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computer/code janitor, cat dad, wife guy in the people's republic of nyc if you touch a computer for business or leisure you probably use software ive written, sorry. im trying to do better.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?”
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL
•@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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normal aaron guy @aaronguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
are cats warm blooded
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/09/2026
a lot of your favorite accounts have just had their cover blown. give some grace to anyone with over 100k followers on here, they’re probably going through a lot right now
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yes
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DSA blueprint for 2028: Elect AOC president — and reportedly replace Schumer with radical leftist
Ultra-leftist Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2028, while “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sets her sights on the White House — if th…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent. I think he should ban more outlets. perhaps that will address the press's collective action problem...
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i think we should change the law to hang the people responsible for the Iran war even if the LOAC technically protects them
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026
a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Why is Lebanon run by sectarian fascist militias?" asks neighboring country famous for arming and supporting sectarian fascist militias in Lebanon.
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simonjadis @simonjadis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of the venues that apparently joined Robert Kraft's anti-Macklemore ultimatum allowed Kanye West to play earlier this year.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Block me
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i think the fact that centrists are hysterically depressed about america's future is a good sign
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is just round 2 of people blaming Arabs for Harris' loss. If your calculation is that you'll net more votes by burning a vulnerable demographic, you do not get to be mad when they're mad at you. Trying to then browbeat them into your preferred messaging is both counterproductive and immoral
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office
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BURG: Slider Gaiden BEYOND @digijeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lol damn
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
somethingawful to 4chan to 8chan to the com was a distillation column for the worst people on earth
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i don’t think Vance has a real shot in 2028 bc he’s going to have the same problems Harris did but worse
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
holy shit its real lmao
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026
a year later, looking back, I think Charlie Kirk marks the high water mark of the right's cultural dominance for a little bit there they actually managed to force civil society as a whole to crack down on people saying mean shit about one of their own, and it turned out to be a massive overreach
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People are very high on Ossoff, and I get it, but 1) Laken Riley Act and 2) he's notoriously kind of a dumbshit
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normal aaron guy @aaronguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
openreview.net/forum?id=pc7... turns out When you train on as much human language as you can get a hold of you recreate racism/sexism/colorism/etc
openreview.net
Verifying your browser | OpenReview
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bisel.bsky.social @bisel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Would be neat if the (many more than two dozen!) Jewish Michiganders who are excited to vote for Abdul because we know that Abolishing ICE is a Jewish value were treated with this level of gravity by the NYT, but 🤷‍♀️
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Knowledge production itself—our literal every word—is being appropriated and enclosed by some of the most irresponsible capitalists to ever live. To add to the insult, these capitalists uniformly belong to a death cult that seeks to literally replace the human race with capital.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am going to say again that the absolute worst thing for most adults is to lose face. People will do ANYTHING to avoid that. As such, any inkling that a person was duped, not smart, etc... will usually lead them to triple down.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
see also: one of the reasons programmers have traditionally been so obsessed with linters and indentation and formatting, is that it's the only part of the codebase they have any meaningful agency over. the only bikeshed they're allowed to paint. everything else requires buy in from management
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i legit didn’t know chiropractic was fake until a couple years back. it’s just treated as a totally normal thing in the culture. they have state licensure boards!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
People have figured out that if you post a video clip and wildly inaccurately sum it up with quotation marks basically just straight up lying about its content, 9/10 people won't unmute the audio and that's really bad imo. It's identical to Weiss's AES/9-11 headline attempt.
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