Coz the Great and Not So Powerful
@mightycoz.bsky.social
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The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.
Sometime around 1982, I got a part-time job at the first computer store in my hometown. They sold Apple, Commodore, and IBM. We had a display of Electronic Arts games, in big flat cardboard boxes to hold 5 1/4” floppy discs.
I spent most of my pay on those. M.U.L.E. Archon. 🧵
I spent most of my pay on those. M.U.L.E. Archon. 🧵
My colleagues at Bloomberg report that the $20 billion debt in the EA deal is expected to be rated single-B — meaning it is considered a "junk" loan, or one that is high-risk and speculative, typically offering high interest rates. Which the new EA will have to pay
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Sometime around 1982, I got a part-time job at the first computer store in my hometown. They sold Apple, Commodore, and IBM. We had a display of Electronic Arts games, in big flat cardboard boxes to hold 5 1/4” floppy discs.
I spent most of my pay on those. M.U.L.E. Archon. 🧵
I spent most of my pay on those. M.U.L.E. Archon. 🧵
Lies, damned lies, and whatever this entity exhales….
Trump on DC: "Sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to be fudged so they would show less crime. The fact is, it's worse than it has ever been."
August 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lies, damned lies, and whatever this entity exhales….
What he said….
I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.
don’t get distracted! | patreon.com/lubchansky
June 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What he said….
Movie watched more than six times, gif only. Hard mode - no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR
June 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Movie watched more than six times, gif only. Hard mode - no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR
Having to read @blacktopkid.bsky.social ‘s “King of Ashes” in shifts because damn, man, that hurts just to READ…
June 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Having to read @blacktopkid.bsky.social ‘s “King of Ashes” in shifts because damn, man, that hurts just to READ…
All of a sudden, the phrase “stupid motherfucker” dominates the mind….
June 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
All of a sudden, the phrase “stupid motherfucker” dominates the mind….
As someone who’s been involved in the whole space flight thing - keep your tanks away from your launch areas if you want them to survive.
This is a “big oopsie”!
This is a “big oopsie”!
We got slowmo now! Looks a lot like the top tank was just kinda shit and let go. Fire first means that was probably the methane tank with the LOX tank letting go shortly after. Does mean that this could have been worse - if the LOX let go first and hyperoxygenated the air for the methane...
D Wise - An extra-slowed down and cropped view Ship 36's RUD
YouTube video by Tony De La Rosa
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June 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
As someone who’s been involved in the whole space flight thing - keep your tanks away from your launch areas if you want them to survive.
This is a “big oopsie”!
This is a “big oopsie”!
Archie ponders the meaning of life, aka what the cat’s up to over there and whether it’s good to eat…. @darthbluesky.bsky.social
light brown soulful eyes dog club dog, checking in @darthbluesky.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Archie ponders the meaning of life, aka what the cat’s up to over there and whether it’s good to eat…. @darthbluesky.bsky.social
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If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
June 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.
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Direct File is now open source. Finally.
A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...
Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.
A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...
Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.
Direct File on GitHub
Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.
chrisgiven.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Direct File is now open source. Finally.
A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...
Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.
A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...
Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.
This Memorial Day weekend I remember my great-uncle Bill Hayes, who served in the Pacific in WWII and died this year at 102.
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This Memorial Day weekend I remember my great-uncle Bill Hayes, who served in the Pacific in WWII and died this year at 102.
I just got word that my great uncle Bill has passed at age 101. Me was my father’s mother’s sister’s husband, so not blood-close, but we all loved him. He was a raconteur, with tales of working overseas for Saudi Aramco, and served in the jungles of the Pacific in WWII.
May 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I just got word that my great uncle Bill has passed at age 101. Me was my father’s mother’s sister’s husband, so not blood-close, but we all loved him. He was a raconteur, with tales of working overseas for Saudi Aramco, and served in the jungles of the Pacific in WWII.
My favorites from yesterday and today:
@squarebooks.bsky.social , Oxford, MSS
Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
@curiousiguana.com in Frederick, MD
@squarebooks.bsky.social , Oxford, MSS
Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
@curiousiguana.com in Frederick, MD
Shout outs to some of my faves:
Malaprop Books in Asheville,
NC
Harvard Bookstore and Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA
Eliot Bay Books in Seattle
Powells World of Books (the GOAT) in PDX
Malaprop Books in Asheville,
NC
Harvard Bookstore and Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA
Eliot Bay Books in Seattle
Powells World of Books (the GOAT) in PDX
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
April 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My favorites from yesterday and today:
@squarebooks.bsky.social , Oxford, MSS
Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
@curiousiguana.com in Frederick, MD
@squarebooks.bsky.social , Oxford, MSS
Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
@curiousiguana.com in Frederick, MD
In the mode of yesterday’s “interesting intros” - Chicago, particularly in their early years, didn’t give a single sullen fart about your radio format requirements. Here’s a nice intro leading to a uniquely “them” song:
music.apple.com/us/album/que...
music.apple.com/us/album/que...
Questions 67 and 68 by Chicago on Apple Music
Song · 1969 · Duration 5:01
music.apple.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In the mode of yesterday’s “interesting intros” - Chicago, particularly in their early years, didn’t give a single sullen fart about your radio format requirements. Here’s a nice intro leading to a uniquely “them” song:
music.apple.com/us/album/que...
music.apple.com/us/album/que...
Yeah, this is on target
April 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yeah, this is on target
On a lighter note:
There is an entire category of music in my head with complex, interesting intros. Foreplay/Long Time by Boston is probably most famous, and Sirius/Eye in the Sky is strong, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this one:
music.apple.com/us/album/i-n...
There is an entire category of music in my head with complex, interesting intros. Foreplay/Long Time by Boston is probably most famous, and Sirius/Eye in the Sky is strong, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this one:
music.apple.com/us/album/i-n...
I Need a Lover by John Cougar on Apple Music
Song · 1979 · Duration 5:38
music.apple.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On a lighter note:
There is an entire category of music in my head with complex, interesting intros. Foreplay/Long Time by Boston is probably most famous, and Sirius/Eye in the Sky is strong, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this one:
music.apple.com/us/album/i-n...
There is an entire category of music in my head with complex, interesting intros. Foreplay/Long Time by Boston is probably most famous, and Sirius/Eye in the Sky is strong, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this one:
music.apple.com/us/album/i-n...
Plant gardens, folx. Plant vegetables. Plant potatoes. We’ll need them.
April 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Plant gardens, folx. Plant vegetables. Plant potatoes. We’ll need them.
The SMALLER of the two wolfhounds at Bardic tonight
@thehistorichaven.bsky.social
@thehistorichaven.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The SMALLER of the two wolfhounds at Bardic tonight
@thehistorichaven.bsky.social
@thehistorichaven.bsky.social
I realize I have zero clout, BUT… I think it would be a banging idea if the roles in all Muderbot’s entertainment shows were played by the same 6-10 actors. We’d see John Cho in Sanctuary Moon, then in Timestream Defenders Orion, then in the ads on Port FreeCommerce - it would be a heck of a gag.
April 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I realize I have zero clout, BUT… I think it would be a banging idea if the roles in all Muderbot’s entertainment shows were played by the same 6-10 actors. We’d see John Cho in Sanctuary Moon, then in Timestream Defenders Orion, then in the ads on Port FreeCommerce - it would be a heck of a gag.
There are some truly creative people in this version of the federal government - they keep coming up with new ways to make our world worse.
This is tantamount to pointing a loaded gun at your foot with your finger on the trigger. Can't tell you how many times CVEs have been instrumental in pushing codebases to upgrade to mitigate serious security vulnerabilities
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. More details here, but this is... really bad. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
April 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
There are some truly creative people in this version of the federal government - they keep coming up with new ways to make our world worse.
There are still good things happening while the nation turns to shite….
In his Coachella debut @alyankovic.bsky.social joined Yo Gabba Gabba! alongside Thundercat, Paul Williams, DJ Lance Rock, Portugal. The Man, and a menagerie of puppety oddballs including H.R. Pufnstuf, Bailey the Lion, Domo, Cheer Bear, Duo, and Billy Bob Brockali.
www.stereogum.com/2304084/watc...
www.stereogum.com/2304084/watc...
April 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There are still good things happening while the nation turns to shite….
What he said
To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves
April 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What he said