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Chris Shabsin

@cshabsin.bsky.social

Somerville, MA, USA parent of two Googler working on experiment infrastructure. Language hackery and IDE integration stuff feels a little like knitting thneeds, but at least it's fun

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Complaint – #1 in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Agriculture (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-13165) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Russell Vought, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, United States Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Filing fee: $ 405, receipt number AMADC-113243...

Aha there it is. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

28.10.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can someone bring a lawsuit? Who has standing?

27.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Trump Administration is choosing to let families go hungry even as grocery prices rise and millions struggle to afford food. The emergency funds exist to keep SNAP benefits going, but they’re refusing to act. It’s shameful and completely unacceptable.

26.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 7

This is what we get for laughing at the OceanGate Titan submersible. Now the whole country is in the submersible.

25.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whether it’s Bill Clinton letting a donor sleep in the Lincoln bedroom or Donald Trump completely demolishing the east wing of the White House, neither president showed proper respect for our nation’s most sacred building.

21.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1941    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 5

I smell a special edition. Low effort way to sell a second copy of the book!

20.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're still giving this rag your money or eyeballs, why?

19.10.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer.  Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders.  The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We"  The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

18.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6842    πŸ” 1562    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 155

It's up there now, I guess they saw this and fixed the glitch.

18.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other in front of an orange vehicle . Alt: Speed Buggy, a cartoon character who is an orange car, drives around and emotes wildly
16.10.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Gosh, look at that inflation. The fed better lower interest rates."

15.10.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

"Spiritual Attacks"

Thoughts and prayers work!

boingboing.net/2025/10/15/j...

15.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The most vicious violist jokes I ever heard were from a violist friend of mine. He loved them.

It gave me the sense that the viola had a special place in this hierarchy.

15.10.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/csha...

15.10.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump suggests he could move World Cup games out of Boston over β€˜unsafe conditions’ - The Boston Globe The president said that if he felt there were β€œunsafe conditions” in Boston, he would ask FIFA President Gianni Infantino to move games that are scheduled to be at Gillette Stadium.

Oh please sir don't throw us in the briar patch.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/n...

15.10.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh come on surely everyone can just be reasonable. /s

13.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oust Stephen Miller. Hire Stephen Wright.

12.10.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a good β€œthis is what twitter was for” thread was when someone pretty definitively and with evidence traced the etymology of β€œtriscuit” to β€œelectricity biscuit” because harnessable electricity was pretty new at the time and they were like futuristic crackers

12.10.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh god I don't want to have to look at nextdoor again. That place was a cesspool.

11.10.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do not ask for whom the turn down, it turn down for what

24.09.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's part of their plan to kill fentanyl sales.

22.09.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel like I have directly benefited from this policy in the past.

21.09.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.

I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.

Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

16.09.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1347    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 48
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How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

This pretty much sums it up
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

16.09.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Think of the guys Ben Wyatt worked with in Parks and Rec

16.09.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It has to be parody. It just has to be.

15.09.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like they shot him because he was pushing for the Epstein files to be released.

12.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

05.09.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8964    πŸ” 2048    πŸ’¬ 175    πŸ“Œ 96
05.09.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Ohio is overrun by more crime than DC yet 2,091 Guard members are in the capital. Meanwhile, D.C. residents feel so β€œsafe” they don’t even go out to eat anymore, crushing local sales. This isn’t about safety at all; it’s the government propaganda machine running in overdrive.

26.08.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 544    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

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