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Web Dev | Pittie Parent | Skeptic w/ Compassion | Media Literacy Advocate | Gaming Enthusiast I want to learn as much as possible, believe as few false things as possible, and use it to think better for better action.
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New: We interviewed six detained Venezuelans who the Trump admin accused of being gang members and likely nearly sent to El Salvador this month without due process. They—and their relatives—insist they are innocent and provided extensive evidence to support that. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

@nytimes.com's The Daily episode re: Student Loan Pol. -- at one point Barbaro sets up a question juxtaposing Trump and Biden priorities as potentially just different ways to "fix" a broken system. Trump shows open contempt for the thing the loan is for; maybe doesn't deserve benefit of the doubt.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Me getting ready for next few weeks of black/white smoke jokes mixed with Stanley Tucci memes.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

We could have a conversation about sensitive info that isn’t discussed publicly, but not classified in any enduring way and quickly becomes public. Maybe adding that would help the over-classification problems in the US. 🤷‍♀️ Wouldn’t start with war plans. Wouldn’t happen on Signal.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Autism is not a disease. Autism is not an epidemic. Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition. And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous “environmental toxins.” A thread 👇🏻 1/

submitted 71 days ago • 56 comments

It’s important to find a useful way to tell Trump voters that there were people in their lives who tried to warn, tried to help, tried to inform. This can’t be for gloating. For the reachable, it has to stay focused on reminding people of who was really in their corner. We need to figure this out.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a programmer. We’re known to swear at our computer screen incessantly. I never swear more than listening to a modern confirmation hearing. Fuck.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Keep in mind that Trump doesn’t just have one puppeteer, he has many. People who flatter him, talking heads, leaders who act arbitrarily in ways that make him jealous, people who bribe him, and the last person who had his ear. But by all means, keep the puppet imagery flowing. Fight with tools.

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

just totted up all the substacks I pay for and found myself thinking ‘wow wouldn’t it be better if all these writers were in one place and I could just pay a flat fee’ so anyway that’s how today I invented the concept of the ‘newspaper’

submitted 190 days ago • 282 comments

@bhima-jenkins.bsky.social I finally have content I would love for you to watch as closely and critically as I’ve modeled w/ the things you’ve shared with me. In this video, Hank covers 90% of what I’d want to talk about. Of the topics, all but 1 tiny thing, I endorse. youtu.be/-NI6lxgHaN8?...

submitted 189 days ago • 4 comments

Must watch for anyone interested in #dronesNJ youtu.be/-NI6lxgHaN8?... Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social, you said so many things I’ve been trying to say, better than I could, louder than I ever could, and with the compassion and humanity I aspire to. So, f*** you, I guess? I’m jealous.

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Watching a YouTube clip about the drones and it had the subtitle "WHODRONEIT" and my brain is like "Yeah, that 100% says "whore done it""

submitted 189 days ago • 84 comments

Folks very enthralled by the drone panic read testimony after testimony—sounds like a common theme AND some folks have wild exps. Without a skeptical toolkit this can trip us up real good. Feels like multiple independent attention makes the wild claims plausible. Not so. Almost the opposite.

submitted 190 days ago • 1 comment

A skeptical exercise that I do on the regular is a self-check when I embellish a story. NJ drones be a signal I should do it more There’s the reality, the experience, and the embellishments. Embellishments often apply to the experience. The experience is often already an exaggeration of reality.

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments