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Virtualis Habilis

@virtualis.bsky.social

Bug nerd | Musician | Frequent émigré to virtual worlds | Charter member of the "look for the helpers" club | Vector-borne infectious disease expert and public health agency manager

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Virtualis Habilis@virtualis.bsky.social · 4w ago

What we have here is a "Schrödinger's Senator": Is he alive, or is he dead? We'll never know for sure (until we open the box)...

JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy@progavalanche.bsky.social · 4w ago

I too have just gotten off the phone with Mitch McConnell. He only had 15 minutes in his busy schedule for me though. I don’t feel cheated, he’s all in to not only expand & term limit SCOTUS he also committed to expanding the number of circuit & district courts. Get well soon Mitch!

Virtualis Habilis@virtualis.bsky.social · last mo.

"Move fast and break things" is not a new concept, and in fact is the MO for industrial polluters, and always has been:

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last mo.

Zohran Mamdani and AOC aren’t the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are the main reasons democratic socialists are getting elected. Eventually, people start to realize who’s keeping them poor.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2mo ago

Mike Judge made Idiocracy as a warning. We treated it as a tutorial. A pro wrestler president, a gilded White House, a birthday party nobody wants to perform at — and a star burning bright right before it implodes. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

We're Living in Idiocracy — And the Credits Are Rolling

In 2006, Mike Judge released Idiocracy, a satirical comedy so niche that Fox buried it with almost no marketing or wide release. The studio apparently didn't know what to do with it, but we became it

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Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵 Folks, I’m tired… and I know a whole lot of us are tired. Our party isn’t perfect. Our leaders aren’t perfect. But there are people right now putting everything they have into standing up in this moment. Constructive criticism matters. Accountability matters.

Virtualis Habilis@virtualis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yesterday, a small child hugged me (Twice! The first was insufficient for my new friend!) at a pre-school event I was participating in, which has helped tremendously to restore my faith in humanity. Blessed be the children.

Virtualis Habilis@virtualis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Further proof that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Even the most uninformed citizen has a pretty good idea what Netanyahu's objectives are, and always have been, because he's never been shy about it. What a shocker that Trump did not have a clue.

TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fmr Secretary of State John Kerry just said on US TV that Netanyahu has tried to pressure US governments for ages to attack Iran. He, Kerry, was in the room for some of these conversations. Bush refused, Obama refused, Biden refused. Only Trump fell for it.