Geoff Dutton

A fair number of people who have no posts or only a few reposts have followed me. I like to follow folks back, but not when they have nothing to say for themselves. And why should I?

Lock 🔒 him up forever.

Dros is a stupendous nature photographer. Check out his elegant site.

Anyone who uses chatbots needs to read this if you want to understand how you are being seduced into submission. From current NY Review of books, un-paywalled. archive.is/202610182133...

Nice interplay of purple and blue but that made them equally difficult. Connections Puzzle #1234 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 118

The right is failing. Brazil! Serbia! Hungary! And student uprisings in Albania, Georgia and France aren't stopping! Protest! Vote!

Isn't information technology getting more wonderful every day?

This is a golden age, as Trump likes to say, but for fraudsters. Crypto and AI are godsends to shysters, scammers, and swindlers.

Played it safe, found purple by elimination Connections Puzzle #1233 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 128

Yes, Slob Job, Nicki Minaj would make the perfect press secretary. Her husband is a registered sex offender convicted of rape who also served about 7 years for manslaughter. Her brother was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old child and is serving 25 years to life.

Not exactly nobody, and that's the problem.

Silly goof even though I had them all lined up. Connections Puzzle #1232 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 92/99 Uniqueness 1 in 1,000,000

Tricky, that blue and green. Connections Puzzle #1231 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 81/99 Uniqueness 1 in 500,000

Fight back like your kid's life depended on it.

Tesla

Last two games flummoxed me but this one fell right into place. Connections Puzzle #1230 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 98

This is child abuse. The state should take his children away.

What a miserable time to be a software engineer it must be, forced to use AI to generate code and another AI to root out bugs in it. No more fun and games.

Grandfather Cause My grandfather predicted my career path, believe it or not, from beyond the grave.

Great. Hope someone nails Trump for defrauding his meme coin investors for hundreds of millions. newrepublic.com/post/216855/...

Absolutely. And ignoring protestors may goad some to take rash actions that will use to justify further clamping down.

After 2 WTF games I'm back. Almost an rr. Connections Puzzle #1228 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 164

Meta has gone too far, once again, to suppress political speech #Zuck doesn't like. Tell Congress: Reject Tech Billionaire Influence on Elections act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

This has happened to other retailers. It's a big Chinese crime ring. This theft happened in 2023 and Staples still hasn't said anything about it.

This was one helluva party! Thank you #Sequim and @madgreek2024.bsky.social

Now that pennies have been declared obsolete, when will stores stop pricing items at X dollars and 99 cents?

Best sign from No Kings compliments of @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

Outsourcing Understanding Read Online Close up, an electronic circuit board looks like a small city or an office park.  Though the " grass " (that's an air quote) may be green, all the " buildings " are black. Aside from copper " streets, " it's a pretty drab scene. Stacked in cloud servers, AI's…

Eastern Mass was well represented at No Kings today. Even in our town of 10,000 a hundred people turned out.

Earlier today, No Kings day, Meta blocked Indivisible's main No Kings account. After yelling at them Meta unblocked it but admins were locked out for the next 90 minutes. What the #Zuck???

You're not still patronizing Starbucks, are you? Find out more at @sbworkersunited.org

He's talking about the name of the beast without using it.

Power to the People ☭🕊 (@proudsocialistd.bsky.social): "France understood the assignment: We the People are humanity’s last line of defense against the neoliberal & neofascist politicians who work together to sell us out to the rich & the war machine. These are the real 'No Kings' protests"

Check out the players in Putin's chess game.

This is an inspiring act of protest. God bless the students.

Darren lays it out plain as day and as American as the flag behind him.

A teenager obtained a semiautomatic rifle, just as our founders intended, and brought that weapon into a primary school in Bend, Oregon, just as our founders intended, and murdered three children and their teacher, just as our founders intended, and was then shot dead, just as our founders intended.

Thought it was trickier than 2/5 difficulty. Connections Puzzle #1223 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 139

Dianna Rigg would be my fave female lead were it not for Helen Mirren

Too many balls in my court to place the perfidious purple. Connections Puzzle #1222 🟦🟪🟪🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 88/99 Uniqueness 1 in 50,000

Immediately cease and desist using ChatGPT to protest how itinjects ads based on your personal data. And before you boycott, tell it to tell Sam Altman why you are leaving. @404media.co www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-...

Connections Puzzle #1221 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 544

After a silly blunder did pretty well. Connections Puzzle #1220 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 91/99 Uniqueness 1 in a Million

In 1996, presidential Bill Clinton and rival candidate Bob Dole faced off in a debate in a campaign was quite civil. Then, after Clinton won he awarded Dole the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising his long career of service and duty to country. Imagine that happening today.

Found purple last based on first two letters, not realizing it was all of them. Connections Puzzle #1219 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 205

What's wrong with this picture is that the penguins' sweaters don't say TRUMP.

Found what was surely purple second, but blue was tricky. Connections Puzzle #1218 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 67