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Cleavon Leaf

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“Life is a path lit only by the light of those I’ve loved” - Tom Waits He/Him

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 23h
HOLY SHIT we made a new show with Tubi! go watch America's Next Top Cryptid, all episodes now streaming: tubitv.app.link/bY8Rw03f36b
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’ll eat this whale in one mouthful.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 13/10/2026
since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter
Elon Musk on October 28, 2022: Comedy is now legal on twitter 

Me with my profile photo and display name changed to Elon Musk on November 4, 2022: My wife left me

A screenshot of my account suspension for violating twitter rules
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 13/10/2026
Honored that the Museum of the City of New York has chosen me for their 2026 Louis Auchincloss Prize. It’s neat! Come on out next Wednesday - I’ll be chatting with Wesley Morris www.mcny.org/event/2026-l...
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2026 Louis Auchincloss Prize
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author Colson Whitehead will receive the Prize at a public program moderated by Wesley Morris, a critic at The New York Times who writes about art and popular culture.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract and it refused
Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026
🚨 Trump supporters lined up for his rally in Dayton, Ohio were FUMING over AI data centers moving into their communities. One called the secrecy “something fishy.” Another alleged a “backdoor deal” and said property taxes and electricity bills jumped 30%. “Data centers are no for me.”
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Legal experts aren’t sure” lol you don’t have to both-sides this one guys
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The truth about genAI: There is no path to profitability. Never has been. Even if every current genAI sicko used it multiple times daily from now on at the highest tier, it can't pay for itself. This is why their attempts to force you to use it are so aggressive. Anything to delay the inevitable.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/10/2026
After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.
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After Raid of Ilhan Omar's Home and Latest Deadly Shooting, Delia Ramirez Plans Bill to 'Dismantle' DHS
"For 23 years, since its inception, DHS has been utilized by the government to target and persecute those they consider the public enemy," Ramirez said.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dude’s got his own militia. Vote Hochul. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/n...
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Democrats Question Credentials of Armed Squad Created by Trump Ally (Gift Article)
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, formed a band of special deputies. A lawsuit calls the unit’s members unqualified and says that some appear to have arrest records.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sharing this because NYers who are unenthusiastic about casting a vote for Kathy Hochul need to know that the alternative, Bruce Blakeman, is a genuinely evil piece of shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/n...
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Blakeman Launches Graphic Attack on Mamdani in Meeting With Hasidic Jews (Gift Article)
While seeking support from Hasidic leaders, the Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Blakeman, said Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not act if riots hit their community.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We have been arguing whether the correct election strategy is to capitulate on social issues, or to embrace a socialist label. Turns out that the correct choice is to drone struke Russian data centers, thereby crippling the fascist propaganda mill. Turns out that Tracer Tong was right all along.
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Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia
Ukraine is widening the scope of its attacks inside Russia.
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Jenz @jenzunleashed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA has a humiliation kink.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/10/2026
I think it's good that candidates are referring to their opponents as Nazis and Klansmen, because they are! It's true! It's good to say true things!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
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R.C. Brougham (but haunted like Christine) @captainruck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found a couple pretty good ones in my files
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Slick @dtwiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause. wapo.st/4ANsaDS
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What A Time To Be Alive @whatatimepod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Horgus
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What A Time To Be Alive @whatatimepod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝟭𝟬/𝟱 𝗢𝗨𝗧: @pattymo.com: (𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴) @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social: (𝘈𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘭𝘬𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢) @eliyudin.com: (𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘬 𝘓𝘦𝘨) 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀: ❌ 𝘾𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿 ❌
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Trump keeps saying that a 1929-style Great Depression is likely during the second half of his term. Quite the midterm message.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When the time comes for the cultural revolution necessary to get out of this mess we need to set up a cabinet position like the Department of Hobbies that supports literally anything that gets people out of these brain breaking sites and counteracts this collective breakdown
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've seen it myself at 201 Varick Street where, at Miller’s directive, young children are separated from their families, denied lawyers, and pushed toward deportation. Next Congress, we must — we will — hold Miller and his cronies accountable for these illegal, barbaric acts of cruelty.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evening giggles 🤣🤔
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This should be illegal. It shouldn't be up to estates. Digital resurrection should be something people have to opt into when they're alive. It should require informed consent from the individuals themselves. If they died before that was an option, then digital resurrection is off the table. Forever.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please remember this when Trump or anyone else from his regime talks about "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One wonderful thing in here is that acknowledges that Iowa was blue forever and forever. Over the past 20 years Republicans have lied to Iowa constituents, failed to deliver for them, but successfully sold them a bill of “we’ve always been your guys.” They haven’t and they’re not
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Brie @brielikethechhes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/r7DqccP1Q_4?... November 7th people ong omg omg
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GODZILLA MINUS ONE Official Trailer
YouTube video by GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
please. My wets
Ebert

@horsedivorce

me: can you dust my wets?

server: you can just ask for Parmesan cheese

me, confused, lifts all of my spaghetti with my hands: please. My wets.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thanks to @mattielubchansky.com for the amazing sticker design for this fall/winter tour!!!! Come see a show! Tour dates and tickets at www.joshgondelman.com/schedule!
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Cleavon Leaf @cleavonleaf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When you’re playing Scrabble with Freeez
Scrabble tiles on a dark wood background, spelling out:
A E
A E I O U
SOMETIMES
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
during the early pandemic someone in our neighborhood would sound a conch shell and somebody from the other direction would reply with his own and brian wanted to get one to join in and i said no but i'm thinking it would be funny to get one now in 2026 and blow it and see if they still have theirs
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