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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 41m
when you zoom out, and really consider just how badly the us airforce, and us navy got their shit absolutely rocked, it’s way less surprising that we ended up here. iran and the houthis have complete regional air superiority
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 43m
the owner of that site doxed himself earlier today, and people who allegedly know things about computers, and the internet, think it’s a smart idea to have that app, with all the real time data access it has access to, installed on their personal devices. wild stuff. very stupid, but also wild
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 46m
seems bad that most of california is going to be uninhabitable soon. adding 40-some odd-million more people to the east coast’s housing shortage is going to be a disaster on top of all the other disasters
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 12h
this, to me, is rock ‘n roll
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 13h
and destroying them doesn’t send up clouds of toxic gas. it’s win/win
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13h
Honestly humbled by the turnout for this ride
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 14h
Seeing Iraqi girls crushing hard on our PM on social media is the surest recession indicator there is.
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is what we spend nearly $1 out of every $10 dollars on in massachusetts
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To sum up: The MA state police decided to include extra, non-required video in their response to my request for protest surveillance. What they showed was a cyclist being tracked from above and eventually tackled and shackled. I say this from my heart and with clear enunciation: Fuck that. 18/?
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Two cruisers pulled up to support that brave, brave white man who dragged a black man off his dirt bike to face justice for ... um ... what exactly? What was the crime? Where was the complaint? And this? THIS is what they give me to justify themselves? 16/?
Multiple police converging on a person who has been pulled off his bike and held to the ground.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eventually, the bike stalled out in the middle of an asphalt hellscape and the cops came over and tackled the dude. Literally yanked him off the bike and threw him to the ground. Recall, dear reader, that they didn't have to share this with me. 15/?
A police officer dragging a person off a moped, as seen from a police helicopter.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So they rolled in the cruisers. Not less than two marked and one unmarked car. They fucked around for a while and then parked to block his escape. 12/?
A police car blocking the driveway of a suburban house, as seen from the sky.
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The rogue e-bike or moped or whatever driver did the sensible thing upon seeing a fucking state police helicopter following him and ... um ... went home? The house is on a cul-de-sac. Behold the terror of the suburbs, folks. Black man having fun. 10/?
Helicopter surveillance of a suburban home.
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the only time cops care about traffic safety is when a black person is involved, example who can even count anymore?
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That first Brockton file? It's copaganda, plain and simple. Titled: "May 19, 2026: Air 4 assists in Brockton Patrol." TL;DR: There was a young brown man joyriding on some kind of e-bike, and they brought in a state fucking helicopter to track him down. 4/?
A black screen with white text saying "May 19, 2026, Air 4 Assists in Brockton Patrol."
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
blowing off your own dick, learning absolutely nothing from the experience, and then going out and doing it again at the first opportunity is the distilled essence of american exceptionalism
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This Florida story is such an abolition tale bc it's got all the things they try to scare us that will happen if we don't have police (rape, children being harmed) except the police make everything so much worse. I think about it a lot.
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
not going to retweet the ads themselves, because i’d rather die than give earned impressions to a transphobe, but all i see when the alt right resorts to running those kind of campaigns is a bunch of dorks, mad they aren’t cool. it’s the kind of loser stink that shows up in the fossil record
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/10/2026
this story happens all the time btw. like constantly. everywhere
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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 11/10/2026
don't mind if i do
eschatron 9000 meme, from a billion years ago
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the absolute anarchy on our roads is the biggest reason i am constantly screaming about cops. it would take a week of concerted effort to get people driving responsibly again, and they refuse to do it. even when i make a fuss and drag my elected officials into it, cops simply will not comply
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
github is a colossal thing to under take. if microsoft wanted to upset the apple cart, cutting off the currently unlimited free hosting would take exactly as long as it took to send an email, and it would break what’s left of the open internet
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
yes, and no. corporate largess pays for a lot of really critical free software. it’s anti-capital in the strict sense, but in practice, it’s much more anti-bedtime leftism. i.e. “i’m a 10x programmer, so i get paid to maintain this css framework on fridays. as a treat”
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I had whole years in my twenties when I did very little work. It was called severe depression combined with trauma and untreated gender dysphoria. No one makes me work as hard as I do. I work this hard bc I'm making up for lost time. I'm grateful every day that I can work.
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my point is, the machine is a machine. i bought it to do labor for me, not to hang out with it. i have my human family for that
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my goal with every computer i have ever owned is to run it as hot at possible, for as long as possible, until i have to replace it. i don’t think i have ever turned a computer off, aside from being on an airplane. i paid for each and every cpu cycle, and i intend to use all of them
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
we’ve got to be well over 100, once all the training mishaps get factored in. either way, incredible to be putting up vietnam numbers against a country with no airforce
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
so glad i was raised by people with a healthy contempt for technology. i am absolutely bewildered by the concept of falling in love with a computer
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And: to stay in power, dictators have to shatter the very concept of human solidarity, to break bonds that might enable the country to rise up against the regime. Turning ppl against one another to dissolve trust is just Step 1. Step 2: desensitize ppl so they no longer recognize shared humanity.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Money in your pocket. Money out of politics. Medicare for All. Vote @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. We’re counting on you, Michigan!
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
being an officer in a pbc should require passing a test. like, you get shown a picture of a rack mount server, and a puppy, and you have to correctly identify the one with agency in order for your equity grant to clear
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i am willing to grant an exception for ignoring crawling limits on government websites, but even then, there’s no reason to be submitting post requests. treating a disallow as read-only is sufficient to satisfy the public’s right to know
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
nah, i think website owners should be allowed to set the terms of access for their websites. even facebook and google make good faith attempts to respect robots.txt, so i don’t really think it’s a particularly controversial opinion to be a polite user wherever possible
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
not me, though. built different, etc…
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the internet is like 50% snuff film by volume right now. maybe today is a good day for some leaf peeping, and grass touching
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the philly pd website has a robots.txt file that bans bots from the entire thing. all they had to do was respect a ~20 year old foundational contract of the World Wide Web. it’s just boring basic common sense they ignored, because they think it’s beneath them
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
okay. i take it back. someone used the second amendment to protect their third amendment rights. unconventional, but i respect it
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it’s always over dumb arguments about a parking spot, and not like… stopping the masked kidnapping gangs
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i just don’t buy that running on a democratic platform built atop “actually, not all men were created equal” is either necessary, nor useful. if you’re already on the ropes mid-way through the preamble, maybe political office isn’t a viable career path
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
every gun owner i’ve ever met claims they would start blasting if this happened to them, so either there is a massive, country-sized conspiracy to mislead the public about a veritable mountain sized heap of federal casualties, or the gun lovers are maybe slightly less willing to die than advertised
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the only thing that needs to happen to actually effect this, is spacex employees forming a union. nothing ever gets nationalized without an inciting act by organized labor. so it really is an ideal two birds, one stone, situation
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
cause he’s a shitty person, and also extremely corrupt
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
that part is blowing my mind. where are all my never caught lacking brothers and sisters? if we aren’t going to use the 2A now, we don’t actually need it. no reason to keep the relic around if we’re all really wet babies
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i really hope the strategists can smell the blood in the water. they may not like the more lefty vibes from the base, but they should all be willing to eat a little socialism, if it means they get to affect a once-in-a-republic blow out they have on their hands. that’s worth paying more taxes
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it’s all just such diet norcal shit. these nerds aren’t even good at sex cults, and they certainly can’t program for shit. i hate it
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“what was the downfall of america like?” well, we tried to kill a lady, but she ended up just getting tortured for a few hours, and managed to survive. and then a week later, the federal government did the first snuff film pay per view. no, of course the president wasn’t impeached and imprisoned
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it’s the pinnacle of trumpian spectacle, and will probably end up being the enduring symbol of the late american republic
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i find myself pretty disgusted with the state of elite american virtue signaling these days. it’s entirely a mix of prosperity gospel, and “i’m a little birthday boy” so to see someone like ossoff respond to that with actual indignation from a place of agency, rather than defeat feels good
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
if you aren’t already off twitter, get ready for graphic violence to be every post you see, every time you open the app. it will start with the execution, and then get worse until all grok does is deep fake school shootings. it’s going to ruin the entire internet is a very fundamental way
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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i’m probably late to the party on this, but if they actually livestream the fort hood execution, the gore flood gates are going to open on social media. it’s going to be everywhere, and how do you even attempt to block it? it’s official government film
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