Philip
balister.bsky.social
Philip
@balister.bsky.social
Refugee from Xitter
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I’m holly, I’m jolly. You’ve got believe me. I swear I am
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING from your pals at CULT OF THE DEAD COW.

Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Does he even own a suit?
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Secure by design is shifting from vision to standard. Progress: >50% of apps now pass OWASP Top 10 checks (up from <33% in 2020), exploitable flaws dropped from 3.6% to 2.6%. But 70% of apps still have major flaws. Success means making security part of every build. www.forbes.com/councils/for...
Advancing Secure By Design From Ambition To Industry Standard
Real victory will come when secure by design isn’t a special initiative but the standard starting point for every project.
www.forbes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It is good to see RP get some well deserved recognition!
OpenUK Awards 25 Individual Category Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: @davidtw.co, Richard Purdie, and @jbp.io 🍾🥂🏆

#openukawards #opensource #leadership
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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President Nixon significantly expanded the federal food assistance program, making it truly nationwide by 1973 and increasing participation fivefold 1969-74. While he fell short of his pledge to end hunger in America, he maintains that hunger is a barrier to prosperity and peace.
October 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The Antiphibian of Portland is gearing up to be an iconic symbol of resistance
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.
which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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One early morning in Feb ‘04 outside of Fallujah I was next to a then MAJ who called in AC-130 fires so close to our position that we were pelted with debris from the target building. That now 4⭐️ had to fly in from Europe to listen to Pete talk about Lethality™️ and standards.
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🔭☄️
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
State visit with Randy Andy!
Police in the U.K. arrested four people after photos of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle. tinyurl.com/3za976ba
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.

The modern American right in 2025, folks.
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Well fucking said.
i dont think multiple democratic governors should have lowered flags to half mast for a racist who said gay people should be stoned. i dont think a democratic governor should have called for continuing "the work" of a man who said mlk was a myth and evil.

is that too much to ask? ffs.
What are you blathering on about? “We knew what the right would do Democrats fell for it” fell for what ? What is it that you wanted them to do that they didn’t do What do you Oliver think needs to be done?
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dear @americanair.bsky.social your gate changes for AA203 at AMS are very confusing. We assume we still go to E21 to catch a bus?
August 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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When Trump took office, the effective tariff rate was 2.3%. Now it’s 18.6%.

Let’s call this what it is – a huge tax scam that will make your life more expensive.
August 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Time to step away from the social media for a bit
August 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM