@jefftiedrich.bsky.social ^^
Chaotic neutral. Dad, author and Java enthusiast since 1995. DevRel that builds real apps.
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First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
When America was in crisis @schumer.senate.gov went on a book tour. We need leaders to fight for us ! Call or write your senators , tell them to get a fighter in leadership !
Read my statement on today's victory for North Carolina voters. Today, we won.
Sick burn!
✅ DEI Quote of the Day™ "DEI doesn’t replace merit; it reveals it by ensuring that no one is left behind due to outdated hiring practices or unconscious biases." - Yolanda Slan, head of Human Resources for Televerde via @hrexecutive.bsky.social hrexecutive.com/dei-vs-merit...
Considering his Legal & Ethical record, you would think the painting would be the lowest priority for this 34 times convicted, perpetual grievance monkey. Turns out, you would be wrong... #Pathetic 😁
As a daily AI user, software developer, and security professional, I was still blown away by @anthropic.com's Claude 3.75 "reasoning model". I played a two-player online board game with Claude, and it almost beat me. I'm going to edit this for time, but dig it: youtu.be/8dsXT4hbD6I
It’s not about “DEI.”
Hey - I can make shit up too! Only 80% of the piss is hitting Trump in the face - down from 93%!
The local Harris Teeter has this huge Valentine’s Day display right at the entrance to the store - balloons, cards, flowers, etc. I joined a long, guilty looking parade of men there this morning at 7:30am. Heads high, gentlemen! It’s still on time if you get back before your partner wakes up!
Sick burn from Altman
Google can fuck right off for obeying in advance!
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal recreate their famous scene from “When Harry Met Sally” for a Super Bowl ad. Except, Ryan says: “oh my gosh” instead of “oh my god”. Is there anything that can’t be made lame by the over reaching touch of religion?
I only saw this comic thanks to @jefftiedrich.bsky.social. I'd love it if someone would share it each day for the next four years.
What do you get when you bring together a smart corrupt person and a dumb corrupt person? Two of the most corrupt people on the planet! Sand and embarrassing.
I’m beyond thrilled to be selected as a speaker at #JCON2025. It’s particularly exciting to be there during the 30th anniversary of Java. I attended my first beta demo in NYC in 1995 and the rest is history. 2025.europe.jcon.one
DEI is the new CRT. Most criticisms of both are rooted in systemic racism. The same way that fights against bodily autonomy and equal pay for women are rooted in misogyny.
Just like he needed to find those 11,000 votes…
Looks like Leon won the cage match with Zuck after all... "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
What a cuck zuck has turned out to be.
“Well done, my good and faithful servant”… are the first words that came to my mind when hearing of the passing of President Carter. He & his bride committed their lives to service in the most selfless way. Let us all honor his legacy by doing our part to serve our country & our community.
$16 billion was spent in the last election. Enough to eradicate world hunger. Twice over. Our elections now feel like auctions. A contest to corral the most billionaires. Citizens United put us on the fast track to an oligarchy. For us to find our way back, it has to be undone.
I wish I lived in a country where Mitch McConnell, John Kelly, Bill Barr and John Bolton had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, or Anita Hill.
Stephen Miller is a descendant of asylum seekers who fled anti-semitic violence. Miller is the great-grandson of a Jewish immigrant who fled the poverty and pogroms of the Russian Empire in the early 1900s. Miller, a Jew, says that mass deportations will be Trump's first priority.
Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!
To force a rape victim to carry to term and give birth is to partake in the rape. It's complicit. It's also perpetrating a deeply sadistic act on top of a previous deeply sadistic act under the guise of religious piety. And, in siding with the rapist, it facilitates further raping.
Strong women are automatically deemed arrogant by misogynists. Thanks for telling us who you are, teamsters president.
so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this
Just finished @jamieloftus.bsky.social three part series on the manosphere. It’s so damn good. Big takeaway: it’s on us men to dismantle toxic masculinity. Start with fd signifier on YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
At my wife’s family’s Christmas party they did a “white elephant” thing. Someone wrapped a box of maga crap. My daughter opened it and the place erupted into applause and high fives. I was left profoundly sad. Then, I got nervous as they chanted: “put on the hat”. My daughter said “hell no”. ❤️ her!
Costco responded to shareholders requesting that it withdraw from DEI policies. The response was direct and to the point: Costco says, "Our board has considered this proposal and believes that our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect & inclusion is appropriate & necessary." ❤️COSTCO♥️
I’m no fan of Elon’s and the cybertruck has a lot of real problems, but we should report accurately on stories like this. This is an over the air (ota) software update. It has to be called a “recall” because of the current (outdated) rules.
Who made this?
Whew! A major Tesla investor, Ross Gerber, holding over $100 million in Tesla stock, slams Elon Musk for backing a Neo-Nazi-linked party in Germany. @gerberkawasaki.bsky.social
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke
x.com/billkristol/... This guy owns the presidency He wants Nazis back in charge of Germany. That’s what he tweeted at 1 am
RFK Jr cares more about promoting conspiracy theories than your health. He keeps company with conspiracy theorists and extremists who opposed science-backed measures. His misinformation campaign helped cause the death of 83 people, mainly kids. Tell your Senators to Vote NO!
It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
President-elect Musk is really setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration. VP Trump better pay attention.
#MorningVibe ‘No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.’ ♀️ Michelle Obama #ERANow
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
THIS is how it’s done, folks.
It was such a relief to delete my account on Twitter, which I did the day after Elmo bought it. I’ve now deleted my threads account after zuck decided to kiss the ring. Feels great! I like this place…
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
Look at us! Bother verified. I really underestimated what bluesky is. Key factors in me kicking Threads to the curb: - Zuck sucks - easy verification process on bsky - starter packs - choose your own algorithm I have a 2025 goal of really digging into the AT protocol
Now more than ever!
Pelosi was a major holdout against congresspeople being banned from holding stock. Tells you all you need to know.
FBI informant Alexander Smirnov has cut a plea deal with federal prosecutors, admitting that he totally fabricated an outrageous tale of Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for favors to benefit Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Smirnov…
Honored and humbled to be among the “featured session submitters” for JCON 2025. 2025.europe.jcon.one/speaker
What’s happening in NC should be much bigger scandal: gerrymandered GOP legislature stripping power from Dem gov & AG in lame-duck session while Rs trying to throw out 60k votes to overturn Dem victory in state Supreme Court race www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
These fucks can’t kiss the ring fast enough!
If you need a laugh, Congress's biggest stunt queen, Nancy Mace, forgot to log out and log back in on one of her sock puppet Nancy Mace fan accounts to talk about her fake attack.
I'm excited to have a verified Bluesky account. Did you know that all you need is your own domain to get verified? You don't need a website. It's an important guard against misinformation. I'll donate an hour per week of my time to anyone who wants help getting verified. FCFS <3
It’s been 35 days and my heart is still broken. I will never understand how so many could be so easily duped. I miss the joy. I miss the laughter. I miss the music. I miss the hope. I miss Tim Walz’ dad-isms.
Absolutely my favorite @neildegrassetyson.com quote: “God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
Not trans. Not a drag queen. You’re a lot safer with trans purple abs drag queens than you are with pastors.
Here’s mine: bsky.app/profile/mica...
Important read.
Doom had a secret multiscreen mode using Netware’s IPX protocol. You could connect 3 computers over a LAN (ours was 2MB arcnet). You’d arrange it so you had one display head on as normal and then one to your left and one to your right. It amped up the terror!
"in a world of Morning Joes, be an Adam Kinzinger." -Jeff Tiedrich Thanks @jefftiedrich.bsky.social! I really needed that shot in the arm. Now and going forward is the time to hold Donny Convict and his cadre of sewer clowns accountable.
There is ZERO connection between vaccines and autism! NONE!
OMG - Where my fellow Java nerds at? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8...
Hand roll
I think it may be out of print? I got it at a game trade at a convention in October…
"I had a very stern conversation with Nick Fuentes, and he has promised not to pepper spray or push women down the stairs anymore. I believe he's learned his lesson."
Awesome! I just played the Cowboy Bebop board game with my brother. It’s really good!
Congrats to Florida! #1 in book censorship #47 in SAT scores. Way to go! #floriduh
Breaking: Chelsea Manning is leading a bathroom sit in protest at the Capitol. Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
What Banksy says…
Seriously, any Senate Dems considering this can get fucked. Also, rawstory can get fucked.
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
The live-action Snow White looks... soooo bad! I can't even with the CG dwarves...
Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
Links?
Stop using threads and meta products. It is only benefiting the oligarchs.
Shoot this right into my veins!
My grandfather first published Andre Norton under the pen name Andrew North. Cool cover!
My fav is Human Resource Machine. It teaches programming concepts in the context of a fun game with a wry sense of humor. I bought it for like $9 on Switch and I keep going back to it. You can play for 10 minutes or an hour, leave and come back and even solve old levels more efficiently.
One of my favorite books of all time. The “Lilith’s Brood” collection is great as well.
Since moving here from the hellscape that is X, my feed is somehow now full of posts about how awesome libraries are and I am HERE FOR IT! Support your local libraries, they provide a warm space safe for everyone and the free gift of knowledge!
If DOGE is a government advisory board, then wouldn't they be subjected to FOIA requests? That would be a fun challenge to bring to FOIA Elon's communications.
All the bluster about “election interference” is projection. As usual.
Remember: fascism thrives on apathy. The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up. Don’t give them want they want. Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.
