Ghostin' Gerth
@soupgundam.bsky.social
He/him.
I’ll talk to your cat for $1.
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I’ll talk to your cat for $1.
racecarcoffin.bandcamp.com/
stormcoffee.bandcamp.com/
https://muckrack.com/austin-gerth
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National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
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Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
www.the-reframe.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
The plural of "oaf" should "oaves" like "loaves" is to "loaf."
January 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The plural of "oaf" should "oaves" like "loaves" is to "loaf."
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there should be no terrified masked poorly trained out of state militia empowered to act extrajudiciously on the street and that is the political floor
January 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
there should be no terrified masked poorly trained out of state militia empowered to act extrajudiciously on the street and that is the political floor
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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This sort of energy we need going forward. President Obama and Biden both were mistaken to not prosecute those who committed torture, committed fraud and broke laws in the financial crisis during Bush 2 years and obviosly all the Trump attempt to overturn the election and stealing classified docs.
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This sort of energy we need going forward. President Obama and Biden both were mistaken to not prosecute those who committed torture, committed fraud and broke laws in the financial crisis during Bush 2 years and obviosly all the Trump attempt to overturn the election and stealing classified docs.
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tired: everything's computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
tired: everything's computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
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A friendly reminder that El Burrito Mercado has awesome stocking stuffers, tamales, and most everything else you need. And they need your business.
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A friendly reminder that El Burrito Mercado has awesome stocking stuffers, tamales, and most everything else you need. And they need your business.
It’s chronologically impossible, but Miles Davis’ “Calypso Frelimo” kinda sounds like a Latin funk jam built around the bassline to one of the ghost house levels from Mario.
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s chronologically impossible, but Miles Davis’ “Calypso Frelimo” kinda sounds like a Latin funk jam built around the bassline to one of the ghost house levels from Mario.
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the somali people will always be in minnesota. they will always be in america. they are minnesotans and americans; they are our community and there is nothing the gutter racist trash in the white house is going to do that will change that
evil people have won a big battle, and they will do an incredible unjustifiably large amount of damage along the way, but they are fighting an impossible war. they will not win because they cannot win. they are standing in the ocean fighting the tides.
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
the somali people will always be in minnesota. they will always be in america. they are minnesotans and americans; they are our community and there is nothing the gutter racist trash in the white house is going to do that will change that
The humble Ghiradelli box mix brownie handily wastes so many more highfalutin desserts. An unreal product.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The humble Ghiradelli box mix brownie handily wastes so many more highfalutin desserts. An unreal product.
Nice try, Gmail. I resented your pre-sorted tabs when they rolled out, and I think I'm smarter than spell check. Disabling these features to avoid training your AI is nothing to me.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Nice try, Gmail. I resented your pre-sorted tabs when they rolled out, and I think I'm smarter than spell check. Disabling these features to avoid training your AI is nothing to me.
I think this Folk Bitch Trio album is pretty front-loaded, but man do I dig those first three songs: folkbitchtrio.bandcamp.com/album/now-wo...
Now Would Be A Good Time, by Folk Bitch Trio
10 track album
folkbitchtrio.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I think this Folk Bitch Trio album is pretty front-loaded, but man do I dig those first three songs: folkbitchtrio.bandcamp.com/album/now-wo...
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better things are possible
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
better things are possible
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The political pundits that have been trying to get you to sell out other human beings as a power move to win elections are both intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The political pundits that have been trying to get you to sell out other human beings as a power move to win elections are both intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Baked an apple cake last night. Man, I get a true thrill out of putting each baking ingredient away as you use them in the recipe, so the kitchen gets less messy as you go. Feels like a magic trick.
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Baked an apple cake last night. Man, I get a true thrill out of putting each baking ingredient away as you use them in the recipe, so the kitchen gets less messy as you go. Feels like a magic trick.
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happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
Spoke to a couple of Twin Cities tube amp builders for @racketmn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Spoke to a couple of Twin Cities tube amp builders for @racketmn.com
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tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
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Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”
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A must read thread!
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A must read thread!
Please help Racket, the wonderful independent journalists for whom I occasionally get off the couch and write something, fill the cartoon thermometer at this link by giving them a little bit of money in exchange for regular doses of excellent, MN-centric alt weekly style online writing.
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Please help Racket, the wonderful independent journalists for whom I occasionally get off the couch and write something, fill the cartoon thermometer at this link by giving them a little bit of money in exchange for regular doses of excellent, MN-centric alt weekly style online writing.