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@hoptimusprime.bsky.social

Software engineer. Freedom and lasers are the right of all sentient beings. Takes on politics, tech, culture. Quality is job 9.

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they sold like 5M of these things, just amazing

09.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dude has nearly 100% name recognition, a world class mind, and can converse deeply and authentically about faith and policy

09.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

its a real shame that we're not a massive country with an entire swath of it that is politically friendly to the president AND literally referred to as "The Saudi Arabia of Wind", oh well, fossil fuels for us I guess

09.03.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

man, i had such high hopes for him, and I thought at first that his occasionally weird policy hangups were just a side effect of his personality, and now I think they're a side effect of his idiocy

09.03.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

listen, its fine, America is blessed with the greatest potential for wind and solar power that the world has ever known, and most of it will be in places that are politically friendly even to our insane and stupid president, so there's no way he can say no to hang on what's that now

09.03.2026 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WTI crude pricing has that dawg in it (deragatory)

09.03.2026 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump 2.0 is just going to be a revolving series of special guest star co-Presidents while his frontal lobe rots, isn't it

09.03.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lindsey feels in charge here.

09.03.2026 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s speaker Jeffries by June if they cannot get this under control.

09.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gotta love that even the promo from bari's house of whimsy refuses to call him secretary of war

08.03.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WELCOME TO THE BUNGLE TRUMP'S GOT FUN AND GAMES

08.03.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this rate, Mike Johnson should be worried that he won't be speaker in June, let alone November.

08.03.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You'd have mass defections in the House. Johnson loses his job and his next two years turns into getting impeached over and over again.

08.03.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If average gas prices go north of $5, Mike Johnson won't be speaker in June, let alone November.

08.03.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Was everyone who said 'Orange Man Bad' correct? As it turns out, yes."

08.03.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

or more specifically NFL officiating, but really, it could apply to the entire enterprise

08.03.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the NFL, hands down

08.03.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's impressive at the number of fellow journalists that have come out in response to this and said basically "yeah, jake's a fucking clown"

08.03.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

trump has already redefined total victory by what he's already achieved - he's already categorizing any failures in rebuilding as the fault of the Iranians - but that is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is, and like smarter folks have said, the other side gets a turn too

08.03.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

07.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5707    πŸ” 1942    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 70

"Shield of the Americas" is *absolutely* an organization that employs a fitness consigliere

08.03.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is what happens when every graphic designer and a shit ton of AI developers fucking hate your guts

08.03.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

you know what the troops really like? not being marched off to war in iran so that a sociopathic asshole accused credibly of sexual assault can distract people from the investigation of said sex crimes and his terrible economic record

08.03.2026 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dear god fuck you jake

08.03.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ok right but the Lion King, one of the most successful animated movies in the last 40 years, is about making your own family if the family you have sucks, which seems relevant here

08.03.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

literally the best thing this particular site could do is to hire someone over the age of 35 and empower them to make decisions and interact with people

08.03.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my $0.02: a *ton* of this problem is because many of the boosters of this technology are either post-scarcity wealthy or under the age of 30 or both, and have no one besides themselves that is actually relying on their continued employment

08.03.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

this is perilously close to qualifying as a chemical weapons attack on civilians, which should earn you a one way trip to The Hague

08.03.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I mean come on!

08.03.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 501    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 27

ok but does he realize that a trump presidency that does fucking nothing is vastly more popular and preferred by democrats than a trump presidency that does anything

08.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0