Gaston Williams
@gastonwnc.bsky.social
Electrical Engineer & Programmer. ⚡💾 Married gay man. 🌈Retired from IBM.🚣 X/Twitter refugee. I honestly don't know why anyone would follow me.
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Antikythera mechanism (2nd century BC; reconstruction 2012, Tony Freeth)
April 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Antikythera mechanism (2nd century BC; reconstruction 2012, Tony Freeth)
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This headline goes hard.
March 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This headline goes hard.
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Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.
April 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.
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Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.
March 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Reminder that IMLS supports Libby and Interlibrary Loan, so if you like things like rural borrowers having the same access as city residents and immunocompromised people being able to still use their library despite ableds demanding libraries open without masks…time to push back.
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DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
bookriot.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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There is no “novel legal theory” about a third term, as some reporters are parroting. It’s not legal, and the idea of seizing permanent power isn’t a “theory,” it’s just what dictators do.
March 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
There is no “novel legal theory” about a third term, as some reporters are parroting. It’s not legal, and the idea of seizing permanent power isn’t a “theory,” it’s just what dictators do.
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Pushback works, part gazillion:
"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
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"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Pushback works, part gazillion:
"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
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WATCH: “It’s horrific.”
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
March 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
WATCH: “It’s horrific.”
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.
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DAMN IT THEY WEREN'T SKITS THEY WERE SKETCHES!!! (Just kidding, as I posted the other day, whether you use the term "skits" or "sketches," it's a meaningless distinction to me. Thank you for the kind words.)
It was some awesome chemistry. I still laugh a lot when I watch the skits.
February 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
DAMN IT THEY WEREN'T SKITS THEY WERE SKETCHES!!! (Just kidding, as I posted the other day, whether you use the term "skits" or "sketches," it's a meaningless distinction to me. Thank you for the kind words.)
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Not really, I always knew any riffs me or the other writers wrote were in good hands with Joel, Mike, Trace and Kevin.
During your time on the show, Frank only got to actuslly sit in the theater and riff one time (the AWESOME ST: TOS Mirror Universe homage episode).
Is there another movie you picked that you would've enjoyed riffing in the theater, too?
Thanks, and I'll take my answer off the air. 🙂
Is there another movie you picked that you would've enjoyed riffing in the theater, too?
Thanks, and I'll take my answer off the air. 🙂
February 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Not really, I always knew any riffs me or the other writers wrote were in good hands with Joel, Mike, Trace and Kevin.
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Great poster- listen to our podcast on this one here - pod.link/1547179456/e...
February 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great poster- listen to our podcast on this one here - pod.link/1547179456/e...
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Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here
February 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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They're using fear to bully you into compliance.
Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom.
They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises.
What do they have to fear?
Nothing so far.
That needs to change.
Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom.
They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises.
What do they have to fear?
Nothing so far.
That needs to change.
February 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
They're using fear to bully you into compliance.
Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom.
They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises.
What do they have to fear?
Nothing so far.
That needs to change.
Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom.
They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises.
What do they have to fear?
Nothing so far.
That needs to change.
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Newspaper ad for PHANTASM (1979), written, shot, edited, and directed by Don Coscarelli - BOTD in 1954
February 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Newspaper ad for PHANTASM (1979), written, shot, edited, and directed by Don Coscarelli - BOTD in 1954
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WATCH: “Go through JD Vance’s Munich speech and highlight any parts Putin would be unhappy about. He could almost have written it himself.”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social on Vance using a lie about an abortion clinic protestor to say Putin isn’t the enemy
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGMZ-sC...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social on Vance using a lie about an abortion clinic protestor to say Putin isn’t the enemy
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGMZ-sC...
February 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
WATCH: “Go through JD Vance’s Munich speech and highlight any parts Putin would be unhappy about. He could almost have written it himself.”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social on Vance using a lie about an abortion clinic protestor to say Putin isn’t the enemy
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGMZ-sC...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social on Vance using a lie about an abortion clinic protestor to say Putin isn’t the enemy
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGMZ-sC...
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What a degenerate! If Hochul doesn’t remove Adams as Mayor, she has a lot to answer for.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/17/a...
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NYC Mayor Adams calls demands to resign over Trump DOJ indictment dismissal a ‘modern day Mein Kampf,’ sparking outrage
Adams delivered the heated remark while speaking at an event at Brooklyn’s Rehoboth Cathedral — a gathering billed as a rally for his reelection in June’s Democratic mayoral primary.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What a degenerate! If Hochul doesn’t remove Adams as Mayor, she has a lot to answer for.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/17/a...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/17/a...
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As much as I love getting lectured by people in my replies that ACTUALLY the Republicans weren't able to score any points at all against Obama when they were in the minority, I did write a book that covered a lot of this.
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
As much as I love getting lectured by people in my replies that ACTUALLY the Republicans weren't able to score any points at all against Obama when they were in the minority, I did write a book that covered a lot of this.
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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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Kicking back on Holbox Island, Mexico. The water you see is the Gulf of Mexico
February 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kicking back on Holbox Island, Mexico. The water you see is the Gulf of Mexico
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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
Staff shortages are about to get even worse.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system
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The Gulf of Mexico / America name change is a distraction relative to bigger stories, but name changes also matter — consider when St. Petersburg was called Leningrad. Or when Kazakhstan changed Astana to Nur-Sultan and then back.
February 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Gulf of Mexico / America name change is a distraction relative to bigger stories, but name changes also matter — consider when St. Petersburg was called Leningrad. Or when Kazakhstan changed Astana to Nur-Sultan and then back.