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Greg J.

@sindisil.bsky.social

Just doing my best to do my best. Father, husband, handyman, programmer (lately Rust, but years of C, Java, and others), reader, gamer, music lover, and eternally amateur guitar player. Proud Minnesotan, born & bred. he/him, but they/them is fine, too.

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Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

06.03.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1500    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 7

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

06.03.2026 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1362    πŸ” 434    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 13

$217 billion a year is enough to reverse Trump's Medicaid and SNAP cuts AND fund the enhanced premium tax credits that Trump let expire.

06.03.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see

*BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS

06.03.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1494    πŸ” 312    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 112

Your Honor, we've crimed so much that it's impossible for us to pay for our crimes

06.03.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge β€œwe can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.

06.03.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 760    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 2
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CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"

06.03.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1420    πŸ” 573    πŸ’¬ 222    πŸ“Œ 241
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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

πŸ”­ πŸ§ͺ

06.03.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 618    πŸ” 357    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 26
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida
After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

06.03.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1521    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 18
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countriesβ€”including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7614    πŸ” 3715    πŸ’¬ 468    πŸ“Œ 562
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Taking a deep breath the Jan/Feb swing in hiring looks like mostly noise, but we are in a very low hiring environment reflecting our immigration policy + elevated uncertainty. The UR has been stable at 4.4% for 6m so this is not a falling off the cliff report, more a labor market with no mojo

06.03.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

And nothing of value was lost ...

06.03.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want so much to be able to argue this idea. I really do.

Not because I think it's wrong (for some definition of "dumb").

But because my Gen X self image has been that we're a deeply flawed, but overall great, country and people moving steadily (if unevenly) in the right direction.

Ooof ...

06.03.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"unexpectedly"

06.03.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

liberated... from economic growth

06.03.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Unfortunately, β€œYo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7910    πŸ” 1828    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 32
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

05.03.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 742    πŸ” 517    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 72

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

06.03.2026 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1393    πŸ” 316    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 7

Gas up at least 40 cents a gallon from last week here

06.03.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 3
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Met this fine chap on my morning walk

06.03.2026 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 711    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 3

I don't have words for this. Horrific. Heinous. Disgusting.

Actually, I do have two words for it: war crime.

06.03.2026 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise' President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters ​in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operat...

""I don't have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at β€Œthe pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.""
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

06.03.2026 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really hung up on the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, a supposed journalist, having no shame about telling the president, "nobody questions the success of the military operation."

Uh, yeah, there are questions. You're a journalist. Question it, man.

05.03.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Kristi Noem finally lost Trump β€” and her job | CNN Politics After a year of controversies, Kristi Noem’s fate was sealed over just a few days. It started with a heads-up from the Hill.

Noem's effect on FEMA: β€œoversaw the complete destruction of the agency, forced the resignation of some of the...most experienced people...ignored every one of the hard learned lessons from Katrina and put us in a place where we are no longer well prepared" www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

06.03.2026 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t believe Noem, I have no reason to believe Homan either.

There *are* fewer than before. But they are still doing harm here and elsewhere.

Abolish ICE.

06.03.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

37 pages

06.03.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1797    πŸ” 700    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 12
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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

β€œSlurs Filled a Chat” as if by magic! Who can say how those slurs teleported into that chat! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 523    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 6

Apparently this has been out there for a couple of weeks and I just...

Exercise caution and self-care before reading thus thread. I'm sure that you already know that Trump is a monster; you don't necessarily need to know the magnitude of it.

06.03.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i think when we get a final reckoning of how much Noem has personally profited from her office this question might answer itself

05.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1735    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 3