Bartikus
@bartikus.bsky.social
Programmer, YIMBY, dad. Connecticut.
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![VOLITION [Easy: Failure] – You wake up in your Hilton suite to a cacophony of whistles and horns. Half drunk and half hungover, you hastily throw on your tactical gear. It feels heavier than you remember. You stumble outside. The cold hits you like a brick. What are you doing here in this dismal city? Home is warm. Home is safe. Home is a thousand miles away. Tucking your shotgun between your legs, you fumble with a tear gas canister like a child learning how to tie their shoes. The gun goes off and you shoot yourself in the balls.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqh433fdh2bqhvt455e3tg67/bafkreiahrbfuw4v4so56ikp2pxf5n253bs5pd5gq37l7nqsitkwynw56hy@jpeg)
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
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Not sure why my governor is being a scold unless he's yelling at billionaires, not European leaders. He needs to yell at billionaires more, including the California tech billionaires backing Trump and his rampages.
>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to world leaders and billionaires at Davos: It’s time to buck up. Stop being complicit. Have a backbone. Trump will play you for fools.
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Not sure why my governor is being a scold unless he's yelling at billionaires, not European leaders. He needs to yell at billionaires more, including the California tech billionaires backing Trump and his rampages.
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me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen?
boy (gloomily): no sir
boy (gloomily): no sir
January 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen?
boy (gloomily): no sir
boy (gloomily): no sir
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Using public voter files, Peter Lutz takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.
January 20, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Using public voter files, Peter Lutz takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.
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It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 AM
It’s really hard to bear the contrast on my TL of regular ass Minnesotans doing some of the bravest shit I’ve ever seen in the face of state sponsored terror followed by a deep blue state senator posting: “errrm how does taking Greenland help lower the price of groceries?”
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ICE Activity is stepping up in Seattle. Reports of plainclothes in University District, and abductions from Lynnwood to Renton, and Aurora to Issaquah. Now is the time to get trained and engaged; #Seattle seattleindivisible.com/support-immi...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
January 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
Saw this in the Seattle 911 feed. What’s going on down there?
January 18, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Saw this in the Seattle 911 feed. What’s going on down there?
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Introducing `steve`: a CLI for driving macOS apps.
Like playwright for browsers it's drivable by code agents. Tell them to "manually test using steve".
→ github.com/mikker/steve
Like playwright for browsers it's drivable by code agents. Tell them to "manually test using steve".
→ github.com/mikker/steve
January 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Introducing `steve`: a CLI for driving macOS apps.
Like playwright for browsers it's drivable by code agents. Tell them to "manually test using steve".
→ github.com/mikker/steve
Like playwright for browsers it's drivable by code agents. Tell them to "manually test using steve".
→ github.com/mikker/steve
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Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.
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Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.
This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Yes exactly. If protesters stand in front of cars, it’s fine to kill them, if someone is *inside* a car, then it’s fine for law enforcement standing in front of them to shoot them in the face.
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Would you look at that, no studies, no surveys, no outreach, no process; just stuff getting done when it needs to. Oh, but only when it benefits cars. Everything else requires years of molasses planning and permitting processes to built trains, RapidRide buses, or anything that might help bicyclists
Incredibly, incredibly good news: Highway 2 will open in all lanes between Skykomish and Stevens Pass on Sunday. This is a huge step forward for access and surpasses our best case scenarios.
I'm grateful to all the workers who made this possible.
I'm grateful to all the workers who made this possible.
January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Would you look at that, no studies, no surveys, no outreach, no process; just stuff getting done when it needs to. Oh, but only when it benefits cars. Everything else requires years of molasses planning and permitting processes to built trains, RapidRide buses, or anything that might help bicyclists
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Me, logging on to work after the long weekend
May 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Me, logging on to work after the long weekend
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it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up
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They wanted Cuomo to win and now they want to make Mamdani a failure
NYT returns to character assassination. Note the framing, which implies Mandani targeted Israel exec orders when in fact, it was all orders after Adam’s was hopelessly compromised by indictment and bending a knee to the Trump admin.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...
Mamdani Revokes Executive Orders That Adams Signed to Support Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
They wanted Cuomo to win and now they want to make Mamdani a failure
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And we're live! Hear remarks from @MayorofSeattle Katie B. Wilson and members of the community during her inauguration ceremony.
View on Seattle Channel: seattlechannel.org/watch-live
Or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/NC98EIN...
View on Seattle Channel: seattlechannel.org/watch-live
Or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/NC98EIN...
January 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
And we're live! Hear remarks from @MayorofSeattle Katie B. Wilson and members of the community during her inauguration ceremony.
View on Seattle Channel: seattlechannel.org/watch-live
Or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/NC98EIN...
View on Seattle Channel: seattlechannel.org/watch-live
Or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/NC98EIN...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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This is the contemporary version of Aesop's Grasshopper and the Ant story.
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is the contemporary version of Aesop's Grasshopper and the Ant story.
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