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Dirk Peters

@halfalpine.bsky.social
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Software developer, generalist, and all-around technophile. Prefer long-period groundswell and exfoliating granite batholiths. Jerry take the wheel. 🌺

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.
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Dirk Peters @halfalpine.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We stan.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Princess Bride: You Keep Using That Word
ALT: Princess Bride: You Keep Using That Word
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am driven to distraction by how *not angry* so many of my electeds seem. When they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah, what I hear is "This is an interesting intellectual exercise for me." You should be barely able to contain yourself in public.
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Dirk Peters @halfalpine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually."
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
tfw you have no idea that conservatives have been saying since the 1970s that if you have accessible and pleasant comms people, then "objective" journalists are easy to manipulate into thinking power and the disempowered are equal.
a bsky post from Eric Lipton NYT reading: 
One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Tavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Weird how the NYT can presume Trump is grieving, but can never presume he’s lying.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 16/07/2026
dear democrats: anything short of a concerted policy of scorched earth retribution against every one of these criminals, from the president down to the interns betting on Kalshi, means the end of 'the American experiment'
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We should obviously get rid of Daylight Saving Time, but I do think we should keep a twice a year reminder that time is fake. Don’t get attached
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/07/2026
It remains a mystery why Platner has to resign for sexual impropriety and Trump doesn't
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. A guy who shits himself in public and thinks people should drink bleach says it is open. For busy American motorists, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/07/2026
🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You know it's an extremist, partisan court because the opinion here is not 9-0. The Constitution does not leave any room for doubt on this question.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
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Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
PRIORITIES. 🙄
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026
Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
An upset only in the minds of people who DON'T KNOW BALL
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
MY MAYOR MUSLIM MY CONGRESSMAN JEWISH
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Dirk Peters @halfalpine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I can see flaws these rules, but at the same time, these are some of the most are interesting ideas I’ve seen for breaking the cycle of compulsive behavior. How else can we possibly break free? Open to ideas…
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Aaron @aightandsound.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
go knicks go mamdani fuck james dolan
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're used to conservatives claiming people protesting ICE (and getting gassed and beaten and killed for it) are violent mobs. Now HERE's a REAL violent mob - sicced on brown people by Hitler-saluting Elon Musk - and they've been downgraded by the Prestige Press to "protestors." It's too obvious.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
IF YOU ARE STILL IN LINE TO BOO TRUMP, PLEASE STAY IN LINE
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 08/06/2026
Yeah, if the Knicks lose while he's there, I legitimately think it would be the end of the federal government
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6
Elias Irizarry was filmed moving through restricted grounds and climbing through a broken window, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It seems like the fundamental problem is people hate us more than they love America or God.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If Knicks win the title, Mamdani gets to be Mayor for Life. Those are the rules.
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/05/2026
every country has an endemic Type of Old Person, like how the Southern US has “peepaws that set up at the Hardee’s to talk shit”. what is your country’s Endemic Type of Old Person?
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Luke Runyon @lukerunyon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I'm having a hard time believing my eyes with water data this year. The Colorado River mainstem through Grand Junction was flowing at 54 cfs last night. Not a typo. 54 cfs. Last year on this date it was flowing at 1,420cfs. Even in 2002, the driest year on record, it was at 690cfs on April 22.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"There is no Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, or Trump Organization in an era where white collar crime is prosecuted with anything close to the vigor of the lowest-level drug cases in a major US city."
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Ryan @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Something that I’ve noticed in the talk about who the Democratic candidate will be is the lack of any really angry candidate. Yes, the field is usually pretty set by now, but it feels like there’s a huge open lane. So far everyone is playing it safe and measured.
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Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections:

Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again."

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Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired."

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He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

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Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."

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Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
"The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
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