Nire Bryce
@nirebryce.breadthcharge.net
India Alpha Tango Charlie (derogatory)
Child of Eris. Conceptual Midwife.
Liberation Technologist. Insightful Nuisance.
This is where I think out loud.
Reality is the battlefield.
disco: nire
she/they
33 +/- 3. Trans, ND, Tired
BOS, US
Eggbug lives
Child of Eris. Conceptual Midwife.
Liberation Technologist. Insightful Nuisance.
This is where I think out loud.
Reality is the battlefield.
disco: nire
she/they
33 +/- 3. Trans, ND, Tired
BOS, US
Eggbug lives
Pinned
an index of threads
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Some of them are. Some were "special government employees" who hit their time limit, some resigned after their group chats got leaked, and some were Musk sycophants who left after Musk. But a bunch were permanently folded into the US Digital Service, which was hollowed out to make room for them.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Some of them are. Some were "special government employees" who hit their time limit, some resigned after their group chats got leaked, and some were Musk sycophants who left after Musk. But a bunch were permanently folded into the US Digital Service, which was hollowed out to make room for them.
thinking about how more of us on here accidentally know more game theory by osmosis than probably would have been known by everyone involved in game theory brinksmanship in the cold war
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
thinking about how more of us on here accidentally know more game theory by osmosis than probably would have been known by everyone involved in game theory brinksmanship in the cold war
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Q-UP answers the question "would productivity be better if JIRA had a 're-roll challenges ($100)' button?"
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Q-UP answers the question "would productivity be better if JIRA had a 're-roll challenges ($100)' button?"
the doge lads are still there right
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
the doge lads are still there right
Q-UP is like "what if Cookie Clicker was Enterprise Balatro but GitHub Actions"
Q-Up is one of the funniest metaphors for the sensation of test driven development
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Q-UP is like "what if Cookie Clicker was Enterprise Balatro but GitHub Actions"
the thing about tech CEOs is when you don't have to do the work of implementing it, progress is addicting and also builds tolerance fast
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
the thing about tech CEOs is when you don't have to do the work of implementing it, progress is addicting and also builds tolerance fast
I donate a large (for me) amount to PBS because after having watched PBS Kids, I think they put the drugs to better use than I ever would
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I donate a large (for me) amount to PBS because after having watched PBS Kids, I think they put the drugs to better use than I ever would
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
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I’m gonna go out in a limb and say there’s a negligible chance of OK meaningfully relaunching. Rhodes’s leadership was always a point of contention, I doubt anything he’s the face of will have much impact moving forward.
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say there’s a negligible chance of OK meaningfully relaunching. Rhodes’s leadership was always a point of contention, I doubt anything he’s the face of will have much impact moving forward.
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
thinking about how fascism itself is cruel and unusual punishment, and how broad the eighth amendment is
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
thinking about how fascism itself is cruel and unusual punishment, and how broad the eighth amendment is
on one hand, q-up is very addictive, on the other, the dead-zone is so small that I have done more idle squats today than I have all week and also I didn't realize I spent 2 hours on the stationary bike
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
on one hand, q-up is very addictive, on the other, the dead-zone is so small that I have done more idle squats today than I have all week and also I didn't realize I spent 2 hours on the stationary bike
the USSR was a collapsed state and never managed to pull out of that. Communist China was a collapsed state, and they sort of pulled out of it before being forced to meet in the middle with capitalism under both threat of war and underproduction with a growing population.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
the USSR was a collapsed state and never managed to pull out of that. Communist China was a collapsed state, and they sort of pulled out of it before being forced to meet in the middle with capitalism under both threat of war and underproduction with a growing population.
Q-Up is one of the funniest metaphors for the sensation of test driven development
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Q-Up is one of the funniest metaphors for the sensation of test driven development
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"The Appeasement Eight gave Republicans bipartisan cover, and established another point of leverage Trump has over Congressional Dems...in a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Therefore, preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move."
Yep:
Yep:
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"The Appeasement Eight gave Republicans bipartisan cover, and established another point of leverage Trump has over Congressional Dems...in a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Therefore, preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move."
Yep:
Yep:
(of all people, you should understand social capital and soft power, c'mon)
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
(of all people, you should understand social capital and soft power, c'mon)
an interesting thing about the Senate vote is they didn't even bother to message about it which could soften the blow by lying about it
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
an interesting thing about the Senate vote is they didn't even bother to message about it which could soften the blow by lying about it
van eck phreaking her brain
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
van eck phreaking her brain
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Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States,
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States,
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
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so what about that Epstein vote
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
so what about that Epstein vote
too many people treat the Dems like half the nation instead of just one piece on the board
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
too many people treat the Dems like half the nation instead of just one piece on the board
so what about that Epstein vote
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
so what about that Epstein vote
this is some wild tax-cut arbitrage
Trump says Americans will receive $2,000 tariff dividend
Trump says Americans will receive $2,000 tariff dividend
"A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” President Trump posted on his social media platform.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
this is some wild tax-cut arbitrage