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Creative computing, open source investigations and small buildings enthusiast, software developer/landscaper. Dislikes authoritarian authors, extremists and the real bad haters.
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Seeing people can only understand society through pop culture references:

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

Trump (2020): “We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.” Collins: “The law, of course, has not changed...So what has?” Homan: “I'm not an attorney…DOD and DOJ are making these decisions. So, I certainly think the president is acting within the confines of the law.”

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Morning frog on scaffolding.

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

Trebuchets for LA ! Just kidding, trebuchets for kids as part of a friends lesson plan on physics. #trebuchetsforkids

This is one of the most important little threads I've read in the last year.

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

White folks watched a bunch of white folks sack the Capitol and then most of them be pardoned by the head of the white identity party and now we're supposed to listen to other white people pontificate about non-violence...

I really appreciate that the (growing?) sentiment towards the administration's aggression is like yeah this is bad and dangerous and also it is mockable and these fascist cowards can eat my ass

Pupmarine on patrol.

It appears the peace treaty hasn’t been negotiated yet.

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

Another peloric foxglove... Two found this week ! 🌱

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.