Mike Hutchinson
@hutchymon.bsky.social
Gen X union parks mechanic, planning commissioner, former arts guy, dad, gamer, dreamer, atheist If you're doing something wrong, stop it.
It's pretty simple If a farmer buys a piece of equipment, they should be afforded the ability to fix it But manufacturers lock the software-preventing farmers from making their own repairs Democrat @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social will change that when he's in the US Senate Iowa is about to change
Looks like I’ll be playing small indie games the rest of my life
Push Square@pushsquare.com · 5h agoEA Studios Brace for Layoff Bloodbath as New Owner Debt Demands $700 Million Cost Cuts.
Google, Visa and the other monopolists who serve as *de facto* regulators for our society have arrogated to themselves the power to observe every transaction and block the obvious scams. 58/
Visa - another bloated monopolist with terminal Main Character Syndrome - can see that it has merchants who generate zillions of appeals and charge-backs because they run scam businesses like these. 56/
Google *says* it wants to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," but every dime it spends fighting fraud (a critical part of this mission!) is a dime it can't spend on stock buybacks, executive compensation and AI servers. 44/
Amazon knows the price you're willing to pay, it knows who's set the lowest price, and it knows how many identical items that match your query are for sale. But the sellers don't know any of that, and you only know some of it. 41/
Google is an absentee landlord. In 2019, they chose to *deliberately worsen* search results in order to make you search repeatedly to find the information you're seeking, because every fresh query lets them serve fresh advertisements: pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/b... 9/
Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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To paraphrase an old adage, when the cat doesn't care the mice will run amok. The cat (Google) lets all the mice (fraudsters) do whatever they want so long as the cat gets its cut Google is a scammer's paradise @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/a...
Pluralistic: Google is a scammer’s paradise (05 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Now watch Elon claim colonization rights based on where his junk landed — much like his parenting style.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
Many, many thoughts on this, starting with the idea that it is not surprising people feel that the government is much more likely to interfere or punish them for their speech because at this moment that's just objectively true.
John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 4h agoA new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
Bay Area Children Set Up Adrenochrome Stand On Side Of Road https://theonion.com/bay-area-children-set-up-adrenochrome-stand-on-side-of-road/
Today is the start of the "quiet period" before the midterm election, a longstanding legal protection for eligible voters. Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., are banned from doing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act
A federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret it
There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.
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Guess who didn't get the contract 😆 www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Ottawa awards Telesat $2.3B Arctic military satellite contract
A Canadian telecommunications firm has signed a deal worth $2.3 billion with the federal government to provide satellite communications for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic.
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Library pro tip: never go in without locking the emergency stop. If the lights are motion activated and you’re alone, they will definitely turn off if you’re in there, someone will come in and assume sensibly that there’s no one there. Ask my busted ribs how we know!
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 18h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
“Ending clock changes is not the same thing as adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time. This distinction has been lost in many headlines…”
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
I prefer presidents who don’t have their accounts closed over money laundering concerns.
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
a bit strange to think that electronic arts, which published many games whose worlds i escaped into and adored in my teens and beyond, is now owned by multiple individuals and groups who explicitly hate people like me. funny how life goes, huh?
can't remember, do presidents usually summon us attorneys to the oval office to pressure them on individual cases
