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Chris Downey

@chrisdowney.bsky.social
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British/Irish Unix/Android/iOS hacker, based in SoCal. Dad to 4 neurodivergent adults. Butler for dogs. Ebike enthusiast. Believer in the scientific process. Background pic is the Salton Sea at sunset. He/him.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
OK, you got me, I admit it, I am in the Epstein Files
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Doremus Heller @doremusheller.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There is no battle. There is the truth and there are liars.
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Hussein Hallak @husseinhallak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The best, simplest, and most honest take I've seen on this.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 22/08/2025
Costco announced they will not stock mifepristone in their pharmacies. Contrary to viral social media posts, this IS a big deal and it DOES mean that they caved to pressure from far-right MAGA anti-woman conservatives. Here I go over the evidence and what you can do skepchick.org/2025/08/cost...
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Costco Gives Misogynists a Win by Not Selling Abortion Medication
Transcript: You may have recently heard some news about Costco and the abortion medication mifepristone. Today I want to address some misinformation about that, AND some misinformation ABOUT the mi…
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Brian Adler @brianadler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
LA refuses to embrace density surrounding rapid transit even as: 👉 It’s population is declining. 👉 Its rents are increasing. 👉 Houses are getting more expensive. Maybe it’s time to embrace zoning reform rather than telling the state legislature that all is well. open.substack.com/pub/yimbyman...
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LA Doubles Down on Bad Housing Policy
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Wait, wut. "Custom"? "CUSTOM"?!
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/07/2025
If I say that Trump wants to transfer $45 billion away from critical public health funding to fund ICE, a policing unit only good at incarcerating people for racist reasons, you see how horrific it is. But when I said that Biden transferred $50 billion away from COVID relief funds to fund cops?
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Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief
President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/06/2025
Shows up from Iran. Moves to rural Alabama. Becomes Trump supporter. Advocates for their own deportation. Gets deported. Anyways...
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Zohran leaning hard in this final-push pitch into the idea that this primary offers an opportunity for young voters to remake the Democratic Party.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It's also just plain wrong. Three studies found statistically significant reduction in suicidality. The fourth, and smallest, with only 19 subjects in the treatment group, found reductions that fell just short of significance. No competent statistician would describe that as "inconsistent".
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Geekgal @geekgal.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
McBride is the Columbia University of Trans advocates This will backfire and she will understand that compromise does not result in keeping rights She has made herself a tool for the GOP to use and discard This kind of magical thinking may make her feel better but it just benefits the GOP
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/06/2025
♥️👍🏿🇲🇽🇪🇸
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"None of my old friends like me anymore, and I think I've figured out why!"
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hey, but don't fret! #Trump and his MAGA GOP Big Ugly Bill will make it worse! 🥳
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 09/05/2025
A poem by Charles Bukowski called 16-bit Intel 8088 Chip. “with an Apple Macintosh / you can’t run Radio Shack programs / in its disc drive. / nor can a Commodore 64 / drive read a file / you have created on an / IBM Personal Computer.” [kottke.org]
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16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski
Today I learned that Charles Bukowski, “laureate of American lowlife”, wrote about the incompatibilities of early computing platforms in a poem called 16-bit Intel 8088 Chip: 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macint
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Glyph @glyf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I have seen this claim made many times but I have yet to see it demonstrated in a repeatable way. What *are* they useful for? My own experiments have been complete failures, and when I ask people who have been “successful” with them, their success is slippery, hard to quantify.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 24/04/2025
🤔 Your 401k is in shambles, and they're going after the Civil Rights act? Unless James Baldwin has your money, that won't help you. 🤷🏿‍♂️
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I Am Not Your Negro | James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show | Netflix
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 19/04/2025
I'm not in the habit of sharing Washington Post links these days, but I'll make an exception here because someone has finally done a profile on the influential and mysterious @acyn.bsky.social. If not for essential guys like Acyn and @atrupar.com I'm not sure where we'd be today. wapo.st/3RpEvJ7
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The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop
Acyn Torabi dominates social media with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else?
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Annals of freelancing: Like a year ago I copyedited an oral history of the jam band scene, and as a result every time I’m in the supermarket and “Hook” comes on, I’m like “Hey! My guys!“
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Gary Oldman is a pretty good actor.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
leave our kids alone.
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MythicalDragoness 🇨🇦 @mythicaldragoness.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
LOl.. Prime Minister Carney, Japan, and the EU outplayed Trump. Trump did not back off tariffs because of his friends or "yippiness"...he can't play with the big boys and win. #Canada #Tariff #Bonds #Economy #Finance #Japan #USA deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...
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Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Lee should have been hung as a traitor”: Unrealistic, plays into arcane stereotypes, bodyshaming. ❌ “Lee should have been hanged as a traitor”: Reasonable, righteous, sensible, just. ✔️
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The NYT has laid down the Mandate of Heaven. The new paper of record is now Teen Vogue.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 06/04/2025
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'll never get over the fact that, in my lifetime, in the USA, this is necessary. @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/03/2025
Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste. But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
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‘Oh My F**king God!’ Jon Stewart Left ‘Speechless’ As Ezra Klein Breaks Down Biden Era Red Tape
Jon Stewart was thrown into a state of shock as he listened to Ezra Klein break down the red tape involved in Biden's Build Back Better Act.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It’s hard to imagine a better advertisement for wealth redistribution than ~current events~
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/03/2025
In case you were wondering, this is literally the only case of violence associated with #TeslaTakedown protests. www.local10.com/news/local/2...
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South Florida man drives SUV into Tesla protesters, cops say
A 44-year-old West Palm Beach man is facing a felony charge after sheriff’s deputies said he tried to purposely drive his SUV into a group protesting at a Tesla dealership over the weekend.
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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Oops. Turns out that bullshit may work on people, but it doesn't work on reality. Decades of bullshit doesn't work any better either. The belief that rehabilitation must work here has been just that: a belief. A blatant, fraudulent lie. It never worked. They knew that. They didn't care.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The people who are running your government believe that they are immune from accountability for their actions and their lies, and they may be right, but this is evil:
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
it’s literally the exact same people who brought you “popularism,” and then “it’s exciting Elon is buying Twitter,” and “DEI has gone too far.” oh also they were all buds with SBF. a bunch of dweebs who rewrite each other’s takes and who have been wrong about everything
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
No, fuck that.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government
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mivox is irate 🤬 @bs.mivox.net · 11/03/2025
I’m replacing my rambling digital security software & services recommendations thread with this list… I’ll add some notes on various items included in the replies: pastebin.com/cuhW5tng The recommendation to freeze your credit is absolutely evergreen though.
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Basic Infosec Recommendations 2025 - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025
1. President Trump has signed an executive order making employees at organizations that support transgender youth care and DEI ineligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. This could impact thousands of schools, hospitals, and nonprofits. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Trump Makes Supporting Trans People Ineligible For Public Service Loan Forgiveness Via EO
The executive order could impact thousands of civil rights organizations, schools, hospitals, and more.
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MicheleWitchyPoo🦋🤍🐾🦋🤍🐾🦋🤍🐾🦋 @michelewitchypoo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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