Bill Pelletier
@awpiii.bsky.social
Healthcare, IoT, ICS, Product, Enterprise. Salt water boating, cancer research, Sourdough OG. Social Liberal.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Hey @scalzi.com - just read "3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years" in "The Time Traveler’s Passport". Having been on a Space Opera / MilSciFi binge for more than a few years now, this short was a breath of fresh air. An awesome read and took me back to my youth reading everything I could of Clarke and Asimov.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hey @scalzi.com - just read "3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years" in "The Time Traveler’s Passport". Having been on a Space Opera / MilSciFi binge for more than a few years now, this short was a breath of fresh air. An awesome read and took me back to my youth reading everything I could of Clarke and Asimov.
apnews.com/live/donald-... dismisses criticism of Crown Prince over 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying ‘Things happen’
Live updates: Trump gives Saudi crown prince a warm embrace during White House visit
President Donald Trump will fête Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia. Trump announced a deal to sell the kingdom F-35 fighter jets.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-18-2025#0000019a-981b-d2a5-a7fa-faff23cc0000?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Trump
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
apnews.com/live/donald-... dismisses criticism of Crown Prince over 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying ‘Things happen’
Aurora is cooking this evening here in the New Hampshire seacoast even with a light cloud cover.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Aurora is cooking this evening here in the New Hampshire seacoast even with a light cloud cover.
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Democrats need to call Republicans what they are: un-American. Every Republican going along with Trump’s destruction wears that label, and it’s time to make them own it. Watch LP’s Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Democrats need to call Republicans what they are: un-American. Every Republican going along with Trump’s destruction wears that label, and it’s time to make them own it. Watch LP’s Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:
The end of the last tube I had stashed away years ago. L'annine went dark probably 5+ years ago and I have yet to find a replacement. Smooth and silky, not greasy or tacky like most. Those of us who are frequent hand washers know that this time of year results in cracked and bleeding skin.
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The end of the last tube I had stashed away years ago. L'annine went dark probably 5+ years ago and I have yet to find a replacement. Smooth and silky, not greasy or tacky like most. Those of us who are frequent hand washers know that this time of year results in cracked and bleeding skin.
Job title euphemism of the day in a chat with a drug insurance plan CSR: "Pharmacy Policy Advocate"...
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Job title euphemism of the day in a chat with a drug insurance plan CSR: "Pharmacy Policy Advocate"...
First spike of the season out on the north end of the West Trail. Guessing he’s one of last year’s late season fawns.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
First spike of the season out on the north end of the West Trail. Guessing he’s one of last year’s late season fawns.
Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I am unable to not repost this...
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am unable to not repost this...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hivemind: Who is our favorite sticker provider at the moment?
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hivemind: Who is our favorite sticker provider at the moment?
My evil plan is working. The score so far:
Drosera Capensis (Cape Sundew): 7
Drosophila Melanogaster (common fruit fly): 0
Very entertaining in a Darwinian sort of way...
Drosera Capensis (Cape Sundew): 7
Drosophila Melanogaster (common fruit fly): 0
Very entertaining in a Darwinian sort of way...
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My evil plan is working. The score so far:
Drosera Capensis (Cape Sundew): 7
Drosophila Melanogaster (common fruit fly): 0
Very entertaining in a Darwinian sort of way...
Drosera Capensis (Cape Sundew): 7
Drosophila Melanogaster (common fruit fly): 0
Very entertaining in a Darwinian sort of way...
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MAGA, he doesn’t need your approval anymore. He just wanted your vote.
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
MAGA, he doesn’t need your approval anymore. He just wanted your vote.
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When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps.
I don't have a problem understanding it any more...
I don't have a problem understanding it any more...
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps.
I don't have a problem understanding it any more...
I don't have a problem understanding it any more...
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"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity…”
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
wapo.st
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity…”
Hivemind question: For indoor herb gardens, Awk, Gardyn, AeroGarden, or Plain old Pots in the window?
(Or something else?)
(Or something else?)
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hivemind question: For indoor herb gardens, Awk, Gardyn, AeroGarden, or Plain old Pots in the window?
(Or something else?)
(Or something else?)
This tool is such a dick.
Hegseth on his firings of military leaders: "We all serve at the pleasure of the president -- every single day."
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This tool is such a dick.
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“I have not yet begun to fight!”—J.P.Jones (1779)
“Damn the torpedos. Full steam ahead.”—Adm. Farragut (1864)
“NUTS!”— Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
(I944)
“…never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
—President Eisenhower (1954)
“Fuck you. Make me.”—John Oliver (2025)
youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
“Damn the torpedos. Full steam ahead.”—Adm. Farragut (1864)
“NUTS!”— Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
(I944)
“…never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
—President Eisenhower (1954)
“Fuck you. Make me.”—John Oliver (2025)
youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“I have not yet begun to fight!”—J.P.Jones (1779)
“Damn the torpedos. Full steam ahead.”—Adm. Farragut (1864)
“NUTS!”— Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
(I944)
“…never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
—President Eisenhower (1954)
“Fuck you. Make me.”—John Oliver (2025)
youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
“Damn the torpedos. Full steam ahead.”—Adm. Farragut (1864)
“NUTS!”— Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
(I944)
“…never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
—President Eisenhower (1954)
“Fuck you. Make me.”—John Oliver (2025)
youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
Kind of heading down the “Let them eat cake” path….
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
The cruelty and lack of empathy deepens.
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
The cruelty and lack of empathy deepens.
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kind of heading down the “Let them eat cake” path….
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
The cruelty and lack of empathy deepens.
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
The cruelty and lack of empathy deepens.
Miran - just another MAGA fascist shill...
disinflationary because it might kill demand/cause a recession? or...?
Fed Gov Stephen Miran: "If you close that border and you have negative net migration - & there's been reports thus far that 1.5 million migrants have left the US just in the first half of the year -- that's gonna have a very disinflationary effect. And so I'm expecting quite a lot of disinflation."
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Miran - just another MAGA fascist shill...
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A comic about a ghost 👻
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A comic about a ghost 👻