Raffy
@rraffensperger.bsky.social
Semi-retired, living in Romania. Long time Silicon Valley technology expert, then 17 years in China.
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“We most humbly beseech him to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.”
— Washington, First Thanksgiving Proclamation
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— Washington, First Thanksgiving Proclamation
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Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“We most humbly beseech him to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.”
— Washington, First Thanksgiving Proclamation
www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...
— Washington, First Thanksgiving Proclamation
www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...
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CA DEMOCRATS: WE ARE THE FIREWALL.
Nov. 4 - show up, bring 2 voters. Stop MAGA's rigged maps.
We win the House in '26 or lose it for a decade.
Vote YES November 4.
Vote. Every election. Bring 2 voters with you.
#DefendDemocracy #YESon50 #CADemocrats #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/Tl8F7O9I
Nov. 4 - show up, bring 2 voters. Stop MAGA's rigged maps.
We win the House in '26 or lose it for a decade.
Vote YES November 4.
Vote. Every election. Bring 2 voters with you.
#DefendDemocracy #YESon50 #CADemocrats #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/Tl8F7O9I
October 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
CA DEMOCRATS: WE ARE THE FIREWALL.
Nov. 4 - show up, bring 2 voters. Stop MAGA's rigged maps.
We win the House in '26 or lose it for a decade.
Vote YES November 4.
Vote. Every election. Bring 2 voters with you.
#DefendDemocracy #YESon50 #CADemocrats #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/Tl8F7O9I
Nov. 4 - show up, bring 2 voters. Stop MAGA's rigged maps.
We win the House in '26 or lose it for a decade.
Vote YES November 4.
Vote. Every election. Bring 2 voters with you.
#DefendDemocracy #YESon50 #CADemocrats #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/Tl8F7O9I
I'm blown away by the fact that Drumpf was pantsed by Putain and is so stupid he didn't notice. Give him a compliment and he will lick your toes.
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm blown away by the fact that Drumpf was pantsed by Putain and is so stupid he didn't notice. Give him a compliment and he will lick your toes.
Probably too accurate
July 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Probably too accurate
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The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.
It won't be limited to immigrants.
ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It won't be limited to immigrants.
Come on down!
March 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Come on down!
I think it would be very interesting if all the Dems started chanting "where is president Musk? We want president Musk" at the start of the SOTU speech. Then they can walk out.
March 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I think it would be very interesting if all the Dems started chanting "where is president Musk? We want president Musk" at the start of the SOTU speech. Then they can walk out.
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Zero interest rates let some people in Silicon Valley luck into riches without much breadth or depth of knowledge, but because they became rich, they convinced themselves they are geniuses, and that their genius extends to everything, and thus their opinions about everything are informed by genius.
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Zero interest rates let some people in Silicon Valley luck into riches without much breadth or depth of knowledge, but because they became rich, they convinced themselves they are geniuses, and that their genius extends to everything, and thus their opinions about everything are informed by genius.
This!
January 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This!
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Most Americans have no extent of the crimes committed by January 6th MAGA terrorists!
PLEASE watch the videos in this thread & share the details with your circle of friends.
Ask them if they heard about Trump pardoning the biggest drug dealer in the world, a pedophile & cop killers.
PLEASE watch the videos in this thread & share the details with your circle of friends.
Ask them if they heard about Trump pardoning the biggest drug dealer in the world, a pedophile & cop killers.
January 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Most Americans have no extent of the crimes committed by January 6th MAGA terrorists!
PLEASE watch the videos in this thread & share the details with your circle of friends.
Ask them if they heard about Trump pardoning the biggest drug dealer in the world, a pedophile & cop killers.
PLEASE watch the videos in this thread & share the details with your circle of friends.
Ask them if they heard about Trump pardoning the biggest drug dealer in the world, a pedophile & cop killers.
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The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
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An important point.
December 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM
An important point.
It's important to support knowledge in this time of idiocy.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:27 AM
It's important to support knowledge in this time of idiocy.
This narrative offers a really insightful view of where we are as a society. The question is, what can be done to deal with what may be a core human emotion.
The "economic anxiety" theory of Trumpism should've been slain by reality awhile ago, but what @polphilpod.bsky.social calls "the poverty narrative" persists.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
A Disease of Affluence
Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM
This narrative offers a really insightful view of where we are as a society. The question is, what can be done to deal with what may be a core human emotion.