Derek Arnold
@darnold0714.bsky.social
he/him, Black, dad, husband, Ohioan. math, hardware/software (esp. F/LOSS), music, 1x Jeopardy! loser, helping others improve; also @[email protected]
DHS is out here talking about how they don’t pepper spray kids.
I wish I could say the same about certain departments in my county…
fox8.com/news/attorne...
I wish I could say the same about certain departments in my county…
fox8.com/news/attorne...
fox8.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
DHS is out here talking about how they don’t pepper spray kids.
I wish I could say the same about certain departments in my county…
fox8.com/news/attorne...
I wish I could say the same about certain departments in my county…
fox8.com/news/attorne...
Another reason I don’t mess with them. I’m not mad at the drivers…do what y’all gotta do but the tech bros running that ish, *redacted* all the *redacted*
This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Another reason I don’t mess with them. I’m not mad at the drivers…do what y’all gotta do but the tech bros running that ish, *redacted* all the *redacted*
I know that I am comfortably in unc status but also I am young enough to have spent my whole adult life having had an Internet presence. Even if ai am not hip to something, I know how to dig around and find it via search fu and observing context. Some ish isn’t for me to get and that’s cool too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I know that I am comfortably in unc status but also I am young enough to have spent my whole adult life having had an Internet presence. Even if ai am not hip to something, I know how to dig around and find it via search fu and observing context. Some ish isn’t for me to get and that’s cool too.
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10 years ago : blockchain is the future of banking. if you don't understand you're an idiot
5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg
Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg
Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
10 years ago : blockchain is the future of banking. if you don't understand you're an idiot
5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg
Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg
Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
I wouldn’t trust anything that sentient penis (Sen. Scott) says about health care.
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I wouldn’t trust anything that sentient penis (Sen. Scott) says about health care.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality
A 2600 dollar premium, 12k deductible AND co-pays?!
What the entire fuck?!
What the entire fuck?!
Paying $2600 a month and still having a $12k deductible is going to create more Luigi's.
Because many struggle with math…
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A 2600 dollar premium, 12k deductible AND co-pays?!
What the entire fuck?!
What the entire fuck?!
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EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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Throughout this entire Republican shutdown, Trump has taken every opportunity to disrespect and threaten hardworking federal workers — many of whom are showing up without pay.
The truly patriotic thing to do would be to save health care and protect workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The truly patriotic thing to do would be to save health care and protect workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
The president “wouldn’t last five minutes as an air traffic controller,” Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Throughout this entire Republican shutdown, Trump has taken every opportunity to disrespect and threaten hardworking federal workers — many of whom are showing up without pay.
The truly patriotic thing to do would be to save health care and protect workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The truly patriotic thing to do would be to save health care and protect workers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Oh look, they are doing exactly what we said they would in 2016 and what they laid out in #Project2025
This is the longest and most unsatisfying "I told you so" of my life.
This is the longest and most unsatisfying "I told you so" of my life.
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.
DNA Pioneer James Watson Loses Honorary Titles Over Racist Comments
The renowned scientist has a long history of controversial commentary on not only race, but issues spanning gender, religion and sexuality
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I mean, even Smithsonian Magazine even highlighted how horrible he was.
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The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...
wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...
Logan Hosts Food Bank For TSA Workers Amid Longest U.S. Government Shutdown | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
WBZ NewsRadio is the home of Traffic and Weather Together on the 3s. Breaking news when it happens. Boston's source for local news. Listen on your radio at 1030AM in Boston or take us anywhere with th...
wbznewsradio.iheart.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day
wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...
wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...
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There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous
After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...
www.propublica.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.”
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
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Everyone working for them for free is the utopian dream of the clique of pinwheel-eyed hyper-wealthy degenerates who seized control of the government 2024.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Everyone working for them for free is the utopian dream of the clique of pinwheel-eyed hyper-wealthy degenerates who seized control of the government 2024.
Well, you Winsome, you lose some…:-D
HUGE. Important first result tonight. Decision Desk has called Virginia governor for Spanberger. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Well, you Winsome, you lose some…:-D
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Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.
And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to
And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.
And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to
And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to
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I’m sure there are many horror stories about sudden spikes in premium rates. This was totally avoidable and exactly why Democrats drew a hard line.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’m sure there are many horror stories about sudden spikes in premium rates. This was totally avoidable and exactly why Democrats drew a hard line.
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Yes. Yes, you can.
November 4th, 1977.
Them: “You can’t hear a picture.”
Fans of a certain age:
Them: “You can’t hear a picture.”
Fans of a certain age:
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yes. Yes, you can.
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”