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mykl.sparkle.blue
Just a vibe, you know? From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland. Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun. Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.
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Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

submitted 20 minutes ago • 20 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 10 hours ago • 27 comments

Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Can confirm what a couple others have said I think, that the dumb five-bullet-points email went out to federal judiciary staff.

submitted 45 minutes ago • 18 comments

Powerful & heartbreaking from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at extortion of Ukraine’s wealth. Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

The bullet points in the email from the federal judges are going to be very interesting!

submitted 42 minutes ago • 6 comments

I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

“The UK and its people are among Ukraine’s biggest supporters, and we deeply appreciate this” Volodymyr Zelenskyy

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1122 comments

I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

submitted 2 hours ago • 53 comments

What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/less...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

If I were treating the federal workforce like worthless peons whose fates I hold in my hand, pretty sure I wouldn’t be using the word “bullets” in my communications with them at all.

submitted 1 hour ago • 36 comments

Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

submitted 1 hour ago • 218 comments

If this doesn't work, their next plan is to drive really slow with "honk if you resign" bumper stickers

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

A fully unionised workforce could all write back as one YOUR MUM.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

What if Schrödinger's box had a another option

submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Do people really pay for this?

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

what the fuck is happening

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

This is such a great point because here we have the world’s richest man and the president of the United States and they’re both idiots, and there’s a cognitive dissonance where one can argue “they can’t be idiots, look what they’ve accomplished.” But yet still they are idiots

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

It's absolutely infuriating how this idea that Russia is a great power for tautological reasons is something believed by statesmen and world leaders

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

"The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange." Pure gangsterism. What you'd expect from Putin and Wagner, or a mafia syndicate. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 6 hours ago • 92 comments

I want to tell you a story. In 2015, I was in the small Lithuanian city of Panevežys, standing with the locals, watching a military parade. But this was no ordinary parade, because marching alongside the Lithuanian troops were our American allies.🧵1/17

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

If you are a Federal employee, this is an HR matter and make it their problem If you have union representation, see if they will call this an irregular evaluation by a member of the public

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Not even, they all have this fantasy that Black people will come for their sad little canned bean stash and finally they will have an excuse to do Race War

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments