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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 38m

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Tampa International Airport won’t show controversial Kristi Noem video, but not for the reason you think

They literally can't.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 41m

Did not see Noem narrating fantasy tales in Tampa or LaGuardia either. Tampa apparently only because they don't have the media capabilities to pull it off.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 51m

Interested once we see the Pro and Max level core options on these. Again, no interest in local compute for AI whatsoever, but significantly faster floating point will help Pixinsight.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1h

Nah. I have an M1 iPad Pro that is overpowered for its use. Let me run full MacOS on it and I may get tempted, but I don't see myself buying a new iPad in a hurry. Also, I don't want local endpoint AI compute on anything, thanks.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1h

Legal non-citizens. The reconciliation law reduces healthcare coverage only for legal, documented non-citizens, such as refugees, asylum recipients, survivors of domestic abuse, conditional visas, green card holkders etc.

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Fact Checking Immigrants, Health Care, and the 2025 Tax and Budget Law

In response to misinformation about the 2025 reconciliation law, particularly regarding undocumented immigrants’ health care eligibility, this resource addresses misleading claims and explains why the...

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 2h

I beleive that two have so far. There are some for whom these will be great references within their current organisation. Which is to say that elected Republican representatives are also included.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 2h

What the fuck are you trying to say, chucklefuck? Did a fancy AI write that big boy world salad for you? If it spits out words you don't understand at least get a fucking aide to check them for sanity, you bumbling moron.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent:: hand over the kingdom or we'll withhold distribution of benefits from the taxes you paid.

We, the people: go fuck yourselves, and fuck your taxes.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 2h

She cares not if you like her, she's already got her fan.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 7h

Greetings, and happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Mark A Garlick. I've been space illustration for 30 years and animation for around 15.

#SciArt #spaceart #Blender

Illustration of an asteroid repurposed as a space colony. The interior is a hollow cylinder.

Illustration of the interior of a space colony called a Stanford torus

Illustration of a rocket launching from Mars.

Illustration of an orbital ring. It encircles the entire earth. Structures can be build on it, of hung from it (e.g. space elevators)

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 8h

This is normalization, it's also grooming. Even from the short samples quoted, its simple to pick out actors who are guiding participants towards comfort with dehumanization and hatred. The party is endorsing genocide and rapidly moving towards it, confident that AI can backfill the dead. It can't.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 8h

Except that the car is assembled from metadata about every car part ever built, and lovingly assembled by statistical rules aimed more at user engagement than functional decision making. If your idea of flying a car is to rebuild it in flight repeatedly while it pulls stunts to amuse you, lucky you.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 14h

Actual republicanism is popular among nations with royal remains. We do like interesting bloodlines and fancy hats, garden parties and daintily cut sandwiches though.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 15h

The Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142) in the constellation of Cepheus. This region of star formation is being energized primarily by a massive spectroscopic binary system called DH Cephei. The stars in this system are young, near the start of the main sequence and are a source of X-ray emissions. 🔭

A bright nebula of colorful gases, with a cluster of bright stars that are ionizing it. The primary star system ionizing the gases is a massive binary system named DH Cephei. Cold molecular pillars and bok globules are evident and indicative of star formation. This is the Wizard Nebula or Sharpless 142, 8500 light years distant in the constellation of Cepheus. Six hours of imaging, evenly split over SHO filters. 840mm, cropped.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve just learned (from a post by Colin Edwin) that Imaginary Records’ Alan Duffy has died. Like Colin, I knew little of him. I always loved this lyric he wrote for the nascent Porcupine Tree.

#ninecats #porcupinetree #alanduffy #stevenwilson #voyage35

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Steven Wilson, Nine Cats, Dec. 2018

YouTube video by Michael Boothillier

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 20h

I played one note. It was harder on my back than anything else. Steve Hogarth performs at ProgStock with some enthusiastic audience members.

Photo credit: Linda Heath
#progstock2025 #hnatural #SteveHogarth
#Marillion #cunningstunts
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Steve Hogarth performs Talking heads’ Once In A Lifetime as part of his first US “h Natural” show at ProgStock 2025 accompanied by some enthusiastic audience members on faux arpeggio. Photo credit: Linda Heath.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 21h

Is a "known DTO route" what this administration calls a designated shipping lane?

MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic

MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommissioned vessels. Sea...

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 23h

It’s the name for a part of the prison population.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

The word he's looking for is summoning. I suspect he's considering an Outer God like Nyarlathotep.

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Dr. Bobby Gagnon, LsD @58lespaul.bsky.social · 1d

They're stealing everything.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkably, they're making the solution more simple with every heist. Three or more orders of magnitude of QE will reduce all fortunes to inconsequential and the substantial fiscal ownership by the new government can provide greater equity. Money is just a promise, and they've abandoned the law.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

That's the norm based on the legal system applying pressure against the corrupt actors for the most egregious cases. Not all cases are six months, not all are dropped and this is likely not the future state as we move further from rule of law.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

US corporations are rife with fasicst thought to the point that it echoes through both parties. Once the authoritarian goal seemed doable, elements within the puported left moved to undermine their own party in order to realize the corporatist agenda.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

Fair bet that he doesn't get his Special K from the valley. Folk with Gulfstreams are a good chunk of the traffic.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 1d

The man is sundowning right in front of the world's media, who by and large proclaim the emperor of grievance's cloak and prowess to be quite intact.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."