Andz
@andz.bsky.social
Dad. Too multidisciplinary engineer. Central Jersey exists. He/him.
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I'm arguing against interest here as someone who makes his living producing various kinds of video content, but I believe if you want to think clearly about something, the written word is much more valuable than video content is.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
December 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm arguing against interest here as someone who makes his living producing various kinds of video content, but I believe if you want to think clearly about something, the written word is much more valuable than video content is.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
Video is MUCH better at manipulating the audience than words.
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New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites
Business documents, website code and leaked data all led us back to one person profiting off non-consensual sexual imagery of women.
www.bellingcat.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
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Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
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mass shooting are dramatic and horrific evidence of our desperate need for gun control. they're really only the tip of the iceberg though.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
mass shooting are dramatic and horrific evidence of our desperate need for gun control. they're really only the tip of the iceberg though.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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i have to drunk drive over the speed limit in order to get to my job: defusing the kind of nuclear bomb which can only be deactivated by the n-word
Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
December 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
i have to drunk drive over the speed limit in order to get to my job: defusing the kind of nuclear bomb which can only be deactivated by the n-word
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It drives me crazy that our Democratic state representatives like @andrewzwicker.bsky.social are advancing legislation to significantly restrict the use of low-speed e-bikes while the real risk to safety on New Jersey roads is always, always cars.
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It drives me crazy that our Democratic state representatives like @andrewzwicker.bsky.social are advancing legislation to significantly restrict the use of low-speed e-bikes while the real risk to safety on New Jersey roads is always, always cars.
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This guy must have been preparing answers for the inevitable “your grandpa was the country’s most famous fascist” question and then the boss is like “it’s why we wanted to hire you”
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This guy must have been preparing answers for the inevitable “your grandpa was the country’s most famous fascist” question and then the boss is like “it’s why we wanted to hire you”
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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I am today issuing a full and unconditional Pardon to the great HAMILTON B. URGLAR, a Patriot who has been relentlessly attacked by the Radical Left for as "The Hamburglar" just because of all of the many hamburgers he stole. Thank your for your attention to this matter! Robble Robble
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I am today issuing a full and unconditional Pardon to the great HAMILTON B. URGLAR, a Patriot who has been relentlessly attacked by the Radical Left for as "The Hamburglar" just because of all of the many hamburgers he stole. Thank your for your attention to this matter! Robble Robble
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I think most urban policy problems in this country stem from the fact that policymaking is decentralized to levels of government that 1. Lack sufficient expertise 2. Can’t effectively coordinate on regional problems and 3. Are too easily captured by hyper-local parochial interest groups.
Building good transit requires building good systems to deliver it - planned networks; ridership models; engineered standards and cost/benefit analyses.
The problem is precisely that we require each locality to reinvent what should be a well-understood wheel, discarding learning after each project.
The problem is precisely that we require each locality to reinvent what should be a well-understood wheel, discarding learning after each project.
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think most urban policy problems in this country stem from the fact that policymaking is decentralized to levels of government that 1. Lack sufficient expertise 2. Can’t effectively coordinate on regional problems and 3. Are too easily captured by hyper-local parochial interest groups.
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Very hard to avoid fed posting after reading this, so I'll just say that I am prepared to make a significant financial contribution to the first candidate who runs on a platform of dismantling this fascist, lawless paramilitary group and prosecuting those who violate the rights of US citizens
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very hard to avoid fed posting after reading this, so I'll just say that I am prepared to make a significant financial contribution to the first candidate who runs on a platform of dismantling this fascist, lawless paramilitary group and prosecuting those who violate the rights of US citizens
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To a certain extent, i think access to cheap consumer goods has papered over a lot of structural problems like housing costs and income inequality and they just ripped the bandaid off an open wound.
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To a certain extent, i think access to cheap consumer goods has papered over a lot of structural problems like housing costs and income inequality and they just ripped the bandaid off an open wound.
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everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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in related news, i hope that mendel rivers is enjoying his eternity burning in hell
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
in related news, i hope that mendel rivers is enjoying his eternity burning in hell
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Stancil: “Like there is no possible way to explain that consumer sentiment peaked in APRIL 2021”
The explanation, and what happened next:
1. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/reports.php?...
2. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
3. www.kff.org/medicaid/an-...
4. jacobin.com/2025/09/bide...
The explanation, and what happened next:
1. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/reports.php?...
2. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
3. www.kff.org/medicaid/an-...
4. jacobin.com/2025/09/bide...
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Stancil: “Like there is no possible way to explain that consumer sentiment peaked in APRIL 2021”
The explanation, and what happened next:
1. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/reports.php?...
2. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
3. www.kff.org/medicaid/an-...
4. jacobin.com/2025/09/bide...
The explanation, and what happened next:
1. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/reports.php?...
2. www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
3. www.kff.org/medicaid/an-...
4. jacobin.com/2025/09/bide...
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Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
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Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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I don’t think we teach about the western theater of the American Civil War enough.
Or Bleeding Kansas.
Or anything about the Spanish civil war.
Or the Troubles in Ireland.
Or the conflicts in the Balkans.
Or really enough about any Civil War period.
Or Bleeding Kansas.
Or anything about the Spanish civil war.
Or the Troubles in Ireland.
Or the conflicts in the Balkans.
Or really enough about any Civil War period.
it's genuinely wild how much conservative literature is basically desiring this as an outcome
i was reading kurt's latest fiction book earlier
i was reading kurt's latest fiction book earlier
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I don’t think we teach about the western theater of the American Civil War enough.
Or Bleeding Kansas.
Or anything about the Spanish civil war.
Or the Troubles in Ireland.
Or the conflicts in the Balkans.
Or really enough about any Civil War period.
Or Bleeding Kansas.
Or anything about the Spanish civil war.
Or the Troubles in Ireland.
Or the conflicts in the Balkans.
Or really enough about any Civil War period.
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I think anyone who is remotely serious about winning the Dem nomination in ‘28 must be ironclad on four points.
1. Abolishing ICE
2. Vigorously prosecuting and all Trump admin criminal acts
3. Razing anything Trump has slapped his name on - on day one
4. Reforming the Supreme Court
1. Abolishing ICE
2. Vigorously prosecuting and all Trump admin criminal acts
3. Razing anything Trump has slapped his name on - on day one
4. Reforming the Supreme Court
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I think anyone who is remotely serious about winning the Dem nomination in ‘28 must be ironclad on four points.
1. Abolishing ICE
2. Vigorously prosecuting and all Trump admin criminal acts
3. Razing anything Trump has slapped his name on - on day one
4. Reforming the Supreme Court
1. Abolishing ICE
2. Vigorously prosecuting and all Trump admin criminal acts
3. Razing anything Trump has slapped his name on - on day one
4. Reforming the Supreme Court
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.