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here because elsewhere became a steaming pile of chaos monkeys flinging the pile at everyone it is chill here, especially the block early vibe just a dad, husband, gamer, and programmer doing too much devops might a bit liberal... he/him

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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026
The court gets what 7,000 to 8,000 petitions a year, and only has decisions for around 80. That only 0.1% of cases get consideration is a problem. We should fix that issue.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026
Philips Hue refresh last year leveraged existing smart lights for motion detection using zigbee. Requires enough lights and a Hue Bridge Pro. Not WiFi, but still using wireless signals for more than they were designed for.
philips-hue.com
MotionAwareTM: Transform Your Hue Lights into Motion Sensors | Philips Hue
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026
We are into uncharted and unmeasured territory this year.
arstechnica.com
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So if this was supposed to be Trump targeting Canada, there’s a pretty big problem the name he actually replaced was Indigenous in origin. He took a centuries-old Native American name and replaced it with “Lake America.” Trump is a fool!
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 27/08/2026
In case you had doubts about how bad the rename is.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 23/08/2026
It is too early to still be up from yesterday...
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Paws-itively stealing hearts ❤️ Meet Itsuki, a sweet 11-year-old male red panda at the San Diego Zoo. He's a busy boy getting to know his new surroundings and finding the best places to perch.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Toripy, a hybrid of a pear and a bird, is the mascot of Tottori Prefecture.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 11/08/2026
Whole thread is worth a read, or go straight to essay
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Our America as WE know it💔
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
standards covering math and literacy instruction, class sizes, health screenings, home visits, and other core services. It would even eliminate the requirement that children brush their teeth after meals. The Trump administration’s overall goal with these changes is to completely gut the program.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Deregulate Head Start, Antipoverty Program Created Under R.F.K. Jr.’s Uncle
While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Trump administration announced that it is moving forward with plans to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, a 61-year-old program that provides early education and support to some of the nation’s lowest-income children. The proposal would strip away many long-standing
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
npr.org
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026
Know what? Financial help is what all students need. We need social workers, even though we underpay them. We need teachers, even though we underpay them. There will be shortages of key fields simply because they don't pay enough. This will not end well.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026
Another reason this is bad for everyone.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Kurawanko, a laid-back dog, and Hiranyanko, a capricious cat, are the mascots of Hirakata City, and both wear loincloths.
A white cat mascot and a brown dog mascot, both wearing white loincloths, walk on two legs down a pathway, in front of a stone wall.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026
Another excellent reason this is bad for everyone.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
With at least 7 states experiencing disruptions to water utilities, @istorg.bsky.social and @JoshCorman.bsky.social were featured on DC’s local WJLA to outline the danger of increasing attacks on our critical infrastructure systems and share #CyberCivilDefense solutions. wjla.com/news/local/m...
wjla.com
Minnesota probes cyberattacks on water plants; Iran suspected, FBI warns utilities
A new FBI warning is raising concerns about the vulnerability of water infrastructure to cyberattacks, as authorities in Minnesota investigate what they say is
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 03/08/2026
This needs wider discussion and awareness.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The intensity of this wildfire season is calling attention to the fact that the Trump administration closed all nine regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service, and shut down 57 of its 77 research facilities.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 24/07/2026
1-3 in 1000 die 1 in 1000 Encephalitis 1 in 20 long term breathing issues deafness & blindness sometimes SSPE 1 in 25000 degenerative & fatal brain disease occurring years later 20-40% get immune amnesia, so can get sick and possibly die from a disease they had ...sigh...this time line sucks...
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 16/07/2026
So the CDC parasite surveillance team was cut from 11 to 3. The result is our inability to track down the source of the explosive diarrhea spreading across the country. Voting or not voting has consequences.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/06/2026
You need more cute Mascots in your feed.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 01/06/2026
...sigh...
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/05/2026
It's horrible. Also did they hire and late 90s web designer? Looks like someone took those tacky blinky text websites and translated it to a modern webbrowser.
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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026
Tin pot dictator shit.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026
This is how you get the "hellish 'hothouse Earth'". The rich will die too.
theguardian.com
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026
Read stuff like this and wonder if my child will even have a future? How much famine will the US face?
theguardian.com
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The EPA plans to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten public health.
abcnews.com
EPA to rescind landmark 2009 'endangerment finding' on greenhouse gases' harmful effect on climate
The Trump administration is rescinding the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 'endangerment finding' on greenhouse gases' environmental harm.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026
Yes that is the real quote. This is the person in charge of health and human services. So it is fine an healthy to do that?
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 12/02/2026
Couldn't even read the article I was so upset.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026
In case anyone had doubts about how back Asimov was.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/02/2026
Thread.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026
The whole thread is worth reading. But thinking of how many women were discouraged from how Asimov treating is disheartening. Remember that this happened throughout the world, not just writing, and it continue today.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026
Just read the article, not the transcript. This is troubling example of the rule of law failing in the US.
lawdork.com
The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026
That reality simply described is the best satire a satire acount can do is telling for the situation in the US.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/01/2026
Why the hell do people come to office sick? Especially after we got an email in the fall from the chief engineer of the entire project saying in very nice terms to stay the fuck home? Overheard yesterday "I've been sick for like two weeks now."
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 24/01/2026
World Cup and the Olympics? In the US? With ICE just kidnapping people of the streets? Why would anyone go to the US?
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/01/2026
in a crazy news day just one more unending bit of crazy (to be clear crazy is still horrendous, wrong, and a dishonor to the capitol police)
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/01/2026
fuck outta here
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I guess Stephen Miller thinks America should still be a colony of Great Britain.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 23/12/2025
Music videos may not be on MTV, but at least bands post them to YouTube.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 09/12/2025
Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros. Think the shareholders should take that offer! lol!
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Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc...
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/12/2025
Read the sample on Google books, it will be in my library shortly. It will not be unread for long.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Nodfather.
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 12/11/2025
New steam controller!! Early 2026! The steam controller is all I use for PC gaming. No worry about mine wearing out anymore.
store.steampowered.com
Steam Controller
Your games at your fingertips
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Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/10/2025
One person not getting due process before being deported, means no one is safe from being deported. This is one case, there are VERY likely more. Citizens have likely been deported.
independent.co.uk
ICE deported a man who claims US citizenship after federal judge blocked his removal
A federal judge had blocked ICE from deporting Chanthila Souvannarath, warning ‘inherent and obvious harm’ in deporting a citizen
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