Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16h@jef It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026This is exactly what I think about this stuff. It's not LLMs that are the problem, it's the dark enlightenment humans who are using LLMs that are.freethought.online 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026I know the US really sucks at passenger trains, but wow, the high fares for #Amtrak, supposedly a government-run public service, are preposterous. I don't really want to have to drive up and down the Northeast Corridor, but with Amtrak's outrageous fares, it's either that or take the bus. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026These crooked people just can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar, even when they know they're being watched. It's pathological. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkgedexp… #uspolbbc.comTrump says Kimberly Guilfoyle could be fired as Greece envoy after alleged misconduct"We're not happy," says the president about his son's ex-fiancée following reports of improper behaviour. 010
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐James M. @jamesmarshall.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026#Ukraine #Russia #bots #yandex #AIGirlfriends 142
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026@kranos86 @FrChazzz Yeah, but any member of any national legislature can nominate, so it's actually a real statement that it was so few. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026@kurtsh @newyorktimes I don't like the government you're referring to either, but this is a state level issue, not a federal one, and some of the states that still allow this are blue. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but just because someone comments on something doesn't mean they're "breaking their silence" about it. 🙄 #media #Journalism 001
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Since we're already doing such a spectacular job with one unnecessary war in the Middle East, let's add another! 🙄 fortune.com/2026/10/10/trump-us-for… #uspolfortune.comTrump says he's evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi Arabia's fight against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after fresh attacks on Riyadh | Fortune“We may. We’re going to look at it,” Trump said. “We just found out about the recent attack. So we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly.” 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026I never want to hear about how liberals hate America ever again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurUNgg5L7c #uspol 002
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026@lowqualityfacts This seems like a perfect piece of flair for someone who works at a fern bar. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026I'm so glad we spent a trillion dollars and killed a million people in Iraq to end up with this magnificent result. Mission accomplished! 🙃 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0… (Or: archive.ph/irfBe ) 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026#ScribesAndMakers Day 30: What was the last song you listened to? River Guide You by The Movement youtube.com/watch?v=raDvwX3dJpk 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026This is your periodic reminder that audited paper ballots are a necessary condition for free and fair elections. apnews.com/article/nsa-hegseth-trum… #USPol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026@evoterra "The intent of traffic cameras is to prevent serious accidents, not to generate expensive tickets." Enh, sometimes, maybe. But we've moved so far away from the norms of civil liberties in the last few years that further eroding the right to face one's accuser just doesn't sit right […]social.vivaldi.netOriginal post on social.vivaldi.net 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026@evoterra (And yes, I realize you made like a hundred suggestions and the only one I'm asking about is the one where I disagree.) 100
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026@evoterra Do you have an actual reason to oppose Prop 319? TBH it seems more like the real kneejerk reaction here is opposing it just became some MAGAs also happen to support it. (Which I would understand were it a candidate and not a single issue matter.) 101
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Thinking of kicking your #gasoline addiction? Events happening all over the U.S. can help. electrek.co/2026/09/18/learn-how-to…electrek.coWant to get off gas? Learn how at Drive Electric Month events across the USDrive Electric Month continues this week with over 150 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles through most of September and the start of October. Events will be held for the next few weekends, with events in most US states, and one in Canada. And in the midst of a global oil price spike, there couldn’t be a better time to learn how to become energy independent. more… 204
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026It's September 17th, which is Constitution Day in the US. So remember, the Constitution may not be perfect, but it's better than what we have now! #USPol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Australia in Eurovision... Canada half-joining the EU... How long until CANZUKEU? www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwyzrr9d…bbc.comEU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'Canada is seeking closer ties with EU after a breakdown in relations with the US and its president Donald Trump. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026It's always the ones you most expect. www.rawstory.com/gop-candidate #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I. (Unfortunately, for the moment we instead have one who doesn't even know which letters to capitalize.) dnyuz.com/2026/09/14/trump-says-a-s… #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026If the US political system weren't hopelessly broken... well, this guy wouldn't be president in the first place, But besides that, there would be an open letter pledging free and fair elections signed by all fifty state Attorneys General published in a full page ad in the New York Times […]social.vivaldi.netOriginal post on social.vivaldi.net 001
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026This could have been an article. #Reading 5430
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Betteridge's law of headlines wins again! www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/… #aientrepreneur.com 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Welcome to China, where "national security" actually means "Xi Jinping insecurity". www.npr.org/2026/09/11/g-s1-142832/… #china 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel 399208734813
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Spam from Wikipedia: "Steve, you're one of Wikipedia's rarest supporters!" Me, thinking, "Technically correct, since in twenty years I've only donated once." 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Happy #StarTrekDay everyone! I'm not really doing anything special to observe it, although I did visit the Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center this past weekend and bought a cap, so in the event one considers NASA to be a predecessor of Starfleet, then there's that. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026That this mom who did nothing wrong was harassed at all, much less arrested, is more evidence that the US is a society in decline. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202… (Also: archive.ph/9tBDS ) 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026Betteridge's law of headlines wins again. Manassas Airport isn't even all that close to lots of Manassas, much less anywhere else with lots of people, and it's not convenient to a major highway. Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but I just don't see it […]social.vivaldi.netOriginal post on social.vivaldi.net 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026To be honest, the most surprising thing to me here is that Suze Orman is 75. I really thought she was younger! www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/…entrepreneur.com 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026The trees They knocked down the wires No NO The power is out 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026You know things are going downhill in Argentina when whoever is running the place starts going on about the Falklands. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/4/arg…aljazeera.comArgentina’s Milei threatens sanctions as he refocuses on FalklandsArgentina's president accused of political machinations as he eyes shifting US stance on Las Malvinas. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026Wow, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin almost got Ron Browned! www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/ma… #uspol 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026www.usatoday.com/story/news/politic… The Party of Family Values strikes again! #USPolusatoday.comHouse censures GOP congressman over creepy behavior toward staffAn ethics panel said the Republican lawmaker showered staffers with lavish trips, expensive gifts, romantic poems and an ice cream deluge. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026At this point, for an American journalist, being threatened by the president of the United States is a badge of honor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/au… 010
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance The only threat at home is in the Oval Office. 001
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026Has anyone in the Fediverse used or considered beluga.quebec as an alternative to Google Mail and Google Drive? Apparently they're an open source shop in open beta. I'd be grateful for an honest review, or even just semi-knowledgeable commentary, and also grateful to those willing to […]social.vivaldi.netOriginal post on social.vivaldi.net 020
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026Icelanders vote against restarting EU membership talks www.newsweek.com/trumps-greenland-t… #EU #eupolnewsweek.comTrump’s Greenland Threat Fails to Prove Decisive in Iceland EU VoteTrump’s threat to annex Greenland was not enough to convince skeptical Icelanders to try to join the EU again. 001
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026@ianbetteridge Solutions from the Multiverse, which is two guys ostensibly talking about some sort of big issue, but where like 75% of each episode is them distracting each other and going off on nerdy tangents. It's strangely infectious. castbox.fm/va/7014126d.castbox.fmBest free podcast app for Apple iOS and Android | Let words move youMillions of podcasts for all topics. Listen to the best free podcast on Android, Apple iOS, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Carplay, Android Auto, PC. Create... 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026Finally got around to replacing MacOS on my ten year old MacBook Air with Linux Mint Xfce. It installed fine, then I did an update from the 6.14.x kernel to the 7.0.x kernel and... kernel panic. I had to boot the installer again and spend more than an hour messing around in the command line to […]social.vivaldi.netOriginal post on social.vivaldi.net 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026@ianbetteridge ICE is a modern day Schutzstaffel, yes, but I'll admit it's satisfying to see one of those loathsome people get bit by their own dog. 000
Reposted by Steve Foerster 🌐Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026Truly these people are the worst of America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/au… 004
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026@lowqualityfacts Your supposedly dumb account makes me laugh too, although my laughter stats are a bit less dire than Tim's. 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026Best comment I've seen: "Instead of the acronym HOMES to remember the Great Lakes we will need to change it to match this new reality. SHAME fits nicely." www.cnn.com/2026/08/27/politics/vid… #uspolcnn.comTrump signs executive order to change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada. During the signing, he said, “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean.” 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026RE: mastodon.social/@top_news/117168293… Well, that's an awkward unintended tribute from the World Meteorological Organization!mastodon.social 000
Steve Foerster 🌐 @stevefoerster.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/au… It's always the ones you most expect. #uspol 000