bripod
@bripod.bsky.social
Software engineer, avid board/video gamer, space & science enthusiast. He/him
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I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
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Tonight Stúfur, 3rd of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He sneaks into houses and eats the crust left on pans after cooking.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight Stúfur, 3rd of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He sneaks into houses and eats the crust left on pans after cooking.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato.
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NEW in Bolts: Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
New Jersey Cities Are Pressing Resistant State Officials for Civilian Police Oversight
Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
boltsmag.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NEW in Bolts: Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
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Williamsburg cops on Sunday discovered a corpse in a car with banned tinted windows parked illegally at a fire hydrant for reportedly one week roughly 600 feet from the 90th Precinct stationhouse — a gruesome reminder of the NYPD's failure to enforce basic parking rules near their own command posts.
NYPD Finds Mysterious Corpse in Car With Illegal Tints Parked at a Hydrant Near Stationhouse - Streetsblog New York City
Williamsburg cops on Sunday discovered the corpse of a 61-year-old man in a car that had been parked at a fire hydrant for a week roughly 600 feet from the front door of the 90th Precinct — a dramatic...
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus" no ❌
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus" no ❌
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
"Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't?" very, very yes ☑️
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Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hahahahaha it's sincere!!
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cant help but notice there's no room for a future presidential portrait in the line
December 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
cant help but notice there's no room for a future presidential portrait in the line
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Growing up a trash ass part of the Midwest, a highlight of everyone’s year was going to the county fair and paying $5 to take three swings at an old Mercury Cougar with a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. I believe the fire department raised about half their budget that way.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Growing up a trash ass part of the Midwest, a highlight of everyone’s year was going to the county fair and paying $5 to take three swings at an old Mercury Cougar with a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. I believe the fire department raised about half their budget that way.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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I learned that all the homework white people have been doing has been on how not to seem racist to other white people. They don't actually care what people of color think or they wouldn't mind us actually telling them.
December 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I learned that all the homework white people have been doing has been on how not to seem racist to other white people. They don't actually care what people of color think or they wouldn't mind us actually telling them.
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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And we have seen the risk of LGBTQ content being labelled as pornography, which would lead to massive re-edits and purges of content.
The age when media companies could be guaranteed to fight tooth and nail against government censorship is over. Physical libraries are again archival in these times.
The age when media companies could be guaranteed to fight tooth and nail against government censorship is over. Physical libraries are again archival in these times.
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And we have seen the risk of LGBTQ content being labelled as pornography, which would lead to massive re-edits and purges of content.
The age when media companies could be guaranteed to fight tooth and nail against government censorship is over. Physical libraries are again archival in these times.
The age when media companies could be guaranteed to fight tooth and nail against government censorship is over. Physical libraries are again archival in these times.
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Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
Why do (us) old people want to burden Gen Z with our nostalgia for an antique piece of hardware in the first place?
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
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Most daycares and private preschools won’t enroll children with disabilities. Especially for low income families, Head Start is their *only option*.
Head Start is a 60-year-old US Department of Health and Human Services program that, among other things, creates inclusive and accessible classrooms for children with disabilities. But those applying for funding were told by the Trump regime to avoid the words "inclusion" and "disability." 🤡
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Most daycares and private preschools won’t enroll children with disabilities. Especially for low income families, Head Start is their *only option*.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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If you do a google search for “Vim” it asks if you meant “Emacs,” and vice versa. This is pure chaos agent stuff.
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you do a google search for “Vim” it asks if you meant “Emacs,” and vice versa. This is pure chaos agent stuff.
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repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
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Just to be clear hear, the chances that a removable noncitizen actually has a REAL ID approach zero, so in function (and maybe intent!) this is entirely a proposed policy to arrest US citizens
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just to be clear hear, the chances that a removable noncitizen actually has a REAL ID approach zero, so in function (and maybe intent!) this is entirely a proposed policy to arrest US citizens
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
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I honestly can't think of an issue where my mind has been more thoroughly changed by listening to people on social media. While MAiD is something that in principle I'd support, it's not possible to have it as a truly consensual option under current systems- something I learned from disabled folks.
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I honestly can't think of an issue where my mind has been more thoroughly changed by listening to people on social media. While MAiD is something that in principle I'd support, it's not possible to have it as a truly consensual option under current systems- something I learned from disabled folks.
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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If CNN had said:
“Donald Trump signs executive order removing the Star Wars sequels from canon, appoints Greta Gerwig to launch new trilogy”
It would have the same legal impact as this EO.
“Donald Trump signs executive order removing the Star Wars sequels from canon, appoints Greta Gerwig to launch new trilogy”
It would have the same legal impact as this EO.
Feel like I'm going completely insane. Why is everyone treating this like it's a real thing he can do??? The president can't unilaterally write or prohibit state laws!
Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framew...
www.cnn.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If CNN had said:
“Donald Trump signs executive order removing the Star Wars sequels from canon, appoints Greta Gerwig to launch new trilogy”
It would have the same legal impact as this EO.
“Donald Trump signs executive order removing the Star Wars sequels from canon, appoints Greta Gerwig to launch new trilogy”
It would have the same legal impact as this EO.