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Scott N
@yanetut.bsky.social
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Minnesotan for almost 40 years. Retired programmer, bent by C as a first language. Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fan back in the day, more Nick and Nora Charles on TCM lately (the news is scary enough). Can sometimes play three good holes of golf in a row.
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Scott N @yanetut.bsky.social · Nov 11
I'm another recent arrival from the other place, where I browsed, but hadn't posted in years. Never got the hang of the "social" in social media.

My banner refers to a notable comment in an early version of Unix. Yes, I'm one of those old-timers who mourned dmr more than Jobs.
'You are Not Expected to Understand This': Unix's Most Notorious Code Comment
The phrase “You are Not Expected to Understand This” is probably the most famous comment in the history of Unix.
thenewstack.io
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badtoss.bsky.social
I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
davidcorn.bsky.social David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d
Merry Christian Nationalism Day
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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billamend.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"I chose a crass serial rapist and adulterer, who calls women 'nasty' and 'piggy,' and took away by daughters' reproductive rights, over my daughters. So why are they displeased with me??? It must be all THEIR fault! I take no responsibility. NONE!"
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
SEPARATIN Department of Homeland Sec... « is in United States o.... • Follow 2h • G An Appeal to Heaven answered. A Homeland to be thankful for, and a future worth fighting for. 'The First Thanksgiving' - Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1914)
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.

And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Nov 15
From 2022:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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atrupar.com
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ajbauer.bsky.social
OPINION | Dick Cheney Was Practicing Politics The Right Way

By Ezra Klein
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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hacks4pancakes.com
Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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drgbuckingham.bsky.social
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
I have in fact fallen into the trap of these things. It speaks the language of authority that normal authority normally has. I just don't know why you do not learn how fucking dangerous that is very quickly.

We're not built for this stuff. Especially children. Like what are we doing here.
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
Not that I've seen. There is R annoyance about inflation, and recently about layoffs. But zero connection between current circumstances and Trump

It's classic "good czar, bad boyars" -- Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed

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andyoregon.bsky.social Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · Oct 14
Polls aside, I’m curious about the opinion of those on the ground in NC on what the “vibes” and feel of the citizenry there. Are you sensing Trump is losing *any support* from Republicans there based on the economy and antics from ICE?
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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jamellebouie.net
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
thomaszimmer.bsky.social Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Oct 12
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Seven years ago I shared with a couple hundred of my FB friends, several of whom were Trump voting former HS classmates, a premonition of the sort of monstrous, violent, democracy-destroying actions Trump was grooming them to accept. I wish it didn’t feel so relevant today.
Seth Cotlar • . . Jun 28, 2018 • 8: "I am American and am waiting for the Americans to come back; they have gone to ground somewhere." This captures my sense of what Trumpism has done to 1/3 of the country. Our battles over politics have become battles over who "the true Americans" are and who the "enemies of the people" are. According to many of my fellow citizens I am, apparently, an enemy of the people. A libtard. Democrats have never spoken of their political opponents in this manner, nor have they ever called for them to be locked up (unless, in the case of Nixon, they had actually committed serious crimes). Sure, Democrats have criticized Republicans, but never dehumanized them the way Trump and his spokespeople have. Obama said that one thing about guns and religion, Clinton used the word deplorable once to describe Nazis who were pro-Trump. Unless one is a total snowflake, that's nothing compared to what Trump has done. On a daily basis he tells his tens of millions of supporters that people like me love criminals, support terrorism, hate America, knowingly lie, are trying to stage a coup to overthrow him, want to confiscate all guns and institute a police state, etc. This form of political warfare that Trump and his Fox enablers are engaging in, warfare on more than half of the nation, must either be reined in by people within his party, or it will result in some truly horrible, anti-democratic, republic-destroying, life-destroying things. Given Trump's "take no prisoners, never surrender" approach to everything in his life, it's very hard to see how this ends well. The Founders hoped that we how this ends well. The Founders hoped that we would choose virtuous leaders with habits of self-restraint that would curb the human instincts to wield power in tyrannical ways. Trump has shown zero self-restraint, and has done nothing but stoke violent hatred amongst his most ardent followers who seem willing to do just about anything to defend him. I see little chance that this will change moving forward, other than to just keep getting worse. I can and will do my little bit by non-violently protesting, speaking loudly and freely, advocating for candidates I believe in, and voting. But here's the question I ask my friends and fellow citizens who voted for Trump and disagree with me about taxation, social security, foreign policy, etc...if I or people I know get locked up for peacefully protesting in the years to come, will you come to my defense? Would you stick your neck out to protect a libtard like me? What would you be willing to risk to protect my right to criticize this administration? I hope neither you nor I will ever have to answer such questions. I'm not saying we definitely (or even probably) will have to confront this sort of situation. But if the Trump supporters who took such joy in drinking mugs of liberal tears start calling for liberal blood...and if the people who live for an opportunity to "own the libs" start saying we need to "jail the libs, the enemies of the people" in the name of national security...to what extent would you resist? Have the seeds for accepting such exertions of state power already been sown, just a bit, by getting you to acquiesce with putting asylum-seeking brown acquiesce with putting asylum-seeking brown children in prison because their parents supposedly committed a misdemeanor offense? Again, I hope you will never have to make such a decision, but it's worth preparing now in case you do. Twenty years ago I would have had zero doubts that most of my Republican friends and fellow citizens would have defended my right to non-violently protest a Republican administration...to be totally honest, I'm not sure I feel so confident about that anymore. The more a leader drains away the bonds of civic solidarity that cross lines of party or ethnicity or race, the more they amplify their power and sow the seeds for authoritarianism. America's long history of racism has already made those bonds of civic solidarity weak and unreliable. Here's hoping we don't let this hate-mongering President break us even further...because, believe me my Republican friends and fellow citizens, I might really hate the fact that you voted for Trump, but I care about and respect you far more than that billionaire celebrity narcissist does. Mich Kabay • Follow Jun 23, 2018 • 6 #politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger. TNX Ric - valuable warning.]... See more - Permanently • aways been so careful to guard. Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. (Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an e Mich Kabay • Follow Jun 23, 2018 • #politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger. TNX Ric - valuable warning.]... See more - Permanently - aways been so careful to guard. Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for Hitler, some had thought. When he became chancellor nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual. Germany was a notoriously law-abiding as well as cultured land. How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people? German Jews were highly assimilated and patriotic. Many refused to leave their homeland, even as things got worse and worse. "I am German and am waiting for the Germans to come back; they-have gone to ground somewhere," Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary— he was the son of a rabbi and a veteran of the First World War who chose to stay, and miraculously survived. Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastroph-cally wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM