El
@bsdtrhodes.bsky.social
Great value goth dad. Infosec, vegan, gamer, and introvert.
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Riddle me this:
If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Riddle me this:
If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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🚨Officer Michael Fanone keeping it short and sweet. ✊🏼
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨Officer Michael Fanone keeping it short and sweet. ✊🏼
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Don't photograph anyone else at a protest either.
ProTip. Don’t photograph yourself at a protest.
Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Don't photograph anyone else at a protest either.
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Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...
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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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we love this article from our pals at @51st.news celebrating the power of a community to resist 51st.news/dc-residents...
With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE
How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.
51st.news
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
we love this article from our pals at @51st.news celebrating the power of a community to resist 51st.news/dc-residents...
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You want to make my day?
Leave a nice review on one of my books. I appreciate them all.
www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...
Leave a nice review on one of my books. I appreciate them all.
www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...
Check out this Amazon review of Laserblasted
A very well written story based on a very poorly made movie
www.amazon.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You want to make my day?
Leave a nice review on one of my books. I appreciate them all.
www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...
Leave a nice review on one of my books. I appreciate them all.
www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...
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Cats don’t see in pitch black. Dogs don’t see only in black & white. Small myths add up to a culture of misinformation.
Companion Animals: Facts, Not Folklore.
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Cats don’t see in pitch black. Dogs don’t see only in black & white. Small myths add up to a culture of misinformation.
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95% of lab animals are mice — not because they’re the best models, but because they’re cheap & disposable to the system 🐭
Mice Show Empathy, Science Shows None 🐁
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
95% of lab animals are mice — not because they’re the best models, but because they’re cheap & disposable to the system 🐭
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😔🙏🏽✍🏽email: SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov Please use your power as head of the NYC Council to end horse abuse by advancing & passing Ryder’s Law (Intro 967) to ban deadly, unsafe horse carriage rides. You can also help via: nyclass.org/stophorseabu...
August 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
😔🙏🏽✍🏽email: SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov Please use your power as head of the NYC Council to end horse abuse by advancing & passing Ryder’s Law (Intro 967) to ban deadly, unsafe horse carriage rides. You can also help via: nyclass.org/stophorseabu...
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I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
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an important part of this story a media with integrity will make salient is Microsoft is CURRENTLY complicit in the mass surveillance of people being targeted for assassination by an oppressive government aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...
July 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
an important part of this story a media with integrity will make salient is Microsoft is CURRENTLY complicit in the mass surveillance of people being targeted for assassination by an oppressive government aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...
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The Trump administration is hell-bent on eliminating animal protection measures like Prop 12.
The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights
The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Trump administration is hell-bent on eliminating animal protection measures like Prop 12.
The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights
The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights
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Magneto was always right.
"They're not extermination camps!" "Nobody is talking about extermination!" --
"Nobody ever talks about it. They just do it. And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day when the air is still and the night is fallen, they come for you."
"Nobody ever talks about it. They just do it. And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day when the air is still and the night is fallen, they come for you."
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Magneto was always right.
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Not at all surprised. CBP has surveillance drones above most protests too, and with the military on the ground they are deploying even more surveillance.
Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.
Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.
"SAN analyzed LTE cellular traffic at an anti-ICE protest in Tukwila...
the analysis uncovered unusual bursts of data, known as 'IMSI-exposing messages'...
the timing, location and nature of the anomalies are indicative of deliberate surveillance."
san.com/cc/exclusive...
the analysis uncovered unusual bursts of data, known as 'IMSI-exposing messages'...
the timing, location and nature of the anomalies are indicative of deliberate surveillance."
san.com/cc/exclusive...
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.
san.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Not at all surprised. CBP has surveillance drones above most protests too, and with the military on the ground they are deploying even more surveillance.
Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.
Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.
I’m listening to the Wheel of Time audiobook because I just don’t have the time to read it and even then I get confused at times. I wish I had more free time.
July 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I’m listening to the Wheel of Time audiobook because I just don’t have the time to read it and even then I get confused at times. I wish I had more free time.
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Bezos Struggles to Return Wedding Gifts to Amazon
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Bezos Struggles to Return Wedding Gifts to Amazon
The newlywed has failed “repeatedly” to get a customer service representative to speak to him.
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Bezos Struggles to Return Wedding Gifts to Amazon
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT
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July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT
reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...