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Midatlantica

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A web developer of little repute. Started off sarcastic and wound up a cynic. Maryland. "And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice" Opinions are my own.

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · Jan 1

My sincere New Year’s wish is that I’m wrong.

None of it will happen. The leopards won’t eat a single face. It won’t just be boring, but totally fine.

I just want to be wrong about all this.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 15m

The Howling, how were there like seven sequels made of that one? How were they all terrible rejections of the original?

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1h

Earleigh Heights

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1h

Flacco should play for a different team every week going forward. Get his second Super Bowl ring for being a backup during week 16

Kofie @kofie.bsky.social · 1d

JOE FLACCO TO THE BENGALS

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1h

Personally, I like seeing all the passive aggressive block list names whenever I make a comment against BlueSky convention. Takes me back to the old Emo days

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 7h

Along these lines, it’s a hell of a time to decimate the Department of Education

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 7h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Baltimore Comic-Con @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social · 7h

Baltimore Comic-Con 2025 Welcomes Cho, Kidd, Snyder, @karlstory.bsky.social Timms, and Vess

Full PR: conta.cc/48PnlOW

#baltimorecomiccon

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 7h

Welp, the Affinity suite has been pulled from sales, and this cryptic message posted on their website. Are the days of the standalone, cheap Adobe alternative coming to an end?

Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 8h

I keep thinking of the old line “hungry people don’t stay hungry for long”. Once people absorb that aid is no longer forthcoming, they won’t wait around to die. This is setting up massive global upheavals in the years to come

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 9h

Irreverence may not be appropriate for every protest, but it’s especially powerful when the conditions are right

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 9h

I’m a middle aged man but I will do all sorts of horrible things to ice cream in public with no regard for my dignity

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 20h

Bands? How about Hotline TNT?

Hotline TNT - Julia's War

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 22h

And it’s not like Robin Williams didn’t produce hundreds of hours of content over a multi decade career. Whatever anyone wants to produce through AI probably already exists in one form or another

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 23h

No, and they shouldn’t let the guy twist in the wind either. Just thank him for filling in and move on

Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1d

From the looks of it, Bashar al-Assad’s Moscow manor may be vacant soon

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Iran-Contra and Watergate was that they WEREN’T flagrant: they had to be exposed.Trump literally does stuff five times worse than Watergate every day, and then tweets an openly neo-Nazi meme about it from the official White House account. It’s a difference in kind, not just degree.

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man. Iran-Contra and Watergate were pretty flagrant. I have a hard time believing they haven’t been heading down this road where the executive is all-powerful and power is the end, not the means, for a long, long time. Whether that alone qualifies as fascist I don’t know for sure.

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1d

People act like Mamdani is the future of the party, but he’s a naturalized citizen, he’s not eligible for the presidency. His ceiling is Governor or Senator. I hope he wins, and that people understand his limitations

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 1d

A few months ago I said I didn’t care who was mayor of nyc. I lost followers who demanded I care

I checked to see if they’d tweeted about California’s prop 50 and how my state is trying to counter Texas gerrymandering & disenfranchisement of Black voters.

None have

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Midatlantica @midatlantica.bsky.social · 1d

I wish more companies took Waymo’s approach when rolling out their miracle products. We’d have a much more favorable view of Siri if it was just sold as a calendar/reader app at the onset rather than AI, as an example.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

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