Sign in

Wes 🏳️‍🌈

@topspinlob77.bsky.social
1.3K followers 715 following 2.2K posts

He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈 Texan plotting a reluctant escape to Europe. Hubby, Westie dad to Nellie, tennis player, hiker, software engineer. Documenting the expat dream over at The Reluctant Expat.

PostsRepliesMedia
Wes 🏳️‍🌈 @topspinlob77.bsky.social · 5h
Heard in my house tonight. “Mr Nas is hot now?” 😂 #ahs
010
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 7h
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
2884831632
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 17h
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
Follow
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
1553094775
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h
Rapist recognizes rapists
independent.co.uk
Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists after Hochul announcement
Trump was prosecuted by New York AG Letitia James, who is taking over the Ivy League rape investigation, for business fraud after losing the 2020 election
1123457
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 16h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
37110042831
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
18757882642
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 20h
If you're on the fence about eliminating party-based primaries in Mass, maybe look at who WANTS that to happen. These are not the people we should make happy
bostonglobe.com
Why is the investment world financing a Mass. ballot question to eliminate partisan primaries? - The Boston Globe
A wave of wealthy individuals with ties to various investment, private equity, and venture capital firms has put millions of dollars behind a ballot question to scrap the state's party primaries.
12114
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
350200114790
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
683003697
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I tend to joke that a lot of bad decisions made both by the U.S. government and corporate America seem like leaders getting bad ideas from Claude. I was wrong. It’s bad ideas from Grok.
916218
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas
9759194
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All I want is a seaside cottage, the distant rumble of thunder, a vintage mystery novel, a kettle on the stove, a comfortable reading chair, a crackling fire, a raven keeping watch, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones.
3363570
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Trump's demands for Fox propaganda are getting even more bizarre and extreme.
Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMPSchumer does not appear in Media Matters’ database of Fox News weekday appearances, which dates to August 2017. 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has made at least 5 appearances on Fox weekday shows since November 2018, with the most recent airing in January of this year.
Fox’s Jessica Tarlov is the Democratic host tasked with matching up against four conservatives at once on the network’s weekday panel show, The Five. She made 2 guest appearances on other Fox shows in September; conservative co-hosts Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Dana Perino all have separate weekday Fox shows of their own. 
In September, weekday appearances on Fox News by congressional Republicans and Trump administration officials outnumbered appearances by congressional Democratic guest appearances by 148 to 7.
841023278
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
2705575912
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
281017169
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:
113665
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth is destroying the military academies along with the military.
414544
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
81610196
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"And don't get me started on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to cause today's high gas prices."
34998141
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the fact that SCOTUS is allowing Trump to do lawless shit 24/7 but some random judge in Staten Island can block the mayor and governor of New York from taxing decamillionaires’ second homes really reveals how utterly absurd our judicial system is
224727
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
177124102657
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Leigh 🚫👑🇺🇸🌏🇺🇦🐶🐱🇨🇦🇲🇽 🦋 @caborose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And this is how propaganda is spread... they won't take it down, they won't apologize for lying.. they just won't. And MAGA will refuse to listen to the truth.
732117
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would just note that illiterate medieval peasants during the bubonic plague understood the value of social distancing better than the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
18816
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
12830236
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
The Horse Knuckler of Ichabod Crane @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
do not, under any circumstances, make agents "wet" (giving them a fun personality), because a funhouse mirror that tells you you're pretty and smart all the time will kill you keep them dry, like uncooked pasta; unsauced, crunchy if eaten, easily disposed of if goddamn ants show up
0357
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026
yeah. more to the point, if you start using stuff like facebook's agent or this thing, you deserve it when you cook yourself.
3686
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.
youtube.com
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
32975467
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
theonion.com
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
231765251
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Starting to think that Mark didn’t start Facebook to make the world a better place 🙄
4856
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
99495322446
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
412648390
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the real life legion of doom just doesnt have the rizz of lex luthor, sinestro, and solomon gundy
4678
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
52608765
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
13449081043
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the new federal government ai bot uses elon musk's kiddie porn bot www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/t...
cnbc.com
New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok, Trump official Gebbia says
Trump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise."
12214
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
thebeaverton.com
Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
BRANDON, MB - 4-year-old Mikaela Hermer's imaginary restaurant, in which she served invisible hot dogs and ice cream to her parents and friends, has filed for bankruptcy after being acquired by Hedges...
221235319
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
1001928997
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
propublica.org
This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
451058678
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Lahn doesn't live in Iowa, Tuberville doesn't live in Alabama, Roger Marshall doesn't live in Kansas...
1536
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This machine fights climate change. 🌎 This machine fights traffic congestion. 🚴🏼‍♀️ This machine fights ill health. 💓 Love this machine (and the great new Art Station building it's parked in front of!)
A white cargo e bike is parked in front of the Art Station building at Larkspur Park in Bend, with two blue helmets in the handlebar basket.
316932
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
elespectador.com
Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
431016658
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Walking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to be more diverse with our tech - especially wean ourselves from US tech www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
14111
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
02519341
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
billb3.bsky.social @billb3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A Pentagon influencer” is one of the most troubling phrases I’ve ever read.
61345
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Frank/Paco @frankmartin10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2172
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The image is a poster with a bold message painted in large, green, brushstroke-style letters on a dark background. It reads:
“FIGHT POVERTY NOT THE POOR”

The style is raw and expressive, conveying urgency and social activism. At the bottom, it includes the text “Poor People’s Campaign | poorpeoplescampaign.org” and credits the design to Jesse Purcell, 2017.
138133282862
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Get rich or die trying. They get rich, you die.
710015
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
0310133
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
8892228
Reposted by Wes 🏳️‍🌈
Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.
111472330