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knittingknight.bsky.social
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I should have made more AOCs.

I kind of want to go

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

me reading national security secrets bc i've been accidentally added to a group chat

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

Circling back on this…

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

THIS is the pilot you want in this environment.

I was the Commander of the @ISS when Andy, @Astro_Andreas flew his first space mission. He is one of the most competent, trustworthy, and honest people I’ve ever met. This rhetoric is beyond the pale but, sadly, not surprising. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect.

All of us on here who kept telling the rest of you to stop watching MSNBC have been proved correct. MSNBC has a long history of firing outspoken Black women hosts. None of her so-called colleagues will speak up for her, trust and believe this. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

If you believe in the "Rule of Law" that means the government has to follow the law too...

Musk, Theil, Vance, Trump, and all their fellow Curtis Yarvin stans would do well to remember there is no honor among thieves. Yes, stealing a country might seem like a great heist to them now, but those willing to destroy their nation for personal gain will also destroy each other.

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

This metaphor is too good.

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

For no particular reason I am thinking about how until 1933 German universities were the most prestigious in the world.

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

I was going to post this classic bit but realized it’s probably time to retire it forever now that the papers’ front pages actually say things like ‘Iron-Willed President Towers Undaunted Above the Chaos He’s Created’

Time to describe what Trump is doing as reverse-DEI, an IED if you will?

It'd be a shame if the terms "swasticars" and "Muskolini" caught on. #swasticars #Muskolini