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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 19h

FTb test roll II [Sept 2026] 📷: Canon FTb-QL 🎞️: Kodak UltraMax 400 The middle two images here were shot with my father's late-1960s FL 50 mm f/1.4 lens. First time it's been used since 1999. #35mm #photography #filmisnotdead

image of a purple house (with picket fence) in my neighborhood that I've always like. Shot with 1960s Canon FL 50 mm f/1.4 lens.

Side of a house in my neighborhood, with trees to the right. Shot with 1960s Canon FL 50 mm f/1.4 lens.

image of an alley with garages and red wheelbarrow in my neighborhood

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve seen stickers on signs and posts around town that say “FCK JKR” and I realized this is meant to say “fuck jk rowling” rather than “Fuck Joker”. like I assumed these were tags by a guy who calls himself the Fuck Joker

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 11h

Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 12h

"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 8h

damnatio memoriae shall be the whole of the law

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 8h

Lots of talk since 2024 among certain consultants about how the Electoral College gets hopeless for Dems after 2030 when the "blue wall" Midwest states no longer have enough votes to deliver an EC majority. But all EC bias predictions depend on Texas being a close but dependable Republican state.

I did some back of the envelope Electoral College math and the GOPs advantage depends entirely on Texas. If Texas is no longer reliably red, the Dems have a clear advantage going forward

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18h

yeah, tradeoffs are unavoidable with anything and I am with you on your examples; it's more the 'you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet' mindset that troubles me. Some level of utilitarianism is necessary in policy judgment, but absolutizing it as a moral principle leads to some bad places.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18h

uncut utilitarianism is a helluva drug

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 18h

Not to put too fine a point on this, but one of the big reasons Trump II failed in rapid fashion (you know, besides Trump) is bc the next gen of reactionaries are in charge & the result of that is them posting weird groyper memes about Transformers & being unable to speak intelligibly to the public.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 19h

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 05/10/2026

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Price of oil go up; incumbent vote go down. Everyone is baffled by this complex phenomenon.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t believe the price of power converters these days. Voting for Palpatine

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is perhaps one of the most important bits of (likely) context to keep in mind about the Brazilian election (so far)

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/10/2026

The thing about the Tucker Carlson//Jacob Rees-Mogg interview is that Tucker is an American moron whose entire tactic is “assume the other guy won’t question my premises”, up against a British aristocrat that debates for fun at Oxford Union. Its like a small animal encountering an Apex predator

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 05/10/2026

ok i did what needed to be done for this situation

black and white map of brazil with a face on it. the face is anguished. the nation of brazil is stabbing itself with two knives. oh and the southern tip is wearing a speedo

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thermostatic politics is a bitch.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TIL that this was originally an analog photo shot on a Mamiya medium format camera (RZ67, one of my wish-list cameras) with Fuji Velvia (which kind of gives you overdriven greens and blues)

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/10/2026

Right — it’s a bit like having the ear of Zhukov circa 1941, and telling him as the German guns were firing on Vyazma: “just cut Moscow, what’s the big deal?”

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New York at Night, 1932, by the great Berenice Abbott.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026

I like how lazy media outlets just decided that because El-Sayed is … what, Muslim? he must be socialist. “Well, he sort of *looks* like Mamdani??”

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and the ‘annoyance’ angle is an important one — I am jaded and I am not going to be sent into a fainting spell by ads in question but it annoys the shit out of me to have other states’ politics dumped on top of the local garbage

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Definitely. It does not seem wise for the GOP to remind the whole nation of one of its most embarrassing nominees. (That said, the flip side is that the GOP ads that are anti-Talarico or anti El Sayed may serve base-motivating functions by making ‘scary’ Dems salient in other parts of the country)

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah that’s how I was explaining it to my kid; still annoying.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah, I wouldn’t vouch for that particular claim in the post that was quoted up thread

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s bad enough that I have to sit through a ton of racist GOP ads for my own state’s election in order to watch a Vikings game and I shouldn’t also have to have transphobic anti-Talarico ads Ludovico-techniqued into my brain despite having not been eligible to vote in Texas for almost 35 years now

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m @thepoorourmasters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the culture of right-of-center America is morally, temperamentally, and epistemically broken, and while Trump has considerably worsened the damage, the processes that broke it were underway long before the dawn of the Trumpcult

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers . recounted how bombing Palestinians was “insanely fun,” how dogs ate the corpses and snipers gunned down starving Gazans as they ran to food at aid sites. One drew stick figures falling forward on their faces"

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am an AI pessimist in many respects, but the experimental evidence on this (thanks @tomcostello.bsky.social) is fairly solid. The challenge, of course, is that interaction with LLMs needs to be structured properly — a big issue given how undisciplined use of these tools is often promoted.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I always have trouble narrowing it down to whatever initial number these things give you

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dylan @gropeforluna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if i have to call it "super intelligence" then i am saying it like an excited fred schneider in a B52s song chorus

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NYT really asking the important questions. What would Benjamin Disraeli think about the Eras Tour? What would Virgina Woolf say about cryptocurrency? Does Philip the Navigator have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?

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