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Kaz

@amkaz.bsky.social
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在日アメリカ人・文系出身ITエンジニア Immigrant/humanities grad in tech Formerly: WV, Boston (BSc), Hokkaido (JET), Kobe (MA). Currently: Tokyo. 🗼 🏳️‍🌈🍜🎧🍻

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
26 pages??
Alexis de tocqueville
which I am sure most americans have read
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The manifesto I could write about this and its intersections with anti-immigrant (???) and generally xenophobic sentiment. Large swaths of the Japanese tourism industry (and particularly tourist hotspots and sites of national heritage) are just not being responsible.
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
really sucks how much social media (even just text based ones) has fragmented....bluesky has lib chopped uncs...substack notes has annoying writers...threads and twitter have all the really mentally ill people. That used to be all in one place!
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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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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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😭😭😭😭😭
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Firstly, cringe and embarrassing... But secondly, these people are the Taliban and you can't convince me otherwise.
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astrid @lawnmower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
as ever
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry but I want to circle back to the +31% net positive sentiment towards a military coup...
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FMHY
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you've ever told a junior engineer to "just do xyz" and walked away, then congratulations, you've seen this exact behavior
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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tokugawa America folks, they’re talking about it more and more. Sakoku, a beautiful word, closed country policy. I have loyal retainers coming up tears in their eyes saying “Shogun, you’ve got to close the borders”. Tokugawa America
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💀
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So literally "Allahu akbar," only in English
@60Minutes on X:
Bravo, the U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer who was stranded behind enemy lines in Iran for two days, tells 60 Minutes about the first message he was able to send to the U.S.: “God is good.” cbsn.ws/4gOIzjI
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some people are literally impossible to help. They will complain and complain, all the while proffering every possible excuse, sometimes for months or years! It may sound grotesque but honestly time to shit or get off the pot! You're boring!
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An all-timer!
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026
We've got a Muslim man running the most multicultural city in the world and making space for all the people in it. That's what cultural victory over fundamentalism looks like, it's a shame that there's a part of the population that couldn't identify a cultural victory if it slapped them in the face.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My take is that having a Muslim immigrant preside over ceremonies commemorating 9/11 in New York City is one of the beautiful things about America.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My husband has NEVER talked in his sleep, a streak he recently chose to break by loudly whispering, “There’s someone at the window.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see it, but FYI—Abdul El-Sayed is NOT a member of DSA. He is just Muslim. These are in fact different things. cc: @tanglenews.bsky.social
readtangle.com answer to reader question on DSA support for abolishing the police

Text: "As for individual DSA or democratic socialist-aligned candidates, it’s a mixed bag. Politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were vocal supporters of defunding the police in 2020 but have stopped centering the issue in their platforms (though they haven’t explicitly renounced the slogan, either). Some, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), have sought to distance themselves from past support. And others, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have opposed the idea from the beginning."
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we are the screams of the cats you've already fed dinner
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Life seems to be happening *around* people at this current historical moment. This means that commentary is the main form of action for the vast majority. And it turns out that commentary keeps folks anxious and unfulfilled. People don't have a clear sense of what they can actually DO.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/08/2026
17 years ago, Beyoncé performed at the opening of the Donbas Arena. At the time, Donetsk was one of Ukraine’s most prominent cities. Then, russia invaded, destroyed the stadium, and devastated the entire region. One day, Donetsk will be free again, welcoming top artists from across the world.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I...I would like to hear the story
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Since I can’t respond to all comments here, I’ll mention as others have that Piker’s response to an anti-Zionist Jewish caller’s ? is essentially what Arendt sd in 1944: Israel’s war on Palestine & its neighbors risks turning the country into a pariah state & the diaspora into unwilling accomplices
If a Jewish commonwealth is obtained in the near future-with or without partition-it will be due to the political influence of American Jews.... But if the Jewish commonwealth is proclaimed against the will of the Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples, not only financial help but political support will be necessary for a long time to come. And that may turn out to be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country [the U.S.], who after all have no power to direct the political destinies of the Near East. It may eventually be far more of a responsibility than today they imagine or tomorrow can make good.[Tlhe Zionists, if they continue to ignore the Mediterranean people and watch out only for the big faraway powers, will appear only as their tools, the agents of foreign and hostile interests. Jews who know their own history should be aware that such a state of affairs will inevitably lead to a new wave of Jew-hatred; the antisemitism of tomorrow will assert that Jews not only profiteered from the presence of foreign big powers in that region
but had actually plotted it and hence are guilty of the
consequences...
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Something my friend Sam Brody reminded me: the above transcript leaves out that Piker was responding to a question from a listener: HP is not making a universal pt, but offering it to an anti-Zionist Jewish listener who wanted an example of something to say to his reform temple to move them
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The full text of Hasan Piker's statements, denounced by ppl from Hakeem Jeffries to Ben Shapiro. I am not sure the best way to respond to a moral panic, launched to stop progressive candidates & derail nec conversations re Israel's crimes, other than to call BS: there is nothing anti-Jewish here.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
when people said we needed a "joe rogan of the left" i said anyone who approaches that has been and will continue to be condemned by the very people searching for that. they want a joe rogan of the center left and that is a contradiction in terms
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The United States is truly a wicked place. Every time I visit LA I am filled with rage that the weather is so nice and yet NOBODY is outside experiencing it!! They're all in their cars!! That the mayor would be opposed to street food unfortunately fits entirely within that framework...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sometimes when I read criticism of Bluesky I’m like wow we really all do live on different internets. Hostile to AI? That applies to the userbase of every single social media platform I’m on lol
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Kaz @amkaz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That the place is run by a cadre of energy vampires is really the only way to make sense of prestige American newsrooms these days.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The utility of Luigi Mangione isn't that he put a stop to anything it's that he exposed that almost the entire country, regardless of politics, understands the concept of social murder. With three key exceptions of course: politicians, columnists, and posters who think they're on The West Wing.
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