Alexandra
@alexandrahh.bsky.social
Electrical engineer who doesn't work in the defense industry.
Anti-techbro nerd, mostly here to lurk.
I write things sometimes: http://redsheild.net
Anti-techbro nerd, mostly here to lurk.
I write things sometimes: http://redsheild.net
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UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.
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the terrible hubris of this administration is honestly astounding
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL
Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’
President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …
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December 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
the terrible hubris of this administration is honestly astounding
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God these people are all such pure bullshitters, in the rigorous Frankfurt sense. They mean nothing they say and do not communicate in a way us regular honest people would consider communication
On Bullshit - Wikipedia
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December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
God these people are all such pure bullshitters, in the rigorous Frankfurt sense. They mean nothing they say and do not communicate in a way us regular honest people would consider communication
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
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Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.
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so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.
December 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.
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My unhinged Christmas movie take is that A CHRISTMAS STORY is extremely obnoxious.
December 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My unhinged Christmas movie take is that A CHRISTMAS STORY is extremely obnoxious.
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We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.
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It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
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These people are so antisocial that they don’t think other human beings are functional, intelligent people. They assume anything they don’t understand was designed arbitrarily. And then they act on it. Our economic system incentivizes APD so much that we are ruled by people like this
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
These people are so antisocial that they don’t think other human beings are functional, intelligent people. They assume anything they don’t understand was designed arbitrarily. And then they act on it. Our economic system incentivizes APD so much that we are ruled by people like this
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it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president
vance’s personal communication style is to behave like a preening, belligerent oaf in order to impress two 14 year old boys in one of the most racist group chats in history
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president
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That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
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is that good
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
is that good
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Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
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These guys really should just watch sports and do sports betting instead because complaining about "underperformance" in a win is degenerate gambler behavior
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
These guys really should just watch sports and do sports betting instead because complaining about "underperformance" in a win is degenerate gambler behavior
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Goldilocks waking up:
Holy shit Bears
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Goldilocks waking up:
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Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
September 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
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