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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
They should teach "The Mending Wall" poem in Software Engineering classes. Written by the great programmer Robert Frost.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I just updated my to-read shelf with. gift certificate fron Powell's. Can't wait for my next chance to pick one.
A shelf with books. Mostly SF and Pirsig, Harari and Graeber.
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I don't post a lot of political stuff, but San Francisco seems to have noticed that Ultra Processed Foods are quite bad for you and also designed exclusively for their addictive properties. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/bloc...
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Blockbuster San Francisco Lawsuit Targets Food Industry Giants Over Ultraprocessed Foods, with Extensive Documentation of Health Damage and Success in Producing Addiction | naked capitalism
A case by the San Francisco attorney documents Big Food's use of ultraprocessed food to create addicts in a repeat of the tobacco playbook.
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social The billionaires started a fund called "Fix the City" to prevent Mamdani from winning. "Fix" means more than one thing. I hope his next ad is titled "The Fix is in." or "This fight is fixed." or "They're trying to Fix the election."
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Time for another rant. This one is about the "free market" We need to make sure we don't have a naive view of what "free markets" really are. They feed on the state and depend on it. publish.obsidian.md/a14f/Free+Ma...
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Free Market - A Place For My Stuff - Obsidian Publish
When we say "free market" we mean a market that is free from "government interference", which is a pretty loaded term if you think about it. If pressed, most people will soften it to "undue governme…
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Is there an alternate BlueSky client where all my followees get a separate tab? I'm just going to keep asking that every time I wish I had it.
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This site by @avibagla.com is keeping track of every English word written on Bluesky—and every English word that has yet to appear. Like, until now, hovercrafts.
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The Bluesky Dictionary
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
When I visit one of my timelines I'm often reminded how much I don't like timelines. publish.obsidian.md/a14f/Blog/In... Actual places are much better: publish.obsidian.md/a14f/Blog/In...
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Timelines - A Place For My Stuff - Obsidian Publish
I don't think timelines are ever going to work. I'm talking here about the aggregate timelines used in social media and feed readers. The way they get created probably goes like this: Step 1: Fold …
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Little Greenis @durtmchurtt.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Most politics and current events on the internet seems pointless, but every now and then someone speaks up with something I can get behind. www.americasundoing.com/p/when-a-ber...
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When a Bernie Guy and a Never Trumper Agree, You Should Probably Listen
A Lincoln Project founder and Justice Democrats co-founder find shocking common ground
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The media use the term 'violence' to describe the actions of the protesters in LA, but do not use the term 'violence' for the often violent actions of ICE and the police? Why? Is an action no longer violent if it is committed by someone with a uniform working for the State?
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Debt: The First 5000 Years An extract.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
best way to prove you're not miss piggy is to lash out violently after having your vanity bruised
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
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Depravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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marshwort 🏳️‍⚧️ @marshwort.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
hey can you come back later, i'm defragging my tulip fields
a beautiful field of tulips all lined up in funky little rows of different colours
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◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ @mandulorian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hands down, my favorite #StarWars tune that John Williams didn’t write. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXeQ...
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Sub-Radio - Mr. Darkside (Full Video)
YouTube video by Sub-Radio
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Who was the troubador who was killed before he reached Bombay?
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Mom, can you come pick me up? The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Hank, why are you spending so much time defending the freaking /minecraft movie?/“ Actually, I’m not defending anything, I am attacking the practice of dumping buckets of jaded misery on moments of goofy joy and I will absolutely die on that hill.
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Sigh. Nothing says 1970's UNIX like a uint8_t printed as an ascii character. (lldb) print id (uint8_t) '\f' Of course. id is 6. It's obvious. You just have to remember how the first C compiler was implemented.
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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I just learned that the art department for the 1984 version of DUNE paid tribute to David Lynch’s love of Bob’s Big Boy by presenting him with a handmade custom figurine of the BBB mascot wearing an Arrakis stillsuit.
 B&w photo of a handmade custom figurine of the Bob’s big boy mascot wearing an Arrakis stillsuit from the 1984 version of Dune, complete with nose filter and, I think, blue-in-blue eyes.
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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? jana: it's when I carried you
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Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
David Graeber made the same observation.
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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My fiction was featured on @wilwheaton.net's podcast It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton!!! Want to read more? "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death" is one of 27 #stories in my collection "Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and other stories"... tinyurl.com/mv67cfcp #booksky #books #reads
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Short Story Collection
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories This debut collection from Nebula-nominated author Caroline M. Yoachim showcases a wide-ranging selection of dark and beautiful stories,…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/03/2025
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Apartment with Deep Pile Carpet $500/m A Couple Paintings from Sears $75 Big Water Bed $36,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help us budget this. The money has gotten tight and we just didn't count on the tears.
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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 18/03/2025
ELRIC: exciting news, my love. I can now empirically prove that dogs have souls. ZAROZINIA: uh ELRIC: there's also some bad news that I have ZAROZINIA: does it have to do with where Patches ran off to, and your evil soul-drinking blade ELRIC: way to jump to conclusions ELRIC:...that being said,
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16/03/2025
Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Jabba the hutt in a yellow wig, with Princess Leia on a leach, Leia where's the crown of the statue of liberty.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 15/03/2025
Thanks guys, but we're good 👍
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Capitalism is just feudalism with CEOs instead of Kings.
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Negan @rogernegan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This
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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 10/02/2025
How embarrassing!
Satirical headline saying the NRA forgot to rise up against a tyrannical government
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/02/2025
NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’ theonion.com/nbc-pro...
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NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’
NEW YORK—Issuing a categorical denial of the accusations, NBC producers announced Thursday there was absolutely no usage of artificial intelligence in the new series Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show. “At NBC, we are passionate about storytelling, and the truth is that machine learning isn’t capable of bringing to life vibrant characters like Jim Jack […]
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Complaining to another person is a natural, useful social reaction to hard times. We are programmed by evolution to be social animals. Complaining to the blast of a social media firehose in your face is pointless. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In 2015, Utopia Of Rules was published and written by David Graeber. This is an extract from that book!
"For anyone who has ever been a refugee, or for that matter had 
to fill out the forty-page application required to get one’s daughter 
considered for admission by a London music school, the idea that 
bureaucracy has anything to do with rationality, let alone efficiency, 
might seem odd. 

Market reforms only reinforce this tendency. This happens on every 
level and it is felt most cruelly by the poor, who are constantly monitored 
by an intrusive army of moralistic box-tickers assessing their child-rearing 
skills, inspecting their food cabinets to see if they are really cohabiting 
with their partners, determining whether they have been trying hard 
enough to find a job, or whether their medical conditions are really 
sufficiently severe to disqualify them from physical labor."
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All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary 
function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves. 
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  - David Graeber
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
AI, Politics, 2025
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◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ @mandulorian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... ☠️ Written and Directed by George Lucas #StarWars
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
F***ing hell.
Superman villain Bizarro in a rumpled top hat, smashing a podium while addressing a crowd of Bizarros, declaring “AND IF YOU VOTE FOR ME, ME PROMISE TO RAISE TAXES, ROB THE GOVERNMENT TREASURY AND GIVE ALL MY RELATIVES PLENTY GRAFT.” with the audience responding “HOORAY! THIS CANDIDATE SO DISHONEST ME VOTE FOR HIM SIX TIMES!”
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.jwz.org/blog/2025/01...
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Werewolf Futures
The other day I joked that the hardest part about watching some movies is suspending disbelief that AI is possible, but on the other hand, movies about werewolves, zombies and vampires don't bother me...
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As soon as Greta Thunberg radicalized herself and connected capitalism and colonialism to climate crisis the BCC no longer wanted to interview her : www.instagram.com/reel/DFNLjVi...
As soon as Greta…
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cquenelle.bsky.social @cquenelle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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