Cantinkerous
@can-tinker-ous.bsky.social
Curious and curmudgeonly, creative and crusty. Cynic in the nascent stages of recovery.
Just like you, I can't do this on my own.
Just like you, I can't do this on my own.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals"
"FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals"
a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .
ALT: a man is holding a microphone and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals"
"FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals"
Really shook that Hades II doesn't seem to be included in the main nominations for the best soundtrack for this year's Steam Awards when the Scylla and the Sirens boss fight exists.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Really shook that Hades II doesn't seem to be included in the main nominations for the best soundtrack for this year's Steam Awards when the Scylla and the Sirens boss fight exists.
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
"In 2025, America launched the Genesis Mission" are the first words of the ominous exposition card that crossfades into what looks like the beginning of Terminator 2.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"In 2025, America launched the Genesis Mission" are the first words of the ominous exposition card that crossfades into what looks like the beginning of Terminator 2.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The best time for the EU to tell America to fuck off was yesterday. The second best time is now.
Trump’s ‘peace’ ultimatum leaves Europe and Ukraine with just one choice
Trump’s America is falling into autocracy and advocates for Russian victory in Ukraine – it’s time the West saw this and dealt with it. Sam Kiley, world affairs editor, explains how
www.independent.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The best time for the EU to tell America to fuck off was yesterday. The second best time is now.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
Gambling elements in video games can be mitigated by adding a buyout option based around a guarantee-drop currency. Cost of the item is the reciprocal of its probability, e.g. a 1% drop rate = 100 units of said currency.
Stat rolls, affixes, etc., impact this cost based on their own probabilities.
Stat rolls, affixes, etc., impact this cost based on their own probabilities.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Gambling elements in video games can be mitigated by adding a buyout option based around a guarantee-drop currency. Cost of the item is the reciprocal of its probability, e.g. a 1% drop rate = 100 units of said currency.
Stat rolls, affixes, etc., impact this cost based on their own probabilities.
Stat rolls, affixes, etc., impact this cost based on their own probabilities.
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The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025
My 4090 shit itself literally 5 days outside of warranty.
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My 4090 shit itself literally 5 days outside of warranty.
If anyone identifies as being "a [insert AI model here] guy," they probably need to be put on a 72-hour med hold and get a full psych eval.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If anyone identifies as being "a [insert AI model here] guy," they probably need to be put on a 72-hour med hold and get a full psych eval.
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
Saying socialists just want "free" stuff is an admission that capitalists are unproductive hoarders of the excess wealth of the workers.
It's not "free," it's already been bought and paid for, merely stolen en route by the most useless class of people imaginable.
It's not "free," it's already been bought and paid for, merely stolen en route by the most useless class of people imaginable.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Saying socialists just want "free" stuff is an admission that capitalists are unproductive hoarders of the excess wealth of the workers.
It's not "free," it's already been bought and paid for, merely stolen en route by the most useless class of people imaginable.
It's not "free," it's already been bought and paid for, merely stolen en route by the most useless class of people imaginable.
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Important to note that this pinky-swear ACA subsidy vote won't take place until after open enrollment for 2026 ends.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Important to note that this pinky-swear ACA subsidy vote won't take place until after open enrollment for 2026 ends.
Dem Senators are way more concerned about the "breaking the law" part than the "hurting people" part. Cave hard enough, eventually hurting people won't be breaking the law, which will be fine.
The full clip may be even worse. He explains that it “didn’t work” bc Trump took advantage of it to do a bunch of unlawful things. This is the same elite cowardice that has gotten us exactly nowhere. “Gosh, Trump is breaking the law and hurting people. Guess we’d better cave.”
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Dem Senators are way more concerned about the "breaking the law" part than the "hurting people" part. Cave hard enough, eventually hurting people won't be breaking the law, which will be fine.
I wonder what Mike Johnson's excuse is going to be to not seat Grijalva after the government reopens.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I wonder what Mike Johnson's excuse is going to be to not seat Grijalva after the government reopens.
@ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
@ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
If you vote for this bill you will get primaried so hard that you won't be fit for so much as a City Council seat anywhere in this state for the rest of your lives. We will burn you like spies.
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Yes, actually. The Senate is bad
is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Yes, actually. The Senate is bad
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If Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate cave to the Republicans and give up on the ACA, wow, what a punch in the face to all Democrats who voted last week, all the people who showed up for No Kings protests...and certainly to all the people who need the subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
If Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate cave to the Republicans and give up on the ACA, wow, what a punch in the face to all Democrats who voted last week, all the people who showed up for No Kings protests...and certainly to all the people who need the subsidies.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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looks like senate dems are folding on the shutdown in exchange for a doomed vote 40 days from now and nothing else
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
looks like senate dems are folding on the shutdown in exchange for a doomed vote 40 days from now and nothing else
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November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM