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Unapologetically Liberal. I like computers and death metal. keyoxide.org/brandon@btp.dev

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Brandon @btp.dev · 29/09/2026
Whoever the Dem nominee is for '28, they should openly commit to Jack Smith as the next AG.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 28/09/2026
There are so many people online and in the political media sphere that are eternally stuck in 2016 politics. It's been 10 years, guys.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 27/09/2026
Boomers in 2003: "You can't trust anything you read online. Wikipedia can be edited by anybody! Only trust the experts." Boomers in 2026: "I will never take another vaccine because the elite cabal pharmaceutical companies are using it for mass mind-control to make money. I read it on Facebook."
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Brandon @btp.dev · 25/09/2026
"I used to be a Democrat, please buy my book and give me money."
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 22/09/2026
Thanks, I hate it. I don't spend almost any time in Discord. Really only engage with a single server, and only because it's a politics org that operates out of Discord exclusively. I guess I need to take some time and think if I want to continue to do that.
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Safer for Teens, Same Discord for Adults
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT is reporting that influencers are shaping political opinions, sometimes they're not telling you the truth, and they are getting paid. I wrote a book about this two years ago. 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...
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Brandon @btp.dev · 22/09/2026
This polling has more-or-less remained the same for a while. All the crazy people losing their minds in the replies here are the same people who abdicated their votes in '24 and contributed to the situation we're in now.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 20/09/2026
I'm so excited to see this. Cregger has yet to disappoint me.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 20/09/2026
I think it has to be Diablo II for me. Or FFVII.
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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm looking for new-ish horror book recommendations. What's your favorite horror novel/novella of the past five years? What author are you obsessed with? Inquiring minds want to know. #horror #booksky
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Brandon @btp.dev · 19/09/2026
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Brandon @btp.dev · 14/09/2026
The only thing worse than extremists who advocate for disgusting and violent things are extremists who disguise their advocacy of these things in polite and academic language.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 14/09/2026
rubyhack.ai
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems
On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 10/09/2026
How many times has this loser fuck tried to bribe voters like this?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A journalist absolutely needs to ask Trump the precise period in which he believes Germany was great
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Brandon @btp.dev · 09/09/2026
Hell yeah
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Alternate X.com Frontend Nitter Announces it Will Continue Despite the Cease and Desist
Nitter, an alternative frontend for X.com, announced that they "will be back up and running shortly" after a cease and desist from X Corp.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨VICTORY: Missouri cannot use its gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to wade into a purely state matter. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
In big win for voters, Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri gerrymander before midterms
The Court's order ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don't want to be the "can you imagine how the media would have reacted if Biden said something so obviously false" guy but CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THE MEDIA WOULD HAVE REACTED IF BIDEN SAID SOMETHING SO OBVIOUSLY FALSE
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Brandon @btp.dev · 08/09/2026
"Don't Look Up" was a documentary.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 07/09/2026
Maybe the problem is microblogging.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 07/09/2026
This interaction is so uncomfortable. I really must see this documentary.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 03/09/2026
Philosophy is useful but can be overbearing on creating desirable outcomes and moving society forward. Making policy is not a purely philosophical exercise, but also a practical one.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 01/09/2026
I'm beginning to think that some people would prefer their opposition in power because they benefit from criticizing power. Their criticism is not a means to an end but actually *is* their goal.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.
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METR @metr.org · 26/08/2026
METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
strive to live your life in such a way that your freedom doesn't depend on being in good personal standing with laura loomer abcnews.com/US/milo-yian...
abcnews.com
Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right British commentator, detained by ICE
Far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE on Friday, according to an ICE detention database.
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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm relaunching my editing side hustle. I edit (and write) horror, fantasy, and sci fi. I have a decade of experience, a BA in English literature, and a background in literary criticism. Reach out for more info or a free sample edit. #writingcommunity #horror #scifi #fantasy #editor
Developmental edits: $40/hr
Copy edits: $25/hr
Editorial letters: $350 to $600 (depending on word count)
Beta reading: free

Credentials: BA in English, published author, 
8 years of editing experience

DM for details
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thepragmaticpapers.bsky.social @thepragmaticpapers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get out there and get canvassing! pragmaticpapers.com/articles/bes...
pragmaticpapers.com
Best Practices for Canvassing—Improving Contact and Turnout
A breakdown of canvassing strategies adopted by large political organizing groups and how Digital Ground Game applies them in its own operations
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/08/2026
if you're wondering how this is likely to shake out, the name "Gulf of America" isn't mentioned in the lead of this Wikipedia article at all, and out of the three sentences it earns later on, one is about how stupid people think it is
Wikipedia article about "Gulf of Mexico": The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean,[3] mostly surrounded by the North American continent.[4] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the southeast by Cuba.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 28/08/2026
Democrat Jessica Killin repeatedly criticized U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s attitude toward the war in Iran during a debate Thursday in Colorado Springs, as Crank repeated that he thinks President Donald Trump should have sought congressional approval before military action. By @sarawilson.bsky.social
coloradonewsline.com
Democrat Jessica Killin criticizes Rep. Jeff Crank's record in first debate | Colorado Newsline
Republican U.S. Jeff Crank and Democrat Jessica Killin debated for the first time in the race for Colorado's 5th Congressional District.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 28/08/2026
@liberalcurrents.com Running cover for an avowed anti-liberal like Piker is exactly the kind of toxic behavior that he brings to Liberal circles, and literally his goal. Do better and stop throwing other liberals under the bus to appease M/Ls and tankies.
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Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I got mass-harassed, including by accounts dedicated to stalking me, after I said I would support AES but he should drop Piker (1). I talked about the harassment (2). @liberalcurrents.com published a piece linking to my citation of harassment in order to argue I was "microwave brained" (3).
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
1996 Parade magazine photoshoot of the cast of Star Trek: Voyager being either real sexy or super dorky with mid-90s tech. There is no inbetween.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 27/08/2026
Piker's association makes Dem's chances in general elections worse. He makes the party worse. He is not a Liberal ally, he is not a progressive, he is an entryist and an accelerationist.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 27/08/2026
The same people who refused to endorse and support Kamala Harris in '24, which is part of the reason we're in this fucked situation with Trump to begin with, are now hand-wringing endlessly over Dems not wanting to associate with Hasan Piker. Just fuck off please.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 27/08/2026
Hasan Piker is not a liberal, and in fact anti-liberal, and does not belong in the liberal party's coalition. It's that simple.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 26/08/2026
Conservatives are terminally obsessed with girl cock.
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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Colorado Springs and its ominous, late summer weather.
A moody gray sky and a smattering of clouds backlighting a tree
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Brandon @btp.dev · 26/08/2026
Happy National Dog Day to all my fellow dog lovers who are currently dog-less. I hope you find your new best friend soon.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 26/08/2026
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Brandon @btp.dev · 26/08/2026
All the wrong old people are dying right now.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
reminder that this is what auto supply chains in North America currently look like. Random parts can cross the US/Canadian border half a dozen times www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Brandon @btp.dev · 21/08/2026
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Dagoth Ur has a gripe with farmers
YouTube video by World's Tallest Dwarf
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Amber Herbert @amberherbert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flashback Friday. I independently published my first novel in 2022. It's not fantasy or horror or speculative in any way, but it was the story I needed to exorcise before I could put anything else to paper—the cathartic write that paved the way for everything else. #writing #debutnovel
Photo of Lipstick Covered Magnet by Amber Herbert
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.
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Brandon @btp.dev · 20/08/2026
Bluesky discourse is cursed.
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