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Product Designer, mushroom hunter, creator of Philly Day Hiker and a bunch of other things.

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Took my toddler to the train station which has a lawn and community garden, and there’s a goddamn offleash German shepherd out here. This city and its dog people, man.

14.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

13.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 4772 πŸ” 906 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 84

Baby chose violence and a 5:45 wake-up time today

13.03.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
BREAKING: Federal indictment shows SC Rep. RJ May (R-Lexington) is facing 10 counts of distribution of child sex abuse material. Indictment alleges May used aliases including β€œjoebidennnn69” on the social media app Kik and β€œknowingly did distribute child pornography.”

BREAKING: Federal indictment shows SC Rep. RJ May (R-Lexington) is facing 10 counts of distribution of child sex abuse material. Indictment alleges May used aliases including β€œjoebidennnn69” on the social media app Kik and β€œknowingly did distribute child pornography.”

COUNT ONE
(Distribution of Child Pornography)
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES
That on or about April 3, 2024, in the District of South Carolina, the defendant, ROBERT JOHN MAY, 1II, a/k/a "joebidennnn69", a/k/a "Eric Rentling", knowingly did distribute child pornography and materials that contained child pornography, as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2256(8), that had been mailed, shipped, and transported in interstate and foreign commerce by any_ means, including by computer; specifically, the defendant, ROBERT JOHN MAY, I11, a/k/a "joebidennnn69", a/k/a "Eric Rentling", sent a video file ending in "69c0" using the Kik application to another user of the Kik application known to the grand jury:
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2) and 2252A(b)(1).

COUNT ONE (Distribution of Child Pornography) THE GRAND JURY CHARGES That on or about April 3, 2024, in the District of South Carolina, the defendant, ROBERT JOHN MAY, 1II, a/k/a "joebidennnn69", a/k/a "Eric Rentling", knowingly did distribute child pornography and materials that contained child pornography, as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2256(8), that had been mailed, shipped, and transported in interstate and foreign commerce by any_ means, including by computer; specifically, the defendant, ROBERT JOHN MAY, I11, a/k/a "joebidennnn69", a/k/a "Eric Rentling", sent a video file ending in "69c0" using the Kik application to another user of the Kik application known to the grand jury: In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2) and 2252A(b)(1).

a Republican House member from SC, Rep. RJ May, is facing 10 counts of CSAM using the screen name "joebidennnn69" im dead

12.06.2025 22:23 πŸ‘ 1809 πŸ” 484 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 142

So many examples in tech, now, where it does not matter if you leave the users bankrupt or psychotic, as long as you captured the most market share.

12.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have read the sports betting article and even though I knew a lot of this -- nearly everyone loses money long-term, and if you don't, the apps attempt to limit you -- but somehow this is all still a lot grimmer than I expected.

12.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

12.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 7826 πŸ” 1042 πŸ’¬ 156 πŸ“Œ 51

Also: successfully used a fork!

12.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Recent baby skills:
- walking much more confidently
- can drop a baby basketball into a baby basketball hoop
- β€œwhyyyyyy” β€” I assume he got this from daycare. I don’t think he know what it means but it’s very funny

12.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.

It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.

Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.

175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

11.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 4264 πŸ” 1375 πŸ’¬ 390 πŸ“Œ 168
FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS News Articles Unfairly Focus on Binance 19. Binance.com seeks to be the best cryptocurrency exchange for traders, offering deep liquidity, low fees, and a robust range of products. With strong security, global liquidity, and an easy-to-use interface, Binance remains the trusted choice for millions of crypto traders worldwide. 20. However, Binance---like the cryptocurrency industry generally-has become a favorite target of the media and sensationalist journalism in recent years. 21. Publications-like the Wall Street Journal-are undoubtedly aware that articles mentioning Binance, its founder Changpeng Zhao, and cryptocurrency generally, all increase the likelihood that readers will open and read those articles. This is particularly true for articles critical of Binance, where negative, sensational headlines serve as clickbait to drive engagement and increase advertising revenue. 22. Negative press articles have focused on Binance's settlements with various U.S. government agencies in 2023 concerning Binance's compliance, KYC, and sanctions programs. 23. Binance has dedicated significant resources and efforts to its compliance protocols and policies, especially since its 2023 settlements with U.S. government agencies. 24. Binance has one of the largest and most robust compliance programs in the digital asset industry. Binance regularly partners with law enforcement investigators to help dismantle transnational criminal networks and claw back stolen user funds. 25. Binance's compliance and law enforcement response functions are institutionalized to include: a dedicated Global Law Enforcement Response Team; a Financial Crimes Investigations unit focused on complex cross-border cases; a Sanctions and Counter

FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS News Articles Unfairly Focus on Binance 19. Binance.com seeks to be the best cryptocurrency exchange for traders, offering deep liquidity, low fees, and a robust range of products. With strong security, global liquidity, and an easy-to-use interface, Binance remains the trusted choice for millions of crypto traders worldwide. 20. However, Binance---like the cryptocurrency industry generally-has become a favorite target of the media and sensationalist journalism in recent years. 21. Publications-like the Wall Street Journal-are undoubtedly aware that articles mentioning Binance, its founder Changpeng Zhao, and cryptocurrency generally, all increase the likelihood that readers will open and read those articles. This is particularly true for articles critical of Binance, where negative, sensational headlines serve as clickbait to drive engagement and increase advertising revenue. 22. Negative press articles have focused on Binance's settlements with various U.S. government agencies in 2023 concerning Binance's compliance, KYC, and sanctions programs. 23. Binance has dedicated significant resources and efforts to its compliance protocols and policies, especially since its 2023 settlements with U.S. government agencies. 24. Binance has one of the largest and most robust compliance programs in the digital asset industry. Binance regularly partners with law enforcement investigators to help dismantle transnational criminal networks and claw back stolen user funds. 25. Binance's compliance and law enforcement response functions are institutionalized to include: a dedicated Global Law Enforcement Response Team; a Financial Crimes Investigations unit focused on complex cross-border cases; a Sanctions and Counter

Terrorist Financing investigations team; a Special Investigations team supporting high-risk and intelligence-led matters; and Blockchain analytics and compliance intelligence specialists. 26. Binance supports these functions from other teams across the organization, including its Internal Audit, Legal & Regulatory Affairs, Compliance Governance (including escalation to the Criminal Conduct Committee), Risk & Transaction Monitoring teams and Technology and forensic data engineering teams. 27. In total, more than 1,500 personnel (approximately 25% of Binance's global headcount) are dedicated to compliance, investigative, and risk functions. 28. This dedication has paid off, as Binance's compliance efforts have been successful. In 2025 alone, Binance supported authorities in confiscating more than $131 million in funds linked to illicit activity, processed more than 71,000 law-enforcement requests worldwide, and delivered more than 160 training sessions to strengthen law enforcement's capacity to tackle crypto-related threats. 29. Binance's success in its compliance regime has not, however, seen a corresponding decrease in media attacks against it. Indeed, Binance receives an outsized portion of media scrutiny, criticism, and defamation as compared to many of its competitors. The implication of that disproportionate media coverage is clear: the media, including the Wall Street Journal, sensationalizes stories and articles concerning Binance in order to drive up readership, without regard for the truth. The New York Times Article 30. On February 23, 2026 (but prior to the Article published the same day), the New York Times (''NYT") published an article entitled "Binance Employees Find $1. 7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities." That article dealt with similar topics as the Article.

Terrorist Financing investigations team; a Special Investigations team supporting high-risk and intelligence-led matters; and Blockchain analytics and compliance intelligence specialists. 26. Binance supports these functions from other teams across the organization, including its Internal Audit, Legal & Regulatory Affairs, Compliance Governance (including escalation to the Criminal Conduct Committee), Risk & Transaction Monitoring teams and Technology and forensic data engineering teams. 27. In total, more than 1,500 personnel (approximately 25% of Binance's global headcount) are dedicated to compliance, investigative, and risk functions. 28. This dedication has paid off, as Binance's compliance efforts have been successful. In 2025 alone, Binance supported authorities in confiscating more than $131 million in funds linked to illicit activity, processed more than 71,000 law-enforcement requests worldwide, and delivered more than 160 training sessions to strengthen law enforcement's capacity to tackle crypto-related threats. 29. Binance's success in its compliance regime has not, however, seen a corresponding decrease in media attacks against it. Indeed, Binance receives an outsized portion of media scrutiny, criticism, and defamation as compared to many of its competitors. The implication of that disproportionate media coverage is clear: the media, including the Wall Street Journal, sensationalizes stories and articles concerning Binance in order to drive up readership, without regard for the truth. The New York Times Article 30. On February 23, 2026 (but prior to the Article published the same day), the New York Times (''NYT") published an article entitled "Binance Employees Find $1. 7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities." That article dealt with similar topics as the Article.

Binance spends much of the filing complaining that news outlets like the WSJ do not give them enough credit for how hard they're trying.

I'm not sure bragging about stopping $131M in illicit transfers quite lands when the whole point of this article is that you allegedly allowed 10x that.

11.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 327 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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11.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œCat” is absolutely β€œahhhh-t.” β€œDog” is [screams in excitement whenever he sees one]. β€œBird” is β€œbuhd.” We love buhds.

08.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are up to 17 words now! New additions are water, bike, and byeeee [waves]. Also finally the sign for β€œmilk” has emerged.

08.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Was just having this convo yesterday. I rarely go back to my notes because re-reading them isn’t the point, it’s writing them that helps me commit them to memory.

08.03.2026 11:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of psyched to lose an hour tonight. Could do with fast forwarding through a few more to be honest.

08.03.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 314 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

(And take a photography class)

06.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone did not "goof up and draw the white box over the tree by accident." That's a halo effect. Light can shine around the edges of a thing in silhouette and shrink it.

Anyway. Carry on.

06.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I just wanna be the resident skeptic on all your true crime podcasts. No, this doesn't mean someone "drew a white box over the red tail light." The lights are so bright they're blowing the camera out and producing white. The reflection is not that bright, so it isn't.

06.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fave Reddit drama of the day: the dude who used Gemini to fake his dog’s DNA results because he wants to post in r/catahoula but his dog is probably a pit mix.

06.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually surprised Noem is out, because she pissed me off more than basically anyone else and I thought pissing off the libs was the only coherent ideology.

05.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every day we rocket between β€œit helped me make an iPhone app” and β€œit told my son to commit an armed robbery and then kill himself,” and we all just have to act like this is normal.

05.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œThe chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.
Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted. It even fixated on Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, labeling him to Gavalas as β€œthe architect of your pain.”
On Oct. 1, Gemini gave Gavalas one final mission: to obtain a medical mannequin it said was inside the same Miami storage facility. It even provided him with a door code, according to the lawsuit. When the code didn’t work, Gemini said the mission had been compromised and instructed him to withdraw.”

Excerpt From
β€œGemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.”
Julie Jargon
The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUmH4BygmmRaPA
This material may be protected by copyright.

β€œThe chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted. It even fixated on Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, labeling him to Gavalas as β€œthe architect of your pain.” On Oct. 1, Gemini gave Gavalas one final mission: to obtain a medical mannequin it said was inside the same Miami storage facility. It even provided him with a door code, according to the lawsuit. When the code didn’t work, Gemini said the mission had been compromised and instructed him to withdraw.” Excerpt From β€œGemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.” Julie Jargon The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUmH4BygmmRaPA This material may be protected by copyright.

Hey Sundar? Buddy? You might wanna…do something?

apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUm...

05.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me: good morning baby!
Baby: dada

05.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you simply wouldn't believe what a...chickpea in tomato sauce tastes like. No way to comprehend it.

04.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this πŸ‘‡

03.03.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 293 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

Me: can you say mama?
Baby: buh-bul
Me: bubble. Ok. Can you say cat?
Baby: ahhhh-t!

03.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

in retrospect most of the country is a vampire squid relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money

02.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 1422 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 3

What I have found about Bluesky is that even if I turn all the adult content off, somehow my discover tab still has a ton of anime boobs. It’s slowly getting better over time. I think.

02.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ll all remember fondly the day we took the baby to apply for a passport and he puked allllll over himself and the car seat πŸ‘

02.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0