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Tim Probst
Tim Probst
@Tim@www.timprobst.com

Early adopting super geek, musician, father, resident tech guru.

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  • I think it is certainly fair to question the president and Tom Homan about a potential deployment of ICE agents at our nation’s airports. Clearly, there is a reason most of the country does not trust the agency.

    Before any of them walk into an airport on duty, we should know exactly what they will be doing in their official capacity, we should have the more than fair expectation that not one of them will be hiding behind a mask, and every agent should know the exact procedure to hand off tasks and actions to appropriately trained TSA and CBP officers who are actually trained to be working at our ports of entry and dealing with travelers and the stresses that come in those scenarios.

    Tom Homan says ICE agents will assist at crowded airport security points amid TSA staffing shortages

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    Hans and Franz enjoying some morning sunshine on this fine March day.

  • Beautiful afternoon at K9 Garden with Hans and Franz!

  • If you had any remaining doubts that Trump considers ICE to be his personal intimidation force, this should clarify things for you.

    Trump threatens to put ICE agents in airports over funding impasse | Reuters

  • This seems like an incredibly important data point for every leader around the globe to consider when interacting with Iran. This is especially true for those leaders that wrongfully feel they have the right to start unprovoked wars.

    Iran’s Attack on Distant U.S.-U.K. Base Demonstrates Growing Range

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  • War Games is one of my favorite movies from the 80’s, and this is incredibly funny!

    Nina Kalinina

    When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

    Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

    March 20, 2026, 9:41 pm 648 boosts 1,211 favorites

  • Nikki McCann Ramirez wrote an excellent article in Rolling Stone about how we Americans, through our elected government, could be spending our collective budget on positive changes for citizens and humanity instead of bombing and killing Iranians.

    Surely, we all can agree that the following list of alternatives would have wide support:

    • Health Care
    • Child Care
    • Medical Debt
    • Foreign Aid
    • Food Assistance
    • Public Programming
    • Preschool Development
    • Aid for the Disabled

    These are all things that help real people and can have lasting, positive impacts on our collective lives on this planet. We are well overdue on changing the way we think as Americans about how best to have impact, and it all starts by actually caring about each other and electing the right leaders.

    THINGS THE MONEY FOR TRUMP’S IRAN WAR COULD HAVE PAID FOR THAT AREN’T … WAR

  • This ruling is a massive win for the citizens of the United States and for the over 360 million people worldwide that rely on Voice of America for information especially in countries where real, factual information is not otherwise accessible.

    Judge orders restoration of Voice of America | AP News

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    My college-aged son and many of his friends have discovered The Smashing Pumpkins. They’re going through their Smashing Pumpkins phase much like I and many of my friends went through a Led Zeppelin phase at some point in middle or high school. You know the “phase.” It’s the journey of discovering a band from before we were born and thinking, at least for a brief time, that it may be the greatest band of all time.

    I have to admit, I have been thoroughly enjoying this moment. The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favorite bands, and I distinctly remember listening to their albums non-stop in my college dorm and apartments in the ’90s. There was something about their music that spoke to me and my friends at the time. Perhaps my son and his friends are experiencing the same thing now. Perhaps it is the age or the environment that makes college the best time to get into the Pumpkins, or maybe it is just really good music.

    My son asked about my favorite albums and songs, and of course I mentioned Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. But then I pulled out a wild card – Mary Star of the Sea.

    You might be thinking – Tim, that’s not a Pumpkins album, and you would be correct. It’s an album that came out in 2003 by a band named Zwan after the Pumpkins broke up the first time. Zwan included Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin and was basically just another version of The Smashing Pumpkins with a few other musicians. If you are lucky enough to have the CD (or ripped it back in the 2000’s like I did), you have my third favorite Smashing Pumpkins album in your library. Hopefully, Mary Star of the Sea and other Zwan content will be released on digital platforms soon. I suspect all of the 20-somethings discovering The Smashing Pumpkins would immediately take to Zwan at the same time.

    Rock on!

  • Paying $4/gallon for gas yesterday was super fun.