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Robotics mentor/coach. Retired physical oceanographer (numerical modeling /data assimilation / forecast systems).

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?
Marks & Spencer in-store signage for a tomato sauce that says "The same Calabrian recipe for over 20 years"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 12/10/2026
There's a three-hour gap between when school gets out and when parents get home and a burgeoning youth mental health crisis. Afterschool programs are a proven, parent-approved, positive investment that is severely underfunded. Y'all, we can do this. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Free Universal After-School Is an Easy Win in a World of Problems
It’s a time-honored tradition for one generation to shake its head at the next, wondering if progress and technology have caused more harm than good. So it is now, with some prominent academics saying...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump does not accept Congress is the legitimately elected and constitutionally empowered legislative body in this country. He is waging a yearslong, escalating campaign of rebellion, violence, and state terrorism against its authority and will stop at nothing short of its total disempowerment.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The thing about guys like John Gruber insisting that X is where the important conversations happen is that it's not new. Important conversations happened at golf clubs with segregationist policies. Important professional meetings took place at strip clubs (and not that long ago).
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 09/10/2026
Basically, “I was fine with racism so long as gas was affordable.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?”
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Legacy news organizations cannot resist the catnip of a right-winger offering up platitudes about why can't we all get alone. The hostility gripping the country is coming from Cox's party and it's abandonment of the rule of law and democracy itself. He chooses to remain in that party.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She’s so damn dumb it actually hurts.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026
The pro-AI coalition only looks unified because everyone is shooting at the same anti AI barricade from wildly incompatible metaphysical positions.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:
Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is the thing, unless you actually do not work for a living - that is, you live off interest and rents, socializing the cost of (all kinds of) care would benefit you & make your life better & less stressful even if your taxes went up considerably. It is not rocket science it is basic math.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This motherfucker. And yes, I mean both of them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
nytimes.com
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Disqualifying.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The new spin by Hakeem Jeffries and corporate Democrats is to say Medicare for All is part of DSA agenda so he opposes it. 90% of all Democrats support Medicare for All. This is what happens when donations from health insurance companies are more important than us www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffr...
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Hakeem Jeffries says he doesn't support Medicare for All or DSA agenda
The congressman's remarks come as Democrats wrestle with ideological divisions between their progressive and moderate wings.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This. Let's turn the page and actually find and empower leaders who will lead and who will do the work of the American people rather than the special interests that fund these pols' campaigns.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
Every one of you dipshits who stroked your chins and said "yes maybe they have a point" about the trans girls in sports stuff should be forced to sit at a table and jam the resulting fascism down your stupid fucking gullets. You did this.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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ashley (spooky) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
if you are bigoted against trans folks you will not stop there and I know it you are either already racist, sexist, or homophobic or you are on your way there and I will not join you for your journey
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...
youtu.be
Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sometimes, I worry that I hate Donald Trump so much that I don't leave adequate time to hate Elon Musk.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
When “hate click is still a click” is your editorial strategy:
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
They just disrupted the transportation sector
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
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A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is insanity — especially given the incoherence of the WHCA redoing their celebratory dinner with Trump tonight.
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Donald Price @donaldwprice.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The White voters of this state don't have to put up with this kind of behavior anymore. I don't know about y'all, but my grandmother taught me not to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
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How history will remember Jeff Landry and Liz Murrill
Not as reformers, but as racists.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026
Data brokers are a cancer. There's a direct line from collecting, retaining and processing our data to deepfake porn and phishing scams; racial discrimination in hiring and ICE roundups of migrants; targeted election interference and identity theft: pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/p... 1/
A hedge maze; out of its center rises the bear from the California state flag. Various human figures struggle to escape it. At the maze's entrance stands an agonized figure, reaching towards it.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026
Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/
A vintage world map. The US has been obscured by a roiling black cloud from which squirm many questing tentacles. A large area around the US has been discolored.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it's fascinating that the Atlantic is not fine with DSA but fine with Hanania
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions. Your colleagues are mad that Black folks are still voting.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week
U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week
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Public BOO-niversal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ngl “the USG commits a new spectacular class of war crimes the same weekend everyone is talking about the classical myth movie with a major ‘committing war crimes will destroy your entire society and ruin the lives of everyone you care about’ theme” feels like pretty heavy handed symbolism
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's really remarkable how the entire U.S. political and economic establishment is playing with a load gun with no safety so confident it couldn't actually ever go off
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Literally, this used to be the easiest, clearest, lowest bar to clear in post-WWII American politics. Until everyone, now senior Democratic Senators included, decided He was One Special Boy.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.
A scare add about the DSA that reads "DSA's new platform: WORKERS DESERVE MORE. Radical goals. Straight from their platform."

The goals include:

Abolish the senate, expand the house of representatives and implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting

Replace the President and Supreme Court
Defund the Department of War
Abolish the Carceral State
Free Palestine
End Sactions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran
Abolish ICE and grant amnesty for all
Public ownership of major corporations
Abolish the Electoral College
Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy.

Their ultimate goal: A Democratic Socialist Republic. To win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.

It ends with the warning: This is the DSA's official platform. They wrote it. They approved it. Now you know.

To which I personally can only say Hell Yeah.
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m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Why can't white Americans assimilate into our multicultural democracy???
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth. On this day, I like to revisit Frederick Douglass’ “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” and in particular, this video NPR produced a few years back of portions of the speech being read by Douglass’ descendants. youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM?...
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Imagine describing something as vicious sneering odium and thinking that’s not the coolest shit you’ve ever heard in your life.
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 01/07/2026
New AMS statement responds to a proposed OMB rule that would restructure federal grantmaking. The rule "would damage the nation’s ability to understand, predict, and respond to ... natural hazards with negative impacts on public safety and the economy." Read more: bit.ly/4awoYRO
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New Rule Would Upend Science and Rewrite Federal Grantmaking
A new AMS statement and resource page respond to an OMB rule that would restructure federal grants and give political appointees vastly more authority over grantmaking.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Fuckin hell Chuck the Supreme Court is not a victim of Trump's bullying, they are perpetrators of it, why is literally everyone in Dem leadership so fuckin intransigent and obtuse when it comes to recognizing what this court is
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What that says to me is we’re one vote from basically no rights being secure. A court that could flip on this easy a question could flip on anything.
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