A Hooded Stranger
@ahoodedstranger.bsky.social
* Believer in traditional values, like progress, solidarity, and the betterment of mankind through rational means.
* Poly-Nerd: easily excited by science, technology, languages, philosophy, history, anthropology.
* Stoic-ish.
* German
* Poly-Nerd: easily excited by science, technology, languages, philosophy, history, anthropology.
* Stoic-ish.
* German
The EU didn't break the internet. Industry did by not coming up with a solution to privacy choices that don't require a cookie consent form on every website.
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The EU didn't break the internet. Industry did by not coming up with a solution to privacy choices that don't require a cookie consent form on every website.
Words have meanings! 'Terrorism' must at the very least pursue the spread of terror, that is, fear.
That is not what drug cartels are doing in the US. They may, at times, in other countries, but in the US, they're actively trying to maintain a low profile.
Don't let them muddy the waters!
That is not what drug cartels are doing in the US. They may, at times, in other countries, but in the US, they're actively trying to maintain a low profile.
Don't let them muddy the waters!
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Words have meanings! 'Terrorism' must at the very least pursue the spread of terror, that is, fear.
That is not what drug cartels are doing in the US. They may, at times, in other countries, but in the US, they're actively trying to maintain a low profile.
Don't let them muddy the waters!
That is not what drug cartels are doing in the US. They may, at times, in other countries, but in the US, they're actively trying to maintain a low profile.
Don't let them muddy the waters!
What's the most benevolent realistic explanation for Trump's attempts at peace diplomacy in Ukraine and Israel?
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What's the most benevolent realistic explanation for Trump's attempts at peace diplomacy in Ukraine and Israel?
Turns out whatever makes him a dumb asshole of a person is also what makes him a terrible US president by all objective measures.
Who on earth would ever have thought that?
Who on earth would ever have thought that?
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Turns out whatever makes him a dumb asshole of a person is also what makes him a terrible US president by all objective measures.
Who on earth would ever have thought that?
Who on earth would ever have thought that?
Who else is getting multiple scam 'PayPal' calls a day?
I mean, it's good to waste their time so they can't use it to call someone more vulnerable, but damn this is getting tiresome!
I mean, it's good to waste their time so they can't use it to call someone more vulnerable, but damn this is getting tiresome!
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Who else is getting multiple scam 'PayPal' calls a day?
I mean, it's good to waste their time so they can't use it to call someone more vulnerable, but damn this is getting tiresome!
I mean, it's good to waste their time so they can't use it to call someone more vulnerable, but damn this is getting tiresome!
Reposted by A Hooded Stranger
Anyone else feel the need to list/prioritize their “fervent wishes” for people in this administration? 😂My fave meme this week? 👇🏻😎
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Anyone else feel the need to list/prioritize their “fervent wishes” for people in this administration? 😂My fave meme this week? 👇🏻😎
Ugh, stale beer! No, thanks!
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ugh, stale beer! No, thanks!
"You can count on the Americans to do the right thing...."
It's so weird seeing Americans defend the filibuster and racially segregated districting as the sacred guaranters of freedom and democracy when they're just band-aids over the most glaring holes, which barely hurt less than they help.
It's so weird seeing Americans defend the filibuster and racially segregated districting as the sacred guaranters of freedom and democracy when they're just band-aids over the most glaring holes, which barely hurt less than they help.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"You can count on the Americans to do the right thing...."
It's so weird seeing Americans defend the filibuster and racially segregated districting as the sacred guaranters of freedom and democracy when they're just band-aids over the most glaring holes, which barely hurt less than they help.
It's so weird seeing Americans defend the filibuster and racially segregated districting as the sacred guaranters of freedom and democracy when they're just band-aids over the most glaring holes, which barely hurt less than they help.
Donald Trump has pardoned 1.600 people in his second term. He has explicitly said that he doesn't know anything about some of them.
How can anyone let him attack Biden's autopen pardons?
How can anyone let him attack Biden's autopen pardons?
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Donald Trump has pardoned 1.600 people in his second term. He has explicitly said that he doesn't know anything about some of them.
How can anyone let him attack Biden's autopen pardons?
How can anyone let him attack Biden's autopen pardons?
Is it cruel to ask a spam caller how they would feel about someone stealing from their mother like they're trying to steal from you?
That's what I just did, and apparently I drew blood, because they called me again, a minute after they hung up, and cussed me out.
That's what I just did, and apparently I drew blood, because they called me again, a minute after they hung up, and cussed me out.
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Is it cruel to ask a spam caller how they would feel about someone stealing from their mother like they're trying to steal from you?
That's what I just did, and apparently I drew blood, because they called me again, a minute after they hung up, and cussed me out.
That's what I just did, and apparently I drew blood, because they called me again, a minute after they hung up, and cussed me out.
Would be nice if it didn't compound them. As in: actively supporting a genocide and dropping bombs to (not) kill a nuclear program that isn't near completion and wouldn't exist without the continued interventions of the US.
June 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Would be nice if it didn't compound them. As in: actively supporting a genocide and dropping bombs to (not) kill a nuclear program that isn't near completion and wouldn't exist without the continued interventions of the US.
Who could benefit from that... Ah, yes private prison companies which can earn a lot of money from otherwise useless land. 😕
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Who could benefit from that... Ah, yes private prison companies which can earn a lot of money from otherwise useless land. 😕
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an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
June 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
If I were a Luigi, I'd jump out of an unmarked van refuse to identify myself... and just zip-tie my victim, shove them into the vehicle and whisk them away, never to be seen again.
I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.
June 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
If I were a Luigi, I'd jump out of an unmarked van refuse to identify myself... and just zip-tie my victim, shove them into the vehicle and whisk them away, never to be seen again.
On his birthday.
June 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
On his birthday.
The more generally evil your political opponent is the simpler you can make your messages. "Black Lives Matter" was great. "No Kings" is better.
How about "No Killing People" next? Would Google lend us their "Don't be evil," now that they're not using it anymore?
How about "No Killing People" next? Would Google lend us their "Don't be evil," now that they're not using it anymore?
June 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The more generally evil your political opponent is the simpler you can make your messages. "Black Lives Matter" was great. "No Kings" is better.
How about "No Killing People" next? Would Google lend us their "Don't be evil," now that they're not using it anymore?
How about "No Killing People" next? Would Google lend us their "Don't be evil," now that they're not using it anymore?
Trump promising to shield farm workers from deportations really means he isn't enforcing the law. Which, in this case, of course, is a good thing, but it highlights the fact that neither the left nor the right seem to think that the law does what it should do.
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!
newrepublic.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump promising to shield farm workers from deportations really means he isn't enforcing the law. Which, in this case, of course, is a good thing, but it highlights the fact that neither the left nor the right seem to think that the law does what it should do.
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
Hey! Read anything good, lately?
June 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hey! Read anything good, lately?
So, when Hegseth put lethality front and center for his "war fighters", was he thinking of deploying marines against American citizens?
June 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
So, when Hegseth put lethality front and center for his "war fighters", was he thinking of deploying marines against American citizens?
What boggles the mind is that Trump keeps finding people at all levels who will do his bidding, knowing full well that he's lied and thrown his faithful under the bus.
And for some reason they still believe he will tell them the truth and be loyal to them.
And for some reason they still believe he will tell them the truth and be loyal to them.
June 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What boggles the mind is that Trump keeps finding people at all levels who will do his bidding, knowing full well that he's lied and thrown his faithful under the bus.
And for some reason they still believe he will tell them the truth and be loyal to them.
And for some reason they still believe he will tell them the truth and be loyal to them.
Make your bed with a lying psychopath who doesn't give a damn about anyone else and you'll find they're a lying psychopath who doesn't give a damn about you.
June 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Make your bed with a lying psychopath who doesn't give a damn about anyone else and you'll find they're a lying psychopath who doesn't give a damn about you.
How about a game of chess between the current US president and the last to settle the question of whose executive orders should stand?
June 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
How about a game of chess between the current US president and the last to settle the question of whose executive orders should stand?
Weird to say this but all lives matter. Like, the children who are dying w/out USAID - their lives matter. Those who were deported to countries where they face prison, cruelty, death - their lives matter. Palestinians. LGBTQ. The poor. Their lives matter, not just the white South African farmers'.
May 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Weird to say this but all lives matter. Like, the children who are dying w/out USAID - their lives matter. Those who were deported to countries where they face prison, cruelty, death - their lives matter. Palestinians. LGBTQ. The poor. Their lives matter, not just the white South African farmers'.
The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Jama. More corrupt than alternatives run by a government that silences opposition, pardons useful criminals, sells citizenships, openly accepts bribes. I think not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals
US health secretary calls leading medical journals such as Lancet ‘corrupt’ and pushes to create state-run alternatives
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Jama. More corrupt than alternatives run by a government that silences opposition, pardons useful criminals, sells citizenships, openly accepts bribes. I think not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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62 % der Deutschen haben Angst vor der AfD. Sie fürchten, dass die Partei die Demokratie zerstört. Aber quasi alle großen Parteien bedienen nur die (überzogenen und fiktiven) Sorgen von 24 % AfD-Wählern. Die Sorgen der Deutschen werden eben NICHT ernst genommen. Sie werden verstärkt.
May 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
62 % der Deutschen haben Angst vor der AfD. Sie fürchten, dass die Partei die Demokratie zerstört. Aber quasi alle großen Parteien bedienen nur die (überzogenen und fiktiven) Sorgen von 24 % AfD-Wählern. Die Sorgen der Deutschen werden eben NICHT ernst genommen. Sie werden verstärkt.