Retired grumpy, computer programmer. Incurably skeptical, which makes me good at many things but often unpopular. @k_salberta@masto.ai No blue check

Joined October 2021
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
That’s your response? I tell you that women and girls are getting raped and you lol? Let me tell you a story, and if you still feel like laughing afterwards, then at least we’ll all know exactly what you are. See there’s a man named Tremaine Carroll. This man, in fact. He’s imprisoned in California as a third strike lifer. His third offense was armed robbery, but his first two offenses were kidnapping young girls and forcing them to fellate him. Mr. Carroll does not take estrogen. He does not use a woman’s name, and he does not dress in women’s clothing. Nevertheless, he told the state of California that he was a woman, so they put him in a California women’s prison, even though his prison psychiatrist wrote a report saying that he was a manipulator and a predator, and should absolutely not be placed in a women’s facility. So not only did they put this man in a women’s prison; they even put him in with a female cellmate. He impregnated her. Legally it’s rape, because by law prisoners can’t consent to sexual activity, and no one is sure whether or not he impregnated her by force. That didn’t stop prison officials from giving Mr. Carroll a second female cellmate . He flat out raped this one, and when she reported him and they took her to the hospital to get a rape exam, they kept her in chains throughout the entire experience. When she returned to the prison, she was placed in isolation because while she was gone Mr. Carroll – who is 6 foot two and weighs 250 pounds – had claimed that she had raped him. She went on lockdown, and Mr. Carroll got a third female cellmate. Whom he also raped. It was at this point that the prison officials finally decided that it was time to put him back in a men’s facility. He is now facing charges for two rapes, and the judge in charge of the case has dictated that everybody, including the victims, must referred to Mr. Carroll as “she.” This means that the victims will be forced to sit on a stand and say “she forced her penis into me.” That’s perjury, and it denies the victims the truth of what was done to them. This is Tremaine Carroll, and if you have any decency at all, you’ll take a few minutes to think about what it must have been like for his victims to be held down and forcibly penetrated. The fear when the cell door slams and the guards walk away. The weight, the smell of his breath, the bruising grip of his hands, and the pain as he jams himself into you. That’s what your movement has facilitated — and not just twice, or three times, but dozens and dozens of times over the past few years. One woman had her sentence extended by five years because she objected to being stared at in the showers. And your movement is responsible for all of it. So look at this man. Really look at him. Because this is what you and yours are inflicting on women across the western world. Now here’s my question – how committed are you? Are you willing to look this man’s victims in the face and tell them that their pain is acceptable collateral damage in the pursuit of rights for men like their rapist? Or will you lol again, and show everybody exactly what you are?
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
The steering wheel he is using to steer the Cybercab is only there because of Texas laws. 😉

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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
Hey, US followers — we all need to contact our senators and tell them to vote FOR H.R. 2616, the "Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act.” This is unbelievably important, so please repost to spread the word. HR 2616, which has passed the House, will strip funding from schools that promote gender ideology. Even more importantly, it also codifies the definition of sex as laid out in Trump’s day one Executive Order. This will prevent trans-identifying people from getting any special privileges that are denied to others of the same sex. Most importantly, because this is federal law, it supersedes any state laws passed in places like CA. This is how we get men out of women’s prisons, sports, and spaces. It’s how we end the mass grooming of US children. It’s how we protect women’s rights, parental rights, and the unmutilated bodies of American children. Tell both of your Senators to vote for HR 2616!
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I find this intensely disturbing.
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing. By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases Science science.org/content/article/…
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Note that they also want to study plasticity. Well, you can't study plasticity w/o neurons firing. This is beyond bad.
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This is an ethical abyss, and all experience shows that there will really be no limits.
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing. By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases Science science.org/content/article/…
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It has appeared - the SpaceX S-1 filing. The company's name is Space Exploration Technologies Corp. CIK 0001181412. A thread for my own future ref and yours which I'll update w/ important stuff.
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What bills, you ask? Oh, Debt. There's rather a large amount of debt. US 2026 annual GDP was estimated at 31.8 trillion in the first quarter. Tesla (in its own words).
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I want to post more, but a soundtrack is required. For those interested in the numbers, here is an unlock WSJ article which shows the situation created by the merger w/ xAI. wsj.com/business/spacex-ipo-…
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
This New York Times "article" about Israel is such a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading it out loud. If everyone at the NYT who is responsible for this is not fired, then the publication will lose whatever shred of credibility it has left.
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
So just so we're clear on things. October 7, 2023 was the largest mass murder of Jews since the holocaust including execution of children and animals and innocent concerts goers. Innocent people were RPG rocket killed in their cars. They were executed in their homes. Hamas and Hamas adjacent filmed and kidnapped several females and repeatedly sexually assaulted them over and over and over. And then executed them. There were literal dead baby parades from Hamas. They did the whole foot clan soldier in green headband thing and everything. And the only time that the New York Times or @NickKristof, a proven serial fabulist took any interest in all of this was so that he could write a story about how the IDF trained rape dogs. Dogs that rape. Rape dogs. Dogs. Dogs that do not give consent. This was an idea that the New York Times actually said yes let's run with this.
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
IMPORTANT: Me methodically demolishing the Gaza genocide lie in Skeptic Magazine (link next tweet). Please share widely.
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
Hey, @elonmusk - it would be pretty cool if we could choose to pin other people’s comments under our posts, like if someone adds more information to a story, so the comments we think are important or add context can be at the top. Kinda like the opposite of hiding a comment.
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KSalberta @k_salberta@masto.ai @ksalberta.bsky.soc retweeted
What a coincidence that when men are now women, misogyny is now feminism.

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Trump should seize the opportunity by giving Pope Leo a Presidential Award for Excellence in Constitutional Education. No Established Church. It would be a magnificent troll.
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