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Full time insect, part time cynic

@bforbutterfly.bsky.social
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I believe in peace, bitch.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14h
As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do you call the feeling of melancholy when something that would have been a huge scandal in any other administration breaks on a near daily basis?
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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 02/10/2026
Rufo is truly one of the most evil people around, and there’s a lot of competition. I’m glad this article made sure to connect the dots to Nazi-era white supremacism. It’s about as blatant as one can get.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw the smoke from Ecole Normale Supérieure today, and thought that if what’s happening in the US was happening in France, everything would be ablaze.
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Clashes between French teens, police as school blockades intensify
French teenagers on Tuesday set fire to rubbish bins and threw projectiles at police who responded with batons and tear gas, with hundreds detained across the country over the blockades and protests d...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The flashback at the beginning of a dystopian film
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Third Reich was never going to last 1,000 years, but it would have festered for considerablymore than 12 had its leaders not started some exceedingly stupid wars. Nazis may be bold, but they are also stupid.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's especially notable is that after having his nose rubbed deep in the unwashed crack of his own stupidity, the Honorable Senator doubles down and insists Jack Smith is a perjuring dirtball. Even Emily Latella, on being lurched back to reality, offers up a quiet "nevermind."
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is as hilariously incompetent as it is relentlessly vile.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December?
Frame from another illegal Trump ad featuring his constipated face in black and white and captioned Paid for by the US Government.
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Detroit Tigers (Unoffical) @nottigers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The best mound visit of JV’s career. 🥹
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Full time insect, part time cynic @bforbutterfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yesterday was great, but for most of the season being a Detroit Tigers fan wasn't fun this year. But at least I'm not a Phillies fan, I guess. 
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 26/09/2026
The similarities with (early) Nazi concentration camps (not the later extermination camps) continue. Overcrowding and lack of medical care as a means of oppression.
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Full time insect, part time cynic @bforbutterfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay, I really need you guys to understand that the new rescue is a really BIG rabbit.
Side view of a very large gray and white rabbit lounging against a wire hutch on a tile floor with his legs stretched out behind him. 
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/09/2026
you know what *i* would say if someone called me a racist or a nazi? I would say, i am not a racist or a nazi
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In 1945, we termed it De-Nazification. And unless you were a rocket scientist, you went behind some barbed wire until you were sorted. Not sure there are many rocket scientists employed at ICE.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I swear to fucking god I would rather see the place renamed for John Wilkes Booth.
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Full time insect, part time cynic @bforbutterfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So the new rescue rabbit is still being kept separate from the other rabbits. He was neutered on Saturday and we have a while before he can meet them. He's figured out how to use the litter box, mostly, and he's a very sweet boy. So tall!
Very large gray and white rabbit standing on his hind legs, looking out onto the patio on a stormy day. 
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To paraphrase his predecessor: a noun, a verb, and national security. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Trump Cites National Security as He Faces Pushback on Press Ban, D.C. Arch and More (Gift Article)
The president is increasingly invoking the rationale while facing legal challenges to his plans, even in more curious cases like his triumphal arch, which he says will now include snipers and drones.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Agree in full. I know the limits of social media and I am here, such as I am, to help rally the sane. Common cause requires connection and affirmation. I am not here to convince trolls, bots and raging ideologues at any extreme to reconsider their tantrums or deceptions. Fool's errand, that.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“No. 30 - Al Kaline congratulates Denny McLain - No. 30″ (Sports Illustrated - September 23, 1968) #MLB #Tigers #History #RepDetroit
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John in Charlottesville @cvillejohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you were Stephen Miller, you would have a pretty good reason to be afraid. If they are so insistent on taking America back to a previous time, let's get some tar and feathers ready.
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Full time insect, part time cynic @bforbutterfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for making me rewatch Heart do Stairway this morning. It was good to be somewhere else for a bit today.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think AI is about to kill us all, but Trump is trying to kill us all by making the climate worse and polluting everything
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But they were scared of getting yelled at by MAGA and once again took the cowards' way out. This was entirely their choice and I hope they enjoy it.
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Airplane Let Them Crash: Counter Point
ALT: Airplane Let Them Crash: Counter Point
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tomstraw @tomstraw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I offer you this palate cleanser: wapo.st/4roaN8r
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Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.
“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You ever been in a room where there was an annoying noise, like a particularly loud AC or something, but you get used to it over time, and then it stops, and you can't believe how quiet everything is all of a sudden? It's gonna feel like that times a million.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You'd think hiding war dead in a hugely unpopular war would be a bigger deal, but there's so much you'd think would be a bigger deal.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your feel-good story of the day: This 12-year-old kid who went viral at the 2021 Tour of Britain has signed for a Dutch grassroots club and development team that's a feeder partner of Team Visma-Lease a Bike (the team of the rider who gave him the bidon). www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
When people ask why diversity matters in organizational decision making, show them this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obviously, the regulatory solution to the infrastructure side of AI is to compel firms to only use 100% carbon-free power generation via renewables. The glonzo shit is wasting the best opportunity we’ve ever had to make the grid green and get big tech to pay for it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there.
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