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@lycenae.bsky.social
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Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics. Up to my ass in Alligators on Cestus III. Interested in Politics, Science, Computers, Martial Arts, Video Games, RPGs, almost anything nerdy. Exurbia, Pacific NW. 🇺🇸

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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 2h
There they go again, threatening us with a good time.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 15h
First thing to go when we have a D president again: this embarrassing tchotchke crap-fest. And what’s with the stupid fucking X over the door? Even Arab princes roll their eyes at this temu-royalty display.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is she still calling it A-one?
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the new GOP: do astonishingly illegal things and then wait for the judicial process to catch up 5 years later, only to be thrown out at SCOTUS on a wildly political call.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True. I think “leader of the free world” needs to be retired as a concept. Now that the USA has abdicated the role forever (and it will be forever, because we will never be trusted again as long as we are 10,000 Wisconsin farmers away from the next fascist asshole), it just doesn’t exist.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The GOP is determined to complete our transformation into third-world hell-hole within my lifetime… an awful, spiteful civilization where only a dozen families own everything and everyone else scavenges for food in garbage dumps.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Campaign ads paid for by tax dollars? JFC. I blame the Democrats in 2021 for NOT putting Republicans in jail IMMEDIATELY for Hatch act violations related to using the White House and national monuments for the GOP convention in 2000. We wouldn’t have had to wait 2.5 years for indictments.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We spend twice as much money, but none of that extra cash goes into healthcare. Half of it is just insurance company overhead and the rest is profit margin and the highest salaries on the planet across the board.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ya know… I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, it’s bad that these things can crack open websites. OTOH, our current government won’t let us see anything that is genuinely in the public interest. And if this stuff gets published this way… 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ya know, I think it’s time for some enterprising individuals in state government offer up a web service where users can look themselves up and see if they are (or are not) in the database so they can know if the government will block their mail ballots.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe the head of CMS canceling 750,000 health insurance policies because the holders were in good health and had no claims was the final straw?
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Insanely adorable.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What do you mean, “feels like”?
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honestly, I’m surprised he isn’t trying to do a massive trade deal with North Korea. Sure, their economy isn’t geared for exports (except maybe crappy missile parts and fissile materials), but does your average MAGA know that? 🤔
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Donald Trump Presidential Theater, “where loser Presidents who weren’t high-IQ enough to survive assassination attempts go.”
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump is about to learn the difference between “inside the tent pissing out” and “outside the tent pissing in”.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Microsoft seems to go through these phases where they snap up game companies like crazy, followed by phases where they just burn it all down, unwinding once great studios that they forgot all about in their previous chase to control everything game related. Must be a new EVP in the mix somewhere.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most of those people are likely Republican voters. Good job, assholes.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump was, in fact, an earthquake. But one that mostly devastated the United States, even as it invoked pain on our allies. There is enough bad feeling now about the needless economic tumult caused by Trump that any future administration will be met with skepticism if not latent hostility.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anything to free up more funds for tax cuts targeting wealthy people. Which makes me wonder why they bother: they are perfectly happing putting their tax cuts on the national credit card. So… of all these cuts just seem motivated only by intentional sadism and cruelty.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He’s right. It’s not believable.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Washington State to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is 0-25. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These are lies. I’m shocked he didn’t claim it was all Biden’s fault.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also, I thought we didn’t need anything from Canada? 🤔 Which is it, Donald? Idiot. What he’s done is put $780B of trade with Canada up for grabs to companies in the EU and elsewhere. They were our biggest customer. No longer. The will diversify away from us no matter who is in the White House now.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Belarus has already shot back, claiming that they have no Potash to sell. Trump thinks we’re all morons.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’s trying to find a way to fortify his positions against any attempt at removal. He’s not leaving.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So, are we going to turn ALL of our cultural monuments into military targets for potential adversaries to bomb? What a fucking idiot.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the dumbest MOFO to ever hold the office.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And Donald Trump is sitting on his PAC’s half-billion-dollar war-chest like it was his own personal bank account, not spending a dime to help his own candidates except to run ads with his own face on them. Because of course. Why would they expect any different from him. Stupid is as stupid does.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JFC. This absolute JACKASS doesn’t know we don’t grow bananas here.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026
Thou shalt not demolish the Kennedy Center.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Which only guarantees that Congress will remain out of session until 2027.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It would only be a crisis if Don Jr was a Democrat.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans botch economies. It’s what they do. The last 3 Republican presidents crashed the economy, requiring years for their Democratic successors to clean up the godawful mess. Yet, the GOP always holds a commanding lead in opinion polls regarding handling of the economy. WHY??????
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The most worthless fucking congress in our entire history.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think we’re going to end up with a situation in 2029 where, regardless of who’s president, the rest of the world is likely to keep their retaliatory tariffs on us regardless of what we do, because it behooves them to do everything they can to wean themselves off of American goods ASAP…
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So, how is this supposed to work exactly? Most American multinationals employ more foreigners than Americans. Are they supposed to fire 50% of their employees now because we can’t trade with other countries?
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing to remember here is not that USG bonds are going to junk status over the long run: it’s the P/E multiples of the stock market. Markets with vast amounts of un-punished insider trading see their average P/E multiples crumble. Because investors know they will eventually get fucked.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is what happens when ignorant assholes run important departments and sane people have to find a way to keep him from doing stupid things while simultaneously keeping their jobs and not pulling out all of their hair.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They call them “data centers” because “mass surveillance infrastructure” would go over even less well.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If Biden had so much as yawned, there would be a firestorm on Fox News and Jake Tapper would call for the 25th.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I guess if Paris Hilton starts posting about the Higgs Boson she will also be on the charts of the 100 most influential particle physicists. 🙄
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s also a giant money grab: tickets range from 25K to 100K per head in the delegation depending on the position of the seat. All so that they can get up on stage and shower the old buzzard in the audience with obsequious praise at exactly the time that most of them want little to do with him.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Confirmed, in the USA at least. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Ridiculous. The rest of the world gets to see the truth, but us? Nope. I hope we find a way to fine them for inaccurate maps after 2029.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I literally have images in my head now of a 35 y/o woman charging around the White House in sweat pants and sneakers with a printer on her back to show him this stuff. Crazy times. And the idea that Dolly would be best pals and chums with orange pedo isn’t even the strangest thing I’ve heard today.
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RJB @lycenae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JFC. Why can’t the orange turd just take a day and STFU? Just one day. That’s all I ask. He just can’t do it.
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