The Enola Gay was apparently a DEI plane. This kind of ham-fisted error is almost enough to make one wonder whether an inexperienced, careless, drunken idiot is overseeing the Department of Defense… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - ThreadSky

jeffroushwriting.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The Enola Gay was apparently a DEI plane. This kind of ham-fisted error is almost enough to make one wonder whether an inexperienced, careless, drunken idiot is overseeing the Department of Defense…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/military-images-trump-dei

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kamalawon2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Newsweek used to be a good publication. They're a right wing rag now.

kamalawon2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because it has the word "gay" in it.

nomoredramama.bsky.social•2 days ago

So they're taking down all photos of women & people of color, claiming that they shouldn't have been hired before DEI existed? This is not an attack on DEI, it's an attack our history. Racist, misogynist fucks...

hjelms.bsky.social•2 days ago

unpocolocotx.bsky.social•1 day ago

I bet he would just point out that he had PLENTY of experience being a drunken idiot. He's not wrong.

tubadrew.bsky.social•2 days ago

After the Gulf of America, we'll now see this

antifascistfella.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tuskeegee Airmen have been wihitewashed out of acknowledgement as well.

tubadrew.bsky.social•2 days ago

I keep asking the people who voted for Trump why this is a good thing.

daisylee13.bsky.social•1 day ago

Protest today in front of Congressman Andrew Garbarino‘s office.

wehearvoices.bsky.social•2 days ago

We know. We don’t have to wonder. Straight up Russian run idiots are now in charge.

sammiestsam.bsky.social•2 days ago

Time to take our towns, states and country back. Fuck these Russian ass-ets.

free10.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ignorant and stupid!

bubbapancake.bsky.social•2 days ago

They did the same thing to an article about George Gay, the lone survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 in the Battle of Midway. https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686766/deiensign-george-h-gays-fateful-day-june-4-1942/

bubbapancake.bsky.social•2 days ago

Note that they stuck “dei” into the URL. If you remove dei from it, it still redirects there. It’s vandalism by idiots.

blueorchidmoon.bsky.social•2 days ago

OMG it was flagged as DEI because of his last name? I still cannot wrap my head around 20 year olds writing shitty algorithms to search our gov databases.

bubbapancake.bsky.social•2 days ago

I imagine they just turned on some rewrite module in the web server that looks for a series of terms and prepends “dei” to the url if one is found. Doing it in the dumbest possible fashion is not that hard.

reaieharvie.bsky.social•2 days ago

This highlights the limitations of AI. No soul. Institutional history.

jeffroushwriting.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn’t even AI; it’s just a basic term search. Just sad and stupid across the board.

blueorchidmoon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly. In 2014, I hired a college assistant pursuing a BS in Software Engineering. He identified and fixed vulnerabilities, automated days-long processes with flawless code—brilliant work. Yet in 2025, Elon’s "elite" team can’t even build a search that returns accurate results.

nuttyhutter.bsky.social•2 days ago

These are stupid, petty people who are desperate to ram thru their desperate anti-DEI agenda. They are too arrogant to admit they are in a doom spiral

blueorchidmoon.bsky.social•2 days ago

A genius would know how to evaluate & assess, and possess the creativity to use different strategies. The fact he is using the same failed approach he used at Twitter reveals how small his mind is, and his hubris, it will be his downfall. We are witnessing the curtain pulled back in real time.

1120hol.bsky.social•1 day ago

hmmmm... you may have a point.

shellgeist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, I’m not wondering.

jsgirldi.bsky.social•2 days ago

So dumb.

stormwolfhall.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dumbest mother fuckers in history

injore.bsky.social•2 days ago

I keep thinking “it can’t get any dumber”. It seems this administration is consistently trying to prove me wrong.

bildoor.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s a distinct possibility…

makani-noho.bsky.social•2 days ago

OMG I thought this was an Onion joke. They really thought the plane was gay???

jeffroushwriting.bsky.social•2 days ago

I get the sense thought never entered the scene on this one.

heavycrownpress.bsky.social•2 days ago

Keyword search “gay” & just delete every result?

trisresists.bsky.social•2 days ago

This makes me so angry, with a heaping side of sad.

graceejr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Someone hold Pete’s drink

tibbs005.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hah ! Nice guess

jeffroushwriting.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just spitballing here…

vietnamvetbob.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does anyone know what criteria is DEI except black people and women? Are incompetent stupid white men like hegseth ever DEI hires. Afraid we know the answer to that. Disgusting. If you don’t think this is not racism you must be a maga. I mean a childish name has got all of maga in ecstasy.

jeffroushwriting.bsky.social•2 days ago

In my experience, DEI has nothing to do with quotas, and certainly isn’t used to hire, admit, or promote unqualified people. It’s a buzzword meant to couch racism and misogyny as some “merit-based” response to “reverse-racism” and “reverse-sexism.”