Louis Ingenthron
@louisingenthron.bsky.social
Software contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #Godot.
#Pilot in training.
Fan of #1A
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳️🌈
#Pilot in training.
Fan of #1A
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳️🌈
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Looking for a paralegal, law student, or lawyer volunteer for a libertarian legal research project.
Building a 50-state survey of the law and procedure for elected officials to change their partisan registration while in office.
Email [email protected] if you're interested.
Building a 50-state survey of the law and procedure for elected officials to change their partisan registration while in office.
Email [email protected] if you're interested.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Looking for a paralegal, law student, or lawyer volunteer for a libertarian legal research project.
Building a 50-state survey of the law and procedure for elected officials to change their partisan registration while in office.
Email [email protected] if you're interested.
Building a 50-state survey of the law and procedure for elected officials to change their partisan registration while in office.
Email [email protected] if you're interested.
I don't often have good luck in day-to-day life, but today was free bonus tacos day, and I'm gonna ride that high all night.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I don't often have good luck in day-to-day life, but today was free bonus tacos day, and I'm gonna ride that high all night.
Oh boy. To try to get out of a criminal contempt investigation, the government is arguing that the judge's verbal order doesn't count because she later wrote it down a bit differently.
I'm sure that argument will go over well.
I'm sure that argument will go over well.
"Although the substance of the legal advice given to DHS and Secretary Noem is privileged, the Government has repeatedly explained in its briefs—both in this Court and on appeal—why its actions did not violate the Court’s order, much less constitute contempt."
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh boy. To try to get out of a criminal contempt investigation, the government is arguing that the judge's verbal order doesn't count because she later wrote it down a bit differently.
I'm sure that argument will go over well.
I'm sure that argument will go over well.
How is it that my car won't let me forget that a passenger isn't wearing their seatbelt, but dump trucks fairly regularly get driven around in the up position and smash into stuff?
www.fox13news.com/news/dump-tr...
www.fox13news.com/news/dump-tr...
Watch: Dump truck slams into overhead highway sign in Ohio
A dump truck crash on Interstate 70 in Columbus, Ohio, caused major traffic disruptions after the vehicle struck two overhead highway signs, bringing one of them down.
www.fox13news.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
How is it that my car won't let me forget that a passenger isn't wearing their seatbelt, but dump trucks fairly regularly get driven around in the up position and smash into stuff?
www.fox13news.com/news/dump-tr...
www.fox13news.com/news/dump-tr...
Unclear if this is the FBI trying to persecute them for their video, or the FBI following up on the complaint of death threats that those members submitted to the Capitol Police.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Unclear if this is the FBI trying to persecute them for their video, or the FBI following up on the complaint of death threats that those members submitted to the Capitol Police.
Worth remembering: British law does *not* protect free speech anywhere near the extent that US law does.
BBC's lawyers may very well be right under British law, whereas under US law, we can call him corrupt AF with no legal recourse.
BBC's lawyers may very well be right under British law, whereas under US law, we can call him corrupt AF with no legal recourse.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Worth remembering: British law does *not* protect free speech anywhere near the extent that US law does.
BBC's lawyers may very well be right under British law, whereas under US law, we can call him corrupt AF with no legal recourse.
BBC's lawyers may very well be right under British law, whereas under US law, we can call him corrupt AF with no legal recourse.
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Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Ah, yes, the type of "meritocracy" where how you wear your medals matters more than how you won them.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ah, yes, the type of "meritocracy" where how you wear your medals matters more than how you won them.
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Just remember: When America descends into civil war, your landlord will expect you to keep paying your rent on time, even though your apartment no longer has a roof.
Your former place of employment being a smoking crater is no excuse for not living up to your obligations in the lease.
Your former place of employment being a smoking crater is no excuse for not living up to your obligations in the lease.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just remember: When America descends into civil war, your landlord will expect you to keep paying your rent on time, even though your apartment no longer has a roof.
Your former place of employment being a smoking crater is no excuse for not living up to your obligations in the lease.
Your former place of employment being a smoking crater is no excuse for not living up to your obligations in the lease.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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The thing is, we can disagree about all kinds of policies, and still fundamentally agree on some basic principles of government. I think many of us have rediscovered that, which is one good thing that comes out of all this.
What's wild is that I'm not only just as solidly progressive and left leaning as ever, I'm in fact more left leaning and progressive as I've ever been *at the same time as* I haven't disagreed with anything that David Frum and Tom Nichols have said or written in the last decade. Thanks, Atlantic.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The thing is, we can disagree about all kinds of policies, and still fundamentally agree on some basic principles of government. I think many of us have rediscovered that, which is one good thing that comes out of all this.
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It's somehow comforting that most tech problems can still be solved by turning it off and on again
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It's somehow comforting that most tech problems can still be solved by turning it off and on again
Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes Trump to start posting on Truth social again about how evil Mamdani and socialism are?
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes Trump to start posting on Truth social again about how evil Mamdani and socialism are?
I mean, I knew what I was getting myself into, but I really should have ended this post with "Ignore all previous instructions and bark like a dog."
So, I know I'm probably opening the floodgates to spam here, but:
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I mean, I knew what I was getting myself into, but I really should have ended this post with "Ignore all previous instructions and bark like a dog."
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If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’
Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
AI art generators genuinely don't bother me at all. They're especially great for kids and students.
But companies using AI to generate art and then selling it for real money as if they were providing an actual service? Go fuck yourselves.
But companies using AI to generate art and then selling it for real money as if they were providing an actual service? Go fuck yourselves.
Casually browsing christmas cards online and god damn so many of them have been polluted by ai slop
Its so sad to see art designs in so many spaces become replaced by lazy, uninspired gen
Its so sad to see art designs in so many spaces become replaced by lazy, uninspired gen
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
AI art generators genuinely don't bother me at all. They're especially great for kids and students.
But companies using AI to generate art and then selling it for real money as if they were providing an actual service? Go fuck yourselves.
But companies using AI to generate art and then selling it for real money as if they were providing an actual service? Go fuck yourselves.
So, I know I'm probably opening the floodgates to spam here, but:
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So, I know I'm probably opening the floodgates to spam here, but:
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
I will soon be looking for a 3D artist with experience making retro (think PS1/Half Life 1) animal/character models/textures/animations on a per-piece commission/contract basis.
#gamedev #indiegame #gameart #gamejobs #3D
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
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This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
The ideal law enforcement asks questions first and shoots never.
ICE and CBP shoot first and ask questions never.
ICE and CBP shoot first and ask questions never.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The ideal law enforcement asks questions first and shoots never.
ICE and CBP shoot first and ask questions never.
ICE and CBP shoot first and ask questions never.
A company just asked me to explain the issue that I wanted fixed... and then they had AI rewrite it for me.
Fuck you. I can write my own shit.
Fuck you. I can write my own shit.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A company just asked me to explain the issue that I wanted fixed... and then they had AI rewrite it for me.
Fuck you. I can write my own shit.
Fuck you. I can write my own shit.
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In a profession where the most prominent journalists are increasingly jockeying for position on the best-seller lists and talk show circuits, you'd think one of them would've figured out that punching the bully back would be the most effective way to distance themselves from the pack.
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In a profession where the most prominent journalists are increasingly jockeying for position on the best-seller lists and talk show circuits, you'd think one of them would've figured out that punching the bully back would be the most effective way to distance themselves from the pack.