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@admford.bsky.social
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Hacker/Maker at large. Security Engineer at large. WARNING: extremely curious with a touch of ADHD...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/08/2026
Forcing disabled people into institutions and stripping us of health care is part of the admin's larger eugenic project: We have a right to live joyfully and supported in our communities, and this deprives us of our rights, freedoms, and, ultimately, lives.
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They grew up with disability rights. Now, they're fighting to keep them
Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.
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admford @admford.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@purplegeneric.bsky.social just discovered your origin story!
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Anyone who doesn’t see how very satisfied I’ve been throughout production doesn’t get what I most want out of an adaptatation. Mind you, that does tend to happen.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
nytimes.com
How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Fact, worth quoting
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 21/05/2026
The CFPB removed around 1,700 website pages spanning press releases, consumer advisories, speeches, testimony and op-eds dating before February 2025 from its website. www.notus.org/trump-white-...
notus.org
CFPB Deletes Consumer Advisories From Its Website
One employee saw the information wipe as “another step in them trying to shut it down entirely.”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/10/2025
If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/06/2025
again, don't rank cuomo. just the shittiest, pettiest, laziest person.
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admford @admford.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@asavage.bsky.social hey Adam, American Science & Surplus needs some help. You’ve occasionally spoken about the shop when you’re in Chicago. Would you help get the word out? gofund.me/f33f44a7
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Donate to Keep American Science & Surplus Alive, organized by Patrick Meyer
A heartfelt message from Pat Meyer, owner of American Science & Surplus: Calling A… Patrick Meyer needs your support for Keep American Science & Surplus Alive
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/04/2025
20 million Americans might lose their health coverage, just so Republicans can give billionaires a tax cut.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/04/2025
So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
semafor.com
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/04/2025
“Everyone should have a plan before travel,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @miamiherald.com. If an officer wants a device unlocked, “the traveler has to know what they’re going to do in that moment, either they’re going to comply or they’re not going to comply.”
miamiherald.com
Planning a trip abroad? Here’s how to protect the data on your devices at U.S. border searches
Border agents do not need a warrant to conduct searches of cell phones, laptops or other electronic devices when you’re entering the country.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Bear in mind, Judge Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee who was repeatedly on SCOTUS shortlists. This is both an admonition and a dire warning.
It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper. And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that. Gift link wapo.st/4j8d5Uh
wapo.st
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/04/2025
this guy... PLEASE do not rank him on your ballot, fellow New Yorkers. He's a clown. Put five other names on your ballot, none of them being his.
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Bidenomics vs. Trumpnomics @bvtnomics.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Biden - April 8th 2021 Dow Jones: +7.390% (+2,305.56) NYSE: +5.228% (+789.30) NASDAQ: +2.277% (+307.83) S&P500: +6.214% (+239.70) AVG: +5.277% 🏆 Trump - April 8th 2025 Dow Jones: -13.515% (-5,883.06) NYSE: -12.337% (-2,418.94) NASDAQ: -22.633% (-4,466.48) S&P500: -17.149% (-1,031.35) AVG: -16.409%
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 07/04/2025
Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.
microsoft.com
Project Silica
Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
washingtonpost.com
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025
Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links. The shameless racism is nakedly on display.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 15/03/2025
The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is not paywalled and I need you to actually read it.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
Rep. Jasmine CrockettRep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGov. JB PritzkerGov. Tim Walz
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
NEW from me — a beleaguered New Yorker vents her frustration at how the people the Empire State elected to protect us from fascism have become willing accomplices to Trump's agenda:
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Heartbreak, New York
How blue state Dems are betraying the people they're supposed to represent
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is an important datapoint
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/03/2025
President Trump can't punish and deport someone for their political beliefs. Mahmoud Khalil has not been charged with a crime — he must be released immediately.
Black graphic with text "You're watching the most terrifying moment of my life. This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him away from me. They threatened to take me too, even though we were calm and fully cooperating. For the next 38 hours after this video, neither I or our lawyers knew for sure where Mahmoud was being held. Now, he's over 1,000 miles from home, still being wrongfully detained by US immigration."
The quote is attributed to Noor Abdalla, wife of Mahmoud Khalil.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is really remarkable. A pardon attorney was told that Gibson was a personal friend of the President and she should recommend he be given his access to guns back. She didn't and was immediately fired. They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So this was a campaign promise not an observation.
STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT "LEADERS" IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
genuine respect for williams & connolly, hope law students with multiple options take notice
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 10/03/2025
This is the nightmare that Javier Milei has created in Argentina. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to emulate it by gutting Social Security. Every Wednesday, police beat up retirees outside the Argentine congress. This coming Wednesday, football hooligans will turn out to defend the retirees.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
There's legitimately blood in the water at this point. Keep attending Tesla protests. Post about it. Solidify the brand's association with Nazi incels.
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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admford @admford.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Bit of a heads up, companies are starting to add their own AI prompts to "poison" automated application tools using GenAI and LLMs.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/03/2025
I agree that the Democrats desperately need to pay attention to how Zelenskyy recognized that groveling and moderation get you nowhere with the fascist demons squatting in the White House right now.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.
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Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone
Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tens of thousands of people are dead, multiple cities and towns have been almost completely destroyed, and millions of people are displaced. And JD Vance laughs and smiles with Hannity about the invasion like it’s a game.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The media needs to label these "Trump flu deaths" - make him own this failure.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In today's "you hire buffoons, you get buffoonery"
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