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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nah, no jokes from me, just sympathy. Been through it myself, definitely NOT looking forward to the next time.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If weather forecasts are to be believed, this SHOULD be the last week of summer. Finally.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He should be grateful Congress is only talking about expanding the court, and not creating a new upper appellate court to take over its appellate jurisdiction, leaving SCOTUS with its original jurisdiction cases and nothing else. Expanding the court is a tempered response.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As between those two, definitely Casablanca for me. But I've probably watched 12 Angry Men even more.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe. But right now, my home town has a lot of empty buildings, including big box stores, complete with large empty parking lots. Seems to me it shouldn't be THAT costly to turn some of them into mid-rise housing, given that they're producing no income for their owners right now.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Just send me back to Earth. No, I mean YOUR Earth, the peaceful egalitarian post-scarcity ecotopian one! My Earth is like two years away from the sanctuary districts, and a bunch of billionaires are trying to build our very own Landru."

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Landlords also hate rent control, but it still happens. Any government that has the power to impose rent control also has the power to build a lot of new housing themselves and/or create development incentives to overbuild. It's really just a question of priorities.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only that one, at least that I can remember.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rent control should be only a temporary measure, imposed in conjunction with a massive effort to build a LOT of new rental housing until there's an apartment surplus. (Also, it's "great for rent-controlled tenants" only as long as they don't want to move.)

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'." - Larry Niven

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The stairway fight in Atomic Blonde.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea who Hasan Piker was until I started hearing about attacks on him. Now I've read a bit about him, and my opinion is generally favorable so far. Is this smear campaign doing anything other than raising his profile?

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nothing "mind-boggling" about it. I don't think anyone is even slightly confused about why so many potential visitors are staying away.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fascism. But that's also what I'm calling it here.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did he have legal authority to demolish the east wing? If he didn't, it's a federal felony that could put him in prison for up to ten years AND fine him for twice the value of the property he destroyed. That's certainly worth a Congressional investigation at very least.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's because he IS immune from any kind of legal limit. Our system keeps showing him that, over and over again.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've never heard of "Choosin' Texas" or Langley until I saw this post. That's not me being pretentious; it's just when I feel like listening to music I usually default to my existing playlists. I probably *should* be more adventurous when it comes to discovering new music, but .... I'm just not.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No downside whatsoever. But if there's too much political obstruction from "centrists" to do it all at once, "cover the kids" seems to me like a good short-term policy to build political support for universal coverage.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Medicare for children is a great place to start. As a population, they're really inexpensive to ensure. Cover everyone under 18 to start, then raise the top age year by year so they can stay on until they are 25 or 26. That will build a HUGE constituency to make it truly universal.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An unplanned trilogy is still a trilogy.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When the Democrats are back in power, Congress can perform the legislative equivalent of major surgery on the judicial branch to widely decentralize judicial power, and reform the appellate process to strip SCOTUS of most of its power and end its abuses forever.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a reminder: Congress has the power to build the judicial branch in ANY way that Congress sees fit. Other than its original jurisdiction, the Supreme Court has only as much power as Congress allows it to have.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Abolish ICE. Reform immigration. A well-designed immigration system does NOT require armed thugs. Disband the Dept of Homeland Security and send every agency back where it came from. And INVESTIGATE all misconduct by ICE, so you can hand criminal referrals to the next administration.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

if only there was a way to transfer all that energy dedicated to hating Jewish people just for being Jewish to hating Elon Musk just for being Elon Musk, which he actually deserves

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English." ...... ...... but the play's set in Italy?

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can strip the Supreme Court of nearly *all* of its other power any time 51 Senators, 218 House members and the President agree that SCOTUS is out of control and needs to be sidelined for the health of the republic.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Supreme Court wields the power that it has ONLY because Congress doesn't rein them in. The Constitution gives Congress massive power over how the judicial branch is constructed. The Supreme Court must *exist* and have its original jurisdiction. *Everything* else is up to Congress.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We can't use it on any other day?

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bigots never give a damn about reality.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Caved in to an empty threat in exchange for empty promises. Utterly pathetic.

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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I loved the 5YL stories, mostly. I didn't think the series worked after Keith Giffen left, though.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I scored 777, which is ... something.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio

A sign installation on a highway overpass that says "someday a mortician gets to superglue his lips shut."

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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

😳 It just keeps getting worse the longer you look at it!

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