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Justin M

@justinmm2.bsky.social

Here for dogs, whisky, politics/protesting, M:TG, and urbanism. I also sometimes pair movies with whisky, and talk about them. 🏑: DC (Seeking employment! I'm an ex-Googler who does DevOps-y things, and knows Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments well)

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Again, the argument isn't "it can't happen here", it's "it will look different in ways we can't predict"

27.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think this was his argument; he explicitly says it's bad. I think the argument is that other places this has happened, like Hungary, are more like each other than the US; therefore the effects could be different in ways that he'd rather wait and see than attempt to predict the specifics of

27.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All three seasons went so hard

27.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rural purge - Wikipedia

The rural purge was 55 years ago, but it's come back for revenge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_p...

27.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weird how searching this article for 'constutition[al]' or 'legal[ity]' returns zero results

22.02.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The next John Carpenter is out there somewhere, today!

(Also these movies are such a blind spot for me; I can't wait to give them a go at some point. I finally checked off The Thing recently, much helped by dating a Film Gal!)

21.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is not in my classroom, it’s not in my job, it’s not in my group chat, and I wish it weren’t in my neighborhood. It’s not inevitable, it’s not everywhere, and so many of us don’t want it anywhere. This isn’t a wave you want to surf, DCPL, and it’s not negligent if you don’t embrace/promote it

21.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's hope it's not a Kinsley gaffe. The thing is: even if it doesn't come back in the form of checks or something, it's still *our* money in the treasury, whether it's used for schools, roads, paying down debt, reducing taxes, etc.

20.02.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder how much of it has already (illegally) been spent on things not authorized by the Congress, like the East Wing/Ballroom, the Board of Peace, etc...

20.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week β€” the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

18.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2097    πŸ” 1036    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 86

Use the iPhone app?

17.02.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(So dumb, but Charles Dance rules as a ham, and it’s a great demo for a surround sound system)

15.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of what @joevuk.bsky.social said. I really enjoyed Shin Godzilla, but Minus One I think is considered the best. The American ones are popcorn flicks; I didn’t care for the original (remake) like the critics did. But King of the Monsters is the awful, campy, stupid kaiju fuckfest of my dreams

15.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right; did all the "white" Super Bowl shows erase the Black ones?

12.02.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We - the US - are literally, without exaggeration, building concentration camps. Fight this every way you can. Some suggestions are at the end of this article!

11.02.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I ran into Jeanne Pirro eating at a sidewalk cafe a block from my house a few months ago. I immediately ran home, found a sheet of posterboard, wrote a pretty stupid message on it, and literally marched up and down the sidewalk by myself (called friends, but no one could make it). I'm doing my part!

06.02.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its wordβ€”with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposesβ€”no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

06.02.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3550    πŸ” 1289    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 43

I went on a (first) date years (decades?) ago and towards the end she said "It doesn't feel like you're trying to sleep with me. Did you want to sleep with me?" Apparently she was confused, it wasn't her norm πŸ’…

06.02.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they want to use that argument for Ada, surely it applies to Asimov, too?

06.02.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Right; VP is a separate election

05.02.2026 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I started dating someone wonderful in September. We share a love of Heated Rivalry, Cynar, and Chartreuse. I have a very small apartment, but wanted to give her some (more) space all her own over here..

04.02.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Be nicer if there was a switch to turn them on. Why do they think we want these things by default?

02.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something β€œbetter.”

02.02.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6508    πŸ” 2324    πŸ’¬ 364    πŸ“Œ 137

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

30.01.2026 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7226    πŸ” 2249    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 65

micro-target zoomer voters with this clip

29.01.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1193    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

29.01.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6480    πŸ” 1638    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 36

Oil proceeds are going into a private account in Qatar that US Treasury cannot block. The entire arrangement is grotesquely illegal and corrupt. Rubio's answers are dissembling. And we can't seemingly even get intelligent questions for him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

28.01.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2284    πŸ” 880    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 36

I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan

24.01.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1745    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 4

I know we're all pretty tuned in on bsky, but either a bunch of US senators and reps are seeing these videos and not acting it's like a five-alarm fire, or they live in some entirely different news ecosystem where the most critical things pass them by, and just... wtf.

24.01.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I killed the last of a bottle of Balvenie 15 (bourbon cask) earlier, and capped the night off with just a splash of a Four Roses Single Barrel!

22.01.2026 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0