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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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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 13 hours ago • 56 comments

Seeing people can only understand society through pop culture references:

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

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.”

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Morning frog on scaffolding.

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

submitted 2 days ago • 287 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

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

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

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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.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

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...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

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...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Pupmarine on patrol.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 740 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 788 comments

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

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submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 246 comments