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@ammartin.bsky.social

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I own a computer. Mechanical Engineer OH ➡️ WA Mostly dumb jokes about tech or current events

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · Apr 10

My "I have become so ensconced in internet culture that I am incapable of thought outside the confines of meme formats and it has become a hindrance to my ability to consume and process information let alone interact with others" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 1d

Charisma — Ambition — Not a Sex Pest.

Can we finally have all three?

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin can easily get to the bottom of this by instructing the IRS to look into all the 1099 forms issued to the protesters by antifa and George Soros.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Don Jr reposting this 60 times between 2AM and 213AM

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 1d

Change in Headline

Before: Bolivia Pushes to Reclaim the Coca Leaf From the Stigma of Cocaine
After: Coca Isn’t Just for Cocaine, Bolivia Wants the World to Know

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 1d

We need to crowdsource a blocklist called "uses meme formats as a crutch" and it'll be the only one I ever need.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

Sea-Tac Airport won't air Kristi Noem's miserable propaganda, and that's a good thing.

Donald Trump is not a king, and dog killer Kristi Noem can't just force our airports to break the law on her behalf.

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.

www.seattletimes.com

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 2d

Despite that – or maybe because of it? – it has some pretty kickass sci-fi.

Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 2d

Apple TV+ is the streaming service where everything has such high production quality that you can be tricked into thinking the most mid tv shows are emmy frontrunners.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a TV sounds like the premise for a 1970s dystopian satire written by the most hysterical Marxist novelist seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American empire…

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

“One former senior Trump administration official from the first term tells Zeteo that…when Trump was publicly dangling the idea of attacking Iranian cultural sites…the president indeed… asked…aides what they thought of striking the specific targets offered up by the likes of Hegseth &…Sean Hannity.”

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 2d

Going to finally get to the bottom of the mystery of who keeps shitting in my pants

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 2d

This ep made me consider the alternate reality where RIM adopts Android early in its life, 2010/2011 or so. It took them so long to release the Priv that hardly anyone cared about the company by the time it released.

Why did the big biopic/dramedy not cover the Priv? Everyone's favorite phone!

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 6d

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 6d

Okay. So another Dem just tried to fight me in my mentions over Amy McGrath. It was pure armchair analysis, and weird.

But here's why I'm bringing it up: we HAVE to get it together, fellow Dems.

We're seeing democracy-eroding acts from this administration Every. Day.

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, so the animations they release on YouTube won't have the Nintendo characters visible to prevent them from being sued by Nintendo.

IGN @ign.com · 6d

Nintendo has at last offered something of an explanation for its mysterious short film project 'Closer to You', which debuted this week and was later revealed as featuring Pikmin.

Nintendo Finally Comments on This Week's 'Closer to You' Pikmin Videos, Reveals They're the First Short Films From Nintendo Pictures

Nintendo has at last offered something of an explanation for its mysterious short film project 'Closer to You', which debuted this week and was later revealed as featuring Pikmin.

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 6d

With the chip staying about the same, I wonder how much of the feature set is moving to my pixel watch 3/45mm.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 7d

The new following feed on The Verge's homepage is a real savior when prime day rolls around and the avalanche of affiliate links engulfs the website.

Thanks, @reckless.bsky.social

Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 7d

I thought the, "I haven't seen the tweet," excuse was bad in the first trump term.

The, "I haven't been paying attention to the words and actions of the federal government I run a branch of," excuse is maybe a touch worse this time around.

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 7d

Is a young pregnant Honduran woman a rabble rouser by default or...?

Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 7d

Affiliate links are news now. It's fucking awesome.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 7d

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Andy 🏔️ @ammartin.bsky.social · 9d

First time the Pixel 10's 100x "zoom" impressed me: dogs chased a squirrel to the top of this telephone pole and it hunkered down.

Zoomed-in shot of a squirrel at the top of a wooden pole, lying as flat as possible. Clear blue sky in the background.