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taradactyll.bsky.social
Engineer, cat lover, bootstrapper, feminist, leftist, author. I assume good intentions & enjoy talking to strangers. “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” What have YOU lost?
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Uhh… where is Greta Thunberg??

Can someone please win Monopoly so we can start over and everyone can play again? Please?

#mood whenever I’m asked for voluntary self-identification on a job application these days. What? So when you decide to fire all the #womeninstem you can look me up? Nah bro.

@democrats.senate.gov Like I told the House, y’all should be buying Netflix ads to bring awareness to Kilmar Garcia & Mahmoud Khalil’s cases. Knowledge of the cases are associated with a 9% and 14% drop in presidential approval. Inform disconnected folks! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@housedemocrats.bsky.social Y’all should be buying Netflix ads to bring awareness to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s & Mahmoud Khalil’s cases. Knowledge of the cases are associated with a 9% and 14% drop in presidential approval. Never too late for midterms www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gangs are just mini-governments that form where society breaks down. They’re corrupt, they pay the bills, keep people safe from dangers [that their organization is causing], and collect dues from unwilling members to fund murders elsewhere. Like our government.

Dear Goddess, give me patience

Trump definitely called it a Teslur. That’s gotta stick. #tesla #teslur

According to my partner, our interior design theme is “Oops! All Engineers.” I think I see it now. All function, no fashion 😂

Don’t see a concern w/killing a federal agency that supports libraries bc local communities could completely fund them? Trump will to cut such a large amount of federal aid that local govts will NOT prioritize libraries over things like disaster relief etc. Knowledge and opportunity will be lost.

Trump is *personally* pissed at Marc Elias, which means Marc is working very hard on the right topics. Consider donating!

@marcelias.bsky.social Saw Trump pointed some of his ire directly at you in his Great Hall address! Must mean you’re doing something right! Keep up the great work 😉🎉

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Nostalgia is unfairly maligned. Until there's a future we should be able to listen to nineties rock guilt free

Elon is willing to cut off Starlink access to Ukraine if they don’t agree to send us 50% of their rare minerals to us. Plain extortion.

#Severence keeps topping lists! Praise Kier, may his humors ever be tamed!

Gift link for readers following #Ukraine 🇺🇦 TLDR: Trump and Putin shouldn’t be having discussions without Zelensky. Period.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Russia withdraws North Korean troops in Kursk after losses, Seoul says

💯 We love y’all, but we need your help in more places than here or FB, IG, TT, etc. We need you to call your Senators and Representative. Here is the number - you just have to ask for who you want. Please call and tell them how you feel. Please. 🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🏼 ☎️(202) 224-3121 ☎️

In Australia, a new law: Anyone making a Nazi salute or similar hate crimes will face a mandatory 1-6 years’ jail time. Nice work Australia

@oniontheescallion.bsky.social I’m gonna figure out how to make us a feed for our friends. I’ve never seen any of your posts in any feed yet. I heard we can migrate our accounts to a private server, even!

Can’t help but notice that all the cracks I fall through are women & minority-shaped

🚬😎 Banning DEI only made it cooler.

Russell Vought, now wormed back into the government as Trump’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget. More balding white guys trying to grasp at power while they still can.

New research reveals that men are more likely than women to let emotions from unrelated situations affect their financial decisions. neurosciencenews.com/emotional-ne...

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

Altman wanted $7 TRILLION for AI development? Hopefully DeepSeek’s $6 million startup fund teaches our tech industry a lesson: More money doesn’t equal a better product.

Trump is asking to UPGRADE Guantanamo Bay to house 30,000 people? Jesus we finally got the prison down to 15 inmates and have been trying to shut it down for decades.

Did the U.S. government send $50 million in condoms to Gaza, as Trump just claimed? …this 2024 report shoW[s] that USAID sent $60.8 million in contraceptives worldwide, but none to Gaza… only $45,681 worth of contraceptives went to the Middle East as a whole, all of them to Jordan. - Pete Baker NYT

Trump seems to be targeting all of the pillars we put in place after Nixon. Inspector Generals, budget impoundment, adding the Senate & House Intelligence Committees to check executive power, the Freedom of Information Act… Have we forgotten Watergate already?

Under US Constitutional separation of powers, Congress passes spending bills, and the president executes the law as it is written. Trump can’t legally touch student aid allocated by congress, right? Is America still practicing democracy?

“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”

I hate it here, so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind: when they found a better planet, only the gentle survived. I’m there most of the year cause I hate it here