Gary Bunker

Gary Bunker

@andysocial.com

Computer geek, board gamer, anti-fascism, Army veteran, origami practicioner, paracord knothead He/him

1.6K followers422 following2.4K posts

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Apparently I was added to some starter pack list, so I have like 1300 followers now. Cool cool. I'm not really trying to engage with the public so much as find a community, but if you dig what I post, please comment and maybe we'll get to know each other.

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a heavily slurring Trump lies his ass off: "Not only did Talafreako state that God is transgender, he actually said that if Jesus Christ himself came and visited the Texas legislature, Jesus would be promoting sex changes for little children."

WTAF

David Pakman@davidpakman.bsky.social

Today we learned that it was a 28-year-old DOGE operative who gutted USAID, and HR had no record of him working there. Totally normal stuff.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

A student just asked if I remember Clippy. Oh, son...I was there for the deep magic. I can tell tales of Clippy and Bob, but even more esoteric realms await in the saga of the IRQ in the config.sys file... #geek

The fascist acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro: "It is impossible to recognize the (Brazil) election results in the context of how these things happened. We are going to use our legal team, we are going to request the annulment of these elections."

Dude keeps taking dementia tests. Are the doctors documenting his obvious mental decline for a post-mortem?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

OOh, $150 million! That sounds like enough to do almost nothing of national consequence!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "In more breaking news, my administration is using the Defense Production Act to release $150 million to increase American refining capacity to produce more diesel and more gasoline"

Is his body shutting down in bits and pieces?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 here's pictures taken today of Trump's right and left hands. Both are looking really bad, and he's using makeup on each of them to try to mask it (note how the left one is now looking just as nasty as the right one -- that's new) (Aaron Schwartz/Getty)

Wait...I used my AI to show that your AI was dumb? The entire tech industry is going to disembowel itself with an AI-generated tanto blade.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I didn't spend much time thinking about my father after he ran away with the car I thought was mine. Some of my siblings attempted to normalize relations with him, and my aunt attempted to get us to reconcile, but I just couldn't be bothered.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

There was no angst on my part, just a realization that one does not need to put effort into a relationship just because you were born into it.

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In a classified briefing, a DoD official revealed to Senators how much Iranian attacks on U.S. bases have cost us. Now, I'm calling for the DoD to make that number public. Americans deserve to know how much of their money is being burned on Trump's war with Iran.

And where is that money now? Cuz, the Treasury says that they don't have it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know how much money we're taking out of Venezuela? Hundreds of billions of dollars we're taking out of Venezuela"

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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Another day, another pardoned J-6er arrested and sentenced to 19 years for sexually-assaulting a 7-year-old little girl. A CHILD! MAGA is now recognized as the world's most notorious Pro-Pedophile movement....

Anyone who has invested heavily in IoT smart devices may need to be paranoid.

FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com

“We’re seeing signs of life for AI worms,” Anthropic has warned. And these rogue AI agents may soon hijack our homes — spreading like "digital slime mold" through the smart devices we’ve come to rely on. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/91QGknv Take today's poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/CqtTTdK

Just because the kidnappings haven't been making the major news reports, doesn't mean ICE isn't still out there abducting people and sending them to random places. The cruelty is the point.

Documented@documentedny.bsky.social

ICE Is detaining West African women, some of whom have been in New York for decades, with plans to send them to countries they have no connection to.

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1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

He is blatantly evil.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

Shamelessly lying.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"For everybody who is wondering there checks are from DOGE, I believe that when those checks were discussed, they said those were going to come at the *end* of Trump's term. You can see if that's true or not, but that's what I remember."

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Protecting child predators, facilitating extra-judicial murders, jacking up everyone's prices through tariffs and military misadventures all so that Donald Trump can get rich and he doesn't yell at you is a hell of a closing message. But totally on brand for Mr. Johnson.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"

Which Democrats have any control of the US government and budget?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

I question the sanity of the publishers who green-lit calling a game "The Game."

New comic! There’s a fine line between a memorable game title and something completely impossible to Google. 😅 ➡️ What’s your favorite short-titled game? 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/brief-search/ #boardgames

How can this company be so widely known and have such desirable IP, but be constantly about to go bankrupt?

BoardGameWire@boardgamewire.bsky.social

Financially-troubled board game publisher CMON has secured a $19m injection of new capital as it battles to turn around years of heavy losses and dwindling cash reserves - which had left it with just $368,000 in bank and cash balances at the start of August: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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No one else in Trump's life gets the affection he heaps on authoritarian heads of state. Not his wife. Certainly not his kids. His degrading, tryhard desperation to join the club would be hilarious if he weren't the president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I met President Xi at the plane (Airport!) yesterday and he looks strong, vibrant, and fit - Better than ever. Madam Xi, of course, BEAUTIFUL! President DJT"

The court said, "let them back in" and the White House said no. How many constitutional crises and impeachable acts can one administration handle?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEW: Attorneys for CNN/MSNOW ask for emergency court hearing, arguing their journalists are still being denied access to White House 1/

Many years ago, the DoD explicitly allowed Facebook to be accessed from government computers at work. Since then, the ability to get to FB or other sites has varied wildly. This morning, it appears they have blocked the reCAPTCHA tool, effectively blocking access to FB. Your tax dollars at work.

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Replying to @sebastianbae.bsky.social

Any evaluation game is simply a metric. The real value is in all the wargames, experiences, lessons learned, and decisions that lead up to it. We need to think beyond a simple evaluation game, but an ecosystem of games and experiences to prepare leaders through every stage of their military careers.