John Smith Of the Smiths of Smithtown by the village smithy
@fincoot.bsky.social
Freelance anchorite, Windmill cancer survivor, Political Unreliable
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Oh for fucks sake
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Solo exploring a 100% pitch black lava tube for over a mile underground. I brought some portable lights to place and set up this shot.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Solo exploring a 100% pitch black lava tube for over a mile underground. I brought some portable lights to place and set up this shot.
"there was a full minute of silence"
Wow. An occurrence so novel that those people there with decades of experience could only stare.
While we likely should stop being surprised by surprising events we can certainly take a minute of silence to marvel that there can be new things in the world.
Wow. An occurrence so novel that those people there with decades of experience could only stare.
While we likely should stop being surprised by surprising events we can certainly take a minute of silence to marvel that there can be new things in the world.
Say what you will, she managed to resolve two cases simultaneously!
Lindsey Halligan Manages To Lose Two Cases At Once, Which Is Honestly Impressive - Above the Law
DOJ saved from having to lose Comey case over illegal indictment by losing case over illegal appointment!
abovethelaw.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"there was a full minute of silence"
Wow. An occurrence so novel that those people there with decades of experience could only stare.
While we likely should stop being surprised by surprising events we can certainly take a minute of silence to marvel that there can be new things in the world.
Wow. An occurrence so novel that those people there with decades of experience could only stare.
While we likely should stop being surprised by surprising events we can certainly take a minute of silence to marvel that there can be new things in the world.
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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Holiday Tip:
If a relative starts bothering you with politics talk during Thanksgiving dinner, try eating your corn on the cob endways, like a hotdog. I guarantee they'll completely forget what they were talking about.
If a relative starts bothering you with politics talk during Thanksgiving dinner, try eating your corn on the cob endways, like a hotdog. I guarantee they'll completely forget what they were talking about.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Holiday Tip:
If a relative starts bothering you with politics talk during Thanksgiving dinner, try eating your corn on the cob endways, like a hotdog. I guarantee they'll completely forget what they were talking about.
If a relative starts bothering you with politics talk during Thanksgiving dinner, try eating your corn on the cob endways, like a hotdog. I guarantee they'll completely forget what they were talking about.
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Internet Archive has archived all the stories declaring the Internet Archive dead
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Internet Archive has archived all the stories declaring the Internet Archive dead
Time to start asking Sen C about his oath to first do no harm.
and keep asking it
and keep asking it
TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Time to start asking Sen C about his oath to first do no harm.
and keep asking it
and keep asking it
this is an answer from a man who's learned that his job is to be a weatherman and hope the weather in the oval office is good. But, you know, hey, it's the weather.
TAPPER: Right before the election, Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from New York City if Mamdani were elected. Was that just bluster? He doesn't mean it?
HASSETT: Well, it feels like he doesn't mean it now
HASSETT: Well, it feels like he doesn't mean it now
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this is an answer from a man who's learned that his job is to be a weatherman and hope the weather in the oval office is good. But, you know, hey, it's the weather.
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Douglas Adams: We should not invent the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Techbros: We have created Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Techbros: We have created Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Douglas Adams: We should not invent the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Techbros: We have created Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Techbros: We have created Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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Just bought a handmade pottery garlic rasp and three lino prints for Xmas
If you have a small artisan business, selling jewelry, pottery, gifts, prints, knitwear why not let everyone know about it, add your shop site and lets get a chain of supporting small businesses going
#BuySmall #ShopIndie
If you have a small artisan business, selling jewelry, pottery, gifts, prints, knitwear why not let everyone know about it, add your shop site and lets get a chain of supporting small businesses going
#BuySmall #ShopIndie
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just bought a handmade pottery garlic rasp and three lino prints for Xmas
If you have a small artisan business, selling jewelry, pottery, gifts, prints, knitwear why not let everyone know about it, add your shop site and lets get a chain of supporting small businesses going
#BuySmall #ShopIndie
If you have a small artisan business, selling jewelry, pottery, gifts, prints, knitwear why not let everyone know about it, add your shop site and lets get a chain of supporting small businesses going
#BuySmall #ShopIndie
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Right now, Venezuela's airspace is also completely empty, and it is highly likely that the zero hour for the start of the attacks is very close.
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Right now, Venezuela's airspace is also completely empty, and it is highly likely that the zero hour for the start of the attacks is very close.
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Colorado is off to an important start with its AI Act, which protects us from automated decision-making. Now that state should strengthen its law, and other states should enact their own laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF
www.eff.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Colorado is off to an important start with its AI Act, which protects us from automated decision-making. Now that state should strengthen its law, and other states should enact their own laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Just got new followers: @loyalty231.bsky.social, @badgerbleu2.bsky.social, @wdtcchairjt.bsky.social, @bluedoggy.bsky.social, @emparrot.com, @whiterosekillie.bsky.social
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November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just got new followers: @loyalty231.bsky.social, @badgerbleu2.bsky.social, @wdtcchairjt.bsky.social, @bluedoggy.bsky.social, @emparrot.com, @whiterosekillie.bsky.social
Thank you!
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Everything in space is in constant motion.
Anything that isn't moving ends up as part of a larger mass.
Anything that isn't moving ends up as part of a larger mass.
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Everything in space is in constant motion.
Anything that isn't moving ends up as part of a larger mass.
Anything that isn't moving ends up as part of a larger mass.
Someone shot the bird in the afternoon dance show
Madge is seriously giving trump the finger
Madge is seriously giving trump the finger
Okay but why not serve out the rest of her term? Why leave a year early? Not that I’m complaining…
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Someone shot the bird in the afternoon dance show
Madge is seriously giving trump the finger
Madge is seriously giving trump the finger
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Treat group chats like everything you say in them is "public".
Treat members of group chats like they're all FBI agents.
Signal cannot protect you from yourself, or other people.
People are always the weakest link.
Treat members of group chats like they're all FBI agents.
Signal cannot protect you from yourself, or other people.
People are always the weakest link.
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Treat group chats like everything you say in them is "public".
Treat members of group chats like they're all FBI agents.
Signal cannot protect you from yourself, or other people.
People are always the weakest link.
Treat members of group chats like they're all FBI agents.
Signal cannot protect you from yourself, or other people.
People are always the weakest link.
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So many people...with people jobs seeming
shocked by the SA, CSA acts that they are
responsible for responding to...as if they
never actually given any thought to it at all.
shocked by the SA, CSA acts that they are
responsible for responding to...as if they
never actually given any thought to it at all.
A child who was sexually abused was told by church leaders to forgive her abuser and then forget it. If she spoke of it again, she would be guilty of having an unforgiving heart and the sins would become hers.
“It was one of the worst things ever." w/ @startribune.com
“It was one of the worst things ever." w/ @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
So many people...with people jobs seeming
shocked by the SA, CSA acts that they are
responsible for responding to...as if they
never actually given any thought to it at all.
shocked by the SA, CSA acts that they are
responsible for responding to...as if they
never actually given any thought to it at all.
The USG can STILL be made to respond
The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest.
The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.
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The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care.
wapo.st/4o48J24
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The USG can STILL be made to respond
"through cameras disguised as traffic cones, orange barrels, and electrical boxes along highways."
Fancy that. All that expensive tech just left out in the weather where anything, anything at all, could happen at them. Remember hitchBOT.
#tactics #PassItOn
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Fancy that. All that expensive tech just left out in the weather where anything, anything at all, could happen at them. Remember hitchBOT.
#tactics #PassItOn
boingboing.net/2025/11/20/b...
Border Patrol secretly monitors millions of Americans using hidden cameras and algorithm
Border Patrol secretly monitors millions of Americans using hidden cameras and algorithms far from any border
boingboing.net
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"through cameras disguised as traffic cones, orange barrels, and electrical boxes along highways."
Fancy that. All that expensive tech just left out in the weather where anything, anything at all, could happen at them. Remember hitchBOT.
#tactics #PassItOn
boingboing.net/2025/11/20/b...
Fancy that. All that expensive tech just left out in the weather where anything, anything at all, could happen at them. Remember hitchBOT.
#tactics #PassItOn
boingboing.net/2025/11/20/b...
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Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.
Things found in the wild.
Youtube fed me this side ad for a mobile home repair service this morning.
Youtube fed me this side ad for a mobile home repair service this morning.
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Things found in the wild.
Youtube fed me this side ad for a mobile home repair service this morning.
Youtube fed me this side ad for a mobile home repair service this morning.
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Ancient Comics in Burien reopened a few months ago, I'm finally here and I'm going in!
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Ancient Comics in Burien reopened a few months ago, I'm finally here and I'm going in!
"wokester"
Man should be tried and convicted on pollution offenses to the english language.
Man should be tried and convicted on pollution offenses to the english language.
A reminder that inside that soft, spongey skull is a big scoop of cottage cheese and hatred and nothing else.
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"wokester"
Man should be tried and convicted on pollution offenses to the english language.
Man should be tried and convicted on pollution offenses to the english language.
The Book of Job is the Biblical justification for victim blaming.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The Book of Job is the Biblical justification for victim blaming.