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PixelJones

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Technologist, coder, interested in tech/culture intersection, pixel art, pulp art, idea films #Futurism #Tech #Coder #PixelArt #PulpArt #VintageNeon #Neon […] [bridged from mindly.social/@PixelJones on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Right-wing "genius" #BenShapiro: "I know how to win #CultureWars! Let's trick a beloved 80+ year-old Latino actor into making a PRO-ICE movie and lock him into a contract that WON'T LET HIM LEAVE the project or TALK ABOUT IT." #DannyTrejo's son, however, IS FREE TO SPEAK OUT. Hollywood should […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
This guy is BEYOND IMPRESSIVE: Former 6th round NFL draft pick "sneaks off" and finishes his PhD in Math from MIT on his downtime from football and becomes full math professor at MIT _after_ concussions sideline his athletic career. He just made news for solving a long-standing […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Make Miners Cough Up Their Lungs Again #DJT's rollback of protections and promotion of "Clean Coal" is bringing back worst levels of Black Lung since 1970s www.npr.org/2026/08/05/nx-s1-589488… #Coal #Workers #Miners #ProtectWorkers
Graph of percent of Mine Workers with Black Lung by Years Worked
It shows that workers at every experience level getting diagnosed with Black Lung at 1980s levels (35% of workers w/ 25 years or more of experience), more than double the rates in the 2000s.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-86…
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
For #ProjectHailMary fans: Scientists have found an amoeba that survives and reproduces at RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES up to 63 C or 145 F. Not Astrophage but might feel kind of at home on Eridani. #science #microbiology Found in thermal hot springs creek in California. Link to paper in comments.
Illustration from scientific paper showing the replication and motility range of temperatures (42C to 63C) for hottest-surviving amoeba found in geothermal hot springs creek in California.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Animated 3D model reconstructions of Henry T. Brown’s 507 Mechanical Movements (1908). 507movements3d.com #Machines #mechanics #mechanical #engineering
One page of mechanisms 31 to 39 in 1900's drafted illustration style overlaid with one  color 3D model of mechanism 39.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@futurebird You could argue that a better analogy is evolution because "recursive self-improvement" begs the improving relative to what? Same as "survival of the fittest" begs the question fittest for what? Once RSI improves/optimizes to a local maximum on whatever dimension it is maximizing […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Terrific video essay: How could Fascists love Supwrman, Star Trek & Star Wars yet think they have suddenly "gone woke?" youtu.be/lyrlfvAN-kA
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
@deivudesu @Hex For the slow kids (i.e. Capitalist apologists) in the back of the class, you're saying (rightly) WE are the horses getting replaced in the analogy. Or, at the very least we are the carriage drivers/stable men in the analogy. Sure, some of those jobs carried over but not […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
Jellyfish Dancers #AIArt by @PixelJones using #ArtspaceAI Prompt: photorealistic surreal vivid scene of organic hybrid jellyfish women dancing wildly in shallow water at sunset on the beach, laughing and turning toward the camera, jellyfish headwear, eyes […] [Original post on mindly.social]
Hybrid jellyfish women dancing wildly in shallow water at sunset on the beach, laughing and turning toward the camera, jellyfish headwear, eyes glowing with soft inner light, translucent gowns, and glowing tentacle hair, intricate inner lights and bioluminescent detailHybrid jellyfish women dancing wildly in shallow water at sunset on the beach, laughing and turning toward the camera, jellyfish headwear, eyes glowing with soft inner light, translucent gowns, and glowing tentacle hair, intricate inner lights and bioluminescent detailHybrid jellyfish women dancing wildly in shallow water at sunset on the beach, laughing and turning toward the camera, jellyfish headwear, eyes glowing with soft inner light, translucent gowns, and glowing tentacle hair, intricate inner lights and bioluminescent detailHybrid jellyfish women dancing wildly in shallow water at sunset on the beach, laughing and turning toward the camera, jellyfish headwear, eyes glowing with soft inner light, translucent gowns, and glowing tentacle hair, intricate inner lights and bioluminescent detail
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@gedeonm/1169412787… What a fool and what a waste: #TexasFlood has caused #GregAbbott 's "Flood-proof" $96 million "floating border wall" boondoggle to break up & HUNDREDS of ONE-TON buoys are barreling toward bridges near Laredo. #Texas #Trump […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
FUN and eye-opening: How tech firms & tech policy have rigged everything from Social Media, Cars, Medical Equipment, Farming & Food ... and HOW WE CAN FIX IT. ** Best conversation you'll hear this week ** @pluralistic #righttorepair @eff youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
Great news for #RIGHTTOREPAIR! Consumers have successfully won the right to fix their own (often hugely expensive) #JohnDeere equipment. For decades, Deere has held an IRON GRIP on repair and modification of farm equipment, equating owners attempting to tweak, repair or reverse-engineer products […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
@sewzinski.bsky.social Hah. Yeah, hard to tell but the thumb is grossly swollen compared to the other fingers. (FYI: My dad was a zookeeper/herpetologist and was bitten twice by Texas rattlers. The last time by a baby no bigger than your little finger. He survived, thankfully.)
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Cutaway Clockworks #AIArt by Stephen Jones using Artspace Aside: I like to clarify that while I thoroughly embrace and support human-made art as the irreplaceable soul of culture, I also enjoy the idle hobby of AI art. I accept the inherent contradiction and […] [Original post on mindly.social]
Robot ballerina cutaway to show internal mechanism of gears, cylinders, and wires on a blueprint background.Robotic hand holding a red rose cutaway to show internal mechanism of gears, cylinders, and wires on a blueprint background.Robot duck cutaway to show internal mechanism of gears, cylinders, and wires on a blueprint background.Robot rabbit cutaway to show internal mechanism of gears, cylinders, and wires on a blueprint background.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
@unnick Another good reference: gameprogrammingpatterns.com/spatial… For completeness, it includes discussion of BSP (binary space partitioning) and hierarchical partitioning.
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Spatial Partition · Optimization Patterns · Game Programming Patterns
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
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Harry Rasmussen @harryrasmussen.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
@unnick I imagine you'd want to a spatial hashing algorithm as frequently used in game or physics simulation collision detection. For your application, you'd define a spatial hashing that classifies points into strips perpendicular to your direction line. Then, you'd process your strips in […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
West Trenton (Ewing), NJ, 2015 All the pixels, each semi-transparent, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/210… #photography
An early 20th century passenger train station, with an awning over the platform, across tracks. A blurred train streaks by in foreground.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
@mattblaze That's easily one of the most artful train images I've ever seen. It really captures the whoosh and immediacy of being trackside.
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Daniël Franke :panheart: @ainmosni.ainmosni.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.
A poster with a no-AI logo, a logo for "Thomas House" in Dublin city, with the tagline "Passion not Fashion". The post has the following written as text:

So for the future (literally) we're not accepting AI posters or flyers for the pub.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

We understand bands can be skint, but relying on some earth killing app from some paedo island billionaire is not the way. We got by without it and we'll get by again.

If you're stuck we'll help.
Yes it has been used here before but consider this the start of the end of it.

Thanks, Humans.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
First time seeing the first postage stamp, called the "Penny Black" I couldn't help seeing "MonepennyH" Does anybody else see that and think of the character "Miss Moneypenny" in James Bond? Nothing on the Internet backs this up, mind you. Wikipedia says […] [Original post on mindly.social]
Image of first postage stamp known as the "Penny Black"
Portrait in profile of young Queen Elizabeth
White engraving on black background.
Two upper corners are two small white squares with Maltese crosses.
Between them is the word "POSTAGE"
Bottom corners are white squares with capital letters  M and H
Between them are the words "ONE PENNY"
So, the bottom row looks like "MONE PENNYH"
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
House of EL (PhD computer science) has a terrifically clear explanation of this idiotic Claude ban: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4nFEQb7kZo The military establishment is freaking out that the same AI that corporations are promoting to WRITE and FIX code can also be used to HACK code […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
@ChrisPirillo Took me a minute 😆 "Cameron Diaz"
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
WATCH THIS if you care about AI DATACENTER WATER USE. Spoiler: Is it worth worrying about? YES. Is it a CATASTROPHE waiting to happen? Not necessarily. AI ELECTRICITY USE, on the other hand... #AI #AIImpact #datacenter youtu.be/H_c6MWk7PQc
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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
RE: universeodon.com/@tafnn/11662107217… “You think I'm gonna take a f—ing dime from Trump and the government after he's using this thing to cover him and his family in perpetuity for all of their crimes?” he told Cronkite News by phone. “You think I'm gonna take a dime of that […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
The hideous monument to Trump's ego appears at 58s in the video. If you can't wait that long, here's the rendering of the awful abomination.
Road leading to Arlington National Cemetery with rendering of proposed ARCH de  TRUMP, a massive white arch with huge gaudy winged statues that looms 100 feet over the road and completely blots out the view of the historic cemetery, its buildings and gravestones.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
PUBLIC SERVICE: Have you recently swallowed POISON and need to induce vomiting? WATCH THIS VIDEO to see the VOMITOUS eyesore that is the proposed ARCH de TRUMP that will BLOT OUT the entire serene view of Arlington National Cemetery. Who does this honor? Who's it for? Trump says only "ME." […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
Someday we will ALL laugh at this ... but right now 1/3rd of us don't see the joke. #DJT #GoldenIdol #CultofDonald
Preacher at podium, leading prayer before dedication of Trump's golden statue. Large statue with arm upraised in a fist. Statue draped in white and blue covering.
Three speech bubbles superimposed:
1) Statue bubble: "Waah. My Golden Idol isn't Golden enough" - DJT (actual complaint)
2) Bubble over pastor: "As we prey at the feet of this Golden Idol ... Let me be clear: This is _not_ a Golden Calf." - Pastor (actual tweet)
3) Bubble pointed at men in suits under statue: "We're not a cult. If we were a cult would think it was normal to sit at the feet of a 22' Golden Idol?"
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
RE: thepit.social/@peter/11654628328114… Beyond embarrassing: Pastor: "I'm praying over this Golden Idol but but it is in no way idolatry, I promise." White men in suites: "Amen. We're not in a cult of white men" Trump: (True story) "I'm furious because it isn't solid gold. I […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
#Iran #IranWar #LindseyGraham #OccupyDemocrats
Pictures: George Conway (left), Lindsey Graham (right)
Lindsey Graham: "If we can take back control of the Strait of Hormuz, it is checkmate.
George Conway: "Interesting. This must be a new kind of chess where you compete to put the pieces back where they were before you smacked them off the board."
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Anne @annecavicchi.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
Things that make you go hmmmm 🤔 Satire at its finest.
An image of Trump with the words, “Iran agrees to end war only if there is a regime change in U.S.”
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026
Too funny. This is a hilarious response to Richard Dawkins waxing poetic about the intelligence and depth of his AI "friend" who he gendered female. @mattsheffield 's response: Dawkins: "Though a complex organism appears to be like a watch that can only have been intentionally designed by a […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
#Israel #Iran #IranWar
Headline over ancient cracked tablet with carved text: "Archaeologists discover 3,000 year-old Isrealite tablet and decode its inscription. It reads: "Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon."
original by Stephen Moran
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
Here's the audio of the complete interview with #ProjectHailMary 's editor where he details his process and choices made to tell the story so well: open.spotify.com/episode/2DOe7Ta0S0…
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Art of the Cut · Episode
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
#ProjectHailMary is one of the best movies in the last few years but the main complaint I hear from fans of the book is "...but the book was better! They left important part X, Y or Z out!" Well, the film editor has confirmed that the first rough cut was 6 […] [Original post on mindly.social]
“The editor's cut was about six hours long. | like to put everything together so that we can go back and look at it later. It's all got to be assembled at some point. It's footage that | can insert into a sequence or insert into the movie. If it's a scene that was lifted - even though | know some of it, in my heart will definitely not go into the movie - | just have it edited so that it's something that we can refer to. Or maybe there's a piece of it we can use after having an assembly and weeding out the stuff that's absolutely not going to be in the movie. We ended up with a 3:45 cut of the movie that we screened for test audiences. It wasn't practical to release a long movie like that, so we made some tough decisions an
did some fancy montages and jump cutting just to make things go a little bit quicker and hone it down. The movie that was released was the best version of
the movie. It's entertaining. It holds your attention.”
 - Joel Negron, ACE, editor, “Project Hail Mary”
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
DEFYING #ICE AT WORK: Like the beginning of Schindler's List reminds us, CONCENTRATION CAMPS need ARCHITECTS. Thankfully, at least 70 EMPLOYEES realized what they were building and REVOLTED against doing this DIRTY WORK for immigration thugs. ** RESPECT ** […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
@Holberg This always reminds me of golden cat vomit heaved onto the walls. So embarrassing. Also, one of Orange Julius' lackeys has submitted plans to replace the White House's 200-year-old slender Ionic columns with gnarly Corinthian columns. I wouldn't be surprised if he wants those gilded […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
My wife and I just got back from an early screening of PROJECT HAIL MARY. In short: It stands up to the beloved book and meets the wild expectations people had for the movie. It manages to wrap ENORMOUS HEART & HUMOR around real science fiction storytelling […] [Original post on mindly.social]
A metal lapel pin that says "Amaze. Amaze. Amaze" in futuristic lettering.
The packaging says "Project Hail Mary" and "IMAX AMC."
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026
Here's a POWEFUL example of "good" machine models (#AI). This clever model allows hundreds of thousands of clay tablets locked UNREAD in museums to finally be READ, replacing an expensive 3D scanning process requiring trained technicians with an "AI" that can clean up tablets and (eventually) […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
Ribbon Pierced Androids #AIArt by @PixelJones using #Artspace.ai Prompt: Intricate white marble bust of an [elegant|crazy smiling|angry] android head. Finely carved mechanical details, glimpses of inner gears and framework pierced by several shiny red silk […] [Original post on mindly.social]
White marble female android sculpture with intricate mechanism permeated by red ribbons like blowing hairWhite marble female android sculpture with intricate mechanism permeated by red ribbons covering her eyes and piercing the figure from every angleWhite marble female android sculpture with intricate mechanism permeated by curls of red ribbonsAngry white marble female android sculpture with intricate mechanism permeated by red ribbons covering her eyes and blown backwards like vibrant hair
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
One of the best (and ethical) uses of "AI" I've seen lately which illustrates well how the human-in-the-loop is the REAL GENIUS of these systems. Here's the story of an FX artist working through how to use an AI/LLM to solve the numerous problems of shooting on green screens. The AI wasn't […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
Depicted here: The biggest ARSE feeling FREE to sign evidence of his international war crimes. #PeteHegseth
U.S. Secretary of War signing an artilary shell. Behind him is a banner wrapped around a wall so the large words on it say "The ARSE of FREE."
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS THIRSTING FOR WAR: A watchdog organization has received HUNDREDS of complaints from enlisted #USMILITARY personnel that their COMMANDERS (encouraged by extremist #PeteHegseth) are CELEBRATING the attack on #Iran as a DIVINELY-INSPIRED means to bring about --END TIMES--, pushing […]
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
This spoof of GoFundMe hits hard (but true). Only in America where healthcare is run like the Hunger Games could you hear a CEO say out loud: “I run a popularity contest where if you lose you die!” #USAHealthcare #UniversalHealthcare #MedicareForAll www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsXEkR5OVs
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
BREAKING GOVERNMENT: How DOGE and Trump Cost Taxpayers, Federal Workers, and Public Services oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/me…
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
Final Verdict: #DOGE was a death-dealing, jobs-destroying waste of time and tax dollars. (Link to full report in comments)
Real Legacy of DOGE:

DESPITE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO'S 
LIE THAT “[N]O ONE HAS DIED” AS A RESULT OF
USAID CUTS, REPORTING HAS SHOWN THAT THE
ABRUPT CUTTING OFF OF FOOD AND MEDICAL
SUPPLIES DIRECTLY LED TO THE [DEATHS] OF 90,000
ADULTS AND 200,000 CHILDREN.

This analysis demonstrates that the high costs of DOGE
unequivocally erase any verified savings it can claim,
raising concerns that President Trump and Mr. Musk took
advantage of the public's demands for a more efficient,
effective government to instead serve their own personal
interests.

A FIRM SPECIALIZING IN HELPING
EMPLOYEES TRANSITION AFTER
JOB LOSS IDENTIFIED DOGE AS THE
LEADING REASON FOR JOB CUTS
IN AMERICA IN 2025.
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PixelJones @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
Truest political quote you'll ever hear. Galbraith first said this in a speech 62 years ago and it is truer today, although the "moral philosophy" of current conservatives dispenses with both the "moral" and the "philosophy" part. It's all just self-justified […] [Original post on mindly.social]
The modern conservative is engaged in one of
man's oldest, best financed, most applauded,
and, on the whole, least successful exercises
in moral philosophy.
That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
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