Bert Gambit
@complexifire.bsky.social
software dev, nerd, recovered posting addict
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Holy cow this is beautiful and must have taken a lot of skill
good lord, I love how the most unhinged thing I've ever posted On Here gets the most likes. anyway, I am pure of heart and only make beautiful things like this monarch butterfly cardigan (just finished it this week!)
February 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Holy cow this is beautiful and must have taken a lot of skill
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The lines before this, where More starts by essentially saying to the anti-immigrant rioters, “Your fathers made a peaceful world that you’re tearing down, and if they acted like you none of you would have even made it to adulthood” also feels very prescient at this time.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The lines before this, where More starts by essentially saying to the anti-immigrant rioters, “Your fathers made a peaceful world that you’re tearing down, and if they acted like you none of you would have even made it to adulthood” also feels very prescient at this time.
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Dammit this is fake, deleting all this
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Dammit this is fake, deleting all this
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Bezos gets to choose on a whim to destroy the Washington Post, just as Thiel can destroy Gawker, Musk can ruin Twitter, Ellison can take over TikTok, etc. Millions of others' opposition counts for near nothing.
I realize this puts me in oft mocked MMT territory, but it seems to me the value of taxing the rich is not to fund government but to compress the wealth distribution, so as to ensure those up top are not so disproportionately wealthier than others as to be able to exercise vast undemocratic power.
February 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Bezos gets to choose on a whim to destroy the Washington Post, just as Thiel can destroy Gawker, Musk can ruin Twitter, Ellison can take over TikTok, etc. Millions of others' opposition counts for near nothing.
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Read this starting from page 11. It's not just about her mental state (she clearly was having a mental breakdown). She actually walks through the timeline of when she started at the job (Jan 5) and then from when she started working on the case, the specific events and what time each day etc
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Read this starting from page 11. It's not just about her mental state (she clearly was having a mental breakdown). She actually walks through the timeline of when she started at the job (Jan 5) and then from when she started working on the case, the specific events and what time each day etc
this is supposed to be my exact jam but for some reason it falls flat for me this time
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February 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM
this is supposed to be my exact jam but for some reason it falls flat for me this time
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The past sucked stop trying to drag people back to it, whether you're doing it leftistly or otherwise.
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The past sucked stop trying to drag people back to it, whether you're doing it leftistly or otherwise.
Being a person who has implemented pagination: if I put this as the paginator on a site I would be prosecuted
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February 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Being a person who has implemented pagination: if I put this as the paginator on a site I would be prosecuted
1. 1st page gives no hint how many pages there are; suggests only 2
2. list just keeps growing w/"Next"
3. skipping to "500000" by editing URL…
4. gives same result as skipping to 99999999
1. 1st page gives no hint how many pages there are; suggests only 2
2. list just keeps growing w/"Next"
3. skipping to "500000" by editing URL…
4. gives same result as skipping to 99999999
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The question really isn't whether or not the sun Musk builds will be sentient. No. Who cares. What I want to know is if it will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren't too choppy.
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The question really isn't whether or not the sun Musk builds will be sentient. No. Who cares. What I want to know is if it will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren't too choppy.
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Until the moment they shot him, CBP was treating Alex the same way they’ve treated countless other observers and protesters. They’re lawless and out of control. Conspiracy paranoia will not help achieve justice here or shed light on what’s happening in Minneapolis.
January 27, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Until the moment they shot him, CBP was treating Alex the same way they’ve treated countless other observers and protesters. They’re lawless and out of control. Conspiracy paranoia will not help achieve justice here or shed light on what’s happening in Minneapolis.
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Low on the priority list, but one things Dems should do when they get back in the saddle is subpoena Amazon’s internal docs on this. Shareholders should be aware if (lol “if”) they knowingly blew $75 mil with no chance of recouping a tenth of that so Bezos could hand Trump a sack of cash.
January 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Low on the priority list, but one things Dems should do when they get back in the saddle is subpoena Amazon’s internal docs on this. Shareholders should be aware if (lol “if”) they knowingly blew $75 mil with no chance of recouping a tenth of that so Bezos could hand Trump a sack of cash.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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"It feels like we're performing CPR on a corpse: the US Constitution."
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"It feels like we're performing CPR on a corpse: the US Constitution."
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
Great line, & not from one of our so-called leaders but this random guy
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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Someone else has made this point but "everything you thought you knew about the law is wrong" is just... not how law works.
FFS, that didn't take long.
(To be clear, I'm not blaming @orinkerr.bsky.social, who cited and discussed the same two SCOTUS cases I did in reference to the ICE memo)
(To be clear, I'm not blaming @orinkerr.bsky.social, who cited and discussed the same two SCOTUS cases I did in reference to the ICE memo)
January 23, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Someone else has made this point but "everything you thought you knew about the law is wrong" is just... not how law works.
update: said friend did not in fact make the imagined same observation; said friend instead went off on how vile the artist turned out to be
that thing where that's already happened enough times with other friends that you're already envisioning it happening with this friend when you're starting to put together a playlist for a trip you haven't even scheduled yet
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 AM
update: said friend did not in fact make the imagined same observation; said friend instead went off on how vile the artist turned out to be
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I would genuinely fear hellfire if I did this, and I'm marginal on if I believe in hellfire. I'd spend every living moment fearful that the earth would open her mouth and swallow me up.
As a father of a 5-year-old i am SEETHING
www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesot...
www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesot...
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I would genuinely fear hellfire if I did this, and I'm marginal on if I believe in hellfire. I'd spend every living moment fearful that the earth would open her mouth and swallow me up.
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pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
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This is also why the Bernie and Schumer stuff where they turn all of this into a talking point about the economy or health care is fucking DERANGED.
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
This is also why the Bernie and Schumer stuff where they turn all of this into a talking point about the economy or health care is fucking DERANGED.
friend once walked into a weird old book & junk store in his minneapolis neighborhood, looked around at the knick knacks and… used stuffed animals?… and told the lady “oh I love stores like this!”
she replied in a perfect melodramatic old hollywood voice: therre ahh no stores like THISSS!
she replied in a perfect melodramatic old hollywood voice: therre ahh no stores like THISSS!
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
friend once walked into a weird old book & junk store in his minneapolis neighborhood, looked around at the knick knacks and… used stuffed animals?… and told the lady “oh I love stores like this!”
she replied in a perfect melodramatic old hollywood voice: therre ahh no stores like THISSS!
she replied in a perfect melodramatic old hollywood voice: therre ahh no stores like THISSS!
Thinking of inventing a new kind of polling that can predict the level of blind rage that a large portion respondents will feel if politicians send out a message focusing on a normal-times issue like this at a time like this
Despite Trump’s promises, grocery prices are still rising fast. Families can’t afford this… when is he going to get serious about lowering costs?
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Thinking of inventing a new kind of polling that can predict the level of blind rage that a large portion respondents will feel if politicians send out a message focusing on a normal-times issue like this at a time like this
just can’t win, I wanted to meet under 18 of them and people got mad at me for that too
That's too many to keep track of
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 AM
just can’t win, I wanted to meet under 18 of them and people got mad at me for that too
how quickly "project backlog" flipped from meaning "backlog for the project" to "backlog of projects"
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
how quickly "project backlog" flipped from meaning "backlog for the project" to "backlog of projects"
society if no screenshots
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
society if no screenshots