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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 10h

Did you ever bash together a Traveller: Star Trek system? Just curious.

Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 11h

oh noooo

I know it's coming for me- the days when all the fingers on my right hand hurt have begun

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I'm assuming the contractor is shady because of course they are.

Is someone going to have to tear the whole thing apart and put it back together again when the regime falls? Looking for bugs or exploits or Harkonnen drone operators or whatever?

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 17h

So everyone's concerned about the people's house and destroying history and yeah sure, all that, whatever, but also...

Security.

Who can trust that the White House is a remotely secure environment now that some shady contractor is tearing it up and rebuilding it?

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 14h

it's good for aws

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 16h

blakestacey.myatproto.social @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 17h

It's like when we let Soviet construction workers build the US embassy in Moscow, except it's, you know, the White House

archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1997...

Behind The Veil, New U.S. Embassy Rises In Moscow -- Bugged Earlier Version Was Kgb's Highest Achievement | The Seattle Times

archive.seattletimes.com

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 16h

Minor Local Celebrity @pferdhosen.bsky.social · 16h

The East Wing sits above the PEOC, a secure bunker to which the president is expected to retreat in times of grave emergency (eg nuclear war) and to which a frightened Trump once fled during the summer of 2020

Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 17h

So everyone's concerned about the people's house and destroying history and yeah sure, all that, whatever, but also...

Security.

Who can trust that the White House is a remotely secure environment now that some shady contractor is tearing it up and rebuilding it?

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you, exactly the reference I was thinking of.

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, I'm assuming the contractor is shady because of course they are.

Is someone going to have to tear the whole thing apart and put it back together again when the regime falls? Looking for bugs or exploits or Harkonnen drone operators or whatever?

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 17h

So everyone's concerned about the people's house and destroying history and yeah sure, all that, whatever, but also...

Security.

Who can trust that the White House is a remotely secure environment now that some shady contractor is tearing it up and rebuilding it?

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 1d

lol, I was just about to send you this

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 1d

if you saw heathcliff mugging the fishmonger, no you didn't

actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1d

19 Oct 2025

A fish monger walks out of the fish market holding a box of fresh fish. Another employee says "Look out!" as a black cat crosses his path, and says "That's bad luck, boss." Heathcliff approaches and, with a WHOMP, knocks the fishmonger down and steals the fish. Heathcliff and the black cat happily walk away holding the fish as the employee says ,
"That's even worse."

The Kitty Korner reads "Joseph Venuto of Philadelphia, PA, says his cat 'Purrogi' likes to sit on the TV remote so no one can change the channel!"

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 1d

if you saw heathcliff mugging the fishmonger, no you didn't

actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1d

19 Oct 2025

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's time to retire the phrase "wait, is this real?" and replace it with "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue".

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I do love a nice clean jewel heist, and stealing already stolen goods is basically fair play.

Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's time to retire the phrase "wait, is this real?" and replace it with "looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue".

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

please note that "No Kings" does NOT include Joshua Norton, as he was an emperor. I've already had to correct MSNBC don't make me correct you too

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 2d

the chanting is the hardest part. kill the part of you that cringes

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OPB @opb.org · 3d

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

www.opb.org

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 3d

update!

Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d

I presume you’re aware Bloom County has returned

www.instagram.com/berkeleybrea...

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 3d

fireside tales with papa brainwash

Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 3d

one time my friends created a repeating pump-action gravity bong that fed out through a half inch hose that was like hitting a bellows

most threatening bong I ever hit (I only hit it once because that's all it took)

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, ours was more of a party ender.

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Johnny Brainwash @johnnybrainwash.bsky.social · 3d

just subscribed to my first, too- all us gov agencies

considered just muting for a second, but no, fuck those guys

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