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David Oscar Knuttunen

@doknuttu.bsky.social
364 followers 147 following 922 posts

Socialist, retired structural engineer, half-assed amateur jazz musician, occasional poet, husband to a wonderful woman, and father of three awesome daughters. Probably more than you need to know, but who cares?

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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Home is the place where, with the passage of time, you’ve managed to organize most things more-or-less the way you like them. #home #homesweethome
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Any wind is a tailwind To a tumbleweed
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE = Trump Death Squads #ICE #murder
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I meant to type a comment “Threatening us with a good time” But my fat fingers typed “tome”, instead of “time” and I thought “That works, too!” #books #poem #micropoetry Long lines may break unintentionally.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Photo of fireworks, with the superimposed words: "250 Years!! Good year for an IMPEACHMENT"
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Donald Trump with a crown and bundles of cash, with the words “Stop the corruption” and “King Grifter” superimposed.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
But ONLY when the evidence is compelling. Doubt without reason is to be rejected.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Common sense includes throwing out what used to seem common sense when new evidence is compelling.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Scorched earth. Scorched sky. Scorched planet. Drowning in oil and blood. Covered with dust, debris, and the dead. I read the news, today. Oh, boy.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A perhaps inevitable side effect of being very smart is thinking that most people are a little stupid. This happens to be a side effect of being stupid, also.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
He’s still trying. He’s got three more years. At least.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Well, Pam, the Dow’s not at 50,000, now. Can we talk about the Epstein files?
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
She’s such a hypocrite. She needs to get her fucking head out of the sand. I know at least one Democratic Massachusetts voter who is never voting for her again.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Trump puts his name on buildings the way a little dog pisses on hydrants.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Overuse, I suppose.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Corrupt
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Getting ready to put my long, red woolies on as I read this…
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It’s also a sign that they have no loyalty. MAGAs be warned. Trump will NOT have your back.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
work If I had a hundred million dollars I wouldn’t do any work again that wasn’t done for love #poem #micropoetry #poetry
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Vs “They are doing exactly what they are intended to do: spreading mayhem, violence, and terror.” Except “terror” depends on the people giving in. So far, so many courageous Minnesotans seem to resisting that.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
He doesn’t mention how HIS net worth doubled since being president, thanks to all those emoluments, ‘n stuff.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
So far as ICE is concerned, NOBODY has any rights they are bound to respect. This neo-Taneyite SCROTUS seems inclined to back them.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Experts in dealing with children”. Yeah. So is their pedophile boss.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Stolen valor seems to be his “thing”.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They don’t think brown people are human. Or probably Canadians for that matter.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The laws we like to produce the order we want. The rest of you be damned.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
She was hoping you wouldn’t notice that…
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Board of Pieces
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
People who don’t realize that to the actual “we’s” they are not a “we”.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Shaking before the powers of their imagined gods.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“sustained by ideology rather than might”. Lol ok.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Why the fuck do we need COMPETING password managers? The fucking iPhone has become useless for opening paywalled news sites.
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Rob LaRocque @roblarocque.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just read it. OMFG
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Interesting to write as if “unjustified” is less of an offense than “unauthorized”. Does the Honorable Mr. Markey think this is a game of “Simon Says”?
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Without sanctions, yes it is.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“Kidnap”. The word is “kidnap”. This isn’t a game of “Capture the Flag”. This a willful and illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, and abduction of its Head of State, on the most transparently flimsy of pretexts.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Apparently he has a constitutional right to protect the people obeying his illegal orders.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Good ol’ Woody. All these damn fascists ARE bound to lose.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Here’s the “Murrican” version…
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Thank you. I hope I do get better. But the waking hallucination I thought was kind of fascinating. Don’t remember doing that before.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
John Dewey’s “Experience and Nature”
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Sick in bed all day, verging between sleep and awake, dreams melding into hallucination, where I’m aware of things actually in the room, but equally of phantasms from my mind.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I’ve heard Trump described as a “strongman” in the political sense of an authoritarian or dictator. But he’s not a strong man. He’s a weak man playing strongman. And he’s backed by people who, for their own varied reasons, are willing to enable him. I doubt a single one respects him.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Anyway, you inspired me to disable automatic iOS updates on my phone. Still at 18-point-something, but 26 was waiting in the wings. Don’t need it.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
We need to be clear. ICE agents are only nominally “federal agents”, and they certainly are not “law enforcement”. What they are, in fact, are agents of the MAGA ethnic cleansing program. #crime #ICC #hate #racism #ICE #MAGA
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
But I totally agree with you about the industry’s love of UI thrashing. Every small improvement comes at the cost of a hundred WTFs, and at BEST another learning curve. Pointless bells and whistles to justify their existence.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I actually don’t use an external keyboard. I use the 12” Pro mostly for sheet music using an app called “unrealBook”, onscreen keybd for song selection, pencil for markups. 2ndary use research/reading using Books and Notes. And a solitaire game, lol.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
This is bad news coming when I desperately need to buy a new iPad b/c my Gen 2 iPad pro that I use everyday is finally about to give up the ghost.
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David Oscar Knuttunen @doknuttu.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
“Do as we say, not as we do” should be the Republican Party’s official motto.
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