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oldfartmaxwell.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandparent, care provider, dog lover, militant pedestrian, computer engineer, frisbee thrower, transit lover, gardener, handyman, atheist, skeptic, and refugee from every other social platform that existed.
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Y’all finally starting to get a little worried?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

So far there seems to be a fractured response. DOD and parts of State and HHS say don't respond, at least for now. FBI says don't respond. But other agencies, including DHS, other parts of DOJ and HHS (overall) are telling their employees that they must respond before midnight tomorrow. Chaos.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

A bit in the weeds but people should be thinking about this. Civil Service law is complicated. And there's an exception to almost every rule somewhere in the govt. But in most cases the following is true. Probationary employees include those in their first year of service and those who have ...

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

My new lizard profile photo. Please send bugs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

When are they going to learn how to sing? At least they will go down as the worst act to ever perform at the Center.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

"She doesn't work for DEI" is an amazing summary of RW psychosis in one gibberish sentence.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

The standard GOP response to angry voters at town halls is to…cancel all town halls. Works for Marsha Blackburn, who hasn’t had a live town hall in 8 years.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

My credit union refused an online deposit of my Federal tax refund check, indicating that “the funds may not be collectible.” Wut?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

California voters created the Coastal Commission through a constitutional amendment initiative, which is why it has survived other attacks from billionaires. It’s not something that can be “waived.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Gender has a spectrum. Sex doesn’t. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/02/23/t...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I knew America was in trouble when it inexplicably rejected the metric system.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Good luck blaming Democrats this time.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

Somebody’s actually fighting back? Now, that’s surprising.

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The history of everything, with humans taking up the first line of page 1 out of 138. We’re insignificant, really. www.futilitycloset.com/2025/02/21/r...

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ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

submitted 2 days ago • 469 comments

It’s funny how we think we’ll get anywhere with “due process” when the opposition openly disregards the same, but do carry on.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So long as “spectacular” doesn’t mean killing everything on the planet.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 3 days ago • 1909 comments

I had a dormant Green Chef account, but my payment method is still good. All I did was log into my account and they restarted meal shipments and charges. I had to call and yell at someone. Totally effed up, @greenchef.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 925 comments

Republican nominees have been lying under oath for years, and now the Senator is disappointed? So pathetic.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My house has been under multiple flight patterns for 37 years and now I’m worried about falling flaming wreckage with body parts. Okay. boingboing.net/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The “natural” and “divine” law BS has been pushed for eons by the ruling classes that literally define their “natural” and “divine” laws.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

He really likes to kill things, doesn’t he?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

Science puns are the best. xkcd.com/3053/

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, I love maps. boingboing.net/2025/02/18/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'm pretty sure we're talking about two separate phenomena. The rich Democratic donors are cowards afraid of Trump's vengeance. The rest of us are ready to fight, but we don't want to give money to spineless D.C. Democrats.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Because you’re both stupid as fuck.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

I'll comment. This was all obvious from the campaign, and you guys are fucking morons

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

$6,000 is my fee for riding one time in this death trap.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Call to action #Feb17: Riverside, Los Angeles, San Jose, California. 12 pm. "We will not accept tyranny" "Unite against fascism and tyranny" "No kings" #3E #USProtests #PresidentsDay #fiftyfiftyone #NDOP

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Y’all need to stop with the “I’m disgusted” rants and lead with “Nothing surprises me anymore.” We’re less than a month in, and the proverbial crap hasn’t hit the fan blades yet.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

When can Melania sue for divorce on grounds of infidelity?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

$6.2 billion and PBS and NPR would never need federal funding again. Put me out of my misery.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Let Spring’s Superbloom of Hypocrisy begin!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Nobody tell her how grand juries work.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Disneyland Autopia ride trained me well for the In-N-Out drive-thru.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so fucking pissed that no person or group seems capable of standing up to the tyrannical incompetence that’s been going on for weeks. It’s not my job, I have enough responsibilities already.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments