Luke Kanies
@lkanies.bsky.social
Founder of Puppet. I helped create DevOps. Writing at https://lukekanies.com/.
Gonna have to donate to her just for this
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Gonna have to donate to her just for this
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The trick to be taken seriously is to act seriously, something the election deniers don't seem to be capable of doing.
I’ll take these theories seriously when the advocates of them submit papers to legitimate, refereed journals and propose actual, as opposed to handwavy pie in the sky, mechanisms of action.
For now I’m with election security experts like @mattblaze.org who hasn’t seen anything close to reasonable.
For now I’m with election security experts like @mattblaze.org who hasn’t seen anything close to reasonable.
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The trick to be taken seriously is to act seriously, something the election deniers don't seem to be capable of doing.
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The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
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China hit 25% electric trucking for haulage… rapidly.
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
China hit 25% electric trucking for haulage… rapidly.
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
That’s a huge deal & essentially tells you what’s in store for everyone else. This will force a change in large trucking manufacturers around the world & impact the price of diesel.
We live in interesting times.
@everythingelectric.bsky.social
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my kid got sick and then so did I: a parenting story
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
my kid got sick and then so did I: a parenting story
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1. Dems pick Newsom or Kelly despite all the warnings from Black folk.
2. Dem primary winner says "Be more normal! Abandon trans folk + immigrants! More cops!"🤡
3. Lots of would-be Dem voters sit out. Again.
4. Dems lose to Vance or someone else Thiel approved.
5. Dems blame Black folk. Again.
2. Dem primary winner says "Be more normal! Abandon trans folk + immigrants! More cops!"🤡
3. Lots of would-be Dem voters sit out. Again.
4. Dems lose to Vance or someone else Thiel approved.
5. Dems blame Black folk. Again.
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
1. Dems pick Newsom or Kelly despite all the warnings from Black folk.
2. Dem primary winner says "Be more normal! Abandon trans folk + immigrants! More cops!"🤡
3. Lots of would-be Dem voters sit out. Again.
4. Dems lose to Vance or someone else Thiel approved.
5. Dems blame Black folk. Again.
2. Dem primary winner says "Be more normal! Abandon trans folk + immigrants! More cops!"🤡
3. Lots of would-be Dem voters sit out. Again.
4. Dems lose to Vance or someone else Thiel approved.
5. Dems blame Black folk. Again.
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Racism costs them money. They pay to do this. 🤷🏿♂️
Now they're facing RICO charges? Was it worth it?
Now they're facing RICO charges? Was it worth it?
December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Racism costs them money. They pay to do this. 🤷🏿♂️
Now they're facing RICO charges? Was it worth it?
Now they're facing RICO charges? Was it worth it?
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He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
I did not know of this holiday, and wish that were still true.
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I did not know of this holiday, and wish that were still true.
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And yes, banning masks and reducing vaccines happened *before* RFK jr took over, so don't try to blame it all on him. And Dems backed mask ban legislation too.
Banning masks was part of the whole "This will make life slightly harder for Black people," that is so irresistible to Dems and GOP alike.
Banning masks was part of the whole "This will make life slightly harder for Black people," that is so irresistible to Dems and GOP alike.
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
And yes, banning masks and reducing vaccines happened *before* RFK jr took over, so don't try to blame it all on him. And Dems backed mask ban legislation too.
Banning masks was part of the whole "This will make life slightly harder for Black people," that is so irresistible to Dems and GOP alike.
Banning masks was part of the whole "This will make life slightly harder for Black people," that is so irresistible to Dems and GOP alike.
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When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
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A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff.
But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days.
WTH?
Tonight...
But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days.
WTH?
Tonight...
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A U.S. soldier was executed on the streets of the U.S. capital, yet the flags remain at full-staff.
But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days.
WTH?
Tonight...
But when a hate-peddling podcaster was killed, the flags were lowered to half-staff within hours—and stayed that way for days.
WTH?
Tonight...
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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“Cancelled” means, “because the public finds their actions so awful or inappropriate companies choose not to commission product from them”.
That’s literally it. Said something profoundly racist? Customers don’t want to buy your product. Now you’re “cancelled”.
That’s literally it. Said something profoundly racist? Customers don’t want to buy your product. Now you’re “cancelled”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“Cancelled” means, “because the public finds their actions so awful or inappropriate companies choose not to commission product from them”.
That’s literally it. Said something profoundly racist? Customers don’t want to buy your product. Now you’re “cancelled”.
That’s literally it. Said something profoundly racist? Customers don’t want to buy your product. Now you’re “cancelled”.
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I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so few workers in place that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
Now it just seems layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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#BlackFridayParking at Bellevue One in Nashville. Supposedly the one day a year that the shops would need all this mandated parking, and it's still massively overbuilt.
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
#BlackFridayParking at Bellevue One in Nashville. Supposedly the one day a year that the shops would need all this mandated parking, and it's still massively overbuilt.
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August 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... Wow, this really does such a great job breaking down "The Poverty Line" and the reason we're all working more to have less spending money.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... Wow, this really does such a great job breaking down "The Poverty Line" and the reason we're all working more to have less spending money.
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
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Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...