Bacon Wrangler
@baconwrangler.bsky.social
Copywriter, SF fan, and a sometimes streamer. Gamer since the days of VGA and computers going "beep boop."
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We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
It's so cool to be watching The Untamed on Netflix and catching all the things from the show that the Where Winds Meet devs put in the game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It's so cool to be watching The Untamed on Netflix and catching all the things from the show that the Where Winds Meet devs put in the game.
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Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
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While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
So, today was supposed to be the day when I made the cranberry apple crumble and the squash casserole, but have once again been laid out with the hip bursitis trying to separate my leg from my pelvis. :p
a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch with a tv land logo in the corner
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch with a tv land logo in the corner
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
So, today was supposed to be the day when I made the cranberry apple crumble and the squash casserole, but have once again been laid out with the hip bursitis trying to separate my leg from my pelvis. :p
Getting the morning tai chi exercises done in #wherewindsmeet
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Getting the morning tai chi exercises done in #wherewindsmeet
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The main reason any state needs energy is because data centers are hogging it …🔻
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The main reason any state needs energy is because data centers are hogging it …🔻
This is a really eye-opening read!
This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a really eye-opening read!
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I'm really curious who leaked that audio. And why.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm really curious who leaked that audio. And why.
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My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
Shoot. This is the charity I picked on my Wildgrain account.
I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Shoot. This is the charity I picked on my Wildgrain account.
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For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
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This Goya parody sums up my feelings about Christmas commercialism.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This Goya parody sums up my feelings about Christmas commercialism.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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Unruly Card Games - Gator Days
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Unruly Card Games - Gator Days
I backed out of making a serious error at the last second by deciding not to wade into the current Star Wars ranking drama.
two men in suits and ties are talking in front of a fire hose sign
Alt: Don Adams as Maxwell Smart in the 60s TV comedy series “Get Smart”, telling the Chief his famous tagline “Missed it by *that* much.”
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I backed out of making a serious error at the last second by deciding not to wade into the current Star Wars ranking drama.
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it's truly fascinating to live in a time in which anti LGBT violence is rising again and somehow Interview With A Vampire, the gayest show ever filmed, is on the air and wildly popular
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
it's truly fascinating to live in a time in which anti LGBT violence is rising again and somehow Interview With A Vampire, the gayest show ever filmed, is on the air and wildly popular
A quick update to let everyone know that I am still getting my clumsy ass beat like a drum in boss fights in Where Winds Meet.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A quick update to let everyone know that I am still getting my clumsy ass beat like a drum in boss fights in Where Winds Meet.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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The trump mamdamni thing proves that we are all NPCs in somebody's first D&D campaign. He went in there with high charisma, rolled a 20 and the inexperienced DM had no option but to change the antagonist's entire character
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The trump mamdamni thing proves that we are all NPCs in somebody's first D&D campaign. He went in there with high charisma, rolled a 20 and the inexperienced DM had no option but to change the antagonist's entire character