Late-career techie working to become early-career novelist. Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.https://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3me464osbnk2jThe Super Bowl is going to be lit https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/05/bad-bunny-puerto-rico-spanish-super-bowl-halftime-show05 Feb 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3me464osbnk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3md27i2bjk22cOn the shortlist of sentences folks from 100 years ago would least understand: "It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design."22 Jan 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3md27i2bjk22chttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcwoz2oq622cThe only quibble I have with this article is that it says Trump is using ICE to suppress dissent, which is backwards. Trump is using ICE to inflame dissent, which creates a pretext for escalation. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump21 Jan 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwoz2oq622chttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcufqnkgks2xThis is hopeful. Do you think anything will come from it? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/ice-immigrarion-minnesota-economic-protest20 Jan 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcufqnkgks2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcrryk2p5227The Guardian. Will Congress find someone in contempt? Don't hold your breath.19 Jan 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrryk2p5227https://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcrrjc7en22v“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski19 Jan 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrrjc7en22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcmpffycxk2vI wouldn't have bet that Greenland would be the issue that turned the tide, but I'll take it. It's a good one because megalomania is the only reason Trump is pursuing it.17 Jan 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcmpffycxk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mclcal77222vWho are the "agitators" in this scene? 9.47: “NEED CROWD CONTROL.” 9:50: “CROWD GETTING HOSTILE.” 10.07: “CONTACT WHO IS IN CHARGE OF FEDS AND HAVE THEM LEAVE SCENE.” 10.20: “CROWD GETTING MORE AGITATED” 11:01: “ICE BEING SURROUNDED.” 11.20: “CROWD CALMED DOWN NOW THAT ICE IS GONE.”16 Jan 2026 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mclcal77222vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mcccne7cok2313 Jan 2026 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcccne7cok23https://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mbvxbeuvr22zWhat does the world desperately NOT need? A doorbell with an app store.08 Jan 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbvxbeuvr22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mbqq6rt3l22yNation states are the monstrous ghosts of yesterday's world. Long live city states! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/06/we-have-a-new-role-mayors-across-the-world-increasingly-taking-on-societys-biggest-challenges06 Jan 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbqq6rt3l22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mbm4hopea224Maybe Chevron, but whatever [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jan 2026 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbm4hopea224https://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mbefuei3ic2rCould this be the wave breaking at the high water mark for fascism in the US? Will we be a nation of laws after all? If we speak and act as if that was the case, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-national-guard-deployment-stopped01 Jan 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbefuei3ic2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mb7fecgwbs2aDon't waste your energy supporting a party that lost, twice, to Donald Trump and thinks it has no lessons to learn from its stupendous incompetence. Make them earn your support or you'll continue to see more of the same. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/democratic-party-autopsy-report-2024-election30 Dec 2025 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb7fecgwbs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3mb5gy4nc4k2aMTG is scorn-worthy in many ways, but the public MAGA exit she's performing now is the only way the country can return to sanity. If we cut her some slack, others may follow. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-interview29 Dec 2025 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb5gy4nc4k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3maev6eh7b22v"Heavily redacted" is the operative phase. That's what the delay was for.19 Dec 2025 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3maev6eh7b22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3ma7vgqxvvk2y18 Dec 2025 00:14 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma7vgqxvvk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3ma7vahturk2y18 Dec 2025 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma7vahturk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3m7zahkajfk2lhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/14/activist-trump-democracy-authoritarianism15 Dec 2025 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zahkajfk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3m7tjvqazck2jSatire is dead; there's no way to top this https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/ice-fbi-legal-chaos13 Dec 2025 02:16 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7tjvqazck2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3m7tju6fkmk2jNo room at the inn13 Dec 2025 02:15 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7tju6fkmk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3m7pfgibay22jI'm shocked to learn "beach ball" isn't one word. Germans know what they're doing. Wasserball.11 Dec 2025 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pfgibay22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andyness.bsky.social/post/3m7omkaidz226If only corporations adopt AI, that ensures only dystopian AI will be developed. If you want personal growth, social connection, transparency on the powerful, and an end to drugery, then demand AI that gets us these things we've struggled to secure in other ways.11 Dec 2025 03:20 +0000at://did:plc:rcjzveo5tzprwg2kqxfbb7o7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7omkaidz226