Chuck
@chuckmcmanis.bsky.social
Engineer, Roboticist, Dad, HAM, Lifelong learner, and teller of stories.
I write code, build gizmos, and love learning new things.
I write code, build gizmos, and love learning new things.
Pinned
Chuck
@chuckmcmanis.bsky.social
· Sep 25
We're watching Trump scramble in real time to try to prevent the Discharge Petition from being passed. Speculation has it that his panic is because he's in those files, but what if there is a bigger reason? Power. Consider the following ...
Well THAT will impress the Nobel committee.
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Well THAT will impress the Nobel committee.
Okay, just for the record, I'm replacing "Felonious Hobo" as 'best popehat simile' with "Emotional Colostomy Bag". 😘
Or you could stop following me, or block me, and stop using Bluesky as your emotional colostomy bag
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Okay, just for the record, I'm replacing "Felonious Hobo" as 'best popehat simile' with "Emotional Colostomy Bag". 😘
This will mess with voting by mail too, if you vote by mail put your ballot in the box as soon as you fill it out, hope fully at least a week before the actual election day.
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
share.google
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This will mess with voting by mail too, if you vote by mail put your ballot in the box as soon as you fill it out, hope fully at least a week before the actual election day.
I was told that old Soviet joke where a guy walks by the newstand picks up the newspaper and then puts it down. The shopkeeper asks "Looking for something specific?", "News of a death" says the customer. "That would be in obituaries 4th section." "Not this one" says the customer.
December 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I was told that old Soviet joke where a guy walks by the newstand picks up the newspaper and then puts it down. The shopkeeper asks "Looking for something specific?", "News of a death" says the customer. "That would be in obituaries 4th section." "Not this one" says the customer.
Reposted by Chuck
Wow. This looked like an amazing event.
Hello! We’ve put together a short video with some impressions from Amiga 40 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, back on October 18-19.
It was an amazing event, full of great vibes, familiar faces, legendary heroes, and plenty of new friends along the way.
#amiga #amiga40 #retro #retrogame #indiegamedev
It was an amazing event, full of great vibes, familiar faces, legendary heroes, and plenty of new friends along the way.
#amiga #amiga40 #retro #retrogame #indiegamedev
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Wow. This looked like an amazing event.
Here's a prediction for Tuesday's stories :
"Sharyn Alfonsi, who is no longer working for CBS news and is characterized by her management as "a disgruntled employee that couldn't handle the news business", made some statements which are not true, and if they were true she couldn't prove them."
"Sharyn Alfonsi, who is no longer working for CBS news and is characterized by her management as "a disgruntled employee that couldn't handle the news business", made some statements which are not true, and if they were true she couldn't prove them."
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Here's a prediction for Tuesday's stories :
"Sharyn Alfonsi, who is no longer working for CBS news and is characterized by her management as "a disgruntled employee that couldn't handle the news business", made some statements which are not true, and if they were true she couldn't prove them."
"Sharyn Alfonsi, who is no longer working for CBS news and is characterized by her management as "a disgruntled employee that couldn't handle the news business", made some statements which are not true, and if they were true she couldn't prove them."
Watching "The Sound of Music" on the Criterion channel and it really hits differently this year, you know?
December 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Watching "The Sound of Music" on the Criterion channel and it really hits differently this year, you know?
I certainly concur with a lot of what Tom writes below, for a show that tries to nominally be "in the same world we live in" the writers miss some big things which make this show objectively not good. /1
I'm going to base my "objectively bad" rating of Pluribus on the fact that the character is inconsistently written, among many other flaws. (No, don't tell me "well, she's HUMAN, we're weird!") She's a paper-thin character, as are the others. /1
I don't think it makes sense to say it's "bad." It's not for you, fair enough. I often don't like things the rest of the world seems to rave about (most recently "Fat Ham") but I know it's just my taste, not that it was objectively bad.
December 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I certainly concur with a lot of what Tom writes below, for a show that tries to nominally be "in the same world we live in" the writers miss some big things which make this show objectively not good. /1
I'm kind of surprised AG Barbie found enough pages in the non existent Epstein files to redact so much, I mean I heard there were no files and no list, that was just a hoax.
December 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I'm kind of surprised AG Barbie found enough pages in the non existent Epstein files to redact so much, I mean I heard there were no files and no list, that was just a hoax.
I'm sure if there were "ChatGPT trends" along the lines of "Google Trends" where the most popular prompts were identified, all the top ones would be "use phrasing to a customer as if I cared."
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I'm sure if there were "ChatGPT trends" along the lines of "Google Trends" where the most popular prompts were identified, all the top ones would be "use phrasing to a customer as if I cared."
@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social sad to hear of the passing of iRobot, I would love to hear your thoughts on what worked and what didn't.
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social sad to hear of the passing of iRobot, I would love to hear your thoughts on what worked and what didn't.
I'm old enough to remember when Elmo thought Twitter was broken because it was full of bots.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Elmo thought Twitter was broken because it was full of bots.
Tell me, in legalize, that you have no more fucks to give. Exhibit A.
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tell me, in legalize, that you have no more fucks to give. Exhibit A.
Reposted by Chuck
1/ Ukraine's recent reversal of Russian gains in Kupyansk – celebrated here by President Zelenskyy – highlights months of false claims of victory by General Valery Gerasimov. Russian warbloggers have for months been warning that such claims are false. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/wart...
bsky.app/profile/wart...
Zelensky arrived in Kupyansk, which Putin claims is "under Russian control."
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
1/ Ukraine's recent reversal of Russian gains in Kupyansk – celebrated here by President Zelenskyy – highlights months of false claims of victory by General Valery Gerasimov. Russian warbloggers have for months been warning that such claims are false. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/wart...
bsky.app/profile/wart...
Reposted by Chuck
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
So Republicans are taking tariff money they collected from other Americans and giving it to Americans they like? Sounds like wealth re-distribution to me? hmm? 😆
a man in a red and white striped jacket and hat is dancing in a crowd of people .
ALT: a man in a red and white striped jacket and hat is dancing in a crowd of people .
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
So Republicans are taking tariff money they collected from other Americans and giving it to Americans they like? Sounds like wealth re-distribution to me? hmm? 😆
You see, @radiofreetom.bsky.social is my mine canary. When I hear he's been disappeared and nobody knows where or why, then I'll now that *now* the US is a Fascist state and can head for the exit. 😉
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You see, @radiofreetom.bsky.social is my mine canary. When I hear he's been disappeared and nobody knows where or why, then I'll now that *now* the US is a Fascist state and can head for the exit. 😉
My favorite take from Dave here, "journalists who treat politics as entertainment" rather than the future path of the country.
Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance.
She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.
Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.
She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.
Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My favorite take from Dave here, "journalists who treat politics as entertainment" rather than the future path of the country.
Not bad for a quadraped.
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Not bad for a quadraped.
This wins. They absolutely should.
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This wins. They absolutely should.
Reposted by Chuck
Anyone who was born an American and therefore feels superior to someone who had to work to become an American doesn’t know the first thing about being an American.
December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Anyone who was born an American and therefore feels superior to someone who had to work to become an American doesn’t know the first thing about being an American.
I wonder if the American Billionaires realize that if they help Ukraine overthrow the Putin regime, they can go into the scraps of Russia and use Russia's own oil revenue to build nuclear powered AI data centers that don't have to abide copyright or privacy rules the US and EU impose?
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I wonder if the American Billionaires realize that if they help Ukraine overthrow the Putin regime, they can go into the scraps of Russia and use Russia's own oil revenue to build nuclear powered AI data centers that don't have to abide copyright or privacy rules the US and EU impose?
The cynic in me believes we're on track to unilaterally invade Venezuela on December 19th 2025. Why the 19th? Because that's when the DoJ has to release the Epstein files and the only thing that will keep them off the front page is a story of the US going to war.
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The cynic in me believes we're on track to unilaterally invade Venezuela on December 19th 2025. Why the 19th? Because that's when the DoJ has to release the Epstein files and the only thing that will keep them off the front page is a story of the US going to war.
Reposted by Chuck
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Chuck
People who advocate for electing the president by popular really are saying that federalism shouldn't matter - largely because they like the way that big cities would control elections. (For now.) This is dumb, especially now, when federalism has been a godsend.
A thread.
/1
A thread.
/1
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
People who advocate for electing the president by popular really are saying that federalism shouldn't matter - largely because they like the way that big cities would control elections. (For now.) This is dumb, especially now, when federalism has been a godsend.
A thread.
/1
A thread.
/1