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Photographer, cyclist (recumbent trike), retired, former nuclear-trained fast attack submarine guy. And I'm totally into Macs and have been for a loooong time. I like detective novels, the Culture, The Laundry Files, and some fantasy. No AI.
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If there are Dems who were involved in the ICE protest then be arrested and OWN it! Let it be an example of civil disobedience. Don't hunker down.

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Does the new Pope lose his U.S. citizenship since he’s the Head of State of another country?

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Als ik mijn baard laat staan is hij mijn lookalike. Edoch, bazenshirt van dit weekend, deze. #MiamiGP

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If you're wondering why Giants fans are cackling and Rangers fans are moaning, here's the end of the game where Heliot Ramos tops a dribbler toward third.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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@reckless.bsky.social The "Rise of the Infinite Fringe" is behind the pay wall. How can it be shared with people who cannot see it? This is fine journalism and needs to be seen, not hidden. It's one of those contradictions created by the paywall.

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On Mon, I held a livestream on accelerating efforts to dismantle not only American weather & climate science funding (via NOAA & NASA) but also real-time meteorological predictive & disaster response capacity--concerns that have only further escalated. www.youtube.com/watc...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks To @reckless.bsky.social and Tina Nguyen for the terrific long-form article "The Rise of the Infinite Fringe" on The Verge today. Well written, insightful, thoughtful. It's long. It needed to be long. It was careful. It needed to be careful. Thank you!

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What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 152 comments

Protest footage from today in Columbus, Ohio.

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NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down. “Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”

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It's odd that MLB had to post that the home runs hit in last night's #athletics game would have been out in 30 other MLB ballparks.

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For anyone who condemns Raley Field (Now Sutter Health Park) I can attest to this image as being completely real with no fake sky inserted. I did have to do a lot of work to bring up the foreground. Jeremy Brown is at bat and will double this pitch off the left-center field wall. #athletics

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I cannot believe some people lock down their DMs and miss great shit like this.

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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

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The first story in today's newsletter is not-paywalled. It's an important one. Major League Baseball's Diversity Pipeline Program has been erased from its website. There has been no explanation. MLB has enjoyed considerable good publicity from it for years, but now they've disappeared it. Why?

submitted 52 days ago • 19 comments

This seems apposite:

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

So they banned research that would help women and girls because it happened to mention trans men too, then lied about it Literally what we said would happen. The attacks on trans people harm cis women too. They aren't "defending women", they're attacking them too

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