Porter
@porter79.bsky.social
Porter is what my wife calls me- I do for my son. Former Biology tech. In the field= Wolves, Badgers, Turtles, Mice, Voles; in the lab an Igor=mice, rats, NPH... Phd's ;-), mostly MRI. Underemployed.
Middle-aged. Depressed. Atheist
Middle-aged. Depressed. Atheist
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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This may be one of the most important things that I've ever written. Please read.
Our democracy is dying before our eyes, because no one in Congress is doing what they promised us they would do to defend it.
Our democracy is dying before our eyes, because no one in Congress is doing what they promised us they would do to defend it.
If you read just one thing today, make it this:
"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America, and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...
"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America, and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...
Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…
www.techdirt.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This may be one of the most important things that I've ever written. Please read.
Our democracy is dying before our eyes, because no one in Congress is doing what they promised us they would do to defend it.
Our democracy is dying before our eyes, because no one in Congress is doing what they promised us they would do to defend it.
What makes ICE so bold?
ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What makes ICE so bold?
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Oh my god
Massive multi warehouse fire in St. Louis, the south riverfront.
Oh my god.
Massive multi warehouse fire in St. Louis, the south riverfront.
Oh my god.
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Oh my god
Massive multi warehouse fire in St. Louis, the south riverfront.
Oh my god.
Massive multi warehouse fire in St. Louis, the south riverfront.
Oh my god.
Roses are red, violence is...
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Roses are red, violence is...
Google HAS never brought this up! i asked yesterday "what temperature!".... now , i wonder can you do this 'time at temperature" in a normal oven.
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Google HAS never brought this up! i asked yesterday "what temperature!".... now , i wonder can you do this 'time at temperature" in a normal oven.
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
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November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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FART WALK.
Feeling gassy after Thanksgiving? Take a fart walk.
Light exercise after a big meal can help. Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
Light exercise after a big meal can help. Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
Column | Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal
Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
FART WALK.
So much for due process.
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
So much for due process.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
The EMT show went to space...
🤦
🤦
I only watch CBS for sports and I'm always amazed at these copaganda franchises that have somehow spawned six different shows with twelve seasons each. And all of them called "NCIS: Duluth" or "Ambulance Firemen Marshals" or some shit.
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The EMT show went to space...
🤦
🤦
I wouldn't be so brave
Cooking Thanksgiving with an Irish wolfhound is a full-contact sport
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I wouldn't be so brave
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. At our house dinners progressing. The turkey is juicy and the boy is asking already for more. I told him he had to clean his plate if he wanted a piece of pie
He said no to PI as ..
he doesn't know The numbers.
😜
He said no to PI as ..
he doesn't know The numbers.
😜
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. At our house dinners progressing. The turkey is juicy and the boy is asking already for more. I told him he had to clean his plate if he wanted a piece of pie
He said no to PI as ..
he doesn't know The numbers.
😜
He said no to PI as ..
he doesn't know The numbers.
😜
I won the argument and we rested the turkey.
I did have to explain to my son that didn't mean we tucked it in bed for a nap.
#hardcooking
I did have to explain to my son that didn't mean we tucked it in bed for a nap.
#hardcooking
…do you mean your wife doesn’t rest the turkey?!?
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I won the argument and we rested the turkey.
I did have to explain to my son that didn't mean we tucked it in bed for a nap.
#hardcooking
I did have to explain to my son that didn't mean we tucked it in bed for a nap.
#hardcooking
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I mean there are entire web pages dedicated to documenting some of the incredibly stupid things American law makes illegal in various states or federally, and that's before even getting to "things that are criminal in oppressive regimes"
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I mean there are entire web pages dedicated to documenting some of the incredibly stupid things American law makes illegal in various states or federally, and that's before even getting to "things that are criminal in oppressive regimes"
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I've got more sympathy for a clogged toilet
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I've got more sympathy for a clogged toilet
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Whatever this is. It looks fantastic. Hope everybody has a good holiday.
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Whatever this is. It looks fantastic. Hope everybody has a good holiday.
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these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them
My wife doesn't believe a turkey should be allowed to sit after cooking.
@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
May I have a professional's opinion please?
@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
May I have a professional's opinion please?
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My wife doesn't believe a turkey should be allowed to sit after cooking.
@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
May I have a professional's opinion please?
@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
May I have a professional's opinion please?
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I swear this is one of the main reasons it’s tragic Americans don’t travel more. They live in these weird little bubbles and don’t understand that the world is big and multifarious.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I swear this is one of the main reasons it’s tragic Americans don’t travel more. They live in these weird little bubbles and don’t understand that the world is big and multifarious.
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Antivaxxers kill people.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Antivaxxers kill people.