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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 55m

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 5h

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 5h

YES. I have an ancient ThinkPad as an emergency spare. Has Linux on it. Unless I'm trying to watch crazy resolution video: it just works.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 6h

If you answer negative to any of these, the quality of the machine is in question. More "no" answers means crappier machine.

If it's silver, 17 inches and also HP: just shove it under a wobbly table.
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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 6h

I have 4 questions to determine if a PC laptop/notebook is high quality & reliable.

1) Is it a matte black finish?
2) Does it have a matte screen?
3) Is the power brick strap long enough to wrap entirely around the brick & coiled cables?
4) Are the mouse buttons separate from the track pad?

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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nubus_bagel @nubusbagel.bsky.social · 18h

The last two or three times I tried making an account there it never sent the confirmation email. I frankly thought it was already dead, and were just letting people that already had accounts keep using it until they ran out of money. I ended up just joining Tinker Different to ask my questions.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 1d

YES

www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/10...

Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”

Portland’s city attorney says federal police are brutalizing protesters, and the government is weaponizing its longstanding settlement agreement with the city. In response to an investigation launched...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 2d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

That's what I thought.

AD joined because the network is legacy and making it un-legacy isn't likely to happen any time soon.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Hey internet!

I want to use Microsoft Entra ID's MFA solution (Microsoft Authenticator + Conditional Access) to MFA the login of on-premise AD joined workstations.

Client has Duo. Doesn't want to use third-party solutions anymore.

Is this possible? Point a fella to a how-to?

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Your favorite forum is offline. Again.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

One is a spelling error. The other is a spelling error spelled correctly.

Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

They removed that trick in the newest build. Can't do it anymore.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

If you can’t get your Mayonaise from the Mayon region of France, store bought sparkling Miracle Whip is fine

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

The 65C02 from WDC is electrically incompatible with earlier 65C02 processors, like from Rockwell. If you install one in a //e to do the "enhancement kit", you need to do a mod to make it work properly.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image

Picture of a 65C02 processor with custom wire strapping installed in an Apple 2e computer.

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Uncommon Ephemera @uncommonephemera.org · 1d

LIVE ALL DAY: Saving rare #filmstrips and their soundtracks for restoration and upload to @archive.org.

Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/ms9zrp6...
or Twitch: twitch.tv/uncommonephe...

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Something to test: do OOBE with a throwaway account just for this purpose. Once in the OS, use "net user" or "control userpasswords2" to create a new local account, then switch to it. Then delete the throwaway account.

Does that work?

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds

www.theverge.com

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 2d

If you had the opportunity to talk to someone really cool in the tech industry, who would it be?

Game developer? Hardware designer? Tech visionary? The one dude who had that weird idea about marketing?

I wanna know! Sound off in the replies.

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting fact: More than half of the world's renewable power is generated in China.

Electrek @electrek.co · 2d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

electrek.co

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