Alexandra
@alexandrahh.bsky.social
Electrical engineer who doesn't work in the defense industry.
Anti-techbro nerd, mostly here to lurk.
I write things sometimes: http://redsheild.net
Anti-techbro nerd, mostly here to lurk.
I write things sometimes: http://redsheild.net
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We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.
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It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's always "why did we spend $10m to study grass flu?" and you do 2 minutes of digging and it turns out grass flu destroys $75 billion in crops every year and now we have a new vaccine for that that costs $3 to apply.
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These people are so antisocial that they don’t think other human beings are functional, intelligent people. They assume anything they don’t understand was designed arbitrarily. And then they act on it. Our economic system incentivizes APD so much that we are ruled by people like this
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
These people are so antisocial that they don’t think other human beings are functional, intelligent people. They assume anything they don’t understand was designed arbitrarily. And then they act on it. Our economic system incentivizes APD so much that we are ruled by people like this
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it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president
vance’s personal communication style is to behave like a preening, belligerent oaf in order to impress two 14 year old boys in one of the most racist group chats in history
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president
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That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses.
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is that good
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
is that good
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Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
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These guys really should just watch sports and do sports betting instead because complaining about "underperformance" in a win is degenerate gambler behavior
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
These guys really should just watch sports and do sports betting instead because complaining about "underperformance" in a win is degenerate gambler behavior
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Goldilocks waking up:
Holy shit Bears
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Goldilocks waking up:
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Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
September 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
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How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
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You stupid dumb fuck, they are raising the salience of race and immigration with or without your stupid balding mayo jar input
December 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You stupid dumb fuck, they are raising the salience of race and immigration with or without your stupid balding mayo jar input
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Just out and out David Duke shit. There is no air gap between this and the klan. They are the same people, it is the same model of government, and it will not stop here.
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just out and out David Duke shit. There is no air gap between this and the klan. They are the same people, it is the same model of government, and it will not stop here.
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a large chunk of the beltway consultancy apparatus that has built up its parasitic existence around the DNC is insistent that the salience of racism, immigration should not be raised; meanwhile, this is now the median republican policy on civil rights enforcement
Yes, this is a real government ad…
“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?”
In a country built on centuries of actual discrimination, the EEOC is using civil rights language to insulate white male mediocrity from competition.
“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?”
In a country built on centuries of actual discrimination, the EEOC is using civil rights language to insulate white male mediocrity from competition.
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
a large chunk of the beltway consultancy apparatus that has built up its parasitic existence around the DNC is insistent that the salience of racism, immigration should not be raised; meanwhile, this is now the median republican policy on civil rights enforcement
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Matt Yglesias: don’t raise the salience of immigration. Unless I think it’s okay. It’s complicated and you’re misreading me.
The average republican social media staffer:
bsky.app/profile/pale...
The average republican social media staffer:
bsky.app/profile/pale...
DHS just shared this video to X with the caption "This Christmas, our hearts grow as our illegal population shrinks."
The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke."
Evil shit.
The video is set to a version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and has text that reads "Christmas after mass deportations." The end reads "Mirthnuke."
Evil shit.
December 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Matt Yglesias: don’t raise the salience of immigration. Unless I think it’s okay. It’s complicated and you’re misreading me.
The average republican social media staffer:
bsky.app/profile/pale...
The average republican social media staffer:
bsky.app/profile/pale...
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"They forgot to redact this page," wrote YouTuber Keith Edwards, posting a page which stated, "During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing 14-year-old Doe…1/2
'Oops!' Internet pounces over Epstein files of Trump that DOJ 'forgot to redact'
When President Donald Trump's Justice Department released a large dump of files from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case on Friday afternoon, people immediately noticed the huge presence of redac...
www.rawstory.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"They forgot to redact this page," wrote YouTuber Keith Edwards, posting a page which stated, "During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing 14-year-old Doe…1/2