Tom Hilton
@tvhilton.bsky.social
Politics, backpacking, travel, photography, & all-purpose snark. Looks like I picked the wrong election year to quit sniffing glue
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Gonna post some photos from my Eastern Sierra road trip last weekend
This is a thread of all of my photo threads on Bluesky
Eastern Sierra fall color, October 2024: bsky.app/profile/tvhi...
Eastern Sierra fall color, October 2024: bsky.app/profile/tvhi...
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crest theater, sacramento, california, 1980
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
crest theater, sacramento, california, 1980
Was that an earthquake just now?
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Was that an earthquake just now?
Did this deranged leftist carve a backward B on your face?
Nance Mace: "Like Elon said the other day, he can't go out in public b/c one mistake and you're dead. I had an incident just 3 weeks ago - it was the last time I was in public - I had a leftist person come up to me aggressively, physically threaten me in front of a group, including my security."
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Did this deranged leftist carve a backward B on your face?
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
Apparently I do not have a life
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Apparently I do not have a life
The quintessential Kavanaugh Stop
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The quintessential Kavanaugh Stop
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metro gas sign, cedar city, utah, 1987
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
metro gas sign, cedar city, utah, 1987
Oh yeah sure...look, I've seen what happens when you go off caffeine, I don't want to end up like that
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh yeah sure...look, I've seen what happens when you go off caffeine, I don't want to end up like that
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
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Outsourcing thinking makes figuring things out difficult to imagine
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Outsourcing thinking makes figuring things out difficult to imagine
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Hot Take: This is unironically true, but for President Biden and Jake Tapper
Trump says reporting on his health is "seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean 'THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.' They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it."
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hot Take: This is unironically true, but for President Biden and Jake Tapper
Watching Grand Hotel last night I had a holy shit moment at the end, when the manager says “People come, people go…nothing ever happens.” Which is meant to be ironic, but they had no idea how ironic.
It’s a hotel in Berlin.
In 1933.
“Nothing ever happens.”
It’s a hotel in Berlin.
In 1933.
“Nothing ever happens.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Watching Grand Hotel last night I had a holy shit moment at the end, when the manager says “People come, people go…nothing ever happens.” Which is meant to be ironic, but they had no idea how ironic.
It’s a hotel in Berlin.
In 1933.
“Nothing ever happens.”
It’s a hotel in Berlin.
In 1933.
“Nothing ever happens.”
Trump’s State Department ditching Calibri for TNR is a huge win for…wait, what?
The typeface (Times New Roman) was developed by a British typographer, Stanley Morison, for The Times. He was a jailed, in the UK, for being a conscientious objector to conscription during WWI. Ironic, isn't it?
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Trump’s State Department ditching Calibri for TNR is a huge win for…wait, what?
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Dramatic lighting around Dildo Tower
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dramatic lighting around Dildo Tower
Don't count out Nancy Mace. Last I checked she's slipping in her gubernatorial primary.
Elise is emerging as the patron saint, the thorn-crowned bleeding heart of dignity loss www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Republican Bruce Blakeman planning to enter race for New York governor
His campaign would complicate Rep. Elise Stefanik’s path. Trump praises both.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Don't count out Nancy Mace. Last I checked she's slipping in her gubernatorial primary.
Oh thank god
Are young adults experiencing a religious revival? Our data says no. 🧵👇
Full analysis here:
Full analysis here:
Religion Holds Steady in America
Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
www.pewresearch.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oh thank god
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In general, the aesthetics of Trump II remind me a lot of post-Soviet authoritarianism in Turkmenistan. You can just imagine Trump commissioning a statue exactly like this to stand outside the East Wing ballroom. www.rferl.org/a/meet_the_n...
Golden Turkmenbashi Finds New Home
It's been a tastelessly iconic symbol of Turkmenistan since it appeared in 1998: a 12-meter-tall, gold-plated statue of Saparmurat Niyazov, the country's longtime dictator, who also styled himself as ...
www.rferl.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
In general, the aesthetics of Trump II remind me a lot of post-Soviet authoritarianism in Turkmenistan. You can just imagine Trump commissioning a statue exactly like this to stand outside the East Wing ballroom. www.rferl.org/a/meet_the_n...
I saw this on video while crashing with some friends after my wife and I split up, so the timing might have diminished my enjoyment
Danny DeVito's wicked, merciless satire “The War of the Roses” was released on this day in 1989: crookedmarquee.com/everyones-th...
Everyone’s the Bad Guy in The War of the Roses — Crooked Marquee
It’s a tale as old as time. Boy and girl meet. They fall in love. Marriage and children follow. Then the years pass. Things change. Soon their affections
crookedmarquee.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I saw this on video while crashing with some friends after my wife and I split up, so the timing might have diminished my enjoyment
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Very important to completely annihilate the climate along with energy affordability so we can power the Mistake Generator that will fire everyone.
"According to Foxglove, the new demand would be comparable to two to three times the capacity of the 1180MW Peterhead gas power station....and the total generation capacity of all of Scotland’s offshore wind turbines in 2024, which stood at 2971MW"
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
Planned hyperscale data centers in Scotland could demand 2-3GW of power - report
Just under Scotland's winter peak demand of 4GW
www.datacenterdynamics.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Very important to completely annihilate the climate along with energy affordability so we can power the Mistake Generator that will fire everyone.
So farmers who used to be able to sell their products, but can't now because of tariffs, will be getting government checks, which are the bridge from the old days of getting government checks to the bright future of being able to sell their products
Rollins: "The bridge that is needed to get from the last administration & what basically happened under the last president to this new golden age for farmers where instead of farming for govt checks they can farm to feed their families and sell their products, this bridge is absolutely necessary"
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So farmers who used to be able to sell their products, but can't now because of tariffs, will be getting government checks, which are the bridge from the old days of getting government checks to the bright future of being able to sell their products
Pictured: 1) Greedo, 2) Chewbacca, 3) Mos Eisley from the air
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pictured: 1) Greedo, 2) Chewbacca, 3) Mos Eisley from the air
The 14th is by far the most important amendment—more than any of the amendments that get a lot more attention—because if a “right” doesn’t apply to everyone it’s not really a right, it’s a privilege, conditional, and can be taken away
Make no mistake, if the 14th Amendment should fall - I am not saying it will, there are plenty of obstacles, I am speaking hypothetically - but if it should fall, no one is safe. It is challenging for most families to prove legal citizenship beyond a generation or two.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The 14th is by far the most important amendment—more than any of the amendments that get a lot more attention—because if a “right” doesn’t apply to everyone it’s not really a right, it’s a privilege, conditional, and can be taken away
This is what America should be
we’re a neighborhood of many faiths, languages and nationalities, united in our love of lights
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is what America should be