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Christopher

@cekent.bsky.social
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Medievalist, Futurist, Finder, Pointer. Looking at the long-term future of [something something something]. 🚴‍♂️

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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 20h
It seems as though all this time Thiel has been an Aardman Studios character.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 9h
Becoming what you hate and fear …
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 10h
So many statements about the power and benefits of AI read like a neurodivergent person using tech to try to manage and navigate the world. And while I don’t begrudge them the effort, I also don’t think we need so spend $1 trillion annually to do so.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 10h
This is very much akin to Trump’s “if you don’t count the cases there is no infection” COVID policy. If you don’t look for corruption, there is no corruption.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 20h
It seems as though all this time Thiel has been an Aardman Studios character.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 20h
@danhon.com From S21316, (your post Russell Davies* talk) *not that one. You: Can you make an organization out of aircraft grade aluminum? Me: Cybermen? (again, not THAT one. But still.)
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 23h
Man, QUEER by Garbage is still such a great song.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trivia McLaughlin—wow! It’s amazing how fast these people fall out of the news/our lives/our memories.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This whole exchange is based on/the result of people just taking what the read online or social media as the w/out any follow-up. A whole generation, at this point, of people don’t/can’t/won’t fact check. How hard would it have been to check to see if Smith was actually in ATL that day? Not hard!
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026
It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)
Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible 
2. Upset the local city council with your existence
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A minor tip of the hat to Bezos over Musk is that Bezos has the courage of his convictions and has ridden in one of his rockets. For all his “Occupy Mars” bluster I doubt Musk will ever even go sub-orbital in one of his rockets. This is not a post about manufacturing quality.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com Another for your Medieval Style files.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
maybe the least unsurprising story, given Lahn's wife has basically said she has no interest in moving to Iowa and their alleged home in-state is in the middle of nowhere.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt text. I yelled
INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works. 

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind. 

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast. 

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guys, quit indulging Rahm Emmanuel’s need-to-be-in-the-news kink.
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kelvin wave? Damn you JJ Abrams!
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am beginning to think he does not want to be a Senator …
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nooooo! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pearson's Candy Company shuts down St. Paul factory for good
Pearson’s Candy Company said rising production costs and higher prices for ingredients like chocolate made operating the 67-year-old factory unsustainable. The company said it was laying off about 80 ...
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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another in my series of libraries Library of Congress, Washington, DC #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky
Library of Congress, Washington, DC - large spacious foyer, with white marble staircase leading up to columned second level, Beaux-Arts design, bronze statue of woman holding light fixture like a torch
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Goddamn it Brian Fleury—running on 1st down has got you NOTHING all game. SEAvsWas
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everytime a helicopter flies over my Capitol Hill house it disrupts my OTA antenna TV signals.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@jacobharr.is Strong work!
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Listen, I am as anti-Trump as they come but I ride by everyday on my bike and it has been actively worked on since it was drained the second time. I rode by on Friday and workers were there. I don’t know why there is no crew here—perhaps getting ready to to re-refill—but it has not been abandoned.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A real one-two punch of stories in the past few days about women being betrayed by the conservative lives/movements they have joined. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s... wapo.st/4da9OTD
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She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.
Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Philosophers? Undefeated in being the most tiresome people you know.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s not like Michigan signaled earlier in the season they were not strong.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I enter the job interview wearing a loin cloth and carrying a knife, for this is Man’s World, and a dangerous place it is. Later I make coffee using the skin of a talent acquisition specialist as a filter. They have ‘chosen to go in another direction’ but I’m cheered they are keeping me on file.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like (unironic)
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@againwiththispodcast.com Author name jump scare.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Think it rocks that Hallmark is doing a slow motion, one entry per year version of Defector’s Why Your Team Sucks series. Would call it Why Your Team Fucks if it were anyone but Hallmark doing it.
The poster for a Hallmark romcom named Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story, showing a Chicago Bear and young woman hugging tightly before a Chicago skyline.
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is going to go before the Supreme Court and at some point SCOTUS is going to regret all the extra work they created for themselves by giving Trump free reign. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Christopher @cekent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mace and Borbert in a contest to see who can be the most sexually chaotic Congressional divorcée.
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