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Simply Jeff

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I'm desperately trying to finish my first novel. I think I'll need to supplement my retirement funds for the next few years. Any pronoun but it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026
This is about as close as you can get to explicitly saying, "don't worry, she doesn't *need* to know anything or think for herself."
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Simply Jeff @balmak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If i had a crystal ball I would sit very carefully.
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Public policy should be evidence-based. The NIH banning policy research is a not-so-subtle admission that this administration is ideology, not fact-driven.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A district court judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard on Thursday, concluding that the alleged incidents were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard remained in violation of federal civil rights law. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
A district court judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard on Thursday, with a quick four-page order, concluding that the incidents pointed to by the government ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"They lie to me often, and I have appreciated that."
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No AI for kids- from K thru college. The young deserve & need those years to develop their own unique opinions, voice, talents, observations.
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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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RED DOTS REPRESENT TECH EXECUTIVES WHO LIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF A DATA CENTER

This one struck a nerve.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Simply Jeff @balmak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seems to me this testosterone thing is just gender reaffirming care for the military.
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm really glad they're continuing to push on this. I know it isn't the norm to sanction DOJ attorneys and DEFINITELY isn't the norm to actually go for the heavy artillery, but multiple DOJ attorneys need to lose their jobs and ability to practice over this and should also be prosecuted criminally.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW: My response to Todd Blanche's intentional violations of a court order to turnover unredacted Epstein Files. The short of it: follow the damn law & pay a daily fine until you do. I'll give a detailed breakdown on my YouTube channel tomorrow morning! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to Order of the Court – #20 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE TO ORDER OF THE COURT re Order, filed by KATIE PHANG. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Ballou, Brendan) (Entered: 07/13/2026)
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 10/07/2026
So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Dan Haar: Fake news? No, fake media may be the real danger at a Connecticut ICE raid
"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘It’s madness!’ Chaos at new ‘Stop the Steal’ rally as woman punched on video #RawStory
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‘It’s madness!’ Chaos at new ‘Stop the Steal’ rally as woman punched on video
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/07/2026
Basically everything I write these days on my blog just ends up being plagiarised using LLMs without any credit to me at all At least they kept my chart? lol
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🦔Google's electricity consumption jumped from 31 to 43 terawatt hours in a single year, the largest increase in the company's history. Google now uses more electricity than New Zealand. Emissions rose 18%. Water consumption climbed 34% to 10.9 billion gallons.

My Take
Google's electricity didn't just grow. The rate at which it grew also grew. That's exponential, and Google admitted it when it said AI infrastructure expands faster than the power grid can decarbonize. If you know you're building faster than the grid can handle and you keep going, the climate target isn't hard to reach. You gave up on it and haven't said so.

Google claims its products avoided 41 million tonnes of emissions in 2025, more than the company's entire footprint. Most of that comes from Google crediting itself for clean energy projects that used Google Earth to pick a site. By that logic Google Docs helped write every climate policy drafted on it. Amazon now emits more than New Zealand and Henrico County asked its teachers to turn off the lights so data centers could stay on. The companies pledged net zero before the AI buildout and every one of them went backward. Google's report says the path won't be linear. They're right. It's exponential, in the wrong direction.

Hedgie🤗
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Something we just found with a lot more details: thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If, in the year of our lord 2026, you still believe in banning anonymity on the internet, then you’re a privileged unthinking dunderhead who simply can’t conceive of government being weaponized against you.
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Jon-Paul @tripleshot31.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
When he testified yesterday, Blanche pretended that it's normal to settle a Privacy Act claim by zeroing out criminal and civil tax liability. If Trump won his case, he'd be entitled to MONEY, and nothing else. It's a lawsuit, not an audit! www.publicnotice.co/p/weaponizat...
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The slush fund is dead. Long live the slush fund.
Todd Blanche, call your lawyer.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
yes, of course yer a writer if you use AI, in the same way a cheese grater creates cheese.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/06/2026
the fog is maybe eating pollutants? which…sure, fine, no one else with an organization the size of Big Fog is doing anything. why not. i am now even more on team fog.
homer simpson on the couch with a beer and a pennant that says FOG!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Give this a read.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 28/05/2026
Host of the “Mueller, She Wrote” podcast sued the Justice Department Thursday over its creation of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” saying the federal government failed to follow required public comment procedures.
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‘Mueller, She Wrote’ Podcaster Sues DOJ Over $1.8 Billion Fund
Host of the “Mueller, She Wrote” podcast sued the Justice Department Thursday over its creation of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” saying the federal government failed to follow required public comment procedures.
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Simply Jeff @balmak.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Out of all possible super powers I need supervision.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
what's there to say really?
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 27/05/2026
BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7
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Emi the Sweary Cook🌵 @undercoveremi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that basically a third of USians (and maybe the whole fucking world), actively want the worst things to happen to other people. That many people are just straight up fucking hateful. How are we supposed to live in a world with these people?
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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Theory: AI feels revolutionary to people who mostly get their information from conversations with people. It feels tedious and extremely in the way to people who get get their information from articles, books, and data sets.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"everyone" = men with money
galvanicklucipher 14h
In the 1830s everyone in the USA knew
that canal waterways were the future of
commerce. Every state started building a
canal network with the vision of hooking
them all into a national network. In 1837
there was a Great Recession, and the tax
base for the canal work collapsed. When
the economy recovered 5 years later, the
railroad boom was happening and
everyone knew that canals were over.
That's why every city in the Midwest has a
half-finished canal in it. This is a post
about data centers
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The best way to honor fallen soldiers is to avoid careless reasons to create more of them.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh
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Rare bug photographed in Golden Gate Park pond: 'Total shock'
The elusive find had never been logged on iNaturalist before.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
ok time to start my first tears of the kingdom replay #totk
A screenshot of Tears of the Kingdom of Zelda falling into the abyss and reaching for Link who has jumped in after her.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Trump bombed a girls elementary school 85 days ago
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
dude i’ve been in tech for decades. i know scores of developers and engineers. they are the opposite of “thrilled.” none of us are “luddites.” your smug attitude about AI squares with the industry as a whole though so points for staying on-brand.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24/05/2026
Did you know that if your carrots are as flaccid as a limp dick you can make them sturdy again by simply soaking them in water? The weakness is because they're dehydrated. It takes about 24 hours for them to get firm assuming they're fully submerged.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 22/05/2026
Keep normalizing the reversal of Citizens United. 👇🏼 It's vital to the future of American Democracy.
Bernie Sanders and Summer Lee introduced
a bill to abolish Super PACs, which would stop
corporations and bilionaires from spending
unlimited amounts to influence U.S. elections

Senator Bernie Sanders (-VT) and Representative Summer Lee (D-PA) introduced companion bills in the Senate and House, respectively, to abolish Super PACs, which allow corporations and wealthy individuals to spend unlimited amounts of money on
U.S. elections.

The Abolish Super PACs Act would cap Super PAC donations from individuals at $5.000.

In a joint fact sheet released by Sanders and Lee, they say: "The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC allowed corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited amounts
of money on elections through political action committees (PACs) as long as the spending was not directly coordinated with candidates. A federal appeals court followed that decision by allowing unlimited contributions to PACs.

Unlimited contributions by billionaire oligarchs to super PACs corrupt our politics, make politicians more beholden to the billionaire class, and undermine Americans' confidence in the political system. Congress must act to ensure that billionaires do not continue to determine the outcome of our elections."
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Simply Jeff @balmak.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I do not understand why anyone (especially a liberal) would give two shits as to whether that man goes to his son's wedding or not.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER
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The Hill @thehill.com · 21/05/2026
Hundreds of Greenlanders took to the streets to protest the opening of the U.S. consulate, chanting that the Americans must “go home.”
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Greenlanders chant ‘go home’ at protest outside opening of US consulate
Hundreds of Greenlanders on Thursday took to the streets to protest the opening of the U.S. consulate, chanting that the Americans must “go home.” Protesters waved Greenlandic flags and…
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
why are they so weird and defensive amanpour didn’t impugn the reporting she’s just reacting with the level of surprise that a reasonable person with knowledge of the parties would experience at reading such a story
NYT PR responds to Christine amanpour expressing surprise at the story that Israel and US conspired to install ahmadinejad as leader. 

Amanpour: “Ahmadinejad, SERIOUSLY? The Holocaust denier? The wipe Israel off the map guy? The Green Revolution death and torture guy who stole the 2009 elections? The nuclear program accelerator guy? The Islamic fundamentalist end-days guy?”

NYT PR: We stand by this story, which was based on extensive reporting and rigorous sourcing. The bylines on this story belong to four of the world's most deeply-sourced experts on international affairs and diplomacy who have repeatedly revealed important details about the war.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Slush Fund Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Simply Jeff @balmak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
election season means my daily task of moving the trash from my mailbox to the trash can. why not save some money and me time by just tossing the fliers in the trash instead of mailing them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026
NEW: The $1B ballroom provision has been STRIPPED from the Republican budget bill.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/05/2026
Everyone should pay civilization fees (taxes) because we all benefit from society, though people who are able to extract the most out of society should pay the highest civilization fees!
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