CMTroy
@cmtroy205.bsky.social
Childless cat developer.
[Social media disclaimer : I haven't smoked in ~15 years, so no cats who may be in my vicinity will be harmed by 2ndhand smoke. Also, I oppose offering cigs to actual chimpanzees; however, I have no issue with sunglasses.]
[Social media disclaimer : I haven't smoked in ~15 years, so no cats who may be in my vicinity will be harmed by 2ndhand smoke. Also, I oppose offering cigs to actual chimpanzees; however, I have no issue with sunglasses.]
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CMTroy
@cmtroy205.bsky.social
· Apr 13
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
Nothing to add, just quoting so I can pin it. Great work. 💯
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President Trump said he plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns from national security officials that it could help China steal the technology.
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
President Trump said he plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns from national security officials that it could help China steal the technology.
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
When Saudi Arabia gets things it wants, it’s worth remembering Trump’s business conflicts in the country… 🧵
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Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science. Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science
Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods for allergies in kids
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science. Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
This is defensible. I mean, K💲H already knows what the results would be. 😒
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is defensible. I mean, K💲H already knows what the results would be. 😒
Translation: "Believe what I tell you, not your lying eyes & ears."
JD Vance: "I serve under Donald Trump, who is very healthy. If I served under Joe Biden, I'd probably be worried every minute of every day that he was gonna croak and that I'd have to become president."
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Translation: "Believe what I tell you, not your lying eyes & ears."
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Lina Khan should be everywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
Lina Khan On Zohran Mamdani, Corporate Welfare & the FTC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Lina Khan should be everywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJW...
This settles the debate... life imitates art. 😅
Gary Larson created the term Thagomizer in 1982.
In 1993, paleontologist Ken Carpenter was the first to use the term in a scientific context.
It is now widely accepted and used to describe the spikes on a stegosaur's tail.
In 1993, paleontologist Ken Carpenter was the first to use the term in a scientific context.
It is now widely accepted and used to describe the spikes on a stegosaur's tail.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This settles the debate... life imitates art. 😅
New GOOG motto: "Do the right thing." The right thing to protect autocrats & oligarchs, apparently. Shocking, I know.
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
New GOOG motto: "Do the right thing." The right thing to protect autocrats & oligarchs, apparently. Shocking, I know.
👽 : "By K alone, I set my mind in motion."
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
👽 : "By K alone, I set my mind in motion."
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This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm not familiar with either BB or BCS, but this sounds interesting. However, it also seems less like SF and more like... just ordinary life. Climate change, an ongoing pandemic, authoritarianism in our faces, retreat from scientific reality... and a relentless, widspread "Party on!" attitude. 🤷♂️
“I basically tailored the part for Rhea," Gilligan says. "I wanted her to be a star, I figured it was long past time for her to be number one on the call sheet, and I wanted to be the person to get her there.”
Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that ‘attract really smart viewers’
It starts streaming in November.
www.theverge.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm not familiar with either BB or BCS, but this sounds interesting. However, it also seems less like SF and more like... just ordinary life. Climate change, an ongoing pandemic, authoritarianism in our faces, retreat from scientific reality... and a relentless, widspread "Party on!" attitude. 🤷♂️
Maybe this would be worth trying... Let 🍊🤡 be the /only official spokesperson/ for this government.
I don't think it would work out the way he'd expect.
I don't think it would work out the way he'd expect.
Trump on President Xi: "During the meeting, he's here, and he's got about 6 people on each side. And every one of those people were at attention. And I made a comment to one of them and it got no response. And President Xi didn't let him. I said, I want my cabinet to behave like that."
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Maybe this would be worth trying... Let 🍊🤡 be the /only official spokesperson/ for this government.
I don't think it would work out the way he'd expect.
I don't think it would work out the way he'd expect.
Dooo iiit ! 🤣
I would just like to ask the Republican Party to please put Stephen Miller in front cameras as much as possible from now until the midterms because he is such a likable & charismatic person with so many amazing & popular ideas for people who aren’t white Christian nationalists.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Dooo iiit ! 🤣
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Propel makes a free app for people on food stamps. Now it's giving some of them $50 each, as some private companies, nonprofits, and individuals scramble to help. n.pr/4hKqa6z
How one tech startup is giving cash to SNAP recipients
Propel makes a free app for people on food stamps. Now it's giving some of them $50 each, as some private companies, nonprofits, and individuals scramble to help.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Propel makes a free app for people on food stamps. Now it's giving some of them $50 each, as some private companies, nonprofits, and individuals scramble to help. n.pr/4hKqa6z
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When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
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SARS-CoV-2 is an ongoing threat to human health
"Last month Neil Sprackling, a CEO with Swiss Re, cited long COVID as a significant factor contributing to that two per cent jump in excess deaths, particularly in people over the age of 65."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
"Last month Neil Sprackling, a CEO with Swiss Re, cited long COVID as a significant factor contributing to that two per cent jump in excess deaths, particularly in people over the age of 65."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
SARS-CoV-2 is an ongoing threat to human health
"Last month Neil Sprackling, a CEO with Swiss Re, cited long COVID as a significant factor contributing to that two per cent jump in excess deaths, particularly in people over the age of 65."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
"Last month Neil Sprackling, a CEO with Swiss Re, cited long COVID as a significant factor contributing to that two per cent jump in excess deaths, particularly in people over the age of 65."
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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"It's becoming increasingly better not to ask, because it's becoming increasingly better not to know. If you know, then you have to do something about it. Thus not knowing has become a virtue among people who would rather not give a shit. Shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
www.the-reframe.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"It's becoming increasingly better not to ask, because it's becoming increasingly better not to know. If you know, then you have to do something about it. Thus not knowing has become a virtue among people who would rather not give a shit. Shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
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Plan for the elections you have, not the elections you want
The Smart Authoritarian's Guide to Undermining Your Opposition
And what a smart opposition can do to protect itself
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Plan for the elections you have, not the elections you want
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I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
naomialderman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This reads like MadLibs, Conservative Grievance edition... roll 3 dice, pick the two adjectives & a noun indicated by the values, string them together. Any combination works!
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This reads like MadLibs, Conservative Grievance edition... roll 3 dice, pick the two adjectives & a noun indicated by the values, string them together. Any combination works!
I wonder if K💲H is familiar with the Streisand Effect...?
Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I wonder if K💲H is familiar with the Streisand Effect...?
Maybe it's worth paying to have someone chauffeur her... 😬
Kristi Noem blasts “foreigners” for dangerous driving. According to the Rapid City Journal, that state’s court records show Noem had 20 speeding tickets dating back to 1989, alongside other violations, including failure to stop at an intersection and invalid license plates.
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Maybe it's worth paying to have someone chauffeur her... 😬
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I'll end w/a beautiful capture over the Vestrahorn #Mountains in #Iceland. The sky shows stratospheric #clouds in vivid colors as the sun sets. It's a #rare phenomena in only extreme cold weather that almost looks unreal.
#NoPhotoshop
#Landscape #ArtYear #smArtist
#Photography
📷 Anya Petrovic
#NoPhotoshop
#Landscape #ArtYear #smArtist
#Photography
📷 Anya Petrovic
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'll end w/a beautiful capture over the Vestrahorn #Mountains in #Iceland. The sky shows stratospheric #clouds in vivid colors as the sun sets. It's a #rare phenomena in only extreme cold weather that almost looks unreal.
#NoPhotoshop
#Landscape #ArtYear #smArtist
#Photography
📷 Anya Petrovic
#NoPhotoshop
#Landscape #ArtYear #smArtist
#Photography
📷 Anya Petrovic
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Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
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Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail after 183 million passwords leaked
Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail after 183 million passwords leaked
Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail after 183 million passwords leaked
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail after 183 million passwords leaked