Rob Jellinghaus
@mcspacecadet.bsky.social
Rust proponent at LightSource.ai. Music hacker and general nerd. Talk category theory to me, baby. He/they. Liberal AF, universal basic income now, science is real, vaccines work.
Also on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Also on Mastodon: @[email protected]
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I’m sorry what were you saying, I got distracted by this in progress shape gang bang
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I’m sorry what were you saying, I got distracted by this in progress shape gang bang
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Filled the streets for a mile or two.
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Filled the streets for a mile or two.
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I made a sign with two sides
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I made a sign with two sides
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lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.
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it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie
![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie
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# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions
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People who try to whitewash our country's history don't actually love America.
They're like a parent who only loves their kid when they win a trophy.
Real love acknowledges failures, mistakes, and growth. Real love is proud of a simple, honest desire to be better.
They're like a parent who only loves their kid when they win a trophy.
Real love acknowledges failures, mistakes, and growth. Real love is proud of a simple, honest desire to be better.
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
People who try to whitewash our country's history don't actually love America.
They're like a parent who only loves their kid when they win a trophy.
Real love acknowledges failures, mistakes, and growth. Real love is proud of a simple, honest desire to be better.
They're like a parent who only loves their kid when they win a trophy.
Real love acknowledges failures, mistakes, and growth. Real love is proud of a simple, honest desire to be better.
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GOOD NEWS: Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by nearly 60% since 1985
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
GOOD NEWS: Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by nearly 60% since 1985
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
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Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
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I'm sure it is a concept widely familiar to the Ruby community that:
If it walks like a duck
and it talks like a duck
then it's clearly a neo-nazi for all intents and purposes.
If it walks like a duck
and it talks like a duck
then it's clearly a neo-nazi for all intents and purposes.
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I'm sure it is a concept widely familiar to the Ruby community that:
If it walks like a duck
and it talks like a duck
then it's clearly a neo-nazi for all intents and purposes.
If it walks like a duck
and it talks like a duck
then it's clearly a neo-nazi for all intents and purposes.
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Reposting this in a more constructive matter to simply point out that people who have vocally expressed clear white supremacist, transphobic, sexist, racist, and generally nazistic views, such as David Heinemeier Hansson, are not and never will be internally consistent and operate on cowardice.
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reposting this in a more constructive matter to simply point out that people who have vocally expressed clear white supremacist, transphobic, sexist, racist, and generally nazistic views, such as David Heinemeier Hansson, are not and never will be internally consistent and operate on cowardice.
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doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections
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When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...
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FUUUUUUCK this program didnt work the way i wanted it to in the most insignificant manner possible, i have to rewrite the whole thing in rust now
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
FUUUUUUCK this program didnt work the way i wanted it to in the most insignificant manner possible, i have to rewrite the whole thing in rust now
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Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, the state surgeon general announced today
DeSantis and Ladapo to ‘end all vaccine mandates in Florida law’
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move in Hillsborough County on Wednesday.
www.miamiherald.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
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I've found that a certain kind of person finds comfort in ignorance, because knowledge carries with it work and responsibility. It takes work to acquire it, and once you do you must either act on the knowledge or accept that you refuse to do so, all of which is hard and painful.
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
www.the-reframe.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I've found that a certain kind of person finds comfort in ignorance, because knowledge carries with it work and responsibility. It takes work to acquire it, and once you do you must either act on the knowledge or accept that you refuse to do so, all of which is hard and painful.
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Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.
www.propublica.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Make Hitler Great Again
A partnership between xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok 'ASAP'
A partnership between Elon Musk's xAI and the US government fell apart earlier this summer after Grok praised Hitler. Then the White House apparently got involved, per documents obtained by WIRED.
wrd.cm
August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Make Hitler Great Again
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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A key US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Donald Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the US National Science Foundation and NASA.
go.nature.com/40H0XST
go.nature.com/40H0XST
US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts
Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.
go.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A key US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Donald Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the US National Science Foundation and NASA.
go.nature.com/40H0XST
go.nature.com/40H0XST