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@hteasley

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What the Thousand-Year Blood Reign Means for Gas Prices “Death toll in Middle East surpasses 1,100 as missile strikes continue.” — The Independent Gas prices continue to surge in the US, rising 14 perce...

"Ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump."

11.03.2026 01:40 👍 63 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

If #Italy mercy rules #USA I am going to laugh so hard. #WBC

11.03.2026 02:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thread.

All sane people knew this already. #GOP #TrumpIsAnIdiot #NoIranWar

11.03.2026 02:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching the new Dinosaurs show on Netflix... Ep 2, allosaurus is about to attack a stego, and Morgan Freeman is saying, "but the Stegosaurus has evolved the perfect weapon..." and I'm giddy with excitment. "SAY IT! SAY IT!"

"...called the thagomizer."

YES!

#Netflix #Dinosaurs #ThagSimmons

10.03.2026 07:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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07.03.2026 22:37 👍 13318 🔁 5034 💬 88 📌 246
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Every accusation is a confession...

07.03.2026 14:28 👍 5636 🔁 1806 💬 199 📌 98

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

07.03.2026 06:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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07.03.2026 03:16 👍 3242 🔁 634 💬 64 📌 27

I would be considerably less mad if he could speak like a normal human. As it is, every time he opens his mouth, hot shame gushes out, that we managed to ask for and get this lummox as our chief.

I would go from “apoplectic” to merely “enraged”.

06.03.2026 23:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings) Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from Tech-Issues Today…

Yeah, that was pretty much a big blowup that very much misinterpreted him.

medium.com/@ovenplayer/... is a good breakdown.

People jumped to crazy conclusions over that.

06.03.2026 08:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 2

Are you saying that Andy Yen is pro-GOP or pro-Trump? Are you basing that on the kerfuffle over his praise of the Gail Slater pick for AAG by Trump?

05.03.2026 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Trump intuitively knows that anyone paying deference to him isn't to be trusted or respected.

05.03.2026 23:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, that's the dude.

It's suspicious in the sense that he would rather silence valid criticism than possibly defend himself, which marks him as an untrustworthy source for information. I don't think it's necessarily suspicious in the sense of him being a paid bad actor. He's just fragile.

05.03.2026 23:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who do you think we are, hockey players?

05.03.2026 23:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was the dude in the other thread today where both you and I commented. He blocked me.

I consider myself very left, but also accept the existence of realpolitik, and that you can't always get what you want.

05.03.2026 22:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah, someone who reposted this article blocked me for saying this same thing.

I have always hoped people could better recognize the difference between ideological enemies, and allies who have nuanced takes on things. I live in continual disappointment.

05.03.2026 22:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I do like 404, read the site a lot, but I would not believe them to essentially have a batphone that rings the moment Swiss authorities subpoena something for the FBI.

Are things like that auto-surfaced to a publicly-available resource in Switzerland? If so, I'd move more in your direction.

05.03.2026 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The user certainly had a way to prevent this: the traceability of their payment method was under their control.

It's best framed as, "To what extent should Proton go to protect the user from their own casually poor privacy decisions?"

05.03.2026 21:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And yours is a fair take.

Your comment made me look through some of Proton's web pages relating to their privacy messaging, and what I didn't find is a page on, "What Proton has to do when compelled" that might make strict privacy management easier for users. That seems like a glaring omission.

05.03.2026 21:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Would it have? On what do you base that presumption? If you, say, live in Switzerland, are you sure every event like this got reported on?

Honest question: while I can picture a world in which it can be true, I can also see this kind of action being too small to achieve significant reporting.

05.03.2026 21:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Proton accepts bitcoin and other non-traceable payment methods.

If your privacy concern rises to "the FBI wants to know who I am" levels, then I'd say the primary onus is on the user to do things like "not use your credit card for $INTERESTINGACTIVITIES."

05.03.2026 21:09 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It says the FBI obtained the information from the Swiss authorities, who I assume obtained it from Proton via a subpoena. The article is not clear on that point, but it is an educated guess.

05.03.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reading the comments here, this post is acting as fundamentally dishonest propaganda.

Proton disclosed what they had to, to Swiss law enforcement, what any service would have had to disclose. They did not hand over emails.

That the info enabled the FBI to trace the user is not Proton's fault.

05.03.2026 20:54 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

Is there any email service that will not respond to subpoenas from law enforcement in their jurisdiction?

05.03.2026 20:46 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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05.03.2026 19:24 👍 142 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 1
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PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you

05.03.2026 17:27 👍 4761 🔁 1377 💬 135 📌 81
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MARINE: “NO ONE WANTS TO DIE FOR ISRAEL”

U.S. Marine Brian McGinnis got dragged out of a senate hearing for standing up and saying what everyone is thinking.

More of this from the United States armed forces

05.03.2026 05:10 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

05.03.2026 00:45 👍 2316 🔁 759 💬 88 📌 29

"Emil Klinger...no, I can't believe it, either."

05.03.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”

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