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@tekweenie.bsky.social
Just a nerd from the Midwest. Studied Music Engineering and eventually ended up in home automation.
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Windfall profits tax
Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"
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Also, as I have recommended multiple times: Go vote with someone vulnerable to the voter fraud conspiracy theories. Friends with a trans person who will be under suspicion bc of their ID or a brown person who speaks mostly Spanish? Don't make them go to the polls alone.
If you haven't already, 1. Make a plan to vote, 2. Study your ballot this weekend, 3. Help your family and friends make plans too (e.g. can you take them to the polls/vote centers or drop off their ballots?) 4. Ask them to pass it forward.
And yet, Kash Patel with his beer, shaking, drunken celebration with the hockey players is still employed. 🤷♂️
Britt McHenry is no longer in her role as a press advisor for Trump’s Department of State following a viral video that showed her throwing a drink at a Wizards game, FOS reports She had just joined the admin last month
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James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
“Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.’” Sounds like a Tom Waits lyric.
Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
“Obama-Garland willed helplessness” is quite the turn of phrase. Accurate.
After years of Republican criminality and Democratic timidity, @ryanlcooper.com argues that Democrats can’t afford to “fritter away” another majority. If they don’t establish real consequences for attacks on democracy, he warns, they may not get another chance. zeteo.com/p/this-might...
I’m sure John Oliver @lastweektonight.com will have something to say about this. 😄
Tucker Carlson: "If you look at pornography enough or bestiality videos all day, after a while... it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it."
Breaking: another instance were a person’s gender, sexuality, politics, personality, shoe size or hair color was a non-issue. Critics are baffled that people in hospital wards are uninterested in what’s going on with others while the are trying to be helped. We visit this Ohio diner to get answers.
The wild thing to me is no cis people are remotely bothered by sharing a ward with a trans person. It's completely an elite manufactured problem. novaramedia.com/2023/10/04/t...
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Watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail on @tcmtv.bsky.social and was reminded of this 
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I know, maybe we can bundle subprime mortgages in with the AI data center mortgages!
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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A while back I ordered the paperback version of @mariadongwrites.bsky.social’s Aviary on recommendation from Storytime With @wilwheaton.net and I got a surprise present for myself today! Woot!
A while back I ordered the paperback version of @mariadongwrites.bsky.social’s Aviary on recommendation from Storytime With @wilwheaton.net and I got a surprise present for myself today! Woot!
The Bears beat last year’s Superbowl champs 27 - 7 with their third string quarterback last night. Not really a sports guy, but I thought I’d let sports people know in case they were interested. I’m more of a Garfunkel and Oates “Sports Go Spirts” guy. #sports
The MLB Postseason is here! Come celebrate with us on a very special live video chat with @mollyknight.bsky.social this evening.
I sincerely hope @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @duckworth.senate.gov who want to “just move on” are listening.
“The disillusionment is huge. Voters are hungry for a different way of operating. Parties that take power and then try to pick up where they left off by doing the same old thing — because it’s all they know — are quickly punished.”
In case anyone is interested in the movie in question.
Class solidarity.
There seems to be no paradise on this planet the universe has bestowed on us that Meth and AIDs can’t destroy
In mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency because of a startling rise in HIV infections. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor. n.pr/4z00OZG
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that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing."
AI feels a lot like Trump’s war with Iran. They rush in headlong thinking it will be an easy operation to develop general artificial intelligence. But when shit doesn’t turn out like they hoped and they lose both money and popularity they want someone else to get them out of this whole shit show. 
BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
“Bravely ambivalent” 😂🤣 An-dy! An-dy! Good to know ostensibly left or left leaning politicians have no spine and refuse to be pinned down world wide. Here’s to the spirit priest and the Levite in the Samaritan story! Woot!!
Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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@blockclubchi.bsky.social companion to your podcast about D&D at Babes Sports Bar.
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Whoa, I’ve never heard that one before. Sounds like something an authoritarian or fascist would say. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to be suspicious of anyone spouting that kind of nonsense. It’s like someone swearing an oath to a person instead of the constitution. Or someone grifting people.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into a communist country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the communist country, to rule you.' It's insane."
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