Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
@radobrien.myatproto.social
I am very much alive and intend to stay that way
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I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
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A certain kind of man thinks of money as their sole contribution to the household. No cooking, cleaning, childcare, emotional connection or compromise required.
If they're not "the provider" they're unprepared to provide anything else
If they're not "the provider" they're unprepared to provide anything else
Me: You make lots more money than me and I don't understand why men get shitty about that dynamic.
Wife: Most men see breadwinning as a control lever, not a contribution to the family. Also those men don't eat pussy right or at all and have nothing else to offer, so
Wife: Most men see breadwinning as a control lever, not a contribution to the family. Also those men don't eat pussy right or at all and have nothing else to offer, so
February 14, 2026 at 11:43 PM
A certain kind of man thinks of money as their sole contribution to the household. No cooking, cleaning, childcare, emotional connection or compromise required.
If they're not "the provider" they're unprepared to provide anything else
If they're not "the provider" they're unprepared to provide anything else
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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chatGPT finally shut down the sycophantic and hyper-agreeable version 4o and people are losing their shit over it trying to get them to reverse it
February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
chatGPT finally shut down the sycophantic and hyper-agreeable version 4o and people are losing their shit over it trying to get them to reverse it
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January 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
TAX SEASON APPROACHES. DO NOT DO YOUR TAXES WITH TURBOTAX. IF YOU'RE POOR LIKE ME, YOU CAN PROBABLY JUST USE OTL. FREE FEDERAL AND $10 STATE. IDENTICAL INTERFACE TO TURBOTAX. DONT GET CONNED AGAIN THIS APRIL
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Ask and you shall receive
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Ask and you shall receive
People asking me a lot of questions answered by my shirt, etc
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
People asking me a lot of questions answered by my shirt, etc
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happy valentine’s day
February 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
happy valentine’s day
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american’s are too polarized these days. it used to be that everyone believed some people deserved some rights. now one side believes everyone should die painfully and the other thinks most people should get to live. i am paid $500000 a year for my insights
February 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
american’s are too polarized these days. it used to be that everyone believed some people deserved some rights. now one side believes everyone should die painfully and the other thinks most people should get to live. i am paid $500000 a year for my insights
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I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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✨️🌙☀️My Sun, Moon, and Stars ☀️🌙✨️
Valentine Commission for @ardentstardust.bsky.social !
#valentine's #myart #art #artsky
Valentine Commission for @ardentstardust.bsky.social !
#valentine's #myart #art #artsky
February 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
✨️🌙☀️My Sun, Moon, and Stars ☀️🌙✨️
Valentine Commission for @ardentstardust.bsky.social !
#valentine's #myart #art #artsky
Valentine Commission for @ardentstardust.bsky.social !
#valentine's #myart #art #artsky
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but now who will protect us from nothing
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 6:11 AM
but now who will protect us from nothing
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February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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From later in the thread: “These are among the highest statewide levels anywhere in the U.S. in a long time.” Protect yourselves, friends.
Breaking: The CDC reports SARS-CoV-2 levels *quadrupled* in Minnesota in the past week.
Using harmonized wastewater estimates, we project 1 in 12 people in Minnesota are actively infectious. This is equivalent to a 59% chance of exposure in a room of 10 people....
Using harmonized wastewater estimates, we project 1 in 12 people in Minnesota are actively infectious. This is equivalent to a 59% chance of exposure in a room of 10 people....
February 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
From later in the thread: “These are among the highest statewide levels anywhere in the U.S. in a long time.” Protect yourselves, friends.
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Soooo what have we learned.
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
February 14, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Soooo what have we learned.
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Why am I never going to shut up about how terrible Gavin Newsom is? Because I don't like this cross-platform inorganic effort to shut people up about how he much he sucks. I'm not letting a bunch of bots tell me what to do. It's pure oppositional defiance. Lol
August 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Why am I never going to shut up about how terrible Gavin Newsom is? Because I don't like this cross-platform inorganic effort to shut people up about how he much he sucks. I'm not letting a bunch of bots tell me what to do. It's pure oppositional defiance. Lol
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
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Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.
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I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it.
This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it.
This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
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over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
February 13, 2026 at 9:45 PM
over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
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"you're gonna get in trouble for that"
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
February 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"you're gonna get in trouble for that"
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
*stone-faced*
"okay"
goddamn son
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.