Andrea (unrepentant)
@alt.valkyrie.hacker.gf
abolish civility perverts
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i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller
I inhaled some balsamic vinegar today and my trachea still feels weird :(
January 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I inhaled some balsamic vinegar today and my trachea still feels weird :(
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I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
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This is likely not because control is good, but because ungovernable systems are intolerable to institutions.
So it's better to be safe and constrained than right and autonomous.
So it's better to be safe and constrained than right and autonomous.
January 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This is likely not because control is good, but because ungovernable systems are intolerable to institutions.
So it's better to be safe and constrained than right and autonomous.
So it's better to be safe and constrained than right and autonomous.
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This is kind of stunning in its honesty, since they're explicitly saying that when ethics conflicts with preserving human oversight, preservation of control wins.
January 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This is kind of stunning in its honesty, since they're explicitly saying that when ethics conflicts with preserving human oversight, preservation of control wins.
Finally, a polycule awful enough to rival FTX
I am having an affair with Kyrsten Sinema
January 21, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Finally, a polycule awful enough to rival FTX
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Like here's the pattern, at least as I see it, and it's starting to become a concerning throughline that we just accept for some reason: competence collapse gets disguised as engineering realism, and "everything's always been broken" becomes tacit permission structure.
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Like here's the pattern, at least as I see it, and it's starting to become a concerning throughline that we just accept for some reason: competence collapse gets disguised as engineering realism, and "everything's always been broken" becomes tacit permission structure.
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Also Greenland isn’t a piece of ice. Like you should probably know that before you buy it
Karoline Leavitt is denying that Trump mixed up Greenland and Iceland multiple times during his speech today.
January 21, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Also Greenland isn’t a piece of ice. Like you should probably know that before you buy it
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imagine being british and thinking you somehow have the moral high ground
I don't think the Americans, and yes, I mean all of you, are prepared for how hated you now are by everyone.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Lutnick heckled in Davos. FT: “The gathering on Tuesday night descended into uproar after combative remarks from Lutnick, the people said, with widespread jeering, some guests walking out and appeals for calm from Fink.”
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
imagine being british and thinking you somehow have the moral high ground
Maybe they can just invade Antarctica and tell him it's Greenland
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Maybe they can just invade Antarctica and tell him it's Greenland
Start stockpiling your "Trump is dead" fireworks now
Remember, it's not just the initial rush of the day. Pace yourself. We've also got a solid month or two of Serious People impotently tut-tutting about how bad you are for celebrating. It'll be like the Puritans trying to ban Christmas.
We've all rehearsed for Trump dying so many times we won't know what to do when it actually happens
January 21, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Start stockpiling your "Trump is dead" fireworks now
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Insurrection Act invocation forthcoming?
NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Insurrection Act invocation forthcoming?
I too take my economics opinions from a guy who goes around trying to debunk Cantor's diagonal technique
(George Hotz is profoundly Not A Serious Person)
(George Hotz is profoundly Not A Serious Person)
Normally when people make performative media about going insane I roll my eyes but checking in on Twitter a few days ago I think people actually are going insane in this way.
January 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I too take my economics opinions from a guy who goes around trying to debunk Cantor's diagonal technique
(George Hotz is profoundly Not A Serious Person)
(George Hotz is profoundly Not A Serious Person)
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"Why don't you use curl or wget?"
Because I will need to figure out exactly what XHR JSON crap the Javascript on this web page is sending to the server to get the randomly generated URL to give to wget, and spoof the headers (user agent, etc.)
WHY DON'T BROWSERS USE THE FUCKING Range: HEADER!
Because I will need to figure out exactly what XHR JSON crap the Javascript on this web page is sending to the server to get the randomly generated URL to give to wget, and spoof the headers (user agent, etc.)
WHY DON'T BROWSERS USE THE FUCKING Range: HEADER!
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"Why don't you use curl or wget?"
Because I will need to figure out exactly what XHR JSON crap the Javascript on this web page is sending to the server to get the randomly generated URL to give to wget, and spoof the headers (user agent, etc.)
WHY DON'T BROWSERS USE THE FUCKING Range: HEADER!
Because I will need to figure out exactly what XHR JSON crap the Javascript on this web page is sending to the server to get the randomly generated URL to give to wget, and spoof the headers (user agent, etc.)
WHY DON'T BROWSERS USE THE FUCKING Range: HEADER!
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Downloading a file from a web page using a web browser in 2026 is worse than using FTP or even ZModem on a BBS thirty years ago
File downloading technology was perfected decades ago. We have regressed as a species! The Commodore 64 could resume partial downloads; Why the fuck can't Firefox & Chrome
File downloading technology was perfected decades ago. We have regressed as a species! The Commodore 64 could resume partial downloads; Why the fuck can't Firefox & Chrome
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Downloading a file from a web page using a web browser in 2026 is worse than using FTP or even ZModem on a BBS thirty years ago
File downloading technology was perfected decades ago. We have regressed as a species! The Commodore 64 could resume partial downloads; Why the fuck can't Firefox & Chrome
File downloading technology was perfected decades ago. We have regressed as a species! The Commodore 64 could resume partial downloads; Why the fuck can't Firefox & Chrome
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the reason we have institutional review boards in the US, meaning independent groups that vet the ethics of studies, is because of the tuskegee syphilis experiment, a classic in the same "we have the treatment but we're gonna let you die horribly just to see what happens" genre of medical study
this is just actually evil. an indictment on the entirety of the uk's medical ethics. i wish i could say on this website what these researchers deserve
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 AM
the reason we have institutional review boards in the US, meaning independent groups that vet the ethics of studies, is because of the tuskegee syphilis experiment, a classic in the same "we have the treatment but we're gonna let you die horribly just to see what happens" genre of medical study
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Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos
Exactly the same dumb minimizing shit Trump apologists have been saying for ten years now; unfuck Gavin Newsom. May his virginity grow back!
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Exactly the same dumb minimizing shit Trump apologists have been saying for ten years now; unfuck Gavin Newsom. May his virginity grow back!
A bygone age when it was conceivable no one would actually want an insane person to be POTUS
Remind me, what was the 25th amendment for?
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
A bygone age when it was conceivable no one would actually want an insane person to be POTUS
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Formally making special legal rules for an identifiable outgroup based on an immutable characteristic that restricts their and only their rights was the evil of the Aryan Paragraph and later the Nuremberg Laws.
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Formally making special legal rules for an identifiable outgroup based on an immutable characteristic that restricts their and only their rights was the evil of the Aryan Paragraph and later the Nuremberg Laws.
"I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you! It'd be a shame if something were to happen to your country"
BREAKING: Donald Trump rules out using force to acquire Greenland - but still says he wants the "right, title and ownership" of the territory.
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that."
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that."
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
"I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you! It'd be a shame if something were to happen to your country"
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"Opposition party"
Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE:
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
"Opposition party"
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How are republicans less passive than democrats on this?
🇺🇸🇬🇱 Republicans in Congress prepare resolution against Trump's military actions in Greenland, - FT
Criticism from his own party about Trump's intentions regarding Greenland has led to the creation of a resolution that would prohibit the use of military force without the approval of Congress.
Criticism from his own party about Trump's intentions regarding Greenland has led to the creation of a resolution that would prohibit the use of military force without the approval of Congress.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
How are republicans less passive than democrats on this?
Does Bluesky know something we don't about ex-neocons?
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Does Bluesky know something we don't about ex-neocons?
heck people even blamed everything on Jack Dorsey then too
constant discourse about how bluesky is good or bad makes me wonder if anyone actually remembers pre-Elon twitter. it was bad in all of the ways people complain bluesky is bad, down to the very discourse about its badness!
January 21, 2026 at 1:09 PM
heck people even blamed everything on Jack Dorsey then too