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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 18/02/2025

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for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

normal rockwell is a dangerous man who shouldn’t be trusted. i say this at great personal risk

Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

effin cold but also effin pretty

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

maybe folks hate the billions and billions (and billions) spent on building the most annoying industry in history, instead of funding a richer, broader and more equitable education system. billionaires seemingly can’t recognize value in anything unless it’s expensive and innovative and has a fat ROI

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i think a lot of today’s social ills can be traced to a certain set of privileged people becoming enamored with the idea of abstracting the world into design or engineering terms, and believing that doing so offers a unique insight into Actual Reality

i’m speaking into the void here but does anyone happen to have a suggestion for accessing data on old drives from a 2008 and 2014 macbook? data recovery services are crazy expensive and i think the drives are functional, just need a way to interface with them so i can browse some folders

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if i sell my house, at least now i can boost its value by virtue of not being under the airport’s flight paths

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lots of valid criticisms of the graphics, but the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

the 2020s, aka the decade that proved all the alarmists right

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mark my words we’re going to learn elon musk has hundreds of kids

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wonder how the “don’t like it? then leave” folks feel a about this

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guitar pickups are such cool objects imo

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if you encounter someone who actually thinks AI should be used to administrate government, education, air traffic control etc, ask them what they think of the fact that the best models can only multiply 3 x 3 correctly about 97% of the time

surely collapsing tesla’s valuation is a worthy cause and one around which many can rally

Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

i remember when musk was considered a branding genius it’ll be a rough ride for everyone, but i think we’re about to witness one of the great hubristic downfalls in human history

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service.

My probation was up next week.

I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it.

Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know.

And now? Just like that, I’m out.

Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

there is a very different but equivalently dramatic and strident version of the restructuring of the federal apparatus that i would wholeheartedly support. of course the targets and intention differ greatly, but hey, when the whole thing inevitably comes down, so will the aspects that are evil.

Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

between the looming pandemics and the collapse of the federal government, i’m thinking the airline industry as such may not exist for too much longer

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 15/02/2025

The opening paragraph of Philip K. Dick's final novel, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER, belongs in the opening-paragraph hall of fame

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BAREFOOT CONDUCTS Hs seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hun- dred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red, violets are blue

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. Weyoun, a humanoid alien with (ribbed for his pleasure) ears that stretch down near his chin, is pictured. Behind him is a reptilian looking fella with ridges-a-plenty. Weyoun is speaking and mid-sentence. Closed caption reads, "You see, I really like Deep Space 9, and I like you."

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

any chance the uaw can accelerate their plans for a general strike?

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

i knew the movie was prescient, but i never thought we’d end up with actual characters from dr strangelove at the top of our government

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a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12/02/2025

The last time we got Dems to wholeheartedly support social programs was because of the threat of militant labor and global communism. Thus that’s the pragmatic thing to do

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clearly i did something to anger the ice gods

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connely’s first words as ranking member on the oversight subcommittee is to cough into the mic a few times and say ‘excuse me’ so, strong start

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someone on the oversight committee just misspoke and described elon as “igor to engage on twitter” and i feel like that’s a line they should stick with

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i sometimes wonder what i’m doing wrong to get traction on this app, then i remember that everyone i’m reading posts like a thousand skeets (or bloops or whatever you call these) every month, so i may just not be cut out for success

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thinking of turning my shed into a neighborhood tool library…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

there’s plenty to criticize bernie for, but he’s committed to naming what’s happening right now, and has consistently shown more leadership than any democrat at times of crisis. remember when he hosted informative events throughout covid, while campaigning? damn it i’m getting mad about 2016 again

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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

one thing the last year has taught me is that americans generally eat way too many eggs

Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

we should just call the nazi salute the ‘ingraham angle’

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 08/02/2025

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement.

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Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

don't let musk's celebratory hitler salutes fade out with the news cycle. that motherfucker is a fucking nazi and no one should ever shut up about it

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this country was always a racket, it’s only natural the racket becomes a country

organized worker power is the only lever left

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we’re literally up against the villains from robocop, and it’ll be equally satisfying when they meet equally cartoonish ends

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conservative boomers have a funny attachment to the idea that blazing saddles is now considered scandalously offensive “oh you could *never* make that movie today!”