appliedmaps.bsky.social
Computer nerd, engineer, sailor, veteran, father of three, grandfather of four.
Among the oldest of Gen X.
Trying not to be a bad example.
If I can’t laugh at it, that’s when you know we’re screwed.
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They need someone loyal enough to overlook their Constitutional oath and follow unlawful orders, and General Brown doesn’t have that capability.
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#feloniousTrump isn’t as dumb as he acts.
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Mark Cuban is a grifter.
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Are these coming once an hour today? You guys are geniuses! Betcha it spikes your numbers. Genuine respect.
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Maybe the causal link goes the other way, and the viruses made the star explode.
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I would much rather see Elon Musk become JD Vance.
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Russian bots are probably most of the 20%
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You can always count on the media to stick to their core message, which is that you should consume more media.
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The best way to be unashamed of one’s history is to stop creating shameful history.
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They’re purging employees who don’t pass the loyalty test.
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It’s an easy call, really. The price-to-earnings ratio plainly tells us that Tesla stock is bubbliciously overvalued by a factor of ten and growth has stalled.
The smart money would get out now.
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SCOTUS will swing at the softball pitch and invent some radically new reinterpretation of citizenship and personhood, and then call it originalist.
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They are not children. They are old enough to be charged with crimes.
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Never mind that, what the people want to know is when will the United States of Amnesia strike?
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We could invent a new kind of word puzzle, where the challenge is to remove the least number of words from the word salad to make it true (without adding any new words).
You could probably make it true by removing, say, 50% of the words.
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We could invent a new kind of word puzzle, where the challenge is to remove the least number of words from the word salad to make it true(without adding any new words).
You could probably make it true by removing, say, 50% of the words.
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Polygraphs are a sham used to intimidate people into confessing things.
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Polygraphs are a sham used to intimidate people into confessing things.
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They’ll be reinstated as soon as they sign the loyalty pledge and NDA.
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If only there was a constitutional branch of the government with the authority to definitely rule on the meaning of our laws.
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Mark Cuban is a grifter.
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Silence from the Fourth Estate as they fearfully ignore their duty.
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A normal, functioning society would never elect such a crook.
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If it’s only public information that they’re examining, then why would they need special access and admin privileges on the systems?
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If you frame it in terms of efficiency gains, I’m sure everyone will be on board with it.
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They’re just doing what the little head tells them to do.
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Shirley, you can’t be Sirius.
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Federal purge: come for the loyalty tests, stay for the grift and graft opportunities.
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She said publicly that she was not paid a single dime for telling the truth. But no word at all about how much she’s been paid for lying.
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The price-to-earnings ratio tells us that Tesla stock is overvalued by a factor of ten.
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A lot of people simply do not understand how they are being manipulated.
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It’s not the money they’re after, it’s the unaccountability.
Without accountability, they can grift and graft all the money and power they want.
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TikTok and Facebook helped #feloniousTrump get re-elected, and they did it because they knew he could be bought.
What the algorithm shows you is what it wants to show you, not what The People are thinking and feeling.
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Focusing on reality and not telling heartwarming fairy tales about what’s going to happen to the petty bad guys.
Our institutions failed us, then the voters failed us.
The Republic has fallen; we’re into the Imperial phase.
I don’t see a soft landing.
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It’s not money they’re after, it’s unaccountability.
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It’s so adorably cute that you still have faith in our broken justice system.
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Sales pitch
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The most 2025 thing so far…
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There’s a juicy stacked sandwich of metaphors here but I just can’t open wide enough to sink my teeth into it.
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She said publicly that she was not paid a single dime for telling the truth. But no word at all about how much she’s been paid for lying.
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Just like Jessica Rabbit, he wasn’t bad, he was just drawn that way.
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I always wondered how Stantz and Venkman knew all about the contents of Peck’s pants.
They presented no evidence.
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An assertion that was accepted by the audience with no evidence.
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MAGAts think they’re the lovable good guys in a slobs vs snobs narrative.
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You’re bloody well right.
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What’s the problem? The VA face eating clinic is fully staffed by leopards.
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Posturing notwithstanding, fairness was never the real goal of the critics.
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Betcha he’s not firing all the probationary employees, only the ones who don’t pass a loyalty test.