Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 19hAll issues of decency aside, it seems like a really stupid idea to publicly execute a man who set out to die as an martyr. That said, stupid is on brand for Trump Deux. 001
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i... 9298107
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...blog.documentfoundation.orgYes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community BlogOne of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us... 5356412138
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialChris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvtV...youtube.comThe Replacements - September GurlsYouTube video by aittam 2202
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 12/09/202673yrs ago Sands Hotel dancer — Sally McCloskey — climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada and performed an interpretive dance while an atomic bomb exploded behind her, just 40 miles away. 29424
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026NB: The CEO of Meriwether farms is on the board of The American Conservative. On the one hand, she kind of got what she wanted. On the other, Trump is digging an ever deeper hole for himself & the party that embraced him. www.theamericanconservative.com/author/catha...theamericanconservative.comCatharine O’Neill Gillihan 012
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is heartbreaking, appalling, and important. 001
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's really quite a feat, attacking Democrats for harming animals, while advancing a bill that seeks to override state farm-animal welfare laws. I suspect Republican politicians have a surgical technique for removing both their spines & their sense of shame. aldf.org/project/oppo...aldf.orgOPPOSE: The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 (House Farm Bill) (Federal)ALDF opposes the House Farm Bill due to numerous provisions that are dangerous for animals and undermine states’ ability to pass animal protection laws. 102
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Everyone should see this glorious photo. And, while I'm increasingly avoiding Google search, perhaps we can make this search query trend? www.google.com/m?q=googly+e...google.comGoogle Search 001
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls. 829391162
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026They don't use public transit because they know that busses and trains are full of muggers, perverts and crazies. Which, now that I think about it, suggests that there's some sort of cognitive dissonance at work here. 011
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialChristopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Regardless of what the FDA says, what we learned is that Taylor Farms is a big donor to Piggy's Pac, and how to identify their products, so the takeaway is, never buy any of their products again. Ever. 815531
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Which country is led by zealots who worship a false god? Iran, with its giant banner of the (deceased) Ayatollah Khamenei, or the US, where multiple DC office buildings now bear enormous portraits of our (living) president?reut.rsIran will halt attacks as long as US maintains pause, Iranian source says after Trump calls off strikesThe Pentagon suspended its campaign on Friday after 13 nights of intensifying air strikes. No U.S. attacks were reported on Saturday or Sunday. 011
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Many years ago, a colleague & I often lost work due to an unreliable power outlet. We complained to IT, but nothing happened. My boss bought a long extension cord, draped it over a couple of cubicles, and connected us to a different outlet. The *real* problem was unreliable power, not IT. 051
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This ad on Google's YouTube hypes Google's new...well, I think it's their new all-AI-all-the-time search interface. The comments are even more brutal than I had expected. My fave: "You got huge balls keeping the comments on" m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6EB...m.youtube.comWhat’s New in SearchYouTube video by Google 000
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Google's Gemini seems to relate to my loathing for the garbage its corporate owners are trying to force feed us. These are all decent alternatives to Google's cluttered, impenetrable, and increasingly useless search results. 000
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars. 11565142724
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I highly recommend this (short) video. It offers refreshingly sane & sweet natured alternative to how youth sports are commonly approached in the US. 000
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is the best summary of Trump's fireworks that I've seen. If you go, the Natl Park Service strongly recommends hearing protection & N95 masks. I'm a sucker for fireworks, but I'll pass. 000
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Paul Fairie's threads about "kids of today" are wonderful. 000
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026On the Titanic, these fools would have made sure the band kept perfect time. 181
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Most of these "simple life abroad" articles seem to feature couples that have buckets of money to facilitate that simple life. Nice to see one that doesn't. The language barrier is not trivial – you won't find many English speakers in smaller Italian towns (unlike, say, the Netherlands). 001
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/06/2026Today, we dive deeply into a similar pattern: The US, backed with billions of dollars in Trump-era federal funding, is pushing to expand the supply of critical metals for the Pentagon and American manufacturers. Paul Sonne, my colleague, visited the mining site. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...nytimes.comTrump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. 212862
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It's so counterproductive. Democrats could move to the right of Pinochet and Republicans & all their media would still portray them as sports & motherhood hating communist child molesters. So why not actually take a stand on something?! 061
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Assuming Affinity applies a 2 & 20 fee structure, these "Middle East investors" would be paying Jared at least $100 million per year to "manage" their money. 001
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Or they could hang a pair of Truck Nutz from the back of a Civic & be done with it. 120
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/ 8292125
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Germany's winning World Cup team in 2014 included *German* players like Lukas Podolski, Jérôme Boateng, Mesut Özil, Sami Khedira, and Miroslav Klose. Maybe diversity works? 131
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I like that they're really committing to this deadpan, dadaist comedy series. They never break character, and the costumes & makeup are wild. I wouldn't have credited the Bezos Post with this sort of subversive genius. 010
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I recall getting a haircut in 2000 from a woman who, hearing I was in telecom, advised me to buy Nortel stock. It was a sure bet because "they're all optical," unlike their rivals. She seemed to pity me when I told her that they were neither "all optical" nor a sure bet. I wonder how she did? 001
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I worked in Dresden in the first post-unification state govt of Saxony ('91). I was German-American kid with a suit from Sears who had strayed into a very weird job. A few months in, some local colleagues took me to a meeting of Demokratischer Aufbruch in Meissen. 121
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The longer term and second-order effects really don't seem to matter to Rep. politicians & their voters. Far more pressing is the certainty that someone (presumably dark-skinned), somewhere, is getting something that they don't deserve. 021
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialPhilip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If I had been a voting adult between 1945-75, I would have been a centrist on economic issues. Now that the pendulum has swung so far to the right (on economic issues), I find myself on the radical left. This illustrates the senselessness of fetishising being a "moderate". 195
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialMolly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future. 5278842553
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialBaumer @mattbirnbaum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026What does an “establishment wall” have to do with it? It’s just regular people. 5161
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Grifters, all the way down. Propublica's work is vital, but I fear Justice will never face real consequences. 000
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialReuters @reuters.com · 04/06/2026Trump unveils $700 million coal support plan using emergency powers reut.rs/4avMwpIreut.rsTrump unveils $700 million coal support plan using emergency powersPresident Donald Trump said on Thursday he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct nearly $700 million to help the U.S. coal industry ship the carbon-intensive fuel to Asia, and power companies to burn it domestically. 81718
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026My college age daughter has told me about the joys of job hunting, & trying to craft resumes & letters so they don't sound like they're AI generated, because that could cause them to be rejected by whatever AI resume screening tool the employer uses. For this, my 401k funds hyperscale datacenters. 1178
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026After the tech bubble of the early 2000s, there was a lot of attention on the frauds & crooks. But what was even more fascinating to me (I was in the industry) was how many senior execs were True Believers, who held onto their stock all the way down, certain that this time was different. 032
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialJoshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 01/06/2026We are seeing significant drops in longterm full-time employment, inflation-adjusted wages, normalised consumer spending, and disposable income, as well as substantial spikes in credit card usage and debt repayment delinquency/default because we are already in a Trump-manufactured recession. 1115
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026You have to draw a clear line in the sand on this issue. If you equivocate, you're tacitly agreeing that trans people deserve persecution – you're just debating about how much abuse they should get. 011
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026You HAVE to focus on the moral & ethical issues; you have to draw clear lines in the sand. Otherwise, you're tacitly agreeing that trans people, immigrants & protesters deserve persecution, & that govt corruption is ok. You're just arguing about how much persecution & corruption there should be. 021
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialbitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026"...when we refuse to demand that they do better, we are in fact letting them off the hook." This is a key point. At the least, you will make Republican legislators own every corrupt choice they make. 021
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Airline ticket prices are surging. A major culprit? Rising jet fuel costs due to Trump's Iran war. But there's also the underlying concentration in the industry. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Less competition makes it easier for the biggest players to price-gouge. 681862579
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/05/2026There's long been debate over the intentions of America's founders about the role of religion.bit.lyDid the founders create a Christian nation? No, but religion did shape their thinkingThere’s long been debate over the intentions of America’s founders about the role of religion. That’s been turbocharged with the approaching 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July Fourth. 309222
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Trying to win elections with bigotry-lite candidates is awesome. You gain nothing, other people suffer and die, and all it costs you is your principles and your soul. Very pragmatic, very adult. 523943
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialNBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 24/05/2026Thirteen new statues are now on display at Freedom Plaza in Downtown D.C., including a founding father known for enslaving hundreds of people.nbcwashington.comStatue of founding father who enslaved hundreds installed at Freedom PlazaThirteen new statues are now on display at Freedom Plaza in Downtown D.C. The National Park Service says the statues depicting prominent American figures are part of the nation’s 250th independent cel... 1811
bitemedeluxe.bsky.social @bitemedeluxe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Yet another "Not The Onion" news story, unfortunately. Imagine what a relief it must have been for MacKenzie Scott to rid herself of this pathetic pile of cringe. But we're all still stuck with him. 000
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/05/2026The UK is going to implement a national trans bathroom ban this week by fiat. archive.ph/aXsWh 36613193
Reposted by @bitemedeluxe.bsky.socialJeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026These are people who think bipartisanship is a goal, not a means. They are incapable of understanding what is actually happening. They cannot comprehend that their "friends on the other side of the aisle" might be fascists. That simply cannot happen in the US. 4282
