DC based; lived/worked in 40+ countries. Built/run tech companies; at home in the woods. Single Dad to 2 (now adult) amazing women. Spent 3 years trying to stop the fascists.Travel is the antidote to prejudice. All my dogs are rescues; car guy who builds
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It’s bizarre to me that the whole Project 2025 “Let’s integrate religion into our society” crowd is spending all their energy instituting policies that are against every tenet of the religion they profess to believe in. It’s like the 11th Commandment is “Just Kidding, Hate on Everyone, grab the $$”
Trump is clearly incapacitated and his co-conspirators are using an auto-pen. Prove me wrong by releasing the Epstein files and holding public hearings with all his victims that volunteer.
Rare American long-haired coyote!
Yes of course. American cars especially came with incredibly bad body panel fit and paint. Certainly every car I’ve built has been much better than factory, and for years car show judges took away points if you exceeded factory fit and finish. Weird.
Fuck yes and that’s another right pick for a fight!
Fun project and yes I was showing off the bodywork those cars are so damn hard to get to where they look perfectly straight. They weren’t great from the factory, and black paint is very unforgiving. That car is certainly the most perfect 55 Caddy that exists. I can say that after many, many hours.
First off stop posting paid news sites, second: Fuck you. Newsome is the only effective Democrat posting.
Oh gimme gimme gimme let me help! Let’s go on these fake religious politicians, pastors and churches!
Kind of a labor of love. He’s one of my best friends, he’s had that car 50 years. It was a wreck, rusty, multiple accidents, seized motor etc. At one point kids practiced tap dancing on the roof. He promised his grandma it would stay in the family, so it’s a matter of pride to make it perfect.
We did the full body prep, the motor and trans are done and we’ll pop those in this week at some point. Then wiring. I hate wiring. Just the harness for that car is $8000 and it will take 100 hours. Then trim, glass and interior.
No really I’m an introvert and I hate everyone. Except dogs. And online people. And my neighbors. Oh and my friends at the diner. And the car people. And of course the people I work with . Oh and well that one flirty lady at the bookstore.
A lot done this weekend but I had planned a whole rebuild of an old Italian brake system and it pretty much spit on me and hurled insults I don’t even understand so now I’ll just go back to hardcore analytics for a breather. Math is universal.
Playlist: Better off dead No rest for the wicked Oh Death Payback Revenga
Yep. For Trump, growing up in the 60s/70s he clearly craved the social acceptance that the Kennedy’s had, especially as a New Yorker. He’s pretty simple to figure out: Now he has a Kennedy working for HIM. He’s finally arrived!
I hate people.
Like every long weekend I’m exhausted. I don’t know how my weekends always end up being 6am to 11pm things but damn I’m tired of being social.
No idea he was an ancestor of Jeffrey Dahmer!
Well that’s 3 years of work…
But he doesn’t have the cult following. Ending this juggernaut starts at the head.
It’s more fun to build a car when it has meaning in the family!
The “JD” in JD Vance is for Jefferson Davis.
Helping a friend restore his grandmother’s 55 Caddy. It’s out of paint so we’re doing cut and polish. The metalwork and prep were a beast on this, but here’s what a couple hundred hours of prep gets you…
While we all joke about him being dead, he’s in a back room plotting to invade Illinois and declare martial law.
Unlocked: When I say knowingly polluted, this is what I’m referring to: www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/m...
Great place, you meet all types there.
Theres’s a local deli I love that still offers a breakfast special: Eggs and a bagel with coffee $5. Their rule is no cell phones or newspapers, you sit at the counter and talk to each other like humans.
Trump appointed Steven Cook to the EPA, where he is rapidly rewriting rules to shift costs of environmental cleanups to taxpayers and away from companies. Those companies KNOWINGLY polluted, but now you are going to pay even as they give themselves massive bonuses. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
Outgoing Gov Youngkin attempts to appoint the least-qualified, hateful chaos agents to the boards of VA's finest schools. Ken Cuccinelli was soundly rejected by VA voters a decade ago, so he went on to an illegal Trump appointment, then Project 2025. virginiamercury.com/2025/08/28/s...
Burgos once ran for the Virginia Hoise in District 41, and yep that’s the local Republican Party retweeting him…
Republicans in Virginia saying the quiet part out loud.
The weird thing is I can’t find ANYTHING else about that car other than that one Ad. I’m betting it’s a rebranded kit.
Hmm, yep it’s not an Excalibur given the GM door handles. Damnit I hate to be wrong! I don’t think it’s a Riva though they just didn’t make anything with that wheelbase?
That my friends is an 80’s Excalibur. Supposedly styled like an SS100, GM powered.
It was a really fun little car. Sometimes I should leave things alone, but I never learn. As soon as I get my hands on a car I start “improving” it. Every once in a while physics and mechanical limits slap me down hard.
GTSI. We formed the company in 1983, at the time I didn’t know or care about Scientology. We built the company, took it public. We did systems integration work for government clients. The other founders who were Scientologists left their beliefs out of it.
I work in the legal field, and once founded a successful company with some Scientologists, no I don’t. Lawyers represent lots of causes many of us don’t like; religious people can be competent in a field despite their religion. You posted Newsome is a Scientologist, do YOU see the problem?
Sometimes when you decide to make a car go faster it decides not to cooperate: The RS5 did a few test runs at 700 WHP and then threw a rod, grenading the motor, destroying the hood, the radiator and the firewall. Bummer. RIP my little red friend.
All that says is he appointed a Scientology-representing attorney to the courts. William Forman is a partner at Winston & Strawn and has been named a top 25 lawyer in CA multiple times. How does this make Newsome a Scientologist?
Took a Trump-free day playing with cars in WV…
He is absolutely not a Scientologist. He’s a non practicing Catholic. He once dated a Scientologist, that’s all.
Waking up and not looking so he’ll be Schrödinger’s Trump.
Breaking News: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out fast-track deportations of people detained far from the southern border.
I’m at a thing in Arlington and a 30-something just referred to the Union Kitchen on the corner as a bodega and I just burst out laughing.
It’s bizarre to watch the local news here in DC. @nbcwashington.com , @fox5dc.com.web.brid.gy and frankly all of them just covering an invading force in our nation’s capital like it’s normal or like they don’t get this is the end of our country. Joking with the weatherman about the weekend…
of attenuations of faith. I’d like to understand the reconciliation of your faith and your politics. No judgement, just trying to understand. Seriously.
Can someone who is an active and deep believer in Christianity please explain how they support the Republican complete demonization, eradication and brutal enforcement of accelerated deportation and criminalization of amnesty seekers? I’m being genuine. I see all of your posts of Bible verses, 1/
The dude is quite good. Democrats and their litmus tests kill all of us by their demands for complete agreement on everything. I’m good with Newsome, with Cuban, with Zohran. I don’t care that they don’t align with some of what I’d like: AOC over Schumer any damn day
their religion every day. As much as I disagreed with them, I learned a heck of a lot about the insane hypocrisy of “religious freedom” in this country, and the wide berth you get if you declare something a sincerely held belief. It’s time we turned the tables on these idiots. I’d be in
I’ve thought a LOT about this kind of strategy. Early in my career I got involved starting a company with a bunch of folks who were/are Scientologists. TL;DR but we actually built the company and got it public snd it really launched some great careers. Along the way I watched folks fight for 1/
It went from literally $.01 a tablet to $10 a tablet; for no reason but arcane rules that the FDA actually encouraged companies to use to increase profits. It’s on Cuban’s site for a little more that $.23 a tablet…
For years I had to take Colchicine, which was an extremely effective drug for high uric acid levels but wasn’t actually approved by the FDA for that use. It was a drug that everyone used for decades until a drug company filed a patent for actual use in lowering uric acid levels. 1/
Trump requests for JD Vance to be buried alive with him
Personally I’m leaving the country : what’s your plan? Don’t tell me I have to fight, I literally put everything down for the past 4 years to use my knowledge, my company and my entire life to convict him.
Marked safe from being paid $8,000 month to deceive you.
There is no material in nature as bendable as Republican principles.
If guns could get Covid the vaccine would be free and mandatory.
I dunno about you guys but I wouldn’t trust my 2nd in command if he just came out and said “I’m ready to go when the leader dies!”
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”
and give you a nod to a life well-lived and a love found and nurtured.
publicly, and that can witness what we all hope we can find in this lifetime: A human relationship of 2 souls who found each other against all odds, and who’s life work reflects that shared love even as one flame begins to flicker and falter. Bravo Ms. Gardner, and to you Mac I raise a glass 8/
It’s a small world. As I watch the disintegration of Twitter into a wretched wasteland of hatred and disinformation, I still count myself as lucky that I can encounter such remarkable people on a simple messaging platform. That I can suddenly find a wealth of astonishing knowledge available 7/
my favorites: his thoughts on the moral and ethical considerations around genetic testing for certain conditions for young women and whether it’s wrong to withhold that information from pregnant women or women contemplating pregnancy obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
state of affairs. Over the past few days, I’ve browsed Mac’s amazing work, and really it’s astonishing in both breadth and depth: Dozens of amazing papers, books, research articles and Journal contributions that range from analysis of specific genetic traits, conditions and linkages to 5/
Over the many years K has posted , she’s cheerfully noted Mac’s ups and downs: K herself is a California born, surf and 70’s raised nurse, who has the delightful ability to sync and understand American culture combined with the very admirable Kiwi trait of being gentle in her commentary of our 4/
It’s difficult to convey on a little platform like this. If you’re curious, just a fraction is covered here (about his writings) www.otago.ac.nz/paediatrics-... or, on the less academic but just “what a great couple” it’s here (on his run for Parliament) newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/t... 3/
embarrassed to say that only a few weeks ago did I start digging into Mac and his writings and frankly amazing contributions in medicine, biology, genetics and general human understanding of chromosomes and associated disorders. His life, and their life together, has been so rich in contribution 2/
I’ve gotten to know Mac (and “K”’s cat, and friends, and son, and many others) through her posts. Over the years, we’ve chatted about every topic imaginable on here, with K sometimes dropping references to Mac’s work, his positive attitude in illness, their life in New Zealand together. I’m
Sometimes, on these sites, you just meet someone, or “someones” special. Many many of us met @kgardner.bsky.social on Twitter, I’ve kept up with her on Bluesky, and if you haven’t you should. Recently she posted about a “pre-funeral” celebration for her love and husband Mac, who doesn’t post.
Autocorrect and my own impatient inability to proof before posting will be on my tombstone.
This happened to me in 1989 and the damn chisel company didn’t help at all.
You can’t spell Incel without ICE.
He’s dying.
My daughter is moving to her new home tomorrow. I’ve moved her 5 times starting with her first year of college, through transfers, law school, her first post-grad apartment. She came to drop dog Greg for the weekend, and asked that I bring a truck and “help”. She wanted to ensure I wasn’t left out.
Important thread.
After firing or forcing out over 100 immigration judges who wouldn’t just order immediate deportations, the Trump administration is now hiring people with no immigration experience to replace them. abcnews.go.com/US/replenish...
You can look at this endlessly... 😊 #animals #bluesky #nature
Kilmar Abrego Garcia just needs to file paperwork to run for President. Then nobody can touch him. That's how this works, right?
Lord forbid we forget the history of cracker barrel... we have to get rid of the history of slavery but we must not forget cracker barrel history. Bland ass food 🙄
Your “right” to a firearm doesn’t trump my right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A background check, mental health check, annual certification of competency along with reasonable limits on firepower are not infringements.
Brad is no hero to democracy, he’s just a partisan who prefers to cheat legally.
Next RFK is going to declare he sees witches when he walks through airports. In fact, it’s more likely he sees witches than “spotting” mitochondrial changes.
I worked so hard on that in 2016 only to see Trump win. And yet I have to do it again…
Shockingly, when you introduce a police state crime goes down. North Korea has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. I’m sure they are happy.
More than 500,000 Georgians that Republicans don’t want to vote were removed.
A “hacker” with no coding experience and limited English used Anthropic’s AI model “Claude” to completely organize and execute a hack and extort scheme against US companies netting $ Millions.
This dude was one of the original PayPal founders (well, a bit player but still made massive $$) along with Thiel and Musk. Yet another Trump supporter with ZERO introspection, he’s gleefully cheering them targeting Bolton.
Glenn Youngkin has vetoed every common sense gun control in VA: He vetoed waiting periods, mandatory secure storage, straw purchasing prohibitions, and reinstated massive gunfests in VA that promote unlimited ammunition buys. Virginia has had some of the worst school massacres. He’s done nothing.
What environment are you hosting in? In line translation is nearly free at this point and heck yes I’d use it. At this point Bluesky IS the place for science so I find myself copying and translating all the time.
Freedom is not being able to get a preventative vaccine for you or your family because a guy with no medical degrees decides he doesn’t trust them with absolutely no basis. ‘Merica!
The fact that we have news organizations publishing polls as to whether Americans support blatantly illegal authoritarian acts by our criminally convicted “President” kinda says it all.
Not too long ago, it was white parents not knowing how to explain the interracial couple in the movie to their kids. I wonder how Snoop would’ve felt about that.
I’m now getting 5-7 robocalls A DAY from different numbers offering me a pre-approved personal loan and I can’t get Verizon to stop them. This is because Republicans in Congress defunded the “Do Not Call” prosecutions. We just live in a giant Republican grift.
This is NOT an investment in VA: They are building data centers that will suck nearly 50% of our power capacity by 2030. EVERY increase in electric rates in VA for the past decade has been to feed data centers. VA residents are subsidizing every major tech company.
Why doesn’t America own 10% of Trump’s companies?
This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school. On their third day of classes.
So to get this straight, Government is better at managing things than the private sector. Correct?
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
We are one step away from Trump executing political enemies with canons.