Greg
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Greg
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Pentester and other IT stuff.
Animals are pretty cool, cats are awesome.
I don’t post much but like what you all post.
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And the worst part is, these aren’t even pandering votes that affect their districts. They just like cops and hate oversight.
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another
The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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For context, the segments of this trail that have opened are some of the most used paths I’ve seen in Colorado, and they’re used by everything from kids at summer camp learning to climb to wheelchair users to strollers to walkers to runners to—

Endless.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.

A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.

We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“Epstein donated to Democrats prior to 2015!!”

So did Donald Fucking Trump.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The message behind “quiet, piggy” was not subtle.
I decide who speaks. I decide what truth is. I decide whose pain persists and whose gets erased. I decide what women are allowed to ask me. I decide which crimes survive and which get swallowed in smoke.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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how does this constitute giving money away if you in fact just gave it to yourself
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand.

But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.
When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Raskin: "We hear even the Speaker of the House openly inviting the US Senate to start finger painting on this bill, which we have waited more than 5 months to bring to the floor. The Senate should pass the bill exactly as it's written ... the president could release the Epstein files right now!"
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Cloudflare's outage was due to their blocklist getting too big: www.theverge.com/news/822869/...
A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector
What isn’t offline right now?
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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THOU SHALT NOT CALL WOMEN ‘PIGGY’!

Never. Not once. Not even in a dream. Every decent human being knows this.
Thou Shalt Not Call Women “Piggy"
Can God get a frigging amen?
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We could have stuff like this, too.

The Lina Khans of the world would have gotten us there.

Instead we got the child rapist behind door #2

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM