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Damon 

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And you know, there is something obscene about using the exploitation and murder of poor Black men, women, and children as a metaphor for a largely white electorate supporting a conman. The comparison borrows the horror of their deaths while discarding the conditions of their lives.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are serious things to say about authoritarianism, manipulation, and cults of personality, but “lol, drink the Kool-Aid” does none of that work. It makes the victims’ supposed gullibility the memorable part and lets the machinery of their captivity and agonizing death disappear.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At the end, children were poisoned and armed guards surrounded the pavilion. People objected because they wanted to live. They were shot for it. Whatever individual adults believed or chose, calling the whole thing blind devotion erases coercion, and children cannot consent to their own murder.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People were isolated in a remote settlement in Guyana, subjected to surveillance, threats, and intense punishment. Leaving was dangerous. Some escaped, and others desperately sought help getting out. “Why didn’t they just leave?” is remarkably easy to ask from somewhere you’re free to leave.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Peoples Temple drew members through promises of racial equality, material support, and community. Most were poor, many were elderly. 70% of its members (and victims) were Black. Wanting somewhere to live with dignity and joy was the vulnerability Jones exploited.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Brandon Marcello @brandonmarcello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House Full story with reaction, what changed in the bill and what's next: www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
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Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House
The bipartisan bill aimed at stabilizing college sports passed its first test with Monday night's Senate vote, but more hurdles must be cleared in the House before it can be signed into law
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026
This is huge news, especially for all the "Bluesky isn't really decentralized" folks. Having the PLC Org as wholly independent is a big, important step forward. And great to see that Filippo is part of it...
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 28/09/2026
Looking forward to the Drake Maye apologists #NFL
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NFL News Poster @nflnewsposter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[NFL] LAMAR TO FLOWERS WITH 1 SECOND LEFT twitter.com/NFL/status/2...
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NFL News Poster @nflnewsposter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[NFL] WALKOFF WINNER FOR TYLER LOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! twitter.com/NFL/status/2...
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 28/09/2026
What a win! #NFL
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10/06/2026
when you join a community, its posts show up in your Discover feed. you can also turn on activity notifications and get updates from communities you’ve joined. there could also be a special feed or custom feeds that show updates from your communities.
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10/06/2026
to start, there would be three privacy levels to choose from: - public (anyone can find it, read and post) - invite-only (anyone can find it, but you must be approved to read and post) - private (you need a link to find it, and you must be approved to read and post).
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10/06/2026
each community gets a handle that doubles as a URL, like community-name.bsky.social or community-name.bsky.space. go to that URL and you land on a custom homepage for the community. builders can also host a completely custom experience there instead.
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10/06/2026
on Bluesky, you’ll be able to create communities, join them, post in them, and get updates. the core features on Bluesky stay simple. the magic comes from communities also existing on the open web. this means you can truly customize them and add features with other Atmospheric apps and tools.
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 10/06/2026
communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 27/09/2026
Ever been so tired that you start dozing off in the shower?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s a “pro-data center party” taking place in D.C. right now, with a generative AI photo booth, AI themed cocktails
People standing near the bar The generative AI Photo Booth A speaker talking about AI A DJ performs
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ShinSpiegel @shinspiegel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Open-source isn't enough. We need ownership, governance. If these words had hit your, give a read: jeferson.me/blog/2026/07... #Activitypub #Capitalism #Cooperative #Democracy #Fediverse #Freedom #Mastodon #OpenSource #Ownership #PlatformCoop #SelfHosting
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Cooperative Software
What if the apps we use were owned by the people who use them? A dive into platform cooperatives, the internet we could have, and why open source and open protocols alone aren't enough.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 25/09/2026
Weird how when poor people and or those in mental health crisis “go rogue” they go to prison. Stop peddling this AI going rogue. Yet your outlet claims to be serious and reliable. Publishing contents like this is deeply concerning
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hailey @hailey.at · 17/09/2026
okay i’m very impressed with @typesafeai.bsky.social. it’s a bit late and it’s time to have some beers in mexico but i’m getting some extremely promising results on real world classification tasks that historically would have needed either large models or finetunes on expensive gpus
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The Cocky One @cockymf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We tried to warn you but you wouldn't listen." -Ancient Black American proverb
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
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Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 21/09/2026
I’m not one to get offended over any and everything but this is poor taste. Especially when once considers the connotations due to mental health . #JerseyMikes #food #wtf #wth #Monday
Screenshot of a notification of the Jersey Mikes app. It stated “ It’s Monday. We’re manic.. ..and giving out DOUBLE POINTS on all purchases today, 9/21. Start the week off right. Tap to order!
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Nick Juskewycz @itssked.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't know this Ja'Marr Chase catch is even physically possible
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a sweeping package of election laws Saturday, including a measure making it a felony to seize ballots, election records or voting technology before an election is certified. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms
It’s the latest move by the Golden State to prevent law enforcement or federal officials from disrupting the counting of votes ahead of the midterms.
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117294245… I think if you’re a person who sees this and says ‘other people also enslaved people’ you should walk into the sea
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the […]
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 19/09/2026
Someone please check the QB from NC St phone. Either dude is betting or he truly had one of the all-time mental gaffes . All he had to do was run in any direction and hold onto the ball. #CFB
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People devote considerable engineering ingenuity to making unhoused folks' lives worse. Behold two different kinds of Los Angeles unsleepable bus benches.
Los Angeles bus "bench"--3 chairs with the center one taller than the other two to make them hard to sleep onLos Angeles metal bus bench with steel loop in center to make it very difficult to sleep om. City Hall in background.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is Eliezer Yudkowsky ("Yud"). We see him here meeting with Bernie Sanders to advise him on AI Policy and arguing about AI Policy in The AI Doc, now on Netflix.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICE soldiers are cutting power to houses, posing as electricians to trick residents into stepping outside—to be abducted. Edgar Martinez, fell victim to this trick last month. Both my ICE contacts have confirmed, ICE is concocting new ways to capture our neighbors. thelibertyunderground.org/donate
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/09/2026
🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 I'm delighted to announce that @eurosky.social and our brilliant friends from @gandersocial.ca are partnering up! Ahead of Canada's associate EU membership announced by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu this morning, we'll be weaving our social internets closer.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
Universities are subsidizing internal AI tools that are, from the perspective of the humanities, enabling cheating & cognitive outsourcing. The cost in resources is certainly an issue, but the fact that these tools undermine the work we ask students to do is ridiculous www.umass.edu/it/genai/pla...
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GenAI Platform : UMass Amherst Information Technology : UMass Amherst
The UMass GenAI platform is an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to provide the UMass community with equitable access to leading generative AI models, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic...
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026
Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.
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Damon  @damonoutlaw.xyz · 17/09/2026
Ever lay down and reflect on an insane day that you had in disbelief. Just truly thinking to yourself wtf was that?
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 17/09/2026
Regular reminder that Telegram is not as secure as Signal.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KYRIE IRVING SAYS HE WILL COVER A $11,492 FINE THAT TEXANS LINEBACKER AZEEZ AL-SHAAIR INCURRED FOR WRITING THE NAME OF A YOUNG PALESTINIAN GIRL KILLED BY ISRAEL'S MILITARY ON HIS EYE BLACK
KYRIE IRVING SAYS HE WILL COVER A $11,492 FINE THAT TEXANS LINEBACKER AZEEZ AL-SHAAIR
INCURRED FOR WRITING THE NAME OF A YOUNG PALESTINIAN GIRL KILLED BY ISRAEL'S MILITARY ON HIS EYE BLACK*
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Clearsky App @clearsky.app · 07/01/2026
We are actively working to bring down current costs and optimize infrastructure. We appreciate the feedback, assistance, and support. #Clearsky
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