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Mazen Tonkey

@mazentonkey.bsky.social
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I never know what to put here. I'm a computer programmer with occasional irregularity, a fondness for prog rock and good books, and a talent for annoying my wife. Physics and history, yay! Astrology and conspiracy theories, boo! I don't answer DMs.

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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
That about sums it up, eh?
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
San Antonio Wax Museum takes down Trump display after people kept punching it. It's the little things that make me happy.
nbcnews.com
Texas museum removes Trump wax figure after visitors kept attacking it
"Political figures can be a little bit more polarizing," a company spokesperson said.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Definitely me when it comes to programming.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
It's all good. This is just what the founders wanted.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Well, shit. I agree with Mike Pence. Didn't see that one coming.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If your idea of fixing racial discrimination and injustice in the world begins and ends with the cause of rich Afrikaners in South Africa losing portions of their land to eminent domain, maybe your motives aren't as pure as you make them sound.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#nerdjokes
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover." -- Neil Postman Looking around social media sites, it does feel that someone somewhere decided that thinking was no longer "cool".
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Ann Marie Ivins @calicopossum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Could have had this guy.
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Ann Marie Ivins @calicopossum.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Is Somebody Doing Something?! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
open.substack.com
Is Somebody Doing Something?!
Yes. Let me break it down for you.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'd like to see Trump take one.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
And we should all be well disturbed.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Apparently, we're invading Gaza soon? Still not sure if that's before or after we take over Panama, Greenland, and Canada. I need a beer.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Mostly Harmless
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Yeah, not a very convincing point....
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're back in the loop....
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Caption, "How Tariffs Work", above a political cartoon of Donald Trump urinating toward an electric fan (labeled with the Canadian maple leaf), which blows the urine stream up into his face.  (Am I doing the Alt Text right?  lol)
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#NerdJokes
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Canada is ready for a trade war. “We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin,” Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, Canada’s largest province, threatened on Wednesday evening.
cnn.com
Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to the United States | CNN Business
Canada could retaliate against President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs by shutting down energy flows to the United States, a top Canadian official warned.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Social Media Post

CNBC: Boeing is working with Elon Musk to deliver Air Force One replacements sooner
Response:  thrilled by this super of boeing + elon musk + a rush job
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/01/2025
A Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned by President Trump and released from prison last week is being sought on preexisting charges in Texas of soliciting a minor online.
nytimes.com
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Sought for Charges of Soliciting Minor
Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty to attacking the police outside the Capitol, was just released from prison. He is being sought for charges in 2016 of soliciting a 17-year-old online for sex.
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Axios @axios.com · 28/01/2025
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is "taking a serious look" at running for the Michigan senate seat left open by the surprise retirement of Sen. Gary Peters, Axios has learned.
axios.com
Pete Buttigieg taking "serious look" at Michigan Senate race in 2026
The former transportation secretary is exploring his options.
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𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕕𝕠 @sounddiscoveries.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#ProgressiveRock #ProgRock
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
He should have been more "peaceful" and "loving", I guess.
bbc.com
Matthew Huttle: January 6 defendant killed by police days after Trump pardon
The man was one of nearly 1,600 people pardoned last week for their roles in the 2021 riot at the US Capitol.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The Nazis are getting a little too comfortable these days.
northpennnow.com
Towamencin supervisor going viral for TikTok video mimicking alleged Nazi salute a la Elon Musk at inauguration
Mimicking the motions made at the inauguration, Supervisor Laura Smith is facing backlash from not only the North Penn community, but also thousands on Reddit, Facebook, and X.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
That was a no-brainer. We'll see what kind of mood the Supreme Court is in now.
cnn.com
Judge blocks Trump’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to block it.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Mississippi State Senate Bill 2319: The Contraception Begins at Erection Act.
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
#NowPlaying Legendary prog rock album Tubular Bells. Part 1 in the link. So good.
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Tubular Bells (Pt. I)
YouTube video by Mike Oldfield - Topic
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed. Her piece here: bit.ly/3Pk1g07
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Weather map of southern US.  Text:  "We never had blizzard warnings from the Gulf of Mexico.  The Gulf of America sucks."
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Mazen Tonkey @mazentonkey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just what the country needed.
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