Nick Peterson
@thetecheng.bsky.social
Camus' greatest rock pusher. Currently doing design work on high tech labs & manufacturing facilities. Interested in anything and everything.
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Honestly, this is the least surprising thing I've learned about everyone's least favorite South African Vampire.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Honestly, this is the least surprising thing I've learned about everyone's least favorite South African Vampire.
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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the New York Times ran a catch and kill on donald trump being a pedophile to help him with the election and liberals gave them hundreds of millions of dollars
The NYT got pictures of Donald Trump with underaged girls and buried them
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
the New York Times ran a catch and kill on donald trump being a pedophile to help him with the election and liberals gave them hundreds of millions of dollars
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Everybody: just put your Merrick Garland stuff on hold. Y’all talk about message discipline, now’s the time. Do this shit like tomorrow or Friday.
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Everybody: just put your Merrick Garland stuff on hold. Y’all talk about message discipline, now’s the time. Do this shit like tomorrow or Friday.
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Saying the most basic shit about politics, like "Voters have to feel like you like them" and "We should be able work with people who aren't our exact type of communist" will get you feted as a cis white oysterman and dragged as a trans woman or a Muslim, I guess
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Saying the most basic shit about politics, like "Voters have to feel like you like them" and "We should be able work with people who aren't our exact type of communist" will get you feted as a cis white oysterman and dragged as a trans woman or a Muslim, I guess
Talking do one of the chief DOT signal network guys last night and he brought up that a few years back the next NYSDOT region over had the system they use to monitor and control traffic signals get hit by a DDOS attack that originated in Russia.
between this and the FSO Safer (another ship at serious risk of exploding) I’m convinced every field has its “yeah, this is the problem that keeps me up at night” and I’m on a quest to learn about all of them
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Talking do one of the chief DOT signal network guys last night and he brought up that a few years back the next NYSDOT region over had the system they use to monitor and control traffic signals get hit by a DDOS attack that originated in Russia.
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Politico actually managed to crunch some of the numbers on just how much less of a presence Schumer has had in NY lately. Certainly a lot can be chalked up to trying to fight against Trump, but even compared to Trump I when he was also minority leader he is less present.
Schumer’s ubiquity in New York fades as headaches in Washington mount
Schumer’s ubiquity in New York fades as headaches in Washington mount
The senate minority leader has a much-ballyhooed streak of visiting all 62 New York counties each year. He’s at 30 in 2025.
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Politico actually managed to crunch some of the numbers on just how much less of a presence Schumer has had in NY lately. Certainly a lot can be chalked up to trying to fight against Trump, but even compared to Trump I when he was also minority leader he is less present.
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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This was pretty much the shut down. Dems felt good about stopping the government and it gave them a momentary high but
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
That there is no easy button to push to stop Trump 🤷♂️
All jokes aside, the majority of the angst leads back to November 2024. People just want it all to stop and the unfortunate reality is, elections are the only thing that will do that.
All jokes aside, the majority of the angst leads back to November 2024. People just want it all to stop and the unfortunate reality is, elections are the only thing that will do that.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was pretty much the shut down. Dems felt good about stopping the government and it gave them a momentary high but
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
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Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
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the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
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we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
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If you want Republicans to get the blame, you can start by blaming Republicans.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you want Republicans to get the blame, you can start by blaming Republicans.
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if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.
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not even my favorite cover, but I deeply appreciate Headstones for crafting a version that is most likely the version that the men on the ship and their friends would have actually liked.
Headstones - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Headstones
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
not even my favorite cover, but I deeply appreciate Headstones for crafting a version that is most likely the version that the men on the ship and their friends would have actually liked.
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Yeah I know we're all angry, but blaming this on the Jews is really really bad.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yeah I know we're all angry, but blaming this on the Jews is really really bad.
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some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."
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I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
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If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.