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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 5h

Your time is mostly spent on worthless things.

What I say is: You should spend time on stupid things, because there is the possibility of worth in that.

It takes a fool to venture somewhere different.

The point is, they walked all the fucking way there.

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 8h

A thing I like about ads on other platforms (physical magazines, newspapers, tv) is they indicate the demographic they are catering to and are trying to attract. As well as give me insights into current consumerist trends.

Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 8h

My adware blockers are largely for security reasons, then for site readability reasons, and then due privacy reasons.

But I really don't mind advertisements, and would love to read ads from sites that don't have the above problems.

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe go to the site itself before complaining about what you think they should be saying.

But I have amazing Google skills...

reason.com/volokh/2025/...

My New The Hill Article: "Abolish ICE and Give the Money to Real Cops"

It makes the case for abolishing ICE and transferring its funds to state and local police.

reason.com

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 15h

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

What percentage of 3.5 disks that you receive are unreadable, roughly?

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

Other than my own phone number, the only other phone number I have memorized is from pre cell phone times.

202-456-1414 - white house switchboard. Sadly a human no longer answers last time I checked.

Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

His brutality embodied the spirit of America though...

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

You'd think they'd learn that when politicians promise accountability for police misconduct that the promise is an empty one.

(Sometimes perhaps they mean they'll do that, but when they get into office they are... Convinced otherwise)

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

When I'm accidently on the 'discover' tab... That's on me.

Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 10h

CNN: f the right off. (Won't anyone think of the innocent whiskey makers?!)

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 11h

Not exactly, but related: reason.com/2025/10/10/d...

Deploying troops to American cities is an assault on the Constitution

President Donald Trump's efforts to use federal troops on U.S. soil is an affront to our nation's Constitution and legal system.

reason.com

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning. I am shipping zines today. Get your order in. It’s a delight to read. There’s cartoons! www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...

Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.

www.mulebooks.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 14h

In my community college photography program there was a Photoshop class.

They showed us how to add watermarks to our images, and my teacher was not amused as I removed watermarks.

Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 14h

Nano Banana “AI Generated Image” digital watermark easily visible (removable?) with basic image manipulation
https://alecmuffett.com/article/117256
#DigitalWatermark #GenAi #ai #censorship #synthid #watermark

Nano Banana “AI Generated Image” digital watermark easily visible (removable?) with basic image manipulation

From Reddit, people using contrast stretch and even contrast boost of an AI generated pure white image, to show the “digital watermark” which is supposed to denote evil AI content. Rese…

alecmuffett.com

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 14h

Disclaimer: I'm not qualified to give such an answer (not a lawyer), but I do pay attention to these issues.

That being said, I see actual lawyers on social media give objectively shitty and dubious legal opinions (often in legal areas outside the focus of their practice).

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 15h

They often seem totally incapable, yes.

Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 15h

I think police should pull over vehicles that don't have license plates.

Even if the vehicles are filled with armed masked people.

Does that make me antifa?

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 16h

Probably not financially responsible because of expansive qualified immunity. Ideally local prosecutors would find them criminally liable, but it's difficult to imagine that.

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 16h

It gets worse: "Best Beer also threatened legal action against one judge who wrote an open letter criticizing the use of AI in beer tasting and judging, according to multiple judges and text messages reviewed by 404 Media."

Wish the article would have discussed that threat more.

Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 16h

I should not be more aware of what the federal government does and what the president says than the Speaker of the House.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16h

If you were falsely accused of murder, and knew that you could prove your innocence in court, but were held in a violent and dangerous county jail in Georgia indefinitely...

You would maintain your innocence, but after 7 to 10 years, you would take a plea deal anyway, just to go home and be free.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16h

What I don't understand is the centrist Dem position:
It's horror when ICE does it to brown people but necessary when cops do it to Black people. We can't defund the cops, but we must defund ICE. We need 90%+ of Black men to vote to end this brutality for others, but to worsen it for themselves.
🙂🙃

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 16h

youtu.be/UsmiRIozzvw

New Running Man Trailer!

/Cosplaying as Stephen King's IT guy.

The Running Man | New Trailer (2025 Movie) - Edgar Wright, Glen Powell

YouTube video by Paramount Pictures

youtu.be

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 17h

"... It's funny. But it also might be a federal offense."

💀 realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 17h

Penn Jilette with an "airport prank" from PC/Computing magazine from back in January of 1991.

This Joke Could Send You to Prison

HERE'S AN IDEA: Write a program that replies onscreen "Except that one" after any keystroke following the "Press any key" prompt. Nice little joke, right? It's not mean-spirited and nobody gets hurt. Great. If your idea of comedy is not hurting anyone, stop reading now. If your idea of comedy is doing damage to yourself and others, I've got another idea for you.
I fly a lot. It's my job. I also bring a laptop. Computers are the only thing I've ever really loved that I haven't tried to destroy. (Maybe I'm sharing too much for a computer magazine. I don't know.)
You fly. You take a computer. So you know what I mean: Part of flying with a computer is hateful and miserable.
The problem is security. I guess if you fly out of some Hooterville airport, they just let you walk through with a few pounds of hardware over your shoulder, whistling the theme from "The Andy Griffith Show." But all the real airports

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