@dbrand666

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I'm told having a bio makes you less creepy, so...

Dad, husband (desktop support), engineer.

Mostly harmless.

Joined The Great Resignation in 2021 after 40 or so years in tech. Definitely not one of the "80% who regret their decision" according to Paychex survey 🤔.

Still messing with tech on my own terms, traveling, learning to read, reflecting.

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dbrand6664d ago
Show threadMatthew Exon5d ago

@johnquiggin Damn, imagine the alternate universe...

  • Amazon invests 105 G$ in WFH in 2025, Microsoft 80 G$, Google 75 G$
  • Stock market punishes companies for failing to keep up with WFH trend
  • Zillions of LinkedIn posts explaining how to integrate WFH into your workflow
  • Government commissions tasked with reorganising bureaucracy around WFH
dbrand666Jul 19
Show threadRoger MooreJul 18
@QuarkMaker @joewo
Brown v Board of Education happened. There are a lot of people on the right who would be fine with Socialism as long as they could make it Whites Only. There is a straight line from White Southern resistance to the Civil Rights Movement to Trumpism that passes through Nixon's Southern Strategy, Reaganism, and the Tea Party.
dbrand666Jul 7
HighlandLawyerJul 6

@publixpace @MeanwhileinCanada
While the exact comparison of precisely which Nazi German concentration camp the US concentration camp is most like may be of academic interest, the most important point is that the US is building a concentration camp directly comparable with Nazi German concentration camps.

Also bear in mind Auschwitz was providing slave labour at least a year before it started industrialised murder by gas chambers. Such slave labour is already being proposed for the US camp.

dbrand666Jul 7
I Did It I Threw The Sandwich HatJul 7
Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com: Susie Barnshaw, a junior at a high school in Queens, is a bitch with a fat ass. Though this is not normally within the scope of our paper’s focus we realized that we were about to be scooped by @LolBigDickBoiii69420 on Twitter.
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dbrand666Jul 5
Show threadMoved to @hazelnoot@enby.lifeAug 30, 2023
@split when I was in high school, several math websites were blocked for "prohibited educational content" and if that doesn't perfectly describe the US education system ​
dbrand666Jul 1
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!Jun 30

This is amazing. Please share far and wide! I don't care if you boost me or put it on your own account, just please share:

USC's journalism school has stepped up big time, helping people to file motions to have their immigration hearings via Zoom. Then they can avoid the #ICE monsters abducting them from the court houses.

"USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online"

#immigration #Trump #fascism

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/usc-agents-of-change-establishes-hotline-to-help-move-immigration-hearings-online/

USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration cases.

Annenberg Media
dbrand666Jun 17
Show threadAngus McIntyreJun 14
@billclawson @pluralistic Essentially, political power in the US is now divided between a repressive death cult and a fundraising business, and the reason that the death cult keeps winning is because at least you can get people excited about joining a death cult.
dbrand666Jun 16
paulJun 16

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @fkamiah17

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

dbrand666Jun 15
hackadayJun 15

Electromechanical Atari is a Steampunk Meccano Masterpiece

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/electromechanical-atari-is-a-steampunk-meccano-masterpiece/

Electromechanical Atari Is A Steampunk Meccano Masterpiece

If William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as i…

Hackaday
dbrand666Jun 14
Court Cantrell prefers not toJun 14

Y'ALL.

I just got home from the #NoKings protest in #OKC.

Early numbers reports and a statement from the rally podium say THIS WAS THE BIGGEST PROTEST IN #OKLAHOMA HISTORY.

It was gorgeous.

We marched for about 1.2 miles to the rallying point outside City Hall. This took about 30 min.
Spouse & I were with 5 friends (3 more joined us later). By the time we had been at the rallying point for 20 min, the marchers further back WERE STILL COMING.

Literally every flavor of human represented.
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