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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hello friends! I just udpated Tempus Dash, my open-source, Raspberry Pi-powered, e-ink dashboard. Now more than a weather monitor, it features new apps, a totally rewritten Python backend, and an improved web interface. Check it out on my GitHub: github.com/cealigbe/tem... #e-ink #raspberrypi

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Say hello to Instadate, a date idea discovery app for couples looking for fun and interesting experiences to do together. This is a little side project that I had been kicking around for a while, and I finally got around to launching it. Check it out at helloinstadate.vercel.app

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

bruv isn't even tired of wearing the wrong-sized shoes for his feet

Secretary Marco Rubio wearing shoes that his boss gave him that are several sizes too big

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Say hello to my new web app, "How Dense Is Your City," a visualization tool that lets you compare the land use in cities around the world. Check it out at chuck.aligbe.com//city-density and read more about it on my blog at chuck.aligbe.com/posts/city-d... #urbanism #urbandesign #howdenseisyourcity

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hey Georgia! There’s an election happening now. Yes, right now! Have you voted yet? If you waited until the last minute, you still have time. Election Day for the Georgia Primary is today, May 19th. Polls close at 7 pm. With so much at stake for our country, this election is more important than ever

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Does Congress know the entire can world sees this? They see this as a metaphor for the US's decline. Our allies see this as a sign to jump ship. Our enemies see it as the time to attack our allies. This man is literally asleep at the wheel after setting the world ablaze, and we let him #impeachment

Donald Trump asleep at an Oval Office briefing

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A few months ago, I designed and built Tempus Dash, a Raspberry Pi-powered e-ink weather display. Developed in Python, Tempus is a lightweight interface that shows the weather and the current time every 10 minutes. If you want to learn more, check out my blog. chuck.aligbe.com/posts/tempus...

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Just keeping it a buck about the results of trickle-down economics #trickledowneconomics #reaganomics #latestagecapitalism

"If you're wondering who took all your money, just look for the [rich] people with all the money." quote by Anat Shenker -Osorio

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@ Target, hiring an "activist" pastor to call for an end to the boycott isn't going to get us back into your stores. Bringing back your DEI initiatives is. #BoycottTarget

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Excuse my wall of text; I have been having a lot of thoughts about how extreme wealth distorts reality, and I wanted to write them down. I felt the text posts would be a better format than a long thread. #eattherich #epsteinfiles #wealthinequality #billionairesshouldnotexist

Billionaires and Freedom: I have been pondering a quote by Peter Thiel for some time now; he said in 2009 that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” And that phrase has been bothering me for so long. Modern democracy, while imperfect, enables and protects so many freedoms – the freedom of movement, freedom of commerce, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to marry, freedom to organize. However, with the anti-democratic events that have transpired in the past year, and the Epstein files revealing the nefarious machinations of billionaires like and including Thiel, things have clicked and his quote finally made sense to me.

"Freedom" to billionaires means something entirely different than what “freedom” means to you, me, and the rest of the 99 percent. The wealth of a billionaire is so vast that it even warps their understanding of time and space. A billionaire CEO can consider a private plane commute between Los Angeles and Seattle normal, while the working class sit in traffic to get to work and struggle to get efficient public transit. “Freedom” for a billionaire is ultimately tied to the only thing that defines them – their money. Thiel and his class see freedom as the ability to more money they can spend in a thousand lifetimes and the ability to spend their money anyway they want without consequence.

A robust democracy would fetter the freedom of the billionaire class to do as they please with their ill-gotten wealth. Billionaires would not be free to buy politicians, elections, or vulnerable children. They would not be able to bribe officials to build useless tunnels and climate-destroying data centers. Billionaires would not be able to influence public opinion with phony think tanks, or pit the working class against each other and against our own best interests. They would just keep the freedoms that democracy already affords them.

The "freedom" of billionaires is antithetical to democracy and the freedoms of us, the 99 percent. This is because a robust democracy requires a shared commitment to society, to one another, to equity and justice. While that commitment is binding, continuing this social contract enables so many freedoms that we the people enjoy and take for granted. The billionaire class does not share this commitment. If they did, they would not have done any of the monstrous deeds that we have learned about this past decade. If they shared this commitment, they would not be billionaires in the first place.

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE serves no purpose other than terrorizing the American people. There is no reforming it. It is time for it to go #abolishICE

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Don't make a deal with a proven fraudster. Trump never pays his debts #greenland

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it #eatcake

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hey, Georgia friends! Are your GA Power bills sky high? Well, you can vote to fix that. Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson are running for the GA Public Service Commission, and they want to make your bills affordable. Make a plan to vote today! #georgiavotes #election2025 #gapsc #govote

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You're telling me this isn't a bit from 30 Rock and is a real television show? #namethattune

a promo image of the show Name That Tune with hosts Jane Krakowski and Randy Jackson

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Unions built the middle class. Unions make America great #uniomstrong

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

If you work for a living, you are working class

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hi Skeeters! I'm Chuck and I am a Twitter refugee. If you followed @cealigbe on Twitter, you've found me on Bluesky. Give me a follow!

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

OMG, I was at the concert too!

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Chuck A @chazzalpha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A truly Christian nation would not be ending aid to the less fortunate, cutting healthcare for the sick, and kicking out refugees fleeing war, but here we are, America...

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