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If you’re anti-ICE but not anti-cop you are missing the whole entire point.
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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I refuse to call it vibe coding, but I prompted my way to a command line tool, written in C, that converts millimeters to inches and vice versa. A few prompts later, I got something that works, and a man page with usage examples. 🤯

I usually can't find the time to create man pages or remember how.
January 13, 2026 at 11:18 PM
lol don't take advice from your enemies
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
January 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
NEVER say "thank you" in an email, it only invites a "you're welcome", deepening the catastrophe
January 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
"These days "a terrorist" is just somebody with a Republican bullet in them or somebody a Republican would like to put a bullet into"
This weekend, I wrote about the state murder of Renee Good, and the fascist claim that her murderer enjoys absolute immunity, and a common-sense reversal of qualified immunity that protects civilians from authorities, rather than the other way around.

www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
www.the-reframe.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
It's astonishing to me that this was shot in 2024
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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The way we beat them is by doing what we're doing: making their jobs impossible through relentless, peaceful observation. Make noise. Honk your horn. Blow whistles. Shout at them. Tell everyone where they are. They have no tools to deal with that, at scale.
January 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Ugh Monday, another day of work at Success Club as a waiter, I shouldn't have hated on all these customers why did I take this job
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
All you fascists bound to lose
Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Josh Shapiro sucks, doesn't he? Coming to that realization.
January 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
[TWICE lead singer]: I know you wanna move a little closer
[One hundred and thirty seven TWICE background singers]: OH COOL
I feel like this korean/japnese girl groups get a little absurd when they have like 6+ members. Surely you can not meaningfully interact as a fan with the members of a musical group with enough members to assault a machine gun nest.
January 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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A very absurd existence to alternate between "women are latent terrorists and it's good when they get murdered" and "why won't women date young conservative men"
January 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
God, they can not be normal with her can they?
Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show

AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show.

FP: That’s not true

AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.
January 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.
January 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Anyway without giving anything away, the guy I know who just joined ICE was

* Rejected by a pro hockey team
* Rejected by the USMC
* Briefly a cop
* Eagerly accepted by ICE

They love these guys - violent, red-pilled losers. It's who they're hoping to recruit.
Even these guys are falling back to the training angle but again, these guys joined up because the poster said "Defend The Homeland" and the guy in the poster had a tac vest and a gun bsky.app/profile/john...
This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training.

This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One.

I think they know this is bad. Really bad.
January 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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nothing has come close to surpassing the slut gnomes of false Berlin
May 30, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Frontloading the token budget has been a big win for me:

* spec agent => Sonnet => `SPECIFICATION.md`
* research agent => Opus => `RESEARCH.md`
* planning agent => Opus => `PLAN.md`
* implementation prompt => Sonnet or Haiku => code

You can get away with using cheaper models if the plan is clear
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Rewatching "House Of Dynamite" a movie about what if everyone is the wrong person for their job
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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SEALs is less "inter-service" as it is "everyone else regardless of SOF, non-SOF, Army/AF/Marines/Navy, whatever" fucking hates the SEALs specifically
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
"Disco Sucks" was proto-MAGA
The same novelty country act that produced 1979's "Disco Sucks" also released a song the same year calling for exterminating Arabs with neutron bombs to lower gas prices. It doesn't have to make economic sense for the Venezuela attack to be about oil- oil has never just been about oil, for America
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Something I wish more people understood about software (and this isn't a post about bsky but it isn't not a post about bsky) is that nothing comes for free, or even cheap. When you decide to build something, you're also deciding which among a list of other things you're not going to build.
January 6, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Oh look it's the first Monday of the new year, time for all the dipshits to redirect blame for their failures over the holiday break.
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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even my favored structural reforms are just finding ways to brute force a less destructive republican party, whether that is ending as much as possible the electoral bonus for representing rural areas or making multi-partyism more viable.
January 5, 2026 at 12:04 AM