Kurt The Turk
@kurttheturk.bsky.social
I hack and build things for people who need help hacking and building things. I like martial arts, kettlebells, games, books, and the occasional computing clusterfuck.
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Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
August 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
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The US focusing on expanding fossil fuels for power while our adversaries are expanding renewables is like opening new hospitals focusing on bloodletting and witchcraft when we have modern medicine.
China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America's entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
China rushes to build out solar, and emissions edge downward
Chinese officials have showcased what they claim will be the world's largest solar farm on the Tibetan plateau
www.independent.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The US focusing on expanding fossil fuels for power while our adversaries are expanding renewables is like opening new hospitals focusing on bloodletting and witchcraft when we have modern medicine.
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My personal experience with online safety was my school installing strict internet controls to Protect The Kids™, so I joined a hacking forum to learn bypasses. The users also taught me how to import drugs via the dark web. Then I got arrested by the FBI for computer hacking. It was all very safe.
July 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My personal experience with online safety was my school installing strict internet controls to Protect The Kids™, so I joined a hacking forum to learn bypasses. The users also taught me how to import drugs via the dark web. Then I got arrested by the FBI for computer hacking. It was all very safe.
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Innocent people don’t pardon criminals to protect themselves.
July 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Innocent people don’t pardon criminals to protect themselves.
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If for no other reason than good defense attorneys will dig the lies up and introduce them at trials with "are you lying on an official record here like you were there?"
Lying by an officer should be a one-strike-you're-fired situation, and the officers who did so should all be prosecuted. I won't hold my breath. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If for no other reason than good defense attorneys will dig the lies up and introduce them at trials with "are you lying on an official record here like you were there?"
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The hearings on Benghazi went on for more than two years. Only four adults died, all of whom took willingly took a dangerous assignment in Libya.
I'm not ready to stop talking about Epstein a week after Bondi won't release the files when it protects people who will continue to victimize children.
I'm not ready to stop talking about Epstein a week after Bondi won't release the files when it protects people who will continue to victimize children.
July 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The hearings on Benghazi went on for more than two years. Only four adults died, all of whom took willingly took a dangerous assignment in Libya.
I'm not ready to stop talking about Epstein a week after Bondi won't release the files when it protects people who will continue to victimize children.
I'm not ready to stop talking about Epstein a week after Bondi won't release the files when it protects people who will continue to victimize children.
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So the current story from the president is that Those Damn Dirty Democrats created the Epstein Files, put a bunch of incriminating stuff about him in there and then … never released it?
July 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So the current story from the president is that Those Damn Dirty Democrats created the Epstein Files, put a bunch of incriminating stuff about him in there and then … never released it?
Me: Does your app support Windows
Vendor: why yes! See here in our documentation
Me:*looks at documentation* this says you need it to run WSL with an Ubuntu distro
Vendor: yup.
Me: ...so you don't support Windows?
Vendor: Yes we do!
Me:
Vendor: why yes! See here in our documentation
Me:*looks at documentation* this says you need it to run WSL with an Ubuntu distro
Vendor: yup.
Me: ...so you don't support Windows?
Vendor: Yes we do!
Me:
a stick figure is sitting in front of a computer monitor .
ALT: a stick figure is sitting in front of a computer monitor .
media.tenor.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Me: Does your app support Windows
Vendor: why yes! See here in our documentation
Me:*looks at documentation* this says you need it to run WSL with an Ubuntu distro
Vendor: yup.
Me: ...so you don't support Windows?
Vendor: Yes we do!
Me:
Vendor: why yes! See here in our documentation
Me:*looks at documentation* this says you need it to run WSL with an Ubuntu distro
Vendor: yup.
Me: ...so you don't support Windows?
Vendor: Yes we do!
Me:
Seahorse males carry the female's eggs. They also give birth. Completely natural, but not the norm in a greater context.
Let people fucking live and live how they please.
Let people fucking live and live how they please.
homophobes and transphobes love to trot out the “unnatural” argument, but the wonderful truth is that there is an abundance of what we might call queerness in the natural world, and humans are just one part of the whole. if something is possible, it cannot be unnatural
July 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Seahorse males carry the female's eggs. They also give birth. Completely natural, but not the norm in a greater context.
Let people fucking live and live how they please.
Let people fucking live and live how they please.
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Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
July 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
It's 2025. I've been doing cyber security for 15 years in either a military, civilian, or consulting capacity.
Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to talk to a vendor where the engineer loudly exclaims they have not 1, but multiple backdoors in their product, one of which you can't lockdown.
Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to talk to a vendor where the engineer loudly exclaims they have not 1, but multiple backdoors in their product, one of which you can't lockdown.
July 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's 2025. I've been doing cyber security for 15 years in either a military, civilian, or consulting capacity.
Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to talk to a vendor where the engineer loudly exclaims they have not 1, but multiple backdoors in their product, one of which you can't lockdown.
Not in my wildest dreams would I expect to talk to a vendor where the engineer loudly exclaims they have not 1, but multiple backdoors in their product, one of which you can't lockdown.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it
July 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
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So glad we all get to experience the Most Ironic Independence Day In American History.
July 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So glad we all get to experience the Most Ironic Independence Day In American History.
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Can’t make this up.
July 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can’t make this up.
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I thought we were marching all the way to the White House but "Bunker Bitch" Trump has Lafayette Square blocked off.
I'd be scared of the public too if I were him.
I'd be scared of the public too if I were him.
July 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I thought we were marching all the way to the White House but "Bunker Bitch" Trump has Lafayette Square blocked off.
I'd be scared of the public too if I were him.
I'd be scared of the public too if I were him.
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SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
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