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Seems like a great post to use as report Elon's latest 24-hour FEC filing. The world's richest fascist just added... $1,304,222,21 Which brings his total spent in the midterms to... $39,865,669 Yes, you read that right. Yes, that's nearly $20 million in the last week alone.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 4h

same Fox interview has Bezos going "not naming names but maybe don't vote for people who point fingers and blame others" *wink wink* *cough* Trump *cough* bsky.app/profile/carn... which 1) what the actual fuck, and 2) when did Jeff decide to start hinting he is no longer on Team Fascism?

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 5h

i looked it up and the United Nations Detention Unit at The Hague only holds 52 people, soooo...

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Man Eating Red Candy

ALT: Man Eating Red Candy

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 13h

Also, when you want to leak something, you never baldly tell the leaker "Hey go leak this." Instead you say, "I feel increasing concern about the erratic behavior of my good friend (AKA your enemy), and maybe you should look into this (newsworthy scandal) that he committed last Tuesday"

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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 6h

This. Is. Some Nazi shit.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

in a better world, we tear down a statue of a Confederate general in the town square, and replace it with a statue of Margaret Hamilton.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

by a strange coincidence, i am wearing my NASA "meatball" logo t-shirt today. a guy stopped me at the grocery store and asked if i was affiliated with NASA (i'm not). he told me his dad worked on Apollo! and we had this long, heartwarming conversation about NASA. come home to this news. RIP 💔

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

people used to wonder how they would have behaved in Nazi Germany, surrounded by concentration camps. WONDER NO LONGER.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

i have dug too deeply into this, as i now find a memo from I.G. Farben saying you basically can't wage war without tetraethyllead and thanking the Americans at Standard Oil for making the Luftwaffe possible. www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitic... that's enough internet for today lol

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

aviation gas is still leaded, though the lead levels have been reduced (100LL = 100 octane low lead). try not to take deep breaths refueling the Cessna 😅

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

we bombed Japan, then bombed ourselves with leaded gas and CFCs. Yay we won? lol

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

...and one of the many reasons that B-29 could drop atomic bombs on Japan without worrying about Japanese fighters was Midgley's leaded gas. youtu.be/aHE8FEIkm80?...

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Why Japan's Engineers Could Not Explain How B-29s Cruised Above Every Fighter

YouTube video by The Blueprint Vault

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

CFCs and fluorine chemistry were vital to the development of the atomic bomb (uranium hexafluoride is corrosive BECAUSE FLUORINE) America spent more on the development of the B-29 ($3 billion) than they did on the Manhattan Project ($2 billion)...

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 6h

i recently watched a detailed YouTube video explaining why, at the end of World War II, American B-29s could fly unchallenged across Japan. (Japanese fighters couldn't reach the B-29s) One of the many, many factors was that the American bombers ran on high-octane AvGas full of tetraethyllead.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 7h

🤣🤣 i have heard Midgley's bio before... every time i come across it, i'm like "how is this man not a household name?!?" like WHERE is the biopic of infamy starring some A-listers. And I was just in a conversation about leaded gas! Thank you for reminding me.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t get me started on uranium. lol

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 9h

Me personally I think the adults in the room should have just taken away fluorine, the element, out of the box of crayons 🧑‍🔬🧪⚗️ because FLUORINE IS NOT NICE IT WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EVERYTHING THAT LIVES so maybe a moratorium until we have demonstrated an ability to not destroy the planet with it. 😂

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 9h

I agree. 😅 I just have cognitive dissonance. “We did this unspeakably terrible thing by accident AND it escalated quickly AND we noticed the problem also by accident BUT we all agreed not to make it any worse.” 🎉🍾🥂🎈

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Ron Burgundy: Boy, That Escalated

ALT: Ron Burgundy: Boy, That Escalated

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 12h

🤣🤣 right? Must be. Me personally, I’d be kind of tickled. “Everyone recognizes me from a rough caricature!”

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

“Some politicians… but many are not.” Sounds like someone caught the “Many People Are Saying” disease. It is COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE to point fingers at villains when there are ACTUAL CRIMINAL VILLAINS. It is a false dilemma to suggest this somehow precludes ALSO offering solutions. We can do both!

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

Pepperidge Farm also remembers when Bezos started spiking articles that annoyed him personally at the Washington Post. Including nixing a *cartoon.* That showed his obsequiousness to Trump. Q.E.D.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

Minimum Required Obsequiousness (MRO) as a metric? Uhhhh… I remember when people had spines. #PepperidgeFarm A more cynical take is that some smart people are Seeing The Writing On The Wall and slightly adjusting their trajectory.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

Amazon seems very focused on selling Amazon-branded items, which, if an intelligent Agent is doing the shopping… lol

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

I mean the balloons were filled with a different greenhouse gas but no don’t let me stop you. 😳 Gotta take those wins where we can. 🥹 lol

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 13h

there were 25th anniversary balloons to celebrate the Montreal Protocol. 🎈I feel like the human race was standing around high-fiving itself for agreeing to not destroy the planet. Woo hoo! Way to go, guys! *slowly backs out of party in abject horror*

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 14h

Interesting but seems like it’s focused on PPT decks and “interactive documents,” the latter kind of being a new category defying direct comparison…? But I see nothing dethroning Excel here. (Yet, anyway)

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Septic Tank Implementation,” then? (Where “septic tank” holds the entire contents of the Internet)

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this has been a thing in software since at least 1953 😜

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Poor implementation of the long tail of [features nobody uses]” has to be weighed against the monthly cost of an Adobe subscription.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Speaking of “excel,” 😜 I would yell at people “A spreadsheet is not a database!” when they would cobble together something better off in a relational database. Turns out, a lot of people think getting 80% of the way to a database in *a tool they already have access to* is Good Enough for them

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

people saying “yes but” in the replies (“yes but [random feature] doesn’t work correctly”) without realizing the implications of getting an open source version that is 80-90% of the way there, and has a monthly subscription cost of $0. “It was only a shot across the bow.” — Captain, USS Adobe

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

jeez can ya keep it down out there, some of us are trying to sleep

orange cat peeking his head out behind a blanket looking half asleep

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Setting the planet on fire happened over centuries. Another one is almost accidentally destroying the atmosphere with chlorofluorocarbons because we liked *checks notes* hairspray. That one happened in a human lifespan.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least ten? Maybe “Powers of Ten” youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0?... 😜 contemplating the scale of things in the Universe for a few minutes will put one’s ego in check 🔭🌌🔬⚛️

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Powers of Ten™ (1977)

YouTube video by Eames Office

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

sounds a little like the (as-yet-unwritten) prequel to Neuromancer 😅

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

😅 “Knock yourself out.” 😜

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Peter Liepmann @datadrivenfp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AND reducing air pollution that shortens lives reduced to countryside levels.

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yesthatkarim @yesthatkarim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

😅 that would be another “How did Google let this happen” 😜

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Yikes! Trump's hand looks like something you'd see on a cadaver (Win McNamee/Getty)

pic of Trump's speaking today in Maryland with his hand raised

zoom in on the back of his right hand, with skin stretched and looking extremely wrinkly

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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