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MrAlanCooper

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Back in the day I built a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software design tools. Now I'm retired on a ranch in […] [bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@mralancooper on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'd like to see a constitutional amendment that, upon failure to fund the Federal Government, forces an immediate, nationwide election for every Federal office, that is, all members of Congress and President and Vice President.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

So the neo-nazis in the USA worry about the Great Replacement, fearing that people of color will replace white folks, first by taking their jobs away, then by outbreeding them.

Meanwhile, the white folks on Sand Hill Road are investing every nickel they've got into a very real Great Replacement […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Stephen Miller sounds like Heinrich Himmler or maybe Reinhard Heydrich. He's a cartoon nazi.

If you listen to what Miller says it is an excellent description of exactly what the trump regime is currently doing to the USA.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I own a pickup truck and a drill press. I have a right to own them, I think.

There's nothing in the Constitution about pickup trucks or drill presses.

I also own a rifle.

Nobody wants to take away my drill press or my rifle.

I just don't think a pickup truck, a drill press, or a rifle […]

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Sadly, this has been true for ages. Awhile back there was a tipping point where enough people knew how to get around a GUI with a mouse and keyboard. Websites, especially corpo sites, figured out how to make a site ‘good enough’ (not *actually good*), for people to complete a task because they […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

TIL: They are making a new USA One Dollar coin with the likeness of the current President of the United States on it. Also TIL: It is illegal to put a living face on a USA coin.

Hmmmmm.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Just speculating wildly here, but if our entire healthcare system were completely federalized and totally free to all USA residents, the quality of care would skyrocket, the breadth of availability would be superb coast-to-coast, and the cost to our government would be about one fiftieth of what […]

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Quick… while the government is shut down…. someone start a new one with universal health care.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Thanks John Scalzi (@scalzi) for the information on how to file a claim of copyright infringement against Anthropic. I was able to file for five books. "AI" is just theft-based-slop designed to make information workers obsolete.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag

To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…

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Eponymic Cradle @eopoint.com · 9d

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Here's one sign I'm considering for the No Kings demonstration:

Large black letters saying "Radical Left Lunatic" superimposed on a large blue arrow pointing down (at the person holding the sign).

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@kboyd Left Shark, mmmmmmm

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

"We are experiencing higher than normal service call volume" translated into English is "We have deliberately understaffed our service department because we don't actually give a fuck about you because you already bought our product and we have your money and fuck you anyway. Ha ha."

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I'm reading "The Power of the Powerless" by Václav Havel. I realized that the "Workers of the World Unite" poster that he uses as a symbol of unfreedom in a Soviet country is the same as those "Freedom" posters we see in the USA. That is, it is a coded statement of support for an unfree fantasy […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Ever since the NFL blackballed Colin Kaepernick I've blackballed the NFL (they must REALLY be hurting to be without my viewership). But I think I'm gonna watch this year's Superbowl, or at least the halftime show, in solidarity with Puerto Rico, the 51st State. #badbunny

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@kboyd Sorry, my response to you was based on me thinking that you were asking about a different post that I never actually made. I hope that doesn't sound crazy.

In fact, I was referring to our current POTUS.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

It certainly makes sense that while every American field-grade officer is out-of-pocket and stroking Hegseth's ego, Xi should invade Taiwan and Putin should invade the EU.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@kboyd Stalin made Hitler look like an amateur, and Hitler killed himself but Stalin grabbed all of Eastern Europe.

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

If a man wants to hear only good news, then a man wants to be lied to.

You know the man I'm talking about.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9d

I finally figured out how trump's ear healed miraculously overnight after that "assassination" attempt months ago: He just climbed into his MEDBED for a few minutes and regrew a new ear! It's so obvious!

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How about:

<REDACTED>

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How about:

IF THEY CAN BUY POLITICIANS
THEY HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY

TAX BILLIONAIRES UNTIL THEY'RE
MILLIONAIRES!

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How about:

*FREE CHILDCARE
*FREE HEALTHCARE
*FREE EDUCATION
*FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT
*REPEAL 2ND AMNDMT
*STRIKE "PUNISHMENT" CLAUSE 13TH AMNDMT
*32 SCOTUSES W 12 YR TERMS
*1070 REPRESENTATIVES
*STATEHOOD FOR PR & DC
*RATIFY EQUAL RIGHTS AMNDMT
*DISBAND ICE
*TAX ALL CHURCHES
*REPEAL CITIZENS UNITED […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How about:

I'M A PATRIOT
I'M WOKE
I'M NOT AFRAID

MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10d

How about:

IMPRISON THE FASCISTS

but

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!