john

john

@itslike.xyz

A happily married dude in sunny San Diego. Navy Vet. I do martech stack things for a living. Also an avid photographer (Surfing/Lifestyle). Follow my photography here! https://bsky.app/profile/splendid.life

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Do not trust the polls. Do not allow yourself to become complacent. Vote early — and get your friends and family to vote. Do not let Elon, Big Tech, Big Oil, AI, and the billionaire class buy this election. We outnumber them — and we're the only ones that can put an end to this nightmare.

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NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

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‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on. And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

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We’re hiring hungry ghost wranglers — I mean Machine Learning Engineers. As well as Typescript, React Native, and Go devs.

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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

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Replying to @50501movement.bsky.social

See our thread on Larry Ellison:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑@50501movement.bsky.social

The oligarchs are building a massive censorship & state media operation. Through purchase and control of social media, legacy media, and other mediums, the billionaires are creating an empire of perpetual and favorable propaganda—distorting our very realities—all to protect their wealth and power.

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I guess the new Republican standard that anyone who “celebrates” the death of a political figure should result in termination from their jobs also applies to their social media posts when a Democrat dies?

I went back to X for awhile, thought I was missing some critical conversations. as well as some government service notifications. But it is just a complete cesspool. There is no positive dialogue occurring. Just constant streams of rage tweets and troll/bots. I shut it down, It is better here.

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Odd, how MS-13 gang members are all ALL OVER California during elections, but conspicuously absent when ICE is rounding up "criminals" in that state. Instead, ICE goes to Home Depot to arrest helpful people looking for home improvement jobs. It's *almost* as if everything Trump tells us is a lie.

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BREAKING: NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who was on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone. This is what happens when you embolden ICE to act with zero oversight. Trump’s America.

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In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption & shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy & faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving & momentous for us all.

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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u... Texas is home to the third-most federal workers in the country—and now Trump wants to gut their union protections, along with those of hundreds of thousands more. Absolutely not. I stand with our workers and their right to organize.

nytimes.comTrump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across GovernmentAn executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you

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Never forget that MAGAs fist bumped after they killed a bill that was going to expand healthcare coverage for veterans exposed to burn pits. Now they are cutting 83K VA jobs. 👉They don’t give a shit about veterans, never have.

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NEW: Canada’s new PM, Mark Carney, has just delivered what sounded like a wartime speech, savaging Trump & the US. "These are dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust. We are getting over the shock, but let us never forget the lessons. We have to look after ourselves."💥

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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

It'll be great in '28 when Franchetti is nominated to be SecDef.

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"Frank traveled this month to DC to speak with Alaska’s congressional delegation... she said she was well received by Begich. “He assured that he 100% backed us on fighting to not have any cuts to Medicaid,” said Frank. Now, she said she feels betrayed by his vote..." www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

adn.comAlaskans say Medicaid cuts considered by US House could be ‘catastrophic’State lawmakers said the reconciliation process could lead to a loss of $1 billion in federal funding for Alaska’s Medicaid program.

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DO YOU NEED A MEASLES BOOSTER? Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases. Please, carefully read the gift article below…