Brendan
@brrrendan.bsky.social
He/Him/His | LGBTQ+ ally | Atheist | Humanist | Skeptic
@philhawthorne.com You guys mentioned a HACS repository called "Home Assistant Cards" on the latest episode, but I can't find this. Any chance you can link it?
October 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@philhawthorne.com You guys mentioned a HACS repository called "Home Assistant Cards" on the latest episode, but I can't find this. Any chance you can link it?
Opinion | We Ran the CDC: RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Opinion | We Ran the CDC: RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
Making America Less Safe politicalwire.com/2025/03/24/m...
Making America Less Safe
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed today he had been mistakenly added to a Trump administration Signal chat discussing sensitive military operations in Yemen. The revelation reads like satire: a...
politicalwire.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Making America Less Safe politicalwire.com/2025/03/24/m...
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Wow thank you guy
Thank you what a great video
Love it
I’m with this dude
#weareflood
youtube.com/watch?v=A69G...
Thank you what a great video
Love it
I’m with this dude
#weareflood
youtube.com/watch?v=A69G...
MASSIVE protest at The Heritage Foundation
YouTube video by Cliff Cash Comedy
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March 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wow thank you guy
Thank you what a great video
Love it
I’m with this dude
#weareflood
youtube.com/watch?v=A69G...
Thank you what a great video
Love it
I’m with this dude
#weareflood
youtube.com/watch?v=A69G...
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2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
March 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
2020: attacks on “BLM”
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
2022: attacks on “CRT”
2024: attacks on “woke”
2025: attacks on “DEI”
BLACK.
THEY MEAN BLACK.
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I work with cool people who do cool things: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...
www.eff.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I work with cool people who do cool things: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
youtube.com/watch?v=QMc_...
For years, I’ve trying to comfort those around me who live in fear (as I do) about what’s been happening, that this is the last gasp of a dying ideology. I had no idea there was a term for this.
Don’t let up! Fight these fascists until their ideas die.
For years, I’ve trying to comfort those around me who live in fear (as I do) about what’s been happening, that this is the last gasp of a dying ideology. I had no idea there was a term for this.
Don’t let up! Fight these fascists until their ideas die.
youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=QMc_...
For years, I’ve trying to comfort those around me who live in fear (as I do) about what’s been happening, that this is the last gasp of a dying ideology. I had no idea there was a term for this.
Don’t let up! Fight these fascists until their ideas die.
For years, I’ve trying to comfort those around me who live in fear (as I do) about what’s been happening, that this is the last gasp of a dying ideology. I had no idea there was a term for this.
Don’t let up! Fight these fascists until their ideas die.
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Trump is giving a transphobic speech to what sounds like a laugh track
February 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Trump is giving a transphobic speech to what sounds like a laugh track
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Not the onion, not the pitch bot. This is actually how the NYT is reporting the beginning of concentration camps.
February 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Not the onion, not the pitch bot. This is actually how the NYT is reporting the beginning of concentration camps.
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We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.
February 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We still are trying to sort out how much China abused a backdoor in our wiretap systems (Trump fired the team investigating it) and now we've just opened up a massive new backdoor to the entire payment system of the United States
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
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MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
REPORTER: Will it take an act of Congress to do away with USAID?
TRUMP: I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud. Those people are lunatics.
TRUMP: I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud. Those people are lunatics.
February 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
Love to hear you're diving in to @home-assistant.io, @liss.bsky.social.
I have recommendations for your latest ask on @atpfm.
I have recommendations for your latest ask on @atpfm.
January 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Love to hear you're diving in to @home-assistant.io, @liss.bsky.social.
I have recommendations for your latest ask on @atpfm.
I have recommendations for your latest ask on @atpfm.
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you get copilot! & you get gemini! & you get apple intelligence! you can’t turn them off & we all just gave the tyrant a million bucks to let him turn our stuff into the surveillance net from person of interest! not the lesbian one, the one with the british guy!
where are you going‽ get back here!
where are you going‽ get back here!
January 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
you get copilot! & you get gemini! & you get apple intelligence! you can’t turn them off & we all just gave the tyrant a million bucks to let him turn our stuff into the surveillance net from person of interest! not the lesbian one, the one with the british guy!
where are you going‽ get back here!
where are you going‽ get back here!
@liss.bsky.social Listening to the latest episode of @atp.fm and your search for a dashboard utility. @home-assistant.io can probably do what you want. You can just make a dashboard specifically for this purpose that only shows for you or on the screen you use for it.
December 20, 2024 at 2:08 AM
@liss.bsky.social Listening to the latest episode of @atp.fm and your search for a dashboard utility. @home-assistant.io can probably do what you want. You can just make a dashboard specifically for this purpose that only shows for you or on the screen you use for it.
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Trump says that a textbook example of a conflict of interest isn't actually a conflict of interest
December 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Trump says that a textbook example of a conflict of interest isn't actually a conflict of interest
Excellent app. I monitor all my loved one’s homes with this.
If you’re in California I highly recommend the app Watch Duty for info on fires. You can set it up to get alerts on fires that pop up near you, including evacuation warnings.
Students at Pepperdine University were ordered to take refuge in several of the school’s fire-resistant buildings as a wildfire scorched through the area
www.huffpost.com/entry/pepper...
www.huffpost.com/entry/pepper...
December 11, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Excellent app. I monitor all my loved one’s homes with this.
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In the (somewhat unlikely) event that people seeing this don't know, ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) is a designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group -- and largely responsible for a lot of anti-trans laws like the one in TN. NYT doesn't disclose this anywhere, in the piece or in French's bio.
i drop this when people are prone to click through to outrage bait in the NYT. don’t.
1—that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day
2—you don’t need to read it; the thesis is: former ADF attorney david french thinks trans people should suffer
3—french & nyt have always been like this
1—that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day
2—you don’t need to read it; the thesis is: former ADF attorney david french thinks trans people should suffer
3—french & nyt have always been like this
Watching DAVID FRENCH of all people try to position himself as being sympathetic towards trans people is such a crock of shit. Some of his past writing: www.readtpa.com/p/david-fren...
December 8, 2024 at 9:49 PM
In the (somewhat unlikely) event that people seeing this don't know, ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) is a designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group -- and largely responsible for a lot of anti-trans laws like the one in TN. NYT doesn't disclose this anywhere, in the piece or in French's bio.
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“Charles Kushner, meanwhile, had been prosecuted by then-US Attorney for New Jersey Chris Christie in the early 2000s for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-pardons-stone-manafort-kushner/index.html
Trump issues 26 new pardons, including for Stone, Manafort and Charles Kushner | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening announced 26 new pardons, including for longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s father, Charles.
www.cnn.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:31 PM
“Charles Kushner, meanwhile, had been prosecuted by then-US Attorney for New Jersey Chris Christie in the early 2000s for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-pardons-stone-manafort-kushner/index.html
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Four years of ‘Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter’ and this is what we get the moment Republicans retake power. The president appointing his son-in-law’s former convict father, who he earlier pardoned, to a prestigious US government job abroad for which he has zero qualifications.
NEW: Trump intends to nominate Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s dad, as Ambassador to France.
November 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Four years of ‘Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter’ and this is what we get the moment Republicans retake power. The president appointing his son-in-law’s former convict father, who he earlier pardoned, to a prestigious US government job abroad for which he has zero qualifications.
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"World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time."
November 30, 2024 at 5:03 PM
"World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time."
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Remember, when Trump announced him, he called him a champion for free speech. The exact opposite is true. He's gleeful to become America's top censor.
And, again, you won't hear a *word* about this from the Twitter Files crew.
And, again, you won't hear a *word* about this from the Twitter Files crew.
Brendan Carr, Trump's FCC chair pick, is signaling his intention to punish broadcasters that the incoming administration believes has been unfair to them.
He's doing something else here, too: he's discouraging broadcasters from critically covering Trump moving forward.
He's doing something else here, too: he's discouraging broadcasters from critically covering Trump moving forward.
November 24, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Remember, when Trump announced him, he called him a champion for free speech. The exact opposite is true. He's gleeful to become America's top censor.
And, again, you won't hear a *word* about this from the Twitter Files crew.
And, again, you won't hear a *word* about this from the Twitter Files crew.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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- 3 labels for the top corp donators
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Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀
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