Rick Gillyon
@gillyon.com
Software engineer and analyst primarily in the NHS. Oracle, pl/sql, apex, js, forms. Geek, 💛 dogs, beer and metal. Ex-diver. 😭 Left-leaning, liberal, he/him.
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Rick Gillyon
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· Nov 30
Last day of #nudivember, so I'll squeeze in a last #nudibranch. This is probably my favourite nudi photo I ever took, on 2nd May 2018 at Sha'ab Maksour in the southern Red Sea. This is a long-tail ceratosoma in soft coral. 😍
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The Trump Administration claims the agents who shot Alex Pretti have been put on administrative leave, notwithstanding Greg Bovino’s prior short statement that they were simply reassigned.
There is no reason to credit this assertion as truthful.
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There is no reason to credit this assertion as truthful.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The Trump Administration claims the agents who shot Alex Pretti have been put on administrative leave, notwithstanding Greg Bovino’s prior short statement that they were simply reassigned.
There is no reason to credit this assertion as truthful.
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There is no reason to credit this assertion as truthful.
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It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement.
It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement.
It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.
It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement.
It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement.
It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement.
It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.
It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement.
It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.
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If nothing else today, I got USA Today to print my analogy of the significance of ICE administrative warrants.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:22 AM
If nothing else today, I got USA Today to print my analogy of the significance of ICE administrative warrants.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.
In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.
In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.
In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.
In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.
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So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
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I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
January 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
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Decent people are eager for ways to help and support their neighbors.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Decent people are eager for ways to help and support their neighbors.
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A battle over consent erupts between Jeffrey Epstein and fifteen-year-old child.
A battle over the truth erupts after deadly Minneapolis shooting
A battle over the truth erupts after deadly Minneapolis shooting
Federal and local leaders are sharply divided over what happened and who is to blame.
dlvr.it
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
A battle over consent erupts between Jeffrey Epstein and fifteen-year-old child.
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Maybe look over your shoulder and ask the conquistador to calm down.
oh my GOD
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Maybe look over your shoulder and ask the conquistador to calm down.
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People like Joel Berry are absolutely enraged right now. They perceive the rightness of the surge of anger against Trumpism and the decency and righteousness of people like Alex Pretti. They cannot endure those things, because they know they are petty, grubby, immoral, and sordid in comparison.
At 7:04 PM yesterday, Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry told his 164K followers that “If Trump doubles down, invokes the Insurrection Act, crushes these feral Communist riots, and arrests the leaders responsible, his popularity will go up 10 points.” 1/ x.com/joelwberry/s...
January 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM
People like Joel Berry are absolutely enraged right now. They perceive the rightness of the surge of anger against Trumpism and the decency and righteousness of people like Alex Pretti. They cannot endure those things, because they know they are petty, grubby, immoral, and sordid in comparison.
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/8 And as your fellow Americans — neighbors, colleagues, even family and friends — justify this and even celebrate it, that they would absolutely do the same if you were murdered — only thin circumstance prevents it. Treat and mistrust them accordingly.
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
/8 And as your fellow Americans — neighbors, colleagues, even family and friends — justify this and even celebrate it, that they would absolutely do the same if you were murdered — only thin circumstance prevents it. Treat and mistrust them accordingly.
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The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
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I’ve gotten requests from people who have loved ones who are protesting in cities being targeted by ICE, including Minnesota, Portland, etc. They’ve asked me for lawyer referrals in those cities. Wondering if there is a central clearinghouse of contacts. On the other hand very concerned…
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January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I’ve gotten requests from people who have loved ones who are protesting in cities being targeted by ICE, including Minnesota, Portland, etc. They’ve asked me for lawyer referrals in those cities. Wondering if there is a central clearinghouse of contacts. On the other hand very concerned…
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Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE
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Each of those things were *also* un-American.
Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights
Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Each of those things were *also* un-American.
Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights
Not because they weren't done by Americans, and by America, but because they were always contradictory to what America creedally claimed to be: the land where all men were created equal and endowed with inalienable rights
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Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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This week on Serious Trouble: good riddance to Lindsay Halligan, many ICE legal developments including criminal charges against church protestors, why does Hawaii still do alienation of affection?
www.serioustrouble.show/p/120-days
www.serioustrouble.show/p/120-days
120 Days
Dear Listeners:
www.serioustrouble.show
January 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This week on Serious Trouble: good riddance to Lindsay Halligan, many ICE legal developments including criminal charges against church protestors, why does Hawaii still do alienation of affection?
www.serioustrouble.show/p/120-days
www.serioustrouble.show/p/120-days
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January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
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This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net
Stephen Miller’s Assault on America’s Immigrant Legacy: Part I
The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families
www.theunpopulist.net
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net
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Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name
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A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.