Brett Hancock - PBTuft
@pbtuft.bsky.social
Really into fighting games, video games, melodic hardcore, horror movies, coffee, the Seahawks and football, and PUP.
PhD student, Technology Management, Fall 25.
Definitely trying, fuck MAGA/ICE. He/Him
PhD student, Technology Management, Fall 25.
Definitely trying, fuck MAGA/ICE. He/Him
Pinned
Not sure what the point of social media is anymore.
I'm trying to build my professional and education networks.
I work with infrastructure focused on networking, security, and DevOps.
I'm applying for a PhD program this year and hope to contribute something to this field/world beyond a paycheck.
I'm trying to build my professional and education networks.
I work with infrastructure focused on networking, security, and DevOps.
I'm applying for a PhD program this year and hope to contribute something to this field/world beyond a paycheck.
Sanders only became coach to get his kids exposure/drafted and to build his brand. That’s whatever but I thought that was pretty obvious. But all the “discourse” around Sanders play is the most shameless media engagement and rage baiting I think I’ve ever seen. Insane stuff, have some pride.
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sanders only became coach to get his kids exposure/drafted and to build his brand. That’s whatever but I thought that was pretty obvious. But all the “discourse” around Sanders play is the most shameless media engagement and rage baiting I think I’ve ever seen. Insane stuff, have some pride.
Coal miners and journalists with substacks should review scientific research papers. Capital idea Nate. Impossible to see a downside.
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Coal miners and journalists with substacks should review scientific research papers. Capital idea Nate. Impossible to see a downside.
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cannot even begin to describe my disgust
Trump plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence—literally on Independence Day, July 4— by hosting a cage fight between two men at the White House time.com/7309114/ufc-...
White House to Hold UFC Fight on U.S.'s 250th Birthday
The event will be the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House.
time.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
cannot even begin to describe my disgust
That Jacobin article about Dump's tariffs is an all timer. The old world, where people could kind of afford to buy groceries and got 90% more SNAP benefits, is dying. This is good actually. Do editors or standards not exist anymore?
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
That Jacobin article about Dump's tariffs is an all timer. The old world, where people could kind of afford to buy groceries and got 90% more SNAP benefits, is dying. This is good actually. Do editors or standards not exist anymore?
Given the "prowess" (derogatory) of most of the coordinators the Seahawks have rolled out since 2010, history has been very kind to John Schneiders role in crafting the Seahawks into one of the 5 best teams since 2010. I'll be surprised if we don't make a couple deep playoff runs in the next 5 years
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Given the "prowess" (derogatory) of most of the coordinators the Seahawks have rolled out since 2010, history has been very kind to John Schneiders role in crafting the Seahawks into one of the 5 best teams since 2010. I'll be surprised if we don't make a couple deep playoff runs in the next 5 years
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1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
Anytime you can trade your aging defensive back for an aging DB that is your newly minted 200m dollar star receiver's least favorite player you really have to do it. I don't know how the Steelers continue to avoid judgement for their 6 year run of getting smoked by 17 points in the playoffs.
June 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Anytime you can trade your aging defensive back for an aging DB that is your newly minted 200m dollar star receiver's least favorite player you really have to do it. I don't know how the Steelers continue to avoid judgement for their 6 year run of getting smoked by 17 points in the playoffs.
This aged very well.
June 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This aged very well.
What stage in Art of the Deal is pathetic begging?
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
What stage in Art of the Deal is pathetic begging?
Fuck the Thunder forever. Illegitimate sports franchise.
June 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Fuck the Thunder forever. Illegitimate sports franchise.
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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I started at around 30. You best BELIEVE that if I had the resources available now, when I was younger, I would have started much much earlier.
Gender-affirming care for trans youth IS LIFESAVING.
Make all the noise possible.
If they won’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep.
Gender-affirming care for trans youth IS LIFESAVING.
Make all the noise possible.
If they won’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep.
transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it
June 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I started at around 30. You best BELIEVE that if I had the resources available now, when I was younger, I would have started much much earlier.
Gender-affirming care for trans youth IS LIFESAVING.
Make all the noise possible.
If they won’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep.
Gender-affirming care for trans youth IS LIFESAVING.
Make all the noise possible.
If they won’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep.
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transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it
June 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it
Me explaining to my partner why I haven't made it out of pools every time I go to a fighting game tournament.
June 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Me explaining to my partner why I haven't made it out of pools every time I go to a fighting game tournament.
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fuck you, Gavin Newsom
KCRA: California has officially started using "biological girl" and "biological boy" to refer to cis and trans girls,in order to create a separate competition just for cis girls.
They're scared of Trump, even though Maine legally beat his threats easily.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
They're scared of Trump, even though Maine legally beat his threats easily.
www.kcra.com/article/cali...
California changes high school Track & Field championship rules amid Trump threats
As California continues to face threats from President Donald Trump's administration over state policies allowing trans athletes in girl's sports, the state organization that oversees high school spor...
www.kcra.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
fuck you, Gavin Newsom
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MotherJones [23 May 2025] -- More detail from Utah's GAC report: "Treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body
changes...[and] the treatments are safe in terms of bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer…"
changes...[and] the treatments are safe in terms of bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer…"
Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it
The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.
www.motherjones.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
MotherJones [23 May 2025] -- More detail from Utah's GAC report: "Treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body
changes...[and] the treatments are safe in terms of bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer…"
changes...[and] the treatments are safe in terms of bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer…"
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I’m losing a nontrivial amount of respect for people who are blaming the passage out of the House of the reconciliation bill on dead Democrats, and there are way more and way smarter people doing it than should be.
May 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m losing a nontrivial amount of respect for people who are blaming the passage out of the House of the reconciliation bill on dead Democrats, and there are way more and way smarter people doing it than should be.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
I can't believe this game is dead, why would I ever play this now, how could you do this to us?
Courtesy of fgcharts.com , this is just Steam.
If you like a game, play the game, learn and get better. There will always be other players in the FGC somewhere. If you have two people you have a scene.
Courtesy of fgcharts.com , this is just Steam.
If you like a game, play the game, learn and get better. There will always be other players in the FGC somewhere. If you have two people you have a scene.
May 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I can't believe this game is dead, why would I ever play this now, how could you do this to us?
Courtesy of fgcharts.com , this is just Steam.
If you like a game, play the game, learn and get better. There will always be other players in the FGC somewhere. If you have two people you have a scene.
Courtesy of fgcharts.com , this is just Steam.
If you like a game, play the game, learn and get better. There will always be other players in the FGC somewhere. If you have two people you have a scene.
Imagine being on the team that makes Madden Ultimate Team and being told you need to return to an office because making EA millions of dollars a day remotely somehow doesn't count as productivity.
May 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Imagine being on the team that makes Madden Ultimate Team and being told you need to return to an office because making EA millions of dollars a day remotely somehow doesn't count as productivity.
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Heart warming and a bit hilarious to see the idea of a safe community being discovered in real time by some people. “You mean you don’t think certain people should belong here based on what they think and say?” YES! It’s not Let’s Discuss With Nazi Punks and Maybe Ask Them To Reconsider.
May 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Heart warming and a bit hilarious to see the idea of a safe community being discovered in real time by some people. “You mean you don’t think certain people should belong here based on what they think and say?” YES! It’s not Let’s Discuss With Nazi Punks and Maybe Ask Them To Reconsider.
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I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
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every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
May 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
White people peaked with the discovery that Mexican Coke tastes better.
May 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
White people peaked with the discovery that Mexican Coke tastes better.