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Brian Bartky

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Technical writer living in west Ventura County. Cis/Ace he/him/his


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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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I saw my first one yesterday. And yea. It looked so much worse than I thought it would.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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A slightly better shot of the Falcon 9 contrail.

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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Falcon 9 contrail as seen from a parking lot in Camarillo, CA.

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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In the summer of ‘72 my dad took me and my brother to a party with his friends. He and his friends talked about the election and when the conversation turned to McGovern they all called him wishy-washy and indecisive. They had no love for Nixon but I bet a lot voted for him.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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It’s nice when somebody actually does the assigned reading

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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Chair of the AZ delegation to the RNC says she could work with an elections official who is “a good Christian man that believes what we believe” but that she would “lynch” a current election official in Maricopa County (who is a Republican and Jewish).

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Look at that same day service. In America, it takes 18-24 months at least.

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Justin Ling's avatar Justin Ling @justinling.bsky.social
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I realize this will probably have some unintended consequences, but I think every American should be forced to watch one hour of Newsmax per week to appreciate just how kooky things are getting.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I think deleting bad posts is a good practice even - especially - if the reason the post is bad is that people were misreading it plenty of times I have made what I thought was a clear joking post and enough people have reacted poorly that it’s on me for either being insensitive or unclear

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Again, nothing makes Greg Abbott happier than innocent people dying as a result of his party’s policies. You can practically hear the champagne popping.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Another beloved Bluesky character, the “then what” guy

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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One notable thing about these right wingers who claim to be great lovers and defenders of “western civilization” is how much they hate and fear the current practitioners of the arts and humanities.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Sexual assault and shot a gun at a woman. That's the Republican platform in a nutshell.

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rahaeli 's avatar rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
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Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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any business leader who hears this and thinks they’ll manage to survive what’s coming in a second term with their company and their job intact should be fired for gross incompetence

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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2 KNXT (now KCBS) 3 Unused but later used for my RF modulator on my Commodore 64 and 128 4 KNBC 5 KTLA (independent) 7 KABC 9 KHJ (independent, now KCAL) 11 KTTV (independent, now Fox) 13 KCOP (independent, showed Star Trek reruns) 28 KCET (PBS) And two UHF Spanish-language channels.

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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I’m on LinkedIn for work reasons and dealing with AI advocates there is like dealing with religious fanatics. Posts that are skeptical of AI and even jokes about AI get flooded with angry responses.

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David Marshall 's avatar David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social
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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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I’m trying to respond without spoiling anything but for me I feel fortunate that I saw FLAGS before I saw LETTERS. All I’ll say is the same thing happens in both movies but seen from different perspectives. However, having said that I would go with your gut feeling.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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one of the things it's important to remember about Trump is how driven by spite he is he will do this - and much, much worse - for no reason other than Fuck You, Joe, How Dare You Beat Me That One Time what happens to the people affected is entirely by the point, he could not care less

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Kris Kobach has been the pet lawyer of the eugenicist Tanton-Heritage network for decades. He's scum.

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Brian Bartky's avatar Brian Bartky @brianbartky.bsky.social
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Yea. My phone automatically forwards unknown numbers to voicemail. This works well for me except for job hunting. Six years ago, the last time I was in the job market, I didn’t have to do this. Fortunately, (most? some?) recruiters leave messages but I can’t tell if any didn’t.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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someone emailed me to yell at me for not being a good representative of the 16th Congressional District of New York, in response to an interview i gave on brian lehrer this morning. i told them that they were yelling at the wrong black person and they replied insisting that i am the right one!

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Excluding actual wars, Brexit is one of the greatest own-goals of all time. Britain and Europe had forged something their finest leaders and intellectuals considered an impossible dream: an alliance of shared prosperity. Then Britain tore it up in a fit of nativist dipshittery.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Hannah Arendt perfectly anticipates a profound truth about Trump, right-wing media, and the Republican Party 70 years before the fact.

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N. K. Jemisin's avatar N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social
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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

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Sarah Foxes Day 🖋️🦊's avatar Sarah Foxes Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org
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GOD DAMN YOU EA-NASIR

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I really cannot overemphasize how serious those of us who say this might be the last meaningful election are this will not be anything like his first term and they are deadly serious about eliminating any possible opposition to their theocracy inside or outside the government

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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In 1981 a proposed Reagan appointee named Warren Richardson was withdrawn after it was revealed that he was the general counsel for an organization run by a Neo-Nazi that published an antisemitic conspiracy rag entitled The Spotlight. Richardson next found work with...the Heritage Foundation.

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Interurban Era 's avatar Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social
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Both historically accurate and on point. A rare combo for the tired "Trolley Problem" gag.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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interesting to see the 1876 election and subsequent crisis referenced without any mention of the consequences for those americans on the wrong side of the settlement

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Never underestimate the power of a handful of ideologically committed people, backed by shit tons of reactionary wealth, to change the world.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC's avatar Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social
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The AP deleted this 10 seconds after posting probably the most debasing thing a news organization has posted in 8 years

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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a very important skill for Online is (if you are not directly affected) to be able to look at the day's discourse and go "no, absolutely the fuck not" and then not post about it

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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The coordinated attacks on misinformation researchers and academics who research power and propaganda are accelerating. It’s increasingly seen as dangerous to try and understand the reality of the systems being built around us and to remove our ability to know what truth is.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot's avatar Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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Iconic French singer Françoise Hardy dies aged 80

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Alex Kaplan's avatar Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social
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Update: After the publication of this article, the militia’s Instagram account was removed from the platform.

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