@mattsepara.bsky.social
Gov't Oversight. MI/DC/VA/elsewhere. Here: Politics, Star Wars and other nerdery, DIY projects, bread, and occasional puns. Views expressed are my own. Mark Hamill mentioned me once on the beforetimes social media app.
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I'm at the combination litter box and AI bot (coming soon from a Chinese drop shipping company)
1. Conveniently saying "the British" did Dresden when basically half the bombers were American.
2. The bombing of Dresden is now pretty widely considered to be unnecessary to win the war and among many to be a war crime (oh including Vance's BFFs AfD)
Example 10,492 of asking Trump a question that starts with "Are you considering" and then moves on to some batshit idea. HE WILL ALWAYS SAY YES.
06.08.2025 21:53 β π 55 π 12 π¬ 3 π 2Look I mean good they made a statement but the proper course of action is not to send a strongly worded letter. The proper course of action is for Penske to sue DHS for violating the terms of the rental agreement. Its on fucking tape.
06.08.2025 18:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah the start of the Trump-Jugend, Bund amerikanisch Arbeiterjugend
06.08.2025 15:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm actually kind of shocked that one of the iterations of Trek with Holodecks didn't go into this idea more--that so many people would want to use it to play out power or psychopathic fantasies. There were episodes that dealt with addiction, but not that obvious problem.
05.08.2025 23:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Its like if you took the holodeck in Star Trek and made its entire use case Will Riker focused. All you'd get is people running simulations of sex dungeons with the very occasional program focused on fighting as a soldier in the Roman Empire.
05.08.2025 23:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Biggest mistake Obama and 2009 Congressional Dems made was not making DC a state when they had 60 votes in the Senate to do it. History would be so different right now.
05.08.2025 21:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Look I'm just saying maybe its not a good idea to let the guy who did meatspin on the Real World announce we're going to put a controlled nuclear explosion chamber on the moon.
05.08.2025 02:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nuclear reactor on the moon was literally a significant plot point in For All Mankind. Spoiler alert: it did not go well!
05.08.2025 02:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Recognition of all of these governments in exile gave them legitimacy. That legitimacy made it so that when the war was over, those states could exist.
Not for nothing, but recognition of a Jewish state in 1948 by both the US and USSR helped to greatly legitimize Israel during the Arab-Israeli War.
During WWII, the UK hosted governments in exile of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, Yugoslavia, and Poland after all of them were conquered by the Nazis.
Point is, recognition of a state does not rely on a state of peace or controlling any land.
Nothing says "all the shit we are doing is totally legal" by having to offer special incentive payments to hire people who will actually defend it in court.
04.08.2025 18:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Basically almost once a day I try a word that is 1) real 2) not a proper noun, and 3) in common parlance only to find out the NYT turns it's nose up at my vocabulary.
04.08.2025 11:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok @nytimes.com seriously time to fire whoever comes up with the spelling bee word list. This is like a really common term!
04.08.2025 11:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Starting to understand how this guy let a casino go bankrupt.
04.08.2025 00:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Persecuted bureaucrats flee the Abbott dynasty to the Great Khanate in the north!
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*Holds finger to ear*
"Hold on, I'm receiving new information here."
*Shakes head in disbelief*
"WHAT? No, that can't be true."
*Stares into camera, dead-faced*
"Sorry folks, we need to issue a correction. I am reliably informed that there is a 79 year old toddler living at the White House."
Congratulations to Marco Rubio as the new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics!
03.08.2025 14:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Still one of the greatest takedowns of all time:
youtu.be/kTKn1aSOyOs?...
Ok I mean there's something super ironic about Spelling Bee not including the word that means "the creation and use of new words or phrases." Come on @nytimes.com
03.08.2025 14:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Normally the idea of "DHS pressure on the Defense Department" would be risible because DoD is the largest, most complex bureaucracy in the world and basically immune to outside pressure from all except the President.
But when the guy writing the memo is the brother of the Defense Secretary....
It's also really funny that he suggests that James Comey controlled the Epstein files. James Comey was fired in 2017 and Epstein was arrested in 2019, more than two years later.
02.08.2025 00:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So let me get this straight. He's suggesting that the Biden administration altered the Epstein files to frame Trump and then.....didn't release them?
02.08.2025 00:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I believe in you Hat. I believe you can do Twilight Imperium.
01.08.2025 21:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TRUMP TAKE PLANE
31.07.2025 22:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did the President just admit on tape that he had an underage teen working as a spa attendant at his private club and he provided an introduction for her to Jeffrey Fucking Epstein?
29.07.2025 23:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0no darth fox will ask for a copy of the list axios will come up with one themselves and give it to the white house i am not kidding
25.07.2025 14:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So, uh, essentially saying you're thinking about pardoning a convicted child rapist VERY STRONGLY implies that whatever she'd be able to testify on about you is MUCH WORSE than the optics of pardoning a convicted child rapist.
25.07.2025 14:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0