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Ann Porter

@annporterla.bsky.social
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Cultivating mindfulness. SQL writer, former political junkie, empty nester. Burbs of New Orleans. "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do." - Terry Pratchett

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
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Patricia Zengerle 🎃 @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s always a tweet, episode umpteen
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can imagine such a Senate, because I see who Americans put in the White House.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fair. I don’t “know” if it can become conscious. I’m not convinced by the arguments and none of the speculations strike me as interesting or plausible. It’s a fine math and ethics problem…if we didn’t have an authoritarian government with unprecedented technical capacity for state violence
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 09/10/2026
Yeah, there was no way to know how it would all turn out. Coin toss, really.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 09/10/2026
Broadcasting executions for an audience is what terrorists do, not the U.S. military.
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TED 🇺🇸 @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course. “Tax flight” is nowhere near the fiscal threat its proponents like to suggest.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...
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US Archbishop Coakley: Livestreaming execution promotes a ‘culture of death’ - Vatican News
Archbishop Paul Coakley, President of the US Bishops’ Conference, expresses shock over the planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Hassan, warning ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 08/10/2026
Yes, at a *bare minimum*, but we need to, like, have a full-on years-long national reckoning happen re: just how many attempts there were to undermine US democracy. Just because they were all incompetent crankery doesn't mean *the attempts themselves aren't crimes*!
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
JFC
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Shastina Free @evolvegracefully.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#FARMERS 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⚡️🙏⚡️
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's the safe assumption.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My friend picked me up at the airport in a FIT and put me in the back and I had so much room! But he was also pretty short. He called it his TARDIS.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was thinking the same thing.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I could have sworn you would be washing your hair.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A kiss to each one
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👇🎯
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Louisiana, if he didn't get to 50%, there would be a run-off. It's the only thing about our elections we do correctly. Ranked choice voting would be way better, though.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That sucks so hard.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would say he's a disgrace to Louisiana, but he represents.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mourn the absence of @weratedogs.com .
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently I missed the debate by several weeks. Did anybody ask them if they were rapists or drunks? Do they expect to give no-bid contracts to family members for services at the jail? Inquiring minds...
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
after 20 years in office. He was replaced by Randy Smith, who resigned earlier this year after beating up a long-time critic in a drunken rage at a restaurant bar (the tab had 19 drinks; he was with a friend). Four or five candidates are running to replace Smith. They are all Republican.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have lived in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana since 2002. In that time, we have had two Sheriffs. The first was thoroughly corrupt and is currently in prison for 4 life terms without parole for sex crimes, with another 10 years lagniappe for federal bribery. He lost his re-election bid in 2015
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Stanzas in Meditation @inmeditation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had not only loved but thought   (v.LXXV.20)
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They’ve been giving that same tired argument at least since I started college in 2005. The softest hands love to suggest that everybody else break their backs.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sky-high diesel prices have many farmers questioning Democrats’ decision to vote to release the Epstein files.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Isn't that Paul VI? Why does he have a laptop? He died in 1978.
Pope Paul VI, a white man with grizzled hair and glasses. His fingers are pressed together with his fingers spread and hands held apart. He is wearing a white cassock. He has a gold ring, a gold pin through a button loop on the cassock, and a long, thin gold-colored twisted cord draped around his neck. He is wearing the white skull-cap of his office.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A righteous post. Four stars.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It would be a huge improvement if he just took it seriously as a thing he should be working on! He's such a lightweight.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"go" O + "odd" O. That's not an opinion, that is objectively correct.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yesterday I told this cat he was a good boy for "hunting" a sock and bringing it to me in the bedroom and this morning every one of my socks is missing
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My husband the biologist is yelling at @kenjennings.bsky.social because Mr. Jennings mispronounced "zoology," but he calmed down when he pronounced it correctly the 2nd time.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009] John Rogers, taken from Goodreads quotes.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood,
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve this message" 😍
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish Claude would ding when it needs me.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fortified roof process is cranking along...evaluator is coming this week.
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Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸 @sisterswendy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026
claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dr. Self, I regret to inform you, you are the LEADER of the secret cabal! You are even an educated elite! You just need a mustache you can twirl.
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had to tell Claude to stop complimenting me when I corrected it. God that was annoying. Claude: "Good catch!" Me: "*&^!$$#"
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Canyon wrens 12-15cm rocky habitats from southern British Columbia W USA and Mexico. Canyon Wren does not drink water, getting all necessary moisture directly from its insect prey. nest build inside cliffs, female incubates 18 days, male feeds her parents feed 17 days in the nest, 14 days after
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Ann Porter @annporterla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just yesterday listened to "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," the last verse of which is the ur lyric of bro country. And then I listened to "Forever and Ever, Amen" which is a sweet cheerful love song and so heartwarming. At the risk of being obvious, "Not all country."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 26/09/2026
I fervently pray that I can continue getting away with my fraud against State Farm by never using my homeowners insurance.
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