Joe Brockmeier
@jzb.bsky.social
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." Mark Twain
Graduate, Steven Wright School of Motivational Speaking.
Graduate, Steven Wright School of Motivational Speaking.
Khan, Cylons, and Boba Fett were cool, but Vultan was The Man(TM).
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Khan, Cylons, and Boba Fett were cool, but Vultan was The Man(TM).
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.
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I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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JFC how huge were the founding fathers
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
JFC how huge were the founding fathers
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"Diorama of power dynamics." Beyond euphemism, that is glib glorification of dictatorship. The #BrokenTimes would rather show off its turn of phrase than call fascism what it is.
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Diorama of power dynamics." Beyond euphemism, that is glib glorification of dictatorship. The #BrokenTimes would rather show off its turn of phrase than call fascism what it is.
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.
Pam Bondi knew.
Kash Patel knew.
Emil Bove knew.
And they made the investigation go away.
A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
Pam Bondi knew.
Kash Patel knew.
Emil Bove knew.
And they made the investigation go away.
A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
September 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.
Pam Bondi knew.
Kash Patel knew.
Emil Bove knew.
And they made the investigation go away.
A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
Pam Bondi knew.
Kash Patel knew.
Emil Bove knew.
And they made the investigation go away.
A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill" is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects.
The Senate's “Big, Beautiful Bill” will create a disaster for rural moms and babies
Medicaid cuts could endanger maternity services at more than 140 rural hospitals.
www.motherjones.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill" is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects.
The first part in Daroc Alden's series on how to write Rust for inclusion with the Linux kernel. Useful for Linux developers new to Rust, and Rust devs new to the Linux kernel. #Linux #Rust
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How to write Rust in the kernel: part 1
The Linux kernel is seeing a steady accumulation of Rust code. As it becomes more prevalent, m [...]
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July 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The first part in Daroc Alden's series on how to write Rust for inclusion with the Linux kernel. Useful for Linux developers new to Rust, and Rust devs new to the Linux kernel. #Linux #Rust
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It's definitely not for everybody, but Nyxt is an interesting approach to providing an extensible web browser for those who like Lisp and Emacs. #OpenSource
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Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser
Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web [...]
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June 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's definitely not for everybody, but Nyxt is an interesting approach to providing an extensible web browser for those who like Lisp and Emacs. #OpenSource
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The handling of kernel core dumps has been a constant source of vulnerabilities for the Linux kernel. With luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of them in the future. lwn.net/SubscriberLi... #LWN #Linux #OpenSource
Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles the processing of co [...]
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June 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The handling of kernel core dumps has been a constant source of vulnerabilities for the Linux kernel. With luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of them in the future. lwn.net/SubscriberLi... #LWN #Linux #OpenSource
At Flock this year, two members of the documentation team (Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy) led a session on the state of Fedora's docs and how they plan to bring in more people to contribute. #Linux
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Improving Fedora's documentation
At Flock, Fedora's annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5 to June 8, two membe [...]
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June 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
At Flock this year, two members of the documentation team (Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy) led a session on the state of Fedora's docs and how they plan to bring in more people to contribute. #Linux
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Eric Adams cleaned out his City Hall staff. He cut his deal with Trump, and got his case dropped. Since then, the mayor has gone even more MAGA -- and has become even looser with the truth.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Eric Adams cleaned out his City Hall staff. He cut his deal with Trump, and got his case dropped. Since then, the mayor has gone even more MAGA -- and has become even looser with the truth.
gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...
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I absolutely refuse to donate to anything that passes through Act Blue or the Democratic party at this point because the party is clearly more interested in preserving their fundraising jobs than electing good people and governing.
This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*
New Reuters poll finds Trump is no longer in positive territory *even on immigration*:
April 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I absolutely refuse to donate to anything that passes through Act Blue or the Democratic party at this point because the party is clearly more interested in preserving their fundraising jobs than electing good people and governing.
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This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*
New Reuters poll finds Trump is no longer in positive territory *even on immigration*:
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*
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Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad.
Breaking News: The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said that he would resign from the long-running program because he had lost his journalistic independence.
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad.
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This is really moving
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is really moving
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Coverage of a great talk from SCALE 22x about the making of the OpenWrt One router. Impressive what the Software Freedom Conservancy and OpenWrt project have pulled off in just such a short time. #OpenSource #OpenWrt #FreeSoftware
Making the OpenWrt One [LWN.net]
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April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Coverage of a great talk from SCALE 22x about the making of the OpenWrt One router. Impressive what the Software Freedom Conservancy and OpenWrt project have pulled off in just such a short time. #OpenSource #OpenWrt #FreeSoftware
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And it's very likely they don't mind at all, because 1) They are so unfathomably wealthy they they literally do not notice their "net worth" decreasing by billions, and 2) because crashing markets means they can fatten their portfolios at fire sale prices.
This isn't painful. This is a long con.
This isn't painful. This is a long con.
The world's 500 richest people saw their combined wealth fall by a combined $208 billion, the most since Covid, as tariffs sent markets into a tailspin
Billionaires Lose Combined $208 Billion in One Day From Trump Tariffs
The world’s 500 richest people saw their combined wealth plunge by $208 billion Thursday as broad tariffs announced by President Donald Trump sent global markets into a tailspin.
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And it's very likely they don't mind at all, because 1) They are so unfathomably wealthy they they literally do not notice their "net worth" decreasing by billions, and 2) because crashing markets means they can fatten their portfolios at fire sale prices.
This isn't painful. This is a long con.
This isn't painful. This is a long con.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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WE
TOLD
YOU
TOLD
YOU
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
WE
TOLD
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TOLD
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