Patrick Abeya

My new book, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World," comes out in 20 days! Check out this sample audiobook chapter on the closing days of the Ice Age: www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

@nightlightguy.bsky.social might already have been reported, but there seem to be some editing issues with the latest episode of @romepodcast.bsky.social

Incel slang is now so ingrained in the mainstream discourse that its origins have been obscured. How did we get here?

I for one welcome our new ChatGPT overlord and raise a congratulatory dunkin' cup in their honor. www.mass.gov/news/governo...

@smtuffy.bsky.social This one is for you, it has everything you like such as buying stable coins to prop up your own currency. www.elliptic.co/blog/iran-ha...

GIANT PIZZA WARS (1993-1995): In the early 90's, the Big 3 in the chain pizza world entered an arms race, offering competing, giant pizzas in a bid for pizza supremacy. How did it shake out? Check this 🧵!

A tariff you say?

Interesting, I was shown a paywall while accessing an article on the BBC News page and it was legitimate. I do value the content and would be maybe willing to pay up, but for that price, I would expect access to the iPlayer.

We are all children of God. * * restrictions apply, offer not valid in all States.

You may not be in a position to fight the American Gestapo but you can take video of them, wave your middle finger at them, and show that Americans will not meekly surrender to them.

#GoldenAgeOfFraud #Crypto

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Feel free to dunk on Lisa Murkowski all you like but in fairness, the pull quote misses a lot of context. She’s asked “What do you have to say to people who are afraid” and she replies “I’m often afraid to speak up but that’s the job you gave me to do, so here’s how I’m doing it”.

The last time the attorney general publicly accused someone of being a top gang leader, the Justice Department quickly asked to drop all of its charges against him rather than try to prove it in court.

HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador. Follow along for updates ⬇️

This trade war meeting could have been an email.

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You have to admit it’s a pretty funny bit for the USA to say it’s powerless to infringe on El Salvador’s sovereignty while at the time it’s threatening to invade several countries

The dream is dead

“The President is considering doing illegal things, if they are legal of course.”

Click through, these keep going!

grocery store is ripping me off. it should be buying an equal amount of stuff from me as I buy from it

flightless, not fightless

I’m not going to pretend to be an expert regarding the recently published tariffs, but the one thing I do know is that it’s a bad idea to anger penguins.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

I assume the SEC no longer cares about this type of violations? www.wsj.com/business/aut...

If you really want to hurt Musk, just don't buy Teslas at all. Trade in your Tesla if you can. Hurts him exponentially more. If you must protest, do it peacefully and don't prevent people from entering the showrooms, but you should feel free to mock them for picking a nazimobile.

What’s hilarious is that the deployment of mRNA vaccines might be one of the few success stories of Trump’s first presidency. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

As a former GC holder, this is why I did not leave the country during the Trump years. The lack of clear guidance and a permissive attitude from the government emboldens some of these immigration officers.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

Probably obvious at this point. But quite clear that the deportees being sent to Gitmo aren't the "worst of the worst" but rather a more or less random selection of people being sent there to create a class of "worst of the worst" who are getting extra double punishment from Daddy Trump.

This is going to work out great, because President Trump knows all the best laws and can apply them powerfully. And if you think about it, what does the FCC really know about communications really? It’s not like they had a successful prime time show.

#trump: "It turns out that the reservation we put Palestinians in is more valuable than we thought so we kinda want it. Don't worry, we're going to move them to a *wink* better reservation. Trust me, we've done this before, it will work out great for them. Oh, and please, don't come back."

Can we at least agree on a limit of one constitutional violation a day please?

One can tell Bluesky has gone mainstream by the amount of pornbots who follow you. To be fair to bsky, it is obvious they are doing work to kick them out. I see many of them mysteriously disappear.