Vpt
@vpt.bsky.social
Eternal killjoy/wet-blanket. Secularist. Compulsive reader. Ageing software engineer.
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Remember when these two backed a foreign state committing massive war crimes and acts of violence? We cried foul, and you stayed mute.
Obviously, they'll act the same at home.
The capacity to dehumanize others grows, metastasizes, and corrupts. We gotta throw them both out of office.
Obviously, they'll act the same at home.
The capacity to dehumanize others grows, metastasizes, and corrupts. We gotta throw them both out of office.
Schumer and Jeffries still 100% behind ICE and refusing to apply any oversight, despite party outcry.
Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top...
www.commondreams.org
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Remember when these two backed a foreign state committing massive war crimes and acts of violence? We cried foul, and you stayed mute.
Obviously, they'll act the same at home.
The capacity to dehumanize others grows, metastasizes, and corrupts. We gotta throw them both out of office.
Obviously, they'll act the same at home.
The capacity to dehumanize others grows, metastasizes, and corrupts. We gotta throw them both out of office.
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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If you're a trans person in Illinois sent a cease and desist by Trump's government, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
January 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM
If you're a trans person in Illinois sent a cease and desist by Trump's government, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
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There’s a video of ICE shooting a woman in the head.
What else do you need to see?
What else do you need to see?
Let's wait for the facts to come out and demand ICE/CBP end their terror.
January 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
There’s a video of ICE shooting a woman in the head.
What else do you need to see?
What else do you need to see?
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ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment.
Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.
Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.
June 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment.
Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.
Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.
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Using my tax money to bomb Venezuela then giving my tax money to Exxon so they can sell the oil they stole from Venezuela
TRUMP: MAY SUBSIDIZE OIL COMPANIES REBUILDING IN VENEZUELA: NBC
January 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Using my tax money to bomb Venezuela then giving my tax money to Exxon so they can sell the oil they stole from Venezuela
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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A lack of clean water. Improper sanitation. Massive data centers. All of them pose environmental justice issues in the US.
That hasn't stopped the Trump administration from rolling back environmental protections, including scrapping a program designed to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South.
That hasn't stopped the Trump administration from rolling back environmental protections, including scrapping a program designed to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South.
Why Trump deemed basic sanitation illegal DEI
On this week’s “More To The Story,” activist Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet.
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A lack of clean water. Improper sanitation. Massive data centers. All of them pose environmental justice issues in the US.
That hasn't stopped the Trump administration from rolling back environmental protections, including scrapping a program designed to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South.
That hasn't stopped the Trump administration from rolling back environmental protections, including scrapping a program designed to clean up raw sewage in the Deep South.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.
Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant | TechCrunch
Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.
techcrunch.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
Ahahahhahaha... This is Modi's "Happy Days will be here soon", all over again.
1. "The Golden Age is here!"
2. "The Golden Age is coming soon!"
3. "The Golden Age is coming next year!"
2. "The Golden Age is coming soon!"
3. "The Golden Age is coming next year!"
“Everything” is not coming down in price. It’s almost all going up. The Golden Age isn't “right around the corner” any more than a healthcare plan is. Stop gaslighting the American people.
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Ahahahhahaha... This is Modi's "Happy Days will be here soon", all over again.
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Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else
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landed at newark and am stuck on the runway because the whole airport is being kept at bay while “a government vip,” as our pilot described them, is granted preferential treatment. the trump era in a nutshell: “fuck everybody but us.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
landed at newark and am stuck on the runway because the whole airport is being kept at bay while “a government vip,” as our pilot described them, is granted preferential treatment. the trump era in a nutshell: “fuck everybody but us.”
"Tum se pehle woh jo ek shakhs yahan takht-nasheen tha, uss ko bhi apne khuda hone pe itna hi yaqeen tha”
It's Urdu; rough translation:
The person who was here before you just as you are now - in the throes of a power-fueled stupor... He too was convinced of his own godliness
It's Urdu; rough translation:
The person who was here before you just as you are now - in the throes of a power-fueled stupor... He too was convinced of his own godliness
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Tum se pehle woh jo ek shakhs yahan takht-nasheen tha, uss ko bhi apne khuda hone pe itna hi yaqeen tha”
It's Urdu; rough translation:
The person who was here before you just as you are now - in the throes of a power-fueled stupor... He too was convinced of his own godliness
It's Urdu; rough translation:
The person who was here before you just as you are now - in the throes of a power-fueled stupor... He too was convinced of his own godliness
OMG!
I'm not the only one to see Trump in this icon, right?
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
OMG!
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
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Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.
My wheelchair won't turn on and a wheelchair technician won't be available until the 15th...
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.
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Babies receive a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth because a mom can transmit the virus through childbirth. Not good. There are no negative consequences for the baby in receiving the vaccine.
RFK Jr is a dangerous ignorant arrogant fool. Talk to the doctor you trust
RFK Jr is a dangerous ignorant arrogant fool. Talk to the doctor you trust
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Babies receive a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth because a mom can transmit the virus through childbirth. Not good. There are no negative consequences for the baby in receiving the vaccine.
RFK Jr is a dangerous ignorant arrogant fool. Talk to the doctor you trust
RFK Jr is a dangerous ignorant arrogant fool. Talk to the doctor you trust
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
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The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.