QA Bandit
@qa-bandit.bsky.social
Product of circumstance. Deranged since late childhood
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I propose putting fire support on an open market where each unit can out-bid their comrades in order to receive supply-constrained artillery and air strikes. This will solve the 155mm problem
Bro okay look dude bro hear me out, okay. Get this. We supply munitions on like a subscription basis.
December 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I propose putting fire support on an open market where each unit can out-bid their comrades in order to receive supply-constrained artillery and air strikes. This will solve the 155mm problem
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A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.
Striking that opponents of automated enforcement so often cite something easily fixed in policy design as a reason to reject the whole idea. For example fretting that local governments will use ATE as a money-printing machine when you can just stipulate the revenue go to specific purposes.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A lot of people think basically all traffic laws are a fundamentally illegitimate pretext to harass and fine motorists at random, rather than regulations designed to prevent injury and death.
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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
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All video games should be sequels to Lego Island. The Brickster comes back every time to wreak havoc. Bill Ding is constantly telling you how to make shit. And we can finally solve the mystery of whether The Infomaniac has wings or sideburns on the side of his face
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
All video games should be sequels to Lego Island. The Brickster comes back every time to wreak havoc. Bill Ding is constantly telling you how to make shit. And we can finally solve the mystery of whether The Infomaniac has wings or sideburns on the side of his face
Photo-realistic painting lost its celebrated status with the invention of the photograph, but a flame still burns for photo-realistic paintings of things that cannot be photographed. Like twink Theseus getting obliterated by the Minotaur.
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Photo-realistic painting lost its celebrated status with the invention of the photograph, but a flame still burns for photo-realistic paintings of things that cannot be photographed. Like twink Theseus getting obliterated by the Minotaur.
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
Better to have worked on changing the primary gods of the civil religion than to de-white-ify the founding fathers. A musical about the war against slavery?
The American pantheon is host to more than just our founders, Lincoln is on Rushmore! So if you want to make the civil religion for all...
The American pantheon is host to more than just our founders, Lincoln is on Rushmore! So if you want to make the civil religion for all...
Recasting the "Founding Fathers" (in all senses of the word) as marginalized identities felt, paradoxically, like it was trying to put a new coat of whitewash on many of the figures in question by saying, effectively, they can stand in as Representation for everybody. And I'm just not sure they can.
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Better to have worked on changing the primary gods of the civil religion than to de-white-ify the founding fathers. A musical about the war against slavery?
The American pantheon is host to more than just our founders, Lincoln is on Rushmore! So if you want to make the civil religion for all...
The American pantheon is host to more than just our founders, Lincoln is on Rushmore! So if you want to make the civil religion for all...
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When he dies we go full damnatio memoriae
Official records will show the presidency was vacant
Official records will show the presidency was vacant
Here's what some of the new National Park Service passes will look like, starting Jan 1
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When he dies we go full damnatio memoriae
Official records will show the presidency was vacant
Official records will show the presidency was vacant
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“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”
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This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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Bluesky has felt sleepy for a while now. I want to encourage everyone to post more. Text is fine, but you know what? People enjoy damn near any picture of something neat. Food, your bike, a cat, whatever. Also, liking is nice, but reposting is what actually helps exposure.
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Bluesky has felt sleepy for a while now. I want to encourage everyone to post more. Text is fine, but you know what? People enjoy damn near any picture of something neat. Food, your bike, a cat, whatever. Also, liking is nice, but reposting is what actually helps exposure.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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Hi, my friend, comedian and creator of this meme passed away. To honor her memory, if you ever share this goofy ass meme, please credit Tiana Miller, most people never did. Pour one out for a legendary shitposter, people 🌈
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hi, my friend, comedian and creator of this meme passed away. To honor her memory, if you ever share this goofy ass meme, please credit Tiana Miller, most people never did. Pour one out for a legendary shitposter, people 🌈
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i don't want to win a unifying 70-30.
i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.
i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.
I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
December 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
i don't want to win a unifying 70-30.
i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.
i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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the actual milheads in the audience can correct me if i'm wrong, but it really does feel like the M7 project is a result of terminal GWOT brain. like ian says, if some guy opens up on you from 800m, the answer isn't the M7, the answer is combined arms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
Why the M7 and 6.8x51mm are Bad Ideas: Welcome to my TED Talk
YouTube video by Forgotten Weapons
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
the actual milheads in the audience can correct me if i'm wrong, but it really does feel like the M7 project is a result of terminal GWOT brain. like ian says, if some guy opens up on you from 800m, the answer isn't the M7, the answer is combined arms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
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By any measure I'm aware of, Democrats represent the cultural baseline and Republicans the deviation, a fact which angers Republicans to no end and any ambitious Democrat should trumpet at every opportunity.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
By any measure I'm aware of, Democrats represent the cultural baseline and Republicans the deviation, a fact which angers Republicans to no end and any ambitious Democrat should trumpet at every opportunity.
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
You don't get to feel the magic anymore, but you do get to cast the spell
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You don't get to feel the magic anymore, but you do get to cast the spell
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can't even call your book character dick and fanny anymore, because of woke
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
can't even call your book character dick and fanny anymore, because of woke