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Late-career techie working to become early-career novelist. Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Super Bowl is going to be lit www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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Fans race to learn Spanish before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show
The Puerto Rican singer’s highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time show has inspired non-Spanish speakers to study Puerto Rican dialect and slang
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
On the shortlist of sentences folks from 100 years ago would least understand: "It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design."
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The only quibble I have with this article is that it says Trump is using ICE to suppress dissent, which is backwards. Trump is using ICE to inflame dissent, which creates a pretext for escalation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is hopeful. Do you think anything will come from it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Economic blackout day planned in Minnesota to protest ICE surge
Unions, faith groups and local leaders urge residents not to work, shop or go to school after killing of Renee Good
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Guardian. Will Congress find someone in contempt? Don't hold your breath.
News headline: Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I wouldn't have bet that Greenland would be the issue that turned the tide, but I'll take it. It's a good one because megalomania is the only reason Trump is pursuing it.
News headline: Republican dissent as key figures warn Trump against Greenland pursuit
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Who are the "agitators" in this scene? 9.47: “NEED CROWD CONTROL.” 9:50: “CROWD GETTING HOSTILE.” 10.07: “CONTACT WHO IS IN CHARGE OF FEDS AND HAVE THEM LEAVE SCENE.” 10.20: “CROWD GETTING MORE AGITATED” 11:01: “ICE BEING SURROUNDED.” 11.20: “CROWD CALMED DOWN NOW THAT ICE IS GONE.”
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Ileana Justine
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What does the world desperately NOT need? A doorbell with an app store.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Nation states are the monstrous ghosts of yesterday's world. Long live city states! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We have a new role’: mayors across the world increasingly taking on society’s biggest challenges
From Budapest to Barcelona, New York to Paris, mayors are increasingly being thrust on to the political frontlines as they face down the rise of the far right
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Maybe Chevron, but whatever
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ANTIFA vs.ℙ𝔼𝔻𝕆 ℙ𝕆𝕋𝕌𝕊 @breathfartnews.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Clarification hardly needed.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Could this be the wave breaking at the high water mark for fascism in the US? Will we be a nation of laws after all? If we speak and act as if that was the case, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump backs away from deploying national guard in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland
Decision comes after DoJ stopped contesting California court’s ruling to return control of guard to state’s governor
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I am begging you, folks. When someone posts something hopeful, restrain your desire to tell them why their hope is untenable, doomed to fail, or make some unreasonable political analogy out of it. LET US BREATHE AND DREAM.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Don't waste your energy supporting a party that lost, twice, to Donald Trump and thinks it has no lessons to learn from its stupendous incompetence. Make them earn your support or you'll continue to see more of the same. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman
If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
MTG is scorn-worthy in many ways, but the public MAGA exit she's performing now is the only way the country can return to sanity. If we cut her some slack, others may follow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was ‘naive’ for believing Trump is man of the people
Greene gives lengthy interview with New York Times days before stepping down as congresswoman for Georgia
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Heavily redacted" is the operative phase. That's what the delay was for.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The world is run by people who've never taken mushrooms. People who've taken mushrooms know why that's a problem.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms. The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump | Yaqiu Wang
While acting on your moral convictions can be risky, it can also feel profoundly good
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Satire is dead; there's no way to top this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Woman extradited to US to face charges immediately detained by ICE in ‘Kafkaesque’ twist
Prosecutors had worked to secure extradition of Yana Leonova, but efforts unraveled when immigration officials issued order to deport her
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
No room at the inn
A Christmas nativity display with baby Jesus missing and a sign that says "ICE was here"
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I'm shocked to learn "beach ball" isn't one word. Germans know what they're doing. Wasserball.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If only corporations adopt AI, that ensures only dystopian AI will be developed. If you want personal growth, social connection, transparency on the powerful, and an end to drugery, then demand AI that gets us these things we've struggled to secure in other ways.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The only thing worse than failing at something meaningful is succeeding at something meaningless.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Caption this
Pope Leo standing inside an airplane cabin holding and looking at a baseball bat
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We were promised a handbasket. This is bullshit.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New system, available now, can do six months of science per day. edisonscientific.com/articles/ann...
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Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
Today, we are announcing Kosmos, our next-generation AI Scientist. Kosmos is a major upgrade on Robin, our previous AI Scientist. You can read about it in our technical report, here. Kosmos is availab...
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Trump approving house vote is a head fake. The house alone can't do anything, so members can vote in a way that looks good without hurting dear leader. The legislation will be blocked at another step or passed into law and simply not enforced in good faith.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You can't have just one oodle
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The Democrats aren't an opposition party, they're side characters in the neoliberal political theater that is the USG.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This could be interesting, but I'm wary www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBg...
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Toy Story 5 | Teaser Trailer | In Theaters June 19
YouTube video by Pixar
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Teufelsberg, Belin
A giant mural showing a boy standing in front of barbed wire, loading a slingshot with his heart. Caption: Fuck Your Borders
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Clocks have meanings. Keep high noon atop at 12! #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime
A picture of two clocks. For the clock on the left, there is a yellow sun at the “12” position, and overlain is the word “THIS”. For the clock on the right, there is a yellow sun at the “1” position, all numbers are rotated 30° counter clockwise, and overlain are the words “NOT THIS”.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/11/2025
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Death is a very somber occasion, and it would be wrong to celebrate that the world is free from someone who invades the wrong country and shoots the wrong species on hunting parties. It's improper to even bring up things a person has done wrong on the occasion of their death. Stop it.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
No more clock changing! That was the last time!
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm concerned that the media isn't publishing follow-up stories on the pet-eating problem in Springfield, Ohio. Is it a cover up?
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Are chatbots mostly causing mental health crises or mostly shining a light on a population that was already in crisis?
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In these difficult times, don't forget what matters most: cats.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Why aren't there candidates like Mamdani in every city? NYC has two things most don't. This clip is about the public financing system. The other is ranked choice voting in the primary. We could have this everywhere if the Republicrats didn't oppose it as an existential threat.
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andyness.bsky.social @andyness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trump's peace in the middle east seems like the best peace ever
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