Andy

Software developer, Photographer, woodworker

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

I remember when getting a consensual blowjob was enough to warrant an impeachment. Now Presidents can pay out $5M+ to the victims they raped and no one fucking bats an eye

[𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈 @worldreads]

terrible time to have a history degree & pattern recognition skills

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Vultures, ALLL OF THEM!

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

2:00 PM: 🇺🇸 U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files which name alleged co-conspirators.

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump REJECTED Court order to hand over redacted Epstein files.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump began bombing Iran. The war restarted.

You connect the dots.

[emily north @north0fnorth]

fun fact: duluth, minnesota is the world’s most inland location accessible to oceangoing ships at over 2300mi/3700km from the atlantic via the great lakes and st lawrence seaway. the ship in this photo is headed from lake superior all the way to the mediterranean!

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

More of the same rehearsed, stock answers from Trump’s judiciary nominees. We need judges who are fearless & strong, not spineless & weak—so fearful of Trump that they are unable to say Biden won the 2020 election.

[Andy @argole11]

@metaphorician This is so cool! Any chance it’ll ever come to Apple Watch?

[Andy @argole11]

In case you weren't keeping track, this is the signal that indicates the beginnings of mid-stage fascism.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on charges of threatening the president’s life. An arrest warrant has been issued and now he could face up to 10-20 years in prison

[Andy @argole11]

@tradeschoolpro I cannot believe I didn't know about this. I've been wanting to go back to school to become an electrician but the prospect of more student loan debt always stopped me. How can I get started in Minnesota?

[The Patriot Voice @TPV_John]

America is the new Babylon.

Trump releasing a mockup of the “Triumphal Arch” he wants to build in Washington D.C. with a statue clearly depicting Lucifer (The Lightbearer) featured on top, and “One Nation Under God” inscribed in gold is quite possibly the MOST Antichrist thing I have EVER seen from Trump.

DEAD SMACK IN OUR FACES.

In case you didn’t know, arches, which are a prominent symbol in Freemasonry, are literal portals for demons to enter though. This is as DEMONIC as it gets.

They have to SHOW US, and Trump is SHOWING US that he is the one to solidify America’s inclusion into the satanic Technocratic NWO One World Government Beast System.

It could NOT be any more obvious, at this point.

Critical thinking and solid discernment is absolutely CRITICAL at this time.

God is going to bring the hammer down HARD on this nation.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

It’s crazy how normal it’s become to drop your kids off at daycare five days a week for eight straight hours, just so you can head to a job that mostly covers the daycare bill, the car you need to get there, and the house you barely spend any time in. We’re trapped in this endless loop of working just to afford a life we hardly ever get to actually live.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

The Book of Revelation really made all this sound like it was going to be more poetic and less stupid.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds.

80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana.

The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load.
They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined.

In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies.

The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative.

The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced.

Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record.

This is not in the advertising.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

[Andy @argole11]

FWIWI, I think siding with the people who threaten the pope puts you on the wrong side of history. https://t.co/lrRtgJatrD

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Famous Wartime quotes by US presidents:

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Washington

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - FDR

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - Truman

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” - Reagan

“Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah” - the crazy one

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking?

coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so

[Larry Nance @Larrydn22]

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943