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Brandon Ly

@branddev.bsky.social

Software Engineer at MongoDB, Occasional reader, and whatever else I feel like defining myself today. Organizer at @takedemocracyback.org

251 Followers  |  772 Following  |  224 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  1.7661

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People like Trump and Musk are deeply miserable people. Nothing in the world can give them what any human truly needs: meaningful, loving connections with others. Keep that in mind. These people are constructs of deep pathology that makes them weak. We can, and will, overcome these obstacles.

16.04.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's more than just okay to take care of yourself during these trying times, it's a necessity. Please, everyone! Do your best to try to laugh and enjoy life so that you have the fortitude and resilience to stand up when the time calls.

16.04.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something I've been doing is focusing on self care. I've been in a dark place these last few weeks, and I've recognized the need to get my mind in the right place. Self care is incredibly important. We can't resist and stand up to autocracy if our mind and body is in shambles.

16.04.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

... How we come together, and how we get our democracy back is yet unwritten, but let's all begin working together to take democracy back @takedemocracyback.org

16.04.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... only if we come together. Vague, I know, but I think it's an important point. We have to remind ourselves that Trump and his ilk want us to feel nothing but despair. They fear us more than anything coming together and taking action. If that's what they fear, then that is what we must do...

16.04.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

With all of the horrible news swirling around us constantly, we must remember that this crisis presents an opportunity. This presents an opportunity to come together as individuals, and recognize what matters to us as a society. I believe we can and will overcome this great challenge...

16.04.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œELON vs. RFK Jr.” (James Adomian and Anthony Atamanuik at SXSW 2025)
YouTube video by James Adomian β€œELON vs. RFK Jr.” (James Adomian and Anthony Atamanuik at SXSW 2025)

Quite possibly the funniest skit ever conceived

09.04.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers
futurism.com/elon-musk-ra...

08.04.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1927    πŸ” 377    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 119
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...dismantling of the federal government. It could be an opportunity to get regular, everyday citizens more involved in their local communities, and to be more involved in politics. I don't have any fleshed out ideas at the moment, but I've been doing research on the topic.

07.04.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something I've been looking into is building tooling for mutual aid groups. These wouldn't be government organizations, but rather grassroots groups to provide aid/help locally. Not sure if this is something of interest to you, but it's something I've been exploring due to the current...

07.04.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Learning From the Legacy of 18F Although the government has terminated 18Fβ€”the team that modernized government techβ€”its legacy offers lessons for future digital services.

18F was a US government group helping government departments improve their use of technology which got recently wood-chipped. Here's a good overview of their work plus lessons learned: which apply to any large organization.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lear...

07.04.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 486    πŸ” 142    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5

This man is so cartoonishly inept, incompetent, and outright fucking stupid. I simply cannot fathom how people can see this and think literally anything else.

04.04.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I shudder at the thought of that people who’ll need their faces punched. I’m exhausted just thinking about it

03.04.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attorney General Pam Bondi says Justice Department is seeking a *20 year* prison sentence for 24 year old Colorado man accused of vandalizing a Tesla dealership

31.03.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3273    πŸ” 847    πŸ’¬ 1625    πŸ“Œ 920
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Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?

28.03.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 10193    πŸ” 1323    πŸ’¬ 6857    πŸ“Œ 5449

Ignore these clowns. I believe we all now have to come together and organize if we want a chance out of this hell that we’re careening to.

How that looks exactly, I’m not sure, but it’s how I think we should start framing the conversation

28.03.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every workout of stretch at home turns into a petting session

28.03.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fire, aim, READY

27.03.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#GoldenAgeOfAmerica πŸ₯‡

27.03.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 16946    πŸ” 4028    πŸ’¬ 713    πŸ“Œ 474
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WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. πŸ”₯

25.03.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5057    πŸ” 2197    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 247

Honestly, I couldn’t agree more. I’m a Zillennial dude, and so many guys my age just float by gaming and gambling on sports. They couldn’t care less about the world around them. No responsibility, no desire to grow up.

25.03.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

They're going to war with the American people

23.03.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm getting into the business of creating loan-backed securities with Crypto and sports gambling debt. It's the only thing that makes sense to do now.

23.03.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Business Being Business on Instagram: "Elon Musk’s Latest Innovation: The Fork-Spoon Olympics! πŸ˜‚ β€œWhile Trump debates eating the whole plate, Elon is out here redefining physicsβ€”one utensil at a time... 604 likes, 4 comments - businessbeingbusiness on March 23, 2025: "Elon Musk’s Latest Innovation: The Fork-Spoon Olympics! πŸ˜‚ β€œWhile Trump debates eating the whole plate, Elon is out here redefining ph...

It's always a great feeling knowing that the co-president of the US is constantly high as fuck off of ketamine. I feel incredibly comfortable knowing that him and his interns have access to all of our most sensitive information, and are just hacking away at our government with a chainsaw.

23.03.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dogs are so precious. They’re better than humans, that’s for sure.

23.03.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Severance is a masterpiece.

22.03.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Folks need to stop calling Trump’s looming refusal to follow the judicial system’s rulings a β€œconstitutional crisis.” That is much too benign. Call it what it is- a dictatorship.

18.03.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8
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Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

16.03.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 63505    πŸ” 14060    πŸ’¬ 2219    πŸ“Œ 613
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Feeling quite productive today.

16.03.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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