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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Jumping on the train: My favorite (not necessarily the best) shows of the 21st Century: Breaking Bad Arrested Development (original run) Community Sarah & Duck Reservation Dogs Everybody Hates Chris Star Trek: Prodigy Taskmaster Severance The Good Place

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

[SNW spoilers] So, the puppet episode. I admit that I laughed out loud several times during the episode, and a lot of it was fun to watch, but it wasn't really great Star Trek.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

This article feels like it's propaganda from commercial real estate companies trying to get people back in the office. www.npr.org/2026/06/08/nx-s1-584812…

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

I didn't write this, but it encapsulates so much of how I feel about the current moment. Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026 www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2…

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Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

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bgainor @bgainor.bookwyrm.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

"Abortion is, at its core, about life, just not in the way that abortion opponents claim. Everything that surrounds getting an abortion—from the decision to the cost to travel and getting in the door—is about someone’s life, the course of that life, the value of that life. That’s why I never […]

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

I am legitimately tearing up at the thought of humans being on the way to the moon for the first time in my lifetime #ArtemisII

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Banning conversion therapy isn't "viewpoint discrimination". It's not preventing people from expressing their heinous bigoted beliefs. It's preventing them committing child abuse based on those beliefs. My viewpoint is that stealing from the rich isn't unethical, but that's not going to stop me […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Sometimes it’s complex. This time it’s not. It’s really not. She’s taking the money and using it to oppress, terrorize, and kill an already oppressed minority currently already being terrorized and killed.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

These are literally the same people who use "soy" as a slur.

Screenshot of Instagram post by official White House account. A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with sinister lighting has the caption "We are ending the war on protein"

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

ICE murdered someone yesterday. The thug who did it needs to be prosecuted, and ICE needs to be immediately dismantled. "Abolish ICE" was always the moderate position. Any politician unwilling to do this, regardless of party, needs to GTFO.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Very frustrating that I have non-technical people in my life who will ask me for advice on things I know nothing about, but when I tell them not to use LLMs, they dismiss it as a personal quirk.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

So excited to hear my number one pick on the #XPNCountdown . Bruce Cockburn is one of my favorite artists, and this BNL cover is exquisite

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

[ST: DISCO S1 spoilers, but come on, it's been 8 years, you've had enough time to watch it by now] New theory: divergence point between our universe and the mirror universe is that Grok actually DID replace Wikipedia.

A still from Star Trek: Discovery of Captain Gabriel Lorca. Caption is "Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane?"

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

Just putting this out there that there is no chance of me ever voting for Fetterman again, so if Democrats want my vote for Senate in 2028, they'd better primary him.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Black Messiah is one of my absolute favorite albums of all time; I listened to it every day for about a year. RIP D'Angelo

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

My favorite quotes from @pluralistic 's talk at Cornell last Friday: "The smallest government you can have is dictated by the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate." "A 'vote with your wallet' is always won by the people with the fattest wallets."

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

I know enough linguist experience to be fascinated by this sentence, yes

Screenshot from indeed.com of the text "Do you know Linguist experience?"

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

[Strange New Worlds S3E10 spoilers] Ok, I didn't have "Last Temptation of Christ" on my SNW season 3 bingo card #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

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Gambling In Casablanca

Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

"Mitchell brought back sandwiches from Purmantee with the fries inside the sandwich"… IYKNK #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Just spoke to the specialty pharmacy that supplies my daughter's essential medication, and the person was so impressed that I, her *father*, knew how much of it we had on hand. Like, what an embarrassingly low bar for us men, to actually care about our children's health.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It seems like “a Democratic party campaign consultant” is somebody who professionally pushes Republican framing and messaging about Democrats in order to try make Democrats act like more like Republicans.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

I feel like amid all of his other failings, not even considering reform and/or expansion of the Supreme Court may be the most lasting stain on Biden's legacy.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It's sort of funny when those who argue most strenuously for a marketplace of ideas where bad ideas are tested and rejected always always always get the most "concerned" when they encounter a place where bad ideas get rejected for being bad. Almost seems like they were lying about what they wanted.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

Maybe this will be the wake-up call to Dems in Congress that Republicans are not their friends, and in fact wish them harm

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

My copy of #WinterRabbit just arrived, and I can't wait to play it!

A boxed board game entitled Winter Rabbit/ᎪᎳ ᏥᏍᏚ. The cover of the box has a rabbit drawn in a traditional Cherokee style, standing on its hind legs.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2025

Multiple things can be true at the same time. The ACA was certainly better than nothing, and it helped people get health insurance who previously couldn't. But it was also essentially a conservative-crafted plan that still left many people with inadequate healthcare.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Chuck Schumer needs to fucking resign.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2025

The fascism-laundering NYT is at it again. This piece gushes about the novel idea that conservative Christians are an oppressed minority without once pointing out that they've had outsized influence in American politics for at least four decades.

A bald white man dressed in a suit jacket and shirt (But no tie! Look how hip he is!) sits with his hands folded under his chin and stares off into the distance. He is doing his best to look like a person who has Serious Thoughts. Underneath, a headline reads “He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel”, with this synopsis: “And the feeling isn't good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a ‘negative world’ for Christianity.”

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

🎵 Iron Man, Iron Man Doin' the things an iron can Squirts out steam, smooths out clothes Iron Man 🎵

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The creator of Pixelfed.social, @dansup.bsky.social, has just announced the next version of the app is getting starter packs. So Pixelfed will have starter packs and no ads, while Instagram has ads and support for Fascism. I say it's time to dump Meta! #Pixelfed #Meta #Instagram

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- Simpler Onboarding
- Starter Kits
- Stories

These are the major updates coming to the next Pixelfed app build along with several bug fixes!

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

How can someone be so against email signature pronouns when they name their kid X Æ A-12?

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2025

"We are witnessing a private equity-style plunder of the entire US government – of the USA itself." pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli…

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Bro, I'm a cis guy and I couldn't compete against trained women athletes. What makes you think HRT would *improve* my chances?

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:heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them: @jessebot.social.open.engineering.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and `echo`! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you […] [Original post on social.smallhack.org]

Photo of Brian J. Fox, a Black man with a buzz cut looking directly at the camera with a neutral facial expression. He is has black facial hair with a few white hairs. He is heavier set and wearing a black t-shirt with his arms folded.

He was born in 1959 and is a GNU hacker, programmer, entrepreneur, consultant, author, and free software advocate.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/02/2025

Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2025

If your response to "Biden should have done more to prevent this" is to blame people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris, then what exactly do you think we're electing these people to do? If the Democrats want to be our leaders, it seems like they might want to try leading once in a while.

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In light of recent events, it's worth taking a look back at some of the #MeToo and racial discrimination allegations against Elon Musk, dating back to at least 2017. At the time, these allegations were either dismissed, including shamefully by some on the left. A thread 🪡 #Musk #Elon #Tesla

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

Discovery I only made recently about bridging Mastodon accounts via @bsky.brid.gy: Unlisted replies to public posts don't get bridged. This includes on your own posts!

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🖤♡Amanda♡🖤 @zephyrsky.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

SUPER BOWL BABY!!!! GO BIRDS

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Brian Gainor @bgainor.mstdn.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

My spoiler-free review of #StarTrek #Section31: It definitely wasn't as bad as I was expecting based on early reviews, but it still had some issues. On the balance, I'd say I enjoyed it, but it took me about half the movie to get into it.

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

[USPol, "conservative zeitgeist"] in case anyone needs it, this is your reminder that the American "conservative zeitgeist" is completely manufactured. the _real_ zeitgeist is the millions of people who stayed home - not to mention the millions more who held their nose and voted Dem - because […]

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Two key figures about the #LAFires. The estimated cost is now US$57 billion: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b... ExxonMobil's 2023 profits were US$36 billion: corporate.exxonmobil.com/news/news-re... Fossil fuel companies are now only viable because others pay the costs of global warming disasters.

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The Costs of the Los Angeles Fires

Damages are now estimated to reach up to $57 billion. The blazes add to a string of climate-related catastrophes hitting businesses and homeowners.

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