Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
@radobrien.myatproto.social
I am very much alive and intend to stay that way
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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I've known Catherine Lucey for 26 years, since I covered the 1999 mayor's race for the PDN and she covered it for Penn's student paper. She is, quite, simply, the best in the business, who also got under Trump's skin in his first term. Trump is the real pig here www.inquirer.com/politics/tru...
Trump lashes out at former Philly Daily News reporter when pressed on Jeffrey Epstein
“Quiet, quiet, piggy,” Trump shot back at Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey.
www.inquirer.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I've known Catherine Lucey for 26 years, since I covered the 1999 mayor's race for the PDN and she covered it for Penn's student paper. She is, quite, simply, the best in the business, who also got under Trump's skin in his first term. Trump is the real pig here www.inquirer.com/politics/tru...
JUST GUYS BEING DUDES LETS FUCKING GO
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
JUST GUYS BEING DUDES LETS FUCKING GO
Designed by committee but everyone's stupid
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Designed by committee but everyone's stupid
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A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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I'm not back but I heard people were asking so I'll pop by. had a rough past couple years. been to like nine funerals in 2025. every time I'd recover from one, someone else would die unexpectedly. hug your friends and family. and I had to put my 18-year-old dog down just this Sunday. RIP, Phoebe.
Two years and two days ago, a woman delivered some chili to her new neighbors. Everyone was very happy and normal and there were no lasting effects.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I'm not back but I heard people were asking so I'll pop by. had a rough past couple years. been to like nine funerals in 2025. every time I'd recover from one, someone else would die unexpectedly. hug your friends and family. and I had to put my 18-year-old dog down just this Sunday. RIP, Phoebe.
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I don't believe that man knows how a computer works
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I don't believe that man knows how a computer works
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what right wingers mean when they say immigrant
December 11, 2024 at 12:59 PM
what right wingers mean when they say immigrant
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JUST LET US GIVE YOU OUR MONEY FOR A MUPPETS KNIVES OUT IN WHAT WOULD SURELY BE A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ARRANGEMENT
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
JUST LET US GIVE YOU OUR MONEY FOR A MUPPETS KNIVES OUT IN WHAT WOULD SURELY BE A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL ARRANGEMENT
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Sometime late in the Bush administration we as a country stopped illuminating rooms with a floodlight placed directly behind a slowly rotating industrial fan and our nation has been floundering ever since.
One of the absolute dogdick shittiest things to be nostalgic for is how I miss big warehouse sets with a fuckin' huge flood light blasting on the windows
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Sometime late in the Bush administration we as a country stopped illuminating rooms with a floodlight placed directly behind a slowly rotating industrial fan and our nation has been floundering ever since.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I feel like I forget to talk about it but here's a reminder that I have a comic coming next year called Last Ship to Mars 🚀 that is not even a little concerned about Mars and is instead a love letter to the Earth and the huge importance of staying and doing the work. It's also gay. ✨
November 26, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I feel like I forget to talk about it but here's a reminder that I have a comic coming next year called Last Ship to Mars 🚀 that is not even a little concerned about Mars and is instead a love letter to the Earth and the huge importance of staying and doing the work. It's also gay. ✨
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Qd6R3Me
Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Qd6R3Me
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Qd6R3Me
Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/Qd6R3Me
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It might lead one to suspect that being ICE had previously gotten him out of charges
Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It might lead one to suspect that being ICE had previously gotten him out of charges
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Sure, it took almost a decade to build one apartment building, but what matters is that in the end we broke up the massing
More than nine years after the process started, the "Save Madison Valley" building is finally getting close to opening its doors to residents.
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Sure, it took almost a decade to build one apartment building, but what matters is that in the end we broke up the massing
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Wonder if anyone on here thinks Schumer would endorse el Sayes if he wins the Michigan senatorial primary
the dem establishment attempting to purge every pro palestine politician from the party while the actual voter base is now majority pro-palestine is going to wreck party unity and cohesion if we let them keep doing this.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Wonder if anyone on here thinks Schumer would endorse el Sayes if he wins the Michigan senatorial primary
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"I still think environmentalism is basically bad" is just his old "sweatshop workers should have the freedom to die making my clothes" shtick but applied to climate change. Casual indifference to human suffering is his M.O. and always has been, since he became famous for supporting the 2003 Iraq War
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"I still think environmentalism is basically bad" is just his old "sweatshop workers should have the freedom to die making my clothes" shtick but applied to climate change. Casual indifference to human suffering is his M.O. and always has been, since he became famous for supporting the 2003 Iraq War
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I can confidently say what happens next will either be a nothingburger, a complete epochal collapse of the entire global elite structure's legitimacy, something in the middle, or a secret fourth thing.
Hours after Speaker Mike Johnson confidently declared that Senate Republicans would "fix" Thomas Massie's bill requiring release of the Epstein files, the Senate just passed the bill as is by unanimous consent without any changes. A massive, embarrassing debacle for Johnson.
It now goes to Trump...
It now goes to Trump...
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I can confidently say what happens next will either be a nothingburger, a complete epochal collapse of the entire global elite structure's legitimacy, something in the middle, or a secret fourth thing.