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Colin Dean

@cad.cx.bsky.social

Scholar, bon vivant, champion of the oppressed. Software engineer. Community builder. Dogfather. My words are mine. https://cad.cx | https://mastodon.social/@colindean

110 Followers  |  92 Following  |  103 Posts  |  Joined: 17.05.2023  |  2.2051

Latest posts by cad.cx on Bluesky

Tom Cotton's home state, Arkansas, has Little Rock. Little Rock is the United States' 4th most violent city. It has a *much* higher crime rate than Washington, D.C. This is just the white supremacy talking.

11.08.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1647    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 21
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

usajobs.gov

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

07.08.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 28102    πŸ” 6237    πŸ’¬ 697    πŸ“Œ 309

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

09.08.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12061    πŸ” 2016    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 22

Valid.

Even constructive criticism requires timing.

09.08.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphonesβ€”and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

EFF is always so proud to represent security researchers doing important work. Our Coders' Rights Project often works with DEFCON presenters, and two of our clients are presenting today about schools, bathroom vape detectors, and audio recordings. www.wired.com/story/schoo...

09.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Today's a really good day to put @signal.org's app on your personal devices.

08.08.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

08.08.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2234    πŸ” 851    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 31

There's going to be a significant undercount anyway because by 2030, everyone will be so terrified from five years of disappearances and torture that they won't respond to the Census Bureau even if it tried to count them.

07.08.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The Mises Caucus was founded in 2017 in reaction to the Libertarian Party rejecting white supremacists after the Charlottesville murder of Heather Heyer.

It took them until 2022 to takeover the Libertarian National Committee.

They have been collapsing ever since and are very nearly insolvent.

06.08.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tonight Trump illegally stripped collective bargaining rights from 400,000 workers without telling the governments lawyers.

06.08.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 682    πŸ” 454    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 27
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The alpha title sequence for Transience! I've been so excited to share this! If folks could share this post and check out the discord (discord.gg/C8FpnRW7f5 ) I would be so appreciative. This is when I start community building in prep for the demo and the Kickstarter.
#indiegame #indiegame

06.08.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The deep state is real and it works for Donald Trump.

The FBI perverted privacy laws in furtherance of a coverup.

A THREAD.

04.08.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

All of you using LLMs to optimize your workflow

04.08.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 306    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit. When is the last time everyone in America agreed about something this much? Probably the American Revolution, I'm not even joking.

05.08.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Hey UPMC - not too late to be on the right side of history.

05.08.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

β€” said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
β€” has neo-Nazi ties
β€” was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
β€” 2x Claremont fellow
β€” wrote for Gateway Pundit
β€” called for Pence to be hanged
β€” called for secession after 2020 election

02.08.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2876    πŸ” 1304    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 126
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Purple Heart veteran Sae Joon Park was forced to self-deport after years of complying with ICE orders.
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@blumenthal.senate.gov & I wrote to Secretary Noem to denounce Mr. Park’s treatment and demand answers.

02.08.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

The funny thing is that sex crimes from prior to being president are exactly the kind of crimes that presidents aren’t immune from prosecution for, even under the ridiculous Supreme Court precedent on presidential immunity.

Wouldn’t that indictment be interesting…

02.08.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of the best things I've seen on the threatened gerrymander.

31.07.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 498    πŸ” 233    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

RFK said this during a health technology roundtable today.

He was seated at the same table as Amy Gleason, the alleged acting administrator of DOGE.

He likely misspoke or was confused β€” Trump had introduced Gleason as the acting administrator of DOGE minutes earlier

bsky.app/profile/anna...

30.07.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 322    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 5

A: "They're starting to resist more now."
B: "We're gonna end up shooting some of them."
A? (maybe C?): "Just remember you can smell that too with a $30,000 bonus."

my god dude fuck those guys

30.07.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 721    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

it must really be hard to own the Onion these days

30.07.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

29.07.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 887    πŸ” 462    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 69

You dont need a scholar of authoritarianism and the military like me to tell you this does not produce good outcomes

29.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1878    πŸ” 564    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 15

I am continuously frustrated and angered by how the Gadsden flag was co-opted. What it symbolizes changed.

28.07.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.

He went alone and beat the odds.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

27.07.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4236    πŸ” 804    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 55
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The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

26.07.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6848    πŸ” 1895    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 180

If you can't abandon a political leader after evidence that he was involved in sexually abusing children, you lack a moral center.

Unburdened by ethics, willing to support any scumbag who will use power how you prefer.

What a sad way to be.

26.07.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 580    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3
I think @LPNational
 should stop spending donor money to pay @BrianMcWilliams
 to post racist garbage.

If you agree, ask you LNC member to vote for me to fill one of the vacant LNC positions.

I think @LPNational should stop spending donor money to pay @BrianMcWilliams to post racist garbage. If you agree, ask you LNC member to vote for me to fill one of the vacant LNC positions.

Some things are happening in the Libertarian Party.

26.07.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there are so many things horrifying about the ice spending but i can't get past the obscene waste of resources. think what all this money could do to actually improve people's lives

25.07.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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