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Bill.i.Ham

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There's some take delight in the carriages a rollin' And others take delight in the hurly and the bowling But I take delight in the juice of the barley And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early.

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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey Natalie, I think you could help Trump's numbers by making a PSA about Anal Leakage. It would humanize the President as a vulnerable geriatric who deserves sympathy. Run it by him.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NYT detailed threats against legislators on both sides. But I would posit that maybe the red ones were squishy on the MAGA agenda, and thus got blowback from the right. I can't think of that many lefties who would swat a conservative rep. I could be wrong.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
G-d punished Adam and Eve for a bite of fruit. He struck down thousands in Sodom and Gomorrah. He tormented Lot in a bet with the Devil. He parted the Red Sea and drowned the Egyptian forces. Surely he could spare a lightning bolt for a sinner on a fairway.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔥NOW'S the LAST BEST TIME to DONATE to candidates in these midterms. It's overwhelming to decide who to help, but I've assembled this list using the Cook Report of SENATE seats that have a decent chance of FLIPPING from 🔴 to 🔵. Cut out the PACs. Donate directly to the races you choose. 🤑Chip in 🧵👇🏼
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is like the guy you lent your car to, and he swamped it in seawater for three days, stole your radio, ripped the upholstery, threw up in the back seat, and left it booted in the Bronx. And lost the keys.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4d...
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The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (Official Audio)[From Suicide Squad]
YouTube video by Fat Possum Records
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
went to the everything is stupid store and wooboy all the shelves were well stocked
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"You will be visited by three spirits."
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Toying with future-casting, I have a few scenarios. First, climate change (sea level rise and heat) affects basic mantle dynamics, so that earthquakes increase in frequency and distribution. Cities suffer. Mountains shift and crumble. Water sources become unstable. And people move.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is “gullible” KID: definition JUDGE: easily deceived KID: sentence JUDGE: people with low IQs are often gullible KID: spelling JUDGE: G-U-L-L-I-B-hey wait a minute
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Indu Pillai @indupillai01.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I gaze into the eyes of empty and it kindly consumes what masquerades as my full.
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Geek Ken @geekken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Been thinking a lot about this quote from Roger Ebert today.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thread (pls read it all) FUCK IT. I'm giving away another 5 signed copies of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTD...
5 copies of my latest novel Everything Will Swallow You
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, in heaven. A dog with little wings runs towards her open arms. Off panel, a speech bubble reads “welcome to Heaven! Here is your dog!”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. She says, “where’s my cat?”
The third panel zooms out. There are dogs with little wings everywhere. Sarah says, “Where’s ANY of the cats?”
The fourth panel shows a circle of cats holding hands and dancing gleefully surrounded by flames in hell.
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Steve Suckington @stevesuckington.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What if the gift horse is talking to a deaf person who reads lips???
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Shave and a haircut.
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I bet if they had collected all the flagstaffs off of the Capitol grounds, and dusted them for fingerprints, we'd have a database of ICE agent recruits.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I would request each visitor to my inhumation to bring with them a stone from their homes, to place with me at my rest.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
That old sci fi story about . Is happening now.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you ask Conservative Though leaders and rw politicos, you would hear about the many candidates for secs, ag, UN, fbi, even SC, who were overlooked because of a slight ideological difference or even a media perception, and never saw light.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 09/07/2026
the reason that people are being so loud about "i told you so" with platner is that it sucks shit to have to spend your entire life doing an uncredited minor in how to avoid being the victim of sexual violence and then have that expertise dismissed as you being a shrill hysterical bitch
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/07/2026
but this top-proud fellow, Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but From sincere motions, by intelligence, And proofs as clear as founts in July when We see each grain of gravel, I do know To be corrupt and treasonous.
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
who called it a story that grabs you and not a prehensile tale
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If trump hadn't wanted this to be a Wollman Rink moment, he never would have done it.
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ceej @ceej.online · 15/06/2026
found out you can borrow a button maker from the public library
a homemade button that reads “EVERY BILLIONAIRE DEAD IN SPACE” around a graphic of the moon
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I, for one, am sick of these randos who show up out of obscurity to declare for a high office, and their credentials are slim, but their eyes are high. But Americans buy into these bozos.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My ex- is on record calling me high-functioning.
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
That clown in the sewer was an ingrate.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Draft post: Where were you when you heard Trump died?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026
In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
MarShawn just served the TN legislature a #CupOfJoe so hot it left third-degree burns. ☕️🔥 "The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy," he dropped. "If y'all could give us less than zero seats, you would." The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_-f...
youtube.com
What A Wonderful World - Jerry Garcia Band - 11-9-1991 Hampton, Va. set2-08
YouTube video by LoloYodel
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sometimes when someone asks me how I am, I say Never Better. They don't hear the ambiguity of the words. It Will Never Get Better. I'm sorry too.
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Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA @buckyisotope.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
F R I E N D Yes Void? A R E P E O P L E M O S T L Y G O O D O R B A D Good W O U L D Y O U B E T Y O U R L I F E O N I T Yes Y O U H A V E
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My head explodes, but from previous experience, no bet that it won't get worse.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yellow ribbons for hostages. Red ribbons for AIDS. Pink ribbons for breast cancer. We're running out of colors.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'm enjoying this: archive.org/details/gd19...
archive.org
Grateful Dead Live at The Sportatorium on 1977-05-22 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Disc 1(1st set) d1t01 Funicili Funicula d1t02 The Music Never Stopped d1t03 Sugaree d1t04 El Paso d1t05 Peggy-O d1t06 New Minglewood Blues d1t07 Friend Of The...
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
watch out for me in the afterlife.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Walking into Home Depot saying, I know exactly what I need and where it it. This will take 3 minutes. Partner says, why don't we go look at toilet seats?
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Trump should order the US Mint to have one more run of pennies with his face on them.
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Bill.i.Ham @billham57.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I Hate, through a person's life: Broccoli Bedtime (sister), (brother) Babysitter Mommy Daddy School Teacher (some kid) (some other kid) (that group of kids) That music That fashion That TV show That game That celebrity That politician That artist That way of thinking That ethnic group Myself.
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