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Christopher Gross

@cgg101.bsky.social
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Into: libraries as a profession; libraries as cultural institutions; libraries as public service; libraries as the huge stacks of unread books in my apartment.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026
You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
That dialect mapping thing that's going around was pretty darn accurate for me. Related: is it a sign of paranoia that I made sure to do it in my least-used browser on my least-used computer, while logged into a VPN?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Next Dem government genuinely should have a "Covid reckoning" but about whose fault it is that like 200,000 extra people died during the Delta wave because they refused vaccination and who convinced them to do that and why.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
People were upset about a novel virus, the death and suffering it caused, and the social disruption to avoid more death and suffering. But getting mad at a virus isn’t emotionally satisfying. So find a person to blame, ideally someone you already hate. They victimized you! Yeah, that’s the stuff.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Big business runs our media and so they're much more excited about AI and the concentrated profits to oligarchs it promises than solar, which has diffuse benefits to all people. In fact, solar will kill one of their favorite businesses (big oil)
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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amazing original insight I just had, which I will generously share with the world: If you have a group of 8 people traveling on Amtrak, you probably won't all get seats together, so there's no point in blocking the aisle while you try.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It has been one day since you logged into Discord. There are 189 updates to install.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/04/2026
Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And as an aside, we should not let anyone quietly remove Trump's name from things. Removing his name from each and every building, demolishing his stupid monuments, melting down his dumb gold decorations and FIFA prize, each should be a televised national event.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Jeff Bezos: [clears throat] DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS Jeff Bezos: [turns off the lights]
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Had a brief fantasy about a prankster changing the WaPo masthead slogan to "Democracy Dies in Darkness, and Jeff Bezos Has Decided to Help the Process Along"
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 24/12/2025
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The FDA under Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 29/11/2025
RFK Jr. says there’s not enough evidence to prove vaccines don’t cause autism. There’s also not enough evidence to prove RFK Jr. doesn’t have a fetish for watching people die of infectious diseases. And there never will be because you can’t prove a negative. See how that works?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025
How about we keep all the workers but replace the executives with AI? Is there anything your average tech CEO does that AI couldn't do?
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Kerry Bishe in costume as Donna and Mackenzie Davis in costume as Cameron Howe on the set of Halt and Catch FireScoot McNairy and Lee Pace on the set of Halt and Catch Fire
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
you've gotta get low-info disengaged people onto the "trump is bad" side any way you can. once they're there you can convince them of the other stuff too. if what gets them there is "trump was epstein's accomplice" that's great, if what gets them there is "trump take egg" that's fine too.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is our satellite. Bought and paid for with taxpayer dollars, appropriated for this specific mission by the elected Congress. Those who would destroy it on purpose are our enemies.
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I remember in late 1999 seeing some TV show counting down the 50 Most Influential People of the 20th Century. I kept shouting "OZZY!" before each one, but they always picked someone else, the fools.
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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 22/07/2025
he's bitin the heads off the angels now
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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This whole Trusk-Mump fight is just a trick to get me back on Twitter. It won't work, I tell you.
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Stuff I found @stuffifound.politicalmemes.org · 23/05/2025
Wake up, sheeple. Food is killing our kids #antivaxxers #conspiracy #conspiracists #humour
How Antivaxxers sound to the rest of us:


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I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I am not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of those people die. Thats why I don't feed my kids. Its dangerous. Now plenty of people will point out that food supposedly "prevents starvation," and that might be true, but its not fair to completely ignore all the dangers food poses, like choking, allergies, gingivitis, and garlic breath. I'm just saying, do your own research and decide what you think is best for your kids. If you choose to give your kids potentially deadly food, thats your problem, but as a parent, I don't think the government has any right to tell me that I need to feed my kids.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If the @washingtonpost.com wanted to set its credibility on fire, this is what it would do. ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What fun America is right now. We've a bunch of insipid lunatics running around the building knocking down load-bearing walls because it'll "open up the space" and now we're all just sitting here waiting for the fucking building to collapse on us.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/03/2025
"Listen, I’d love it if we could create a society that worked perfectly for everyone, but that’s not the reality we live in. In real life, you have to make choices—choices that lead to terrible outcomes for everyone."
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It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
“Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions that ‘we are going to boom like we have never boomed before,’ that the ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.
New York Times headline "Trump Called for I.V.F. to Be Free, How Would That Work?" August 30, 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/health/trump-free-ivf-treatment.htmlCNN headline "Trump proposes making government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments." August 29, 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/trump-ivf-treatment-proposal/index.htmlWashington Post headline "Trump says he wants to cover IVF costs as president." August 29, 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-he-wants-to-cover-ivf-costs-as-president/2024/08/29/d480c9ec-d495-4ee7-a1fe-9142ab0334d0_video.htmlNBC News headline "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected," August 29, 2024.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In a step up from all the solicitations from the AARP, I just got one from a funeral and cremation services company.
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Democrats obviously need to stop conceding actual power to Trump, but they also need to stop granting him the presumption of soft power. You can take his effects seriously while still treating him like what he literally is: a clown.
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The Dork Lord - Truthdig
In opposing an internet presidency, it helps to understand the basics of online psychology and 4chan politics.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New protest chant just dropped: “No Elon, no coup, no fascist Shiba Inu”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/02/2025
Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 15/09/2024
One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Overheard phone conversation just now: "Until today I never even thought that David Lynch could die. What a strange world we live in."
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.
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Poke The Bear
Donald Trump is a lame duck (not a bear)—an unusually weak one, in some ways—and he knows it.
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Christopher Gross @cgg101.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Somehow, after a recent update, my phone now has an audible chime when it goes into nighttime silent mode. Someone somewhere decided that this made sense.
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Nobody can ever accuse Jimmy Carter of not having a wicked sense of humor🤣😭💀
Screenshot of a tweet by Nick Field that says:

“One last gift from Jimmy Carter, all flags will be at half-staff on Inauguration Day”

“The flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days at all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories and possessions after the death of the president or a former president.” Per the VA website
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Follow, like, repost if you love libraries! Let's show that Americans love libraries, reading, and books! #library #libraries #read #reading #books #author #lit #literature
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Sara Hates Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#LGRW
Invincible moose next 5km
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
It's weird how I haven't seen any AI products that do the work of upper corporate management or college administrators....you'd think that the most expensive links in the chain would be where AI would be most cost effective...hm, this must just be an oversight that will be remedied soon.
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