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Rich Alderson

@alderson.bsky.social
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historical linguist, quondam Tolkien language maven, systems administrator, PDP-10 programmer, former computer museum curator, @alderson@mastodon.sdf.org

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@ddeaen

iphones ruined an entire generation's tech literacy because i regularly see 14+ year olds asking how to make a desktop shortcut or duplicate a File

@inkballpro

i was literally figuring out virtual machines and basic linux at like 6 lol

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this is also not normal im sorry
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They tell us a million bullshit things we can do to avoid being raped without telling predators to just not rape us.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 24/09/2026
After hearing from constituents who saw construction equipment at the site of Trump’s proposed arch, I drove down to Columbia Island to see for myself. I found workers operating heavy equipment who told me they were conducting archaeological work. My full statement:
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Palo walo @lilnoodledragon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey hey hey hi the president of Drexel University bought The Academy of Natural Sciences (the oldest natural history museum in the Americas) and is trying to shut it down At the end of the video is a list of things you can do and people you can contact to help stop this!!
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.
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US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think it's a coincidence that Trump is banning news outlets the week before a court's deadline for Todd Blanche to release interview notes with underage girls Trump is alleged to have raped and threatened. He'd rather we talk about his censorship than his pedophilia.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.
a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lol 😂 He thinks it’s a privilege.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chipmunk alert...
A chipmunk is sitting on a rock with purple flowers and green leaves behind it.

📷 Dreamcatcher
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Could he be any more pathetic?
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026
Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That has developed over the years, since I first read LotR 60+ years ago, and have reread it many times—llst count in my 30s. At this point in my life, I’m going to say JRRT himself for the influence he has had on me all that time.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked the OP to repost something with alt text and she actually did, with a promise to use it consistently in the future! Let's share the hell out of this to show people how much we appreciate that.
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Boosting
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can’t not cry, watching this. 9/11 rescue dogs, whew 😔😩🇺🇸
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Re: Oz After all, no one would notice.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📌All the bigots asking why the mayor of New York City is presiding over the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, need to shut up and explain to us why they support the traitor who attacked us Jan. 6.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Slackmeyer, from Doonesbury. Still relevant in these Trumpian times.
Slackmeyer saying, "That's guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty!!"
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 10/09/2026
Thank you, Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Graduate
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, of course he's aware. Hello? www.citizen.org/article/dona...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 09/09/2026
‘These records are priceless’: 3 National Archives locations set to close without tribal consultation The Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco National Archives contain incredibly important Bureau of Indian Affairs documents and are reportedly closing as soon as Oct. 1
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‘These records are priceless’: 3 National Archives locations set to close without tribal consultation - ICT
The Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco National Archives contain incredibly important Bureau of Indian Affairs documents and are reportedly closing as soon as Oct. 1
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🌲 45 MILLION ACRES 625,000 Americans filed comments telling them not to. Ninety-nine percent opposed. They read every one and did it anyway. Comments were the polite option. Congress holds the money. Send your letter now: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This program lures students out of public school (study halls but also electives like music, art) with the promise of games and free snacks, while also serving up a big dish of Christian nationalism taught by unvetted unlicensed teachers they're spreading from Ohio, keep them out of your districts
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/07/2026
Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The letters are in date order, with no further categorization. What more could a ToC say?
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Randy Watkins @bluetortoise3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“This will remove protections for virtually all streams in the West and other arid parts of the country,” Jim Murphy said in an email, noting that few, if any, streams flow every day in the Southwest, where a mega drought has persisted for more than two decades. 🌍 lasvegassun.com/news/2026/se...
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Trump administration moves to drop protections for more wetlands
The Trump administration on Friday took another step toward stripping federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands, which help filter drinking water for many communities and provide critical...
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 05/09/2026
Wyoming isn't likely to show any reason here but we have to try. Please sign and share this petition to save the Mollie's Pack. They've wandered outside the park and set up camp a few miles away. Wyoming trophy hunters are lining up to kill them. act.biologicaldiversity.org/6JN-eB1kTEib...
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Help Save Yellowstone's Oldest Wolf Pack
One of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s best-known wolf families — including the area’s oldest living wolf — is in imminent danger. Trophy hunters could kill them this fall. Tell the Wyoming Game a...
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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Mrs. Menzel, who died Aug. 27 at 97 at home in the town of Los Alamos, was part of a generation of women who quietly performed calculations, programmed computers and developed equations in America’s leading halls of science after World War II.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 05/09/2026
Today—like, now, even!—is a great day to snag COYOTE RUN by @lilithsaintcrow.com because the fascists end badly, the women win, and dang that sounds nice. Available wherever you like to snag your books. Our page has all the links! hornedlarkpress.com/product/coyo...
Cover of Coyote Run, art by Phineas X. Jones
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I will never set foot in DC again
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Excavation work on Trump's arch in Washington to begin over next 2 weeks, administration says
The Trump administration has announced that it is planning to start excavation work on a memorial arch in Washington over the next two weeks.
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WomanAstro @womanastro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#WomanAstro of the highest order. 🔭🧪🚀 #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience
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Rich Alderson @alderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ray Lynch, “Deep Breakfast”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 31/08/2026
One point of contention between Driscoll and Hegseth: he reportedly resisted Hegseth’s pressure to remove black and female officers from the promotions list. From the NYT in March: “Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers' decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused.”
cnn.com
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation after tension with Hegseth | CNN Politics
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/09/2026
FYI the Wikipedia section on Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon is harrowing. I had forgotten so many outrageous things.
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