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Josh Piper
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Living the dream of the '90s ~ Frontend Dev who writes entirely too much C# and SQL ~ My tweets are my own

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Josh Piper @piperjosh.com · Feb 28
Make Racism Wrong Again
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[Gift Link] Kinda wild that he has raised more money post election than he did for that same election. I sure hope he's keeping things on the up-and-up.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
piperjosh.com
[Gift link] Provocative title, but some good thoughts to wrestle with this Christmas season.
Opinion | Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jensimmons.bsky.social
Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays!

webkit.org/blog/17660/i...
Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
It’s here!
webkit.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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muellershewrote.com
When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Let's demand better of each other.
Seth Remembers Rob Reiner
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
The video that made YouTube.
sepinwall.bsky.social Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 7d
20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Math. How does it work?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you

LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times

F: Not a 600% cut

L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader?

This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
Carol Rosenberg is the empress of the Gitmo press corps, but in her spare time she wrote this deep dive into an instance of the Pentagon’s restoring the names of Confederates to military bases through cynically obvious dishonesty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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meidastouch.com
This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d
This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Uber Eats Wrapped #snl
nobody asked for this
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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December 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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dangercart.bsky.social
Stealworkers
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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gjmaupin.bsky.social
Fine. Give us the Epstein files in Times New Roman, then.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Just in time for festivus
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that there is something physically wrong and cognitively wrong with Trump, he knows it, and he's angry and frightened.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15d
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
"there's a new serif in town"
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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zeldman.bsky.social
Remember “throat clearing script”? That was our salty name for ECMAScript in 1997. Good times! 

30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web by Richard MacManus

thenewstack.io/30-years-of-...
30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web
From its 1995 creation at Netscape, to ECMAScript in 1997, to jQuery, Node.js and React in the 21st century, JavaScript has had a wild run.
thenewstack.io
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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highkin.bsky.social
The Blazers and KATU just announced that all Remix home games will be aired on KUNP (Rip City Television Network), either live or on tape delay if they conflict with Blazers games.
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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pbump.com
Made an interactive to explore state- and month-level data on ICE arrests. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-an...
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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davidalman.bsky.social
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.

They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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scalzi.com
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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when the tryptophan hits
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM