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dbcii.bsky.social
Neurodivergent, nonbinary, academic librarian, geek in Juneau, Alaska. Profile picture credit: @briantific.computer
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Realized late this is a complete repudiation of Joni Ernst. Reusing me sharing the first page since I already did alt text.

like I know we all know it but Christ when you say it out loud

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

If you, like Casey Newton, use LLMs for fact-checking, that should be disclosed directly beneath your byline

Anyone remember how insane 2020 started pre-COVID? We were worried about war with Iran in January ‘20.

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine and lies when he speaks. Here’s why we wrote 234 articles about his claims that he did have such a plan.

Nope: The President can't withhold money that Congress already approved. Thanks, @murray.senate.gov (quoted), Sen. Susan Collins, Rep. Tom Cole, @delauro.house.gov & colleagues for funding America's libraries. We're counting on you to #FundLibraries in FY2026! www.politico.com/live-updates...

40 is the new 20 in that somehow 40 year old Millennials are being called young adults for some reason lol

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

With war spreading through the world, Trump’s plan to use the US Army exclusively against American protesters is looking savvier by the day.

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

And one further point on this: the reason I think Bluesky and the underlying ATprotocol are actually so important is that they are fundamentally set up to allow people to create their own communities and their own culture, without demanding that a company decide it for them.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT MISTER PRESIDENT?

Trying to write about the Noem/Padilla thing and having difficulty even figuring out how to start. Or what kind of headline to write beyond "WHAT THE FUCK, THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY, STOP THE MADNESS"

We will be spending $134 million to deploy Marines following a five-block street protest in downtown LA. We'll offset the cost by forbidding military libraries from buying books by Black authors. by Pete Hegseth

People, we are nearing the end of civilization.

Every needlessly deployed military unit in LA as a House from Game of Thrones. by Chris Cillizza

In a world full of Stephen Millers, be a Terry Moran.

Seeing the Bluesky news today I’m laughing that I’ve had Mark Cuban blocked for months.

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

I told you we’d be back

bastard could have just funded the Bloodborne remake for like 0.01% of that and been a national hero

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

My wife, a teacher, said to me a few weeks ago: "If our own government can't understand what we need to do our jobs properly, do you think rich companies that are only looking for profit can?" 😅

Three things about this comment: 1. Homan is a White House adviser who doesn't have the power to arrest anyone. Neither does Trump. 2. Trump once again acts like he's not in charge. "If I were Tom, I'd do it." Uh, doesn't he work for you? 3. THREATENING TO ARREST A GOVERNOR IS A FIVE ALARM FIRE

More relevant than ever

This is a good statement, keeps focus on the fascists, doesn't tut tut the protestors once

Good stuff

Shitler and his goons are losing their minds over this post from ABC's Terry Moran. Like, they are threatening all kinds of retribution, and he was forced to take this post down. Thing is, he's right, and maybe we can Streisand Effect this to support him and the truth.

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

asking the librarian if they have any books in dark mode

(at a kid's friend's pool party) that's me in the corner that's me in the spotlight looking at my bluesky

If the causation is here — if he really did resign over this — that’s huge. That is very indicative of some extremely questionable decisions.

This headline is trash, though. Trump administration races to blame DOGE because Trump administration, of which DOGE is a key part, fired too many people. Subhead: The Washington Post went alone with their charade, allowing the Trump administration to act like DOGE is not them.

“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person, but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not,” the TSA said.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Keep track of any Democrat or commentator or personality who advocates for Musk to be welcomed back into the fold. These are people you cannot trust and should be kept as far away from the levers of power as humanly possible.

With the country descending into fascism, it's the perfect time for me to plug my new book on the left's cancel culture problem.

I have the spent the last ten years attacking higher education as too woke and liberal. The fact that 53% of the population now agrees with me shows that I was right all along.

These consultants are literally just calling minorities and gay people "bad groups" now. If you don't understand this comes down to "let's crank up the racism dial" I simply don't know what to tell you.

Narrator voice: They were the greatest nation on earth by very few metrics