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Justin Banner

@renwoodcrafts.bsky.social

Scientist, analyst, artist, crafter, educator. I'm a guy in costume who talks a lot about politics, science, and pre-industrial crafts.

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I don't know how populate it is at weddings, but Uncle Kracker, Follow me, probably fits into that playlist

01.12.2025 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're writing a sci-fi/fantasy novel and need inspiration for faction insignia or emblems, screwdriver type charts may be handy. Just be sure to change them just enough to not be obvious.
Also, some screwdriver styles not pictured apparently need a bit more scrutiny.

23.01.2025 17:28 — 👍 50    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0

For fuck sake. "Draining the swamp" was apparently code for "brain drain"

23.01.2025 06:45 — 👍 36    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I refuse to accept the em-dash is an AI tell... it's a God damned generational hallmark!

23.01.2025 06:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the topic of user data privacy, I downloaded my tiktok data. There was a file "off tiktok activity" it's a history of every time tiktok acquired data about me from a third party. Like every company I've ever interacted has a profile for me and sells that data. This is not just a tiktok issue

19.01.2025 09:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The same security concerns with the CCP stealing data via an app, is hypothetically possible with any internet enabled hardware manufactured in China.
Maybe don't put national security info on your phone, and leave me alone to waste time watching craft videos.

8/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyone seeing this without the context of my other posts, this is not pro tiktok ban

19.01.2025 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep, it sucks

19.01.2025 07:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pass laws protecting internet user data and restrict access to apps/platforms in non-compliance. 30 years of easy to access public internet, and we still have inadequate laws around data privacy. There's no excuse

7/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I hate that I can't edits posts here, I always spot several typos after submitting a post

19.01.2025 07:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Literally all the security issues that Tiktok can potentially pose, are things that Meta actually enabled to happen in 2016.
The issue is not individual apps. The issue is a lack of data ptivacy regulation and regulated platform responsibility.

6/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That was the point made in the first status I posted about this

19.01.2025 07:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So yeah, the app had problems, but the ban does not fix those problems, because congress isn't interested is passing internet user data safety laws, this is about restricting competition.

5/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe dont immediately start making fun of people upset about the tiktok ban.
Calling it a "kids app" tells my you have the same social IQ as people who a shocked to learn that there are videogames and cartoons made that aren't make for kids.

4/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

150 million people just lost access to a source of entertainment, education, and community

3/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 07:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hundreds of thousands of people just lost a creative outlet for effectively sharing things they are passionate about.

2/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tens of thousands of independent artists, small businesses, and self employed individuals just list their primary source of revenue and/or promotion for their products.

1/X

#tiktokban

19.01.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If everyone on tiktok could stop body shaming and stereotyping people for being polyamorous, that be great.
Seriously, it's 2025, I thought we were trying to get past making fun how people look because of not liking thier life style

16.01.2025 04:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Snowman with roughly Human shaped torso and head, with a crown of ice spikes

Snowman with roughly Human shaped torso and head, with a crown of ice spikes

Do you want to build a snow man?
No. I shall build a snow king!

11.01.2025 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster featuring the CEO of GeneCo, the evil corporation from Repo the Genetic Opera. Text reads Organ theft will not be tolerated!

Poster featuring the CEO of GeneCo, the evil corporation from Repo the Genetic Opera. Text reads Organ theft will not be tolerated!

It's been what, two weeks? How long am I gonna have to wait before people start making memes about Brian Thompson as the CEO of Geneco?

24.12.2024 03:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pro-trump Twitter twits are getting upset that people are here instead of on XTwitter.
They getting big mad that we're not there to listen to them, and they're too afraid of running into someone with a nose ring to be here

26.11.2024 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spending the weekend at the family farm with my brother and some of his kids. My nephews keep trying to build simple structures from small trees they've cut down. Maybe we should come back in the spring and I'll bring my timber framing tools and teach them about old carpentry

24.11.2024 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2000: I want a good career I can advance in that will allow me to buy a house and to go on occasional vacations.
2010: I want a decent job that allows me to live comfortably
2020: I want to not hate my job and to have some money left after paying my bills
Now: surviving is an act of defiance

21.11.2024 04:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nazi demonstrators gather outside 'Diary of Anne Frank' play in Michigan A group of masked demonstrators were seen waving Nazi flags outside a production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Howell, Michigan, on Saturday.

If Neo-Nazi demonstrators aren't bad enough, the group in Ohio was speciffically demonstrating outside a theatrical production of Anne Frank's Diary.
abcnews.go.com/US/nazi-demo...
At what point is hate speech no longer protected by free speech?

17.11.2024 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not French, I'm mostly Eastern European with some German and Irish. My family has only had that name for a single generation. Changed to avoid midcentury bigotry against Eastern Europe.

17.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We really need a legal standard that new and emergent technologies can not be used without regulations.
"Sorry, you've been denied coverage because you're within the group that coverage is nessissary" is the type of thing that makes people want to copy the French revolution

17.11.2024 15:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Attn: A recent D.C. District Court of Appeals ruling could significantly impact environmental policy. The court determined that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) lacks authority to issue binding regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), (1/3)

16.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 954    🔁 120    💬 21    📌 12

Theres this weird flaw in human psychology that when programs work and do the job they are supposed to do, people quickly forget why they were nessissary.
Should we bring these people to St Louis to look around all the toxic cleanup sites we have?

16.11.2024 21:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, that tracks

16.11.2024 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mike Tyson vs internet troll who's name I forget.
No matter what, this wont end well for the troll. Either he losses against one of the greatest boxers of all time, or he wins against a boxer who's 20 years past his prime. Either way, he's not gonna come out looking good for this

14.11.2024 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0