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C. James Highlander

@1livelyrogue.bsky.social
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Writer of crime fiction. Educator of neurodivergent teens. Husband. Father.

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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 16h
Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter was AI slop ahead of its time. (And I love it!) Honestly, is there an argument to be made that the music and chaos of the ‘90s opened the door to a culture that could produce nonsense and pretend it has value? Looking at you, Presidents of the United States of America!
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 17h
This Pokemon Go stop is giving me Mad Max vibes.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18h
Modern journalism is making my head hurt.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18h
Was the Palm Room at the White House a thing before Trump, or is it one of those CERN alternate timeline aberrations?
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The X-Files Mulder I Want To Believe Poster
ALT: The X-Files Mulder I Want To Believe Poster
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18h
I wish Bluesky would either disable autocorrect or give us an edit button. I just had to delete and retype a post because the word stated became stayed, and I didn’t catch it.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18h
A modern nation has need of an anti-slavery commissioner in 2026. This is painful. apple.news/AvufslOWvQl6...
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Ex-Harrods owner potentially trafficked women on ‘shocking’ scale, official says — The Washington Post
“The scale of potential trafficking in the Al Fayed case is deeply shocking,” said Eleanor Lyons, Britain’s antislavery commissioner.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 19h
A note to journalists: Your reader should not have to wade through nine paragraphs to find out the why. In this instance, I believe the reporter doesn’t actually know why teens are protesting, and the editor sucks.. apple.news/AGi73pCWCQR6...
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What to know as France school protests morph into unrest and the streets are seething — The Associated Press
France is experiencing widespread student protests, with thousands of arrests and hundreds of injuries reported.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m going old school with this one.
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The Facts Of Life Characters Hugging
Alt: The Facts Of Life.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whale and Wasp by Alice In Chains. youtu.be/zGQuYs53PN4?...
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Alice In Chains - Whale & Wasp (Official Audio)
YouTube video by AliceInChainsVEVO
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another brick in the wall. apple.news/AcTcIZELDSYu...
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Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads — The Associated Press
DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did something fun yesterday. A copy of Frankenstein fell apart in my car. I turned it into poetry. Poems in alts.
Roaming, I stood slow, abrupt. The solemn brawling thunder - the cracking play-thing of my grief.
In my rest I contemplated
unstained woods, the clouds, at peace.I veil my resolve and my mind with a sublime ecstacy.
The nature of the passing would destroy ascent.
You bent, ascend; one of the dangerous, upon luxuriant mists…
from melancholy impulses, nearly free.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No surprises here.
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Vito Corleone The Godfather
Alt: Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The MLB needs to be very careful here. Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. apple.news/AdlTpli_wQ7m...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park — The Washington Post
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s clearly blowing raspberries at the Neanderthals it just outran.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It takes a whole hell of a lot of conceit to name a robot product Optimus. apple.news/A0UKBpHJ8R5K...
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Tesla's Optimus robot is going through growing pains — The Verge
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced “several hundred robots a week” last month, after it repur...
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Hack the planet” is quickly becoming “honest, it wasn’t us!” apple.news/AnpQLRuAjTci...
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OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites — BBC News
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here’s a novel concept. Let’s bill Trump. apple.news/AjV3JPMG7RSq...
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New Report Shows Shocking Level Of Incompetence At ICE — HuffPost
The report paints a picture of the Trump administration plowing ahead with its detention plans and giving no thought to how much money it was squandering.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
QTP with a gif of your favorite pokemon! (wrong answers only)
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Gori and the Dancing Cartoon Gorillas
ALT: Gori and the Dancing Cartoon Gorillas
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s something I never thought I’d say: the U.S. President has too much power. apple.news/AuZHI1Kt9TUS...
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US halts Obamacare enrollment for over 760,000 enrollees, claiming fraud — Reuters
The ​Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans for more than 760,000 enrollees it believes were fraudulently signed up, ‌Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday, part of an ...
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He wants his arch to be a sniper nest? He wants his arch to store supplies for snipers? Which is more realistic? apple.news/A8BTAemSYSEm...
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Trump says planned 250-foot arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers — The Washington Post
The president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
All that money that is coming in from Venezuela? The money with the destination Bessent can’t comment on? Yeah… I think Trump dumped it into AI in some way.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I want to write a modern criminal mastermind. A post-Moriarty with the dies irae tatted on his knuckles, a cauliflower ear, and eyes like a shark.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Currently reading: Seize The Day by Saul Bellow. Most recommended book: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Go-to bookmark: Cigar flag. Most read series: Probably Star Trek novels. Last book you finished: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Biggest book you’ve read: 1Q84 by Haruki Mirukami.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All these AI bosses coming forward and saying they need congressional regulation has me looking over their shoulders at the bubble and wondering.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reposting for future me.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit, they are almost doing something. apple.news/AiQjgmE6dSEu...
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House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigation — The Associated Press
The House has approved a resolution holding billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress after he defied the Oversight Committee’s subpoenas in its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Eps...
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He just handed the tech boys permission to blame him later on. apple.news/AwKuCE_vxQYW...
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Trump dismisses AI leaders’ calls to slow down, citing Chinese competition — The Washington Post
Democrats are increasingly attacking the administration’s hands-off approach to artificial-intelligence regulation as midterms approach.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reposting because I want to watch this but am too tired right now.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just one knife.
Kukri.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bot reposts suck.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This came in! I’ve never read it before.
Cool binding!William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s a radical thought, but I think you should only be able to donate to campaigns in the State or district you live in. Corporations and guys like Musk need to be reined in. There’s no justification for donating to campaigns in multiple States.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A truck driver working 40-hour weeks to make $50,000 a year pays about $3,800 in federal income tax. An 8% rate. An investor earning the same $50,000 in long-term capital gains pays $0. Work gets punished. Wealth gets rewarded. This tax code is a scam.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The “news” is letting Trump flood the zone with headlines about renaming States and the lingo on Confederate statues. Here’s some real news. apple.news/ABiU1_TR6R_i...
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The poorest in the US can't find housing even as low-income units sit empty — The Associated Press
The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortage of affordable homes. That’s partly because the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years has been for those earning at least 5...
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The magic pages. The last 100 or so.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have a test in I/O Psyc I need to study for. Which is why my brain has been plugging away at a Seussian tale called Shucks This Sucks. It’s a rhyming dialog between Sam A’Yam and Ronald Chump. They touch on the price of things, elected officials not wanting to work anymore, and the nature of evil.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I bought a fresh bag of corn chips recently. Got them home and opened them, and they were stale. I’m not joking when I say that I blamed Donald Trump.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I grew up watching Mathnet. My kids grew up watching Odd Squad. Republicans can go to hell for cutting PBS funding.
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PBS Logo Evolution (1970-2019)
Alt: PBS Logo Evolution (1970-2019)
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tech gurus rediscovering the obvious. “It may be that human attention is the key ingredient for realizing the full benefits of personalized learning.” apple.news/AXRj2PAAISBC...
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The problem with an AI tutor: Students don’t want to use it — Chalkbeat
A study of Khanmigo backs up Sal Khan’s concern that simply giving students access to an AI tutor may not change how they learn.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Whatever pretense of legitimacy the current DOJ might have had is long gone and we should be in the streets. apple.news/Aght-M4fqQOC...
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DOJ says Kennedy Center could be demolished if Trump’s plans are blocked — The Washington Post
The filing marks the first time President Donald Trump’s allies have explicitly raised the prospect that the Kennedy Center itself could be demolished.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mood.
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Les Misérables: Enjolras at the Barricade
ALT: Les Misérables: Enjolras at the Barricade
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Actually, it’s the people doing this. Dems are just along for the ride. apple.news/A5iyFOSfeQny...
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Dems turning more GOP Senate strongholds into midterm battlegrounds — Axios
Ten weeks from Election Day, the Senate battlefield is sprawling, scattered — and stretching deep into Trump country.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Reposting for me, but you can watch it too.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
At this point they should just go Ahead and spend tax dollars on matching shirts that read: “WE’RE THE BAD GUYS.” apple.news/Aozc6Z1s1R6K...
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Founder of Oregon mustang ranch claims federal officials sell wild horses to kill pens — KOIN Portland
The Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Sale Program is "federal complicity," Skydog Sanctuary's Clare Staples said.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s an interesting day for headlines about regressive policies. apple.news/AEpro5IGITGy...
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USDA wants to revive the cotton industry. Experts aren’t sure that’s possible. — Arkansas Advocate
A denim-clad rancher poses on horseback, crimson-red shirt against a hazy blue sky. A farmer in a T-shirt stands surrounded by his crop, leaves bending toward weathered hands. “Real Americans wear cot...
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The first six words of this title makes sense… the rest, not so much. apple.news/Aej8e7vITQ7u...
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Trump administration moves to strip bar association’s power to accredit law schools — The Washington Post
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have accused the American Bar Association of liberal bias, promoting DEI and pushing a political agenda in law schools.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I feel like an area of the U.S. being without power for nine days ought to be bigger news. And don’t even get me started on coverage of Puerto Rico. apple.news/ATiycIyDgR_O...
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‘Survival mode’: Indiana residents endure a ninth day without power — The Associated Press
Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana are entering a second week without power after a deadly storm toppled trees and power lines.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Voters: Do something or get out of the way! Establishment Dems: How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat? Stand still laddie! apple.news/AHcdJzecDRs6...
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The ‘Resistance’ Is Over — The Atlantic
The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hegseth running for President would put the fun in an even more dysfunctional administration. Seriously, imagine Hegseth competing with Vance and Rubio for the title of Captain Ass-Kiss.
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C. James Highlander @1livelyrogue.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! apple.news/AXf2C4xKhSI2...
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Hegseth travels to Iowa in his ‘personal capacity’ amid 2028 speculation — The Washington Post
Officials familiar with the defense secretary’s thinking believe he is considering a run for president or some other office after his time in the Trump administration ends.
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