Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
@radobrien.myatproto.social
I am very much alive and intend to stay that way
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Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
February 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
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We could have walkable libraries for all if we didn’t have capitalists
February 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
We could have walkable libraries for all if we didn’t have capitalists
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Here’s to a solemn and contemplative Lenten period for those who partake. Ramadan Mubarak as well for those who partake. For all you secular people out, a happy start to the “Mark Wahlburg 40 Day Challenge”
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Here’s to a solemn and contemplative Lenten period for those who partake. Ramadan Mubarak as well for those who partake. For all you secular people out, a happy start to the “Mark Wahlburg 40 Day Challenge”
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I have asked ICE and DHS why this migrant was hooded and partially straitjacketed today. Will let you know if I hear back.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
🧊✈️ Wrapped & Hooded ⛓️😲
In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas 👀
In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas 👀
February 18, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I have asked ICE and DHS why this migrant was hooded and partially straitjacketed today. Will let you know if I hear back.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
In the past migrants have testified that they were put in the WRAP device for “infractions” as small as asking to speak to one’s attorney.
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This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 AM
This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
But that campaign is *never mentioned*.
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NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation.
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
February 18, 2026 at 1:23 AM
You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation.
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...
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I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.
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This is a fundamentally unserious administration
February 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is a fundamentally unserious administration
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Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Reading this morning that the FBI won’t give evidence from the various ICE shootings to Minnesota or anybody else and I want to point out again that as a person that has studied Jim Crow violence- simply refusing to hand over evidence is a favorite tactic of segregationists.
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I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
February 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real
Threads is atrocious too
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I sometimes share my favorite poem here and today it feels appropriate ✨️
June 2, 2024 at 1:52 AM
I sometimes share my favorite poem here and today it feels appropriate ✨️
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On the brink of potentially astonishing breakthroughs in immune therapy, up to and including curing cancer, and instead we’re going to re-litigate germ theory and vaccination. Unreal, world-changing levels of stupidity
"Kennedy, in a bestselling 2021 book, explicitly rejected germ theory...in favor of 'miasma theory,' which pediatrician and vaccine inventor Paul Offit describes as 'a long-abandoned medical theory that holds that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors.'" 👇
Remember RFK Jr.'s remark about how he was "not scared of a germ" because he "used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats"?
Funny thing about that: Of *course* he's not scared of a germ. Because he doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease.
Really. Literally.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-robert...
Funny thing about that: Of *course* he's not scared of a germ. Because he doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease.
Really. Literally.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-robert...
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
On the brink of potentially astonishing breakthroughs in immune therapy, up to and including curing cancer, and instead we’re going to re-litigate germ theory and vaccination. Unreal, world-changing levels of stupidity
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In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power.
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
February 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM
In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power.
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
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Librarian here: yup. Had this experience at the ALA Conference a few years ago. I had both Chinese researchers and New Zealanders shocked at our budgets, even in Boston, with 40+ colleges and universities and the Boston Public Library.
February 18, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Librarian here: yup. Had this experience at the ALA Conference a few years ago. I had both Chinese researchers and New Zealanders shocked at our budgets, even in Boston, with 40+ colleges and universities and the Boston Public Library.
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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
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i am told that capitalism is the most efficient method of distributing wealth, labor, and resources, largely in part due to the invisible hand of market demand
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 AM
i am told that capitalism is the most efficient method of distributing wealth, labor, and resources, largely in part due to the invisible hand of market demand
I think campy transcends their critique in this case
The God of War Trilogy is getting a Remake. But the question is how 1-to-1 will these remakes be, and will they include the sex minigames? And should they?
More of our thoughts (and a poll) here: https://bit.ly/3OmCM98
More of our thoughts (and a poll) here: https://bit.ly/3OmCM98
February 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I think campy transcends their critique in this case
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Another day in the wife mines. Boss says if we don’t find another vein of single monogamous sweeties soon they’re gonna close us down. Says poly couples where the guy is straight are the future anyway. City boy doesn’t understand. My father, my grandfather, they all dug wife in these tunnels
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Another day in the wife mines. Boss says if we don’t find another vein of single monogamous sweeties soon they’re gonna close us down. Says poly couples where the guy is straight are the future anyway. City boy doesn’t understand. My father, my grandfather, they all dug wife in these tunnels
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worth pointing out: it's not BPP but new american movement, one of the major progenitors of DSA (and in so transforming went from marxist-leninist to more straightforward social democrats).
not every wheel needs reinventing! dive into left history, contextualize the ongoing nature of the struggle
not every wheel needs reinventing! dive into left history, contextualize the ongoing nature of the struggle
February 17, 2026 at 5:54 AM
worth pointing out: it's not BPP but new american movement, one of the major progenitors of DSA (and in so transforming went from marxist-leninist to more straightforward social democrats).
not every wheel needs reinventing! dive into left history, contextualize the ongoing nature of the struggle
not every wheel needs reinventing! dive into left history, contextualize the ongoing nature of the struggle
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Turning off fog of war for the bathroom
February 18, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Turning off fog of war for the bathroom
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How far away can I stand from urinal before it gets weird
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
How far away can I stand from urinal before it gets weird
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Mind flayer quincinera
February 18, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Mind flayer quincinera
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.