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it doesn't take a data center to be a troll, just a good Internet connection and commodity hardware

as someone fairly anti clerical I have to admit that the mainstream clergy have been very important in the resistance, on ICE in particular

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Lilacaraby @arabylilac.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is an asshole.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

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Softail @black-softail.net · 13/10/2026

it only helps if they don't breed first unfortunately

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Softail @black-softail.net · 09/10/2026

somewhere near Greenland probably

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(5/X) there won't be happy ending. Future generations will look on us with disgust and dismay.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How many Democratic elected officials and candidates need to be murdered, raped, or have their house burned down before we have a “national conversation about political violence on the right?”

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Softail @black-softail.net · 03/10/2026

yes he admitted himself that from a certain perspective he was rather a bully about it IIRC. Not one of the better autobiographies but Gandhi so... the cow comment always stood out to me though. different perspectives

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Softail @black-softail.net · 03/10/2026

it got me in Gandhi's autobiography too, women were all very well but what about cow protection?

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Softail @black-softail.net · 03/10/2026

the notion that someone can write the killer prompt that will settle some field is absurd

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Softail @black-softail.net · 03/10/2026

also as someone who's worked in expert systems and knowledge engineering, the last AI wave, experts in general don't actually know what they do and generally cannot articulate it well enough for mechanical implementation.

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Softail @black-softail.net · 03/10/2026

actually we do. LLM are transformative for us, but that's because we must use normal languages where ambiguity is not possible. it's not us that's pushing it outside that sphere, it's marketing

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Softail @black-softail.net · 28/09/2026

We already have one case in Canada of the LLM advising a person on how to evade the watchdogs. You think they won't use it themselves?

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Softail @black-softail.net · 21/09/2026

nobody tell Elon or he'll ask grok for the historically accurate version

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Softail @black-softail.net · 13/09/2026

doesn't that rather make my point? that's definitely not what the constitution says. the war powers act is the tribute vice makes to virtue

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Softail @black-softail.net · 13/09/2026

I think I agree but then I remember that the president doesn't have the power to tax or start wars and yet here we are. power isn't what's written on paper, it's what people in critical positions will obey

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 11/09/2026

worth remembering that today is also the anniversary of the US backed coup in Chile that overthrew democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende and replaced him with the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, who murdered thousands of communists and leftists and jailed tens of thousands

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?

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Softail @black-softail.net · 08/09/2026

computer proof long predates AI and LLM, see four color problem. as always in math the real issue is the questions you ask

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Softail @black-softail.net · 06/09/2026

OTOH much cheaper to clean up than the Arc de Trump and the reflecting pool

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Softail @black-softail.net · 06/09/2026

he's probably going to kill fewer people obsessing about fashion design than some of the other possibilities, don't distract him

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ruth Brinker is a hero among heroes as a Caregiver during the worst of the AIDS crisis. We want to honor Caregivers like Ruth by sourcing, inscribing, and installing a memorial boulder in the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Info/Donate: givebutter.com/stone-that-r... www.kqed.org/pop/103422/r...

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The Retired Grandma Who Transformed HIV Care in Her Community

"People clapped and cheered enthusiastically for the tiny little lady waving from the car. They knew her and loved her."

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Softail @black-softail.net · 05/09/2026

FWIW I've been told "you look like you fish", that I look like I would know where the whorehouses in Deadwood were and tourists always think I'll sell them drugs

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Softail @black-softail.net · 05/09/2026

My man looks like the teledildonics kicked in

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Softail @black-softail.net · 04/09/2026

let alone the absurdity of "the greatest of all time"

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com

A white hand with Signal-blue painted nails holds a cellphone with a near-dead battery, with the Signal icon the only app on screen. Crop art by Molly Gehrke

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Softail @black-softail.net · 29/08/2026

I was thinking 1969 hippy kid but yeah :-/

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Softail @black-softail.net · 27/08/2026

Chinese and good beer on tap is a new one for me but I'm there

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Softail @black-softail.net · 27/08/2026

seriously though, brilliant. we thought oil and electricity, instead a big helping of pandemic flashbacks

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Softail @black-softail.net · 26/08/2026

I actually dodged one on campus that was reading a real book! retro

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Softail @black-softail.net · 26/08/2026

this is a surprise because?

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TJ @tjsls.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

JD or whatever your name is this month…Canada has been invaded by another country twice. The other country lost. It was us.

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Softail @black-softail.net · 24/08/2026

ask the robot makers if it is safe for humans to be close to it

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Canada is going to have to teach America how to be a real country

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Softail @black-softail.net · 23/08/2026

the Trump faux gold treatment is worse IMHO

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You really have to be a special kind of president to spoil a relationship with Canada, of all countries.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026

I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You know what I learned about Jon Ossoff this week? He knows how to make Trump trash cry. I like that in a Democrat.

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Softail @black-softail.net · 17/08/2026

and everyone was vaccinated

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kmcm @kmcm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Department of *Homeland Security* was bad news out of the gate. Ideologically corrupt; obvious then, in full bloom now. A blight on the century. The whole thing needs to be dismantled.

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