Ridge Gordon

Information Technology Consultant, Network Administrator, Systems Engineer, Entrepreneur, Philosopher, Agnostic, and Democratic Socialist.

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@kmcnam1 Why you gotta be so gorgeous? 😍🫠

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Chris,

I can start by telling you who my audience is not.

It is NOT you.

It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties.

It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people.

It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics.

The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit.

The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love.

Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again.

My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me.

My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal.

And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18+ hours of unscripted pod casts I have done.

I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post.

And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns.

So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

You can’t make this shit up.

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

Executive Function: “Finish the project”

ADHD: “Counteroffer: start a new project”

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@davepl1968 I'm disappointed some version of taskmgr.exe isn't on there!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

CBS has been forced to pay a fine after Stephen Colbert played an unlicensed Peanuts song on air during his last episode.

The owner of the rights to Peanuts has donated the fee to José Andrés' charity, World Central Kitchen.

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@davepl1968 @harperlee789 First one that came to my mind.

...although I'm young enough I know about it, even though I shouldn't. 😛

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bob Odenkirk has returned as Saul Goodman in a new video celebrating 250 years of America.

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 Hackers found a way into Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect VPN without a password.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, lets attackers bypass PAN-OS authentication and establish unauthorized VPN sessions.

Palo Alto says it’s already being used in real attacks.

If you run GlobalProtect, check this now.

Details ➝ https://t.co/OSarZ4i9jF

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@TimoRuetten @Cooking4Company @davepl1968 @JWalters314 According to him, he's the one, and only true god of managing tasks. 😅

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@davepl1968 @JWalters314 For someone as 'progressive' as you try to come off, you sure as hell do say some of the dumbest fucking things, Dave.

I'm on the spectrum myself, and I'm not, nor ever try to be an inconsiderate asshole; you'll have to find a new excuse as to why you are.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

there are plenty of open source apps that can do what you are tying to do. Adobe is not worth it. they try to charge you 100 of bucks when you try to cancel their subscriptions. so even paid users are fed up with em

[Futurama Quotes @QuotesFuturama]

Alright! It's Saturday night, I have no date, a two-litre bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix tape.

Let's rock!

#Futurama

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@glitch_prod Love you guys, love the show, and even the other GLITCH productions... as a business guy I understand the drive... but damn, does this feel like a 'jumping the shark' moment.

[Ridge Gordon @ridgeg]

@valigo Nah, KDE has always been the superior DE !

[Ubuntu @ubuntu]

Starting with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, @Canonical Livepatch now extends its rebootless kernel patching capability to Arm64 for the first time. For organizations running Ubuntu on Arm64 server and edge hardware, this means critical kernel updates can be applied without service interruption.

Learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: https://t.co/zd5IMMYIeX

#Ubuntu #Livepatch #Security

[Rick Brewster @rickbrewPDN]

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉

Paint​.NET is now at https://t.co/ZJTUII4bVG!

Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.