Robert Dillman, 2nd of his name (he/they)
@puzzle-dad.bsky.social
Really is so much wonderful out there.
Pratchett (GNU), Cats, Earper, United Stars (Trek&Wars), BSG, OFMD, lots of MCU, games & puzzles... on and on
Librarian adjacent
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🏴
Oh - writing, reading, engineering, UU
And I have kids
Pratchett (GNU), Cats, Earper, United Stars (Trek&Wars), BSG, OFMD, lots of MCU, games & puzzles... on and on
Librarian adjacent
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🏴
Oh - writing, reading, engineering, UU
And I have kids
Pinned
"Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU)
As *gestures broadly* - fear is, rightfully, in the air.
Be a potato 🥔
Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU)
As *gestures broadly* - fear is, rightfully, in the air.
Be a potato 🥔
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December 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I am shadow-banned and was also banned-banned over Johnny Cash lyrics. If you like this new article, please share it before Bluesky nukes me for including a cross stitch I made of the movie "Die Hard". Thanks!
The answers to my reader Q & A are up! Topics covered include GOP crimes, Dem complicity, Ukraine, Epstein, the best Christmas movies, and much more! Read here:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Leaving the Party, Pal!
Your questions answered on Dem party failures, GOP crimes, Die Hard, and more!
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am shadow-banned and was also banned-banned over Johnny Cash lyrics. If you like this new article, please share it before Bluesky nukes me for including a cross stitch I made of the movie "Die Hard". Thanks!
Yep
"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yep
When you have a bunch of people standing around laughing with the racist fascist telling a "joke"
You got a room full of racist fascists.
Every
Fuckin
One
Of Them
You got a room full of racist fascists.
Every
Fuckin
One
Of Them
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
When you have a bunch of people standing around laughing with the racist fascist telling a "joke"
You got a room full of racist fascists.
Every
Fuckin
One
Of Them
You got a room full of racist fascists.
Every
Fuckin
One
Of Them
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I’m Proud Veteran, and I agree with this message
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’m Proud Veteran, and I agree with this message
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"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
Trump Ties to Russian Mob, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
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The Legend of Billy Jack - One Tin Soldier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGn...
One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack)
YouTube video by The Original Caste - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Legend of Billy Jack - One Tin Soldier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjGn...
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The last big student-run movement, the Democrats demonized and called antisemites and had the cops beat the shit out of them and the universities harass and expel them
And in 2020, the Democrats responded to the George Floyd protests by reaffirming their love of cops and funding for cops
And in 2020, the Democrats responded to the George Floyd protests by reaffirming their love of cops and funding for cops
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The last big student-run movement, the Democrats demonized and called antisemites and had the cops beat the shit out of them and the universities harass and expel them
And in 2020, the Democrats responded to the George Floyd protests by reaffirming their love of cops and funding for cops
And in 2020, the Democrats responded to the George Floyd protests by reaffirming their love of cops and funding for cops
This is too funny 🤣
"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."
I’m a Holiday Gift Guide Writer, and I Really Need You Pricks to Start Playing Backgammon
On the whole, I love my job writing holiday gift guides. I get to curate beautiful lists designed to help you, the consumer, bring joy to your love...
buff.ly
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is too funny 🤣
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just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Somehow this is the worst part.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Somehow this is the worst part.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
But women are too emotional to be leaders 🙃🙄 (says ... checks notes ... the NYTimes, over and over) 🤷
Here's yet another story elevating Trump's emotions--in this case the danger of incurring Trump's "wrath"--as the essence of the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Fed Pick Puts Pressure on Bessent to Deliver for Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
But women are too emotional to be leaders 🙃🙄 (says ... checks notes ... the NYTimes, over and over) 🤷
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With no disrespect to this program at all, once a certain strategy has been tested literally hundreds of times around the globe and delivered unambiguously positive results, shouldn't we stop calling it a pilot?
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
With no disrespect to this program at all, once a certain strategy has been tested literally hundreds of times around the globe and delivered unambiguously positive results, shouldn't we stop calling it a pilot?
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oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
Ahhh ... Cool content still with us
Great writeup from @startswithabang.bsky.social of an extraordinary hypothesis: the reason the two sides of the moon are so different might come down to tidal locking when the moon was still forming, and chemical gradients in the proto-lunar material due to radiant heat from the Earth!
The Moon's two faces don't match, and we think we know why
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 66 years later, we know why the Moon's faces are not alike.
bigthink.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ahhh ... Cool content still with us
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Corporate manslaughter charges considered by police investigating the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Nearly 1,000 postmasters wrongly prosecuted, lives and families destroyed.
Culprits will prolong cases, escape justice.
Govt must appoint a special court to speed up the process.
Nearly 1,000 postmasters wrongly prosecuted, lives and families destroyed.
Culprits will prolong cases, escape justice.
Govt must appoint a special court to speed up the process.
Post Office scandal: Police consider corporate manslaughter charges
The criminal investigation into the scandal, in which hundreds of postmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting via the Horizon software, has been expanded to include more "perso...
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Corporate manslaughter charges considered by police investigating the Post Office Horizon scandal.
Nearly 1,000 postmasters wrongly prosecuted, lives and families destroyed.
Culprits will prolong cases, escape justice.
Govt must appoint a special court to speed up the process.
Nearly 1,000 postmasters wrongly prosecuted, lives and families destroyed.
Culprits will prolong cases, escape justice.
Govt must appoint a special court to speed up the process.
Fuck me
(And all of us, frankly)
(And all of us, frankly)
Wired - While media reports suggest DOGE has fizzled, its affiliates are scattered across the federal government “burrowed like ticks,” working as developers, designers and even leading agencies in powerful roles. https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Fuck me
(And all of us, frankly)
(And all of us, frankly)
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Adulthood is realizing that you are probably the subject of at least one other person's "Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call"
Bleachers - Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by BleachersVEVO
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Adulthood is realizing that you are probably the subject of at least one other person's "Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call"
"Truth"
Like "M-sk is the most perfect physical specimen to ever live" - they kind of Grok truth?
(Groken-waarheid?)
Like "M-sk is the most perfect physical specimen to ever live" - they kind of Grok truth?
(Groken-waarheid?)
Hypocrisy Klaxon working overtime here. Musk says AI needs to focus on “Truth” rather than learning from the internet. And we see from Musk’s Grok that the definition of “Truth” is a pack of lies that doesn’t damage his fragile psychology.
He remains a threat in this field.
He remains a threat in this field.
Elon Musk lists his three most important ingredients for AI
"You can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren't true because it will lead to conclusions that are also bad," Elon Musk said.
www.cnbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Truth"
Like "M-sk is the most perfect physical specimen to ever live" - they kind of Grok truth?
(Groken-waarheid?)
Like "M-sk is the most perfect physical specimen to ever live" - they kind of Grok truth?
(Groken-waarheid?)
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Just
Fucking
Pay
Your
Taxes
FFS
Fucking
Pay
Your
Taxes
FFS
Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25bn to help fund ‘Trump Accounts’ for children on.ft.com/3M4TMjh
Michael and Susan Dell pledge $6.25bn to help fund ‘Trump Accounts’ for children
Contribution to new child investment accounts marks latest effort by US billionaires to support president’s programmes
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just
Fucking
Pay
Your
Taxes
FFS
Fucking
Pay
Your
Taxes
FFS