Peter Boothe
@pboothe.bsky.social
Founder of @triplepat.com Coding fool. Recovering academic. Currently starting a company in the Netherlands. Former tech lead of M-Lab and former CS professor and former a few other things too. https://pboothe.github.io pmb.74 on Signal for DMs
The only thing I remember is the oral surgeon giving aftercare instructions to my wife with the preface "I'm telling you because he's not going to remember this" and thinking "Hey! Screw you! I'm gonna remember!" but actually that's all I remember.
Shannon Hale@shannonhale.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm 52 and I just got my sole wisdom tooth removed. I'm sitting here chomping down on gauze waiting for the numbing to wear off and I want to hear your weird wisdom tooth stories.
This is what happens when your government has nothing to offer besides racism and incompetence.
Trying to mentally prepare myself for the possibility of never being told exactly what the fuck happened with either Microsoft or the FAA, this week.
I really think as a society we need to clearly draw the through line - you have to be stupid to be racist - if you put racists in charge they will do stupid shit - you put racists in charge and they are stupid and that’s why you can’t fly anywhere and cant email and fresh produce is poisonous now
At some point everyone is hoping to have to realize that VVD only look like reliable coalition partners in comparison to Geert Wilders. Time for them to spend some time in the wilderness.
Dutch News@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 3d agoCoalition on knife edge as VVD weighs response to tax deal www.dutchnews.nl?p=275154
My absentee ballot arrived! Now all I have to do is return it postmarked before last Tuesday…
Flash the Sloth's Happy Reaction
Alt: A happy sloth who has not yet realized it is far too late to vote in the 2026 US midterm elections
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Genuinely begging Democrats to stop listening to the people who have CONSISTENTLY steered them wrong for the past dozen years
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 5d agoAdam Jentleson of Searchlight Institute recommended in his Ezra Klein interview today that Democrats embrace spanking children as a "a very powerful signal" that connects with voters "on a values basis." I didn't think I could dislike the man any more than I already did, but lo!
You can't "not see race" and be raised in America. You unavoidably see it. But you can work against the shit in your head using tricks that help you not be a terrible person. If you are too racist to stomach helping yourself by helping black people, then pretend they are white and help them.
Grant Lorrell@grantlorrell.blacksky.app · 6d agoYeah some of the same people who were all in on "Fight Them Everywhere" in 2025 get a rather sudden case of Consultant-Brain the minute folks start talking about investing campaign dollars into heavily Black regions.
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 6d agoReading between the lines, ICE brought a prisoner who needed med attn to the hospital, and when doctors refused to let them into the examination they retaliated by blocking off the ER and forcing ambulances to be rerouted for two hours. ICE has to be the new congress’s first priority.
"you exaggerate how bad trump is" trump: i will never be reconciled with god
Part of the problem is the way this is framed as if they hadn't already done this by targeting LaMonica McIver.
Trump's AG won't rule out prosecuting Democrats who threaten to investigate
He hasn't said what law they might have broken.
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The good news is that you're not that much of an outlier! ♥️👍🏿🕊️ You are only an outlier *In the USA*! Most white people are in Europe. Yes, Europe has racism. But the USA is objectively, demonstrably by the data, the most anti-Black racist country on earth. Your "progressive" views are EU normal.🤷🏿♂️
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 7d agoFeels weird to know and be made aware of how much of an outlier you are as a progressive white person sometimes like you don't want to acknowledge this because doing so makes you feel fucking stupid for several reasons. I feel like I'll always come off as a "pick me" forever
Immigration is good. It's not "not bad", it's actually "very good". It's moral, ethical, and good for a country's culture, economy, cuisine, security, and stability. The US needs more. Every country in the EU needs more. Anti-immigrant politics and policies are slowly killing entire countries.
This is why I keep repeating “Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes”. Because people are going to forget, or gloss over what they did and be susceptible to bringing them back. You need a solid five years of news stories every single day of “Another trial of another ICE psychopath.”
“Germany for the Germans” was the slogan of a political organization that existed about 100 years ago.
I'm not sure why everyone in the administration is freaking out. If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about
Substitute “Jewish” for “Muslim” and this is just a Silver Shirt or German-American Bund post ca. 1939.
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · last wk.It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.
Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Anyway “healing the nation” by doing nothing has not only never worked, it also always sends the message to evil people that the only consequences they will ever face for selling out their own country will be mild inconvenience
You want tribunals and fair trials and truth and healing commissions, fine, fine, we can do it your way. But in return, we get to keep the bones. This cannot be negotiable. Let future generations visit the Smithsonian ossuary and learn: this is what we do to secret police in this great country.
Look, you may not want to hear it, but now that we have all our hard won electoral victories, it’s important to be constructive. All this talk of revenge and blood in the streets, it doesn’t get us something that lasts. You know what lasts? An OSSUARY of ICE AGENT BONES. Let’s create ARCHITECTURE.
Democrats should be exactly as bipartisan as Republicans were with them. That's how you know it's fair.
Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · 2w agoevery dem that says bipartisan gets sprayed with a water spray bottle
thing is, to get things done, you need rule of law and accountability for breaking it. You need at least a presumption of equality under law, and that presumption has been broken by those lying, criminal, violent, bigoted comemierdas. If you want to get things done, hold them accountable!
MS NOW@ms.now · 2w ago"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
the optimal positioning against neofascism is something like: ▪️moderate affect ▪️substantively progressive ▪️stay on the attack ▪️don't abandon minorities ▪️don't message against your own team/brand except for the first, it's basically the exact opposite of what reactionry centrists recommend
Hakeem and Chuck got bailed out by us. I hope they get pink slips ASAP. We need flame throwing motherfuckers to make sure we never go through this again. This wasn't an escalation this was new Gestapo and the destruction of USAID we need to make sure no one thinks they can do shit like that
Moderates repeatedly crossing party lines to endorse and publicly vote for Republicans amidst the most racist and disastrous Republican administration in public memory ought to end the argument that’s it’s the left wing of the party that needs to prove it’s loyalty to the Democratic base.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w agoJosh Turek says he didn't vote for a Democratic ticket, and instead voted republican for several races. And yet trans people are vilified for doing the same to him?
