Alexander M. Krijgsman
@vagabonderro.bsky.social
Extant | Union journeyman steamfitter of Local 601 | Occasional writer of poety | Somewhat more frequent epistolarian | Firmly rooted in the Everway roleplaying tradition | No billboard renting | he/him
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I have a bit in my profile that's an oblique reference to a favourite quote of mine by a favourite author that I don't believe I've ever shared on Bluesky, so here it is in full:
"If the truth were simple, I wouldn't write books. I'd rent billboards."
From the incomparable Matthew Stover.
"If the truth were simple, I wouldn't write books. I'd rent billboards."
From the incomparable Matthew Stover.
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DECEMBER 10: Film Fatale presents LOOKER
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
DECEMBER 10: Film Fatale presents LOOKER
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ICYMI — We’re selling Ban Hunger, Not Books shirts, and every dollar goes directly to Feeding Wisconsin.
Grab one this holiday season and look good while doing good.
store.francescahong.com
Grab one this holiday season and look good while doing good.
store.francescahong.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ICYMI — We’re selling Ban Hunger, Not Books shirts, and every dollar goes directly to Feeding Wisconsin.
Grab one this holiday season and look good while doing good.
store.francescahong.com
Grab one this holiday season and look good while doing good.
store.francescahong.com
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You can read more about it here. It's difficult to describe how dangerous much of the establishment is in both the Labor Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You can read more about it here. It's difficult to describe how dangerous much of the establishment is in both the Labor Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Labor Party in England is now proposing to get rid of almost all jury trials in England to make the criminal punishment bureaucracy more efficient. This should be a warning for us all. Neoliberals are walking us into the waiting arms of authoritarians.
At my grandparents' and just saw on Fox News them addressing some guy writing in to ask if men could drink eggnog...
Imagine going through life like this
what?
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
At my grandparents' and just saw on Fox News them addressing some guy writing in to ask if men could drink eggnog...
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The "freedom of speech" and "freedom of religion" conservatives out there again blocking both because it's not their speech or their religion.
It's not just porn or Pride flags anymore. Other religions are now "harmful to minors"
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
It's not just porn or Pride flags anymore. Other religions are now "harmful to minors"
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The "freedom of speech" and "freedom of religion" conservatives out there again blocking both because it's not their speech or their religion.
It's not just porn or Pride flags anymore. Other religions are now "harmful to minors"
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
It's not just porn or Pride flags anymore. Other religions are now "harmful to minors"
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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tfw u need seven samurai
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
tfw u need seven samurai
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The UK again shows they've lost touch with decency and humanity when it comes to trans women as a judge declared Graham Linehan not guilty of harrassment after he harrassed a trans minor and broke her phone.
Apparently the victim didn't seem distressed enough.
More here from @alyssaur.bsky.social:
Apparently the victim didn't seem distressed enough.
More here from @alyssaur.bsky.social:
Linehan Inexplicably Cleared of Harassment, Must Pay for Broken Phone — Assigned
After repeatedly directing hundreds of thousands of rabid bigots to attack a trans minor, Graham Linehan was somehow excused of any wrongdoing. Besides breaking her phone.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The UK again shows they've lost touch with decency and humanity when it comes to trans women as a judge declared Graham Linehan not guilty of harrassment after he harrassed a trans minor and broke her phone.
Apparently the victim didn't seem distressed enough.
More here from @alyssaur.bsky.social:
Apparently the victim didn't seem distressed enough.
More here from @alyssaur.bsky.social:
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Every job has dignity.
Every working person deserves a living wage.
Every working person deserves a living wage.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every job has dignity.
Every working person deserves a living wage.
Every working person deserves a living wage.
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Speaking of the petite bourgeois (writers), did you know you can still buy my book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman? A great gift for the holidays and all the other days.
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Speaking of the petite bourgeois (writers), did you know you can still buy my book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman? A great gift for the holidays and all the other days.
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
📘🛒 : is.gd/iMcYEA
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The same people who are screaming “freedom of speech” and “you can not control my speech” so that they can use slurs are specifically running on a platform of controlling speech: pulling books LGBTQ and “CRT” off shelves, banning pronouns and flags, restricting the internet and textbooks.
classy stuff at the latest school board meeting in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota (the same town Pete Hegseth is from)
these people are more emboldened than ever to be their absolute worst selves
these people are more emboldened than ever to be their absolute worst selves
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The same people who are screaming “freedom of speech” and “you can not control my speech” so that they can use slurs are specifically running on a platform of controlling speech: pulling books LGBTQ and “CRT” off shelves, banning pronouns and flags, restricting the internet and textbooks.
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All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.
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New Episode!
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New Episode!
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
Challenging the NIH’s new “pandemic playbook” and COVID revisionism.
With the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social & @codyjohnston.bsky.social
iTunes: tinyurl.com/yr4djnmc
Spotify: tinyurl.com/msnmprrm
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Having spent time at the Portland ICE facility, I honestly agree.
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Having spent time at the Portland ICE facility, I honestly agree.
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he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
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“The Nov. 8 Blaze News article claimed that it had pinpointed the woman after a review of video evidence and "gait analysis" software matched her walking pattern.”
Gait analysis is bullshit. It’s not bullshit in the sense of a high rate of false positives. It’s bullshit in that it is vaporware.
Gait analysis is bullshit. It’s not bullshit in the sense of a high rate of false positives. It’s bullshit in that it is vaporware.
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs
The FBI has ruled the woman out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, sources said, but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“The Nov. 8 Blaze News article claimed that it had pinpointed the woman after a review of video evidence and "gait analysis" software matched her walking pattern.”
Gait analysis is bullshit. It’s not bullshit in the sense of a high rate of false positives. It’s bullshit in that it is vaporware.
Gait analysis is bullshit. It’s not bullshit in the sense of a high rate of false positives. It’s bullshit in that it is vaporware.
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there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
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Today, even Jair Bolsonaro has cause to be a prison abolitionist!
An analysis of the coup attempt that just landed him in prison, written by Brazilian anarchists immediately after the events:
crimethinc.com/January8Brazil
An analysis of the coup attempt that just landed him in prison, written by Brazilian anarchists immediately after the events:
crimethinc.com/January8Brazil
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Today, even Jair Bolsonaro has cause to be a prison abolitionist!
An analysis of the coup attempt that just landed him in prison, written by Brazilian anarchists immediately after the events:
crimethinc.com/January8Brazil
An analysis of the coup attempt that just landed him in prison, written by Brazilian anarchists immediately after the events:
crimethinc.com/January8Brazil
Somehow this wasn't on my radar, but I immediately assumed that it must be Jacob Tierney, and then about 5 seconds into the trailer based on the look I really thought it must be Tierney, and then the trailer confirmed it was. I guess what I'm saying is this can't but be good.
why isnt it november 28th yet so i can watch the gay hockey show
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Somehow this wasn't on my radar, but I immediately assumed that it must be Jacob Tierney, and then about 5 seconds into the trailer based on the look I really thought it must be Tierney, and then the trailer confirmed it was. I guess what I'm saying is this can't but be good.
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some men are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them by a team of Mattel's most rabid lawyers
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
some men are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them by a team of Mattel's most rabid lawyers