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Steve Riggins

@steveriggins.net

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iOS engineer at eBay. He/Him. Started my career in the 80s at The Voyager Company working on laserdisc and CD-ROM interfaced HyperCard stacks. Shipped QuickTime video at launch. Bad puns are the best. All posts are mine and do not represent my employer.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 4h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Electrek @electrek.co · 1h

Oregon launches its first solar + storage DC fast charging station

XCharge North America (NA) has opened Oregon’s first solar + storage DC fast charging station at Arrowhead Travel Plaza in Pendleton, part of the Wildhorse Resort & Casino complex owned by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. more…

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 1h

@governorferguson.bsky.social ICE is detaining a US citizen of Oregon in my Clark County jail. Why are my taxes going to fund this illegal behavior of seizing citizens off the street, taking them to my state, and holding them without charge?

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 3h

I cannot refrain from typos, however, even on my labels

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 5h

I got these smaller bags for usb. I keep them by my chair downstairs.

The photo shows three mesh zippered pouches, each labeled and containing different types of cables. The front pouch with an orange zipper is labeled "USB-C to USB-C" and holds dark-colored cables. Behind it, a yellow-zippered pouch is labeled "USB-A to USB-C" and contains cables with some orange coiling visible. The third pouch with a yellow zipper, partially visible on the left, is labeled "Apple Watch" and appears to hold white cables. The pouches are sitting on a brown leather surface with a wooden floor in the background.

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 5h

One of the main advantages to have never participated in the Cryto scams that billionaires and rogue governments set up is that when a crypto scam ties to convince me that my coinbase was hacked, I can simply delete it.

I wish that there was an option to send an electrical shock back to the sender.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 5h

Gallon sized zip lock bags. Buy a box and sort them once and never again. You will sing my praises for eternity. 🥳

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 20h

Republicans want to silence and jail democrats for any reason. Pure fascism.

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 1d

Wait until dog murderer Kristi Noem learns about "Antifrog"

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 1d

So fucking proud of my Portland neighbors

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 2d

It’s a financial circle jerk for want of a less crude reference

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 4d

These right wing nuts are ludicrous

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 5d

Too bad that they dropped CarPlay

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 5d

Miller was on CNN talking about snipers and nightly fights and other “portland terrorism” and I wish someone would just drag these assholes to Portland and make them show us this first hand.

These are the assholes who said Jan 6 was a tour.

Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 6d

About the only residual is the Apple Store, because assholes broke that glass twice (the first before any protests)

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.