Brian Clapper
Dad, professional software geek, amateur musician, amateur cartoonist, amateur calligrapher. I'm also @bmc@jawns.club on Mastodon. I'm located outside Philly and work for a Bay Area tech company. [He/him]
Find me at www.clapper.org/bmc
- What's worse than the endless emails exhorting me to fill out a survey? One that tells me filling out the survey will "only take 10 to 15 minutes of your time."
- I taught myself calligraphy when I was 14. I'm, by no means, a typographer, but I am a bit of a type nerd, due to decades of doing calligraphy. @timesnewboman.com's YouTube channel, which I have only just discovered, is a true delight for any type or design nerd: www.youtube.com/@LinusBoman/...
- Exactly. I don't know what the big deal is, either. Someone else's gender identity doesn't affect you at all. If it does, there's something wrong with you, not them.
- Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
- At the May Day protest I attended, one person had a sign with image. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Note: I'm NOT saying everyone at Tesla deserves to be tarred with the same brush as Musk. But, by his actions, Musk is certainly doing a bang-up job of tarnishing Tesla's image.
- The cruelty is the point.
- One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
- The cruelty is the point. An "AI workshop" for the children of GSA employees whose jobs are threatened by AI. This is beyond mere tone-deafness. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/on-take-yo...
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- My retirement investments are down more than $60,000 since this Trumpian idiocy began. Does everyone feel like we're winning yet?
- If you support this administration's horrific immigrant round-ups, I ask that you do two things. 1. Watch the attached video. 2. Block me. Please. (Seriously, fuck off.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hpg...
- Huh. Not a trans person. Not a drag queen. Not a "libtard". Nope, as usual, it's a white Christian male, active in a non-denominational evangelical church — which, probabilistically, identifies him as Republican. Yet another right-wing, Bible-banging, child molester. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
- Posted by @rbreich.bsky.social on Another Social Media Site. This is madness and idiocy. Move fast, and breaking every damned thing.
- Rep. Earl "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), has introduced a bill authorizing the President to negotiate with Denmark to acquire Greenland. Once acquired, Greenland is to be renamed "Red, White and Blueland". Yet another Republican legislator publicly licking Trump's shoes… www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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- It sounds like it's time to increase the amount I routinely donate to Wikipedia. www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
- Expect more of this, now that a boneheaded antivaxxer is in charge of Health and Human Services.
- This is the group of tech geniuses currently trolling through often-sensitive government data. www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
- Full text of the resignation letter from Hagan Scotten, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Scotten objects to efforts to use the case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams as a carrot and stick to get Adams to support the Trump Administration's objectives.
- Democrats are still bugging me for money. Dems, until you have an actual strategy, until you stop whining that liberals want you to do more (Hakim Jeffries), until you rein in next-gen Manchins (John Fetterman), until you do more than yell pointless slogans at protests, you'll get no more from me.
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- Fetterman is now apparently lining up behind Trump's lunatic "occupy Gaza" proposal. Why did I ever vote for that ill-dressed bag of d!cks? I certainly won't vote for him again. I will gladly donate to anyone Dem who primaries him in 2028.
- Done with Fetterman.
- It's not really about porn. It's the same old "protect the children" misdirection that's being used, ultimately, to suppress and discriminate against groups of people they hate.
- Reposted by Brian ClapperJUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.
- If you're worried, but you don't know how to help, here's a list of things you can do. Obviously, it's not comprehensive, but there are some great suggestions here, and not all of them require that you have tons of spare cash to donate.
- In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...
- Field workers are not showing up to pick crops, for fear of being detained by Border Patrol. In some cases, this is already leading to crops being unpicked. Expect food prices to rise, as anyone with half a brain has been saying all along. newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
- If you're horrified by Trump's anti-LGBTQIA+ executive orders, and you have a little extra money, consider donating to groups that support the people he and the Republicans are attacking. The Trevor Project is a good place to start. (I've been donating to them for awhile.) www.thetrevorproject.org
- When there are no penalties for corruption and unethical behavior, why bother even trying to hide it?
- "Posts about banning or potentially banning Twitter links are some of the most popular posts on all of Reddit over the last day." www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
- Long thread with some interesting thoughts. Worth reading.
- Reposted by Brian ClapperPeople with eyes: "Elon Musk make a Nazi salute." Historians who have studied the rise of fascism: "Elon Musk made a Nazi salute." Mainstream Media: "Elon Musk made a heartfelt gesture that was misconstrued as a Nazi salute."
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- "What we're doing to undermine artists is fine, because, you know, people don't really like making music anyway." [Paraphrased] This is the kind of asshole helping to drive the AI hype machine. Speaking as someone who makes music, this guy can go fuck himself. www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-mu...
- Reposted by Brian ClapperThis is good. H/t @jvl.bsky.social Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...
- I love this guy's videos. This is just one excellent example of him deconstructing a classic well-known song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xvc...
- Reposted by Brian ClapperThe world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
- Even if we appear to have the same values, if you respond to a post with a personal insult, I will block you. I'm not interested in having trolls or abusive assholes cluttering up my feed. You want to disagree with me? That's fine. Just keep it civil (and preferably rational), or take it elsewhere.
- 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹, other than to pad their own follower counts and, in many cases, pad their bank accounts.
- Friendly reminder that you can change your Bluesky handle to an Internet domain you control. It's one way to reassure people that it's really you and not an impersonator. It's not difficult. See bsky.social/about/blog/4... for details. (It took me about 10 minutes to become @clapper.org here.)
- So tired of all the "resistance memes". At the very least, write a fucking check to an actual organization, instead. Otherwise, it's just performative horseshit.
- Yes, because at this precise moment in history, this is the kind of hard-hitting, no-nonsense legislation we need from Democrats. 🙄 JFC...
- It's hard to think of an email hosting provider I'd be less likely to use than one owned by Musk.
- @edzitron.com Good podcast on the state of ad tech. Thanks. Keep it up, man.
- Classic bait-and-switch. If you believed any of his campaign promises, you really are an idiot. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
- The rage is real and justified. I'd love to see it get translated into actual change. What UnitedHealthcare did to this woman's late husband, and what they're now doing to her, is awful. It's hard to argue with her characterization of them as evil.
- In case you didn't already think he's a complete asshole with a massive empathy deficit:
- Meanwhile, in an alternate universe...
- Good riddance. Chaya Raichik is a truly awful human.
- This composite image from Facebook says everything. (The reactions are correct. I just pasted them into the post instead of showing a screencapped pop-up.)
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- Yup.
- In case you still had any lingering doubts that Kash Patel is a vindictive shit who's eminently unqualified to head any government agency, let alone the FBI...
- Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
- Here's a fun (and long) watch. The presenter, who has a physics Ph.D., does a deep, discursive dive into Feynman. Fair warning, it's not all positive. But it drills past the mystique & post-mortem commercialization. I found it fascinating. (Your mileage may vary.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKp...
