Bill Beers
@wmbeers.bsky.social
Professional GIS programmer, dilettante everything else. Portland now, Tallahassee then.
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"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said"
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said"
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
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I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
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It should really be a bigger story that the government apparently has a kill list.
He says the men they murdered are on a list.
Let’s see the list.
Let’s hear their names.
Show us the evidence.
If you have any.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Let’s see the list.
Let’s hear their names.
Show us the evidence.
If you have any.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It should really be a bigger story that the government apparently has a kill list.
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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
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"
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
God damn!
oh hell yeah
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
God damn!
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I've got a new story out today in National Geographic about "disaster microbiology," an emerging field that brings together all sorts of different experts to track the unexpected, deadly outbreaks that follow natural disasters that shake up the invisible microbial communities around us.
The disease detectives who solve the world’s strangest outbreaks
When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers show up and turn deadly.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I've got a new story out today in National Geographic about "disaster microbiology," an emerging field that brings together all sorts of different experts to track the unexpected, deadly outbreaks that follow natural disasters that shake up the invisible microbial communities around us.
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
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CNN with a useful timeline of all the bullshit Trump and his minions have said abt the September 2 strike.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
Here’s what the Trump administration has said about the ‘double-tap’ strike on an alleged drug boat | CNN Politics
As the US military’s September strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has come under increased scrutiny by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and military legal experts, the Trump administr...
edition.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
CNN with a useful timeline of all the bullshit Trump and his minions have said abt the September 2 strike.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
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If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
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The buck stops here.
No, not right here. There.
Not there, way over there.
Yeah, keep going. Going.
There.
No, not right here. There.
Not there, way over there.
Yeah, keep going. Going.
There.
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The buck stops here.
No, not right here. There.
Not there, way over there.
Yeah, keep going. Going.
There.
No, not right here. There.
Not there, way over there.
Yeah, keep going. Going.
There.
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President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for running a “narco-state” that helped send cocaine to the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.
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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
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
Just to level set
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For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.
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Now I see why they wanted to rebrand to the Department of War. No one calls them 'defense crimes'
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Now I see why they wanted to rebrand to the Department of War. No one calls them 'defense crimes'
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🔥 flipping the script in Cali
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🔥 flipping the script in Cali
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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The two people clinging to a smoldering wreck WERE OBVIOUSLY NOT A THREAT TO ANYONE TO DO ANYTHING
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The two people clinging to a smoldering wreck WERE OBVIOUSLY NOT A THREAT TO ANYONE TO DO ANYTHING
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Department of War Crimes
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Department of War Crimes
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Always ask yourself if the scenario you’re imagining makes any sense.
Why would a small drug smuggling boat have lots of extra people on board? Bear in mind that each smuggling trip is risky as hell. Is that what you would do if you had to plan that trip?
Why would a small drug smuggling boat have lots of extra people on board? Bear in mind that each smuggling trip is risky as hell. Is that what you would do if you had to plan that trip?
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind…”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Always ask yourself if the scenario you’re imagining makes any sense.
Why would a small drug smuggling boat have lots of extra people on board? Bear in mind that each smuggling trip is risky as hell. Is that what you would do if you had to plan that trip?
Why would a small drug smuggling boat have lots of extra people on board? Bear in mind that each smuggling trip is risky as hell. Is that what you would do if you had to plan that trip?
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It. Is. Murder.
I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It. Is. Murder.