Joe Beda
@h.olysh.it
Semi-retired technologist. Did k8s, GCE, gtalk and IE. Figuring shit out. Protect Trans kids 🏳️⚧️. Seattle. Signal: jbeda.99 he/him
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Joe Beda
@h.olysh.it
· Dec 4
Protect trans kids.
No matter how hard they try, they can’t make us like them.
No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.
No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
No matter how hard they try, they can’t make us like them.
No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.
No matter how hard we try, we can’t make them feel shame.
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1/3: Gender-affirming care is legal and protected in Washington state.
✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.
✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
1/3: Gender-affirming care is legal and protected in Washington state.
✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.
✅ Health insurers cannot deny or limit gender-affirming care coverage for people of any age when it’s prescribed as medically necessary.
I’m loving the San Juan County flag!
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’m loving the San Juan County flag!
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If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
Transanta
Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!
www.transanta.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
It is so clear that @cantwell.senate.gov needs to go. She just got reelected but I won’t forget her weakness and am ready to support a primary challenger when the time comes.
16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA:
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It is so clear that @cantwell.senate.gov needs to go. She just got reelected but I won’t forget her weakness and am ready to support a primary challenger when the time comes.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Is someone keeping a list of all the Dems we need to primary and why?
I don’t want to forget these betrayals.
I don’t want to forget these betrayals.
December 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Is someone keeping a list of all the Dems we need to primary and why?
I don’t want to forget these betrayals.
I don’t want to forget these betrayals.
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If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas’d me, complexions that lik’d me, and breaths that I defied not
If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
Transanta
Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!
www.transanta.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas’d me, complexions that lik’d me, and breaths that I defied not
For your consideration: Willie in his best Christmas finery.
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
For your consideration: Willie in his best Christmas finery.
If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
Transanta
Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!
www.transanta.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to spark some trans joy on such a scary day, may I suggest www.transanta.com? Let's get holiday gifts for trans kids.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
You can pick a registry and send a gift directly or donate to them and they'll make the magic happen.
I'm so scared for all the trans kids. It all just makes me so sad and I just want to give each and every one of them a hug (if they want it).
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm so scared for all the trans kids. It all just makes me so sad and I just want to give each and every one of them a hug (if they want it).
LLMs are like overconfident white men. They may be wrong but they say it with such authority that people believe them.
There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
LLMs are like overconfident white men. They may be wrong but they say it with such authority that people believe them.
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super cool that the Democrats shut down the government to "protect ACA subsidies", then threw away all their leverage in exchange for a pinky promise to have a vote on subsidies a month later, which is now being used as an excuse for the GOP to slip in anti-trans clauses and dare Dems to agree
the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
December 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
super cool that the Democrats shut down the government to "protect ACA subsidies", then threw away all their leverage in exchange for a pinky promise to have a vote on subsidies a month later, which is now being used as an excuse for the GOP to slip in anti-trans clauses and dare Dems to agree
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Software engineers love to sprinkle “orthogonally” in nerd debates.
So I made a play on “the more you know” rainbow shooting star meme 😂 It’s on my hobby Etsy now!
🌈✨ amysmangostand.etsy.com/listing/4416...
So I made a play on “the more you know” rainbow shooting star meme 😂 It’s on my hobby Etsy now!
🌈✨ amysmangostand.etsy.com/listing/4416...
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Software engineers love to sprinkle “orthogonally” in nerd debates.
So I made a play on “the more you know” rainbow shooting star meme 😂 It’s on my hobby Etsy now!
🌈✨ amysmangostand.etsy.com/listing/4416...
So I made a play on “the more you know” rainbow shooting star meme 😂 It’s on my hobby Etsy now!
🌈✨ amysmangostand.etsy.com/listing/4416...
The buck stops there.
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The buck stops there.
Recipe time!
I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup.
It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.
I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup.
It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Recipe time!
I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup.
It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.
I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup.
It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.
This is worth a listen. Dan talking about how the uproar around “just following orders” is different from a lot of the various crisis of the day.
Ok, new Common Sense just released. It's timely and pithy and hopefully you think it worth your time (and mine).
We called it: "Who's the Boss?"
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
We called it: "Who's the Boss?"
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
dts.podtrac.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is worth a listen. Dan talking about how the uproar around “just following orders” is different from a lot of the various crisis of the day.
Seriously. Don’t boost something without reading it. This is just irresponsible.
Went back & finished reading this, my b for sharing w/o completing - he is wrong on a lot! We should *not* throw marginalized people under the bus! I maintain he should shut the fuck up! But "be mad at the status quo & fight for affordable housing + childcare" is better than "roll over & play dead"
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Seriously. Don’t boost something without reading it. This is just irresponsible.
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Carville’s way will be another turn of the crank of what happened during Bidens term. We must hold people to account. That won’t happen with this thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Carville’s way will be another turn of the crank of what happened during Bidens term. We must hold people to account. That won’t happen with this thinking.
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I’ve given quite a bit to RFS (look it up @amandalitman.bsky.social) but your boosting of this piece is very disappointing and I will reconsider my support in the future.
Now is the time to stay strong for values. To fix our system we must condemn those that broke it.
Now is the time to stay strong for values. To fix our system we must condemn those that broke it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’ve given quite a bit to RFS (look it up @amandalitman.bsky.social) but your boosting of this piece is very disappointing and I will reconsider my support in the future.
Now is the time to stay strong for values. To fix our system we must condemn those that broke it.
Now is the time to stay strong for values. To fix our system we must condemn those that broke it.
It’s time to put the Goth back in Black Friday.
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It’s time to put the Goth back in Black Friday.
Ok so both McLaren cars were disqualified for riding too low.
I’m in the Las Vegas lounge and a lot of the team is here.
“We might as well not have come”
😂
#f1
I’m in the Las Vegas lounge and a lot of the team is here.
“We might as well not have come”
😂
#f1
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ok so both McLaren cars were disqualified for riding too low.
I’m in the Las Vegas lounge and a lot of the team is here.
“We might as well not have come”
😂
#f1
I’m in the Las Vegas lounge and a lot of the team is here.
“We might as well not have come”
😂
#f1