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Damian Moppett

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e.g. Artist, dog lover and rabid avoider

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 15h
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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
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The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He's one mini-stroke away from confessing about all the dicks he's sucked.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
After I wrote this, though, I thought of a better analogy: it's like driving your car right into a bar, chugging everyone else's drinks, vomiting everywhere, insisting that this is how to party, and then declaring "now YOU clean it up. Also pay my tab."
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If people were actually paying attention, we would have a full turnout for the midterms.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If Trump had been Britain's prime minister in 1938, he would have happily handed over Czechoslovakia to Hitler, as Neville Chamberlain did. The only dfference is that Trump would have demanded a bribe, maybe approval of a Trump Tower Prague.
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'Total betrayal of Ukraine': Lawmakers react to Trump's diesel deal with Russia
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are voicing concerns after President Donald Trump struck a diesel deal with Russia, his latest push to lower prices ahead of the midterm elections.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i have no sympathy for trump voters who regret their vote. he came down that escalator in 2015 and said mexicans were rapists. that was after saying the first black president of this country was illegally installed. if you voted for him after that, you endorsed it all. go fuck off, forever.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As teachers, journalists, artists and workers of all stripes, are constantly being pushed out of homes, neighbourhoods, cities and countries all time but somehow their contributions cannot be measured and their disappearances never predicted. Billionaires, we got to make sure we hold tight to them!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026
hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
News story tonight suggests that Trump may lose big in the midterms because of tariffs & starting wars, but in particular because he failed to bring grocery prices down. So fascism, racism, blatant corruption/criminality, Russian collusion, treason, Epstein, and on and on…but it’s mostly groceries?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Will you be in or near Albany later this month? If so, I'd love to see you there. hellahuman.org/sonja-drimme...
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EVENT: SONJA DRIMMER, “A TROJAN HORSE AT THE UNIVERSITY GATES: HOW AI EXPLOTS THE HUMANITIES AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT” - HELLA
Friday, October 30, 2026 at 3pmUniversity at Albany Uptown Campus, Lecture Center 06, Albany, NY Join the United University Professions UAlbany Chapter for their […]
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goof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra
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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 08/10/2026
Oh, I gotchu, and from from Vancouver's independent Pulp Fiction Books (@pfbvan.bsky.social) to boot!
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here’s a gift link to the Globe and Mail investigation about American interference in the Alberta referendum, and the separatist operatives (one of whom is a UCP President) who went to the United States to offer them our water and oil. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
Nosferatu, 1922 starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8298177...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This shit sucks so much www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who let the dogs out?
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"Bat & Ghoul" Russ Hellville @radicalruss.com · 06/10/2026
You know they do this to pre-emptively stop the Democrats from doing this. "See? We told you they'd attack Trump! See? We told you it's a witch hunt!" The sad part is that it works on Democrats. Prepare yourself for "look forward, move on, heal the country" bullshit.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I fully expect a defeated Trump would treat the country like the Kennedy Center: If it’s not going to be mine, I’d rather destroy it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Convenience, efficiency, profitability, and easiness have long been the four horsemen of the tech apocalypse.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let’s test this
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Parroting of Trump’s ‘she’s not rape worthy’
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 03/10/2026
Some U.S. figures openly back Alberta’s separation or annexation. The White House says it made no commitments. In short: separatists promise Alberta sovereignty while offering Washington oil and water, and importing Republican campaign tech that exposed nearly 3 million voters’ data.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Pacific Link pipeline and RBT2 will drive the southern resident orcas to extinction, and $1.2 trillion wouldn't change that.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Greg has the signature of a three year old child.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" [especially to the dim-witted] -- Arthur C Clarke [modification by me]
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we need to be subjected to anymore tedious interviews on CBC’s Q with uninteresting musicians? give me a plumber or an electrician, just someone who’s interesting and passionate about a variety of subjects. These musicians are not interesting at all. Save Q from this death by banality.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026
Today in "decisions in kerning"
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He looks so proud of the fact that he raised a peace sign! It’s like he had to turn his hand around to show himself how cool his hand looked to others!
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I read this as they’re all saying the same thing: they’re saying MARK HALPERIN
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Furries are perfectly understandable. That fucking guy is a five-star idiot who’s only notable feature is he doesn’t read books in fear of ‘learning things’.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ye ol’ : I can be charming, but only if you’re not repulsed by my opinions, my manor or my face. If your only concern is money and tax breaks, then you’re probably going to be ok looking past some ‘superficial’ afore mentioned faults.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/09/2026
Top tip: whenever reading an alarmist article about AI, swap "AI" with "abacus". "The abacus has broken through security." "Amodei says that the abacus will become self-aware imminently." "Analysts project that all middle-class jobs will be replaced by the abacus...real soon."
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The NDP has lots of leadership rules too. And sometimes, rules suddenly change. Remember Anjali Appadurai? While the Conservative base might be extremely volatile, the idea that MLAs would stage a coup immediately after going from the brink of disaster to government is, um, a stretch.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 23/09/2026
David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate (Canada)
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David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate - Canada News
David Suzuki said that when Prime Minister Mark Carney was first elected last year, he celebrated. Having met and interviewed the prime minister before, the national environmentalist icon said he knew Carney understood the challenges of climate change.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And we wonder why things are the way they are
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who’s got more sand, I wonder as I watch Mamdani be cool and collected standing next to some babbling buffoon who, is or is not, wearing an oversized diaper the size of a toaster oven.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don’t look back, you can never look back.
Guy from Sum 41: Am I really getting kicked but of an Eagles concert?
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Damian Moppett @damianmoppett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’ll take decades to undo the harms he’s inflicted, in two short years of him being in office. Not just for the US, but the world.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Every American will be delicious for 15 minutes." -Zombie Andy Warhol
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A chatbot told him 6 times to not do one
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