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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 29m

It's so fucked up you gotta do hard stuff to make good things happen. What the hell, man.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 2h

Condescending false concern in a French accent is one of the truest delights in life.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 4h

Hey guess what. Next year there's gonna be people getting hired to do IT work where they have to maintain a system using an OS that was released before they were born.

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Windows Server 2003 - Wikipedia

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 6h

Some people need their asses beat so bad.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 6h

We really need to start hosting Data Poisoning parties where everybody swaps logins and memberships and annihilates their capacity to understand who is where.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 6h

There is every reason to view every single employee of OpenAI and Anthropic as actively hostile to the experience of being a human being, being in community with others, and existing in an ecosystem on earth. They are adversaries of what it means to be a person.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 17h

The worst thing about Ken Paxton has always been that he is the single most successful Trump mimic, insofar as he has done so many incredibly fucked up things that the Median Voter gets amnesia. This is the best rhetorical counter to that superpower I've ever seen and it should be copied.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 19h

Bluesky is very good for people who like writing but think to themselves "I could never be a Real Writer because I am insane and because writing pitches destroys my soul" because you get to see a lot of writers you respect and admire publicly post about how they are insane and how pitching sucks.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 21h

They're going to try to ban VPNs and when that doesn't work they're going to try to ban encryption through some extremely fucked up backdoor legislation and we need to be prepared to smother it in the crib

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Is teaching patrons how to dump Google and use a different search engine, browser, and email provider “neutral”? No, no more than is automatically signing them up for a Gmail account when they say they need an email address." 📚 doi.org/10.5860/ital...

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Refusal as Instruction: Equipping Patrons to Resist AI, Data Brokers, Big Tech, & More | Information Technology and Libraries

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One day, far in the future, I will get my Titanfall MMO, where crews of titan pilots do quests and professions and run dungeons on many different worlds and our guild hall is just a big transport ship where we all have our individual player housing and Titan bays.

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Man Contemplating Life by the Ocean

Alt: Man Contemplating Life by the Ocean

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This meme is about The Shadow Histories by H. G. Parry and the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik

if i had a nickel for every time i found and loved a fantasy series set during the napoleonic wars that also became a story about abolition and liberation I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion

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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Y’all, Catholics don’t applaud in church. Ever. This is a thing. You don’t have to like the church or organized religion. You do need to understand that up until the 90s and the US church pivot to abortion as a primary issue, the Catholic Church has long been a powerhouse in immigrant communities

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Cris Seda Chabrier @cseda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For nearly two months, I’ve been speaking to three trans women detained at a notorious immigration facility in Louisiana. They were incredibly brave to talk to me abt what they’ve endured. veritenews.org/2026/10/05/t...

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Trans detainees allege abuse at Jena ICE facility

Three trans women have been held in solitary confinement for months allege that they are facing abuse at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cris worked extremely hard on this story for a long time, and took great pains to make sure that these women’s nightmarish experience was portrayed accurately Please go read it.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're a Huge Lance Enjoyer, I cannot recommend Emerson Tung highly enough. He is imo the finest living practitioner of Huge Lance.

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Robot and Mecha — Emerson Tung

Robot and Mechanical Design by Concept Artist Emerson Tung

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

James do you have any idea how desperate Cleveland is for Something Good To Happen? If it were even passable we would quite literally be drowning in tiktoks arguing about whether the Cuyahoga is still flammable.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the best website in the world.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a big fan of the "Picture Of A Guy With A Speech Bubble Quote Repost" subgenre

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Abbot and Paxton both lose we get to turn The Alamo into a gender neutral bathroom and Jerry Jones gets put in that box that box that Cris Angel lived in for a month.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the [paraphrased] words of @margaret.bsky.social "I don't punch people because I don't wanna be forced to be locked in a box for ten years. But I think if we didn't have the threat of jail, a lot of people who need to get punched probably would have been punched."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nobody ever speaks to the downside of universal healthcare; uncontrollable Bolsonaro proliferation.

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Kasia Brz @avatarkasia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sometimes drawing a bunch of cats from pinterest gives a sense of normalcy against the everyday everything

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The entire political project of conservatives is just "Ehn yeah but THOSE people aren't REALLY people though, not the same way that WE'RE people"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 04/10/2026

When VC assholes say “you can just do things” they mean rip people off and ruin their lives with no consequences. In reality, you can just do things means you can be happy working, taking care of your family and friends.

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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 05/10/2026

I don't want to see The EPIC Cosmic Horror With A DARK Twist Ending You've NEVER Heard Of. I want to see I Read The Nine Billion Names Of God When I Was Young And Here Are Some Of The Questions I Contracted.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is true.

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

god it must be so liberating to be a fucking idiot

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Tim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026

You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I genuinely worry that The Median Voter will get selective amnesia about how fucking bad things actually are right now and that's why I think we need public and gratuitous righteous vengeance. People are pissed off and they fucking should be. Entertain them with bloodsport.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When we say the ruling class of fascists are absolutely fucking practicing ironclad class solidarity, this is what we mean. This woman is divorcing Ken Paxton "on biblical grounds" which is North Texan for "my husband is a certified fucking freak BUT we can't let these POORS have HEALTHCARE"

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you see this, recommend a short book. The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lmao I love love love that these rotten gremlins have to eat this shit from the diaper guy

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ohio has judged Vivek Ramaswamy and found him wanting. He will be fed to the dark things which linger on in the deep hollows, and we will count his screams as psalms knowing their dread hunger has been satiated.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He would be disappointed in me tonight I fear

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around

Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls

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