Fly Tie Guy
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Fly Tie Guy
@flytieguy.bsky.social
I’m Jay. Happiest fly you’ll ever meet. I do intellectual property stuff. Dual 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 based in California.
That quote hit me like a freight
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 29, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors
January 29, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Love you Barry, but that podcast rec is giving me major Apu-banana bread vibes
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Ah, imaginary whataboutism, the best whataboutism.

You're asking me about a bad thing that really happened? Well, whatabout a different bad thing that didn't actually happen, something I've imagined? Whatabout that, huh? I'm a victim here.

OK, now that these things are balanced out, let's move on.
Ron Johnson on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "Let's talk about how crazy this is. Had that been a Republican member of Congress and an illegal immigrant spraying something at them, in Minneapolis what would probably happen is they would release that illegal immigrant."
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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[watching through military binoculars as orange slices are handed out to kids between halves at pee wee soccer]

This is PROFESSIONAL grade logistics. Look at the matching uniforms. Look at the coordination. Someone is BANKROLLING this operation.

[retreats using a series of elaborate rolls]
January 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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/2 The predominant ethos of the performatively masculine Right is “if I had my way I would stop these liberals with fire and sword, the way the ancients did, but I have been prevented by cancel culture, which involves people saying mean things to and about me.”
January 26, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Wordle 1,681 3/6*

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January 25, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:

‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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stuff like this, etc
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Fuck this piece of shit
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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The full video of the shooting can be found here: bsky.app/profile/gian...
This is the video.

Please be warned: the video is graphic. It shows ICE agents wrestling a man to the ground, beating him, and then shooting him several times.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Combine every tech buzzword into one headline but add fentanyl:
CBP Wants AI-Powered ‘Quantum Sensors’ for Finding Fentanyl in Cars
US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI database to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 PM
USAID raises its eyebrows
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.

When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Cops $7,338,600,3921
Utility $150
someone who is good at the cost of living please help me budget this. my family is dying
January 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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😂 I needed this
Screaming 😭
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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butchering Adam Serwer's quote but "everybody who voted for Trump wanted somebody to get got, they just didn't realize that they were that somebody to somebody else"
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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NO
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM