and 3mf: makerworld.com/en/models/17...
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This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
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The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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This
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This
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as someone who built a project on AWS in ~2004 because legal approved SQS faster than the university could procure a server, it's like @quinnypig.com wrote this for me.
He didn't. Probably.
But this is handy.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
He didn't. Probably.
But this is handy.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old
www.lastweekinaws.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
as someone who built a project on AWS in ~2004 because legal approved SQS faster than the university could procure a server, it's like @quinnypig.com wrote this for me.
He didn't. Probably.
But this is handy.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
He didn't. Probably.
But this is handy.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
Breaking News: President Trump said he was taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying 800 National Guard troops there in response to “out of control” crime — even though violent crime in the city has fallen. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3H9yVcu
August 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
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Apparently the secret to getting a fussy baby to finally fall asleep isn’t milk, walking them, or soft music. It’s putting on @histphilosophy.bsky.social talking about Early Modern philosophy. She was down in minutes.
August 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Apparently the secret to getting a fussy baby to finally fall asleep isn’t milk, walking them, or soft music. It’s putting on @histphilosophy.bsky.social talking about Early Modern philosophy. She was down in minutes.
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Truth.
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it's always been funny how the rich need to be incentivized but the working class needs to be disciplined
August 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Truth.
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