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Mark Riley
@wrylee.bsky.social
Retired technologist. Snowbird (WA<->AZ). So many projects!
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Ok folks it's been a while. Let's see if I remember how to do this. Everyone welcome the beautiful Miss Nanny to Seattle! This gorgeous girl is my new foster pup. She is super cuddly. Loves to give kisses and is one of the smartest dogs I've cared for.
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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a truly generational, sustained run for this account
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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It's impressive, in its way, to make cowardice not just part of your political identity, but ALL of it. When the book on Mike Johnson is written...it will molder in unopened cardboard boxes.
Mike Johnson refuses to comment on Trump’s post about Rob Reiner and runs away from reporters.
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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So much for that
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This is on brand for Laura Ingraham, who said last year “If you know Minnesota well, and I know it well — especially Milwaukee — it's changed.”
www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...
The best thing about American culture war exporters is their literal inability to find places outside the U.S on a map
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Another terrible poll for Trump, this time from AP-NORC. His overall job approval rating is 36-61. Among Independents, it's 20-74. He's incredibly unpopular with Independents on every major issue. On the economic, their job approval of him is 15-80.
apnorc.org/projects/tru...
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I was unaware, but apparently @alaskaairlines.bsky.social solved the problem of not paying flight attendants while on the ground by giving them the first and last hour of the flight off
December 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
Noem leaves the hearing and is heckled as she departs the room
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Close enough
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Tracks. Sadly.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of new House Democrats' AI commission announced by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.
The Democrats’ New AI Panel Is Led by Big Tech Allies
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.
readsludge.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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This seems rather, uh, dictatorial.

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives wanted devolution and the return of power to states.
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Bookmarking this to use whenever Republicans tell me how much they care about the national debt
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Mike Johnson makes Kevin McCarthy look like Nancy Pelosi
Wow: 13 Republicans just joined all Democrats to force action on a plan from Rep. Jared Golden D-ME to nullify a Trump executive order that stripped labor rights from federal workers. “You don't see that kind of vote every day in the House.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ICE are thug scum.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Which part of America is he from?
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM