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Craig DeBlock

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19h
at least they've stopped polling horserace
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quokkafella.bsky.social @quokkafella.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#Trump and #Hegseth are now learning that the hardest part of a 3-day Special Military Operation is the first five years. #Iran
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From policy battles and choreographed unity to plotting, bonking and merch sales, what happens behind the scenes is rarely what you see on TV… fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/party-conf...
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is 💯 on Trump.👇
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026
Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl
a pygmy owl resting on a branch.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.
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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today is the 36th Anniversary of The Best of Both Worlds Part 2 - so gotta wheel this out again - can i get 100 reposts (unsubtle hint 😜) This poster was a long long time in the making but it's one of the few painting's I've done that I'm actually proud of. #startrek #thebestofbothworlds #fanart
A fan art poster painting for The Best of Both Worlds from the 1990 two parter of Star Trek The Next Generation

A Painting of captain picard being assimilated surrounded by 6 borg
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so i’m on the train this morning and a guy gets on with a little dog and pops open a tiny folding chair and THE DOG SITS IN IT
a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel close-up of the previous photo of a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It has been a brutal and protracted slugfest. But I think we can finally declare a winner in the long-running "Who is the dumbest United States Senator?" competition.
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Jak @jaksays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tony Blair is almost unsurpassed in his ability to take any winning position, and still come up with the worst possible version of it and turn it into a clusterfuck
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Fleet Street Fox @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Waking up to news that AI has hacked the Australian government, and doing a HEADDESK because this is just so bleeding obvious. Dear World Leaders: If you haven’t heard of a Zeroth Law already, you soon will. fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/only-a-zer...
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'Only a Zeroth Law can save us now'
AI will make everything worse before it gets better. Humans fucked that up last time, so let's not do it again
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Lance Smith 🎨🪶 @lancesmithart.com · 23/09/2026
Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼 #art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #native #nativepride #indigenous #native #nativeamerican #painting #acrylic
Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. 
I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼

#art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #native #nativepride #indigenous #native #nativeamerican #painting #acrylic
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/09/2026
COME FOR THE WEEKEND…. STAY FOREVER wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/8285029...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And a promotion.👇
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can you just not, Steve?
Short description: A close-up photo of a wet otter named Steve standing on a mossy log in shallow water, looking toward the camera against a blurred natural background.

Baked-in text (all caps):  
“STEVE IS WORKING ON HIS MISTAKES”  
“THE NEXT ONE WILL BE HUGE”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Steve and Brad are obviously going to cause trouble today. Just look at them.
Visual scene: A naturalistic wildlife photograph of Steve the otter and a companion—two sleek, wet-furred brown otters—emerging from between large rocks onto a dirt and leaf-strewn ground.  
Text in image: None.
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what masked federal thugs are doing on the streets of America. This is the evil that America is doing in the name of Donald Trump. This must not be what America is, and we must make it crystal clear in November that this is not what America is.👇
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ovechkin is free to support any murderous tyrant he wants to support. And we are free to say we don’t want to see on the ice anyone who legitimizes a war criminal who bombs civilians and kidnaps children
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Steve can’t be trusted near the pub, so he’s been secured for the duration of the grocery trip.
Steve the otter, dressed in a blue-and-white striped harness, is cradled by a person standing on a sunlit city sidewalk in a candid photograph.  
No text appears in the image.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
3 days ago I wrote 12K in a day and now I am finally recovered so it basically averaged out to about 4K a day which I could have done without killing myself and thats why inspiration is bullshit to be avoided at all costs
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Otter has an itch
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The ultimate you had one job
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe not an apocalypse, per se ... @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
One of those questions came from a young man who said something like "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

I said, "Yes, that's right."

He said, "OK, but what can we do about that?"

So I re-iterated the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
Has anyone caught up with this couple lately?
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The AI companies want to gobble up Australia’s creative properties for free - so APRA AMCOS (who handle Australian music licensing) are demanding an urgent study by the govt to establish the value of those properties. Every sovereign economy should do the same. www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/new...
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/09/2026
trump and putin are both very alike in that they inherited huge material stocks from their strategic forebears in preparation for a major calamity and decided to take that and go to the casino, put it all on red, and now have no idea what to do since that didn't work
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
The fact that Bezos needs to piss and also the fact that he commands an army of hundreds of thousands of workers who are prohibited from pissing really supports my hypothesis that billionaires don't really believe that other people are *real*.
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Craig DeBlock @cdeblock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My only thought about Macklemore getting dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour is that the best thing that could happen for the cause of good music is that Ed Sheeran also get dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Further discussion. As in any bubble, these people are high on their own supply. There's a real technology there, but it does not seem likely to spontaneously become self-aware and dangerous, and it's very very expensive so much so that it may not be worth continuing with it.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Riley had a very good way of summarizing this: "LLMs are real, AI is fake." LLMs - chatbots trained on things like CTF logs that can break into servers - are real.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is so grim. he’s TEN.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Bo doesn’t know the backgrounds of any of these students. He doesn’t know their families. He doesn’t know their interests. He doesn’t know how much Texas matters to them. He doesn’t care to know. All Bo knows is that they’re not white." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/bo-doesnt-...
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Bo Doesn’t Know
The white supremacy of Texas Republicans.
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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This was so much more wild of an article than I was anticipating reading. 🤯 "Marmots are known for climbing into vehicle undercarriages, drinking radiator fluid, passing out, and later waking up in locations far away from where they entered a vehicle or trailer, according to YUWR."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/ Britain tried the cure Republicans are prescribing for America. It had 7 voter-impersonation convictions in 12 years. Photo ID then blocked at least 16,000 legitimate voters in one election. The fraud was nearly nonexistent. The suppression was real. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Nikolas Gvosdev @fpriorbis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Global System Rupture … www.linkedin.com/posts/velina...
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Global System Rupture is the definition of a tipping point for the global system when its absorption capacity can’t cope with the multiplicative cascade emerging from the various compound shocks to… |...
Global System Rupture is the definition of a tipping point for the global system when its absorption capacity can’t cope with the multiplicative cascade emerging from the various compound shocks to th...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 14/09/2026
Car dealerships are the best place to start because any blue state can unilaterally allow direct to consumer car sales today, without waiting for anything from the Federal government.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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