QA Bandit
@qa-bandit.bsky.social
Product of circumstance. Deranged since late childhood
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![Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib6md2yc7x32taznh2u4feo27rltazabjco4fer3c6mni3soe5tfa@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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my stupid stupid brain had to draw this
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
my stupid stupid brain had to draw this
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Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
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Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.
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*not shopping at Target intensifies*
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
*not shopping at Target intensifies*
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Look at these rates. This is (partially) what it takes to make sure that you have a robustly funded functional public sector that can broadly deliver on matters of public good.
👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Look at these rates. This is (partially) what it takes to make sure that you have a robustly funded functional public sector that can broadly deliver on matters of public good.
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Someone once told me that the difference between tragedy and comedy is that in both cases bad things happen but in the former only the audience can see them coming. This tragedy started with John Henry and just keeps coming. Thread: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Someone once told me that the difference between tragedy and comedy is that in both cases bad things happen but in the former only the audience can see them coming. This tragedy started with John Henry and just keeps coming. Thread: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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/noclip's YouTube discovery has dropped off a cliff in 2025 so just gonna keep posting this as it's one of our most anticipated projects in years. Also we're really proud of it. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
YouTube video by /noclip
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
/noclip's YouTube discovery has dropped off a cliff in 2025 so just gonna keep posting this as it's one of our most anticipated projects in years. Also we're really proud of it. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...
A bird with fond memories of the summer of '69
can you believe there’s a 70+ year old bird out there flying around in the wild?
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A bird with fond memories of the summer of '69
Now that it's over, it's unbelievable that anyone got to live in a world with "photographic evidence". Like it's an exploit that the devs are finally patching out. Humans were not meant to see things without actually seeing them
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Now that it's over, it's unbelievable that anyone got to live in a world with "photographic evidence". Like it's an exploit that the devs are finally patching out. Humans were not meant to see things without actually seeing them
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Disney made a 20 movie pseudo arc over the course of 10 years and crushed the landing with Infinity Wars and Endgame.
Star Wars couldn’t plan for a 3 movie trilogy. Insane. I need a documentary about it, I guess.
Star Wars couldn’t plan for a 3 movie trilogy. Insane. I need a documentary about it, I guess.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Disney made a 20 movie pseudo arc over the course of 10 years and crushed the landing with Infinity Wars and Endgame.
Star Wars couldn’t plan for a 3 movie trilogy. Insane. I need a documentary about it, I guess.
Star Wars couldn’t plan for a 3 movie trilogy. Insane. I need a documentary about it, I guess.
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i am looking at chicago public schools student enrollment data, something that strikes me with a dataset that is 24 years worth of data is you can really see the rise of charter schools and selective enrollment high schools
the neighborhood high schools really became churn factories
for example
the neighborhood high schools really became churn factories
for example
my favorite data files in Chicago is called the tarantula file 🕷️
it's a file that chicago public schools made to understand how many kids live inside a school attendance boundary, how many attend that school + how many come from outside a boundary
form follows function, buildings follow kids
it's a file that chicago public schools made to understand how many kids live inside a school attendance boundary, how many attend that school + how many come from outside a boundary
form follows function, buildings follow kids
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
i am looking at chicago public schools student enrollment data, something that strikes me with a dataset that is 24 years worth of data is you can really see the rise of charter schools and selective enrollment high schools
the neighborhood high schools really became churn factories
for example
the neighborhood high schools really became churn factories
for example
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I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
American vs Yankee vs USian isn't about what we call ourselves, its about what other people call us. In that context, Yankee really is the best of bad options
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
American vs Yankee vs USian isn't about what we call ourselves, its about what other people call us. In that context, Yankee really is the best of bad options
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All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
All people from the U.S. are Yankees. I say this as a person born and raised in The South because pissing off That Specific Kind of Southerner is a moral good.
"Absolom, Absolom!" Is mostly just two college kids imagining a guy to get mad at
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"Absolom, Absolom!" Is mostly just two college kids imagining a guy to get mad at
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Gonna be seeing this exact segment in my dreams for the next 20 years
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Gonna be seeing this exact segment in my dreams for the next 20 years
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the problem isn't LED lights, though, it's DOT having far less strict standards for beam pattern & glare than Europe (whose regulations are followed by much of the rest of the world). The allowed height of the lamps and the allowed height of the beam is much lower in the ECE standard.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
the problem isn't LED lights, though, it's DOT having far less strict standards for beam pattern & glare than Europe (whose regulations are followed by much of the rest of the world). The allowed height of the lamps and the allowed height of the beam is much lower in the ECE standard.
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
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Someone's going to write the next chapter of American liberalism. The question is who. Do we want MattY writing the 2028 platform? God willing, Liberal Currents will supplant Slow Boring as the most influential publication for Democratic staffers. I'm very happy I'm getting to write for them
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Someone's going to write the next chapter of American liberalism. The question is who. Do we want MattY writing the 2028 platform? God willing, Liberal Currents will supplant Slow Boring as the most influential publication for Democratic staffers. I'm very happy I'm getting to write for them
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ask yourself what your last takeout order came to, and then consider contributing to a real opposition media
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ask yourself what your last takeout order came to, and then consider contributing to a real opposition media