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eigentourist.bsky.social
Same eigentourist that used to be on the bird site. Software engineering, game dev, infosec, science, chess, music and art.
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SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

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It is absolutely impossible to maintain a belief in meritocracy if you have ever actually been anywhere near any seat of supposedly earned power.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

This 👇should be headline news.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

WHITE HOUSE: Please send gifts and money, we are openly corrupt and ready for business! MEDIA: Some wonder if overly-technical critics might accuse the current administration of having the slight appearance of impropriety.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

By exactly whom John? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 2 days ago • 1078 comments

Your School House Rock moment......

submitted 3 days ago • 350 comments

OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.

submitted 5 days ago • 178 comments

The Trump administration is exploring plans to suspend habeas corpus rights for immigrants, one of the most fundamental protections in the Constitution.

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause and cast it down.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 6 days ago • 1404 comments

This day keeps getting better.

submitted 6 days ago • 1639 comments

Extending an official invite to Chicago's own Pope Leo the XIV to host a screening of BLUES BROTHERS

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

The crazy thing about making video games is that the actual industry is a dumpster fire, but nobody can stop you from just making one. You can make it about anything you want! You can just…do that. And it’s a real video game that counts as a released thing that humans can enjoy. What else is there?

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Yesterday, @opensourcepledge.com was on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. I got to be there for it! Thank you to Nasdaq and congratulations to all of the featured companies who #paythemaintainers! 👏 What a great way to keep celebrating #maintainermonth! 💃

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

There it is…

submitted 7 days ago • 368 comments

Critical mass in Congress refers to the minimum number of votes required to pass legislation. Just one "hard pivot to the Constitution" member could literally change the world. Just one "hair on fire," "Democracy is too important," R member of Congress could trigger a few others who need the push.

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

submitted 7 days ago • 225 comments

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

submitted 7 days ago • 385 comments

When a government starts by stripping rights from a vulnerable group, it’s not the end goal—it’s the opening move. What’s tested on the marginalized today is used on everyone else tomorrow.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Granddaughter of a Navy vet. Daughter of a Navy vet. Mother of an Army soldier. Not one damn dime should be spent on a military parade for a draft dodger…

submitted 8 days ago • 1008 comments

They never end with just making a list or database. Never.

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submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Right?

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

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