Mike Maughmer
@maughmer.bsky.social
Software developer, taiko player, runner, dog owner, glass blower, blacksmith, and a few other things.
Excellent 🧵 outlining 26 things the 🍊🤡 administration fails to understand.
The admin officials talking about using tariffs to return manufacturing to the US a.) do not know anything about trade, b.) do not understand how tariffs work, c.) do not understand how global supply chains work, d.) do not understand what a modest percentage of overall output, trade or jobs...
April 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Excellent 🧵 outlining 26 things the 🍊🤡 administration fails to understand.
My arm is sore from yesterday's COVID shot, but it's no biggie. I remind myself that according to all the conspiracy theorists, everyone taking the vaccine in 2021 was supposed to die that September. 🙄
March 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My arm is sore from yesterday's COVID shot, but it's no biggie. I remind myself that according to all the conspiracy theorists, everyone taking the vaccine in 2021 was supposed to die that September. 🙄
You know, it's been six years. There's a point at which Nathan Fillion's cop show should no longer be called The Rookie.
March 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You know, it's been six years. There's a point at which Nathan Fillion's cop show should no longer be called The Rookie.
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Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
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WTAF? 🤬
Elon Musk's private security detail deputized by U.S. Marshals Service, sources say
The U.S. Marshals Service routinely deputizes police. However, the move to deputize private security officers, who are not sworn law enforcement officials, is considered unorthodox
www.cbsnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
WTAF? 🤬
Time for everyone to watch or rewatch Buffy and Angel.
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Sequel Series With Sarah Michelle Gellar Returning Nears Hulu Pilot Order
Variety has learned that a follow up to the beloved show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is nearing a Hulu pilot order with Sarah Michelle Gellar returning
variety.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Time for everyone to watch or rewatch Buffy and Angel.
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Because they are evil, we must stand up to them.
But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.
But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Because they are evil, we must stand up to them.
But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.
But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.
It amuses me to round up to π when measuring something in the kitchen.
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It amuses me to round up to π when measuring something in the kitchen.
A straw hat appeared on @heroforgeminis.bsky.social, so naturally I had to make Luffy. #OnePiece
January 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A straw hat appeared on @heroforgeminis.bsky.social, so naturally I had to make Luffy. #OnePiece
I had no idea sea wolves were a thing.
The amazing sea wolves of the Great Bear Rainforest
First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
canadiangeographic.ca
January 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I had no idea sea wolves were a thing.
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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
From Wikimedia Commons, a map showing Golfo Mexicano dated 1594.
#GulfofMexico
#GulfofMexico
commons.wikimedia.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
From Wikimedia Commons, a map showing Golfo Mexicano dated 1594.
#GulfofMexico
#GulfofMexico
Christians: If you're pissed that a bishop spoke to a performative "Christian" about human decency, you can just stop calling yourself a Christian. You fail to understand even the most basic of Jesus' teachings.
January 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Christians: If you're pissed that a bishop spoke to a performative "Christian" about human decency, you can just stop calling yourself a Christian. You fail to understand even the most basic of Jesus' teachings.
After weeks of waiting, we have avocado root!
January 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
After weeks of waiting, we have avocado root!
So close...
Wordle 1,308 2/6
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January 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So close...
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Scientists discover a new way Australia wants to kill you.
Australian scientists discover bigger species of deadly funnel web spiders
Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest.
www.reuters.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Scientists discover a new way Australia wants to kill you.
Does Jason Rohrer's Chain World still exist out there somewhere?
January 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Does Jason Rohrer's Chain World still exist out there somewhere?
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
December 23, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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Recommendation: A Man on the Inside, on Netflix. Created by Michael Schur, who also did The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The show has many of the same actors, including Ted Danson and Stephanie Beatriz (Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine).
November 26, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Recommendation: A Man on the Inside, on Netflix. Created by Michael Schur, who also did The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The show has many of the same actors, including Ted Danson and Stephanie Beatriz (Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine).
Today's my one year @bsky.app birthday. There weren't many people using it back then. It's nice to see more people fleeing the billionaire hell sites and coming here.
November 26, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Today's my one year @bsky.app birthday. There weren't many people using it back then. It's nice to see more people fleeing the billionaire hell sites and coming here.
Michel Barros Bessone playing Vivaldi's Winter on a charango.
Vivaldi Street Performance
YouTube video by Hokan Pettersson
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Michel Barros Bessone playing Vivaldi's Winter on a charango.
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Losing your mind over being blocked could be an entire sociology textbook. It took less than ten years to rewire certain human brains into believing they were entitled to full and constant access to every other person on the planet. A species that, a hundred years ago, would know a hundred people.
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Losing your mind over being blocked could be an entire sociology textbook. It took less than ten years to rewire certain human brains into believing they were entitled to full and constant access to every other person on the planet. A species that, a hundred years ago, would know a hundred people.
