Nonya Bidniss

Retired IC/civil servant. Was a member of the top S&TI committees in the USG & senior advisor for S&TI to a military Service. Was on personal staff of senior GOs. Today I hike, cook, read & watch #sciencefiction. Degrees in biology & strategic intelligence. Currently based in N. Alabama, an often questionable state of affairs. Mis/Disinfo & conspiracy theories will earn a block.
#veteran #atheist #antifascist #natsec
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2024-08-19 00:38:12

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@npub1vyt…mgjn That's my kind of soup!

2024-08-17 16:10:01

#HarrisWalz2024 #Roevember
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/978/214/038/222/158/original/ffd074425304823e.webp

2024-08-16 11:52:29

"Yesterday, Jill Lawrence of The Bulwark noted that Trump and his allies don’t even need to enact all of Project 2025: simply gutting the nonpartisan civil service and filling almost 2 million government jobs with those who are loyal to Trump “above even laws, courts, security, liberty, the ‘general welfare,’ and the rest of the Constitution” would be enough to destroy the county as we know it."
As a retired civil servant, let me assure you that is 100% correct. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-15-2024

2024-08-16 00:51:46

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@npub1y3m…r6lg 😂 As it always happens

2024-08-16 00:46:32

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@npub1y3m…r6lg Ha, I'm just about there. Last time I grilled I was trying to feel the tank...does it feel cold at all? Is there anything in there? Soon...

2024-08-15 18:08:10

Kamala #Harris and Tim #Walz just released a 10-minute video of them just chatting about stuff. #HarrisWalz2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwZ_A49hb8

2024-08-14 23:51:05

"'Harris remains the person she has been for the past 3½ years: a sometimes bumbling beauty with a stride that conveys confidence if not precisely competence.'"
"I shit you not, this is from a Kathleen Parker hit job ... that Kamala is a vacuous bubblehead who has been coasting on her looks."
"is Kamala now supposed to reward these journalistic jackoffs with a sit-down interview? I think not."
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/hey-media-kamala-doesnt-owe-you-jackals

2024-08-12 23:52:42

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@npub1qjr…kgt0 I'm in this picture and I like it

2024-08-12 18:12:12

#Palestine supporters, you might not get all you want from Harris, and that's a fact. But here's how you're definitely not going to help the Palestinians: by helping the guy who wants to terminate the Constitution. He wants to hand over anything Netanyahu wants. Keep your eyes on the prize. Beating the authoritarian theocratic extremists is the only way to be in a position to argue for better foreign policy.
#HarrisWalz2024

2024-08-11 16:21:44

"Now, January 6th, attack on the Capitol ... He's gonna pardon them. Think of this. Every other time the Ku Klux Klan has been involved they wore hoods so they're not identified. Under his presidency, they came out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an ally. That's how I read it. They knew they had an ally in the White House. And he stepped up for them." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-biden-speaks-on-stakes-of-2024-election-protecting-democracy-and-his-place-in-history/

2024-08-11 01:51:38

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@npub18c7…er9d Oh no, once was enough for me. Can't take the crowds. I do it remotely now, to the extent possible. If you come to the Rocket City though!

2024-08-11 01:40:35

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@npub18c7…er9d 😂

2024-08-10 19:01:46

(Update: the talk is over. It was great!)
@npub1hyk…3p33 is live at Defcon. "Deenshittify or die!" https://www.twitch.tv/defcon_dctv_one
Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuTmYGpgtM

2024-08-10 13:19:14

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@npub1qe5…8ugl Holy cow. Time to give ProPublica another donation.

2024-08-10 01:17:19

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@npub1sfl…gczt Look, based on your social media experience, will they? 😂

2024-08-10 01:16:24

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@npub1sfl…gczt This is going to go over a lot of heads. But it ain't wrong.

2024-08-09 19:18:25

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@npub1y3m…r6lg Good grief, Joe Rogan is one of the stupidest men the U.S. has produced. But if he's stupid enough to like RFKJr and it takes votes from Trump, oh well

2024-08-09 19:15:43

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@npub1tlk…2fha Here's an article on this with links to help Texans check & fix https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2024/08/05/texas-voter-suspense-list-tops-21-million-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-on-it/

2024-08-09 01:50:51

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@npub1vqm…ccpx https://mas.to/@Nonya_Bidniss/112929538369501332

2024-08-08 13:12:25

I've been trying to add a greater variety of grains to my diet. Yesterday I made this beef barley soup recipe. It was delicious! I subsituted a sweet potato for the Yukon gold. I went light on the actual beef, a little heavy on the herbs, but forgot the Worcestershire sauce. Next time I'll remember that and add a couple Tbsp of red wine. #cooking #food #recipes https://theforkedspoon.com/beef-barley-soup/

2024-08-08 00:15:54

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@npub1zay…sct2 So right. I've heard so many stories of parents who learned to pack extra large lunches after hearing from their kids that so and so needed their sandwich.

2024-08-07 01:56:37

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@npub1agu…j0sk Remember when we remembered phone numbers?

2024-08-07 00:40:24

Tim Walz was able to enact all kinds of great legislation for MN only because they had the trifecta. And for the nation, if the right keeps even one side of the trifecta, progress will be limited. #VoteBlue at every level, every time. #HarrisWalz2024

2024-08-06 23:19:47

Tim Walz to right wing nutjobs: "Mind your own damn business."
#HarrisWalz2024

2024-08-06 18:30:30

So Harris/Walz are going on a whirlwind tour of battleground states. Meanwhile, JD Vance only will be appearing in the same cities, while Trump has only one event scheduled in the coming week, in MT. Is the Trump campaign trying to minimize him because he's such a fucking soup sandwich spewing insane, dystopian gibberish?
#HarrisWalz2024

2024-08-06 18:08:51

There's already a Harris / Walz ad out there to introduce Walz. I just saw it on MSNBC but I can't find the ad online yet. It's good.
Ah, @npub1v2s…mqq5 found it! https://xcancel.com/Tim_Walz/status/1820881730946977902#m
And YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6sMbRVRYw

2024-08-06 17:30:26

As Walz hands the reins to his Lt Governor, will #MN be the first U.S. state to have a Native American in charge? Yes! "Flanagan would become the first female governor in Minnesota and the first Native American woman to serve as governor in the country." It's just all great news today.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Flanagan

2024-08-06 17:16:01

For those who need it, remember it's #Walz not Waltz.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/916/202/506/077/773/original/88807cb1851b2273.jpg

2024-08-06 15:31:18

Think I'll pin this one for a bit.
#HarrisWalz2024
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/915/789/988/393/002/original/5e3f64232fdbcaac.mp4

2024-08-06 14:13:29

One thing about Tim #Walz is the crazy Republicans can't call him a "Dem elite" -- this guy spent 25 years enlisted in the Army Natl Guard. Enlisted, folks, not an officer. He's an average joe, a grunt. And I bet he's got a whole vocabulary of hilarious insults in his back pocket that only enlisted accumulate. He'll probably keep a lid on that during the campaign but I wish... 😂 #military #HarrisWalz2024 #Harris2024

2024-08-05 21:57:18

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@npub1sfl…gczt they're terrified that the libs are going to add Biden to it

2024-08-05 21:42:41

I'm at the gym. Today's rage panic on Fox is about Mount Rushmore 🙄😂

2024-08-05 19:08:28

“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in Monday’s opinion. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/business/google-loses-antitrust-lawsuit-doj/index.html

2024-08-05 16:17:26

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@npub1y3m…r6lg Last year I raised ~25 tobacco hornworms and let them go to pupate in a large bucket of garden soil. When I went some weeks later expecting to find pupae, they had all been parasitized except one. (sad trombone)

2024-08-05 16:09:35

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@npub1y3m…r6lg I think that's pretty standard across the sphingidae

2024-08-05 15:57:44

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@npub1y3m…r6lg 😍 I get other types of sphinx moths in my yard, and I grow datura to attract them, but I've never gotten one of these. That I know of.

2024-08-05 15:39:49

Excited to see the forecast has several days coming up when the lows will be under 70F. That means I'll be able to get out and hike in the mornings before the temps get insufferable for me. I have no tolerance for high humidity heat once it gets into even the mid-80s so I've missed my hikes during the heat of this summer!

2024-08-03 18:19:13

This discussion about how Dems have been "obeying in advance" by not running anyone in so many red and/or rural races across the U.S. is something I've been complaining a lot about in AL. Hey, we finally ran a Dem in my state house district this year who was for once not a nutjob, who ran on abortion access, AND SHE WON. The Dems have got to stop leaving these areas fallow. Love this podcast. @lolgop #democracy #VoteBlue https://www.patreon.com/posts/weve-been-in-109382170

2024-08-01 22:05:52

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@npub1f2y…m58m Aced my lung function tests today and afterward went back to feeling like I wasn't getting a full breath. It's like when you take your car to the shop and it stops making the noise. Good luck...

2024-07-31 18:56:20

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@npub1aq2…4nfw Completely avoiding that the question was whether Vance would be ready to take over on day one if necessary.

2024-07-30 02:56:42

Dems: take back the flag. Take back the term "patriot." Take it all back from the right wing nutters, the blue line nutters, the freaky black and white flag nutters. Take it back. Put the flag on your house and on your car. And put it next to an ally flag.

2024-07-27 13:32:53

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 yes, I didn't feel good about it because I really tried to identify who was behind it to ensure it was genuine but I couldn't. I hope the money went to an authentic PAC , ActBlue or...

2024-07-27 13:25:24

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 I am still wondering who the organizers were. Nothing on the website identified anyone and even WHOIS gave no info. Same with the White dudes thing.

2024-07-16 14:20:25

Well, that's just unacceptable
"Law enforcement spotted Trump shooter nearly 30 minutes before shots fired" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/law-enforcement-spotted-trump-shooter-nearly-30-minutes-before-shots-fired-nbc-2024-07-15/

2024-06-29 17:06:22

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@npub1dyt…q8lq Woah, don't let Avi Loeb see this! 😂

2024-06-13 23:11:41

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@npub17a9…mv9a Anybody out there got a religion that needs to take religious extremist Kacsmaryk's rights away? Good for the goose, good for the gander.

2024-05-12 12:28:47

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@npub1nac…0mta Where I come from we'd call the whole mess up to this a colossal "soup sandwich."

2024-05-12 12:22:51

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@npub1nac…0mta Mind boggling, really 🙄

2024-05-06 15:53:33

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Good to hear! I can't believe it's been that long. What the hell have I been doing...

2024-05-06 15:50:41

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@npub1psd…9sr7 The last Laundry Files novel! 😭

2024-04-27 20:53:16

“America is not for sale”
Really? Better take another look at your corrupt master, the traitor Trump. These disgusting pigs are the absolute dregs of the species. https://wvpublic.org/white-supremacist-group-marches-though-downtown-charleston-saturday/

2023-11-04 14:47:20

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In a world that makes sense and isn't poisoned by an extremist religion, this story wouldn't have been published because nobody would've been interested if a man wore his wife's clothes (with her knowledge!) or wrote erotic fantasies online. Who gives a shit? The part about him being a part of the very religion that has poisoned the nation is actually the worst part.

2023-11-04 14:44:45

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This story was published 3 days ago. Today the man is dead.
Locals on r/Alabama discussing this tragedy note that the source is a "christofascist site" so this should be no surprise.
Edit: changed link so as not to support the source.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231104083648/https://1819news.com/news/item/the-secret-life-of-smiths-station-mayor-and-baptist-pastor-f.l.-bubba-copeland-as-a-transgender-curvy-girl-its-a-hobby-i-do-to-relieve-stress

2023-11-04 14:43:43

#Alabama Mayor, Pastor Dies by Suicide After Being Involuntarily Outed as #Transgender Woman
"I am so angry right now and heartbroken. I witnessed a good man be publicly ridiculed and crucified over the last few days…to the point that he just took his own life today.” ... "Are you happy now? What crime did he commit? Some of you people make me sick.”
https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-mayor-outed-transgender-dead

2023-11-03 21:57:20

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." #atheism
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/111/348/840/430/298/572/original/de3e99c76624ff7b.jpg

2023-10-24 12:32:45

Finished audiobook The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross. The slow pace of this book reflects world walker protagonist Miriam's frustration throughout but it finally ends with a bang, tying some loose ends together. #3 in the 6-book Merchant Princes series. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ #bookstodon #SFF #audiobooks #books

2023-09-24 13:00:08

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@npub1h8s…cvp3 I heard you on Science Friday this week 👏

2023-09-16 14:40:03

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@npub18c7…er9d Nah the uniforms deserve whatever ya got. At least my old boss gets to wear Army greens https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/15x6htu/is_he_okay/ (Hope you can see that, it says removed but I can still see it)

2023-09-16 14:34:06

#Firefly Aerospace just set a new responsive-launch record. Its Alpha rocket lifted off from #Vandenberg SFB on Thursday just 27 hours after the U.S. Space Force gave the order — less time than on any previous national security mission, demonstrating the "Space Force can rapidly integrate capabilities and will respond to aggression when called to do so on tactically relevant timelines" #space #DOD #military #USSF #USSPACECOM https://www.space.com/firefly-aerospace-rapid-launch-space-force-success

2023-08-15 00:44:43

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@npub1lv4…ru5g The Exceptional Expendables

2023-08-14 17:10:00

In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. #ClimateChange https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

2023-08-13 15:22:18

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@npub15dz…6wus His name: Drag Queen

2023-07-29 14:39:17

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@npub1qk5…jlda @npub1ena…yyv4 Wow, that's wild.

2023-07-29 13:44:12

What was the oldest piece of #technology you've ever owned? When I was a kid we had a dictaphone we'd play with. Yeah, this type.
https://media.mas.to/masto-public/media_attachments/files/110/797/638/063/233/491/original/7bb5e5c47b5325f3.jpeg

2023-07-06 20:07:47

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@npub1ddp…2tax Honestly I wish some governors would just say their state isn't going to follow some of these rulings and just see what happens. I recall these so-called, self-styled "Constitutional sheriffs" have often stated they will not abide by various laws. Perhaps the right shouldn't be the only side that just gets to do whatever the fuck it wants to everyone else.

2023-07-06 19:56:16

"It is not the job of the dissent to make the majority opinion seem reasonable. That is the job of the majority. If six justices can’t convince the American public that their decisions are consistent with the U.S. Constitution and the proper judicial function, that is a failure of the majority alone."
#SCOTUS
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/john-roberts-last-word-is-not-the-final-say/