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Buck Borasky, Frontier Programmer {he/him} #ComputerMusic / #Curmudgeonry / #HonouraryCanadian / #LawfulRegimeChangeNOW Retired scientific applications programmer playing with algorithmic composition, digital sound synthesis and #WNBA analytics

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2d

#LawfulRegimeChangeNOW is:

A vote to vacate the chair in the House of Representatives. Speaker Johnson has done nothing to assert Congress' powers or to defend the Constitution; instead, he has done everything he could to enable Donald Trump's cruel, unconstitutional immigration policy. 1/3

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 36m

Not even for five All-Stars! You name any five: Sabrina, Satou, Phee, Rhyne, Alyssa Thomas - any five players not on the Aces - and it's still "HELL NO!"

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Ed @ed3d.net · 4h

I have too many other projects right now, but for someone with the heart of a Poster and a little more free time, consider:

“you replied to or quote tweeted a fed ragebait account and you have more than 4000 followers with a 2:1 follower:follow ratio or worse, you get the Farmer label. no backsies”

Ed @ed3d.net · 4h

tempted right now to just make an unapologetically vibes-based labeler with a set of rules I don’t tell anyone and zero appeals process

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1h

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” - Drew Carey

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1h

I started getting those when Clinton was President - his first term!

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 8h

“This is an unusual move: Chris Murphy is pressing DHS to account for why the agency initially engaged in official deception, ie propaganda, about the shooting” 👇🏼

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1h

"But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon" - Tom Lehrer

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

And we (Portland) have an army of frogs. Aristophanes or Jesus - pick your savior. 😈

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, tell me about it. But there's a man from Chicago that will have something to say about *those* judges. That conclave in May has tipped a few scales that sorely needed tipping.

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, Larson and Watterson were the kings of cubicle walls long before Dilbert!

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4h

Archaeologists have a responsibility to the communities they work with, and serious questions need to be asked about whether replacing research, writing, analysis and cultural heritage deliverables with AI-generated content fulfils that responsibility.
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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

They aren't even Catholic. Horrors! 😈

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

That's not evidence that'll make it past even a flaming liberal judge. Read the governor's allegation carefully.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, and they <expletive deleted> *will* make our lives a living Hell doing that, exactly the same way they've done so on every other platform that allowed them to set up shop and turn into the proverbial Nazi bar. *When* - not if - It gets bad here, I'll pack up and leave!

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

I only got to work with D’Angelo once & it was beyond inspiring. Rest in peace, you beautiful genius

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I only got to work with D’Angelo once & it was beyond inspiring. Rest in peace, you beautiful genius

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

I have a few #WNBA hoodies already. I think I'm going to donate them to Goodwill and buy a couple of new ones. I hope Portland Fire has their hoodie act together by now.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2h

the mariners just hit a ball over the fence. i'd imagine they have a backup baseball on hand for such occasions

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

Sounds delightful! I have a lot of lima beans!

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 2h

What is your evidence for that claim? That's a very serious accusation.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes I wonder if what we call "seasonal depression" isn't just some mammalian genetic thing we evolved back into when we left Africa and colonized northern latitudes.

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

They could but I'm not convinced it's a good idea. A better use of state resources might be providing security for federal judges that are receiving threats after ruling against the administration.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

Don't feel so old - when I was young it was called "carfare" and it was a few coins.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

Block, ignore, talk women's basketball for me! But my Senators and Representative (all blue - Oregon 1st) are here and the fact that we are now just days away from being yet another <expletive deleted> online Nazi bar, smothered by trolls and surveilled by goons, enrages me.😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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Annalise Maxine Shaw Keating, Openly Black Attorney at Law @moniquely-uniq.bsky.social · 4h

Has the NBA ever hired a head coach with such limited experiences? Genuine question.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 13h

NEWS: The Portland Fire have hired Alex Sarama, an assistant with the Cleveland Cavaliers, as the first coach in franchise history.

Details ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

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Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

Dunno about that - the FCC is in the hands of Trump. Now that I think about it, the pigeons are out too - RFK, Jr. will catch one and give it bird flu.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah ... here to supply us with trolling, surveillance, who knows what else? @mnemonic.bsky.social aka Mike Godwin needs to come up with a new law - something like, "Every online space turns into a Nazi bar eventually" 😡