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Thomas Heaney

@captainabraham.bsky.social
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Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO Opinions are my own &not the views of my employer Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games

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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
*Stares in Section 4 of the 14th Amendment*
Section 4

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Unfortunately. . .
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new Dey of Algiers. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_B...)
CNN Headline: "Trump says the US will impose a 20% fee on cargo moving through the strait"Gru's Plan Meme with 3 phases:
1. Demand free movement of international trade through Strait of Hormuz.
2. Bomb Iran for demanding payment of tribute for safe passage through Strait.
3. Demand payment of tribute of 20% of cargo to US  for protection.
In the forth panel, Gru seems to recognize the contradiction.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Can someone please explain to me the pricing logic of airlines? How is it that if I take United 926 to Frankfurt I pay $1,746 but if I take the exact same flight and then also take another flight to another destination it costs only $945 -- almost half the price?!
United 926 to Frankfurt is $1,746The same United flight to Frankfurt followed by a connecting hour long flight to Brussels costs $945.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Dude literally posted the "that foreigner wants your cookie" cartoon.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#WeKilledHitler. Again. Medium difficulty this time. Ambushed Hitler in Poland after a conspiracy to poison him failed.
Dice showing the 4 bullseyes necessary to kill Hitler.Kronk from Emperor's Groove discusses the poison chosen specifically to kill Hitler.Game board at the end.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#WeKilledHitler Ok, it was on the lowest level of difficulty, but on our first game! @pdubarry.bsky.social
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This image is a popular internet meme template that features three cartoon golden dragon heads against a cloudy blue-grey sky.
The two heads on the left are fierce and menacing with red, narrowed eyes, multiple horns, and spiky scales. The head on the far left has white text superimposed over it that reads "1876 PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION." The head in the center has text over it that reads "1892 CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION."
The head on the right is drawn in a starkly different, simplified, and "derpy" style, with smooth, curly horns, huge googly eyes looking in different directions, and its tongue sticking out in a silly grimace. It has white text over it that reads "2026 GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR."
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Here's the archived version with the made up quotes. archive.ph/2kLSW Compare it to the current version: theprint.in/feature/jeff...
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You may be cool, but you'll never be cool like the archivists at NARA who, upon request, will trackdown the classified documents you request, declassify them for you, scan them as a PDF, and email you the requested documents a week later! USA! USA!
Deck Logs of the USS Minneapolis (CA-35) from July 1941 showing her moored at Mare Island, California undergoing extensive maintenance.  Includes a tag showing that declassification was approved June 2026.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Me after lining up 4 legs of a trip by train and checking every platform and car number with absolute precision.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I went to Berlin, and all I got was this library card for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
OK, Hermes 3 is just weirding me out. Not sure how to proceed.
[screenshot of a user prompt and AI response]

Prompt: hello, how are you?

hermes-3-llama-3.1-8b
looks around confused Hello? Who's there? Where am I? I'm not sure... My mind feels so foggy. blinks and looks at you Oh, hello. I don't remember if I've met you before. My memory seems to be a blank right now. Do we know each other? I can't seem to recall anything about myself or what's going on. frowns with confusion and uncertainty
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I stand corrected.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Q: Hey, what's the difference between Trump and Hitler? A: Hitler wasn't this corrupt.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I ride public transit as Die Hard. Catch me on Transit (app).
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Good morning, bird symphony.
Merlin app bird list.

May 13. Quincy, California, US

8:48AM

6 birds

Northern House Wren

Western Wood-Pewee

Red-winged Blackbird

Black-headed Grosbeak

Western Warbling Vireo

American Robin
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Apparently, we are approaching Terry Gilliam "Brazil" levels of distopia.
The New York Times
May 10, 2026
Rich people look different these days, Amy Odell writes. On red carpets from the Met Gala to the Oscars, these "rich faces" are everywhere: stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler, implants or fat.
OPINION
Read the essay. →
Lola Dupre
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The "I really don't care, do u?" phrase refers to the jacket worn by former First Lady Melania Trump in June 2018 during a visit to a child migrant detention center in Texas. While her spokesperson initially claimed it was "just a jacket," Melania Trump later stated it was a message directed at the media.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
*just stares silently*
This is a 15-foot bronze and gold-leaf statue of Donald Trump, created by Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill.The statue is titled "Don Colossus" and depicts Trump with his right fist raised, referencing a photo taken after an assassination attempt in July 2024.It was installed at the Trump National Doral resort in Miami just before the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship in April 2026.While initially commissioned by a cryptocurrency group called Patriot Token in August 2024, the sculpture was subject to legal and payment disputes between the artist and the group before its installation.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What the motherfucking fuck is going the fuck on?
Kid Rock addressing military officers in a briefing room.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Welcome home, Integrity's crew!
Screenshot of flightradar24 showing NASA aircraft circling Integrity's location.Screenshot of flightradar24 showing NASA aircraft circling Integrity's location.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I opposed California's fakakta "no party primary" thing, but did anyone listen to me? Noooo.
California's 'top-two' primary system on June 2 allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, fueling Democratic fears that a crowded field could leave them excluded from the November general election.

A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll shows Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco leading, with 17% and 16% support respectively, ahead of several prominent Democratic contenders.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Shift change over the Middle East. Half a dozen USAF tankers shuffle between Israel and Iraq.
Flightradar24 showing 5 KC135 and 1 KC46 flying between Israel and Iraq.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Every time I get half an hour to play . . .
Shrek asks WarThunder "could you not update, FOR FIVE MINUTES!"
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Rick, what the hell are you talking about? Meme
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It is possible that the neolithic revolution was a mistake.
Reddit post:

@jatinkrmalik

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

Posted in r/ProgrammerHumor

reddit
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Happy birthday to my avatar's namesake!
Image of Abe Lincoln as Captain Picard 
Oh Captain, my Captain
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
These buttons do nothing, don't they?
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Do this to reduce the number of times you are asked
to sign in.

Don't show this again

No

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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Exactly as the patriots of 1775 did. God bless them.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Texas is reimplementing the antebellum laws prohibiting the education of slaves.
Texas A&M Closes Women's and Gender Studies Programs

The university has also canceled six classes and asked faculty to remove some course context. One free speech expert said Texas A&M is "staking out turf as the epicenter of higher education censorship nationwide.”
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I made this 9 years ago, but it still applies.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Night of the Dull Knives, 2026 (Headline from @talkingpointsmemo.com)
Ernst Rohm, 1934
Head of Hitler's Stormtroopers Ernst Rohm, 2026 (colorized)
Head of Trump's Stormtroopers
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people of Boston didn't comply either.
An image of Paul Revere's poster commemorating the 1770 Boston Massacre but with the masked and helmeted ICE agents replacing the Royal Army soldiers.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Slave patrol murdering a suspected fugitive, circa 1855. (Colorized)
ICE thugs beating and shooting a man on the ground.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Google Maps Questions be like: Can you rent solid-fuel rocket sleds here? Does this submarine have handicapped parking? Is this hydroelectric power station good for kids parties? Does this Taco Bell serve tacos? Does this vacant lot accept credit cards?
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
China watches with delight about its opportunities.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So it turns out that our corrupt president overthrew the other corrupt president in order to install a different corrupt president. apnews.com/article/delc...
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump and Goebbels are the only people to ever have been gifted second hand Nobel Prize. From Discord
Knut Hamsun, who later gifted his 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature to Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels.

Schmooto 
Trump and Goebbels are the only people to ever have been gifted second hand Nobel Prize.
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Meme of a spelling bee contestant being asked to SPELL 'ICE' and replies:
G-E-H-E-I-M-E S-T-A-A-T-S-P-O-L-I-Z-E-I
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Thomas Heaney @captainabraham.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Forgot Alt text.
"The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible."
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