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Dina Karant

@dkarant.bsky.social

I miss the old Twitter but hate all the Nazis and horrible people there now. PNW / Seattle but formerly Chicago (Sox not Cubs), too many books on my TBR list, and still listening to vinyl.

created November 21, 2023

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Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. I meant just defining the scope and requirements could take two years easily on something that big. It’s years long to develop and test.

29/3/2025, 8:07:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone who has worked in IT for 25 years this would be funny if it didn’t impact people’s lives and cause harm. Months? Maybe months to just do discovery and requirements (where you figure out it’s really a two year project)

28/3/2025, 6:47:04 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Dempsey (@jkdemp.bsky.social) reposted

The existence of "Houthi PC Small Group" guarantees that there are myriad other such threads on every other national security and policy decision being made. Not just a threat to national security, but a threat to the maintenance of official records and public accountability.

24/3/2025, 7:57:13 PM | 269 68 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture maia arson crimew 🏴 (@crimew.gay) reposted

"small group" implies theres a bigger group w more ppl. just putting this out there.

24/3/2025, 7:28:34 PM | 406 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely brilliant finale. Kudos to the entire creative team. It’s was perfection.

21/3/2025, 6:38:22 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you so much for the gift of this show. Season 2 has been worth that grueling wait and I’m so sad I won’t have new episodes to look forward to next week.

20/3/2025, 12:02:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

What a huge embarrassment.

19/3/2025, 11:58:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does his stupid face always have this dumb expression while he’s speaking. His ugly mouth is always shaped like an O. Why? It’s not normal.

17/3/2025, 10:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

The best thing about Carville is Bill Haders impression

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14/3/2025, 9:35:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Seriously??? WTF

14/3/2025, 9:30:21 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

You are such a disappointment. Enjoy your dinner with Trump

14/3/2025, 3:51:27 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

How do people sit there and not ask him WTF is he talking about? Can someone please start pushing back on his nonsense? Hit him with facts like this on camera. This is a reality TV episode for him.

13/3/2025, 6:24:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

How do people sit there and not ask him WTF is he talking about? Can someone please start pushing back on his nonsense? Hit him with real info and numbers. Call him out in real time. This is reality TV to him. He thinks he’s winning by calling Gretzky his friend.

13/3/2025, 5:59:15 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

12/3/2025, 2:20:07 PM | 19352 4849 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Baker (@mikebaker.bsky.social) reposted

As he promoted Tesla vehicles at the White House today, Trump carried notes on the pricing of each model. "Teslas can be purchased as low as $299/month or $35K"

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11/3/2025, 8:36:37 PM | 198 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

JFC- in his stupid hat and “funny” shirt and Tesla belt buckle. It’s not funny anymore, get this asshole out of our government

26/2/2025, 8:32:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) reposted

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.
26/2/2025, 7:42:47 PM | 6542 2570 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck this asshole and his stupid hat.

26/2/2025, 5:55:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Scollins (@mikescollins.bsky.social) reposted

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

24/2/2025, 3:31:51 AM | 21944 3974 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s so utterly repulsive. Physically and in every other way.

23/2/2025, 6:26:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

21/2/2025, 7:19:28 PM | 104758 24131 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Did people really like him though? Or did they just think he was someone genuinely interested in making a positive impact on the environment and that made him likeable? People genuinely thought he invented the Tesla and SpaceX like he was a super genius that was going to help climate change.

21/2/2025, 5:32:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve hated this guy for quite a while, well before I listened to him talk nonsense. How are so many people bamboozled by him? Are they privately cringing or do they think he’s actually cool? I do not get it. He’s like a preteen edgelord with his speech and humor.

21/2/2025, 5:09:18 AM | 32 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) reposted

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

18/2/2025, 6:50:59 PM | 21446 7378 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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17/2/2025, 8:21:32 PM | 22676 10969 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything about him, including the way he holds that bottle and drinks it, is gross. He’s just so f**king gross.

18/2/2025, 5:02:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect

12/2/2025, 6:59:54 PM | 7449 809 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear I’m the only person that remembers this show which baffles me because the theme is like a bad fever dream and is tattooed on my brain

12/2/2025, 8:40:02 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m tempted to go back to Twitter only to comment on his stupid posts and call him a massive moron.

12/2/2025, 3:58:07 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) reposted

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

Twitter exchange in which a user makes fun of Musk for not understanding how SQL works and falsely claiming the government doesn't use SQL
11/2/2025, 5:35:59 PM | 12113 2411 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Lynch (@david.lynch.wtf) reposted reply parent

This take just keeps on being accurate.

Mastodon post by Rod Hilton saying that Elon Musk's incompetence becomes more apparent when he interacts with a domain you're personally knowledgeable about.
11/2/2025, 7:44:54 PM | 122 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) reposted

Public records indicate one of the young engineers linked to Elon Musk's DOGE project once formed a company called "Tesla.Sexy LLC" talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

4/2/2025, 11:14:37 PM | 230 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

5/2/2025, 6:53:15 PM | 2042 855 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

GTFOH

5/2/2025, 9:05:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s just mind blowing that the “average joe” can really believe a billionaire is looking out for their best interest.

5/2/2025, 5:41:39 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) reposted

The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work? theatln.tc/1hEuswrF

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4/2/2025, 8:23:20 PM | 446 150 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

All these maga a-holes fancying themselves the superior race are always so mediocre.

4/2/2025, 3:58:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

JFC. Aren’t you part of Congress? What are you doing besides saying you really should be doing something?

4/2/2025, 3:52:23 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

What a dick

30/1/2025, 10:03:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

@contrariannews.org has been off to a good start

29/1/2025, 4:16:54 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

He is just so breathtakingly stupid.

21/1/2025, 11:46:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social) reposted

Here's the first of probably periodic warnings to remind yourself that the "firehose of falsehoods" disinformation tactic is about to go into full swing. You do not need to watch the news to bear witness. You do not need to watch hideous videos of violence. They will be circulated to keep you upset

21/1/2025, 2:29:47 AM | 2374 677 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Block him. But first laugh at his absolutely cringe tweet he made about a Seattle barbershop being the last domain of traditional masculinity.

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21/1/2025, 12:36:56 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus Christ. It was a Nazi salute. Not a hand gesture. Stop this shit.

20/1/2025, 11:29:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop this kind of rhetoric even if sarcasm or a joke. Everyone needs to call it out for what it was. This is not a time to minimize this behavior. The richest man on earth has a place in the White House and is a full on nazi. Hard stop.

20/1/2025, 11:01:37 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Mark we need you to help build the alternative. I just deleted my TikTok app, I won’t ever go back now but loved the community there.

19/1/2025, 7:15:29 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember his kid was in the same summer camp as mine and he made my skin crawl at every drop off and pick up. I don’t remember if it was before or after his complete cringe tweet about barbershops being the last domain of traditional masculinity. Such a tool.

Cringe inducing tweet from Christopher Rufo about barber shops being the last domain of traditional masculinity with blue collar men, macho talk, slick fades, canned beer, sleeve tattoos, turn of the century prints, lady trouble and anti lockdown sentiments. What a tool
11/1/2025, 1:58:46 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

Working from home until my client and I agreed to cancel meetings. We couldn’t be productive because of what we were seeing on the news. I was so shocked and we didn’t even know the extent of it yet.

6/1/2025, 8:58:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dina Karant (@dkarant.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s a Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist and today is the anniversary of that tragedy.

15/12/2024, 5:20:55 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view