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"Infrastructure Engineer" Enjoy selfhosting and breaking stuff in my homelab. Queer enby with an amazing partner. Trans Rights are Human Rights they/them

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · Nov 10

Finally ditching the other site so I guess time for the inaugural “is this thing on?” post! Here are our two cats, their government names are Dominic and Ainsley and they are sisters!
Queer enby with audhd
Things I enjoy:
Anime
Animals
Space
Computer networking (self hosting and home lab)

Big orange tabby cat on a couch with her fluffy belly exposed

Tortoise shell cat sitting weirdly while staring at you

My partner and I sitting at a table at our favorite brewery

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 49m

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 37m

404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 38m

Wow crazy. If we stop reporting issues regarding race then you can’t be racist anymore I guess

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 45m

NBC News has cut its teams dedicated to covering Black, Asian American, Latino, and LGBTQ+ issues, The Wrap reports.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 23h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 3h

Can’t wait to go to the I hate my fucking fascist government rally this weekend

404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 4h

SHAME

Nature @nature.com · 6h

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 4h

I was told that was frowned upon

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

For many trans people, internet anonymity is only a temporary way station between the closet and living full time in their desired gender. What happens when that privacy is gone?

Read more from @judedoyle.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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JAV Titles @jav.scd.lol · 10h

Privacy FUCKERS 2

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17h

An aggressive rock has been removed from a parking lot in Aurora where it repeatedly attacked drivers.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lots of talk about Tesla securities fraudster and serial con man Elon Musk using his private ventures (along with the usual fraudulent narratives) to help keep $TSLA afloat.

Let’s go through some of the schemes fraudsters use to pull this off: (1/19)

$TSLAQ 🧵 ht & by @TeslaFraud

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 20h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 20h

Open fiscal sabotage.

It’s not *if* Democrats will issue bonds and repeal balanced budget amendments to stay alive; it’s *when*.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 19h

Everything is flooded by the bullshit generator

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 19h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

President Trump said at the White House that his administration planned to produce a list on October 17 of "Democrat programs" that will be closed as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 19h

Artificial goon industry

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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404 Gender Not Found @dropthepackets.net · 19h

Who needs the CIA anymore

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

The US president has said a $20bn currency swap with Argentina depended on the success of Javier Milei's coalition.

‘Not going to waste our time’: Trump hinges US aid to Argentina on election

The US president has said a $20bn currency swap with Argentina depended on the success of Javier Milei's coalition.

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