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He/Him Disabled manager of site reliability and application operations, trying to figure out my new life. 
Ventura County, California @[email protected] on Mastodon. Formerly bpub and laukidh on Twitter.
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Went bowling today with @lillywachowski.bsky.social @junlper.beer @kaylapekkala.bsky.social and others

I am guilty of it as well but we all have to be respectful and considerate of not showing people Bill Maher’s smirking face without adequate warning and consent

How it started // How it’s going

well if there is one thing whose awesome power republican presidents respect and are powerless in the face of it's a central american nation's national sovereignty

Some context that may be missing from the Witmer/Trump discussion is that she was there in part to try to get federal help for a natural disaster. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

the left was mostly absent at a recent homophobia convention. the left was mostly absent at the last white power parade. the left was m

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

bro there is still time to delete this

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

Someone's writing a dissent and I'm nervous about how this will turn out.

Love the sentiment but wtf is this data graphic

Would be great if actual data enriched some of the "antisemitism on campus" takes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

When you just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever

so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines. this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.

Worth noting that this passed by one vote and two Democratic congresspeople have died in office in the last six weeks.

In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.

She is trying to remove another letter from "LGBTQIA"

If people change their username and profile picture I’m sorry but I can’t remember you. You’re Kermit the Frog, you’re Macho Man, you’re Professor Guy, I’m fucked up soccer sun that’s just who we are here. It’s like the beginning of Reservoir Dogs, it’s best we know each other this way

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

A year ago versus now 🫠

I remember saying a while back that Democrats should be doing everything in their power to hobble Trump's agenda and gum up the works. This is the sort of thing I was talking about.

LRT: yes that’s a joke

Every joke I made in high school about white people was correct

/r/smallbusiness is full of stories like these right now, including from owners who have tried to domestically source products but there are no manufacturers in the U.S. that are set up to make their products

 "There's way more protests happening than is commonly talked about. This is showing that basically by the end of February, we had tallied twice as many protests in the United States as had happened at this time in 2017." - @chenoweth.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTRA...

The White House have just released this Press Release: Week 11 WINS: President Trump Unleashes Economic Prosperity The S&P 500 $SPY just had its worst two day crash since Covid, down nearly 10% this week.

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.