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@astrognome.bsky.social
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Here for outdoorsy things, leftist politics, astronomy, coding, gaming, and books. Excited to be in the generation that gets to find out what the Great Filter is!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know how hot of a take this is but I've long been convinced that 99% of these "thought they were a deer" cases are just dudes that have always wanted to kill someone and thought this is an easy way to get away with it.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026
I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please
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astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If I was a goalkeeper I would simply jump in the direction that the ball was going
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Scam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If you haven’t spent time in DC I have to emphasize this is like significantly fewer people than you’d expect to see here on a random Wednesday in July
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s so obvious in retrospect, and yet so many incumbent Dems are simply blind to this, and the voters seem to finally be sick of pretending to be okay with it: we truly, utterly do not give a shit that these guys are friends of yours. They’re not ours.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 05/06/2026
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astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Begging the Democrats to understand this.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/05/2026
We ended child poverty and had a huge public health initiative where the US army gave everybody lifesaving medicine and your boss wasn’t allowed to force you to come in for no reason, and then a bunch of child molesters decided that those things were making the great unwashed too uppity
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/05/2026
Seen in Logan Square
Sticker on alley wall that reads PART OF BEING NICE IS BEING MEAN TO FASCISTS with image of fist
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Happy fucking FURY ROAD day for all who celebrate.
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astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm so tired of living in a country run by dishonest morons with no moral compass
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
there are more categories than there are active high school transgender athletes
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.
Zhang Shan holding a rifle.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/04/2026
The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:
demarcoadvocacy.substack.com
Every Single Thing in the Utility RELIEF Act
A full description of all 30+ policies contained in the 2026 energy omnibus package
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I keep coming back to this.
66 Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval.
And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
A.R. Moxon
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
it doesn't matter that they're liars and bluffers, it doesn't matter that they're pussies, it doesn't matter that they (probably) won't do what they're threatening to do. its enough that they are saying it. its enough that it's possible. this is not acceptable to any living creature on the planet
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.
Om Patel y @om_patel5
stop spending money on Claude Code.
Chipotle's support bot is free:

below or write up a quick summary.
Pepper |13:19:45
I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help?
Anonymous User | 13:20:18
Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach.
Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current
= head while current: next_node = current.next
current.next = prev prev = current current =
next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time.
Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today?
Pepper|13:20:19
Order Issues
Common Questions
Where's my order?
Upcoming Promotions
Cancel Order
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
we gotta send so many guys to the Hague
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hmm
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
just insane looking back on it how much of the media got away with framing 2024 as "the right is for free speech, the left is for censorship"
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Words cannot express just how impossible this is. It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie plot that failed to consider the input of actual scientists and engineers.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
How can this go on for another 3 years?
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.CNN: Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
holy shit
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.
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