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Chris J

@cpj1.bsky.social
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DevOps, IT, coding, cloud computing, scaling/performance, security, databases, metadata, movies/music, cowboy boots, road trips. He/Him

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10h
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 11h
Looks good.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 13h
All of the percentages in Star Trek: The Next Generation.... ....in ascending order!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
washingtonsun.com
Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...
theringer.com
From ‘MILF Island’ to ‘The Rural Juror’: Inside the Fake World of ‘30 Rock’
Nothing explains the greatness of the NBC sitcom—which premiered 20 years ago—like its TV, movie, and song parodies. “They were a treat to write,” says Tina Fey.
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 22h
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
nytimes.com
Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h
When your PR sounds like a one shot story on what Lex Luthor is doing after he kills Superman.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
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Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mine was httpd_can_relay.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, no, keep going….
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Man Bartlett @manbartlett.com · 06/10/2026
desired: CYNDI LAUPER'S PERSONAL CASSETTE TAPE COLLECTION up for auction www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2409523...
A photo of Cyndi Lauper’s cassette tape collection on a white background. Some real gems in here including The The, The Beatles, Dylan, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Sinead O’Connor, Tracy Chapman, Pink Floyd, DEVO, Neil Young and so many more. Looks like 231 tapes total (7 columns by 33 rows)
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i don't think this is a wise decision and i think the Pentagon's own experts on preventing violent extremism would agree
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Just constantly indulging the most entitled people while demanding poor prove they’re actually human.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They’re going to make a really awkward episode of “Teen Titans Go!” to explain corporate mergers.
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floyding @floyding.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
😍😍😍
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
reuters.com
Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026
Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Putin killed 16 people last night but it’d be rude to ignore his birthday
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.
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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 07/10/2026
Strib biting super-fucking-hard on linking everything, even an isolated alleged mass attack plan, to ”Somali gangs.” Played like a violin.
The terrorism charges come amid renewed concerns over gang violence in the Twin Cities between rival factions in the Somali community. Two recent shootings involving Somali teens as victims or suspects have left some in law enforcement calling for a regional task force to address gang activity while cautioning that the violence is stemming from a small number of people in the community.
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You ever hear about how Dianetics has remained a bestseller for 75 years? Yeah.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A good story from Reuters about why you should be skeptical of the claim that #Tesla FSD saves lives. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
reuters.com
Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Decompiling closed source software using Claude into non-functional open source software is not how this shit works but more to the point if I go to a project’s website that purports to be about this shit and see “Pricing” that’s a huge red flag.
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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if you aren’t otherwise familiar, bobby kotick is the guy who drank an employee’s breast milk out of the office fridge.
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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
apnews.com/article/resc...
apnews.com
Orphaned kittens meet sharks and stingrays on an aquarium field trip at the Mall of America
Rescue kittens with names like Turkey Leg and Mouth Trap got to explore the aquarium at the Mall of America in Minnesota, watching in awe as fish soared by just out of reach.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol
With Talarico now the slight favorite in the race, national Republicans have flooded Texas' airwaves with commercials to save Paxton's flagging campaign. That makes sense. Any Texan who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks already knows that Talarico is "for they/them" and seen the ad where a Latino boy gets hit with a Transgenderification Beam and turns into a beautiful woman. But much of the nation was confused about why they, non-Texans, were seeing this stuff while trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles-Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
he created a SAP???
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 07/10/2026
Delta and Air Canada planes collide on taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport
latimes.com
Delta and Air Canada planes collide on taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport
A Delta Air Lines plane collided with an Air Canada aircraft at LAX Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Go.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sinclair- the absolute worst owner of local TV stations in the country- has a *news* thing on substack hosted by a Liberty Univ grad & former GOP staffer who *reported* for Dr. Phil's now defunct web site? That'll be a hot mess of MAGA bullsh*t. www.axios.com/2026/10/06/s...
axios.com
Exclusive: Sinclair launches national news brand on Substack
It's a huge bet for the family-controlled local news giant as it looks to build trust and loyalty among users beyond the TV screen.
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeremy Herbert
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@DDayFilms
[George Lucas, driving away from Taco Bell]
Beenba Rito
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I laughed at this.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
School superintendent shows off the school’s terrible plumbing in order to secure funding to fix it. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
mprnews.org
Show-and-tell: How Montevideo schools convinced voters to increase taxes after failing 3 times
Big changes are coming to the schools in the small central Minnesota city of Montevideo after voters passed a $42 million bond referendum earlier this year. The money will be used to fix up and add on...
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Me: So… Hal Jordan keeps the boots on. Friend: Don’t ruin this finale for me. #Lanterns
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They did not think this through.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Microsoft in 1997:
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Teays Valley School District in Ohio needs more funds to better serve its students. Yet, the school district still voted in favor of 30+ years of property tax breaks for Anduril. Incredible story by @tkbarnes.bsky.social about how weapons companies are literally taking money from needy schools.
inkstickmedia.com
An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In rural Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As we close in on the midterms, a friendly reminder to check your voter registration status early and often, but ONLY on the state websites. Those third-party databases might be accurate, but you're gonna be passing along a lot of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) to whoever manages them.
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gold-plated Cybertruck TRICARE fraud. (Yeah, I’m just typing in buzzwords) taskandpurpose.com/news/tricare...
taskandpurpose.com
Multi-million dollar TRICARE fraud bought a gold-plated Cybertruck and casino parties
A mental health clinic owner used military beneficiaries in a $26 million TRICARE fraud scheme that funded a gold-plated Cybertruck.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 05/10/2026
translation: "The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of my personal fortune"
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Chris J @cpj1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This week's NPR's Weekend Edition had a good story covering Miranda Lambert. www.npr.org/programs/wee...
npr.org
Weekend Edition Saturday for October 3, 2026
Hear the Weekend Edition Saturday program for Oct 03, 2026
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