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I write software and love #F1 and food #Boston #Massachusetts based https://www.stevenmartinez.dev/ He/him
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We see what’s happening with our own eyes. A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.

Rampaging raccoons add to Airbus factory headaches reut.rs/4dFsvxf

I just learned about these today and I can already tell that the command palette and screen layout tools here are super helpful for #SoftwareDev work: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Microsoft’s Command Palette is a powerful launcher for apps, search, and more

If only source control existed 🤷🤷

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

If clipboard history is enabled in Windows, you can just press WIN + V to see a list of the last text & images you copied, so you don't need to copy it again

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

It’s Jackie Robinson Day. @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social calling out MLB’s blatant hypocrisy is what I needed to start this morning off.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

These two posts: * “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts. * Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

This is absolutely monstrous and far too similar to another time in history people were forced to another country, their belongings taken, and heads shaved. This has to stop!

Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term **because it doesn't go far enough.** "The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

You really have to read this. ICE is the gestapo

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡ Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

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It’s just fucking corruption. It’s just capture of spending to line his pockets. Crony spending lining the pockets of glorious ruler’s buddies is the hallmark of any strongman authoritarian government and ours is no exception.

All of this. And you can push back against these attacks while doing other things. I’m a trans person and 95% of my words are about natsec, space, or my kids’ latest Minecraft obsession. Also, fail to defend us, you give them more power that they *will* use elsewhere against people you value more.

The acceleration of anti-trans attacks isn't what scares me most at the moment. What scares me most are non-trans people who believe the GOP will stop at the military ban and passports and gender-affirming care for youth. Nothing could be further from the truth. (thread)

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

In an ideal world the President of the United States, the world's richest man, and the two worst humans alive would be four different people.

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."