Grier

Retired from tech, now I make coffee and study the Bible

~tipwyx-wicdef

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

I admire IT people 20 years in who still run home labs. It's like coming home from the egg salad sandwich factory, hearing, "what do you want for dinner, honey?" And saying, "same thing we have every night: egg salad sandwiches."

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2006. Senator Obama slams the Bush Administration for not doing more workplace raids to catch and deport illegal immigrants.

It appears that the Democrat party has changed a little bit over the past 20 years. 🤪

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

There are two reasons you oppose nuclear power.

1) You're stupid.

2) You learned everything you think you know about nuclear power from The Simpsons.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

To those in the future that think Americans never fought back against uncontrolled immigration and who think we have never pushed back before,

In 1919 America had enough.

The globalists do not teach this lesson about our history...

After World War I the country was flooded with millions of immigrants in a very short time. Many refused to assimilate. Labor strikes paralyzed cities. Bombs were mailed to politicians and businessmen. Radical anarchists and communists openly called for the overthrow of the United States. Crime and unrest exploded in major cities.

The American people reached their limit.

What followed was called the Red Summer and the Palmer Raids. The government rounded up thousands of radicals, many of them recent immigrants. Ships were loaded and they were sent back to Europe. In some cases even American-born children of immigrants were deported with their parents if the family was deeply involved in revolutionary activity.

Then came the Immigration Act of 1924. It slammed the door shut. National origins quotas were put in place. Immigration from certain countries was cut by over 90%. The message was clear: America was for Americans first. We needed time to assimilate the people already here and restore order.

That policy worked. Immigration dropped dramatically. Wages for American workers rose. Assimilation improved. The country stabilized and the greatest middle class in history was built in the decades that followed.

We are at a similar moment today.

Once again our borders have been wide open. Once again our cities are strained. Once again American workers are pushed aside. Once again many newcomers show little interest in becoming American.

The lesson from 1919 is simple: when Americans decide they have had enough, they will act. They will vote. They will demand enforcement. They will change the laws. And yes, they will put their own people first.

We are not the first generation to feel this way.

We are simply the latest one that is finally willing to do what is necessary to take our country back.

Has the time has come again.

[Grier @grierj]

lol

lmao

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

A critical bug in the Rust clone of the “cp” command is causing Ubuntu builds to fail.

In order to get Ubuntu builds to work again, the Ubuntu team decided to revert back to the GNU Coreutils version of “cp”.

This came after Canonical’s VP of Engineering stated that ALL (100%) of the GNU “Coreutils” would be replaced with Rust-based (MIT licensed) clones… by the release of Ubuntu 26.10.

That’s 4 months from now.

[Grier @grierj]

Happy 136th birthday, Idaho. You’re a gem of a state.

[MintyHawk @minty_hawk]

About 100 years ago, on July 5, 1926, the least talkative president in American history stood up in Philadelphia and gave what I'd argue is the best speech anyone has ever given about the Declaration of Independence. Not many read it anymore. The 250th seems like a good time to fix that. /1

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.

The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.

We recovered the real footage using Utopai 🧵👇

[Master Cheeks @WiggerMaggot]

I need someone to actually explain to me why no movies look like this anymore
Even when modern movies brag about being shot on film they still look indistinguishable from all the other digitally shot modern slop

[Zachary Werrell, Esq. @zkwerrell]

Yes, John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, it is just “revisionism” to claim that the understanding of the 14th Amendment’s use of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant something other than; as you put it, “the power of the United States to govern those within its territory.”

So I guess Thomas J Cooley, namesake of Michigan’s School of Law, when writing his textbook “Principles of Constitutional Law” in 1880 and as revised in this 1891 edition, was engaged in revisionist history?

He was announcing a made up, revisionist understanding of the 14th Amendment, and not capturing the public or even legal understanding of that phrase?

M’kay.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

This is a lie

Many of the migrants that arrived in this period were committed political radicals, typically socialist or anarchists, many of whom were violent terrorists at worst and political agitators who stirred up the Public at best

It caused immense and hugely deleterious political upheaval in America that pushed America towards socialism and the catastrophe of FDR

In fact, this era was such a disaster from an immigration point of view that we had to change the law in 1924 to shut it down and start deporting as many of these people as possible

The immigration scene in this period was a catastrophe that did much to harm America

That America survived it all was only because immigration was shut off for two generations afterward a huge number of these people were either deported or encouraged through loss of economic opportunity to self migrate, and the FBI cracked down on socialism and anarchism in a huge way that would not be permitted now.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

You think these events belong to distant history, but most of you do not know that Muslims were slaughtering and expelling millions of Christians until 1922, that is, until about 100 years ago, events very fresh in the memories of Greeks and Armenians, with survivors recounting what they experienced even today.

For the mass extermination and genocide of the Greeks and the Armenians from Anatolia, the Turkish authorities used the most terrible and barbaric plans: they looted, raped, burned entire villages, tortured, mutilated, slaughtered, burned, and even buried alive men, women, children, elders, and turned extensive Greek Christian communities that until then flourished and radiated their cultural brilliance throughout the East into vast cemeteries.

In Turkey, Islamizations were methodical with the establishment of special orphanages, where orphaned Greek and Armenian children were gathered, whose parents had been slaughtered or expelled from their own homes and ancestral land, or children who were forcibly abducted from their parents' hands. In these orphanages' young inmates, pure Muslim and Turkish education was provided, which inevitably led to their Islamization. This exact role was played by the orphanage of Panormos, which was founded at the suggestion and instruction of the German general Liman von Sanders. Another method of Islamization was the forced and violent settlement of 5-10 Greek families in compact Turkish villages, from where any exit and communication with Greek populations was prohibited.

Senator Damat Ferit Pasha (former Grand Vizier) reveals the following in the session of the Turkish Senate on October 22, 1918:

"The annihilation of the Christian populations is attributable as a crime to the Committee of Union and Progress, and it was a crime committed without any reason. The populations were forced to leave under threat and violence and were mercilessly exterminated… The total number of Ottoman subjects deported in this way amounts to 550,000 souls; I fear, however, that this number is lower than the actual one."

Furthermore, Valide Edip Hanım, one of the most distinguished journalists in Turkey, writes in the newspaper "Vakit" (October 22, 1918):

"We drove away our Greek subjects and did everything to uproot them, as we did with the Armenians, and for this purpose we used methods resembling those of the Middle Ages. The theory of forced Islamization became the cause of a criminal tragedy in the hands of robbers and murderers. Governors, prefects, officials, endowed with absolute power by the Committee, cast upon the shoulders of the innocent Turkish element the entire burden of the unspeakable atrocities."

And the Turkish newspaper "Akam" wrote the following:

"The Ottoman government committed these unspeakable crimes, and for this reason the government bears full responsibility…"

The "Death Marches" of the Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians were one of the most horrific aspects of the Genocide, carried out by the Kemalist forces and the Young Turks.

They found a way to make themselves the most barbarious people in history.

During these marches, thousands of Greeks and Armenians, mainly women, children, and the elderly, were forced to leave their homes and walk for hundreds of kilometers under inhumane conditions, usually through mountains and deserts, with little or no food, water, or shelter. These deportations were ostensibly for "relocation" purposes, but they were in fact designed to lead to mass death through exhaustion, starvation, disease, and exposure. It was a planned Genocide. Simple as that.

This is how a real Genocide looks like.

That's how the pseudo-nation that is called Turkey was created.

Only 100 years ago.

Constantinople, Cyprus, Pontus, Asia Minor, Cappadocia.

We will never forget.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Exhibit A of how you can’t blindly believe whatever left-wing nonsense you read on social media. There has NEVER been any such thing as an EPA requirement for public water utilities to test for microplastics in drinking water. The claim is complete fiction. As a matter of fact, the technology to test and treat for microplastics in drinking water is still in development. Too much fake news out there trying to dumb down Americans. In the meantime, however, for the first time ever, the Trump Admin just added microplastics to the Contaminant Candidate List.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Git. Without the Rust. Awesome.

Two days ago, the Git team released Git 2.55. A key "feature" of that new release being the incremental, forced adoption of the Rust programming language and toolchain for building Git.

Today, the "Libre-WD40" project (because WD40 removes rust), has released Git 2.55.0... "WD-40 flavor".

With two simple changes:

- Rust removed.
- Default branch changed to "master".

This is *exactly* how Open Source is supposed to work.

The developer of a project does something that some people don't want, so another developer forks it and gets rid of the problem.

https://t.co/JtrrSmXmUr

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

what's remarkable is that everyone saying this _actually believes it_

we somehow completely memory-holed the extent and intensity of civic instability caused by mass immigration from europe, and the brutality of the forced assimilation that ended it

what's left is a fairy tale

[Updated Works @updatedworks]

We are going to translate 1,000+ years of Christian writings from Latin into English.

Introducing the Patrologia Latina Translation Project. 🧵

[John Birch Society @The_JBS]

The KIDS Act is really about Digital ID, not “safety standards”. Everyone paying attention knows that.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Whenever I vowed to arrest bad guys, the pushback was always "you can't do that! There's no room in the jails!"

Communists close the jails, then they can use the "not enough jails" excuse to never enforce the law, as your city erodes.

See their little commie magic trick?

This is how you sneakily eliminate the laws that hold society together...you don't need legislature, you don't need to erase the laws, you just render them moot by making it practically impossible to ever enforce.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Bushra has it exactly backwards. Islam is not an established part of the West, but the West is very much an established part of Islam. "Western" society has simply become the universal culture. Her own backwater has been eaten alive by it.

Bushra herself is an example of this. She speaks English, wears makeup, lets her hair down, and posts tawdry thirst pics on Insta, just like any other deracinated libidinous attention-seeking American thot. Her arguments for tolerance of her people are not framed using the hadiths, but couched in the universalist language developed by Western liberal philosophers. Bushra is the West wearing the Ummah like a skinsuit.