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Jeff Cuscutis

@cuscutis.bsky.social
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Dad, software developer, game master, player. 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2h
While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 41m
Rather than play the "what he said/what he meant" game with Trump's comments about LA and San Diego being nuked, let's reckon with the fact that the president is so cognitively impaired and incoherent that we have to discuss comments he made about LA and San Diego being nuked.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 7h
Oh brother.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2h
Momma said life’s 6-7
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Jeff Cuscutis @cuscutis.bsky.social · 28m
You would have to want to find those posts though. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 20h
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h
Arienne Childrey resigns as Vice Chair of the Ohio Democratic Pride Caucus. The state party has censored all attempts to criticize Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur for their anti-trans votes and/or statements.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 18h
I think about this more often than I'd like to.
A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 18h
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 5h
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 19h
I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2h
I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 18h
"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.
Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton 
Gavin Newsom 
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer 
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico 
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
ALT: We'Re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Tim Robinson
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h
It's crazy that TERFs are so cooked in their own rank juices they don't even talk about actual violence against women, even when it's front page news. It's all the imaginary specter of the Trans Infiltrator.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19h
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 5h
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 12h
This GIF is going to end up representing this decade.
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Andor: Karis Nemik's Urgent Words
Alt: Andor: Karis Nemik's Urgent Words
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3h
Get ready for a lot of this for the next while
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12h
Pedocon Theory remains undefeated
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 19h
WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw
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I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 16h
This made me laugh
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 21h
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3h
Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h
i’m still chuckling about this. imagine being a pair of professional shitstains and then crying like this in public about a joke at your expense
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h
Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 3h
Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn insurance maps (block-by-block maps of every US city from 1870-1960) and aligning them with modern maps. [danvk.org]
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Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps
Over the past few months I’ve been working on mapsnap, a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps. This post explains why these maps are interesting, how mapsnap works, and why this is worth doing.
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Logan @bulklogan.bsky.social · 15h
Wendy Carlos in front of a synthesizer with 50 bazillion wires and knobs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
8/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
6/ Others were arrested while trying to protect colleagues. Quentin Williams, a staffer at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High, was trying to help a teacher when he was shoved by Greg Bovino and tackled by agents. He was charged with assault, but like others, his case was dismissed.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15h
Everyone knows about Kowloon Walled City but not as many people know about Centro Financiero Confinanzas, an abandoned half-built Venezuelan skyscraper that became a similarly dense community en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_...
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Centro Financiero Confinanzas - Wikipedia
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Jeff Cuscutis @cuscutis.bsky.social · 4h
I was about to post this one too.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20h
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”
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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h
very willing to let him test this to see if he's right
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17h
If I want one thing from my intermittent fame, it is to be as fondly remembered as Peter Lorre was; a staunchly pro-union actor who animators kept putting in cartoons as way of middle finger to their bosses. I can think of no greater honour.
Peter Lorre
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 11h
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 16h
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h
This November, Colorado voters will decide on anti-trans ballot measures. Now, Colorado's leading medical societies have formally condemned the surgery ban for transgender youth and announced their position against them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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"Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135
There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on gender-affirming care like the one outlined in Prop. 135.
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