TikTok will not let me post this video. Must help explain why you don't see it anywhere.

This was @ the stupid thing for Kirk, today, and pretty much says everything one might need to say about post-modern christianity.

If you actually thought Donald Trump would be able to deliver “unifying” remarks at the memorial service of his “friend” Charlie Kirk, I have a bridge to sell you.

On Earth 2.0, this would be The Story of the week, a firestorm of corruption, cover-ups, and scandal. Tom Homan, the thuggish head of Trump’s immigration brute squad was videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash bribe… and the Trump DOJ shut the investigation down. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Nobody told me The Matrix integrated Grand Theft Auto mode into I95/I84. Fifteen stupid rich kids treating 3-lane highways like they're racetracks ain't gonna end well. The general "dgaf" level of drivers has also escalated since the last time I visited the grandkids.

FWIW, INA Sections 212(f) & 215(a) authorize exclusion of aliens, not the creation of fee structures, and any provisions are meant for outright bars on entry, not conditional entry based on payment. i.e., the recent proclamation is patently illegal. I don't know if that means anything anymore, tho.

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Another @taggartinstitute.org Live Session in the books! This one was an introduction to Caddy, the best little webserver around. We go through Caddy basics, and even show a way to use it as a red team/phishing proxy!

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Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Bonus Drop #99: Train Of Thought The Bonus Drop has an ASAM update; presents Sniffly, an FOSS dashboard by Chip Huyen for analyzing Claude Code usage (w/some code & SQL to get similar data from Zed AI); & links to PostHog's redesigned website…er…OS? dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/09/20/b...

Show me someone who never watched Johnny Carson. He was quite opinionated, especially with guests, not so in the monologues, and especially in the 1970s.

Pennsylvania folks: do WHATEVER it takes to get Fetterman out of office ASAFP.

They are disappearing people.

At $100,000 per H1B visa, Amazon alone will end up paying $1 Billion. Or, more likely, laying off most of their international staff. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Vote. Every. One. Of. Them. Out.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Drop #713: AVAST ME HEARTIES! Today's Drop discusses accessing and utilizing U.S. maritime safety data, focusing on Anti-Shipping Activity Messages, while highlighting challenges faced due to changes in data accessibility. dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/09/19/d...

SHIVER ME TIMBERS! I almost let Talk Like a Pirate Day sail right past me crow's nest without so much as an "arrr!" 🏴‍☠️ Nearly missed me annual chance to terrorize the seven seas of social media with terrible pirate puns and even worse accent attempts!

Indivisible Mid-Maine presents sidewalk chalk:

Sen. Susan Collins says Congress may only revisit Trump’s $1 trillion cuts to Medicaid if there's "evidence" of Americans getting sicker — even as 61,000 Mainers face losing coverage and rural hospitals risk closure. Read more here.

It's Friday! It's also a 👍🏼 day to 🎗️ your friends, neighbors, & cow-orkers that Trump is: — an adjudicated rapist — was directly involved in child sex abuse — has illegally grifted billions of $ since Jan. 20 — is coming after them once he's done w/immigrants, trans folks & comedians Pass it on!

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

Car dealers sons unite!

Already a crowd outside the Disney lot! A friend send me this. I am out of town but there in spirit. Oh, and Kimmel didn't lie like he's being accused (objectively true), Trump and his whole retribution crew have just been after him and finally found a way to twist his words that gained traction.

DC police and U.S. Marshals violently attempted to execute a warrant near a playground filled with preschoolers, terrifying the children with a totally gratuitous show of force. Oh, and they didn’t get the suspect. www.popville.com/2025/09/erod...

Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Always let your conscience be your guide. Bye, Disney!

We had a bundle of Disney+ w/a bunch of other streaming services so had to cancel them all to cancel Disney+ and we did so gleefully, but not gracefully.

GO. MAINE!

Live in *6* NOW!

AAF: Authoritarian As F***

Your ML model outputs 1000 probability values. Standard calibration returns 12. calibre preserves what matters. github.com/finite-sample/calibre

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

This is what the GOP wants to see across America: starving children & families so they can eradicate what they believe to be the surplus population. Via the @pressherald.com — www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...

So, we finally took our GreyNoise MCP Server out of pre-release mode! We've been using it internally for a few months and it definitely speeds up threat hunting, especially when paired with the @[email protected] MCP server. www.greynoise.io/blog/greynoi...

🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more. Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The way #2.2 says "cook-ie" (~1.6 yrs old — and over FaceTime, no less) is so stupid cute and amazing that it is nigh impossible for the weight of this current world to dampen the present positive mood it has put me in.

chicago, irving park: ice spotted at home depot at addison/kimball

Via Ryan Castellucci (@[email protected]) "In honor of the late Robert Redford, "Sneakers", in high def ANSI with full subtitles:" ``` ssh [email protected] ``` (needs a terminal with 24 bit color support)

110% We *cannot* let them de-humanize trans folks (forget any other reason why…it's an inhuman campaign the GOP is engaged in…period). If some folks do need more of a reason: *you* may not be "next", but you are 100% in line for the same treatment if you are a decent human.

If you ask me for a recent picture for a deck/webcast (vs the out-of-date-by-12-years headshot I keep using) you will get the malicious compliance of me sitting in front of a (cropped) FBI seal with the "Kash Patel" look.