Gabriel J Kowalczyk 🏳️🌈
@gabrieljaykay.bsky.social
Your local, tired, angry, bisexual scientist.
Researcher, programmer, gaymer, err-er, error.
📍PGH, PA
Researcher, programmer, gaymer, err-er, error.
📍PGH, PA
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The press cannot contain a movement that rejects objective truth. Separation of powers does not contain a movement that accepts a dictator. Shame does not affect a movement that rejects morality, even the morality of their own faith.
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The press cannot contain a movement that rejects objective truth. Separation of powers does not contain a movement that accepts a dictator. Shame does not affect a movement that rejects morality, even the morality of their own faith.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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If I was the federal government of the richest country in the history of the world I would be inclined to fund the development of open source incident tracking software that fire departments could use freely but what the hell do I know
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If I was the federal government of the richest country in the history of the world I would be inclined to fund the development of open source incident tracking software that fire departments could use freely but what the hell do I know
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Home for the holidays
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Home for the holidays
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
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They're going to destroy public education in the United States - part of their plot to enslave us - and they don't care how many of our kids need to die to make that happen. This is explicitly what all the people who helped Trump win were trying to achieve.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
They're going to destroy public education in the United States - part of their plot to enslave us - and they don't care how many of our kids need to die to make that happen. This is explicitly what all the people who helped Trump win were trying to achieve.
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There's probably a better way to word it, but the Democratic Party's motto for 2026 and beyond should be "Reconstruction 2.0" and the first move should be a new version of the Klan Act that puts Trumpism in the cross-hairs.
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
While the outcome should be clear from the plain text of the Constitution, the central project of this court and Administration, together, is to nullify the reconstruction amendments
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There's probably a better way to word it, but the Democratic Party's motto for 2026 and beyond should be "Reconstruction 2.0" and the first move should be a new version of the Klan Act that puts Trumpism in the cross-hairs.
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
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tax the empty (lots)
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
tax the empty (lots)
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Standing with Nabisco workers on a picket line “solidified my understanding of how crucial labor organizing is if we want to win anything that we want in this country,” says Kelsea Bond, Atlanta’s newly elected socialist City Council member.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Standing with Nabisco workers on a picket line “solidified my understanding of how crucial labor organizing is if we want to win anything that we want in this country,” says Kelsea Bond, Atlanta’s newly elected socialist City Council member.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
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The Democrats' election plan, as always, is to point at the Bad Man and say he's bad. But this is the time to talk about how this oligarchic political and economic system allowed this kind of person to take power in the first place, and how it should be changed. No appetite for that
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Democrats' election plan, as always, is to point at the Bad Man and say he's bad. But this is the time to talk about how this oligarchic political and economic system allowed this kind of person to take power in the first place, and how it should be changed. No appetite for that
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The one thing I do appreciate about the US is that no other culture I have ever encountered would produce a folksong where the devil challenges a kid to a duel in an obvious morality play about hubris and then the kid just absolutely kicks his ass and wins the fiddle
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The one thing I do appreciate about the US is that no other culture I have ever encountered would produce a folksong where the devil challenges a kid to a duel in an obvious morality play about hubris and then the kid just absolutely kicks his ass and wins the fiddle
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
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We’re gonna eat you. With forks.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
We’re gonna eat you. With forks.
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It’s not just Schumer.
The Dems job is to cave,
come up one vote short,
get blocked by the parlementarian,
mired in committee, etc
It’s why large Corps, billionaires & foreign countries fund thrm.
If they didn’t cave, lose, come up short
the Corps/billionaires wouldn’t give them a dime.
The Dems job is to cave,
come up one vote short,
get blocked by the parlementarian,
mired in committee, etc
It’s why large Corps, billionaires & foreign countries fund thrm.
If they didn’t cave, lose, come up short
the Corps/billionaires wouldn’t give them a dime.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It’s not just Schumer.
The Dems job is to cave,
come up one vote short,
get blocked by the parlementarian,
mired in committee, etc
It’s why large Corps, billionaires & foreign countries fund thrm.
If they didn’t cave, lose, come up short
the Corps/billionaires wouldn’t give them a dime.
The Dems job is to cave,
come up one vote short,
get blocked by the parlementarian,
mired in committee, etc
It’s why large Corps, billionaires & foreign countries fund thrm.
If they didn’t cave, lose, come up short
the Corps/billionaires wouldn’t give them a dime.
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this ones for all my losers out there who do so with a smile on their face!!!!
#ウマ娘 #umamusume #haruurara
#ウマ娘 #umamusume #haruurara
October 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this ones for all my losers out there who do so with a smile on their face!!!!
#ウマ娘 #umamusume #haruurara
#ウマ娘 #umamusume #haruurara
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mine eyes? seeing the glory.
the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled.
the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.
the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled.
the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
mine eyes? seeing the glory.
the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled.
the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.
the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled.
the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.
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A question that’s worth speculating about is what would happen if Donald Trump failed the dementia test, and whether any public facts exclude this possibility.
The same people who told you Big Drawlz is 215 pounds told you he got a perfect score on a cognitive test. Do with that what you will. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
people.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A question that’s worth speculating about is what would happen if Donald Trump failed the dementia test, and whether any public facts exclude this possibility.
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Great framing.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Great framing.
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Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
Misanthropic Thoughts
What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...