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itsjenren🫘 @itsjenren.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Brighton, Colorado 🇺🇸✊🐸

Protestors standing on a pedestrian bridge

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In terms of fear, today's news probably takes the cake.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is what might be happening to any registered Democrat: You will be flagged by Verizon, Comcast/Xfinity, etc as "potential fraud", your services will be suspended. You now have no way to Multi Factor Authenticate to your work network.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Democrats should play 3D chess and announce they support PRIVATIZING SOCIAL SECURITY.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Conservative WSJ on the affair (Gift Article):https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/annotated-texts-signal-group-chat-8b6b7e8e?st=tAncWB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Pearlmania500 @pearlmania500.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This illegal national security group chat has everything, Houthi bombing plans, JD Vance xenophobia, improper emoji use, the editor of the Atlantic Magazine thinking he got punked, Pete Hegseth day drinking, and MTV’s Dan Cortese.

media.tenor.com

a man is sitting at a desk with his hands folded

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with his hands folded

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Senate and House respond to Hegseth's chat

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

At least they didn't accidently add Elon to Hegseth chat. He would have live-tweeted the whole conversation.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Nice they are taking this issue seriously.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Trump's response when told about national security leak? "What happened? Nobody told me about this" Guess he wasn't checking his Truth Social this morning, because I gifted him the article.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What is worse, the leak or that Trump didn't know about it. Weird, I messaged Trump about it on Truth Social this morning. video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?i...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/03/2025

Disgraceful response. They never take responsibility. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk. He is completely unfit to lead.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Gift article from Conservative powerhouse the National Review on Pete Hegseth's leak. They demand to know who is getting fired. link.nationalreview.com/click/67e1ef...

link.nationalreview.com

So, Who’s Getting Fired for This? | National Review

Accidentally texting war plans to a journalist is clear cause for dismissal.

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

www.instagram.com/p/DHmCkfvqm0...

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Tariffs

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

ngram for simple vs complex is fascinating. (non-political post)

Google ngram chart for simple vs complex, shows break even point around 1971 then spike reversal from 2009-2014

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you are ambivalent about trashing Tesla b/c climate change, remember, a positive side effect, the more we protest, the more the right wing will inadvertently support electric vehicles #TeslaTakedown It is a WIN-WIN!!

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Lori @vandermom.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Stop Elon Musk's hostile takeover of our government! Learn more at: takedowntesla.com

takedowntesla.com

Takedown Tesla!

We are protesting Tesla to stop Elon Musk's hostile takeover of our government!

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23/03/2025

Via mail carrier Bob Frantz

Cartoon depicts a postal worker holding an envelope. Text reads “the post office is a service not a business (just like the police and fire departments!) When they say it needs to turn a profit…Tell them to go fuck themselves”

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

All you need to know about Twitter

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hmmm... chatgpt.com/share/67e092...

Is there an inordinate frequency of transgender persons who are software engineers?
ChatGPT said:
There does seem to be a notably visible presence of transgender people in software engineering and tech more broadly, and this has sparked curiosity from many people. While comprehensive, large-scale demographic data on the exact proportion of transgender individuals in the software engineering field is limited, some patterns and explanations help shed light on this perceived overrepresentation.

Why the perception exists (and may be partly real):
Online and Remote Work Cultures
Tech jobs, especially software engineering, often provide more flexible, remote-friendly environments. For transgender people, this can mean safer, more accepting spaces where gender presentation can be more controlled. This naturally makes tech more appealing.

Meritocratic Emphasis in Hiring
Programming is one of the few fields where demonstrated skill (via GitHub, Leetcode, etc.) can matter more than social capital or traditional credentials. For marginalized groups, including trans people, this offers a clearer path to success.

Neurodiversity Overlap
Some studies suggest a correlation between transgender identity and autism or other forms of neurodivergence. The tech world is also known to attract neurodivergent individuals—due to its structured, logic-driven nature—creating a kind of convergence.

LGBTQ+ Friendly Workplaces
Many big tech firms promote LGBTQ+ inclusion, especially in urban centers like San Francisco, Seattle, and Berlin. These safe environments can lead to a clustering effect.

Online Communities and Transition Resources
The internet has long been a lifeline for transgender people seeking information and community. Early adopters of tech and internet culture sometimes happened to be trans individuals, and some

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Alice Roberts @hjcovitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My son was on hold with SSA for 5 hours on Friday before their phone battery went dead.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/03/2025

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

npr.org

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is important. It's called a learning moment for a member of congress. We need many more. And we will have them.

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