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The Verge @theverge.com · 19/09/2026

Not every smart TV is as easily hackable as Gamers Nexus says LG’s are, but they’re all tracking what you watch unless you opt out. www.theverge.com/tech/997682/...

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There are ways to protect yourself from your spying TV

“Hi, LG”

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton. What a wonderful, good-hearted, and talented woman

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whereiswiseoldowl.bsky.social @whereiswiseoldowl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To all the Americans saying sorry to us 🇨🇦 We appreciate but don’t want or need your sorrys We want you in the streets EVERY DAY We want to see a GENERAL STRIKE We want to see you SAVING YOUR COUNTRY

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Desertcore 🇪🇺🌐 @desertcore.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

Stay strong, Canadian friends! We Europeans stand with you and look forward to continue strengthening trade and societal relations with you!! 🇨🇦🤝🇪🇺

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mellowcanuck.bsky.social @mellowcanuck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump just tariffed your last source of safe fresh food.

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 19/08/2026

ABC's suit against the #FCC alleging retaliation is the latest in a string of major recent developments in U.S. #PressFreedom. Prof. @bechamilton.bsky.social has updated her interactive tracker and analysis. Check it out: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...

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Trump Administration and Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture

This graphic tracks the use of State power to help identify linkages between individual developments and broader trends.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026

Bill Browder is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. He’s the man who wrote the Magnitsky Act.

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Miss Rollergirl @missrollergirl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

EVERYONE SHLD HEAR THIS An Excellent breakdown & analysis of Hegseth speaking at Westpoint By General @markhertling.bsky.social & Ben Parker from @thebulwark.com My Grandfather fought in WWII And my Great-Grandfather in WWI HEGSETH SO FAR PAST SHAMEFUL NOW youtu.be/Dt4j77ZlhE0?...

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Breaking Down Hegseth’s West Point Address | Command Post

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@weissmann.substack.com isn’t it illegal for the DOJ to have any input into who gets audited (or not) but the IRS?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Putin’s magic is that he can always get close to Trump. But Trump’s magic is that he turns everyone who approaches him into a loser.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Folks need to stop using "Department of War". It should neither be validated nor normalized.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's low on the scale of damages done, but I'm curious if there's any blowback from rental car companies or insurance agencies about ICE's tendency to turn our streets into demolition derbies. Has any company refused to give them cars? Have the victims been able to get repairs paid for?

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

DELETED After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This story is terrific. A woman infiltrated a racist dating site, used chatbots to get info from horny incels, and then leaked it all. What are the odds one of the accounts on WhiteDate belongs to a White House staffer?

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Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users

An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

International law was a nice idea while it lasted.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The genocide will continue until morale improves.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.

The leaflets stated:

"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 15/12/2025

📽 BBC Sounds They absolutely nailed this 🔥🔥

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14/12/2025

they just legalized going to bed at 8 pm on a saturday

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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

MAKE SURE to include the OMB Control Number and agency name in the subject line of the email! Department of Homeland Security U.S. Customs and Border Protection [OMB Control Number 1651-0111]

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Mike Schnier @mikeschnier.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

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Scott Weese @scottweese.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Randomized controlled trial for pyometra surgery in 152 dogs (Vhläinen 2025). IV TMS, then 5 days of oral TMS or placebo. Surgical site infection: 7.8% of dogs that got post-operative antibiotics and 2.7% of those that didn’t 1/3

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

RIP Graham Greene……I’ve been watching him on TV and in the movies since I was a young teenager. Almost 50 years of great work.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 12/05/2025

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"Beach Haven is Trump's Tower". I had no idea such a song existed until five minutes ago, when my friend Mike Collett casually mentioned that "some pals and I were talking about Woody Guthrie at lunch the other day, and…." Good Lord. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Old Man Trump - Wikipedia

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Brian White @brianwhite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Elon’s Downfall

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Yesterday I wrote my MP urging Canada to stop sharing any intelligence information with the US, as their actions indicate they are a security threat to our country. I urged discussing with other members to kick them out of Five Eyes. Now I'm really, really glad I sent it.

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

RFK Jr's work is just beginning...... #Medsky

News report with map, warning people who were at Texas State University and a local restaurant Twin Peaks Restaurant on Feb 14, 2025 may have been exposed to measles and are at risk of developing the disease.

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Scott Weese @scottweese.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

More indoor cat deaths from H5N1 linked to raw poultry diets. Cats from 2 separate households in Oregon euthanized bc of severe H5N1 infection. Virus found in the cats' diets, and then in unopened packages from retail. Solid link to the diet. 1/n

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 20/20

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today I bought a copy of Bishop Budde's book "How We Learn To Be Brave" as a kind of 'thank you' for her speaking truth to power.

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C Switzer @cswitzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 19/20

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

SCIENCE FROZEN IN TIME. Trump’s admin has not only shut down ALL communications & release of any scientific info from HHS, but they’ve placed a freeze on hiring & an indefinite ban on travel. And, they abruptly cancelled important meetings such as grant review panels which award #BlueSky #MedSky

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