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30ish year old, award winning firefighter paramedic. Energy policy wonk. Opinions are my own.

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · Jul 25

The world is not "Running out of oil."
The world is running out of cheap oil with current production.
Most wells only tap 20-40% of the oil in a given pocket.
It's just once you get past the initial portion, it becomes progressively more expensive to tap the rest.
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Woblyear @woblyear.bsky.social · 2h

Eyeliner 🖤

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Scooter Mentality @fwugcat.bsky.social · 15h

🏖️🐆🏖️

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 1h

Fernmage absolutely getting after it. Great dude, great music, great vibes.

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 4h

Dungeon Synth, FEAT: DJ asshole wasp who stung me

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 5h

Hard agree

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 11h

Two left…

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think you should be allowed to gamble on your phone.
I can’t ban gambling. But I think you should have to go to the gambling building to be allowed to gamble.

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

Or are you talking about using a blockchain system to maintain validity? More of a “wallet.”

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

I’m saying “the moment an encrypted system has a large base of users, government agencies WILL ask for a key.” And only a precious few developers don’t give up those keys readily.
This is exactly what happened with the Salt Typhoon hack. Telecoms gave PD the keys, and then we got our lunch eaten.

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

The best way to keep user data safe is to minimize it.
And it sucks that trolls exist. And it sucks that there are pornbots and regular ol AI slop bots, but there’s a great deal of value in anonymity on the internet.

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

The Salt Typhoon hack should make you extremely wary of even encrypted data stores. When a site implements such a program, only the absolute highest principled ones deny calls from the government to install a back door, and once there’s a backdoor, someone WILL be by with a crowbar.

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

The second we get government IDs involved, shit gets stolen, leaked to the government.
And it’s all because some politician wanted to know who was behind the Goku Icon calling him an “asshole.”

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

Shared web presence across multiple platforms. But ultimately, you don’t, and can’t, and shouldn’t, really.
Just have to make a determination as to whether or not I’m an entertaining bot to talk to.
But anyone you’ve not talked to, in person, shook hands with, etc, isn’t a real person anyway.

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 12h

Not to be difficult, but building a network of verified users with shared presence across platforms using ATProtocol is exactly what Bluesky was made to do.
You’re asking for a government issued ID (which WILL be stolen at some point) to solve an already solved problem.

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Maelstrom @maelstrom.bsky.social · 14h

>:3c

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Kaneda @vg99kinsei.bsky.social · 18h

最近ATで描いていただいたり、10月23日がこの子の誕生日だったりと
連ちゃんがタイムリーなので過去絵投稿です

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 15h

As the poor guy was crying and retching, “Y’wanna still feel awful, but in an entirely new and exciting way?”

peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 21h

Neat. First ever organophosphate poisoning patient. Not so bad where they needed atropine. But still.

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Cry_Buni @crybuni.bsky.social · 23h

this freestanding ED still serves narcan the old fashioned way (subQ

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Pointy🔜Howl-o-Plex @schakal.bsky.social · 23h

MRE night with the homies

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peppermintRer @peppermintrer.bsky.social · 23h

My ultimate “hear me out.”
Slappy Squirrel

Dead Serious

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Possessed opossum 🔜 Furpoc @possessedopossum.bsky.social · 1d

An Example

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Possessed opossum 🔜 Furpoc @possessedopossum.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to be tabling in Artist Alley at Furpoc for Saturday only this year! I'll be selling vintage posters as well as traditional commissions and some other little things :)

Wall poster of 70s Actor Lion taking an action pose

An inspirational office poster featuring YOX the badger offering the viewer psychedelics

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

MEASUREHEAD - “THE PAST IS MADE OF STATIC IMAGES, DISTORTED MEMORIES, DEMENTED NOSTALGIA. THIS, THE PRESENT -- WITH ALL ITS POSSIBILITIES, INNUMERABLE HITS AND MISSES -- IS FAR SUPERIOR. IT IS A *LIVING* ORGANISM.”

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