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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Finally got around to updating my woodworking blog analog.mirrorshades.net
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 01/10/2026
Here comes the first part of a new series of articles published on my Patreon: The design and making of ALL the spaceships in the Alien saga, starting with those from the very first movie: the Nostromo, the Narcissus, and the Derelict. This first article is open to everyone. Enjoy!
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All the spaceships in the Alien universe #1: Alien (1979) | The Spaceshipper
Following the modest success of the article on the spaceships in For All Mankind, I spent the week combing through every book in my sci-fi l
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
…actually got to read the article and I mean. At least I called it. 😂 (But a little embarrassing.)
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like something that escaped the basement at the Ministry of Awe.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WHAT THE FUCK
Shivon Zilis
@shivon
It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness. Given the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide. My heart is full knowing I got to do that, and I hope it leaves a lasting good effect.

We were always his safe space. A place where all of us were overjoyed to see him and one that was always full of happiness and love, not war, in contrast to his otherwise militant existence (a needed break from the battlefield where he could recharge his heart and soul before heading back out)

I loved being that counterbalancing place of safety, sense of calm, and love — and delighted in bringing a smile back to his face when he was down. I will miss him dearly.

I’ve loved him more than life itself and he’s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I am so beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the best day of my life! I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents.

I’m hurting, but care deeply about E and will always be cheering for his happiness. God speed, Elon, the world is lucky to have you.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Move zig.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 30/09/2026
It's heeeeere! @danaterrace.bsky.social
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just about everything I do is Bumblechutes - Wood Finish and Bee Nooba hard oil wax (though I think they just rebranded this to Protect or something.) It should *probably* be shellac but I don’t have any so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
iOS hotspot turning itself on (when macOS is trying to find a network) after you have explicitly turned it off is awesome. I love software that thinks it knows better than I do.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the one hand this is a silly thing to have made. On the other hand, it’s a silly thing to have made.
A wooden coaster sitting a wooden desktop. The coaster is 4x4 walnut ,with a 1” maple stripe running through it near the “top”. The desk is maple with many blonde streaks running through it.The coaster with an open can of Coke sitting on it.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watched Minority Report for movie night. Holds up. The personalized ads that read your eyes seem quaint in 2026 given *waves hands*
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mx15 just recommended mary in the junkyard to me. They’re on WXPN’s to watch list. Love the kid being old enough, and Philly enough, to give me music reco’s like that.
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jess @jessfrom.online · 24/09/2026
 “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 24/09/2026
Fucken Fetterman voted for the war.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I grew up in the southwest. All I knew were fire ants. 15 years later, first time my now spouse and I had a picnic in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse park I asked if we could move away from some totally benign black ants. She was confused. 40 years on I still get .. antsy. The trauma lasts, man.
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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
back in 2016 i made a mesoamerican riff on the oneill cylinder/bernal sphere in "HABITAT"- i love every mossy tube city in space
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The first Galaktikon album gets a lot of spins in this house. Dude’s great live, too!
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23/09/2026
New chvrches song means one thing: I regret to inform you that we will win. pitchfork.com/story/chvrch...
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Chvrches Return With First Song in Three Years
“Roses” tees up a new phase based on “the most coherent vision we’ve had,” the trio says
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/09/2026
This seems like a great product if you’re a fucking loser
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A frictionless life leads to a smooth brain.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A tongue and groove saw!
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok yeah, this is good. Happy with this. Got real lucky with this walnut, and I’m pleased with how it turned out.
A walnut desktop in closeup with sunlight hitting it. The brain is relatively straight with lots of blonde in it. A further shot of the desk set up with monitor, chair, and laptop. A plant sits to the left of the desk. An art print hangs above the desk between two open windows.A view of the desk from the upper right.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Garnet is best tho
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This didn’t come out too bad. (I don’t like the legs. They were cheap, though. Will replace them if they annoy me too much.)
A walnut desk, 2’ by 4’. It sits on gross hairpin gold legs that wobble. The desk is pressed against a white concrete wall. A view of the desk with an office chair in front of it. The desk is situated between two windows  There is a Liz New art print above the desk of a young boy in front of a field of old truck cabs. A caption reads “evaporate and yield to a subdivision.”
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Blade jammed” on lowering, yeah that’d frickin do it. (I lost CFM yesterday and didn’t notice which explains a bit of this , but I also clearly need to invest in a zero clearance insert here!)
A Festool table saw upside down with its bottom off. It’s full of dust and crap. The bottom blade housing, and vacuum tube. It’s full of compacted saw dust.The blade housing flipped open, lots of saw dust and thin strips of wood. It’s a mess. 5 pieces of wood shavings pulled out of the blade housing. Yeesh.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did some decorating.
A small black refrigerator sits in some wire shelving. The shelves also contain snacks - pretzels, Slim Jim’s, a box of chocolate candy bars.

A model of a scifi tank sits in the fridge - the Militech Chimera tank from Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty.

Stickers on the fridge: Cthulhu; a Radical Edward smiley icon from Cowboy Bebop looks at a yellow floppy disk with “Hack the Planet” written on it; Godzilla “destroy all fascists”; “Our joy is a sword” trans colors, by Sen of Dresden Codak; Gideon the Ninth skull from the Locked Tomb Pod; origami unicorn from Blade Runner; some cyberpunk skull I got somewhere I can’t recall.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Really hoping to finish my first desk tomorrow. (I really need one for the Woofice.)
A walnut five panel glue up on a work table. It is 2’ by 4’. The walnut has many blond accents running up its grain. The right most panel has cloudy grain, instead of the blond stripes. It is clamped in four universal clamps. There is blue tape marking each section which shows which sides needed floating tenons.

A bunch of random woodshop stuff is in the background.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
(I probably don’t have 40y left in me but it’ll get plenty of use!)
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I asked him why he was letting it go after so long and he said something like “you let the tools move on or you die with them.” A friend of his had recently passed and left him a big old Powermatic, and he found he didn’t use the little Delta anymore.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I got a new friend this week. 6” Delta jointer from 1953. Bought it from someone in his 70s who had it for 40y (and still had the original manual!) He added a door / cover for the pulley and his own dust collection port.
A Delta Rockwell 6” jointer from 1953 sits in a woodshop.The jointer with a shop made cover for the pulley system that drives the blades. The jointer with the cover off, exposing the pulley.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Next Big Dem Proposal: Let Kids Eat Free
School lunches were free to all kids during the pandemic; a prominent think-tank wants to bring back the idea and make it permanent.
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qntm @qntm.org · 13/09/2026
VALUABLE HUMANS IN TRANSIT AND OTHER STORIES is discounted to $0.99 on Kindle in the US and Canada, today only! This collection includes the highly relevant short story "Lena" and an exclusive sequel story "Driver"
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Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories - Kindle edition by qntm. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories.
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You Can't Stop Progress @petrochemicsoul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thinking about "plus they'll probably have to deal with Godzilla at some point".
"Tried to watch 'Shin Godzilla" on the plane only to realize by the end of the movie that it actually a drama movie called 'Tears for you'. Words can't describe the feeling of watching an incredibly sad movie while constantly thinking: 'Damn... This is depressing. Plus, they'll probably have to deal with Godzilla at some point too...'"

What follows are four screencaps (presumably from "Tears for You"), showing a smiling woman (subtitled "I really love you."), a distant image from above of axwonsn in a white dress (subtitled"Thank you... for raising me."), a short-haired person weeping, and finally, an apprehensive woman (subtitled "living happily.")
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can’t finish a project because I’m missing 6 washers. Frustrating.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Whimsy shelf” for our entryway. Birthday activity. Designed by Mx15, but everyone helped and painted backgrounds. Mistakes mine. (I hate drywall.) Will be filled with whimsical things, I am assured!
A box embedded in a wall. Front door to the left. Light switch to the right. The box is framed with beveled walnut. There is a somewhat impressionistic landscape painting slotted into the back of the box. Four blue shelves are mounted into the box sides.A further shot of the box. The full entry way, putting the box in context - front door, pictures, a bunch of shoes. The box again, with the door open, sunlight on the box lighting it up.The original design on a pad of paper, and the four paintings sit on a work table. A orange and green landscape with a path running through it, a beach with grass and sunlight breaking through clouds, a grid of tiny art I don’t know how to describe, and another blue and green landscape
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Signed up for a woodworking class on hand tool joinery that encourages you to bring your own kit. I have no way to transport things reasonably. Now thinking about turning one of Rex’s new sawbenches into a portable tool chest. Sawing, seating, storage. 🤔 (www.rexkrueger.com/store/p/quic...)
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Quick and Dirty Sawbench — rexkrueger.com
The saw bench makes for a light but sturdy base to do sawing, mortising and other hand tool woodworking. And no saw bench could be easier to put together than the Quick and Dirty Sawbench. With splaye...
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That sounds a lot to me!
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old. This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare. slate.com/technology/2...
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We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.
His doctors agree that this care is right for him.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still think about this post
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FUCK. FETTERMAN. I voted for this giant slug piece of shit. I am furious.
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 09/09/2026
Man why are all these well-loved tech companies so desperate to give their money to Mr Kill All Immigrants in exchange for his dotfiles
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Amazing review/deconstruction of Green City Wars (without any significant spoilers)
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bdha @bdha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who knew the Adeptus Mechanicus would turn out to be such total dorks.
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