I follow people I want to follow, I see only their posts in real time. Sad to say I can't get this basic interaction on most other social media platforms. So Bluesky is what you make of it and I'm fine with that much from a social media platform.

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections Read more here.

SCOOP: Months late, the DHS quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database that now allows it to be used as a “voter verification” tool that sidesteps federal privacy protections and makes it easier to remove voters from the rolls.

Sorry but it’s not even oppo research when you have a Nazi tattoo and you take your shirt off in public. That’s called excitedly showing everyone your Nazi tattoo

The image shows a scene from the television show peacemaker featuring peacemaker and Harcourt in an office. Peacemaker wearing a red and blue superhero costume and Harcourt with long blonde hair in a green jacket — are looking toward the background, where a shirtless man is digitally inserted, striking a dramatic pose with a totenkapf tattoo on his chest. Behind them is a painted mural depicting the U.S. Capitol building and a flag with a swastika symbol. Subtitles at the bottom read, “Oh, fuck. How’d I miss that?”

Bluesky today.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

the apple polishing cloth, folded over itself in a way that's elegant but also effortlessly casual

Confirmed: Apple's polishing cloth is compatible with the new M5 MacBook Pro

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Here’s last night’s story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just “Seinfeld territory.” youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

Soybean farmers who voted for Trump are upset after he gave a $20 billion bail out to Argentina, which helps them stay in business with China. So much for America first huh? 🐆💀

NFL announces schedule for 2025 International Games The National Football League today announced the schedule for the 2025 International Games that will be played across Europe in Dublin, Ireland; London, U.K.; Berlin, Germany; and Madrid, Spain.

Because like most rational businesses they want to expand and diversify out of one market, especially the US. www.nfl.com/news/nfl-ann...

*director’s cut*

(wait for the end)

Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker

No because they'll burn it all down for a quarterly increase in profits; the future is someone else's problem.

It was like NY paid Spike to make a tourist ad in 1998 and Spike finished it in 2012 forgot about it and sold it to Apple in 2025.

...I still kinda liked it.

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Joins Ted Cruz In Fucking Over Poor Rural School Kids Last year, the Biden FCC passed a new rule that would help bring Wi-Fi access to school kids who struggle to do their homework online. More specifically, the rule allowed schools to leverage the FC…

Over at Techdirt I wrote about how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr and Ted Cruz have joined forces to fuck over poor rural school kids:

a man in a judge 's robe wearing a pair of sunglasses Alt: Chief Justice Roberts pictured in full judicial garb - a pair of animated sunglasses are lowered onto his eyes.

This motherfucker is just going cave to Trump and say "Well presidents can fire the other members of the Fed just not the chair....so yeah still not a constitutional crisis."

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

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We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉

Said it would happen.

Even though Sony is diversifying away from China (for US bound shipments), it's still an important manufacturing center for Sony.

30% tariff on China, 15% tariff on Japan, 20% tariff on Vietnam, 19% tariff on Malaysia means Sony is impacted no matter what.

August 19, 2025 PA-2025-16 Policy Alert SUBJECT: Clarifying Discretionary Factors in Certain Immigration Benefit Requests Purpose U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers may consider in certain benefit requests where an exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations. Background For certain immigration benefit requests, such as adjustment of status, the alien bears the burden of proof to demonstrate that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted.1 For these benefit requests, the discretionary analysis is a separate component of adjudicating the benefit request which occurs after an officer determines whether all threshold eligibility requirements have been met. The act of exercising discretion involves weighing positive and negative factors and considering the totality of the circumstances in each case. There are various factors officers may consider when conducting a discretionary analysis, including facts relating to an alien’s conduct, character, family ties, immigration history, and any humanitarian concerns. USCIS guidance provides that an alien’s compliance with immigration laws is a relevant factor when determining if a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted. USCIS is updating the Policy Manual to provide additional guidance for officers on the significant negative discretionary weight USCIS assigns in circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused the views of a terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote anti-American ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic ideologies, in any case involving an exercise of discretion.2 In cases where the alien has engaged in such activities, USCIS will enforce all relevant …

NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

Does this also include a plan to keep upgrading my eyeballs so I can fully enjoy my 5k resolution?

Are they near a school zone cause that would be a federal crime wouldn’t it?

The Roaring Twenties, then and now

Here’s what happened after Texas Democrats left the state