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PC(USA). Retired software engineer. UMich grad. He/him. Jackal (IYKYK). Dearborn, MI 🏳️‍🌈 “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott https://twbrandt.net/about/
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shitting on people trained in weapons and combat seems like a poor strategy, but what do I know?

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

DC Democrats do not understand how badly they're jeopardizing their own jobs. If they keep this up, politicians who haven't caught a credible primary challenger in years are about to get walloped in the '26 cycle.

submitted 4 hours ago • 140 comments

dammit Shawn

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Hive mind: what’s more effective, calling your senators and representatives, or writing letters to them?

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Jacobs is wholly correct. Trump and Vance may or may not be paid or compromised Russian agents. But it doesn't matter. They are doing the work of such agents. They are the fifth column. The traitors within.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the list of wifi SSIDs in my keychain is like my own personal travelogue.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

orion kerkering is the sound a 56k modem makes when it connects

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

relieved that my federal tax refund landed in my bank account this morning.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’m tempted to resubscribe to the wapo just so I can cancel again.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

My DRM backup.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is the embodiment of Dashiell Hammett’s line: “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.” That’s it. That’s what I’ve got before finishing my first cup of coffee.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A Trump-supporting Muslim immigrant from Yemen is running for mayor of my fair city as a Republican. I guess cognitive dissonance is a global phenomenon.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

it looks like it will strangle you in your bed

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Before the internet we all thought villages only had one idiot. Boy were we off

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Works for me www.freep.com/story/opinio...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Read a story about the Congressional Chicken Caucus writing the agriculture secretary about the avian flu epidemic, and wasn’t sure if the chicken caucus is a real thing or a metaphor. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The Unified Theory of Locks: The strength of a lock is directly proportional to the length of a Lock Picking Lawyer video.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

in any organization, whenever anything goes wrong people always blame the guy who is no longer there.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I guess bsky has arrived. Many of my recent followers have obvious AI-generated profile pics and simply repost other content.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It's cathartic reading about Trump voters who are entering the FO phase, but whether that will affect their voting behavior is unclear. So many of them do not understand cause and effect.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

TIL “Kid” Rock is 54. He’ll be eligible for senior discounts pretty soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

it is manhattan o’clock

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which includes a setting of an inscription scratched on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18 year old Polish girl. Górecki’s music is both heart rending and uplifting. Highly recommended if you haven’t heard it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments