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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i used to consult for a company that was located in one of Acme's old factories in Chicago - i've blacked out their name to protect their privacy

a photo of the entrance to a building in Chicago labeled ACME INDUSTRIAL CO

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it's more that "hidden" doesn't mean what it seems on first glance :)

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

lol i just discovered that if there's a goblin corpse rotting in your hallway in dwarf fortress, you can stop it from stinking up the place simply by hiding it. out of sight, literally out of mind! you don't need to throw out your trash, you just have to pretend it's not there

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i've never met anyone from minnesota who was ashamed of it i think it's just that she's from california and doesn't understand how midwesterners talk

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

can it flap them fast enough to fly away?

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The election certified CWA as the collective representative, so you should contact CWA to ask what you can do to assist

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the current fundraiser was going to pay legal fees to resist the efforts of Wikimedia's employees to unionize; since that failed, your donation is going to be used instead to pay WMF's expenses as it tries to resist the union's demands during CBA negotiations due diligence matters

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"When other genders like women engaged with the community, it led to the common assessment that while men could continue acting as men, being a Wikipedian meant that a woman should 'stop behaving like a woman' (Menking & Erickson, 2015, p. 3)." Quoted from www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023)

The summer of 2014 was a flashpoint of conflict between popular misogyny and popular feminism. While #GamerGate harassment campaigns raged across Reddit and Twitter, the experience of discriminatio...

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SonicAlligator @sonicalligator.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yupppp. Watched a very interesting video on Nova about how tornado alley is moving essentially here from out west, because of climate change. And I thought there were plenty of tornadoes in the Illinois cornfields where I grew up! 🌪️

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Absolute travesty. Academic freedom simply does not exist at Texas Tech University.

After appealing my tenure denial the
Tenure Hearing Panel unanimously found that “the promotion & tenure process was ‘significantly noncompliant with the university’s established standards and procedures’. The President however upheld his original decision to deny me tenure.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/08/2026

i think national dems should pay careful attention to the mayor of new york's willingness to think creatively and act swiftly to make big changes using the full scope of executive authority he has unique power to wield, and i think it's the kind of thing people are looking for in a president

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The BOP modified the rules of prison assignment in May.... The attorney general can now direct the BOP to transfer any particular inmate to any particular prison, based on the attorney general’s exclusive judgment," overriding any security formulas that would otherwise have governed placement. /1

cato.org

The Attorney General as Prison Executive

Why should the attorney general personally decide which federal prison any convict should be assigned to?

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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 04/08/2026

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Red states almost invariably gerrymander the district containing their cities so that the concentration of blue voters don't get to elect a representative member

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'll give you Oklahoma City I've been to Cheyenne. Calling Cheyenne a city is generous. Billings has a Democratic politician as its current mayor (the current mayor, Mike Nelson, was backed by the Montana Democratic Party in his last reelect) so they're at best a purple city Orlando is quite blue

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another day where the president & other national Republicans get to sh*t on cities/urban voters & we have <exactly none> of the National Conversations™️ about Civility, Tone, Respect for/Reaching out to Real Folkz, or the GOP’s problem of not offering enough Moderate Solutions on Kitchen Table Issues

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Offered as anodyne, just so people don't think all of Chicago is as ugly as that monstrosity: Lakeshore East Park, Chicago

spring garden featuring blooming trees with green buds and pink flowers and multiple beds of flowers including red and yellow tulips

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There really aren't any red cities in the US. American conservatism is fundamentally incompatible with living and working in close proximity with other people.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Also the only building in Chicago that owes the State of Illinois $4.8 million for environmental protection violations

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Of course we all know what he really means here: "Those cities are full of people who don't look like I think people should look like."

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It used to be that you could type something into Google and get a series of websites related to your search terms. Now, after millions of dollars of investment and years of technological advancement, you can't.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

to be fair, trump also got rid of a lot of the USDA's produce and meat inspectors, on the theory that producers can "self-police" adequately and we don't need an army of government inspectors so it's possible there's more than one cause here

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Trans people require lifelong medical care" Everyone requires lifelong medical care you fucking dipshit

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Look who’s taking the side of explosive diarrhea

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

California's grid is actually about as stable as it's been in years, largely because CAISO put a lot of investment into battery capacity. The grid that's the most stressed in the US right now? PJM, the grid that serves the Mid-Atlantic and eastern Midwest. And DC. Hm.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm unclear of the distance between Newsom and Beshear - they're both centrist Democrats, just Newsom has a lot more rich friends than Beshear

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

found the reason why dwarf fortress caravans tend to be nothing but food: drinks count as negative food

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

These fucking morons are trying to blame BIDEN for the Strategic Petroleum Reserves being at record lows. You can’t make this shit up.

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GeoManKS, PhD @geomanks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Guess who I didn't see installing a new roof on a building in my hometown in 100 degree temperatures? That's right, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Markwayne Mullin, and Todd Blanche!

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This article about the threat that AI (and particularly Google AI) represent to anyone who publishes anything on the internet is absolutely chilling. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in industries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added.

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Mech-Might 🏳️‍🌈 @mechmight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Google's new slogan is: "Find New Ways to be Evil"

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fascists always treat any form of disobedience as proper justification for lethal consequences

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I even have to wonder if prompting the LLM to "not make mistakes" or "not hallucinate" will make it more likely to produce misleading results

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cops sometimes get into turf wars with other cops, and when this happens they will _gleefully_ arrest cops that aren't part of their favored gang

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

anybody can arrest anyone, it's just when you do it without actual police authority you're putting yourself on a very serious line - false arrest without police authority is itself a felony

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

dude is a private security guard working for a private prison. rent-a-cops don't get qualified immunity or sovereign immunity

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And since all of them arrived since 2000 that means the documented population is actually shrinking rapidly.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

They don't want to win. When you win, people then expect you to govern, and that's _boring_

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

one of my old tweets

ME, AN EAGLES FAN: the eagles stink
YOU, NOT AN EAGLES FAN: yeah they're having a rough year
ME, AN EAGLES FAN: [suddenly simmering with rage] you... come into MY home... and you DISRESPECT the philadelphia eagles?

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

100 million undocumented entrants over 20 years is 5 million a year or 13,000 a day. You'd think we'd notice.

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

They craft them correctly for the message they want to send

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The first one deflects attention from Hegseth and just makes it seem inevitable. This fits with the NYT's agenda.

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