Evacuate Bowser
@leverettwater.bsky.social
Interested in video games, tech & data, politics, and food. Bike rider and forever dancer. Typically pretty earnest but with a black sense of humor. Respect effort over accomplishment but doesn't suffer tryhard fools.
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i can't see this on my linux desktop it says i have to compile the gif kernel module
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
i can't see this on my linux desktop it says i have to compile the gif kernel module
I wouldn't say it's the first domino but hard agree.
"Reformer" Jessica Tisch can't even get NYPD to stop parking on the sidewalk and I'm supposed to believe she's a serious person.
NYDP has made death threats against citizens who report them to 311!
"Reformer" Jessica Tisch can't even get NYPD to stop parking on the sidewalk and I'm supposed to believe she's a serious person.
NYDP has made death threats against citizens who report them to 311!
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I wouldn't say it's the first domino but hard agree.
"Reformer" Jessica Tisch can't even get NYPD to stop parking on the sidewalk and I'm supposed to believe she's a serious person.
NYDP has made death threats against citizens who report them to 311!
"Reformer" Jessica Tisch can't even get NYPD to stop parking on the sidewalk and I'm supposed to believe she's a serious person.
NYDP has made death threats against citizens who report them to 311!
I'm thinking we bring back stockades, especially for ICE
Pretty active in local politics in Dallas and I've never seen anything like what I've witnessed the last few months. Literally no one wants to be reasonable.
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I'm thinking we bring back stockades, especially for ICE
Anyone @manjaro.bsky.social even want to apologize for letting the SSL cert on the forum expire this week? I checked the forum and couldn't find a single post about it. Guess everyone is just resigned to this shit at this point
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Anyone @manjaro.bsky.social even want to apologize for letting the SSL cert on the forum expire this week? I checked the forum and couldn't find a single post about it. Guess everyone is just resigned to this shit at this point
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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"You're going to have to testify about these decisions under the harshest national spotlight possible" vs. "this will be forgotten and we'll just move on by then" are not equivalent incentive structures if you're one of those subordinates, both military and civilian. Even if conviction won't happen.
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"You're going to have to testify about these decisions under the harshest national spotlight possible" vs. "this will be forgotten and we'll just move on by then" are not equivalent incentive structures if you're one of those subordinates, both military and civilian. Even if conviction won't happen.
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If you only got into Harvard because of who your dad was, that’s something tests should measure, not something it should avoid measuring
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If you only got into Harvard because of who your dad was, that’s something tests should measure, not something it should avoid measuring
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ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.
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I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.
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Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.
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The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.
Watching Zoolander for the first time in years and... Ope Trump scare in the first 5 minutes
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Watching Zoolander for the first time in years and... Ope Trump scare in the first 5 minutes
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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You see he mentions lobbying briefly in this interview, but as usual he relegates it to a second tier problem behind his belief that America just loves bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
When in reality the bureaucracy he despises is a byproduct of corruption (see: telecom regs, tax codes, etc.)
When in reality the bureaucracy he despises is a byproduct of corruption (see: telecom regs, tax codes, etc.)
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
You see he mentions lobbying briefly in this interview, but as usual he relegates it to a second tier problem behind his belief that America just loves bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
When in reality the bureaucracy he despises is a byproduct of corruption (see: telecom regs, tax codes, etc.)
When in reality the bureaucracy he despises is a byproduct of corruption (see: telecom regs, tax codes, etc.)
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The last decade in US politics
November 20, 2024 at 3:21 AM
The last decade in US politics
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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a couple years ago i realized that empty kpop sets made for insane liminal spaces
October 28, 2024 at 2:10 AM
a couple years ago i realized that empty kpop sets made for insane liminal spaces
I will seriously pay like $20/month for a paper that is what the NYT thinks it is.
At this point I think I'm paying more than that to try and piece together something close. And I wouldn't necessarily cancel those subs either
At this point I think I'm paying more than that to try and piece together something close. And I wouldn't necessarily cancel those subs either
I was paying for WaPo! I would pay more than 3x what that sub cost for a principled newspaper. Ideally one based in my city so I get local and national news.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I will seriously pay like $20/month for a paper that is what the NYT thinks it is.
At this point I think I'm paying more than that to try and piece together something close. And I wouldn't necessarily cancel those subs either
At this point I think I'm paying more than that to try and piece together something close. And I wouldn't necessarily cancel those subs either
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i think if a kennedy who has never had a job that wasn't being a kennedy announces that they are running for office they should be humanely euthanized if you can't talk them out of it
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
i think if a kennedy who has never had a job that wasn't being a kennedy announces that they are running for office they should be humanely euthanized if you can't talk them out of it